Throwback with Mari and her python, Lazarus! If you’d like a print of this on your wall, you can find that here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/785494491/color-nude-photograph?ref=shop_home_active_4
Mari and Lazarus
Nude Ballet
It’s amazing what the body can do…
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Red and Black
Reminding all of us to stretch…and reminding myself that reflections are really fun to play with…
Ashleigh Black and White
Using my passion to capture her passion. Win-win!
Black and White Ballet
Brittany Cavaco in Central Park…
Seattle is slowly blooming, which I’m always happy to see. A splash of color appearing on the mostly gray background is definitely invigorating. I should have some new work coming out in the next couple of weeks…Seattleites, contact me if you’d like to shoot!
Ashleigh
First shoot of 2016! Oh my. Memorize this face, people…you’re going to see her on stage someday! This is one talented woman! Ashleigh came to New York from Melbourne to study acting/singing/dance and we got together to do some dance shots.
You can tell when someone really loves what they do, and it’s crystal clear that she does…
I learned how to levitate people with my camera…kidding…her jumps are pretty amazing…
After several poses, jumps, and outfit changes (more in a later post), I felt that she needed to feel free to move how she wanted, so I decided to not worry about backgrounds, chairs, or exit signs and just have her dance the way she wanted to. Holy eff. What I witnessed in that moment was so special…
Backgrounds, outfits, and fabric are fun, but nothing compared to just watching her do her thing. It was hard for me to remember to even click the shutter and I was tearing up behind my glasses…an amazing and passionate performance! My only regret is having so little time with Ashleigh before I move to Seattle (next week, yikes), but I’m so thankful we met.
Ballet and Audrey
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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