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Anastasia was the second model that I met in Hamburg.
She was pretty enthusiastic with the idea and she even proposed a few different poetries as a theme.

I decided to use a hotel again, because I had some problem fitting the session in my schedule so it was not possible to rent a studio for the shooting

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桜花
るを心ぞ
むる
行方も知らぬ
が身と思えば
Cherry blossom
Bent our hearts!
It's possible that
What he also doesn’t know
Not a single moment, not a bad ending!

(c) Kino no Tsurayuki, edited by Kana-jyo (Japanese: 仮名序) of the anthology "Kokin-waka-shu"

Preparation Phase

In the end we agreed on the following:

On the back the poetry she had selected - I just lowered it a bit in order to allow her hair to just drop naturally on her back.
On the front, I decided to try again something I wanted originally to do with Fifi … but failed to poor choice of color/light: a cascade of the same kanji repeated tens of time. In this case I opted for 桜 written in red.
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We started on the back, this time, because the front would require more time to complete.

Posing