Albuquerque Sand Dunes
November 13th, 2006
Here’s Rose again on a sand dune outside Albuquerque on Saturday. Just finished a great shoot with Echoed Light in Little Rock. Should have some things to post from that in a day or two. Lots of editing to do. These sand dunes were the typical pristine dunes you find near a city. There were several junk cars covered with graffiti and all kinds of litter, including a variety of campaign signs for last week’s election. That was puzzling until I realized they were there to hold targets for target shooting. Still, there were photos to be made, even with all the clutter. The sky was being very cooperative.
I’m off to Florida in the morning. No shoots set up while I’m there, but by the weekend I’ll be going on to the Chapel Hill area in North Carolina where I have two models set to do shoots. And there are more to post from Rose in Albuquerque, not to mention Echoed Light here in Little Rock.
RoseWindow
November 13th, 2006
Rose by the window in her adobe house in Albuquerque. We had a great shoot Saturday. Went to some sand dunes and to a wilderness area as well as doing some shots at her house. I’ll post some more when I get time to edit them. Now I’m in Little Rock and will be shooting again Monday with a great model/photographer here known on deviant art as Echoed Light. Should have something from that to share with you soon too. Sunday was spent driving the nearly 900 miles from Albuquerque to Little Rock. For the couple days before that I didn’t have a connection to make updates. Sorry about that. I’ll do at least one more post before I leave here for Florida.
Hot Rocks
November 9th, 2006
Mindy at Lake Cumberland this summer. She is really working hard here. It was a very hot day and those rocks are in full sunlight. Her backside was cooking while I was shooting this photo. I love working with Mindy because she is really willing to give it her all to get a photo.
I like the relationships between textures, shapes, lines and color in this shot. Of course it doesn’t hurt to have a beautiful model to tie it all together.
Today I’ll be getting to Albuquerque and visiting my photographer friend Pat at his studio. I’ll also be meeting a new model, Rose, and talking about doing a shoot while I’m here.
New Mexico
November 8th, 2006
OK, back to nudes. This is Chastity posing in a wilderness area outside Albuquerque when I last visited there. I’ll be back in Albuquerque tomorrow and hope to do some more shooting while I’m there.
Colorado Sunset
November 8th, 2006
Adding insult to injury, here’s the sunset last night when I was getting gas in Castle Rock. I keep a little point and shoot camera in my pocket so I can shoot snapshots like this when I see something worth saving. Every photo doesn’t have to have a nude woman in it. This was beautiful, but not nearly as spectacular as the sunset the night before in Nebraska. But I was driving on I-80 and it had passed its peak by the time I found a safe place to pull over to take a photo. But this one is nice.
November 8th, 2006
I warned you. Carhenge with no naked women. It’s too bad I couldn’t find a model to take there today. The temperature was in the mid-70s and I had the place all to myself for a good part of the time I was there.
I first visited Carhenge when it was brand new with my best friend, Ken, on a motorcycle trip. We pitched our tent right there at the site and spent the night doing photos. We did some multiple flash time exposures wandering around with Vivitar 283s and lighting each car individually. We shot the sunset and Ken shot the sunrise. I was sleeping, as I always try to be when the sun comes up. That was back when the local authorities were still upset about it being built. They were calling it “a junk yard too close to the road” and other less flattering things. They tried to force the creator to remove it but he resisted long enough for the locals to wake up and realize that for the first time ever, there was a reason for people to come to Alliance, Nebraska. The next time I was through Alliance there was a Carhenge banner hanging from every lamp post in the town. It looks like the initial blush of fame has passed now, but there are a lot more hotels and other businesses in Alliance than there were back in the 80s.
Ken wrote a magazine article about that ride, including the Carhenge stop. As a result I was quoted in a national magazine saying that Carhenge was the best work of art done in the U.S. in the 1980s. I am still willing to stand by that statement. What could be more American than to reproduce an ancient British artifact using junk cars.
