Circus performer on a Cyr wheel caputed by fitness advertising photographer Robert Houser
It's the middle of Covid and she literally ran off with the circus. The wheel is called a Cyr wheel and she performs with it for Cirque du Soleil. The crazy thing about this image is that it's not fake. That blacktop is real - she is literally spinning on Skyline Boulevard in the Oakland hills, overlooking the entire Bay Area. I took out a tuft of grass growing in the new blacktop on the left and a twig peaking up in the distance on the right. Another wonderful opportunity to work with someone who plays for a living, even if we did have to have multiple people looking out for cars while I lay in the gutter at the side of the road.