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Lillias and Titania for Pulp

Somehow one of my earliest shoots for Pulp, and one I have managed overlooked posting I had wanted to work with Titania for the longest time when I found out one afternoon she was in Seattle visiting.  Not wanting to miss out on the chance to work with her I quickly agreed to shoot that night when Titania and Lillias were free to come over.

I had not yet shot Pulp at night, so this was a very experimental shoot for me.  I'm always embarrassed to be doing something for the fir...

Lillias Right and Carolyn Jean NW Retreat

I traveled the world to find a bamboo forest, and when I finally arrived I found it to be impossible to shoot.  We build fences to protect because if we don't some of us will destroy.  Its a sad thing the lengths we must go to protect what we should cherish.  I aim to walk as lightly as possible to leave as little evidence of myself as one can.  As photographers we should be ghosts.

I flew home and during our retreat I found myself not in a forest, but a garden. &nbs...

Valley of Fire with Vaunt, Cwen, Carrie Wilds, and Socal Summers

Nicole works twice a year in Vegas, and due my past experiences trying to work there I rarely joined her, but I was very wrong.  Vegas is an incredible city, and now that I have more experience with what I want in a city/location I love it.

The flashing lights, casino's, and downtown of Vegas does very little for me.  It can be intensely overwhelming, and feel like a circus, which you have no choice but to be part of as you walk the strip, but there is a city outside of the c...

Carolyn Jean NW Retreat

Carolyn and I have been trying to coordinate a shoot for over a year.  Our peers in this industry often feel like ships in the night.  We spend days, weeks, or months on the road shooting and creating with people from all over, so that we can come home and work through a mountain of editing.  I am constantly playing catch up.  I move the goal posts on myself.  I fall into exhaustion.

I miss the chance to work with people who live just down the road.  
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Porcelain NW Retreat

An ax to stoke the fire.  Maybe I am not known for my pajama photography, but Porcelain and I decided to do something for fun during the retreat.  Boots, a onesy, an ax , and a little north west backyard.  The intermittent rain, and the soft light from the overcast day made for a fun little muddy shoot.

Porcelains expressions are second to none when shooting, she always inspires me to do a combination of my work and pin up, which I usually shy away from, but together we ...

Pure Rebel NW Retreat

Its always good to take a break from a long term project, and just do something completely different, and so after nearly a year of traveling, and working on We Were Wanderers since our move to Seattle we decided to spend some time indoors collaborating with our local friends that we often don't see.

Pure Rebel, Lillias, Carolyn, Henry, Porcelain, Nicole and I got a small Air BnB to do our style of relaxing.  Shooting all day and sitting in warm water after we've exhausted ourselv...

Reed in Santa Monica

Summer days are born to end.  We landed in Los Angeles around labor day as the entire west coast burned under heat and drought.  Smoke and hot breeze blew through the city while we camped out by the beach in a small bnb.  The hot water heater died, we took cold showers to escape the days discomfort.

Even the best planned trips can be complicated by little things.  

In the grand scheme the problems were hardly problems.  There are only a few hours of any ...

Amber in Marseille

Marseille is a city of magic.  Tiny winding roads filled with amazing restaurants.  The streets snake up and down in a way that just feels right.  We met a bartender who walked us all over town from the top of the city cathedrals back to the clear blue Mediterranean.  

The light in every place was inspiring.  Stairways, windows, the market I wish I could have made the days even longer.  Let the light fall in ribbons across our rooms, so that we could stay i...

Amber Rose McConnell in Tokyo Love Hotel

What is photography but artistic problem solving?  I have never been an artist in any other medium, so I can't speak for what it is to be a painter, or sculptor.  I write, but only for myself.  I play drums, but I haven't in a long written a song with somebody else in over a decade.

We Were Wanderers in Japan was the hardest time I have ever had shooting nudes in nature.  If you've read the blog post you know how it went, but in that failure I did what I could to ma...

We Were Wanderers - Hawaii

Everything changed for me when I was on the road for 50 Models 50 States in 2012.  I started that trip not sure what direction I wanted to go in with my work, and by the time I was done I figured it out.

It would have been nice to start the project knowing where I wanted to go, but rarely is anyone so lucky to have the foresight of where there work is heading.  It seems obvious to me now.

