Model: Cedar. Taken in a back alley
Cedar is such beauty, fun and grace to work with. She stays true to her classical style. You know as a photographer sometimes there is this one model where a photo session always fall right into place. There is this work chemistry where no matter what, where or how i shoot Cedar it is always a struggle to choose that one image. No wonder she’s my muse. On this day we struggled to find an alley way in Downtown Atlanta. We didn’t want the attention for sure so we left and drove down to Little 5 Points. We needed somewhere that would make her (Cedar) comfortable and free to express herself without the awkwardness of the public. That to me is very important. While we drove around looking for that ideal spot i managed to get left behind. So, i drove until i pulled over to lot where a known supermarket was. I walked around and stumbled upon this back way behind the supermarket. It felt safe, secluded and a bit fit the background we were looking for. The struggle now is to make sure Cedar could find me because my phone battery was holding on to life.
Upon finding me we took a walk together to look and see if she will be ok with it. She trusted the process. We began shooting and at this time a big 18 wheeler, delivery truck showed up. It was just one guy who seemed unbothered so we continued. I decided to move her a little further away from being that close to the truck and a little hidden. Cars started passing. Everyone would stop to say hi and give compliments, wave, cheer us on or just to be nosey. 15mins later the delivery truck driver went inside the building then out of nowhere this guy about 60 yrs old came out peeking. We burst out laughing because the look on his face was so epic we wondered if he would be ok after. If he didn’t have to work he would have been stuck right there watching. We saw him peeking trying to be unnoticed a few times after. Por Grandpa!