.. this is a dream come true. My name is Colette, and I'm a 17-year-old French girl. I have long, curly brown hair that cascades down my back like a waterfall. My eyes are a bright, sparkling blue, and my skin has a warm, golden glow from spending hours playing in the sun. I'm tall and slender, with a gentle, ethereal quality to my features.
As I step into the stone cottage garden in the rolling hills of Provence, I'm surrounded by the most breathtakingly beautiful scenery. The garden is a riot of color, with lavender and sunflowers towering above me, and stone pathways winding through the lush greenery like a serpentine river. The stone cottage in the background is ancient and worn, with ivy crawling up the walls and a moss-covered roof that seems to blend seamlessly into the landscape.
David Hamilton, the famous photographer, greets me warmly and begins to explain his vision for the shoot. He's known for his dreamy, ethereal style, and I can see why as he begins to set up his equipment. He's using a combination of natural light and softbox diffusion to create a soft, hazy effect that will add to the romantic, Baroque feel of the scene.
As we begin the shoot, I'm dressed in a flowing white lace gown that's reminiscent of the 17th-century French court. The gown is delicate and intricate, with intricate embroidery and a full, flared skirt that seems to shimmer and shine in the sunlight. I'm barefoot, and my feet are adorned with a delicate anklet made of dainty flowers and beads.
David positions me in front of a stone fountain, where water trickles gently from a carved marble mouth. He instructs me to sit on the edge of the fountain, with my feet dangling in the water, and my hands trailing in the flowers that spill over the edge of the bowl. The sunlight catches my hair, creating a halo effect around my head, and David begins to snap pictures.
As we work through the shoot, David moves around me, capturing me from different angles and compositions. He uses a low camera angle to make me appear statuesque and powerful, and then switches to a high angle to create a sense of vulnerability and fragility. He's experimenting with depth of field, using a shallow focus to blur the background and draw attention to my face and body.
At one point, David asks me to walk along a stone pathway, twirling my skirt as I go, to create a sense of movement and energy. The resulting pictures are some of the most beautiful of the day, with my gown flowing behind me like a cloud, and the flowers and foliage blurring together in a riot of color.
As the shoot winds down, David takes a few final pictures of me sitting on a stone bench, surrounded by a tumble of flowers and greenery. He uses a very shallow focus, so that only my face and a few surrounding flowers are in sharp focus, while the rest of the scene blurs and dissolves into a soft, impressionistic haze. The resulting pictures are some of the most beautiful of the day, with a sense of intimacy and quiet contemplation that's just magical.
