sunday

For the first time in quite a while, I decided to make a special trip to the Bay Area, unrelated to work, specifically to shoot. The impetus was provided by a visiting model I'd been corresponding with for a while, and... just by a desire to shoot.

V is your basic art model, except with a shaved head. We'd talked when she first started, two or three years ago, but the timing was bad. It's perhaps best that we waited. She's experienced now, more confident of her ability.

Being the tail end of a long holiday weekend, and a nice warm (low 60s) sunny day, this usually almost deserted coastal location was fairly busy with hikers. We had to pause every five minutes or so and wait til someone passed, but the spot offered plenty of places screened from view and we had a good line of sight. The shoot itself went smoothly, efficiently. There wasn't really much of a personal connection, plenty of easy conversation but the energy was more businesslike than enthusiastic. That tyrned out to be an advantage this time... there is a bit of distance and formality in the photos I think, but given the starkness of the eroded concrete walls and her bare head, that somehow felt more appropriate.

It wasn't til a couple of days later that I had time to download the card. In the intervening period I'd felt a little disenchanted about photographing naked models, a little tired of it. But after looking at the images, I'm thinking that as long as I maintain a balance by including other subject matter, it shouldn't be too difficult to pull that creative spark out of hiding on most days.