Calendar Girls: Miss March

Amazing lashes care of Vicki Clay

I was always excited about the idea for Miss March, but I had no idea it would turn out to be one of my favourite shoots ever, and make me fall in love with action shots.

Feminine yet strong

 Photographing Trudy from Kooralbyn Family Gym was just a beautiful experience, in so many ways.  Our inspiration was a romantic, breezy, shadowy image of a ballerina at the bar, so we knew we'd be doing a night shoot and playing with lighting.  With our ballerina also having a gym, we wanted to add some womanly strength to the mix as well.
Trudy was most happy to oblige our out-of-the-box creativity and played along from the moment we started getting ready.  I think this is part of the reason we had so much fun, and got so many good shots.  It's always fantastic when someone just goes along for the journey with us!

Beautiful hair by Vicki Clay

Vicki gave her a beautifully flowy, wavy, romantic hairstyle and then... we both gave each other that look.... The look that could only mean one thing....
We both remembered the lashes Vicki had stashed in her makeup case, with feathers on them!!!!  They were just the perfect, girly, flowery, romantic touch to the look.  Trudy was completely happy to go with it and oh my goodness she looked amazing with them!

The ahhh-mazing lashes!!!

RARGH!!!!  Bring on the calendar!

The look completed, we made our way into the dance studio, lights in arms.  The lovely shadowy light worked perfectly and we took some shots making use of the contrast of elegant loveliness that is the ballerina, with the strength of the gym weight.

That cheeky sideways look and grin!!

Thinking man, eat your heart out!!!

The shadow on the wall was perfect...

Soft and beautiful, yet strong

Then we went for some dance poses with the weights still in hand...

Such poise!

But then.... I said those magic words, "Just dance", and the glorious, amazingness that is Miss March was unleashed!  I couldn't stop clicking and, especially when we went into some great leaps, I had to go for sports mode and multiple shots!  Oh the action, the lights, the movement, my arty little heart was jumping for joy right along with our beautiful ballerina!!!