Trisha has one of the best faces to shoot. Easy for make-up. Great to light. Easy to use dramatic light on. It also helped that I have been watching her grow since she was a baby and I know her face well. I enjoyed creating a timeless portrait with her personality being the focus of the shot. I really love creating classic looks. It will be hard to tell in what decade this photo was taken and that was the point.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
-Vince Lambardi

When I turned myself over to God, I took my life out of the hands of an idiot. EGO: Easing God Out

When I don't have expectations of others, anything positive they do is a pleasant surprise.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings." --Peter McWilliams

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you. - Wayne Dyer

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.     - Benjamin Mays

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.   -Albert Pike

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.   -Winston Churchill

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.      - General George Patton

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.      ~ Henry Ford

The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men.      ~ Captain J.A. Hatfield

Attach yourself to your passion, but not to your pain. Adversity is your best friend on the path to success.      ~ unknown

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.      ~ Sidney Greenberg

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.      ~ Richard Nixon

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.   Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened; vision cleared; ambition inspired, and success achieved.~ Helen Keller

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies, for the hardest victory is victory over self.      ~ Aristotle    

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -not their minds. ~ Unknown

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.     ~ Thomas Edison

If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe. - John Maxwell   

A competitive world has two possibilities for you: you can lose or, if you want to win, you can change. ~  Lester C. Thurow 

I  cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: try to please everybody.      ~ Mr. Herbert Bayard Swope

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.      ~ Sir Winston Churchill