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Madame Ette in Prospect Park

Last year on a trip to NYC with Nicole I had the opportunity to photograph Madame Ette, one of my favorite artists.  Her photography is absolutely amazing, and she is currently in Paris creating images for a book.

This shoot marked the beginning of my love for the Sigma 85mm F1.4.  We hopped on a train to Prospect Park, walked into the woods, and began shooting images in this beautiful park.  Even in New York, you can still get far enough off the trail to shoot without any ...

Porcelain for The Jungle

Its so amazing to be lucky enough to have these ongoing creative collaborators.  I met Porcelain in 2011, and we quickly became good friends after our first shoots.  We've traveled to Europe together, and shot more times than I can count.  You'd think after 5 years of shooting we'd maybe have started to run out of juice, but I really think every time we do something even more fantastic.

For our most recent shoot on a trip she was taking through Philadelphia we decided to sho...

A Portrait Session with Venom

One of the hard things about being on the road is not being able to do anything for Temperance with the many models I get the opportunity to work with.  The series is so connected to that space to me that I don't really think that it can exist outside of it, but I still wish I could explore the thematic content of it a little bit while on the road.  That is basically why I started the series The Jungle...no matter where you are there are some woods that can likely be shot in...

Shaun Tia at Fossil Creek

Finding a locations near Phoenix that isn't a desert filled with cactus, and countless other prickly plants is a pretty difficult task.  Its so bad that once Nicole and I get south of the Rocky Mountains we start calling it the Pokey Forest.  The search for a little oasis to shoot at is always a challenge, so when we found out about Fossil Creek, we decided to make a bee line there.

The road to this location is a rough one.  About an hour north of Phoenix you turn off the hi...

The Whirlwind

When we left Los Angeles the trip kicked up into a gear I didn't really foresee.  In between 8-16 hour drives, shooting, and sleeping 3-5 hours a day I barely had any time to edit, and we pretty much went 3 weeks straight without much in the way of cell phone or wifi service.  I forget some times that the best locations are very untouched both by people and technology. 

Nicole and I hit a ton of places that we found to be so incredibly inspiring, and I think we ma...

Idiivil for Into The Wild

I woke up at 4:30 am threw my clothes on, and jumped into the car.  Idiivil and I had planned the day before to do a shoot in one of California's most notoriously strict but beautiful spots Vasquez Rocks.  A lot of people ask me how do you get away with shooting in these amazing locations, and it comes down to a few things:  Wake up early, shoot on week days, travel off peak season, hike further, have a look out with a secret phrase, and a giant coat.    If you can manag...

Wet Plate Workshop

When I initially started Patreon I wasn't entirely sure what direction I wanted to go in with my work.  If I'm being honest I'm still not.  I've known for a long time that I wanted to start working in the Collodion process at some point, but Nicole and I shooting Into the Wild and living out of a car doesn't really leave much time for experimenting, chemical mixing, and what not, so for now its on the back burner.

While we were in San Fransisco the past couple of days though, Br...

Nicole Vaunt at Fossil Falls

We drove late into the night from LA through the Sierra Nevada's and to the Coso Mountain Range finally getting to our campsite at 1am.  The campground for Fossil Falls looked like one of America's least used.  Nothing to really signify that there was a place for your tent other than a small rusted out fire ring, and a picnic table.  We thought about setting up camp in the middle of the parking lot for the trail head just to be safe thinking that we probably weren't going to see a...

Miss Miranda for Temperance

Miranda and I have done quite a few shoots for Temperance over the past year and a half.  Its always a bit of a challenge when shooting the same space and a model you have worked with in the past to create something new and exciting, but we've always managed to make something fantastic happen.  On our second shoot I discovered shooting into mirrors, which gave the series a huge resurgence for me creatively.

This is a collection of three different shoots of ours that I absolutely ...

Damsel and Effy for Into The Wild

We hit Colorado right as a bunch of storms and a cold front rolled into town.  They started off as rain, but in the Rocky's the rain can turn to snow or hail pretty fast, and it did.  Effy and I drove up to Horsetooth Reservoir and hiked up into the mountains away from the trails, so that we could shoot somewhere more private.

This meant hiking up higher and into a colder windier part of the park.  We shot a few things really quickly, since after about 15 minutes, she was to...

