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Ann finished her testing for Montessori certification on Friday and we left for Oregon on Monday.  As usual we took the ’slow road’ so we could stop and smell the roses and I could take pictures of the roses.  We drove west of Kalispell on Highway 2, which may not sound like a ’slow road’, [...]

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Session four took place the day after shooting the  “Water Ballet” session and took place at my favorite barn studio near Somers.  Keiko had suggested doing a barn theme and I had been thinking the same thing for several days before she mentioned it.  We met in the morning to catch the easterly sun sprinkling [...]

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Session three and four was with Keiko S. another exquisite ballerina who dances for Marisa at Northwest School of Ballet.  In “A Night of Classics”, their spring recital I saw Keiko dance a selection from “Don Quixote” in a red tutu that was absolutely stunning!  Here is one of those images to show you what [...]

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My second Ballet shoot took place at a state park near where I live.  My model Meredith and her mother met me there on a warm spring evening just before sunset.  The place I remembered from a previous session I couldn’t find and plus we had other people to contend with that I didn’t want [...]

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Pin-up photography is reaching white-hot, must-have status within photography circles (maybe I’m in a different circle than most?).  Anyway, a lot of models I photograph want pin-up style photos.  This style is all about fun, fantasy and photoshop (pretty decent alliteration, huh?).  Clients can dress a hundred different ways but most prefer something sexy.  Retro [...]

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There is not a single word in the english language that can describe Glacier National Park.  A person’s senses are left reeling and overwhelmed with the sights, smells, sounds and feel of it’s presence.  I personally crave the aroma of the ancient sylvan musk of crumbling wood from trees long since fallen, lying rotting on [...]

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While driving home from the MT PPA convention in Helena several weeks ago I began to think about next year’s competition and what I could create to raise the bar.  In one of the seminars I watched a slide show by Master Photographer Larry Lourcey and saw an exquisite picture of a ballerina which started [...]

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