One of the "old" guys at work was telling me that, back in the "halcyon days" at Chevy (back when it wasn't sexist to have cute secretaries) the Marketing guys would swing by and say "hey, whateryoutwo doing for lunch?" If the reply was "nuthin" then he would say "C'mon - we're going on a picnic".
Since my friend was usually sniffing around the cute secretary's (plural) desk he got invited too.
Photos like those would end up in the brochures, just like products of the more premeditated shoots.
K
More detail on the barn, located alongside US-23 in Hartland, Michigan (now painted over, I believe):
http://jameshowephotography.com/blog...terpiece.html/