Vaunt a Portrait Session

Some nights when its been too long since we've last showered, or we've spent too many nights sleeping with the car seats leaned all the way back we break down and get a hotel room. I'm always looking for the perfect cheap mote to shoot inl, but they don't really seem to exist anymore...at least not cheaply.We had checked into our place for the night, and had pretty much decided not to shoot when I looked over at Nicole and saw the way the light was hitting her. I threw a card in the camera and...

Nicole Vaunt in White Sands for Into The Wild

We've been trying to make it to White Sands for as long as we have been traveling and shooting nudes in nature. If I were to add it up I'd say we are pretty close if not over 20 times having done this cross country thing, and we finally decided that despite it being very very out of the way this time we were going to make it there.The beautiful thing about shooting in the dunes was that it required very little effort to escape people. Hiking over one or two dunes gave us an incredible amount ...

Vaunt in Daniel Boone National Forest

We drove from Nashville to the middle of nowhere Kentucky through hours of fog and rain. Heading off the highway down gravel roads that turned to dirt and mud way off the beaten path, until we found our place to camp . We slept in our car that night, so that we could wake up early and hit the trail for photos.Kentucky is one of those states we haven't really explored much. So close to home the geography isn't much different from what I grew up with, so we hadn't really tried to shoot there be...

Nicole Vaunt in Coloroado for Into The Wild

We left the Mid-West a few days ago for the Colorado Rocky's. As we went up in altitude unexpectedly spring turned to winter at the trail head to our planned location in Rocky Mountain National Park. Not willing to give up, we threw on the cold weather gear and trudged up the mountain.As we hiked up further and further a light rain turned into a heavy snow, and we quickly realized that if we were going to shoot it was going to need to be very short, and very fast. We found a beautiful rock in...

Jenn D for The Jungle

We drove into Kentucky on a sunny day, which I always dread. Is there anything harder than figuring out your lighting at noon on a cloudless day? I don't think so.The lake we were planning on shooting at had flooded its banks and cut off almost all of the trails in the state forest of our planned location. Intense rains had left much of Eastern Kentucky flooded washing garbage until the lake, which now littered the bank showing the tide line in the woods. It was not the most ideal day for a ...

Amanda Elrod For The Jungle

This road trip began a little differently than ones I've had in the past. I didn't have the week of anxiety where I tried to figure out how I could cancel everything and stay home that I usually get. Instead we drove straight down to Nicole's parents farm, and spent a day milking goats, making cheese, and bottle feeding the baby goats that were just a few days old.It was a good time.The next day we were off to Atlanta. We drove for 10 hours. The Appalachian mountains were bright green. It w...

April...We're back on the Road

Its crazy how when I'm home the days, weeks and months fly by. It feels like the longest unit of time is an hour. When I'm on the road they are all long. Long hours, long miles, long weeks, long months. It sounds like a complaint, but its not. I love how the time spent traveling has so many amazing moments that every trip feels like a year. So far we've put in 7 days. over 2,000 miles, and I've already done 4 shoots which is awesome. These are just a few previews from my shoots in Georgi...

May - A Road Story

I think it was a year ago I told Nicole I didn't think I could do it anymore. The long drives and months away from home were getting to me. I'd just finished a 40 hour drive from Minnesota to Philly that I had managed with cigarettes, shitty coffee and two hour naps on the side of the road.I was broke. The price of gas had hit a high I hadn't expected, and I felt like a stranger in my home...I felt disoriented.It's a weird thing traveling for these photos. You get used to living out of a car...

Jessa Jordan for Temperance

For Jessa and my shoot for Temperance I wanted to experiment with the use of mirrors even more, So I switched between shooting through the mirrored closet doors reflected, and the dresser mirror reflected through the circular mirror on the floor. The more reflections in the photo the more the clarity and colors start to blend to a sort of hazy faded look, which I like, but it becomes hard because all of those reflections can have a sort of fun house effect, that I don't like quite as much. The...

Andrea Margaret for Into The Wild

Beaches, the sandy ones at least, are normally one of my least favorite places to shoot. On the east coast of the United States they are bright and sunny camera killers with pretty much no place to find a soft shady spot for photos. I avoid them at all costs.But out west there are some places were the beaches are absolutely magical. Huge sand stone cliffs lead down to small beaches and provide a beautiful subtractive lighting situation for shooting. I love these spots, so when I got the chan...

