so we had baby powder

As these things go, the one time I was finally able to shoot Afua, we just kept throwing whatever ideas we could at the wall to see what would stick.   Practically the last one , which I think I need to rework a bit, was the idea of covering her in baby powder.  I don't do nudes, generally speaking.  Since a lot of my favorite imagery is story driven, doing photos on a purely aesthetic basis, in this case, the beauty of the human body, is a different direction for me. 

 I think my bias is that I'm basically chronicling someone else's handiwork.  My input in the overall image seems more like a technical matter than anything else.  It's like life drawing class, where you're learning the fundamentals, in order to express yourself better.

But, like a lot of my preconceived notions, I'm finding more and more that I don't want to overanaylze things.  That I want to do things (shoot things? draw things?)  just because I enjoy it.  Pictures of my friends, pictures of my family.   Uhm, pictures of a nude goddess of a woman covered in baby powder.  The images don't require any more explanation than they make me happy.

It's been a long time since I've though about photography, or anything, that way.