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Nicole Vaunt, Freshie Juice and Porcelain for Temperance

A 48 hour whirl wind of shooting.  What other way can it be described.

Some months it seems like every body gets the itch to travel and shoot the exact same day.  I used to get a little overwhelmed  planning all of this shooting, but I've learned to just roll with it.  Having a lot of people to collaborate and input ideas is definitely not a negative, so when Porcelain, Nicole, and Freshie all happened to be in Philly around the same time ...

Nicole Vaunt for We Were Wanders in The Yucatan

We got on a plane the beginning of December.  Leaving Philadelphia for a new country, one I had definitely never been to before, and one I wasn't really sure how I was going to photography.  Warm weather climates, sunny beaches, crowded touristy areas...most peoples paradise, but for a photographer that specializes softly lit fine art nudes in nature its sort of a nightmare scenario.

But one thing is certain where there is a will there is a way. &nb...

Sambalina for The Jungle

We set out on a warm November day.  After how well my Temperance shoot with Sambalina went we knew that we wanted to get back out there and shoot more!  The light and weather were perfect for shooting.  While it had been a sunny day we managed to dip into a small valley with perfectly soft light and an amazing path to shoot against.

I was very lucky this shoot that Amber Rose McConnell (from my most recent Into the Wild Shoot, who also happens to be an amazing photographer) ...

Amber Rose McConnell for Into the Wild

Over the course of a week stay Amber and I were able to shoot in a bunch of different locations in the North East Autumn.  From my backyard to Enders Falls in Connecticut it was the perfect time to be out in nature.  Warm, but clearly not summer we hiked, and shot as much as we could.  

Our first shoot was my first time returning to Enders Falls.  I think it is easily one of the most beautiful spots in the North East.  Two years ago after Steven Clouse and I took ...

Reed Suicide, Sambalina, and Okami for Temperance

I'm in a room thousands of miles away from Temperance...editing photos from home.  Its nice to have a break...to know that I won't be able to shoot for this series for over a month, while I travel and try to figure out how to work and shoot in Mexico.  I've always gravitated to cold grey climates...magical landscapes with soft light, but that is for another blog post.

I've done so many shoots for Temperance lately, so many little adjustments, so many reflections photographed. &nb...

Nicole Vaunt in Playa Del Carmen

How many small rooms have we called home?  Guest rooms, road side stops, cars, hotels, motels, parking lots, apartments, tents, campgrounds, forests?  Places I've seen you lay in the light.

I don't know anymore.  I've lost track of the miles we've taxed ourselves with.  The nights we've spent drifting across the country, and now across the globe. 

One night a farmer woke us up.  Banging on the car door, so that he could ask us to leave.  Most d...

Skyhook and Rachel Dashae for Into The Wild

Summer dragged on and on I couldn't wait.  I got ansty early September and Rachel, Skyhook and I went searching for the first signs of fall.  A few tree's had already started to turn, a few leaves had fallen.  The Wissahickon, mostly green, was dotted with shades of yellow, orange, and brown, but you could tell it was coming to an end.  Summer wouldn't last much longer.

For these I wanted to show the change of the season.  I wanted to capture the beautiful deep gr...

Lauren Carfagno for Into the Wild

The pine barrens of New Jersey have been one of my favorite local spots to hike and swim for a few years now.  A beautiful walk through the woods takes you to an old sand quarry filled with beautiful blue water.  I've done a few shoots over the years at this remote beach, but never really taken the time to shoot in the woods that lead to it.

Lauren had never done any modeling before, but we have done a bunch of hikes through the woods, and when I asked her to shoot she said yes ...

A Ghost Story with Audrey Kitching

First I'd like to start December off with a gigantic Thank You!  When I started Patreon I really had no clue that it would start to give me the creative freedom I needed to really explore my work.  In 2015 I managed to fit in almost 150 shoots...that is more than two a week.  In 2014 I probably only managed about 60.  This is entirely in thanks to you alleviating the stress and worry of trying to figure out where rent, gas money, and gear repair were going to come from.  ...

Nadya Lev, Sperohh, and Sylvia for Temperance

I've had a really fantastic month shooting for Temperance during November.  I felt like I had put so much work into the series over the summer that I  was worried with fall coming I was going to fall into a rut.  It happens, you get worried you are taking the same photo over and over again, even though in reality that is nearly impossible, and you stop shooting.  Fortunately I have had so many amazing people make the trip to Philly to shoot for the series that I've...

