My poor, sweet girl…she often finds herself subjected to a torture only the child of a photographer will endure: “Come on! The sun sets in thirty minutes! Get dressed and in the car!” Today was one of those days. We both needed out of the house. I haven’t picked up the camera and shot something personal in a while, and I just needed a break from the computer. (I’ve been cleaning up galleries and files from the past year all week.)  So we jumped in my car and headed about 10 minutes away to a park and orange grove. My goal was to capture the spontaneous spirit that my girl has. Sure, her hair was messy (it is pretty hard to tame). Her clothing subdued (on purpose). I just set her free in an area she’d never explored before, and I asked her to “model for mommy”. We smiled. We were serious. We ran. And here is the result. These are pretty much SOOC (straight out of the camera), with just a few quick corrections and brushes in Lightroom. All shot with my 85mm on the 5D Mark II.