The second in my series on food.  Emily is a Chicago model who was up in Madison last October.

I am extremely pleased with how these turned out.  Emily is an outstanding model and I would recommend her to anyone.

One of the things we did is shown above.  I have a lofted area that looks over my living room.  It’s one of the reasons I bought this unit.  Particularly because it lets me lean over and shoot at people laying on the ground.  The problem is that I usually forget about it when I’m shooting.  So it was nice to actually get to use it.

I am very impressed with the two images above.  I think they both look very retro, very much in the pinup style.

Since the begining of the year I’ve been trying to do this series of photos with models covered with various foods.  Flour, cocoa, sugar, and others.

The problem was, I’d have tons of people interested, but after a few messages they’d disappear, stop responding.  Or maybe some would respond, we’d actually set up a shoot, then at the last minute they’d cancel.  Both of these scenario’s happened MANY times.  I was begining to think the series was cursed.  So I stopped looking for a few months.

Then Elena contacted me, and we actually got to set up something and shoot it!  These are the results of that.  Elena is covered with flour in this set.

After stopping at the Visitor’s center for a vehicle sticker, we went to the south side of the lake to climb the east bluff.

In the far left distance you can see the lake, about a third of a mile away.  At this point we’re about 200’ above the lake, though we’d only gone 75’ horizontally.  I’d wanted to go higher, but, um, I’m not in that good a shape.  So we stopped here and got quite a few pictures.

  As you can see we’re above the tops of most of the trees.  The colors of the rocks, and the lichen really match well with her skin.

This next pictures is my favorite.  The diagonals of the rocks, the matching angles of her arms and legs, the straining of her muscles.

On the way back down, we took a little side trail, and found a boulder field much closer to the ground.

To me it looks like she belongs there.

I really liked the way the sunflower looked when I used this other black and white conversion.

Then we moved into one of the upper floor hallways near the elevator

Then I changed the lighting so that they were backlit.  These almost silhouettes really capture the feelings they share.

  The Capitol was closing as we shot these last few so we headed to Edgewood Drive.  Edgewood Drive follows the shore of Lake Wingra from Vilas Park to the opposite side of Edgewood College.  Though I’ve been to the area many times (I drove through Vilas Park daily when I worked on Part Street) I had never explored this path.  It’s definitely a place I’ll be returning to.  If for no other reason than pictures like the ones below.

In the spirit of full disclosure, we did cheat a little.  The leaves weren’t actually falling, Liz and Mike through them in the air, then quickly embraced.