Red Wanderer | salt lake city utah conceptual portrait photographer

"Red Wanderer" (and other images).

High School Senior: Dani Schriever
Cloak: Wendy Hurst
Photographer: Wendy Hurst Portrait

I love conceptual portraiture, but not everyone does. Traditional photos certainly have their place, and rightly so. Can you image trying to recognize someone from a conceptual portrait in a passport photo? The gambit is too vast. I imagine the security attendant tilting the image back and forth and saying, "Now is this you on a chair upside down in a forest with hair blowing across your face?"

That's why I do both traditional and conceptual portraits for clients, most especially for high school seniors. Remembering reality and imagination are important, after all. I mean, that's how you don't get incepted...

And to all you beautiful high school seniors out there, senior portraits qualify for my name-your-price pricing!

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