My Leafy Wife - 2007

I had spent the entire morning raking leaves that day and ended up with a huge pile in the backyard. I love taking pictures of Melissa so I asked her to doll herself up so that I could take a nice outdoor portrait of her in the leaves. I set up my stepladder over the pile and get the camera ready. She looked great when she came out. I asked her to lie down in the leaves. She thought I was nuts. Almost right away her eyes started watering and her nose started running. This was about the tenth picture I took. By this time her eyes were burning. (must have been the pollen or something) I had her close her eyes and told her to open them at the count of 3. She's a real trooper. Suffering for the sake of my art. She quickly went inside to wash out her eyes.