This portrait is a little different than my typical healthcare photography work due to its more personal nature. This is Julia, and she’s an infection control nurse at a local outpatient surgery center. I took this the other day after she had a very busy day at work and came straight over to my place afterwards. On her way over she warned that she was still in her gray scrubs as if she was embarrassed for me to see her like that. I expected her to be looking kind of rough – yet – she looked like this. I promptly told her she looked beautiful and sat her down in front of my camera to show her that. This portrait is the result of that effort.