Thursday, December 29, 2011

The boy who thought he was a cat

Cat Boy
  I shot a  little boy today who meowed for the first 15 minutes we were together. I got his attention by pretending to be a lion tamer.   I love that age where you believe you are someone else.  

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Swing Little Girl





      "Swing little girl, swing high in the sky and don't ever look at the  ground.  
     If you're looking for rainbows,  look up to the sky....You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down!"


A few months ago I heard this song by Charlie Chaplin and it was my  inspiration
for this shoot about a sad trapeze artist.   I   shot it at my old trapeze school in Oakland.  http://www.trapezearts.com/ 


 Jeanne-Marie Masson http://www.jeannemariemasson.com/ did the styling and Peggy Lucas http://www.peggylucas.biz/htmlver/ did hair and makeup.  The two sisters who modeled for me  had never been on a trapeze before but Trapeze Arts provided us with a coach.