It was really fun working with teen model Marissa St. Croix in Portland, Oregon mid Dec ’05.

Marissa’s mum and manager, Dani, scouted out the locations as I was obviously unfamiliar with Portland. Closely aligning with the high level concepts that I had wanted, the locations were scouted out beforehand, and when I traveled out to Portland for my workshop, we get to shoot together! Awesome!!

Marissa is very very talented. She has more years in this modeling business than I have in my own photography business. I felt very grateful and privileged to work with her. Here are some shots taken in a run-down warehouse area. Some of these images were submitted for Marissa’s entry in OMP’s teen fashion competition.