What would my blog look like without Hive communities and their challenges or contests? I will tell you:
My blog would be pretty empty and boring 馃槺
And there'd also be less life in communities - win/win! Thank you for these challenges, people!
Because, currently, these challenges, photo challenges really, are the only things that keep me posting as much as I do, little as that may be. But I am happy about every piece of my art that I can share with the world out there.
So, when I saw 
Searching for just the right photos.
Wednesday morning before going to work I scrolled through my photo library, which is rather big, to see what I could find for this particular challenge: A photo of a shadow or reflection.
It is probably worth noting that I really love reflections! Shadows are nice, too, but I rather consider myself a reflection hunter. As a result, I had a ton of reflection photos to go through when I finally sat down and started scrolling on Wednesday morning.
Fair warning: To be efficient I actually prepped a few photos or photo themes for future posts.
Watch out Shadow Hunter Community - more photos are incoming over the next few weeks!
But today's post is dedicated to GalenKP's special challenge and I chose to share some of my shots from a photoshoot with model Cheryl Ann. It was actually a fine art nude shoot, but don't worry, I made sure that all photos I am showing in this post are safe for work 馃檪.
The shoot took place at The Art Factory in Paterson NJ at dusk and continued into the night. The Art Factory is an old industrial building from the late 19th century and it is a mecca for a photographer, well, at least for this photographer. The owners are renovating and remodeling it, and you can rent artist space there. It is also a pretty popular wedding venue, for which they cleaned up some of the areas, however, where we shot it was pretty filthy and definitely original and I loved it.
Here are a few photos to give you an impression of the space
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The top left photo shows you the scene of this particular photo shoot. Model - environment - prop(s), and a cell phone 馃ぃ - lol - it was a candid snapshot (shhh - and not 100 % in focus) when we walked into the room and I saw Cheryl Ann's reflection and outside of those huge windows the sky toned by the blue hour.
And now without any further ado, below you will find a small selection from this shoot: Variations of Cheryl Ann's reflection in the old mirror with shifting angles and varying focus.
On a somewhat unrelated note, this post got delayed by another day, because I wanted to make the gif you see in the footer of this post. And I had it all wrapped up, already uploaded here when I spotted a typo. Can you believe that I worked on this for hours with different programs, but didn't pick up on it until I was ready to hit publish? And then it finally hit me - unbelievable.
But now it is here. I may still change it up (colors and sparkles), but if you'd like to use it, you are welcome to. And please let me know if you do, so I may check out your post 馃檪.