Bah Bah White Sheep

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Model: Jane
Make Up: Lauren Weber

I just had fun with this one. It's silly and bizarre and that's what I wanted. I'm always amazed at how different I get Jane to look (with the help of Lauren). She seems to transform in front of the camera. This pose seemed to work the best with the setup and feel. We tried a few others but always went back to this so I didn't get a big variety of shots. I do have some others I may post later though. The wig by the way looked exactly like the pink clown wig I posted below. I painted, cut and groomed it into place, then added the purple ribbon to match the dress and background. The main thing was working with the colors I had in mind. I love working with color.

Bah-Bah White Sheep Preview

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Lauren doing her thing.

I've gotta get a better title.... haha...I finally got around to planning this shoot. I've had this visual in my head all summer long but just couldn't get all the details worked out. I always had this feeling that something was missing. I finally decided that it might never happen if I don't just set a date. Once I had the date set and got Jane and Lauren on board with my crazy plans it all came together. I got the hay from Moroni at work. He was awesome, didn't even ask any questions, just hauled in the hay to work. The hay was far more matte and green then I remembered hay being so I knew I was going to have to do something with it. I decided that spray painting it gold could be interesting and would be right with the overall color scheme. I figure it might not actually read as gold but the highlights would read and it would even out the weird color. Also had some funky ideas for the hair. As always it was a mad rush to get all the stuff together for the shoot. I got the props and set pieces before hand but only had one night to set it all up. I stayed up late and got up early to get the background setup and ironed, the hay spread out and spray painted and the hair prepared. I was exhausted and had a hard time focusing but I think it came out alright. Jane was a good sport as always and Lauren just gets me, which is awesome. Love working with these two ladies.

style

I love people who have style (not just in terms of fashion but the way they carry themselves and talk). I met some classy people this weekend, it was refreshing. I still have some more pics I'd like to add but didn't have time to look through them all. Besides that getting ready for a new shoot this weekend. Nervous cause I have a lot of work ahead of me.

he's got style

style and talent...

let me tell ya... this lady can sing!

what?.. it's an art shot

stylen duo

and the winner is........

........ oh my god!

smooth

the lovely host

Peace Love and Ice Cream

From our trip up to Vermont.

Forest Spirit

Model: Jane

Best weekend ever.... thanks to Jane (and Tony for a quick spontaneous meet up). It's been far too long since I last had a chance to work with Jane. I almost forgot how awesome she is (emphasis on almost). First of all I love that she always follows through on plans we make (no matter how complicated they are) and never complains about anything. I asked her on Friday if she'd meet up on Sunday. I warned her that I had no clue what we'd be doing. I was kind of stressing out because I had no ideas. All I knew was that I wanted to shoot very early in the morning, like 5 or 6am. First I asked Jane to come into the city and meet me there at 6am for a city shoot. Late Saturday afternoon, I suddenly got this odd feeling about the whole thing. For some reason my gut was telling it wasn't the right location. It suddenly hit me that I wanted to shoot in the forest. So Jane ended up coming over to my place at 9pm because we needed to figure out the outfit and make up.

We decided to get up at 3:15am to have enough time for getting ready and capture the morning light. I was totally exhausted (I was up the night before until 3am which I normally never do). We somehow managed to make the outfit out of underwear, ribbons and other stuff I had at home. We also decided to paint her whole body a bit white to make her stand out more against the forest.

Getting up at 3:15am was NOT easy. I was tired but it was nice hanging out with Jane. We took our time drinking coffee which was a mistake cause before we knew it, it was 5am. I kind of freaked since I desperately wanted to get there by 5:30am before the sun was up and people were out and about. It was a mad rush getting ready. I did end up forgetting a small part of the outfit, oh well. We got there and I was totally stressing because I didn't know what I was doing and what I wanted. As you may know I hardly ever shoot outdoors. The bug situation wasn't pretty, we were covered in bug spray.

After I relaxed I could tell we'd get some good shots. I liked how Jane was glowing against the background. The white body make up paid off. The pictures didn't do her justice though. She looked so pretty and elegant in person. I could almost imagine her dancing around. She reminded me of a forest spirit.

Ms. Nikki is back

Model: Nikki
Make Up: Tamara

Nikki asked me to do a shoot with her to get some shots of her new tattoos. I was happy to do so since it's been a long time since I last had a chance to shoot Nikki (last time was in 2007). While her new tattoos are certainly interesting I kept wanting to focus on her eyes. As you can see she has amazing eyes. We tried a few things with the tattoos like add some oil to make them more contrasty but then I was getting too much glare from the lights. Adding powder on the other hand tended to wash them out a bit. I decided that I'll have to do another shoot that's not so much about the tattoos to really capture Nikki. Tamara did an awesome job with the make up.

Flower power

Rhododendrons

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Flowers?! Has she gone mad? Hey you know, I have other interests too :), I'm loving our yard this year. I don't know why I never did before. Perhaps I just never took the time to look around. I started to and couldn't believe how gorgeous it is. I got so inspired that I decided to start a rose garden. At the moment we planted 8 rose bushes. 4 are climbing roses we'll see how that will go (I admit I have a rather bad track record when it comes to plants). Anyway here are a few pics of various things growing in our yard. Since I don't know shit about flowers I couldn't tell you what most of them are. If you happen to know, let me know :) ..... oh and yes a few new portrait shoots are in the works. July will be my month of photography, I have big plans so stay tuned.