Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

I took Shadyn to Salvation Army Store. She found a bunch of different clothing that she liked. Tops and bottoms, mostly tight blue jeans. She found a pair of boots that she really liked as well.

After we returned to the studio she said she wanted to have photographs made. We decided to shoot in the work yard of the guy who was next door. Shadyn brought beer with us to give him in trade for using the work yard.

I was getting ready to shoot when Shadyn changed from her cut offs into the boots and the leather gloves she had cut the finger tips off of.

She modeled using the guys latest 'dragon' sculpture among the weeds, taking a low angle view.

Yes, the tree emerging from her head is quite intentional.

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

I’m seeing many technical issues, not just the tree.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Well thanks, the tree is anything but a technical issue. Having a 'tree growing out of a persons head' is the same as organizing a composition, it is in effect a stylized and purposeful intention. Perhaps this is not true with the basic photography person, with a photographer who can point to the work of American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler where edge becomes the central issue in the images construct. Then what is the reasoning of a tree emerging from behind the persons head?

Why is her torso resting with a leg placed in a manner to reveal her sexual body?

Looking at images of nude women must be understood from more than just a basic human form when the gaze and body language speaks to the language of the gestural, that of the erotic.

I've tried to speak to photography as human expression, to capture that moment in time, the fleeting glance, the 'cubic centimeter of chance' that may open a vista of sensation. I tend to present the moments in time that are constructs, visual continuity that I would say is in the realm of the senses.

You are 100 percent correct that I do not care for the roll of mechanic, I find that distracting and quite honestly boring. Many here delight in all that technical activities. I want these technical issues to not be in my way of seeing. This is exactly why I moved away from the main stream DSLR cameras. The camera gear was much like a spoiled child demanding attention. I found a better route with the old analogue camera lenses, displaying f stops, depth of field scales on the lens barrels, and simple plane focus.

I found in the Sony A7 body a camera that I can set exposure because that is what I need in a camera body. It is not snotty to say that I know exposure, the rule of 16 is no mystery. It does sound snotty when I am caught telling 'photographers' around me what the exposure is as they screw around with cameras, but that just shows to me that they are lazy and do not want to understand the basic tools with which they try to create. When I was 16 or even 20 I was a GWC (Guy With Camera), but I am no longer a GWC. I have trouble imaging with smart phones just like when I made images with an instamatic. Can I make an image with a Nikon point and shoot (Cool Pics), yes, I have:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-603122-1.html
Starena in the Kiddy Pool.

So I know my craft. I know to dump high end DSLR's when they become distracting dysfunctional toys that men delight in playing with instead of having consistent vision. This image was made with a Canon toy DSLR as it slowly became impractical. Now I no longer have the problems that I had for years. In the end, vision is everything and technical details may show as hick ups but the vision is still there.