I recently got together with model Shamara Lee for an outdoor fitness and active lifestyle test shoot at one of my favorite spots in Los Angeles, along the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. It was a gorgeous day with bright colors still popping on the trees along the dried up Big Tujunga River as the all-too-brief autumn season drew to a close. I have slowly been adding to a body of work focused on fitness and active lifestyle imagery. It’s a great niche that allows me to use my skills in portraiture and documentary photography to create beautiful, realistic images of people in a natural setting. It’s an opportunity for light, color, motion and mood to all come together. It’s not a bad way to spend the day either! Shamara was a great model, able to take direction well while also contributing good ideas. I hope to work with her again sometime. Thanks for looking!