having shown you one of angelika's portraits of me here's one of mine of her

as i blogged below, in the ealing photography group we had a recent challenge whereby we were paired up with someone in the group to take photos of each other. here is one of the ones i took of angelika [the one i liked best angelika hated so i agreed not to show it in public!]. often when i have taken photos of people i have simply captured them in a natural pose or setting. but somewhat inspired by anton corbijn's work in star trak i decided to try and get out of my comfort zone and be a bit more directive with location, instructions and props. in this instance angelika had a mask hanging on the wall so i asked her to take it down and wear it and she then produced a couple of others of which this was one. her favourite was this one.