Surprisingly, during Elsa and Cameron's last few days in Norway, and among the chaos of packing and organizing their departure, I managed to fulfill Elsa's birthday request: that of, I take beautiful pictures of her newly shaved head. I had tried a couple of weeks earlier, immediately after Cam and I had cut everything off, but the results were, to be honest, absolutely terrible. I just couldn't get the studio lights set up correctly, and made the mistake of feeding through the images to the huge flat screen TV that we have in the apartment. As each picture flashed up for our review, our combined anxiety of the results made it impossible to produce anything other than a series of ghoulish photographs. So two weeks later, with the rare Norwegian sun shining in through our back windows, I quickly strung up a white sheet, pulled Elsa away from making dinner and starting shooting again. This time we were both relaxed, and I found it so much easier to communicate what I wanted Elsa to do. There was time to stop and think of the next shot, to experiment, to tweak the collar of her shirt just a few degrees one way or the other; the end results were about 24 images that we both love. I've put a few here for you all to see, but the rest can be found at my Phanfare image library. Enjoy!
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