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.

Back in the film when I got serious about photography I considered myself to be a fine art photography and shot uncropped, square images with old TLRs using black and white film that I processed and printed myself. I also considered myself to be a “good” photographer.

January 17 is the 96’th Birthday of the world’s most famous spinach loving, nautical hero — Popeye the Sailor Man! Today, we honor this legendary sailor who is tough and fit with tons of grit, as one of America’s most renown, pop-culture icons.

When shooting infrared, the near white reproduction of green chlorophyll in some vegetation produces black-and-white photographs rendered as if they were glowing, moonlit or immersed in extraterrestrial light.

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It’s a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.—Ben Kingsley