Putting together this website was kind of a challenge for me.
The whole point was to try and upscale what could have been my basic dancer page and make it a fun and attractive website.
First I needed new content (cause, let's face it, what I had sucked!)
Even though my iPhone had over 5000 really cool photos and videos taken all over Europe, America, Africa and Asia, I didn't have anything worth putting there. Professional pictures? I barely had a headshot appropriate enough for auditions.
As a dancer, I spend a lot of time staring at myself in a mirror with critical eyes, working on my lines and technique during training and rehearsal. Having to do it with photos as well just wasn’t something I was in much of a hurry to pursue.
A previous photo shoot I scheduled to create some new shots and start taking my business a little more seriously, had started out really fun and productive, but it ended as epic fail. The photographer lost the hi-res versions of my pictures before I could get my hands on them!
Needless to say my favorite webmaster didn't enjoy the stamp-size pics I sent him.
So one morning I decided to move Heaven and Earth, and get one of my many dancer/photographer friends to take new pictures of me that I could use on the new site.
Seems that things happen right when they're meant to happen. Within the next three days, I managed to set up a shoot with my friend Mamiette whose work I really appreciated, but whose schedule, on the other hand, never coincided with mine. In three (if not more) years he has been a photographer, we could never find a good time. Until now.
So here we are, striding along Les Rues de Paris, taking pictures in some of my favorite places such as the Louvre and the Alexandre III bridge...
Tourists gathered to watch a platinum blond dancing on a bridge complete with top hat, tailcoat, Jean-Paul Gaultier fishnet tights and high stiletto heels. But the crowds didn't stop the photo extravaganza!
I even took a picture with a Russian tourist and got to pull out the only word I know in Russian : "Спасибо" [spa-see-bah] which means "Thanks"!
Point of the story: I have the best friends I could possibly wish for, and I feel more grateful everyday to be surrounded by so many incredible talents!
Merci, Thank you, Спасибо!!! ( <<<< That’s twice!)