This industry can be magical in a way that is hard to explain. Often times I will find myself in a new county where I only know a few people, and then randomly I cross paths with people I have followed for years because just happen to be in the same time and the same place.
I have followed Ivory Flame since 2007. Basically for as long as I have been shooting. She is a truly incredible model, and all around amazing person, but we have never had the chance to shoot. One night in Sydney 3 years ago we realized that Ivory, Floofie, Romani Rose, Nicole Vaunt, Anne Duffy, and I were all in the same place, so we all grabbed dinner and ice cream and chatted about life, work, and talked about creating, but we were all completely booked for our trips, so it didn't come together.
Three years later I was staying with Valentina in Ireland, and we saw that Ivory was also in Ireland. Since she is from the UK and we were in Southern Ireland we figured it was unlikely we would be able to meet up, but we reached out, and it just happened that she had an entire day free if we could drive down and shoot...the same day we had completely free! It was a miracle.
The weather was perfect, the town we met up with her in had absolutely amazing nature to shoot in, and we took images that I will treasure for a long long time. Sometimes this work just seems like its a matter of being open to the perfect confluence of events. It makes the world feel small and amazing.