I’ve started using my ModelMayhem account more these last few weeks. I signed up over a year and a half ago, but I never really did anything with it. I had enough to keep me busy that I didn’t bother exploring it much. Lately, however, I’ve been itching to do more and more shoots, and as I was starting to run out of people to photograph, I figured being a little more active on MM couldn’t hurt.

You’d likely get a variety of answers if you were to ask different photographers to name the most important trait a photographer should have, but I think we’d all agree that confidence is pretty high up there.

When Joyce approached me to update her headshots, the short time frame made finding an affordable studio pretty much impossible so we opted for shooting in my apartment. I’d never done any shoots in the new digs, and was excited to try it out. Our living room / kitchen was big enough and had a 5′ white wall on one of the long ends. Not huge, but workable.

My first real memory of Stefanie is of acting beside her in a Federico Garcia Lorca play, The Butterfly’s Evil Spell. She played the butterfly. I was the beetle that was hopelessly in love with her.