But at the time I was not really known for shooting nudes in nature.  When I...

March is Here

Somehow we are already three months into 2018.  I still have to ask what year it is every time I try to figure out what is on the schedule.  I won't lie its been hard.  A lot of changes are happening of for me right now and I feel overwhelmed.

I've been sick since January and a course of antibiotics didn't seem to help, so I need to go back in and figure out what is wrong with me.  I've also been struggling with a depressive bout that at times feels like I'm drowning...most...

We Were Wanderers - Japan

"The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry"

Its been a while since I have had plans fall apart as grandly as my plans for our nude in nature shoots in Japan.  I have a few rules when shooting in foreign countries that influence how I select locations.  Locations must be remote, shouldn't have religious significance to the culture of where I am visiting so I do not disrespect the places I go, and won't have a negative impact on the environment.

It turns out find...

Shelby Mason for The Jungle

Even our dog parks are beautiful in Seattle.

I found this little beach when we first moved here while walking Franco.  Then summer came, and I went down to the park near our house every day to collect blackberries.   With the gallons I picked well past sunset I made jams, chutney, syrup, and compotes.  Cut up from brambles because the best berries always seemed just beyond reach I would return with my bounty.

In the back of my head I knew the park would be grea...

Lillias Right for Pulp

I've been sort of taking a break from Pulp.  Really I have been trying to take a break from studio lighting all together.  After shooting with strobes for 10 years in Philadelphia I just don't get the enjoyment I used to out of shooting them.  I'm drawn to natural light, or ambient light.  It changes the way problem solving works in photography.  Instead of where do I put the light it is where do I put the subject.

The more I shoot with what I have available the...

Amber in Marseilles (Living Room)

The past week has felt like a fever dream.  Maybe it was.  I've been traveling more by plane than I ever have before.  I've been sicker more often than ever before.  Flight has its benefits, but the  amount of time I have been forced to spend in bed recuperating sometimes doesn't feel worth it.

I miss the road.

I still would get sick living in my car, but not quite like this.  At least now I can afford to take the time off.

Amber st...

Porcelain for The Jungle

I don't usually get companies interested in sending me photography gear to test out.  The nature of my work sort of precludes me from working on any sort of marketing campaign.  But back in September Lens Baby was nice enough to send me one of their new Velvet 85mm lenses to play with.

They didn't really ask me for anything other than to give it a shot, and while I like the idea of the velvet lens it just doesn't really work for me on stills.  We ended up using it a ton f...

Sugar in Santa Monica

The last light of the day is often the best light.  Not so true in Seattle during the winter, but Los Angeles it seems to always be the case.  I suppose first light is great too, but I'm not a morning person, unless I have stayed up working on photos until morning.

I spent almost all of 2016 shooting outdoor nudes exclusively, or Temperance while I was home in Philly, but the last couple months of 2017 I have been taking a little bit of a break from road tripping.  Not beca...

Miss Miranda in Santa Monica

How do we avoid becoming caricatures of ourselves?  I am turning 30 this month.  It feels like with the passing of time I should be finding a way to reconcile the person I am now with the person I was in my 20's when this all began, but it is a struggle. 

I worry that I am losing growth. 

It would be easy to settle in and say this is work this is who I am.  But I have had so much to say.  Is it redundant to keep repeating the words and work?  Som...

Preview Our Arctic Nude Workshop

I get far too much credit for the work I am able to create.  I look for places where the light and the landscape come together, where a model can highlight the scale of nature.  I look for places where the final image can say something about how we relate to nature our strength, our weakness, our size, or importance. 

But at the end of the day I do not climb onto the rocks by the shore.  I do not swim out to the icebergs and pose.  The models make the images...

London Andrews for Into the Wild

The first time I shot with London was in 2008.  We walked down to the Susquehanna River down the road from my home, and shot along the shore.  I couldn't believe then that someone as incredible as London was willing to stop in my tiny town to create with me.  Afterwards we stole tomatoes from my neighbors garden, and she continued on to DC

I didn't know then what life had in store for me.  I thought I was going to live in that same town.

Ten years I still don...

