I’ve often written about my self-assignment to photograph barns all across the state of Colorado and while I haven’t done much of that lately—the weather this month has been cold and snow, more than normal— I still enjoy photographing farms, especially in black and white.

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