KC - All grown up

This is KC. She's actually a bit camera-shy but she can pull off a good "eye contact" with my camera. I especially loved her long hair and lashes and the moments we captured when she laughed at her mother's jokes while we were taking her pictures. That helped a lot since I don't have an arsenal of jokes to crack to make my subjects smile or laugh. That's always a struggle on my part. We occasionally paused shooting when some of their neighbors passed by or when her father came out to look because she was too shy to have photos taken while people are looking. We shot these just outside their house and a nearby garden, on a gloomy day with very little sunshine to work with.

I am also revisiting portraits and my love for cinematic black and white — bringing back some of that grainy goodness!

P.S. Last year, I also took photos of her. If you want to see those shots, you can click here.