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... Flickr sharpening. *face palm*
I've tried to soften the uploaded image to compensate. Close up in the comments.

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I've wanted to shoot this for awhile but you know, bleep happens. I'd like to do more with ice skates and incorporate some movement. I may have exhausted ballerinas so what do I do? Slap some skates on and wallah, ballerinas on ice! ;)

As a kid:
- I used to wear a tutu to the beach with pink shoes and a crown.
- My friends and I would tie shirts to our heads and pretended to be mermaids. Our parents would always cut our hair too short.
- I used to dye my hair with coloured koolaid.
- I used to dress up like little red riding hood and pick berries in the "woods" a.k.a Jamaican bush.
- I had big dreams of becoming a figure skater and performing Swan Lake at the Olympics. Thanks to Oksana Baiul.

Not much has changed really.

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Close up in comments.

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Mitch is incredible. He carried me so many times up that hill in the freezing cold and slush. We were both covered in disgusting icy mud. You should've seen the looks we got when we stripped down and started rubbing ourselves with mud. Granted the park does face an elementary school... and the kids had just been let out for recess. We felt so dirty, and not just because of the mud. We meant to roll around to get a more rugged "been through shit" look but it was too painful. Mitch has been the one pushing me to try new things, like to break away from the limiting square crop, and experiment with the cinematic. When he's not round I don't feel like doing much of anything.

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I want to keep with this. I think it will be really interesting to look back on when we're old and grey. I'm very intrigued by long term projects like this. You get to see photography at it's finest, documenting the little things we only notice when looking back. Like subtle lines on the faces, changes in style, mannerisms, and so on.

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Client shoot.

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