I have definitely been on a hiatus this past month, photographically speaking. I’m slow at becoming accustomed to a new area so I definitely have slacked off. Anyway, today was the perfect day to do a nice shoot inside (cold and rainy outside) so I asked my sister if she would be willing to pose for me again. The last time I did a session with Terina was three or so years ago so it was interesting to meet again in a familiar setting to see how much has changed. For instance, I am WAY better at styling hair now, thank God.

Halfway through the shoot we decided to change some things up as I often like to do. Getting more than one concept per shoot is my favorite thing to do as it gives everyone more variety and often leads to spur of the moment creativity.

This was one of those situations. With one piece of fabric we changed Terina into a witchy character, but something was missing. I felt like she should have a companion or a strange embodiment of power. That’s when she said “I have the weirdest thing downstairs”.

You know how sometimes people will say that and then when they show you what they had in mind, you’re completely unimpressed? This was not one of those situations. This indeed was the “weirdest thing” – but what a character! For the curious, it was something that was found washed up on the beach. That’s about all we know.

I like creating names for the characters the models play. I thought the vibrant makeup character would be known simply as Lotus and when I looked at the veiled character I spelled Lotus backwards to get her name, Sutol.

It was a great shoot and we had a lot of fun.