Calamity Amelie for Temperance

Getting to work with models that are traveling internationally is really an overwhelming honor. I've only made it to Europe twice, and I know how hard it is to get around in a foreign country especially if you are getting around to work, so when somebody is willing to fit me in when they are flying from another part of the world its a pretty amazing feeling.I've managed to work with Amelie once before a couple of years ago, and she is an absolutely amazing model, so I jumped at the chance to wo...

Eastern State Penitentiary

I've been trying to find a way to keep doing some landscapeesque photos while I am home in Philadelphia, so I bought the yearly pass to Eastern State Penitentiary and bring different equipment every time to try and force myself to look at it differently.Its hard. Well its really hard. Eastern State has been shot by thousands of other photographers, and much of what is open to the public has been shot every way that is imaginable, so I'm going to keep working at it, and will see where it goesI've...

Shilo von Porcelain for The Jungle

When Nicole Vaunt and I first started dating we moved from Philadelphia to Chicago for 6 months. It was starting over from scratch for me. All the work I had done to get my name out there in Philly was completely useless, and I had a hard time booking any shoots pretty much until my last month in town.Because of this I focused mostly on shooting landscapes on the lake. I'd wake up at 4pm, and start getting dressed in my winter clothing, so that I could endure the extreme cold and wind on the ...

Bae for Into The Wild

In between Bae and I's two looks for The Jungle we decided to try and get some nudes in nature shots for Into the Wild. Above 8,000 feet in the Sangre de Christo's the temperature had already dropped significantly, but ever the trooper she held each pose on the frigid rocks for long exposures as I shot from a tripod on the bank of the creek.Even though the temperature was very low, we were still dealing with very dappled lighting, so we had to really hunt for spots with a nice soft even light, ...

Nicole Vaunt for Temperance

Photographing intimacy is such a tricky thing to do. There is a constant debate about what is porn vs what is art, and really it all comes down to the individual. For a long time I thought that the line was obvious. Then I discovered photographers like Jan Saudek, Aeric Meredith Goujon, Gilles Berquet, and it all sort of became a blur to me.Now the banality of pop music and reality TV is more pornographic to me than most erotica. Photographs of sex can transmit so much more emotion than much...

Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton for The Rising Lands

After arriving in Minnesota in what felt like a scorching summer and leaving in a freezing winter with my buddy S. Clouse (thisnormallife.tumblr.com) I had a feeling that I was entirely unprepared for the trip we had planned out. A couple days in Grand Teton, a week in Yellowstone, and a week in Glacier.The wilderness of the national parks, especially the ones in the northern Rockies, is incredibly unpredictable. Our first four days in Wyoming were brutally cold. Deciding that the only way we...

March Milestone!

April is beginning, and with that I am getting ready to go back on the road, and shoot myself into absolute exhaustion. Having past my goal to fix my damaged photo equipment (just sent everything out this week for repair), I have made up a few new goals on Patreon to push my work even further, and made some new reward tiers as well. Going forward I'll be using Patreon to keep going forward. More traveling, more nudes in nature, more landscapes, more erotica. My goal over the next two years i...

Rachel Dashe for Temperance and for Fun

Rachel came to visit me in Philly, and had promised I would get to shoot this gorgeous but incorrectly sized bra before she sold it. Shooting and posing around clothing that doesn't fit that great sort of comes with the territory...you sort of learn how to make it work as you the more you shoot.After we had shot a little for Temperance we decided it would be fun to play around shooting in front of the fireplace. It is incredibly unlikely that this will become a series, but its sort of a fun wa...

Rogue, Radeo, and Sophie for The Jungle (Freebie)

While I was in Columbus, Ohio I had a bunch of quick shoots with some of my favorite people. At any point in time the number of models living in Columbus that I want to work with vastly out numbers the amount of time I have in Columbus. Luckily they are pretty much all friends, so this trip I managed to arrange a day of quick fun shoots in Sophie's backyard.It was a ridiculously hot couple of days in Ohio, so we were running in and out of the house cooling down, and I was limited mostly to usi...

Kelsey Dylan for Into The Wild

The day after our shoot in Philly Kelsey and I drove up to my hometown to hunt for mushrooms and shoot a little in the black birch forest near by. It was around 3pm, so the sun was still pretty high in the sky, which isn't necessarily the best for photos. The ground was also completely covered in bright white snow. I decided to try and do these with Kelsey's back to the sun, and with her in the shade of a few trees, so that we got a nice diffused light, and the snow in the photos didn't blow ...