Rules are meant to be broken

   I met alexandra through model mayhem, a kind of facebook for models and photographers. When i saw her images i knew i had to shoot her. It took quite a while for us to set a date and finally get together but i'm very glad we did, we had a great time. Not only is she gorgeous and a true natural in front of the camera but i think we laughed most of the night. I always have fun but when you get the pleasure of working with someone as funny and just all around great as she is it makes it really tough to call it work.
   The funny thing is i broke several personal rules that night. Let me explain. One thing i hate to do is shoot in the same place several times, i think it can be hard to make the work look different and interesting if you just switch bodies but the environment is the same. Somehow this time my secret little alley (which isn't really much of a secret anymore) seemed like a completely different place. Not sure why, if it was the infusion of her energy or what it was but it was different.
   My second rule broken that night was that i try not to shoot people that have been shot quite a bit around the same timeframe. I feel like it looks bad. Like we as a community of photographers pass people around which is not the case. I think it makes for a bad atmosphere of competitiveness that we all try to outdo each other and again that's not true. we all do things in completely different ways but i still try to avoid people that are very popular subjects. Just me.
   I don't think she even knows this but i almost cancelled our shoot for that very reason. I'm very happy i didn't, i think we did pretty well. Sorry to keep this post so short, i think this image is worth a few words. Be good friends.