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Getting lost with the right person is an amazing experience.
Lately, I've been in the mood to create more adult images. While I don't shoot with male models often, I happened to know a really sexy one who lives close to me, and he had time in his schedule!
Early at the Great Falls Balloon Festival in Lewiston, Maine, vendors are getting their wares ready for the day. Unfortunately the balloons did not launch that morning but coffee and breakfast items were selling.
On this day, I walked over 10 miles on the trails of Kensington Park, and this was the only Whitetail Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) seen. But, silent deer that freeze in position are very hard to detect in heavy vegetation. Because of their coloration, they are also hard to detect in winter's naked woods. Males, like this one in the picture shed their antlers each year, regrow them in the spring.
The little soldiers had their hands full with the imminent invasion.
Strobist...580exii socked beauty dish camera right 1/8 50mm. 580exii lastolite ezybos speedlite camera left at background 1/2 24mm.
I think I enjoy the behind the scenes shots more than most of the photos I get from a shoot. That is mainly because I like candid photos, something that is telling a story. The adventure is in the journey not the destination.
Last week I joined the Get Pushed group. I was looking for inspiration, and hoped I would find some here. So this is my first Get Pushed try! I got paired with ever-creative and fun Emeraldgirl. It was a pleasure going through her photostream - it made me laugh out loud more than once. Here's what she had in mind for me:
"So my challenge to you is to [...] do a selfie where you are wearing red in an otherwise monochrome setting. And the trick is to express how red makes you feel in that setting. Find a spot that is dark, dreary and otherwise dull and really pop that red colour with emotion. No black and white with selective colour though - it should come right from the camera."
I was struck by how she challenged me to do exactly what I would never do normally. First of all, as a rule I don´t do selfies - or at least do not post them here. I´m definitely not model material, and I am kind of a private person - can you tell? And then, I don´t like red. It´s just not my colour.
Even so, I got excited about this challenge right away. How to fulfil the challenge without compromising my own feelings about it. Inspiration hit me like a truck, my mind filled with all kind of wild ideas. Like starting a fire in the woods, or stumbling in front of a train at night. I´ve been advised not to, suppose they´re right, I worried a bit about getting fined too;-). And red, what does it stand for? Love, warmth, sensuality, danger... I got together all the red props I could find, which weren´t many as you would expect. (I did discover I have 3 pairs of red shoes! How weird.) I even borrowed a pretty red party dress from my neighbour. But in the end, I fell for those beautiful red autumn leaves - I rescued the last few of them out of the garden this afternoon.
Now if you think this was easy, think again. There I was, lying on the cold - dull grey! - kitchen floor, trying to get those leaves to stick to my face, all but buttered up my face. I only had a little compact mirror to try to spread them evenly. Had to call my son down to pull the trigger (I have no remote). Had to do the sticking-leaves-on-my-face-thing over again because we burst out laughing. And again. So this is how I feel in red, and I think it shows: ridiculous!
Thanks for the inspirational challenge Emeraldgirl. I´m still contemplating some of the ideas it gave me.
I like that I have no farther to go than my own backyard to go exploring. Then again, sometimes I don't even have to go that far.
IHB 2920 and a switcher-slug set are about to hump a large cut of cars at Indiana Harbor Belt's yard in Riverdale.
Grant has been good at keeping an eye on the peeps and Ruffles, our broody hen. Today, though, it has been so hot he has spent the majority of his time flopped out on the floor. ;)
Cowan station was packed with everyone and their dog while AD6029 powered up the grades from the Hawkesbury River. GL106, GL102 and 3016 are leading to the right out of the scene.
Cowan, NSW.
Monday 11 April 2016.