I’m Still Here
March 15th, 2013
Yes, it’s been far too long since I last updated this blog. There are a lot of reasons. I spent most of February and the beginning of March traveling. I went to the Dirty Show and Nude Nite Orlando, did a little shooting and visiting with old friends and models in Florida, and did some family vacation in South Carolina, also getting in a visit with friends and some shooting in Savannah. Life has been busy and good.
There’s more coming that may keep me away from here again. Next week I’ll be having eye surgery. It’s just for cataracts. Everyone tells me it is quick and simple and things will be much better after…but I’m still anxious about it. And, there’s lots happening with the 2257/2257A lawsuit that I’m involved in. More about that in a future post.
But for now I’m going to finally finish up posting the photos from last summer’s trip to Maine. Yes, that’s really how far behind I am with editing and posting the things I’ve been shooting.
These photos are from the last day of shooting on that trip. We drove on “down east” to the easternmost port in the United States, Eastport, Maine. There we met up with Dyaphayne who was living there for the summer. You may recall that I met Dyaphayne earlier in the year on last year’s visit to Savannah, where she was living at that time. Dyaphayne took us to this lovely location on the coast. The weather was perfect and the light was beautiful.
That’s Dane St Clair in the photo above, and Dyaphayne in the one below in this great location.
With four beautiful nude models and a lovely spot, well, I just couldn’t resist putting on the fisheye lens for a few shots to let me take it all in at once. The other models are Erica Jay and, of course, Brooke Lynne.
My good friend, Dave Rudin, was with us that day and, of course, he was also shooting. Here he is at work with all the models.
And, Dave and I weren’t the only photographers there that day. Brooke has become quite a fine photographer herself. Here she is working with Erica.
That’s all for now. I’ll be back after the doctor gets done cutting the lens out of my left eye.
Dirty Show
February 8th, 2013
The Dirty Show starts tonight. I’ll be there tomorrow night. I have three photos in the show this time. If you are there tomorrow see if you can find me and say hello.
More From Bar Harbor
January 26th, 2013
Brooke and Kelsey were still with us when we went to this location near Bar Harbor. But I let Ted Preuss and Dave Rudin work with them most of the time since they were going to have less opportunity to work with these wonderful models.
But I couldn’t resist doing a few photos with each of these beautiful ladies.
And there are more to come. I just need to find more time to work on the blog. Lots going on right now.
Here’s Ted hard at work photographing Kelsey. And, yes, it’s true, Ted sometimes uses a digital camera.
And here’s Dave Rudin working with a big group of the models.
With all this going on I couldn’t resist getting out my fisheye lens so I could get the whole scene in one rounded view.
Yes, there were lots of curves on the rocks that day…and they weren’t all because of my fisheye lens. Of course the other two models here are Dane and Erica.
French PHOTO
January 10th, 2013
Getting the new year off to a great start, I’ve learned that one of my photos is published in the January/February issue of French PHOTO magazine. This is the contest issue where they publish the winners of their annual contest. They say this is the largest photo contest in the world. I always enter the maximum allowed 12 photos. This year 8 of my 12 entries were finalists in the contest. Their rules say they will only publish one photo from any photographer (though one year they did print two of mine). I consider it a great honor to be included in the magazine as a winner in this contest. This year my photo is printed as a half page, which is much larger than most photos in the issue.
That’s a photo of the actual magazine sent to me by my friend Gary Mitchell who also has a photo in this issue. I’m not sure how Gary got a copy of the magazine. It won’t make its way through distribution channels to the newsstands in the US for a few months…usually sometime in March or April.
Here’s the photo. The model is Kat. The photo was taken in 2011 during our adventure at South Coyote Buttes in the red rock desert on the Utah/Arizona border. This was taken on the day when we didn’t get lost, but were bewildered for a while.
Where Do Models Come From, Part 6
December 31st, 2012
Why, models come from New York City. Everybody knows that.
After the great day of shooting that I’ve been sharing with you, three of those models went on their way to their homes in Maine. And the next day my friend from New York City, Dave Rudin, arrived in Maine with two New York models, Erica and Dane. I had worked with both Erica and Dane earlier on a trip to NYC, so I knew we were going to have a great shoot because they are both very fine models.
For this day of shooting we headed down east to a secluded coastal area near Bar Harbor. We met another photographer friend, Ted Preuss, there and he guided us to this fine location. I’ll post more about what we all did that day in future posts, but here you can enjoy the modeling work or Erica and Dane for now.
And, I wish all of you all the best in 2013. Happy New Year!
So Many Models…
December 21st, 2012
With the wonderful wealth of great models I had with me in Maine, I certainly couldn’t resist the temptation to include more than one model in some of my photos. So I think I’ll just share some of those results with you, and wish you all a Merry Christmas and/or happy holidays in whatever manner you celebrate the season.
And this seemed like a good time to put the ultra-wide angle lens on for a few shots…
And why not play with the fisheye lens while we’re at it…
But maybe the normal focal lengths are all that are needed when this many beautiful ladies are the subject matter…
When one of your best models is also a wonderful photographer…well, sometimes true nude photography is the result:
Thank you to the wonderful models, Brooke Lynne, Kelsey Dylan, Rachel, Chloe Ann and my anonymous friend. You made this one of the most amazing days of photography that I’ve ever experienced.
