Two girl pairings are never arbitrary at MPL. They're always the happy result of two models getting along naturally and beautifully, two girls in this case who had never met prior to this shoot. Now Elena and Scarlet are soul sisters and close friends in constant contact. You can't plan or force chemistry. If it happens, it's there to enjoy and have fun with...and I think we did last Spring the Arizona desert.

Big, cinematic scenes like this lend themselves perfectly to set photography. They not only provide a dramatic backdrop for telling the model's story; they also tell a story of the landscape around them. In this case, the 9,000 acre Sonoran Desert Preserve near Scottsdale, Arizona.