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Beatrice Ninja for Into the Wild (mostly)

Nox for Into the Wild

Nox for The Jungle

Something a little different.  Nox had this incredible demon costume for a burlesque routine they do.  I was super down to shoot this piece in our late autumn garden.  There were just so many incredible colors to play with and depths to the forest.

Mika Lovely for Into the Wild

The way we bend through the forest can feel like magic. 

Sienna Hayes for Into the Wild

Its really incredible how much a model transforms a place.  Sienna and I rarely shoot for more than 20-30 minutes, and I can't believe how many amazing images we are able to make in such a short period of time.

Each spot feels like its been captured almost as soon as we start. 

Ravyn Alexa for Into the Wild

Such a perfect day in the forest light with Ravyn.  I love the way the back lighting streams through the ivy covered maples in the late winter.  It feels like I'm standing at the bottom of the see looking up at kelp in a way that is hard to explain.

Shelby Mason for The Jungle

Autumn colors are a little hard to come by here.  A few of our plants pop bright yellow, and bright orange, but our predominant maple tree, the big leaf maple, changes color kind of slowly in a way that leaves the outside edge of the leaf dead, and brown by the time the inner part of the leaf has yellowed.  Its a little less than ideal.

So for this shoot with Shelby I decided to prune a center branch of my lone Japanese Maple, a treat I can't shoot with as it is in my driveway...

Asspen 97 for The Jungle

The perfect light, and the orange glow of touch me not flowers came together in just the best way when I was shooting with Asspen.

I'm absolutely loving the eye focus tracking on my new Canon R5 for shots like these.

Bendy Orchid for The Jungle and Into the Wild

I feel like all of my posts begin with _____ and I have been trying to shoot for a while.  But its almost always true of my shoots.  I'm still only organized in certain ways that work for me, and my calendar has always been one of the things I struggle with.  I've gotten better, but it takes a lot of work and I need a lot of help to maintain that organization.

But yeah Bendy Orchid and I have been trying to shoot for a while, and I am absolutely stoked on how our shoot c...

Rita for The Jungle

I find myself looking forward to spring in a way I never have.  I am surrounded by life, and I hope to soak up as much of that life as possible.  The rhododendron buds are waiting as anxiously and patiently as me for longer days for sun for warmth.

We are both anxiously awaiting moments of vibrancy.

Amber Rose McConnell for The Jungle

Its been a few years, but Amber and I shot on a warm day among the buttercups in the field.  I just love how these came out.

An Acting Angel for Into the Wild

Anoush Anou and Nicole Vaunt for Floral Studies

This summer I was lucky enough to have Anoush Anou come through town.  Its wild how long I have followed Anoush, and equally as wild how long it took for us to end up in the same place at the same time.

Some times this world feels like a game of spaced out musical chairs.  So many of us are at move sitting down where others have been, but never going for the same chair.  Does that make sense?

Given the cities we've lived in and visited it should have happened befo...

Jess Robinson for Into the Wild

Its been at least 7 years since I have seen Jess.  We've only ever been able to shoot indoors, so it was such a pleasure for her to visit me here in my little forest, and finally explore the great out doors.

Revisiting This Early shoot with Henna N

When @vauntastic and I moved back to Philly after a winter in Chicago we eventually decided to spring for a couple yards of upholstery fabric to use for shoots.  After leaving our apartment downtown for a duplex in Germantown we used this same trick to build the Temperance set.

I've been calling this images Pre-Temperance.  They fill in the times between Journey to the End of the Night, and Temperance and are sort of a combination of both.

Devin Willow for The Jungle

My friend Devin came down over the summer and we shot a few incredible lingerie looks among the flowers!

Arabelle Raphael for The Jungle

A little bit where the wild things are

Backyard Jane Chronicles with Kacie Marie

Once upon a time in South Philly Kacie and I shot this series in her backyard.  I revisited this hard drive and thought it would be nice to bring this shoot back to the internet

Kayla Coyote for The Jungle

How did I forget to share this set from modelgedon 2019...the world may never know

Amber Rose McConnel for The Jungle

A little sneak of things to come!

Mika Lovely for the jungle sneak peek

I don’t know what it is but I’m always in sort of a soft focus mood when Mika arrives to shoot. At least one of our shoots is always shot through Black Nylons, and this trip was no different.

This is just a little peak at what we did I’m playing around with just this sort of soft romantic black and white edit for these.

The Rainforest

I can't wait for autumn.  I've been revisiting workshops that I did before 2020, and realizing how many amazing photos I skipped over.  I think its something I'm going to start recommending my students do as well.

When your in that workshop environment you are almost creating with this unmatchable ferocity.  As often as I shoot I'm not waking up in the same way as on workshops.  I have to worry about my meals, my plants, my regular life.  Disconnecting from all...

Just dress for the weather

Hi hello it’s me, and I’m throwing out this free post because one of the questions I get all the time is how do you take these photos in such cold/extreme climates, and I wanted to make a little bit of a longer post for a simple idea.

Models pose better when they are comfortable!

Lots of things contribute to a models comfort on location, but when you are shooting in extreme locations like a north west rain forests, or a glacial lagoon the number one thi...

Floofie under the camellia

This tree was planted the day the lady who sold us our home was born.  We promised we'd never remove it as she showed us around the garden in November.  I must confess that I didn't know then how special this tree would be to us.  One of the first blooms of spring the tree feels like it breaths life into late winter.  

The sky and then the earth are painted pink.  

I mark the calendar for its early blooms.  Plan my weeks around when I anticipate it ...

One from the archives Avina Portraits

I don't even remember exactly where these photos were shot.  I know it was another photographers home years ago that I was connected to some how through Tanya Dakin.  I think one of the weirdest feelings about moving to a place after having visited it so many times is that I know there are a bunch of little landmarks in this city, places I have shot, that live as unconnected dots in my brain.  I'll turn down a street and a feeling of familiarity overwhelms me, but more often th...

Kymil for Into the Wild

My shoot with Kymil was initially delayed, but I feel like things worked out perfectly in the end, as when we did reschedule the garden was bursting with color.  

Mal Butcher for The Jungle

Mari for The Jungle

Just when I wonder if my inspiration with the place I live is dwindling it changes, and that change and a new collaborator makes it feel alive again.

Sometimes I feel like I could explore the way the ferns curve here forever.  Its just amazing the way they grow and lean, how the colors on opposite sides reflect back different greens almost blue to silver.  

The other part of me is like...people are going to get bored with my obsession with the ferns.

What can yo...

Jess Robinson in Dallas and Philly

It’s amazing how much I used to do with so little in terms of space. In Philly we had a drywall and a floor. Everything that made a photo special came from light, and the model.

I guess it’s not much different than seamless but have never enjoyed traditional studio spaces. All of that room feels like it stifles creativity. I like wide open nature, but just as much I like a small room where I can problem solve how to shoot.

I’m excited because Je...

Spring has nearly gone

There is a lull in the blooms (at least photographable ones) here for a period. When spring ends it often feels like the color will not return. Last year it came back but just barely. My hope that we will not have the same fire season is dwindling.

The Tansy Ragwort (invasive and toxic) and ox eye daisies (non-native but edible) of summer will hopefully arrive.

I’ve been spending a lot of time in the woods and creek. I should have plenty of evidence of this time spent to ...