Welcome to part 2 of the ballerina series! Thanks so much for all the support and love from Part 1, it really meant a lot. This is the second half of the photo shoot and it was so much fun going around SF. We started pretty early in the day, so it was nice while shooting on the streets in Chinatown. However, after lunch it was getting too crowded and as people do, they like to stop and look, which can change the mood of the shoot.

Despite all that, I thought Lani, the lovely ballet dancer and Bar Method instructor of Seattle, did beautifully and it was fun capturing the beauty of ballet against my most favorite city, San Francisco. Please leave any thoughts or comments you may have. They're always so appreciated.

Thank you to everyone involved with this project. It feels so good to see something we've been planning coming to fruition. I am so grateful to be able to do photography and follow my love. Thanks for your time.

Wee!Last week I spent time preparing for a photo shoot that my friend Lilani (the dancer) and I have discussed for a while. We chose a date two months ago and it finally happened this past Saturday! Lilani is a trained ballet dancer and we wanted to capture ballet poses done by her around San Francisco, a city in which she frequently visits for her close friends.

To prepare for the shoot, I spent a good part of Thursday scouting out locations in San Francisco around the same time we'd shoot on Saturday. This allowed me to see the lighting and how it would work for our shoot. And San Francisco is always congested on weekends, so I wanted to make sure we weren't around places that were TOO crowded, even though some places I wanted were iconic parts of SF.

Here are some shots I took while scouting:

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I had other places in mind, but I have shot at them before and was familiar with the locations beforehand. I also reached out to a yoga studio in the heart of Union Square called Maiden Lane Studios, a beautiful yoga studio I had taken classes at before to see if I could shoot there and they were so gracious and nice about it. I also made notes in my sketchbook about what the temperatures were and how the sun was casting down. This allowed me to pack appropriately and for Lilani to figure out what to wear.

As I'm working on processing photos from the shoot, I wanted to show some behind the scenes photos and outtakes. The candid photos are always so sweet and fun to see.

Special thanks to: Andrea for being the best BFF to Lilani with hair, holding of all the stuff and her wardrobe, Jarhod for helping me with metering, shots, carrying of camera, second set of eyes and making sure we didn't get hit by cars and for Ian for the transportation and keeping us safe.