"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." - van Gogh [ explore! pg 30 ]

            This took an enormous amount of work and detail! I found out turning day shots into night shots are time consuming. I decided to make my own premade background instead of using one so that part took hours, then editing myself into the shot took a few more hours. It was originally supposed to be green and blue and I might still do one with the green & blue but I decided to do the red tones because that color has so much energy.

Inspiration: My insomnia is bad enough that my patterns are all messed up and I'm now aiming for a 6:30-7am bedtime. It makes me wonder if some of us were just not meant to be day people. I've never, ever been a day person. I don't function the right way during the day lol I was born at night and I'm at my very best in the middle of the night. That's my peak time when I'm most happy, creative, productive, calm, etc. It's almost like trying to force a square into a circle to say the majority of people live their lives during the day so you have to, too when that's not what comes natural to you.

There's little details here that aren't right, don't like the pose very much and of course they're driving me nuts but it's better to post than to edit it to death. When I get time, I'll peice together the images I used for this (about 6). The hardest part was editing the sunlight off the front of the dress.

Taken on: May 4, 2010

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