Maya Faun for Into the Wild

Fall is coming to an end.  Most of the leaves that have adorned the trees for the past couple of weeks now litter the ground.  My friend Maya, who I have known for years and years and years, before I was Corwin the photographer, and I have set up a shoot for the woods in Philly.  She has never modeled before, but the way she moves just in real life has always been thoughtful, and beautiful.

We head off on a cloudy day and hike back to one of my favorite spots.  The lea...

Nicole Vaunt for The Jungle

When I started the Jungle a little over a year ago, I didn't really think that it was going to be any sort of series.  I still don't really know where I am going with it.  Too me it bridges the gap between Into the Wild and Temperance.  It gives me a project that I love doing, and can do on the road if the landscape doesn't blow me away enough to do outdoor nudes without styling.

So Nicole and I never really shot for it.  We'd travel to far away and amazing places, sho...

Floofie, V and Jordan Lehn for Temperance

I've been shooting so much for Temperance lately that I've been finding it difficult to keep everything here up to date!  Things change so quickly for the series that I have periods of intense creativity.  One little new thing to play with gives me so much to work with.  I brought the wooden mirror up from the living room earlier this year, and have been trying it out all over the room for different perspectives.  On the bed, on the wall, on the floor, its amazing what you ca...

V for Into the Wild

We disappear into the warm summer forest.  The ripples of the water reflect leaves and sky.  They reflect the beautiful shapes V creates by contorting her body perched precariously on a small creek rock.  There is a romance to it, summer in the woods, that goes back to my childhood.  Hot days spent hiking and swimming in the Susquehanna or Yellow Breaches.  I'm drawn to the fresh water to create and to relax.

Holding a camera in my hands while the so...

Audrey Kitching for The Jungle II

Chasing fall.  Its my favorite time of year, but scheduling a shoot that lines up with the changes in season is pretty difficult.  My shoot with Audrey earlier in October just missed the change in season.  The leaves hadn't turned, and the days were still long and sunny.  We wanted fall, but we knew we had gotten the last days of summer.

So we planned another shoot for 20 days later.  This trip to the woods the forest was clearly starting to change.  It was st...

Skyhook and Aniston Suicide for Temperance

Shooting multiple models for Temperance is definitely my favorite.  I like the sort of frozen chaos you can create using the mirrors, and incredibly low depth of field.  It feels more story telling, the results more voyeuristic.

Skyhook and Aniston have shot together a few times before, and their ability to pose together is really fantastic.  I didn't have to do very much in terms of direction to get awesome photos.  The only real difficult part is having the models th...

London Andrews in Iceland

For three years now I have been lucky enough to get the chance to work for one of my favorite models and very good friends London Andrews shooting her yearly calendar.  In 2014 we shot in the set that would eventually become the series Temperance, in 2015 we shot in nature all around her home in Rochester, and for this year we wanted to do something really special.  Originally we were planning on flying down to Puerto Rico and doing the calendar, but since I was already going to Icelan...

Sierra McKenzie and Porcelain for The Jungle

Seattle has been one of my favorite cities for a long time.  The weather, often misrepresented as terrible, is ideal for shooting the type of photo I like to shoot.  Soft light created by soft cloudy skies, and easy access to so many beautiful locations it makes my job very easy.  It does get sunny though, and for my shoot with Porcelain and Sierra we had to go on a bit of adventure to get the photos I was after.  Although much of it proved to be unnecessary as there was anot...

Ravyn Alexander for Temperance

Telling new stories.

Most of my favorite art is erotica.  Moments where camera captures something most people would consider pornographic, but the image tells an entire story.  Its more interesting than a moving picture...its mysterious or its sad, or maybe the still image is moving.  Powerful erotica can definitely make you think.

I've tried for the majority of the time I have been shooting to create images like this.  A lot of the time disheartened with the...

A Portrait Session with Jenn D

I followed Jenn on tumblr for a long time before I got the chance to shoot with her.  I tried quite a few times to make the trip out to Kentucky to make the shoot happen, but inevitably something would get in the way.  The last legs of my trip I'm normally exhausted and so sometimes they get cut short by my own anxiety, and sometimes life comes up.  It happens.  Life on the road is like a a pot of water at a roaring boil all the time.  You are driving hours from shoot to...

