Mike Stacey

Emma - Cape Banks

A day in the wind with Emma.

Image of the day: Aurora in Leipzig

Home on the range

These were shot just up the road from my place in the Blue Mountains at a favourite spot. All except the last one shot with a D800 and 70-200mm f2.8.

Image of the day: Leather and stockings / Ivy

Berlin Lick

One long night in Berlin.

Zoe & Aurora

Great day today in the tropics at a local stream with Zoe and Aurora until I got stung by a gympie-gympie plant and spent the rest of the day in the emergency ward at Cairns Hospital 🥵

Hallway Jive - video preview

Short here.

Enquiries within for the full version.

Recent edits: Seaton, Andrea, Aurora

Adorned - BTS video

A little compilation video showing some collaboration and test shots with Anne Duffy and Burton Yuen. Test shots on a D800 and final on 4x5. This was one of the set-ups for a couple of the Adorned images shown above.

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Romi in the rubbish dump (Pt. 2)

Taken in 2016. More coming later.

Pentax 67
Kodak TRI-X
Home processed (ID-11) and scanned (Nikon ED8000).

Sydney All Nighter

From a couple of nights ago. Shot out on the balcony when all the surrounding buildings were asleep - but we didn't even think that if anyone had been awake in any of the other apartments they would have had full view of what we were doing. Full set coming soon once they're edited.

Romi in the rubbish dump (Pt. 1)

I shot in this location a number of times, once with Romi and once with an Italian model. Neither of them were bothered by shooting in such a place either! More images coming.

Aurora & Andrea

One of the most uncomfortable places for the models but that's where the best light was, so.

The shipwrecked sailor

From a whole day shoot on Friday at Cape Banks in Sydney with Aurora, Andrea and Seaton. One of the best days out I've had - 4 creatives and all taking turns in front and behind the lens.

Many, many images coming from this day. Combinat...

Bikini not bikini

Sylph and I drove from Melbourne one day along the Great Ocean Road and found a cool spot here. We shot for 4 hours or more until it was dark. A range of cameras and looks. These are just a few of the images.

Monika - fashion portraits

Monika’s a local Poznan fashion model and was perfect for the fashion portraits I wanted to do on analog. I love how the colour has come out, on both the 35mm and the 120. It’s a good example of the differences between 120 and 35mm in terms of grain, colour skew and clarity. I like both, for each of their qualities.

Dusk at the Leopold (Pt. 2)

Part 1 here.

Dusk at the Leopold (Pt. 1)

This set of images was shot in an amazing hotel in Antwerp with Aurora and Manya. Manya’s Instagram seems to have disappeared, maybe she’s having a break. Initially I didn’t think these two would work photographically together but they proved me wrong. They had a really cool vibe between them which shows.

Somehow, for some of these images, my ISO was set at 52,000! I never touch the ISO during a shoot (I set is before) as I shoot manually, or as manually as I can when there’s al...

Lucy in the loft (Pt 1)

Lucy letting it loose.

Such great expression, unhindered. Models who can be free like this are precious. As a photographer, it's necessary to be thinking "give me something" but it's also necessary to create a vibe where they can give you something. Doesn't matter if it's a subtle smerk, facial expression or full on body movement, it's all the same. Nothing a model gives is worth it unless the veil is down. The same expression given with some level of hinderance is very d...

Hallway Jive [Part 3]

I think I need another all nighter.

Didn't realise I hadn't posted this part 3, the other 2 parts can be seen by just clicking the tag "hallway". These were taken during a particularly turbulent time in Poland. Everything, was on the edge, everything. There was a video made too.

So fashion, so

Inner workings

Look, I'm terribly sorry there's no nudity in this set.

Australian landscape nudes

Shot last December in Borombola NSW.

Image of the day: Aurora in Frankfurt

Sunset

Image of the day: Flora in Sydney

White New York suit

One of the sets that were part of the 11 hour shoot a couple of months ago.

Absence

One particular dimension of living in Poland. The video has a lot of meaning for both Aurora and I, with some deep emotional triggers but what interests me is what anyone else would feel or think when they watched it. Let me know in the comments if you like.

My YouTube channel has been restored after being taken down a long time ago by the censorship lords. Check it out.

Ciara - Waterfall nudes near Ottawa

Taliah