Kelsey Indoors
July 13th, 2009
Another Kelsey
July 9th, 2009
You may have gotten the idea that I am very happy with the photos from my shoot with Kelsey. And, of course, you would be quite correct. It’s rare to have so many photos from one shoot that look so likely to remain on my “A” list permanently. I have barely scratched the surface of all the photos we got that day. Wish she hadn’t moved away a few days after we did this shoot. But I’m sure I’ll find a way to work with her again.
I’ve been pretty busy, as usual, but not for the usual reasons. I’m on jury duty this week and next. Yesterday we returned a guilty verdict and sent a thief off to prison for a while. I have today off, but have to call tonight to see if I need to report tomorrow for another case. Each day next week I also have to call in each evening to find out if I’m on a jury the following day. Makes it kind of hard to schedule anything. But I’m getting the itch to shoot, so I’ll probably try to set something up with one of my local favorite models in the next few days and just call to cancel if I find out I’ll be doing the jury thing on the day we set up.
Of course, I’m still waiting to get my truck back, so transportation continues to be an issue. That should be changed in a day or two and I’ll be back behind the wheel of my trusty truck. Can’t wait.
Clean Kelsey
July 5th, 2009
Another of Kelsey from near the beginning of our shoot, before I got her all dirty and exhausted. I think I have enough good photos from our day of shooting to keep posting them here for the next month. Did I mention earlier that she is a fantastic model and a great person?
The photo of Kelsey in my last post was featured this weekend on the French blog Univers d’Artistes. Thanks UL.
I hope you all had a great July Fourth weekend. We, as usual, went to a family gathering near Cleveland and so have been away most of the weekend. It’s always a fun get together with lots of good food and good conversation.
When I got back into town this afternoon I went to check on the progress of my alleged new studio. The landlord had promised that he would be working all this weekend and that it would be ready for me to move in this week. I gave him a letter setting a deadline of this coming Friday for everything to be completed. Well, as usual (and pretty much as expected) nothing has been done. I’ll go tomorrow and tell him my patience is at an end and we are going to end our business together. I’m a little hopeful that there may be another prospective location with a much more reliable landlord on the horizon, but I need to finish with this fiasco first.
Meanwhile a couple more new models have contacted me recently about doing shoots and I’ve been talking with a couple of my old favorites about some projects, so I’ll be getting some more photo work done soon…not that I need any more photos, what with all the great stuff of Kelsey that I still have to edit.
Dirty
July 2nd, 2009
Kelsey is a great model and she really worked hard for me on the day we shot. Not only did she get up very early in the morning so we could start shooting at dawn, but she kept working all day long and went from one dirty uncomfortable setting to another with never a complaint. I shot this after she got up from a pose on the floor in this old building. Not the cleanest place in the world. But I liked what the dirt and sweat was doing on her back, so I had her do this pose. Just another dirty picture.
Thanks Kelsey. All the best to you out there in Seattle.
What’s Going On
June 30th, 2009
It’s been a very frustrating few days. I guess I’ll let any of you reading this know what’s been happening.
I’m looking at moving to a new studio. I’ve already rented the new space, but it needs some work to get it ready for me to move in. It’s more space for less rent and it’s within walking distance of my home, as opposed to the 30-mile drive I now have to do to get to my old studio.
I was supposed to move in this past weekend. I had movers and a truck all set and I tore the old studio apart, emptied all the cabinents and desks and packed everything up. But the work didn’t get done to make the new space ready, even after a promise from the landlord as late as Saturday morning.
Needless to say, I was pissed. I had to cancel the movers and truck at the last minute. My old studio is now non-functional, unless I undo all the work I’ve done to get ready to move. And the landlord has been nowhere to be found.
Finally this morning I went down there and found him. I walked in ready to demand my rent money back and just walk away and forget about moving. But, he told me he had been out of town because of a sudden death in his family. I decided to believe him, at least for the moment. So, the work is to be done over the next few days. But I won’t be able to schedule the move again until the middle of the month. And, of course, I have to go ahead and pay July rent at the old place.
At least it’s summer, when I don’t do much studio shooting anyway. I often question why I even have a studio…but I have so much stuff there that I need a place to store it anyway…no room for it at my house. My wife would kill me if I tried to move all that stuff home. Maybe someday I’ll decide I just won’t do any more studio work and I’ll just get rid of most of that stuff…but it is nice to have a place to work…a place to go and be away from the house to get stuff done.
