Joan

So its winter time granted a really mild one in Chicago this year, but I tend to like to photograph more in the spring-fall months. Usually in the winter I try to do more indoors work which is hard because I don't do much indoor stuff its a challenge. Doing portraits is the perfect thing to do inside and can always use the practice since I don't do them too often...Its ironic that Joan who used to photograph myself and my family years back and here I am photographing her years later. She has always encouraged me to keep shooting when she knew I was a serious photographer...Enough though our styles were different her doing portraits mostly and I shied away from portraits early on. Over the years I've gotten more comfortable with the idea of doing portraits and have figured out ways of working them in. The thing I want out of portraits is that I want people that I photograph to be "real" or natural if you will which is harder than you might think to get. I think people are really afraid because the camera doesn't lie and your baring it all... Its still a work in progress no doubt....This was totally an impromptu shoot I was over at her place to show her some of my recent work. Of course I had a camera with me so I made a few images of her. This is one of few made I have another one posted on my flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35photo/6932289119/in/photostream         

I hope she likes the progress I've made with doing portraits...