these fucking categories ... "spontaneous portraits" ... jes' ... i can't think that these were ever created by a photographer. no way.

i guess order is needed though.

so ... my little friend. breezy. the girl ... that has "love" tattooed on her wrist. her pierced tongue. girls get extra points in my book for this.

she's fleeing my town. bye-bye-los-angeles. yet another. she's a native. she knows how to drive here.

"it's the fucking people. it's the fact it takes 20 minutes to drive 3 blocks to work. it's the fact my boyfriend lives in utah."

of all fucking places ... she's fleeing to utah.

don't people usually escape utah?

or die trying?

isn't this the place where they have schools for the wayward?

dunno.

but ... now i have to break-in a new fucking massage therapist.

and she'll probably be fucking ugly.

that sucks.

then again, as il mio amico da napoli ha detto, "brudder ... i don't think i could let her massage me. it would not be good."

whatever.

so ... the same day that i got my last massage before she heads out of los angeles ... to all that is SLC ... i got my new 22" beauty dish.

and a 9' boom. the last boom just wasn't fucking big enough.

had to try it out.

was getting tired of softboxes.

i love getting this quixotic look out of girls.

no, i don't like shooting guys.

chocolate doesn't like that.

but ... whatever ... that's what i do ... she knows what she signed on for ...

canon eos 1d mark 2. 24-70mm/2.8L. 1/60th. f/9. iso 200. hensel porty strobe at 1.2. white seamless. hensel 22" beauty dish with no diffusion. bogen 9' boom. boom on matthews high-high overhead stand. colour conversion in ps cs using custom channel mixing. adj levels. adj cont. a kick in curves.

THIS IS A DIGITALLY NATIVE IMAGE. NOT SHOT ON FILM.