Mike's Poster of Evie, According to Girl

Mike’s poster of Evie according to Girl: It featured a three lug bayonet mount with a 44mm throat and a flange to focal plane distance of 46.5mm. It was manual focus, professional and adventurous. The black and whites created in the mind and birthed in the lab were a cross between art and wildlife.

Mike had the gift. I was his subject. He would shoot, I would model. Posing with kids from the hood and fountains from the street, he was able to capture the dancer in me.

After I went back to Michigan, Mike took the opportunity to set up his dark room and develop a few rolls. He found one picture that he especially liked. This picture featured my dark piercing brown eyes from under messy hair, while sitting on his bed and wearing his dress shirt.

He selected that negative, ran it down to Times Square, and ordered an almost life-sized poster.

Okay, could have been worse. I could have had less on, or maybe a cigarette in my mouth.

Actually, it was a pretty good picture. Mike worked on his shoots like a hunter after the first deer of the season. Lighting, focus, background, and the weapon of choice all played important factors in getting the perfect image.


The Nikon that he used still sets on our dresser. We have graduated from the monochrome classics of black and white to color, and then to Canon digital. But that Nikon will have a special place in our hearts and will provide for our studio many powerful shots giving the white walls the Leibovitz feel of the moment.