Ivy

Mirror Games.

Ramonita

Don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing...

Abstracts Anonymous

I tend to cringe at the idea that my photographic abstractions might look like mistakes, or amateurish, or seem like I'm just trying to play with a lame image to make it more "interesting". I try to always keep those three things in mind as a cautionary checklist, so as to make sure that my images don't look like that. Which means that I toss out a lot. Which is fine, because it is actually quite hard to make a successful abstract photograph. There is one final thing that I typically try to do with abstracts, and that is making sure that there is at least some little part of the image that is in some way recognizable. I like to throw the viewer a bone— because I know that if there is at least something of relatable interest to zero in on, the rest will follow...

Edith

"In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature that has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace, it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper or the proud and upright sapling."  ~Auguste Rodin

"Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Every part of the human figure is expressive."  ~Auguste Rodin

Mara

She comes from a land down under... where women glow and men plunder.

Sydney

A photoshoot, for me, is having a nice day with someone who intrigues me. Ultimately, it's nothing more than that. Creating something is the extra bonus, not the sole goal. Contrary to what it may look like here, I'm usually not looking for perfect bodies or faces. I'm looking for people that share my passion for genuinely artistic photography... people someone else might call "strange or different", people who are still discovering themselves. I don't really care about how much experience you have— some of the women in the photos have a lot of experience and some posed for the first time, and often somewhere in-between. Ironically, someone who is inexperienced offers me an awkwardness that can come across as a nice tension rather than representing an easy superficiality.

D & B

Scratches.