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You don’t have the chance every day to photograph a ski champion like Evelyn Dong at your studio.

To show her muscles and that cool turtle tattoo I decide to shoot her backside with some back light to frame her physique.

The idea was to showcase her athletic body and show that strong is beautiful. Again it shows how great it is to live in place where you have all these athletes and fit people around.

This article appears in Feb 2-8, 2012.

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Evelyn Dong – Strong is Beautiful

by Christian Heeb, The Source - Bend, Oregon
February 2, 2012

<h1>Evelyn Dong – Strong is Beautiful</h1> <p class="byline">by Christian Heeb, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />February 2, 2012</p> <p>You don't have the chance every day to photograph a ski champion like Evelyn Dong at your studio. </p> <p>To show her muscles and that cool turtle tattoo I decide to shoot her backside with some back light to frame her physique.</p> <p>The idea was to showcase her athletic body and show that strong is beautiful. Again it shows how great it is to live in place where you have all these athletes and fit people around.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/evelyn-dong-strong-is-beautiful-2139990/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=17991&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/evelyn-dong-strong-is-beautiful-2139990/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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