My yard is filled with sunflowers and I'm an empty vase.
I can't bring myself to cut them down and hold them.
I know they aren't mine, they are wild.
When you cut them, cut them loose.
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Shot this very early in the morning on Friday. I went out prop shopping for the baby and the blanket at Goodwill and was very excited to find the the perfect red blanket was actually a snuggie! Two for one :-)
When I conceived this shot I wanted it to come out very dreamlike, as though this might not really be happening. To achieve that, and maybe you think I haven't, was to give the model a dramatic pose and to make the hands entirely red yet have no red on the nightgown. I wanted the red from the blanket to be streaming down, another reminder of flowing blood. I think this has a romantic feeling to it, a painterly quality, and to me that takes the subject out of reality and places them in a dreamland, somewhere that could be a painting or that could be another time completely.
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Model: Katie Johnson
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Tags: brookeshaden red blanket baby dream blood woman pregnant distress romantic texture by les brumes katie johnson
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My grandmother used to say that the best things come in small packages, mostly because I was always really tiny and she was too. She wanted to always let me know that I was special. Sometimes she would give all of us grandchildren presents and I would always know to pick the smallest because she intended it for me. I was thinking about that a few weeks ago and that was the spark of inspiration that I put into this picture. From there I started thinking about things like Gulliver's Travels and this idea was fully born. I think that a lot of different concepts can be pulled from this pic, and I love creating like that.
I got to shoot with model and all around person extraordinaire Devin Willow a few weeks ago when she was visiting California, and I felt instantly like I knew her. It is always fun to shoot with new people who you connect with. We did this shoot at the crack of dawn and barely made it. You can even see some sunlight hitting the grass! Her boyfriend had to stand in front of the sun to block light off of her towards the end...but we made it :-)
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Model here is Leah Johnston, who I had the pleasure of spending the day with yesterday - she has a shot of me on her stream. She is a talented photographer, among other things, and as nice as could be.
As for this concept, I'll be playing with it more later. I still haven't captured the shot I have in my mind but I'm getting closer.
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Tags: brookeshaden leah johnston moss forgotten replicas old statue decay emerge form
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This was shot Friday after I finished my Hansel and Gretel shot. I'll be posting that image as soon as a behind the scenes video is completed - it's not my video so I don't know when that will be. It was quite a day though, tons of prop hunting that included getting a 70lb bag of sand, picking vines from a homeless man's spot on the side of the highway, and buying oranges for a shot that didn't work out. It was a very fun day/shoot though.
I used a male model for the first time! (okay, okay -second time...but the first time in over a year)
These chains were so heavy I could barely move them, so I felt guilty laying them on little Olivia's waist and Garrett's neck...but they said it was fine!
Model: Garrett Liggett
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Tags: brookeshaden olivia clemens garrett liggett chains wood floor dirt intimate sleep prisoner ship fetal texture by les brumes I thought that this really looked like a still from a movie, so I *almost* letterboxed this picture...but I might write a blog post and show the letterboxed version and talk about whether or not that would still be a square crop
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