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I don't think I've ever posted this in the wider world. Long-time muse and amazing creative partner HaileyJ in frame. More in the alt-text. #fadingsummer #meadow #classic #pose #muse #strong #bold #beautiful #environmentalnude #nudeinnature
This year marked a full decade of photography. From an enthusiastic start with saturated colors to the discovery of The Great Outdoors to finally a more considered portrait focus, it's been an amazing journey. Hailey was one of the first people I met and I remain duly impressed with her quietly adventurous spirit and practical eclecticism. More than anyone else, she and I have wandered through conversations that really made me think and brought me to re-evaluate those thoughts. Over the years I've spoken to other photographers whose reaction to my home base of Portland has been to immediate exclaim "That's where Hailey is from! She's WONDERFUL!" This image is part of a series that remain among my immediate favorites and which I continue to return to in search of some magic edit that will pour the experience of the day over the viewer. I don't know what YOU see in it because to me it comes with a whole day of experiences wrapped around it as well as YEARS of adventure and smiles. Hailey (and other wonderful local models those first years) illuminated a niche that I didn't even realize existed when I threw myself into it. I began to picture an ecosystem that introduced me to an entire history of photography and the wandering women who inspire and inhabit the flood of imagery that creates the pixels of our world. It's really amazing. I open websites or follow rabbit holes and here are the faces of my friends set central to other visions. And I think it's wonderful. It's so inspiring to see the wide wild weird world of human imagination channeled through and bent, like light around gravity, by their presence.
September 15, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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twenty-fourth #inktober2023
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feet in shallow waters
#inktober #inktoberday24 #shallow #digitalart #digitalink #wet #wetfeet #water #shallowwater #inktober23shallow #dress #fadingsummer #procreate #ipadpro
October 24, 2023 at 11:53 AM