Ballet Part 3

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Here’s the last batch from the Brittany shoot!  A note on the word last…I rarely mean it.  I’ll often go back through a shoot and see something that didn’t register the first time around.  The last shot was a last minute inspiration on her part, taken right outside the park as we were about to go our separate ways.  Brittany was wonderful to work with…not afraid of a little dirt and dampness while bringing so much elegance and creativity to the table.

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Brittany in Central Park Part 2

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This shoot was very mellow and relaxed…just wandering the park looking for interesting backgrounds, done in about and hour and a half.  When Brittany showed me this peach outfit, I was excited to shoot her against grays and greens.  Interesting how some of these don’t look like they were taken in NYC…little more of a fairy tale vibe.  When we got the bridge, we encountered some tourists with two little girls.  They were quite mesmerized with meeting a real ballerina!  Brittany was so sweet to them and they all got on their toes while the parents snapped a picture.

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Lucky 13th Anniversary!

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Well…it’s my 13th wedding anniversary, so that gives me an opportunity to share one of my oldest shots.  This was taken about a week after we got married.  As you can see, my husband was in the Navy at the time and we had to rush off to get married before he shipped out to Japan.  We got married in a court in Flagstaff, AZ and exchanged rings at the grand canyon…where he almost slipped off the edge!  Very grateful for that handy branch he grabbed onto.  Our honeymoon consisted of a drive across the country back to the east coast, and it was a blast…and a great way to spend time together for the many months we spent apart.  We arrived home, and I demanded we do this since we didn’t on the actual day.  I shot this myself with a tripod and timer.  Grainy, horrible scan, but I like it 🙂

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Ballet and Audrey

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My mission this past Monday: get out the camera and celebrate the end of winter with the lush green of Central Park.  Brittany and I got up early to take advantage of the soft gray, slightly foggy sky.  FYI: cloudy is better for outdoor shoots when you’re just bringing a camera with no extra lighting gear!  It’s funny, normally the gray weather doesn’t put me in the best of moods, but when I have a project like this, I’m all too happy to run around in the mist.

I’m going to show you these in more than one post.  This is the first look we did…inspired by the movie “Funny Face” with Audrey Hepburn.  I wasn’t allowed to watch TV as a child (a good thing in my opinion), but I did get to watch a lot of musicals…my mother got me hooked at a young age.  “Funny Face” is one of my favorites…of course it is, it has a photographer in it 😉

Side note:  I learned that dancers go through their pointe shoes in 2 weeks, sometimes even 2 days!

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10 Years…

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May 2005 was my turning point for photography…it went from being a fun creative outlet to, wow, I want to do this for the rest of my life.  I’m marking this as my 10th anniversary for photography even though I technically started earlier.  These two shoots were instrumental in that turning point.

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