A white suit,
and a wall of
bougainvillea
A church, and a house on the hill · Southern California
A white suit, a cathedral train, a church full of flowers, and afterwards a house on a hillside with bougainvillea over the front of it and papel picado strung across the drive. The portraits were made against an ivy wall in the last hour.
Paper cut
and strung
across a drive
Southern California
An ivy wall
is better
than a
backdrop
The house had one thing worth everything else on the property: a long wall of ivy with bougainvillea coming through it, in shade for most of the afternoon. Shade against colour is the whole trick — the faces are lit by the sky and the background does the work.
So most of the portraits here are made along ten metres of one wall. Nobody had to be driven anywhere, and the light never had to be argued with.
More in California
- Photography
- Stefano Casati for Loving Lens
Photo Stefano Casati for Loving Lens.
An hour of California
light, and cypresses
The Richard Nixon Library, Yorba Linda.
Somewhere
like this?