Dorothy Perry Photography

Sunday was a self-assignment to shoot at the Blues Festival.  The weather was muggy and hot, a holdover from storms yesterday, and the closer I came to the entrance to the park, the less desirable it seemed to be as a place to spend an entire Sunday afternoon.  So, looking for a place to rethink this thing, I went into a nearby building, one of my favorite vintage buildings downtown.  It has enormous high windows facing the lake and has always been the type of place I have wanted to have a studio.

This building is a elegant structure with many different types of creative tenants in dance, music and art.  I fell in love with the light illuminating beautiful polished surfaces of wood, marble and metal.

And wouldn’t you know it, shortly after I got inside the sky opened up and rained like a waterfall over the Festival (and festivalgoers) for almost a hour.  But I and my precious cameras still had our Sunday playdate.  Here are some of the photos from that afternoon.