The artist at work and play

For some reason, my portrait sessions are never planned more than two days in advance. I'll go for months without shooting one, and then someone will call me up and I'll be behind the lense within 48 hours — in my cousin's case, it was 20 minutes. So on Friday when Seemay asked me to do some shots for her mom's Christmas present, I was just glad I had film on hand. I'll share a few. We did three rolls of black and white, two of color, and we only got prints back on the color (contact sheets for B&W). Here's a good one:



The print looks a little better than this. Computer monitors are not so good at displaying backlit photographs.

Here's one of me demonstrating a briliant artistic vision (by Justin Cox):



Ah, but this is my favorite, the one her mom is sure to treasure for years to come:



What can I say? Genius doesn't even compare . . .