In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can make lists, check off items.. phone calls and emails….    plan for A and B.. maybe C…….

but in the end.. when it starts… there is no map, no guide..

Some things have a will of their own.  The muse that moves me is a wild and wicked sprite.. but she never fails me.

This day was months in the planning..  right up until we began.. we had a plan.. but then it started.  I remember shoots like this like you might remember a beautiful dream, or a wild night out..   fragments of memories of moments .. sharp spiking inspiration, sudden shift in directions… pulled this way and that….striking this and reversing that…….   the ebb and flow of creative energy swirling in a vortex of nature and color and sounds as it binds itself to the whims and wilds of our human hearts, our creative spirit….

……and then its over…  and I think.. was that real?  did that really happen?  how did I get home? 

This is the first engagement shoot of the year.  This shoot marks the start of my wedding season.
I can’t wait.. but I will.