Where Do Models Come From, Part 5
December 16th, 2012
Where do models come from? Sometimes you find them where you are. That’s the case with Rachel. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I first photographed her more than 10 years ago when I went to Maine to shoot nudes on the coast. She lived near the spot where I was planning to shoot and knew the other model I was working with. I met her the day of the shoot. And, of course, that was the shoot that launched me on the direction that my work has followed for the past decade. I photographed Rachel again the next summer. And we stayed in touch over the years, though we never managed to get together again for photos. Rachel is a remarkable beauty and a very nice person. I know I say that about most of my models, and it is true of them all. I simply don’t work with models who aren’t nice people. Life is too short to deal with divas and attitudes.
Rachel is pretty much the opposite of a diva and the only attitude is one of working hard to make art. She is sweet and quiet, but she has a wonderful presence. Her beauty is striking. She is comfortable in her skin and natural and relaxed. And did I mention how beautiful she is?
Of course, the other wonderful thing about Rachel is that she is an artist and a model. As an artist she understands what I’m trying to do with my work. And as a model she is experienced and practiced at doing what it takes to make a great photo. All that makes working with her a real pleasure. And I found her right there…just a few miles from where I was shooting.
Rachel doesn’t have an on-line modeling portfolio, but if you are interested in working with her you can contact her through her facebook page. She also has an on-line store where you can view and buy her artwork.
2013 Calendars
November 26th, 2012
I’ve just published two new calendars for 2013.
One is all photos that you have been seeing her in recent posts, plus some that will be coming in the next few posts. All from Maine this past summer:
The other is old favorite photos of nudes in nature:
You can see previews of both calendars by clicking on the cover photos above or just go directly to my on-line store.
If you think you might want one or both of my calendars for 2013, you might want to jump on the current special my publisher is running. But it’s only good through tomorrow, November 27. Enter the code DELIRITAS at checkout and you’ll get 51 percent off your order. That’s a great discount, obviously. It’s the best discount I’ve ever seen from this publisher. So, if you want one of my calendars you should order it today.
The 51 percent discount has been extended through November 28. Hurry before it’s too late.
Where Do Models Come From, Part 4
November 16th, 2012
There are models and then there are models. All my models are friends. I don’t work with models who I don’t enjoy being around and who don’t appreciate and understand what I’m trying to do with my work. Life is too short.
So, all my models are special to me. But there is one model who has become much more. I make no secret that Brooke Lynne is my favorite model. She’s a friend. She totally “gets” what I’m trying to do with my photography and, because of that, she is pretty much an equal contributor to the photos we do together. It’s really wonderful to work with a model who is totally in tune with you and who works hard to achieve what you both understand to be the goal. That’s Brooke where I’m concerned. If she lived closer to me I’d try to work with her every week.
There’s no explaining how someone becomes a friend. And there’s no explaining how someone becomes a favorite model. It just happens. There’s a connection. Brooke came to my studio years ago and we did a shoot. It went well, but it was not anything unusually good. But something clicked between us. We became friends.
Over the years since that first shoot we’ve had adventures together. We’ve traveled together many times, visiting many wonderful places. We’ve killed two deer with my truck on two separate trips, one time ending up stranded in a small town for days waiting for parts to fix the truck. We’ve hiked in snow-covered mountains and parched deserts. And, always, there have been great photos as a result. Brooke brings out the best of me as a photographer. And she is always ready and able to do whatever is needed to make the photo work. She has dunked herself in an icy mountain stream…twice because I didn’t get the shot the first time. She has laid down on itchy hay bales, climbed rock spires naked, posed with junk cars, found a way to pose on an uprooted driftwood tree on a lake bed while it was sleeting. She’s an amazing model and a wonderful friend.
You can never know where when or how that special model will appear, but it is a true blessing when it happens.
So, I was very pleased that Brooke was able to go on this trip to Maine to mark the ten years that I have been working with the figure in nature…i.e., naked chicks on rocks. Brooke is the model in many of the best photos I’ve done over that decade and she added lots of new fine photos to my body of work on this trip. These are just a few of those.
Where Do Models Come From, Part 3
November 8th, 2012
Sometimes I find myself looking around for models to work with. But sometimes something wonderful happens. That’s what happened when Kelsey Dylan contacted me to say she wanted to model for me. Oh, happy day!
She said she was soon going to the west coast to go to college, but wanted to work with me before she left Ohio. We did a shoot…a wonderful shoot that produced a bunch of “keeper” photographs. Then she was gone to school. But we stayed in touch and worked together whenever she was back in Ohio. Kelsey is a great model. Beautiful and highly skilled. And, as with all my models, she’s a very nice person. I love working with her and try to shoot with her as often as I can.
She is finished with college now and has moved back to Ohio…though she travels so much to model that she’s away from home more than she is here. But I was very happy when I planned my trip to Maine last summer to hear that Kelsey was interested in making the trip. She drove up to Maine and met me there and, as you can see, she did some fantastic work on our first day of shooting on the Maine coast. Kelsey is a favorite model for me, so I’m very pleased that she was part of this shoot marking the 10th anniversary of my work with the figure in nature.
So, sometimes models find me. I love it when that happens. Especially when it is a model who is as wonderful as Kelsey. Thanks, Kelsey…you are a great model and a great lady.
