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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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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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My good friend Marisa Roth, who owns the Northwest Ballet Company, contacted me recently and asked if I’d be interested in shooting the dress rehearsal of The Nutcracker.  I told her NO…heh…well, of COURSE I’d shoot it.  This year, because the Bigfork Playhouse where they normally present this classic holiday event was undergoing renovations, it [...]

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“Dancing is the body made poetic.”  In 2006 I began visiting NW Ballet School and Company, owned by Marisa Roth and while it took a while to get my ‘timing’ accurate,   I find it very satisfying to capture the beauty and grace of dancers and find that it is as edifying as shooting a mountain landscape, [...]

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