"Laura Anderson-Schleiger, 24, plays the violin on a bridge above 15th street in Denver, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009. 'There's so much you can portray as a musician without ever saying anything and it's been apart of my my life, my whole life, so I don't know any different,' said the veteran of 20 years."
Nothing is better than personal work. Amidst all the great people, places and things I get to photograph on assignment I rarely feel more rewarded than when I shoot for myself.
No editor. No art director. Just my vision and my camera.
I've had an image conceived in my brain for a few weeks now that featured a violin player. I don't know where the idea came from. Maybe it was while I was dreaming, or possibly in the shower. All I know is that I wanted to make it happen and Tuesday I did.
My original idea included several tall buildings in the heart of downtown but while Mike Sasser and I were scouting the location we quickly realized that the image just wasn't going to look right. It probably didn't help that it took all of 10 seconds before some rent-a-cop kicked us off the property. I needed to be close to the buildings and shooting from the (public) sidewalk just wasn't going to work.
We met up with Laura near one of my favorite parts of the city, Confluence Park, and walked over to our alternate location. With the help of a planter pot we turned the 15th street bridge into the perfect stage for Laura to showcase her stuff. I'm sure that the cars driving below were quite confused with what was going on.
Everything came together and resulted in an image that I'm really pleased with. Shooting for myself is sometimes put on the back burner because of my other responsibilities. Days like today remind me how important it is to make time to follow through on an idea, a vision.
I plan to do more of that in 2010.
-JCE
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