After I made this image, I showed it to my friend Steve who had borrowed my camera to make a few shots of it for his club’s newsletter. While looking at it, he said, “I just don’t see like that.” So I thought it might be fun to give you some idea of how I came to make this particular image.

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.