First series taken with my new camera, the Panasonic G1. I was doing a shoot in my home and we had her sillhouetted against the window when we realized there was a fire truck in the lonely subdivision on the other side of the park. I asked her to go outside and look at the truck through the top of a broken picket in the back fence. She was a trooper and did so, even though it was windy and cold! I love the pose and the reverse voyeur feeling of the nude looking over the fence at the fire truck.
From a shoot over the summer in a auto repair shop. I didn’t particularly like this in color and didn’t revisit it until November. I like the view from above in this one. It gives a combination of sexiness and dirty work that has the underlying question of what sort of work is dirty, is she the dirty one because of her outfit, or is the photo dirty, is the place dirty?
This week will be a number of photos from an Equestrian competition I photographed in Inola, OK.
This is a pretty straight portrait. I waited for her in the shade of the arena knowing that the very bright sunlight behind me would make for a great glow on her face and in her eyes.
I was at the Tulsa State Fair and came across this odd scene of a cheerleader in a casino display for the Creek Indian Nation. I see a lot of odd things at the fair, no doubt. But she was one of the most out of place! I asked her if I could take her picture and she immediately posed in this wonderfully unselfconscious way. She was happy and at peace with who she was and what she was doing.
The Cheerleader at the State Fair in the Casino Set of the Creek Indians
When I posted the photo on my flickr site I immediately got a comment from someone who said she knew the woman from high school and that she was one of the most beautiful and sweetest people she ever met. I loved hearing that about her.
She was kind and sweet, with big eyes and beautiful skin. She was great at explaining all the items in the store. She told us she was from the middle of Morocco, in America to work and learn at Disney World as part of an advanced management program. She kindly let me take her photograph in the afternoon light. My wife was thinking I was taking too much time and she needed to get back to her work, but she was happy to pose for me. We bought some rubbing spices for food and they were yummy.
The last day of my week long series on ‘People of Color’. Give feedback and tell me what you thought of the series and which series has really stood out over the last few months.