Gothlet for Pulp

I wait for the last light of the day to fall through the window.  Everything we own casts its longest shadow.  We fill the dark with what light we can find in people.  Its winter now, but it wasn't when Gothlet came to shoot.  In the summer things were easier the end of the day stretched on long enough that I had time to rearrange the room, play with the lamps to balance the dark.

A few months difference makes a couple hours difference, and now it feels like just wh...

Nicole and Amber at Olympic National Park

I take in the fog and rain when I can.  Let the mist fall around me.  For as long as I have been traveling I have been enamored with Olympic.  The way on some nights the clouds dance away from you.  It is raining, but so lightly you can't be touched.  The world moves slowly weighed down by the moss, the ocean, the mountains.  I've felt my best there.  I've also felt my worst.  The weather can go from grey to torrent quickly.  

You never leav...

Amber Rose McConnell in Paris

The first time I set foot in Paris I fell in love.  We boarded the train in London and set off arriving in France the fall of 2011.  The cool air fell around us, and I stared at every place the language was written with stupor.  I didn't grow up expecting life to take me to the places I had read about.  My family didn't travel, didn't see the world that was for other people, not me.

I try to treat every trip like I will never be back.  Like I could wake up tomor...

Lillias Right and London Andrews for Pulp

I think its important to have a lot of projects.  At least it is important for me.  When I do the same thing over and over again without occasionally trying something else I feel like I stagnate, and it gets harder and harder to pick up the camera.

I love photography, but boredom is a killer.  This is why that despite my love of travel, nature, nudes in nature, I always need something going on at home.  Pulp was that series when I first got to Seattle.  A challe...

Porcelain, Feryn and Mika Lovely at Franklin Falls

Summer and Winter transformations in the North West are a little different than I what I grew up with.  On the east coast summer ends, the green dies off, and the snow rolls in, or it doesn't...either way the color is gone.  The forest is leafless.

Our first summer in Seattle the green environment disappeared as the forests caught on fire, and the rain stopped for far too long.  We spent the fall out of the country to come home to winter.  The shorter days and rain ...

Allie Summers and Nicole Vaunt at our swimming hole

I apologize for the disappearing act since the beginning of the month, I've been working hard to catch up, and I still want to make December great for all of you, so I will be updating every day for the next 12 days.  Imagine a 12 days of Christmas, but instead the dates aren't relevant, and I will not inundate you all with birds.  I have a lot of finished work ready to share.

This summer I discovered the green river gorge, an abandoned resort that is sort of but not really m...

Welcome to December

November has came and gone, and it was a pretty hard month...amazing, but hard.

After hitting my goal to go and shoot for We Were Wanderers in Japan Amber, Nicole, Porcelain, Henry and I planned a trip that took us from our home base in Seattle to Tokyo and then down to Kyoto.  Over-all I think the trip was a huge success despite some serious set backs.  We shot a ton, just not exactly what I was hoping for, but I will go over all of that in later posts.

Then we came home...

Svensky for Temperance

Svensky was one of my last shoots for Temperance.  

I could barely stand up for this shoot I was so sick.  My temperature was 102, and I hadn't successfully eaten in three days.  But I love my work, and I hate disappointing  anyone that has traveled to me to be a part of it.  I know how many months go into planning, and I've been the disappointed party when things don't work out...it sucks.  I don't hold it against people because life happens, but I also d...

A quick shoot with Jessa Jordan for The Jungle

Initially Jessa and I wanted to shoot for The Jungle when we did our last Into the Wild shoot, but the spot we hiked too didn't feel like it was clicking all that well for the feeling of The Jungle at the time.  An entire year later I feel like I was probably wrong.

I was looking through our folder because Jessa and I haven't crossed paths and I realized these photos were actually pretty great, and now I regret not having a bunch more of them to share with you, but that is kind of...

Damsel and Rachelle for Into the Wild

Summer is sort of my shooting enemy.  Its hot, children aren't in school, the sky is generally cloudless, and every terrible plant in the forest is growing in abundance.  Two years ago Damsel, Rachelle and I learned this first hand when we tried to shoot in Wisconsin.

The midwest is more like the North East than it is the west coast.  Poison Ivy grows everywhere, so even the most beautiful spots are very very treacherous for what we do.  Naked bodies rolling around ...