Another in my week long series of detailed portraits from the last few years. This one is of a dental hygienist where I get my teeth worked on. She is much prettier than this photo shows since I manipulated it extensively to bring out all the details of her skin texture.
I went to new eye doctor that was closer to wear I live. This is her. I wanted to do a collage, but I liked the straight photo so much I didn’t go past it. I had to get new glasses by the end of 2007 for insurance purposes so I waited until New Years Eve day to go to the local eye doctor in my small town in Oklahoma. The whole staff was very nice and the doctor agreed to pose for me after we were all done. The light coming in through the office windows was fantastic and brought a beautiful glow to her skin and eyes.
Definitely one of my freakiest collages. The hair pulled back so tight is what first drew me to the model. I simply created a different type of ‘sensual’ portrait here, with the senses all colliding out of synch, out of order, within her.
They came to me when I stopped at the convenience store, asking if I wanted to have my car windows washed in exchange for a donation to their cheerleading fund to send them to the national championships. They are from my daughters’ high school (they all graduated a few years back) and they are currently state champs so I was more than willing to help them out…IF they would also let me take their photos.
My photo session with this friend consisted of following her throughout her day, from waking on. I noticed when she was doing her make up that she held her eyelash curler with both hands. I asked about it and she said she had once been getting ready for a date, curling her eyelashes when something startled her and she tore out all her eyelashes on that eye! The date arrived moments later and they spent the evening looking for false eyelashes. They didn’t have a second date. So, from then on has used two hands to make sure it doesn’t happen again.