this photo was supposed to be a portrait of my friend jasmine, a closeup of her pretty red curls.  the leaves and flowers were supposed to be blurry and her curls were supposed to pop.  apparently my polaroid had a different plan.  polaroids tend to always have a different plan, but this time it made me mad...... because it was my last one, and i really really really wanted a photo of the curls.  it has taken me a few weeks to become okay with this image in my spirit------ i had to let it settle with me for a while.  i'm finally okay with it and decided to post it extra large so we could take it in and let it be.  so here's my portrait of jasmine.  we had a picnic in griffith park among the old abandoned LA zoo cages.  we went on a photographers hike, which to us means: photograph for 10 minutes, walk for 2.  photograph each other taking photographs.  walk a bit more.