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     These are technically the first nudes that I've done. I think I actually froze Leah. You know how people say that when you freeze to death, you get sleepy and then just die....well, she was half way there. These are not at all what I thought I was going to do this morning, but I think I like how they came out. I had the pictorialists in mind. I find that I need to give all my images a narrative. Some times, it is an encumbrance and it becomes detrimental because I can't just take a picture for the sake of taking a picture. 

.......and I always kill Leah, so that's what the last picture is: dead Leah. 

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      Candids from the shoot. In the first one, I was showing Leah what I wanted and she look the camera. I find that I know what face I would like me model to make, and so I try to show them. I think this one is proof that my face doesn't match up with my thoughts -- Leah's face was better. I am very happy she came from NH to see me and let me Elf her. 

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"Listen to me," said the demon as he placed his hand upon my head. "There is a spot on this accursed earth which thou hast never yet held it, it must have been in one of those vigorous dreams which come like Simoon upon the brain of the sleeper who hath lain down to sleep among the forbidden sunbeams."

And the lilies sighed one unto the other in the solemnity of their desolation. 

I looked upwards, and there stood a figure upon the summit of the rock. The outline of the figure were indistinct -- but features of a deity...and, oh! they were more beautiful than the airy dreams which hovered above the souls of the daughters of Delos. 

Then I cursed the elements with the curse of tumult; and frightful tempest gathered in the heaven where before there had been no wind -- and I looked upon the characters of the rock and the characters were SILENCE. 

And I could not laugh with the demon, and he cursed me because I could not laugh. 

      This was an assignment for my seminar class. We had to visualize a short story. I did Poe's Silence: A Dream. I seem to have always favored the macabre and I find that quite evident in these. I like shooting Leah in a creepy manner and I imported her all the way from NH for this shoot. I am not sure if these photos are what I exactly what I wanted but I was going for a cinematic feel and I believe that was successful.