Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Friday, September 30, 2011

Jade Vixen

I've really been interested in reflections lately, this one being nicely abstracted. I'm sure that most people are not even looking at that, yet alone interested...



Thursday, September 29, 2011

Tanya Dakin

This is an old one, from back when it was so easy to shoot at Eastern State Penitentiary. You could just wander around and do nudes anywhere you wanted, and no one bothered you. Now it's impossible to do nudes there, and they confine you to one place. Thinking about it is like a golden period that you wish you could revisit...



















Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Meira

Mer moved to Chicago earlier this month, so I will only be able to shoot with her during her occasional visits back to Philly. Sadness.



Monday, September 19, 2011

Friday, September 9, 2011

Dessa

I'm not even sure myself how I managed to get the angles and spatiality. It probably has more to do with Katelyn- a great model makes my job easy.  It makes me smile when I look at it.



Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Lucy

I bought this penis candle online from the Lucky Mojo Curio Co. about a year ago, but I had been waiting for the right person to use it with. Lucy is terrified of fire, so she is probably the perfect person!


Thursday, September 1, 2011

Heff

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that could happen to a creative person.

~Helmut Newton




Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Little One

I'm shooting with Little One today, although technically she's retired from modeling. Looking forward to getting a nice, genuine portrait out of her- which usually is not difficult...




Thursday, August 25, 2011

Lucy & Nathalia

Here is an image from a recent shoot with Lucy and Nathalia, which I was really looking forward to. It was a good shoot- although I've been working on it in piece-meal, since I've been crazy busy lately...








Friday, August 19, 2011

Sarah

Here are a couple from the last shoot with Sarah- continuing with showing some prettier, but still erotic imagery.








Thursday, August 18, 2011

Lee Loo La

I've been trying not to include any fashion oriented work of mine among the work highlighted here, but lately any fashion type work that I've been doing has definitely been very influenced by my darker, moodier erotic work. I've been using the same gritty backgrounds, not to mentioned that the clothing itself is mostly fetish stuff. So I'm breaking my own rules, and will be including some images that could be candidates for a fashion mag...












Thursday, August 4, 2011

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Cahira & Kiki

More explorations of lyrical movement and raw textures combined in one. If it was just pretty and refined, it would bore me to tears- but I love the combination...







Sunday, June 26, 2011

Di

Di had a cupping session (glass cups with a suction on top, which leave distinctive marks) the night before, which I was delighted to see. That, coupled with some other very recent markings, gave me a wonderful assortment of textures to work with. I was very happy with this shoot!











Thursday, June 23, 2011

Cahira & Kiki

A lovely first shoot with Cahira & Kiki. I love the fluid, dance like feeling of movement in these. It's something that I'm always trying to get, but it's notoriously difficult to translate dance into a still photograph. Of course, incorporating the blur of movement helps, and I do sometimes use this tactic- but that often feels like cheating to me. Or even worse, it can seem like a cheap trick. When  I can get that feeling with out the blur, it makes me happy.






Monday, June 13, 2011

Meira & Nick, Part II

A while back I posted some images from the 2nd shoot with Meira & Nick, which where perhaps a little bit more romantic. Well, a little bit, anyway. These are a little more rough...











Friday, June 10, 2011

Izzy & Chelsea

For a while now, I've had this LARGE coffee table book on Pro Wrestling in my library of photo books. I never forget just how large it is, mostly due to fact that I carried it all around Boston after buying it at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It is half made up of 70's to 80's male wrestlers, and the other half is nude women "wrestlers" shot in Atlantic City hotel rooms in the 70's. Since the cover is an image of the women "wrestlers", it tends to get quite some attention. Everyone seems to be at least amused by it, although some absolutely love it. I've been meaning to do a shoot based on it for years, and I finally got around to it a few weeks ago. The results are only loosely based on it, mostly because the book's images are very amateurish. Not that that is a bad thing- they are amateurish in a spectacularly awesome way. I just wanted to take the idea, and do it in my own style. More interpretations will probably soon follow...










Monday, June 6, 2011

Setsuki

Setsuki is a circus performer, so whereas I usually do the rope work, this just her and a simple heavy chain that we linked up to the ceiling hooks. The brick wall, which is always behind the backgrounds that I typically use, is a nice departure. I've tried the brick before, and did not like it- I think that I got it right this time...