© Armando Bellmas

Each photo session is a collaboration, at the very least, between subject and photographer. There’s a point a little further beyond where that collaboration becomes a creative partnership of sorts, regardless of formalities or intents, stated or otherwise. Reaching that point is a wonderful thing. Sometimes you don’t even realize it’s happened until you create something — hell, a few things — that you’re really, really jazzed about.

Like this photograph.