Fast Friends at Bar Dryce

Local photographer/filmmaker Chip Tompkins lent his talents to our second Panther City Pass photoshoot. While our first images captured an intimate date night experience, Tompkins worked Bar Dryce’s patio and lobby during daylight hours to photograph a group outing with our passports

Tompkins, Casa Mañana Theatre’s art director, is an avid photographer equally comfortable working in film and digital. He co-founded the photography collective Are We Having Fun Yet? and directed Leon Bridge’s iconic black and white music video, “Coming Home.” Writer and Eat This Fort Worth owner Josie Villa-Singleton and Amplify 817 artist/singer-songwriter Joseph Patrick Neville also joined us.

Brian Leaf (sporting his New Media Contemporary T-shirt) works for the National Library of Medicine and frequently leads distillery tours at Blackland Distillery. Brian invited his friend, Sarah Wheeler, who asked her sister Laurel Wheeler and her Finnish guide dog Routa (hau hau!) to join us. 

We became fast friends. 

Leaf suggested we release a hospital-themed passport called the Panther City By-Pass (oof!). Neville kept us laughing with one-liner jokes, including a kamikaze zinger that, um, bombed. Big thanks to our volunteers, Bar Dryce for working us in during their Silent Book Club, Victor for keeping the superlative drinks coming, and that lovable bon vivant, Chip Tompkins, for gently directing our crew and capturing these lovely photos.