This girl, Maya, was really a hippie looking one. Her style were loose flowery dresses, colorfull scarfs, barefoot, coloured Lennon-style glasses and such.
My friend stylist's idea was to turn her more elegant and make a shooting to her portfolio. And I admired Maya's looks in every version. So one day, when the sunlight was wonderfully difused by thick clouds (no heavy shadows), we hooked up by the Odra river in Wrocław (Poland). Yeah, this river again.. it has been attracting me for so many years. On this location the river's surface was working as a very soft mirror or kind of a studio backlight.
We didn't want to imitate the glamour stylization, only just to loosely aquire the style. No heavy makeup or perfected details. The natural charm and delicateness of the model was still my main focus. Wild hair, wild eyebrows I was also thinking about the contrasting backgrounds: lucent river and heavy, industrial part of the bridge. Both worked well, imo.
We were all pleased with the resulting pictures ;)
This is my #monomad challenge entry
