Exhibit at the Middletown Arts Center
July 21st, 2021
I have three photos in an upcoming show at the Middletown Arts Center. Here are the photos they chose for the exhibit. Above is from my contortion series. The model is Tiffany Helms.
The other two photos are (above) with model blueriverdream from Eagle Lake above Lake Tahoe, and (below) with Ayn from my Brigman/White project.
There will be an opening reception for this show on Friday, July 23 from 6 to 8 pm. I plan to be there, so if you are too, please say hello.
Just a Snap
July 17th, 2021
Just sharing a cell phone snap from a local restaurant. Just a shot I saw and liked.
Maine Snapshots
July 14th, 2021
Just sharing a few snaps from my recent trip to coastal Maine. My first travel since the plague descended on us.
July 10th, 2021
Sorry there have been no new posts for a while. I’ve been traveling…the first real travel since the plague began. We went to Vermont, Maine, and the finger lakes region in New York. The reason for the stop near Keuka Lake was to visit and have dinner with Mike Johnston, the owner and operator of The Online Photographer blog. That’s Mike on the left with me in the great little restaurant The Timber Stone Grill in Hammondsport, NY.
And there we are standing in front of the restaurant after a delicious meal and delightful conversation. Mike is a great guy with incredibly deep knowledge of the world of photography. If you don’t read his blog you are missing some great stuff.
These photos were taken by my lovely wife, Emily. Seems like she takes more (and better) photos than I do these days. Here she is below with Mike.
I did do a little photography on this trip. And I actually used a “real” camera for them. Those photos are downloading to my home computer as I write this. “Real” photos take so much more work than cell phone photos. I’ll be posting a few of those when I get them edited.
More Brandy
June 24th, 2021
Brandy did more than just look fantastic in the waterfall. I gave her a real workout that day. And she stood on her head to make great photos.
We went on from the waterfall to another nearby park for these photos.
For some reason I was seeing upside down that day and Brandy did a great job helping me capture what I was seeing.
Not everything was upside down. But pretty much everything was wet. It was a rainy, misty day, though you can’t really see that so much in these photos. But in this last shot you can get an idea of what Brandy had to go through to make these photos. Thanks, Brandy, for a great job…and for suffering for my art.
In the “Wilds”
June 20th, 2021
Made trips this past week to both the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo and The Wilds. Here are a few snaps from the visits.
Brandy in the Waterfall
June 15th, 2021
I shoot models at waterfalls a lot. Sometimes I think I might do these photos too often. But, waterfalls are constantly changing, so even this one that is a few minutes from my house can produce a wide variety of photos.
Waterfalls are a challenging location for my models. There’s too much noise for us to be able to communicate well. Often the air and/or the water is too cold for the model to be able to tolerate getting wet. Just how much suffering she is able to tolerate for my art is something I leave entirely to the model. I always encourage my models to just say no to anything they aren’t comfortable doing.
And then along comes a wonderful model named Brandy. She was game for getting in the waterfall. It was a fairly warm day, but that water was still cold. And the waterfall is a fairly high one, so the water was really pounding hard when it hit Brandy. As you can see, Brandy nailed it. These are the best “model in a waterfall” photos I’ve taken in nearly 20 years of doing nude in nature photos.
It’s hard to pick just one, but this next one, I think, is my favorite.
And here is Brandy making her way out of the torrent after doing this amazing job of posing.
Thank you, Brandy. You really made it happen. There is more to come from this shoot. And I hope to soon be doing more work with Brandy.
Ayn Meets Anne
June 11th, 2021
Back when Ayn was pregnant we did a shoot, before the plague arrived, in the style of Anne Brigman for my Brigman/White project.
This was my last shoot with Ayn. Soon she was busy dealing with her lovely new baby boy. Then the plague arrived.
But the plague is fading away, we are all getting vaccinated, her baby is becoming a little boy, and I hope to soon be able to work with Ayn again. She’s a great model and a great friend. I’ve missed her over the past couple years. I’m looking forward to making art with her again soon.
In the Woods with Eden
June 6th, 2021
I’ve recently been working with a “new” model. Actually I met Eden quite a few years ago. We did one shoot and then she pretty much vanished from the model world.
A couple years ago Eden contacted me again and said she was ready to get back into modeling. Then the plague hit us all and we were not able to get together to shoot while that was going on.
But we seem to be coming to the end of the plague and I’ve been celebrating that by doing a few shoots with Eden.
As the weather has improved we were finally able to do what Eden had wanted to do all along, an outdoor shoot. I haven’t had time to edit these photos myself, but, as is my custom, I gave all the photos to Eden for her to look at and do whatever she wanted. She sent me a few of her favorites and I edited them for her. I thought she did a very good job selecting the photos she liked, so I decided to go ahead and share some of her selections with you here.
This final image is my favorite of the ones that Eden chose.
Eden is a fine model and very enthusiastic about us working together, so I’m sure you will be seeing a lot more of her on this blog.
Fine Brandy
June 2nd, 2021
Every now and then a lady will contact me and want to model for me. That’s a nice thing.
A couple years ago Brandy did just that. Of course, you never know if a particular person is going to be a good model.
As soon as I saw Brandy I knew she was going to be someone I wanted to work with. And, as you can see, I was right. She did a great job on this, her first nude shoot.
We even did a few photos for my Brigman/White Project, like this one:
