Leanna and I have been shooting a lot recently. I have a thing for redheads… well honestly I have a thing for brunettes and blondes too but Leanna is infectious and a lot of fun to work with.

When she asked if I had read anything by Bukowski and if I would be into doing a shoot of her reading her copy of “Women” I was all for it.

“Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were different, their breasts were different, but no man could drink them all, there were too many of them, crossing their legs, driving men mad. What a feast!”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

Leanna can be found here: leannabanana.com

I first met Mara when she and a friend walked by the studio where I shoot. Her friend was a young photographer and they were on their way to an exhibit at the local art college where Mara would be attending the following September, it was then May or April.

Her friend and I talked about the studio and what went on there and the conversation turned to my work. He asked if I was on Model Mayhem and I said yes, he asked what I went by and I told him. Mara then shoves him out of the way and says I know your stuff and I would love to shoot with you. I asked her her age and she replied seventeen. I said I would be happy to shoot with her but her mom or dad would have to accompany her. She said, “Fuck that. My birthday is soon and I’d rather wait.” We continued talking about photography and the studio and her friend wound up applying and getting hired as an intern.

A few weeks later I get an email from Mara, “I want to get naked for your camera, when can this happen?”

That was the beginning of a long and fruitful friendship and working relationship and I have had the distinct pleasure of watching an amazing model blossom.

This set was a spur of the moment shoot this afternoon and I really hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed making them.

Mara: www.modelmayhem.com/1222550

You’ll be seeing more of her and I want to shoot her often.

This is Lydia Lael. Wet and naked…

So for this one I had a blue gelled constant light and used a 6 second exposure and them popped a couple flashes at random intervals and got some neat results. Hey worst case Sylvia is still beautiful and naked!

Manchester is a model that is pretty much down for anything creative and smutty and is generally willing to indulge my little creative experiments.

We teach a lot of classes at SOPHA, the studio where  I shoot, and there is a LCD projector permanently mounted on the ceiling in one of the studios. I thought it would be cool to use it to light a shoot. I hooked my PowerBook up to it and having found a bunch of trippy artwork on Google, proceeded to project the images on Manchester and make some photographs. Here are the results.

Every night while closing the studio for the night I see the most interesting light coming in through the old poured glass. Last time Manchester visited I knew she would put up with my strange shoot ideas so I shot this set of her.

On my last trip to Darling House we did a little webcast while Soverign and I shot the rated G portion of this set and of course the clothing got scarce and the beauty that is Sov emerged from the veil.