[Week 12/52] Face Paint & Flour | salt lake city utah conceptual portrait photographer

I've had face paint burning a hole in my bathroom drawer for years and never took the opportunity to take it out. What if it looked ridiculous, I thought. What if I couldn't make it look good? And then one day I decided I didn't care and recruited Melissa and Maren to model it for me. No story ahead of time, no real plan, we just met at a local trailhead and ran around smearing face paint, throwing flour into the air and dashing across a shady field with different colored fabrics--which made me absolutely believe our shoot together was meant to be. Without prior discussion, I simply asked each of them to wear a dress and I would bring some fabric to meld into their dress. Cross my heart, I didn't change the shade of the blue in Melissa's dress to match my fabric; the colors were identical. I also brought a black, stretchy cut of lacy fabric--and Maren wore black. See? Meant to be.

Whenever I do a photo shoot I try really hard to go in with intent and a story. Not so with this shoot, and I still don't know what to make of it. It felt really good to just go out and have fun in a forest. Even now I don't really have a story of these images, they were just fun to make. Take the pressure off sometime, it feels wonderful!

Models: Melissa Meldrum (blue gown), Maren VanNiederhausern (black gown)

Photographer: Wendy Hurst Portrait

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