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Perfume Part 3

Rachel Fus — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:48:27 +0000

This is the last in the series and you can see it doesn’t have that same laying down bubble-y look. The Delices by Cartier bottle is more in line with the new styling of fragrances which tends towards the opulent and colorful. (People actually make a habit of collecting these despite their smell.) I decided to play off Cartier’s current ad campaign “How far would you go for love” which relates to their “LOVE” jewelry collection and create poster with Snow White undertones.

Check out other images in the Perfume series: Part 1 & Part 2

Perfume Part 2

Rachel Fus — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:39:06 +0000

This bottle is a bit more commercial than the previous one. Coco Mademoiselle is a Chanel fragrance and the bottle was given to me by one AWESOME sister, Danielle Fus, who is a Chanel connoisseur of sorts (her shoe and sunglasses collection is unrivaled). It is billed as “feminine and sexy, young and exciting” but I think all women make the instant connection between Chanel and pearls and the retro photographs of Richard Avedon.

Check out Perfume Part 1

Perfume Part 1

Rachel Fus — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:27:28 +0000

I have wanted to do this photo shoot since I was a senior in college. Have you ever noticed the way a perfume bottle looks when it is completely full? Well, the way it looks completely full when it’s laying down? and there are the little air bubbles that travel about? After the first spray, that look never comes back, which may be why it’s taken me so long to do this (I have very little self-control when it comes to trying out new scents).

This first pic is a bottle that I picked up on my cruise to Bermuda. It’s by the Bermuda Perfumery and can only be purchased on the island or online. The original scent, and the one I like best, is called Lily.

Cute Old People

Rachel Fus — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:40:54 +0000

I know! I know! I didn’t need parental permission to publish this shot but sometimes 18+ people can be cute too :D

Note: I also shot a picture of a cute kid at this same event. That one made the front page. LOL!

Bowie residents Steven and Phyllis Glazer listen to the jazz sounds of Project Natale at Town Green Park in Bowie, MD on July 31, 2010.

Bowie 07/31/10

First Day of School

Rachel Fus — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:12:16 +0000

Prince George’s County Public Schools opened for the new school year this past Monday and I was sent out to capture it at two local elementary schools: Melwood and Barack Obama. I wore my purple floaty skirt and…KIDDING! Photos:

Raymond Bradshaw the III, 5, of Clinton, walks behind his father Raymond Bradshaw Jr., as he checks his bag of school supplies on the first day of school at Melwood Elementary School in Upper Marlboro, MD on August 23, 2010. Bradshaw III is in kindergarten.

New principal Kristil Fossett and the Douglass High School Eagle, played by Douglass senior Kendall Harrison, waves to cars on Woodyard Road as they pass Melwood Elementary School on the first day of school in Upper Marlboro, MD on August 23, 2010.

Makayla Doyle, 5, of Clinton, hugs new her new principal Kristil Fossett, on the first day of school at Melwood Elementary School in Upper Marlboro, MD on August 23, 2010. Doyle is in kindergarten.

Parents and media swarm Barack Obama Elementary School on the first day of school in Upper Marlboro, MD on August 23, 2010. Prince George’s County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. William Hite and Maryland Lieutenant Governor were slated to attend.

PGCPS Superintendent Dr. William Hite surveys the crowd of new students with Principal Pearl Harmon on the first day of school at Barack Obama Elementary School in Upper Marlboro, MD on August 23, 2010.

Bermuda Panoramas

Rachel Fus — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:57:10 +0000

A couple weeks ago I went on a cruise to Bermuda – Royal Caribbean out of Baltimore. Who knew!?! Here are two panoramas from the trip. The first is of Front Street in Hamilton, Bermuda’s capital, and the second is the Centrum on our ship, the Enchantment of the Seas.

–Is it still a “panorama” if it’s vertical???

Cute Kids Part (too many to count)

Rachel Fus — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:51:59 +0000

What are the cute kids of Prince George’s County up too these days? Learning to fish and playing at the park. This is deep.

Erick Flores Jr., 2, of Hyattsville, fishes in the Patuxent River near Governor’s Bridge in Bowie, MD on July 31, 2010.

Bowie 07/31/10

Emily Stewart, 6, of Laurel, watches as Jaiton Brown, 9, of Laurel, crosses the monkey bars at Laurel Lakes Park in Laurel, MD on August 6, 2010.

Laurel 08/6/10

Nikon Creative Lighting System

Rachel Fus — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:45:26 +0000

I am not a HUGE fan of Nikon’s Creative Lighting System. It’s great for doing quick off-camera lighting wirelessly when I’m indoors at a market or art show type but for anything more advanced (i.e. the SB-800 is not in my hand) I go pocket wizard. I just like the added security of knowing that despite people, sunlight, or a 3 ft. thick concrete wall, the flash will go off as I have programmed it to.

But what if the Speedlight is in the hand of someone else?

While I was waiting at the Laurel Chik-fil-A for the Fire Department to fill up a dunk tank (no lie) one of the employees came out on her break for a turn in the moon bounce. I gave her the flash, set it up remotely from the back of my D300 and started firing.

National Harbor

Rachel Fus — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:11:39 +0000

Two weeks ago I had an odd photo schedule. I had two shoots one in National Harbor of the Children’s Museum Launch Zone and then a second of a restaurant in Accokeek a few hours later. Calculating it out on my GPS though I would barely have time to breathe if I decided to take that time driving back to my office in Laurel, so instead of sitting in 495 traffic and adding to the greenhouse gases I decided to stick around, explore the area for some new story ideas, and take a few pics:

An HDR of the Gaylord National Hotel.

An HDR of a sailboat in the harbor.

A panoramic of the harbor.

National Harbor 07/22/10

Photographing Blind

Rachel Fus — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:57:13 +0000

I had a shoot last week that pushed my environmental portrait envelope. The story was about a woman who was in essence trapped inside her home. She was blind and didn’t trust the local transportation system to pick her up at the prearranged time and place – she had been left over 10 times. At her house, nothing visually jumped out and said “I’m Blind!” – she was an extremely capable woman – except that the whole place was extremely dark, the only light came from the front door… so I went with it.

Gloria Swieringa in her Fort Washington home on July 22, 2010. Swieringa, who is blind, was trapped in her home after Metro Access claimed her eligibility had expired.
Fort Washington 07/22/10