A few personal favs

I love photography and the more I do it, the more I love it.  I've had lots of support from all of my family and many of my friends have given me words of encouragement to continue doing what I'm doing.  Thank you to every one of you who thought I could do it and I hope my work continues to get better and that you may enjoy them.

Now, as I venture through some phases of my photography career, I have been playing around with new techniques (new for me) and creating a different feel than my older works.  Here are a couple of my personal favorites:

Danelys has been probably the biggest contribution to my portfolio.  She has lots of potential to make it big in the fashion industry and I feel like I had the privilege of taking pictures of a future super model... or at least, I hope that's what happens, hehe.  I love this portrait so much, I decided to print this onto a 20x30 canvas.  The father of this great-looking young model was very pleased with the results.  I loved the look on his face when he unwrapped it.

This young man has very nice facial features.  I guess the one word to describe it would be: chiseled, heh.  His look called for dressing him in "Sunday" attire.  I wanted to go for the old CK photo look.  I was very happy with the dramatic lighting and texture.

It's Angela! This "hot chick" is quite the character.  We actually had classes in high school together and it was probably 10 or so years since I've seen her.  Yay Facebook!  She is just awesome!  I had in mind of getting some black and white shots with a tattooed woman and Angela had exactly what I was looking for.

This was one of my most interesting photo sessions ever.  Floyd is deaf and communication was a minor factor. For the first time, I received calls from a phone service that caters to the hearing impaired; so I was talking to a translator on the phone and I would have to respond as if I was actually talking to the interpreter.  It wasn't a problem at all for me, but it was surely a good experience. Prior to the photo session, I had to hand sketch the poses I wanted him to do so things would go smoothly and they did.  He wants to make it in a Health magazine and I would just love for my picture to be a part of that goal... fingers crossed.