This shot isn’t all that great, but it did give me a chance to try out the panorama help feature on my Canon G6. Looks to me like it works pretty well. This is stitched together using the program that came with the camera. It is a combination of 6 images, shot hand held using the stitch assist feature in the camera. You may want to click on the image to see it larger. The full resolution version would print nicely at 40 inches x 10 inches. May have to crank one out when I get back home just to see what it looks like.
I’ll be watching for other chances to use this feature, maybe with a nude included next time.
Amy Jo
November 7th, 2006
Amy Jo in her new house. I love to work with Amy Jo. Unfortunately she lives in Iowa, so we don’t get to shoot as often as I’d like. This time Amy was moving into her new house on the day I was in town. But she took a couple hours out of that very busy day to do a quick shoot. It gave us a chance to explore the new house and look for interesting light. I like what’s happening on the wall here, as well as the quality of the window light on Amy’s body.
The shoot was short, but not uneventful. When the cub scout came to the door selling something Amy couldn’t find her pants, so I got to answer and diplomatically suggest that the cub scout come back a bit later to talk to the new owners of the house. I think I kept Amy Jo out of trouble with her new neighbors on her first day in the house.
Carhenge today, then south toward Albuquerque where I hope to do some shooting in a wilderness area. Will probably stop in Las Vegas, NM, one of my favorite little towns in the southwest. No gambling there, just a nice little town in a beautiful location.
Hotel Room Reflection
November 6th, 2006
Another shot of Cathleen in my hotel room in St Louis. A nice room, a beautiful model and some good light from the window…add a mirror and the photo just happens. I love the relationship between the tones on Cathleen and the tones on the wall, both in front of and through the mirror. We did very well in the limited time we had to shoot. I’m sure we’ll do even better on future shoots with more time to work.
I’m at a Flying J in North Platte, Nebraska tonight. Flying J has become my new favorite camping place. Good wireless internet connection. Reasonably edible food at ok prices. And a fairly quiet parking lot for me to sleep in my camper.
Tomorrow on to Carhenge. Too bad I don’t have a model. You might have to look at some photos with no naked women in them if I get something I like there.
Body light
November 6th, 2006
Cathleen Hope and I had been talking on line and wanting to shoot together for a couple years. So I made St Louis the first stop on the trip I’m taking right now so we could do that. Cathleen is a prize winning body builder. She asked if I could shoot something with her holding a weight that would show off her build. I took along some hot lights thinking I might need them to get what I wanted, but the window in the hotel room gave just the light I was after.
We only had time for a short shoot this time, but I’m sure we will be doing more in the future. Cathleen is a fine model.
The model I had planned to shoot in Springfield, MO had to cancel, so I’m changing plans. Think I’ll drive over to Alliance, Nebraska and shoot some panoramas at Carhenge. I don’t know of any models out in that part of Nebraska, so I guess I won’t be able to shoot any nudes there. Don’t know if I’ll have internet access for the next couple days, but if I find a place to log on I’ll post another shot or two.
Another Lake
November 6th, 2006
This is Mindy at Lake Cumberland in Kentucky this summer. We rented a pontoon boat and my old friend Roger came along to captain the boat so I could pay attention to making photos. My friend David Deaubrey was also along and we worked Mindy pretty hard for two days, but turned out quite a few good photos for it. Enough that I published a calendar just of photos from this shoot. It’s available from my on line store here: http://www.lulu.com/Wayward
I find the differences and similarities of Lake Powell and Lake Cumberland very interesting. Very different places that were created in different ways for different reasons, but with some things that do seem to connect them.
Posted from the parking lot of a Flying J Truck Stop in Des Moines, Iowa where I’m spending the night in my truck camper. On to Springfield, MO for a shoot on Tuesday with a new model. Had a great time today shooting with Amy Jo and catching up with her. Met her new husband and shot in her new house…in the midst of her moving in. Will probably have something from that shoot to post here soon.
