Last week I had the privilege of doing a few portrait shots of the daughter of good friends of ours. She has been a friend of our son since she was about 3 years old, and is becoming quite a beautiful woman. As you can probably tell, her beauty is not skin-deep.

These were shot on the farm in Mississippi on a brutally hot and humid afternoon. We shot a couple hundred images inside, so we could become familiar with each other with the camera involved, the I worked very quickly outdoors in 93 degree heat with a humidity over 80%. This young woman never batted an eye...

The light from the setting sun behind me helped quite a bit. Have a second shot with the Leica, her favorite, coming next...