Ravyn Alexander for The Jungle

Chasing light.  Its sort of an over used phrase, but some days it really is what it comes down to.  My shoot with Ravyn Alexander for The Jungle happened pretty late on a sunny day, and despite shooting during the golden hour the density of the leaves in the forest made finding little patches of light pretty difficult.

We had to change locations frequently as it was battle of disappearing light.  Taking a few photos, and then changing angles, or locations.  Running down...

Exning at Sunset Beach

There isn't much more nerve racking than a model that is willing to travel a far distance to work with me.  I feel an intense amount of pressure to not let someone down when they are willing to travel.  Its such an honor.  Exning traveled from Arizona to San Diego to make this shoot happen, and I spent most of my day worrying about the light.  Its sunny in southern California.  Its very sunny.

I also was still suffering from my fall between some rocks two days befo...

Sequoia National Park with Nicole Vaunt

After Fossil Falls we were supposed to take our trip north to Mono Lake and then Yosemite, but the whether forecast for the Eastern side of the Sierra Nevada's looked miserable.  Waking up in a tent to sunny skies and 100 degree whether is miserable, trying to create photos in such conditions is doubly miserable, so after a couple minutes of checking out our atlas we decided to call and audible and head to Sequoia National Park instead where we could camp above 6,000 feet and in cooler temp...

Lillias Right for Temperance

I've been having an internal debate about Temperance for a while now.  How to handle my Patreon posts for the series, and how to continue the series.  I've had a few shoots for it recently that I am still very happy with, but right now its just not my focus.  I feel like I am running out of things to say, and I fear I'm running out of ways to shoot.

I don't want to bore you all with the same story over and over about the complications of shooting with mirrors, my lens selec...

Jet Lag with Nicole Vaunt

We wake up exhausted.  12 hours of travel and a 5 hour difference from home.  Our eyes, confused by the early morning, they search for the clock to figure out the time.  The sunlight catches Nicole and I reach for a camera instead.  She doesn't want to leave the warm blankets of the hostel for the cold rain of Reykjavik.  Neither do I really.

I try to capture these little moments, the times before the long hikes, and before morning coffee.  Do we really ever ...

Svala for Into The Wild

My last day in Iceland I was like enough to meet up with Iceland's very own Svala (http://www.modelmayhem.com/3528703)  and shoot a few locations around Reykjavik that she knew much better as a local.  It was really awesome to explore a few places we had definitely overlooked when I planned out the trip, and despite the heavy rai...

Audrey Kitching for The Jungle

Three years ago Audrey was the first person I shot with in our new house.  I can't believe how much time gets away from me.  Living on the road half time, and losing who knows how many hours/days in front of the computer working on Photoshop.  I closed my eyes the last time she was in front of the camera and three years went by.

I've figured out a lot since our last shoot.  Refined my shooting/editing style much much more.  I fell in love with cross processing 8 y...

The Rising Lands - Iceland

I was blown away by the landscape in Iceland.  After spending the last 9 years driving hundreds of hours for every trip in the United States, its hard to really grasp how densely Iceland is packed with beautiful and varied views in just a 9 hour drive.

For my landscapes this trip I really wanted to try and vary my lens selection a little more than I usually do for landscapes.  I almost always shoot with my 17-40mm F4L when shooting landscapes for the wide angle views, but I tried...

The Art of Being a Hired Gun

One of the hardest things as an artists is when you lose creative control. For most of my work the shoot is my concept, and the results are the collaboration of the way I approach taking photographs and the way the model moves her body in front of the camera. As long as when the images are finished we are both happy, and the job has been done properly. But as time has gone, and I've been able to really figure out and refine my style I get opportunities I rea...

Mika Lovely for The Jungle

Mika and I haven't shot outdoors, since our very first shoots in Miami for 50 Models 50 States.  Her last couple trips up to Philadelphia its either been winter and way too cold to shoot, or winter and too cold and wet to shoot.

But we finally made time to take a quick trip out to the woods near my house to shoot back in July.  I had found this fallen tree on a hike a few weeks earlier, and decided that I wanted to make the trip back to shoot late in the day to get the light com...