Life

We all make bad decisions. The thing that makes life nearly impossible to master is that sometimes when you try to fix the thing that you think was a bad decision you make a worse one. Life is really hard. That is all I'm saying....

Gia - Abandoned Building Girl Next Door

So if you've read the rest of the posts about Gia you know already that the day didn't go as planned but was rescued by her grace and beauty under duress. I picked her up and we drove toward one of my most favoritest spots to shoot and it is now under construction to turn into condo's or some shit. Sorry for the lack of tact on that one but it was really one of my favorite spots. Look for the Heavenly Bawdy posts to know which one. 

So I had to think fast and take us to somewhere else. That somewhere else I had shot recently and i don't love going back to the well over and over but I had to and the spot is so big that I think i can coax a bunch more shoots out of it without really causing myself to look like i'm repeating. I say to Gia "Hey is it cool if i take you an hour north of here and take pics..." She never blinks. "YEP!"

Next stop - hour away. Bit of off roading. Bit of exploring. Some lovely outside shots and then inside to check it out. So Murphy is with us. I've been there 4 times now - never another person. This day there is a guy using it to practice rappelling, a family of 4 roaming around and some random college aged kids exploring the crazy place...

Long story short - Gia rocked it. She is a weird mix of pixie and doe eyed sex pot - too skinny to be a pin up girl in the classic sense but she has the bangs and the attitude...

Check her out...

Gia In Black And White

 Black and White - Stark by comparison to the color work and in some ways I feel like it takes the feeling away from the subject. In others I love that it makes it so much more just about the light. For a long time before I understood flash at all I shot black and white exclusively. It was a a big part of the name Stark-Arts which I came to use for the web. These days the majority of my work is color but every now and again an image says Black And White to me and i make the move - These images are all stronger due to the nature of color conversion...

As for the lovely doe eyed Gia - I'll let the pictures be worth their 3000 words....

Gia Bound

I did an introductory post to Gia earlier in the day but now we are down to what she wanted to shoot. She asked to be bound. She asked for suspension. She brought her own kick ass ballet shoes. What more could I ask for. Fun, inquisitive, intelligent, great eyes. Really looking forward to more with Gia.

Many models would have complained when the first location i took us to ended up being a no-go (another of my favorite locations has succumbed to being redeveloped. Damn It!) - Many models would have gone shy when the 2nd location was also being explored by a family of 4 (never saw that before) Gia kept her spirts up and kept on giving me the looks I wanted. More to come...

Gia NYC - Non-Rope First

Gia is a model i've been doing the "we should shoot" tango with for a while. She had no rope in her port so when she first contacted me I envisioned more of a fashiony style shoot. When she said "I want to shoot rope!" my heart started to pitter patter. I looked at a model that in the right place and outfit I think I could do fetish, fashion, and everything in between. The fact that her daughter was born a week after my own made an affinity grow even though we hadn't met. Upon meeting her I was blown away at how mild mannered and gracious she acted. I knew it was going to be a great day...and it was.
Stay tuned for more images from Gia