One of my current projects is photographing professional dancers. Most of the images are made using a slow shutter speed in order to create an impressionistic blurring effect to emphasize motion. My initial inspiration came from photographer Hal Eastman's dance imagery. I also discovered a wonderful book of his dance images on Amazon – for five bucks!
This first image is of Julia Zharova, the founder of the San Francisco Russian Ballet School. I was fortunate to photograph this talented dancer in the performance auditorium in the San Francisco Russian Center. This is my favorite image of her.
More dance images can be seen here.