I'm the first to admit that I don't know what I'm doing! I work with people wanting pictures and I begin to set up a portrait and I shoot a picture or two and then I look up and see an even better pose right there in front of me without any direction from me. The same thing happen with eye movement, hair and gestures--try moving you hair from one side to the next--the picture usually happens somewhere in between--not at the end where I think it will look right. I guess thats the beauty of working for a newspaper for so long--we expect the unexpected and when we're on our games we click the shutter. Carrying this over into portraiture has been a great thing and I think we're making pictures that aren't like the other photographers in the area--so I hope that translates into people taking notice of us and thinking we can make something special for them--we certainly do try awful hard to make something special each time we shoot. I've had a rash of assignments lately with folks looking for images to make or expand their portfolio. Each shoot has brought exciting things for me. Aubry, in the picture above is looking to really establish a portfolio she can use to show agencies and agents. I don't know if this headshot will make it into her portfolio, probably not, but I liked how her look was pretty intensely focused on the camera---this will be an asset to her as she grows as a model. Below is a more typical headshot. SayerMotter Photographs by Richard Sayer