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8-19-07

Day 373 of 365 More. Isn’t August supposed to be warm? What the fuck happened? Spent the afternoon at Dave & Buster’s restaurant for a friends birthday party enjoying exciting games of shuffleboard. Came home and watched movies with Steph. The nice thing about having a monster DVD collection is that you can always find…

Mother and Daughter bokeh 1

Mother and Daughter bokeh 1

Now, for something a little different. Rachael wanted some pics with her mother, Dana, so I invited them over to the studio to sit for me.

It was nice doing something a little different than I usually do, but still beautiful and glamorous just the same.

I wonder if I’ll still get a gazillion views without all the nudity and stuff. Probably not. Oh well, I think they’re pretty nonetheless.

More shots from the session to come.

Mother and Daughter bokeh 2

Mother and Daughter bokeh 2

Now, for something a little different. Rachael wanted some pics with her mother, Dana, so I invited them over to the studio to sit for me.

It was nice doing something a little different than I usually do, but still beautiful and glamorous just the same.

I wonder if I’ll still get a gazillion views without all the nudity and stuff. Probably not. Oh well, I think they’re pretty nonetheless.

More shots from the session to come.

Mother and Daughter hug

Mother and Daughter hug

Now, for something a little different. Rachael wanted some pics with her mother, Dana, so I invited them over to the studio to sit for me.

It was nice doing something a little different than I usually do, but still beautiful and glamorous just the same.

I wonder if I’ll still get a gazillion views without all the nudity and stuff. Probably not. Oh well, I think they’re pretty nonetheless.

More shots from the session to come.

Mother and Daughter kiss

Mother and Daughter kiss

Now, for something a little different. Rachael wanted some pics with her mother, Dana, so I invited them over to the studio to sit for me.

It was nice doing something a little different than I usually do, but still beautiful and glamorous just the same.

I wonder if I’ll still get a gazillion views without all the nudity and stuff. Probably not. Oh well, I think they’re pretty nonetheless.

More shots from the session to come.

8-13-07

Day 367 of 365 More. And on the 367th day he rested. I had actually intended to do this shot for my day 366. But after the response on my day 365 shot, I really felt like I had to dedicate a shot to my viewers. That bumped my resting day to today. I really…

8-12-07

Day 366 of 365 More. Cheers. Before I do anything else, I want to wish a happy birthday to my lovely fiancee, Stephanie. In many ways, 365 only exists because of Stephanie. We went on vacation for her birthday last year and while she was sleeping, I was in a hotel room with nothing to…

8-9-07

Day 363 of 365 days. A lot of people have asked me if Jack Scoresby is really dead after yesterday’s picture. Of course not. He’s alive and well. Just shorter than he used to be. See… he’s right here. Strangely, after taking his head and absorbing his power, my photo style has changed a little…

0-Fool

0-Fool

I am quite happy with this card. When I came up with the concept while talking to Rachael, we were both kind of excited about it. In fact, talking about the card with her was the entire thing that inspired me to take her, Laurie and Amaya on the river shoot.

That said, I was kind of nervous about it. I was quite confident that taking pictures of three gorgeous girls nude, in an absolutely gorgeous mountain river setting during golden hour would turn out great. What I was worried about, however was doing a tarot card outside of the studio setting. From the very beginning of this project, I had intended to do every shot in the studio so that I could have visual consistency in the style. But I had taken pictures at the waterfall before and I was pretty sure I could blacken it and process it to the level that would make it look the way I wanted. Especially with golden hour lighting.

I’m quite happy with how it turned out and hope that it matches the other cards well enough. I wonder if I’ll end up doing any other cards outside.

And of course comments and criticism welcome.

8-8-07

Day 362 of 365 days. Jack Scoresby is dead. I was forced to take his life. As many of you may know, Jack has been traveling the countryside the last week or so and visiting other flickr photographers. It all sounded very interesting and harmless. He spent the last several days with Katie West. But…

8-6-07

Day 360 of 365 days. When I started this project I thought that by day 10 I’d be resorting to 11:59pm cameraphone photos. 360 days in and that still hasn’t happened yet. But I didn’t have a great idea for a shot today, and I thought "you know, I should get one of those in."…

II-High Priestess

II-High Priestess

Sarah was nice enough to volunteer to pose for the Tarot deck when she was visiting last week. The second she volunteered, I knew exactly what card I wanted to use her for. I love the tattoo on her shoulder and she has just enough hair to obscure her face in mystery and make a perfect High Priestess. Originally I was thinking of adding some background elements like I did with some of the other cards, but as I was finishing up, I felt like that would have been doing too much. I remembered why I went for the cold black backgrounds in the first place. Not to distract from the model. Just let her create the mood alone.

Comments and criticism welcome and encouraged as always.