Model: Natalie Marie / Hair & Makeup: Natalie Marie

I can only start to tell you how much I love this picture.  It’s from Wednesday’s session with Natalie doing  dramatic black and white portraits.  Towards the end of the shoot she pulled up Pinterest and said “I’ve always wanted to do this”.  The shot was gorgeous, and I wanted to do my own take on it.  Natalie was awesome and we took a few different frames with a few different poses and angles.

This is literally the last shot from the night, and when I put it in black and white I immediately knew there was something special about it.  I don’t often get that feeling in my gut that a shot is good, really really good, but this one was one of them.  It’s both exciting and terrifying that I’ll mess it up, or not be able to get it from where it is to where I know it can get, but after a bit of time playing I thought I had it.

I really knew I was finished with this photo when my wife quietly said “don’t f!*k with it anymore”.  She’s not a photographer, but she knows how to gently tell me that it’s good.

I’ve been really scared to share it.  Honestly I think I like it more than I should, and I’m just waiting for the world to not like it nearly as much as me, which is fine, we all love our own children the most, and really it just means I can’t rest on my laurels and need to push forward.

Which is damn exciting.