So, everything is in turmoil right now. I’m waiting to see if the work actually gets done this time at the new space. But I’m not going to undo all the preparations I’ve done for now.
On a happier note, that’s the beautiful Adrina posing in an old building in my town…not the building I’ll be moving into, in case you were wondering. I’ll obviously be posting photos taken in that new building soon, assuming I actually do the move. Stay tuned.
More Kelsey
June 28th, 2009
I’m having a real busy and fairly unpleasant weekend. So, here’s something pleasant to look at. Another of Kelsey from this week’s shoot. She is a very fine model. Seattle’s gain is certainly my loss.
Hanging out
June 26th, 2009
A while back I edited my profile on Model Mayhem with the aim to cut down on the number of models contacting me wanting me to shoot them. I was getting way too many messages that essentially said:
“I’ve been modeling for 15 minutes now and I’ll be coming to your area and I think you should shoot with me. My rate is $300 an hour. And I don’t shoot nudes, so don’t even think about asking me to pose nude.”
Wild Flowers
June 23rd, 2009
I’m staying pretty busy with shoots and computers and editing, so I haven’t had much time to blog. The truck is still in the shop. I’m finally running a 38-hour synch process on two 1.5T external hard drives that will, when it eventually finishes, have all my work duplicated on each drive. Still some more editing of duplicate folders to do, but I’m getting close to having that problem solved for the time being.
In the past couple weeks I’ve had two models who I’d not had any previous contact with ask me to do shoots with them. Both of them are very beautiful women and very talented models. You’ve already seen here one of the photos of Adrina that resulted. Later this week I’ll be shooting with another new model, so I hope to have something from that shoot to show you soon.
Lots more stuff to post, just no time for editing and writing just now. I hope that will be changing in the next few weeks.
Back to Glacier for today’s photo. That’s Brooke adding her beauty to a field of wild flowers.
Twins
June 17th, 2009
Twins are on my mind these days. First and foremost because I have new twin grand nephews down in North Carolina who were born a bit early and are having struggles in the hospital. I keep up with them through the blog their parents are keeping up. It’s been a real roller coaster, but both seem to be doing pretty well under the circumstances.
And, I’m spending lots of time playing with twin hard drives as I try to get my new backup system working. This is involving running a synchronization program on several drives in order to make sure I have everything in my old files saved. Some of these sync operations are taking close to 20 hours to run. And, since my truck is still torn apart and without an engine or transmission at the moment, getting back and forth to the studio is a bit of a challenge. I have the motorcycle, but it’s been raining pretty much every day. Or, worse, they have been predicting rain which fails to fall, but convinces me to stay home to stay dry.
So, in honor of the twinness that is going on in my life right now, here is a portrait of twins Cat and Christy. Cat is an accomplished model and lovely person who I’ve worked with a number of times over the years. Christy is her fraternal twin sister who I met when I convinced the two of them to come in to the studio for a shoot together. They are both lovely women, but, as you can see, they are very different. That difference extends to more than their physical appearance. But I enjoyed working with both of them and hope they will each be back in my studio in the future.
The twin sync job that is running on this computer right now says it has 7 hours left to run. I’ll not be sticking around for all of that…and it doesn’t look like I’ll make it in to the studio tomorrow because of the weather. Maybe I’ll try to make a quick trip between thunderstorms and start a new sync job to get a little closer to having this chore finished. Then I might be able to start thinking about doing some new photos.
Adrina
June 15th, 2009
There are still many photos from the Glacier trip to be posted, but I thought I’d take a break from them today and post something I’ve done since I got back home. A delightful and beautiful young woman passed through Ohio last week on a modeling trip. She contacted me and offered to do a shoot if I was interested. It was an offer I couldn’t refuse, of course.
So we met and went to an old building to see what we could do in a very brief shoot. It was quite a success for a very small investment of time. The credit for that goes in no small measure to this talented young model who knew just what to do with very little direction from me to get what I was after. We had cloudy weather most of the time, but the sun came out briefly and created this beautiful bit of light which we both jumped to take advantage of.
I usually promise my models that they will get cold and wet and dirty if they work with me. Well this shoot didn’t quite live up to that. Adrina got pretty dirty, maybe just slightly wet, and it was definitely not cold where we were working.
You can find Adrina on Model Mayhem and One Model Place. She is a very fine model. If you are a photographer and get a chance to work with her I strongly suggest that you jump at the chance. You won’t be sorry.
Thanks Adrina.
