As noted on page one of this series, it was the happy circumstance of the photo collection Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz and my meeting of model Patti Levey that led to this collection of images, done in the manner of Alfred’s portraits of Georgia. We met in June and I returned to the Santa Fe area in September. Happily the weather was good and we did the shoot in about four hours. Also helpful was the shooting venue which was the Vista Clara Ranch & Spa (a little south of Santa Fe, at Galisteo, NM).

I drove over to Vista Clara from Amarillo in the morning and had lunch with Kaye Sanford, the gracious owner of the resort spa. Patti joined us and we began our shoot immediately afterwards. At four o’clock it began to rain, but by then we were finished and ten rolls of film were in the bag.

The shoot was a wonderful collaborative effort. Because Patti is both a model and an accomplished photographer, she understood what I wanted to achieve, and how to do it with an economy of time. With prior planning we assembled the required props and clothing, and we both decided which of the images in the Stieglitz does Georgia book to use as shooting starting points.

These as some more of the black and white portrait images I recorded during the “Dreaming of Georgia” shoot.