More Catskills
January 24th, 2017
With all those models up in the Catskills we, of course, went out for a second day of shooting. Dandelion had to leave us, but that still left eight models for this day’s shoot. Above and below are Kelsey Dylan, Blueriverdream and Stevie Macaroni.
And this next photo has Kelsey, Stevie and Nadine Theresa.
And one more for today of Claudine. More to come from this day’s shoot.
One At A Time
January 20th, 2017
Despite being surrounded by a crowd of beautiful, talented models, I decided to spend some time working with a few of them just one at a time. Above is Brooke Lynne posing below the lovely waterfall where we were all shooting.
Of the nine models that my friend, Dave Rudin, had arranged to shoot with us this day, there was only one who I didn’t already know and hadn’t worked with before. So I thought it only right that I spend a little time with AE Dandelion who had come all the way from New Orleans for this shoot.
She is not only lovely and a very talented model, but also a truly delightful young lady. It was a great pleasure to meet her and work with her. I wish she were closer to me so we could work again often.
While usually I try to stay away from direct sunlight for my photos because I tend to prefer the softer light and richer colors in the shade or on overcast days, when I saw the light glistening off the skin and water drops on Dandelion in the shot below I couldn’t resist making an exception to that rule. Sometimes the sun is what you want, especially on a beautiful redhead.
Mob O’ Models In Woodstock
January 16th, 2017
After Brooke Lynne and I spent a couple days shooting we went to Woodstock, NY, to meet up with my old friend, Dave Rudin, and eight more models who Dave had invited to join him to celebrate the 2oth anniversary of the first time he photographed a nude at a workshop in that iconic town. That’s a photo of all the models posing at the site of that first shoot by Dave R. Here’s Dave R’s post about this shoot: https://figuresofgrace.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/woodstock-more-from-my-20th-anniversary-celebration/
The lovely models are (in no particular order): Blueriver Dream, Erica Jay, Claudine, Brooke Lynne, Kelsey Dylan, Stevie Macaroni, Nadine Theresa, Dane St. Clair and Elisa Dandelion.
We all went out to a location in the Catskills to shoot. Dave R did a bunch of photos with all nine models, but then we each worked with smaller groups of models. In these photos I was working with Brooke Lynne, Blueriver Dream and Kelsey Dylan.
More to come from this shoot.
More Brooke in the Catskills
January 11th, 2017
Brooke Lynne and I worked together in the Catskills for two days. These are from the second day of shooting.
A beautiful place, a beautiful, highly skilled model. It’s hard to miss with that combination.
Back With Brooke
January 6th, 2017
In August 2015 I was still trying to fully recover from my heath crisis in January. But I was feeling well enough to go on a bit of a photo expedition to the wilds of the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.
This was an especially good trip because I was joined by my favorite model, the lovely and talented Brooke Lynne. We spent a couple days exploring locations in those mountains and making some photos.
If only Brooke lived nearer to me instead of in the frozen north of Minnesota I’m sure we would work together much more often. But every shoot with Brooke is a treat and never fails to generate some more photos that I can be proud of.
These were all from our first day of shooting. More to come from the second day.
A New Model Gets Wet
January 2nd, 2017
Well, it’s now 2017 and I’m still editing shoots from the middle of 2015. I seem to be slowly making progress, though. I might actually get to only being one year behind soon.
This was a shoot with a new model, Hayden, getting her “baptism” in working with me in my favorite local waterfalls.
I enjoyed what was happening when I got some spray on the lens, so I just worked with it for a while.
And my model did a fine job, considering it was her first experience with posing in the challenging environment of a waterfall.
I hope you are all enjoying the new year and that it will bring peace and happiness to all of us.
More With an Old Friend
December 29th, 2016
I’ve already posted a few photos from this shoot with an old friend. We did the shoot to mark her 50th birthday. She first modeled for me back in the 1980s and is still a remarkably beautiful woman. She’s also one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.
For this shoot we went to a place that has special memories for both of us. And we had a great time.
If that photo above looks familiar it might be because I already shared another from the same spot. The other one was published in French PHOTO magazine last year. I still love the one that French PHOTO chose, but I like this one a lot too.
And just one more with my friend sort of looking like she is ready to become the sacrifice to some ancient gods.
Happy New Year everyone. I’ll be back in 2017.
This is the End
December 22nd, 2016
I hope you haven’t gotten tired of seeing my photos from the Smokey Mountains. If you have, you won’t have to see them any more after today. This is the last post I’ll be doing from that great shoot.
It’s a nice problem to have when a shoot goes so well that you have a ton of good photos to chose from. I’m usually happy to get 4 or 5 shots that I’m happy with from a day of shooting. This trip to my favorite mountains with this great crew of models consistently produced at least 5 times that many photos each day.
On this final day of the trip Nadine and Lilith kept the hits coming. I can’t thank them enough for their great work.
But that’s all for this set of photos. I hope you enjoyed seeing them half as much as I enjoyed working with these beautiful models in my favorite mountains to produce them.
More with Lilith and Nadine
December 19th, 2016
Lilith Noir and Nadine Stevens did a great job finding places to pose around this pretty waterfall. There are almost too many good photos from this day.
Such a nice problem to have so many photos to chose from. Still more to come in the next post.
Different Day; Different Model
December 16th, 2016
On the final day of my shoot in the Smokey Mountains I was joined by a lovely local model, Lilith Noir.
We returned to that beautiful little waterfall from the day before to see what else we could shoot there.
Nadine Stevens was still with me on this final day and she and Lilith did a fantastic job working at this spot. More to come in future posts.
