🧜🏻♀️🌊mermaid season ’22
The First Mermaid Shoot
Great Kills Beach, Staten Island
May 27, 2022
It’s that time of year again! Time to recruit models for my new tops. To start, a reliable mermaid who has sat for several shoots last year. She scouted this location–Great Kills Beach on Staten Island, part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, and we set a sunset date. The location blew me away. I already knew I loved all of the Gateway National Recreation Area units I’ve visited in New York City, but the scenery, the shelling and the seclusion just blew me away. I already know I am returning for my first fairy shoot. But I won’t get ahead of myself.
Not a soul in site. Yes, please.
Although my mermaid had to find me in the huge park. I sent her this as a guide.
Some great rocks for reclining mermaids…
Pretty mermaid time
So excited to finally have a model for this dress. It was an early creation…
Mermaid having fun…
…then serious sea contemplation.
Adjustments
All about the angle
We did it!
Amazing bunch of shells I collected in the short period I had to shell.
While I am here on the mermaid shoot tip, a very special little mermaid…
And another older piece I hadn’t found a model for. So glad it fit her!
Who will be my next mermaid???? Stay tuned!