In the early aughts I worked numerous times with Liz, who was not just good looking, but quite a friendly jokester too.  At the time, I had this inflated vinyl chair sitting around in my studio, and every single time she came for a photo session, she would remark how much she liked it.  So finally, one day she came and again she said she loved the chair, so I asked her if she could show me how much she loved it, and could I photograph her loving it?   That’s how this session came to be.  Numerous really good images came out of the session, but probably my favorite one is this flub – the flash had failed to fire in synchrony with the shutters.  She had just gotten down on the floor to receive the chair, and teasing me, had starting moving with it just so (you know what I’m talking about), when I shot this image impromtu, really before I was ready.  All the subsequent images were well lit, but none showed this energy.  Sometimes the best images are visible and available for only a moment, and too much gear or technical complexity leaves them inaccessible… or too much thought and direction spoils them.

Shot with twin Hasselblads CM500 on a bar, electric twin release.