Working in a studio changes the environment for a portrait - it is easier controlled, the lighting isn't left to the whims of the gods, and weather doesn't play a part in considerations...

Here I am working with a mobile set-up, one easily transported and arranged - meaning that wherever there is room for my backdrop and a little space in front, I am in business...

Venice is my grand-daughter - while inexperienced in matters of posing and preening for the camera, she is perhaps more natural and at ease with herself - unpretentious, unselfconscious, just Venice...