This was quite an interesting shoot! It started out in an unexpected snow storm and wind chill of -20º F. Bekah and I hiked up a hill in our snow pants to an abandoned building in New York. If you’ve followed my work closely before, you would know this is certainly not the first time I’ve shot here. All props go to Bekah because I don’t know many other people who would be willing to put their pointe shoes on in the middle of the snow. We went to the roof and got our first shot of her jumping in the air (which ended up being my favorite). After we explored the building a bit more, but didn’t stay long because I was pretty cold and I was almost certain Bekah’s feet would fall off if we didn’t go back to the car.

The day after we took more shots inside The Shirt Factory in GlensFalls. This time, we took photos INSIDE. I wasn’t super satisfied with everything we got the day before because we didn’t stay that long and I was more focused on how cold it was outside. At the Shirt Factory, I was really happy with how the photos came out because the lighting was beautiful, I was a lot more focused on posing and getting all of the details right since I could feel my limbs in the warm indoors. I turned photos from both locations into a photo series called, “Potential.” I wanted this to be a message representing anyone starting from a low point and growing to meet their highest potential through the story of a dancer.

The last 8 photos are what I added into the photo series and these next photos are other ones that I didn’t include, but are still spectacular.