Fluvanna Spring Dance Portraits in Afton

At the risk of sounding creepy, I admit I have loved watching this stunning Fluvanna ballerina dance for years. Her grace and poise amaze me, and the emotion she conveys when she dances is truly inspirational. I was beyond thrilled to be able to shoot her dance portraits this spring in Afton!

“Ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer’s gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.” -W. Somerset Maugham