Sauvie Island

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Plates with Lisa

I loved working with Lisa, and was so excited to see this plate come out!  I really love how the scarf looks like it's floating in air, I also love how the scarf's undulating edge is echoed by the pour (i.e., upper edge) and by the irregularities and swirly-ness in the grass behind her. 

I also love her gaze...she looks smart and awake and like she knows stuff.  Almost all of my images are of people who do not make eye contact with the lens of the camera.  In fact, I don't really like portraits where the models look into the lens.  In this plate, the directness of her gaze works as a counterpoint to the surreal & dreamy quality of the rest of the image.

Anyhow, words are good...but even if I didn't have any, it doesn't undo the fact that I'm mesmerized by this image. 

tangles

I went to Sauvie Island on Sunday with Levi.  We walked a short distance from the Wilderness Refuge to a cluster of abandoned houses.   I can't say we were properly dressed -I was wearing capri's and flip flops- so we didn't go into all the houses, which were engulfed in blackberry bushes. 

I only shot 48 frames, but still got a few shots I like. 

Sometimes it's hard to say why I like a picture...I like them for different reasons, I suppose.  Sometimes I can look at a picture and like it because it's perfect -perfectly framed, perfectly illuminated...such things.  Other times, something just twists inside of me -the picture means something to me, even if it's flawed or accidental.  The following image is both flawed and unintentional, and yet I really like it a lot.