To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. — Charles Baudelaire

“You know me, I think there ought to be a big old tree right there. And let’s give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend.”― Bob Ross

My Sunday series about making outdoor portraits continues today with a portrait of Maria Elan, a mature glamour model, who I photographed at a group model shoot in Phoenix. Arizona.

I want to thank Max Heinrich of Analog Insights YouTube (and Instagram) for his inspiration to write this post, although he may not even know that. If you’re interested in film photography, please click this link and be sure to subscribe to Analog Insights.

One of the things that I like to do to get myself out of a photographic rut is to make portraits in monochrome mode. It doesn’t have to be all of the images that you make during a session; maybe just a few to, you know, see what happens.