During a photography workshop in June 1997, I discovered an incredible shooting venue at the Vista Clara Ranch and Spa near Galisteo, NM. Among the buildings is a modern Kiva—a large round room with a three-foot square skylight in the two story high ceiling. In mid-summer, for about two hours at mid-day, the sun pours through that single skylight and comes straight down. Vista Clara owner Kaye Sanford made it possible for me to return to the Ranch and work with the available light in the Kiva. Three models were able to join me so we could explore the figure studies imaging possibilities presented by the single overhead light source. These are some of the images from that series, on day one, with model Patti Levey. Assisting me was photographer, and friend, Norm Stuppi of Amarillo, Texas.