My Sunday series on outdoor portraiture continues today with a portrait of Shannelle, a model that I only photographed at a group model shoot in Phoenix. Arizona and today’s featured image is from that shoot.

‘The Big Lebowski’ was something we wrote for Jeff Bridges, and we set it aside for a couple of years because he wasn’t —Ethan Coen
You know, Joe, your taste in movies can change over time—Mary Farace to me over breakfast

It was a beautiful spring day in December when Mary and I drove down to Castle Rock, one of my favorite small towns in the state. I brought along my new CLA’d Seagull TLR and a roll of CineStill XX, 200 ISO black & white film. Also along for the Photo Walk was a Gossen Luna Star light meter. And here are some of the funny things that happened:

Some photographers don’t like to clean their lenses, believing that a little dust won’t hurt anything. I get it; it happens. Their concern is that the more you clean a lens, the more likely you are to scratch it

My former 1953 Packard Clipper Club Sedan was photographed at a railroad siding in Brighton, Colorado using an eight-megalixel Samsung DigiMax Pro 815 —yes, they used to make cameras—with an exposure of 1/600 sec at f/3.2 and ISO 50.