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Jessi…

  This post is about more than just images, this is about collaboration with an unbelievable artist.  It’s about a long relationship with a sweet beautiful girl and watching her development in dance and in life.  Jessi is an amazing dancer and makes my life as a photographer easy…  no, really.  Jessi is so aware of the graceful lines she forms as a dancer and of her expressions it’s like working with a professional model or actress, and she’s a sweetheart!

  After seeing Jessi dance at her recital a few years ago I was floored (by the whole recital) these kids were pouring their hearts and emotions into dance and sharing it with the world, I teared up a few times during the recital (I’m a big softie!).  We asked Jessi (and her parents) if she’d like to help us make some unique images in some out of the way locations.  Stark contrast of beautiful dance dresses and costumes in the woods or grungy areas, sounds like a good idea…  It was a great idea!

  We started with Jessi at sunrise (in the middle of the summer, that’s really early) and a bit cool, but Jessi was a trooper…

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  After our sunrise fun, we warmed up a little in the car and headed to the woods for more ballet themed images…

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  These images are from a while ago and we contacted Jessi to go out again…  These are more senior portrait-like, but have a dance feel to some…

piercing eyes…IMG_0034

love the contrast of the red, and Jessi’s fierceness IMG_0041

breaking loose…18-19 loved the grungy wall…20-21 my favorite!22

After seeing our work with Jessi (and the website), Divine Dance Studio contacted us to do portraits for their annual recital as well as group shots of all the dancers, this is for a later blog post, but I’ll share a few of Jessi’s here…

such elegance and graceIMG_0192IMG_0197 IMG_0201 IMG_0231 IMG_0235 and attitude to spare!IMG_0237

  We’ve already discussed another session when her dance schedule and our shoot schedules slow down, I’m sure it will be amazing!

Uh oh! (some peronsal work too!)

Okay, I apologize, that was really rude of me!

…what? you’re confused now? Alright, it has been almost three months since I blogged last! Well, I meant to, I mean we’ve had a great summer, weddings, engagement shoots, seniors, I even uploaded the images to blog about! And then…

…nothing…

I have a bunch of stuff coming and a schedule now for blogging so keep an eye out for that. I have been updating facebook pretty regularly (a lot of the images are for clients on there, so they’ve seen all the nice new stuff).

Jessi will look familiar to most of you guys, we have worked with her to produce headshots two years in a row for her dance competitions as well as photographed a recital. It was during that recital when I was rather overwhelmed with emotion that I got the idea to do some dance related images with Jessi. These images are only the starting point for this project…

reflections

such grace and beauty…
dance on the path

we had been up a little arlier that day and captured this…
morning beauty

Jessi’s beauty is matched only by her talent…
a chilly start

early flight

Many thanks to Jessi for getting up so early to help with this, we’ll setup another session after a while.

As always comments are greatly appreciated, either here or via email, let me know what you think!

Easy work!

Typically the two words in the post title above don’t go together very well, but I had a taste of that the other day as I did headshots for two beautiful young ladies at a local park. Jessi is a friend of mine who is an extremely talented dancer who is really going places (literally). She asked me to capture some images of her and another skilled dancer for a national dance competition that she will be attending soon. We had worked with Jessi in the past and knew that we would have an easy day ahead of us, so we headed down to the park to get to work. While we captured a ton of images that day, these were some of our favorites (I may post more later as time allows)…

Sarah was a joy to work with…
Sarah

Jessi’s classic pose and beauty deserved a classic B/W treatment…
Jessi b/w

…and in color, just as stunning!
Jessi

a vintage look seemed to suit this one…
Sarah b/w

we will be working with them again in a series of artistic images where their dance skills are the focus in the future… stay tuned!