When I landed in Lisbon, the skies were dark and thundering, less than 20 hours from my scheduled shoot with Patricia…

For this lighting - and having such a beautiful location all to myself with a ballerina for more than an hour - I’ll wake up at 4:30am any day.

“I wouldn’t want to be kicked by her m*****f*****g toes! Did you see that girls feet?!”

Jackie is one of those ballerinas you don’t forget, and the tracks do probably would slow her down.

It’s pretty funny how things fall into place sometimes. Some call them coincidences, I call them ordinances - God-ordained.

The ballet world is very small; Texas is not small. Everybody knows everybody.

Different cameras make different pictures. For me, medium format 6x6 is a perfect location-portrait camera. I have not been successful in translating it as a street camera - I prefer my iPhone for that.

“Honey, I feel so cold watching you prance about with your legs out! Here, I bought you both hot chocolate to stay warm!”

Towards the later half of this project, I made it a conscious effort to incorporate hard shadows and allow the ballerina to become a part of the environment.