Pointe Ballet Photo Session

Portraits

July 12, 2020

Cristina has been training in pointe ballet for several years already.

I connected with her mom who owns Tare Handmade. She crafts the most delicate, lovely porcelain wares and artwork. You can purchase some of her goods on her website, Instagram, Facebook, or you can just shop in person at Electic Co. Giovanni, often along with her daughter Cristina, will also pop up around town at different markets.

Through meeting Giovanni at various small business functions, I got to know that Cristina does ballet, and particularly pointe ballet. I wanted an opportunity to get outside my typical photography routine, so I asked if I could photograph Cristina doing pointe ballet. They said yes and we had a wonderful afternoon in downtown Colorado Springs taking these images.

ballerina with pointe shoes sitting on a bench in a white tulle skirt ballerina leaping in front of a church in downtown colorado springs pointe ballerina with her arms gracefully raised over her head in front of a wooden church door set in a stone archway wearing a white, tulle skirt ballerine with her foot up on a railing and gracefully bending over towards her pointed toe pointe ballerina sitting on a low stone wall and holding onto a black iron railing with a white tulle skirt ballerina en pointe sitting on a bench in a white tulle skirt, looking at her folded hands in her lap colorado springs ballerina standing in a wooden doorway with a stone arch ballerinas pointed toes ballerina learning on a stone wall with one leg kicked up behind her head ballerina on pointed toes colorado springs close up of a ballerina's feet while wearing her light pink pointe shoes under a white, tulle skirt ballerina en pointe colorado springs pointe ballerina with her arms extended standing in soft, greenery in front of a stone wall gazing softly at the ground ballering sitting with pointed toes in front of a church downtown colorado springs ballerina with her arms gracefully extended side to side and gazing over her left shoulder off camera ballerine balancing on one pointed tow with her reflection on the ground ballerina feet while holding her pointe shoes next to her legs colorado springs ballerina portrait

Puerto Rico

I now have one more pointe of connection with Cristina and Giovanni, who moved to Colorado Springs from Puerto Rico. As many of you may know, I set out to move to Ireland for two years starting in October 2019. Due to immigration difficulties, we instead ended up in Puerto Rico in January 2020. We originally planned to work short term in Puerto Rico while sorting out Irish immigration paperwork. Initially, we scheduled to leave PR and head to Ireland in April.

Of course, COVID came along and changed absolutely everything. We ended up staying in Puerto Rico until July. I can say I did not expect to find myself living in the Caribbean in 2020, or ever. However, we really tried to seize the moment and the experience, soaking up all the beauty the island has to offer.

As I return to Colorado Springs in the summer of 2020, I look forward to reconnecting with Cristina and Giovanni. I can’t wait to share about Puerto Rico and be able to listen to their stories from firsthand experience. I’m also ready to reconnect with the small business community in Colorado Springs!

 

On that day, I also captured some Mother and daughter images which you can see in the blog here. 

 

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