A Dancer’s Focus

I love dance, and I am awestruck by the beauty of dancers and their art. In fact, you’ll see a theme of dance in the artwork around our home. One of the things that struck me this past Saturday night was the focus that dancers have to maintain. It’s similar to the focus required of actors on stage. In fact, the few times I saw dancers break focus that night stand out in my memory because they were so glaringly obvious and so clearly detracted from the performance when they happened.

This is one of the photos I shot of Megan that night and I loved the way it captured her focus at the end of one of the team’s routines. I then reworked it with Apple’s Aperture software (which I received as a gift this past Christmas and which I’m still trying to learn). I thought black and white gave the picture more of a timeless quality. I also love the way the light in the background swirls around and above her creates an almost halo-like effect . I decided to give it a bit of a green hue in homage to the school’s colors.