Vixen Combat

I shot some promo stuff for a new women's fighting league that is going to make it's debut in 2012 called Vixen Combat. I think it's going to be big....click on the title to go to the Facebook page....

Driving

i drove about 2500 miles this past Sunday through Wednesday. NYC to Ft. Lauderdale in 16 hrs flat. Then some cross-Florida adventures that brought me back to Jacksonville. During all that I managed to make a stop just south of Tampa to hook back up with AnnaMariaLove. I'd met and shot her earlier in the year and we had made plans to do it again when I headed back. Here are the results. Amongst other things this made the trip worth it...

A First Time For Everything

I'd never tied a man. Not for real. Certainly never to this extent. I hadn't had butterflies in a while. Wasn't really sure if my tactics to build rapport would work the same with a man as with a woman. I've often said I could teach my lighting to anyone in 4 hrs. But the ability to get someone comfortable in bondage in public or even not in public was something i could explain perhaps but I don't think i could teach it. Rarebreed (fetlife name) contacted me after seeing me tie at a party. His question was simple. "how do you feel about tying men?" - I answered quickly - "sounds like a good idea to me" and it was and is. I was still uncertain how it would go. He was pretty new to bondage...a total virgin when it came to suspension, but I'd seen some stills and he was a performance artist and in far better shape than me or many of the models i've shot for that matter. I knew I could do great stuff - the question was would i push him too far due to his maleness? I take it pretty easy on women. At least at first. Rarebreed left the shoot asking for more and that to me is a successful shoot.

Smart and Hot

 spending the day with a gorgeous model can be fun, it can be tedious, it can be a chance to create beauty and it can be a day to begin to study the teachings of the buddha. I have been very lucky lately. Smart, gorgeous, funny, sexy women have been in front of my lens as a rule rather than exception as of late... Thanks 

The Fine Art Of Selling Out - Fuck All Y'All

Fuck All Y'all

Well that about sums it up when you choose to be an artist doesn't it? I'm not talking about a producer. A producer is first interested in what will sell. They are first interested in what can be promoted, packaged, pushed, repackaged, and profited from. I'm not a communist. I'm not saying this is bad by nature. I'm merely pointing out the differences between artists and producers. An artist must by his nature produce what he loves and hope that the people that love that work happen to have money enough to purchase it. If you go into a painting or a photo shoot or a sculpture saying "I'm creating this for..." then that work is not going to be art. It is very similar to the distinction in my mind to the proverbial "selling out" that you hear of so often in the indi music scene. When a band changes it's sound in order to become popular (almost impossible to prove by the way" that is selling out. If the popular consciousness takes a turn and the music comes into vogue that is most certainly not selling out. When someone says selling out they usually mean "there are a whole bunch of kids here that thought i was a dork when i first liked you" - the other arts are the same way to me. I hope that fetish will continue to creep into the mainstream. It won't. But I hope. I hope that someone else looks at my work and says "we'd like to use that shot that has been laying around for months for our magazine cover or center fold or buy it for the lobby etc" because there is a sense of pride in that for me. I'd be lying to myself and you if i said otherwise. But until then - the people that love my work i give you the biggest X's and O's and the rest of you...the pictures have and will continue to do the talking for me....

Gasmask Beauty

Heavenly Bawdy II

I'm not a real urban explorer. I'm too freaking big and too old and I've already had a near death experience. I don't carry a gas mask that's not meant to look cool on  a model, I don't wear hiking or work boots. I don't wear goggles or anti-tear pants. I don't hide in the shadows etc. You won't find me dropping into any really tight spots - I'm too big. You won't find me carrying spelunking gear. 

What I am is a guy that thinks the juxtaposition of gorgeous women and derelict buildings makes both look more beautiful. Neither belongs where they are. The building shouldn't be there cradling a woman. Most of the time the building wouldn't have been terribly safe when it was fully operational. The woman is generally nude or bound in my work and no hard hat or safety gear so she probably doesn't truly "belong" there either...but the two together are like ice cream and warm brownies.... 

So I'm not sure if HB is the brownie or the ice cream but I do know that I think she looks awesome and the location looks awesome. Two stars i could have shot by themselves to get great images but to me they look even better together....

Kris18 - Part 3: The Suspensions

First time suspensions can be tricky...Everyone thinks it looks cool but it's totally a different animal than other rope work. Kris proved to be a champ enduring the new sensations, the cold, and the ghostly sounds that surrounded us...

Every Now And Then....Heavenly Bawdy pt 1

Every now and then you get on a run. Athletes call it being in the zone. For me it simply means that I've been blessed with great models for a couple of weeks in a row and I've managed to get them to go places that they should be scared of. The roll continued over the weekend with another relatively inexperienced but amazing model. A rope virgin she took to it amazingly well. An urbanex virgin she was brave and bold. Without further ado I bring you Heavenly Bawdy....

I had an amazing shoot with her and I'm going to spread out my posts - I hope you don't get tired of her because she'll be gracing this for the next week or so...

Kris18 - Iphone Shots

Part of the Iphone Series of shots I've been working on during proper shoots...

Kris18 rocks and you should check her out if you need a brave model with a killer attitude and an even better body...

Ghosts Instead Of Girls

 so the word on the street so to speak is that ghosts roam these halls - i was there during the day and as well all know magic doesn't work well during the day so that probably explains it but i will tell you that this place would be uber-creepy at night...About an hour north of NYC I loved the place.