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So I am currently working on another set, which should be fun although it is a tad nerve racking. We are shooting it today in the yard, everything should go fine as long as it doesn't rain which is a slight possibility. I enjoy taking the sets at home since I love every square inch of my two acres and I am looking forward to reminiscing about the pictures as time goes on; how the property has changed, how I have changed. The part that makes me nervous is the fact that one of my siblings will be taking the photos. They are an amazing photographer and although I feel comfortable around them, this will be a test of that comfortability I'm sure. But then I ask myself, what exactly is making me feel that way. In a discussion I asked them if they were apprehensive about it, they replied "why would it be weird, your my sister? Its just the naked body, I've know yours my whole life, from the time we were in the bathtub together as kids. We are the same flesh, the same blood, the same soul, wouldn't it be more uncomfortable for you if it were a stranger, some photographer you don't know what their intentions or feelings towards you are?" I came to realize that it is obviously societies paradigm on what is appropriate that is influencing these feelings, my voice, my truth; was being shadowed by the guilt and weight of a ideology I don't even believe in. This set will defy some accepted norms, but by now that should be something I'm good at.

Enjoy.