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Winter has come to LA...
In many parts of the US, the winter means freezing temperatures, snow, and ice, but in LA we continue to have pretty balmy weather, but with a smattering of stormy weather that allows for some lushness to creep back into the barren landscape. People here are used to the sun and the warmth and wouldn...
Night Swimmer (Preview)
I have only rarely attempted to shoot at night in a pool. All the attempts have had mixed results - usually I end up with a a lot of blurry or blown out shots because the lens can find the subject in the dark (I have yet to properly do a night shoot with external lighting pointing into the pool - ho...
Alexis in the Redwoods - BTS
This set of 14 hi-res images and 2 videos is now in the "Archive" folder - subscribe at the $25 Archive Tier for access to this and more than 150 other sets!!!Behind the scenes stuff from my 3 day road trip to Redwood National Park with my friend Alexis.
Del Norte Redwoods with Alexis
This set of 24 hi-res images is now in the "Archive" folder - subscribe at the $25 Archive Tier for access to this and more than 150 other sets!!!There isn't any place on earth like the tiny sliver of land that encompasses the entire range of the Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species o...
Humboldt Redwoods with Alexis
This set of 23 hi-res images is now in the "Archive" folder - subscribe at the $25 Archive Tier for access to this and more than 150 other sets!!!Alexis and I had never met when i scooped her up from her family's house in the Bay Area in June 2015, so it was kind of an odd feeling to mee...
Alexis in the Redwoods (Preview)
Coming right up for my $5+ patrons, images from a trip to the Redwoods of Northern California with my friend Alexis. We went up there to do a cosplay shoot for her, but also got to do some exploring without her cos on as well...
Cacia's California Dream
This set of 16 hi-res images is now in the "Archive" folder - subscribe at the $25 Archive Tier for access to this and more than 150 other sets!!!Cacia Zoo underwater in Ladera Heights, Los Angeles, CA in July 2014. I am a pretty unfocused photographer when I get in water. Its definitely my ...
Cacia bathing in the California Sun
This set of 20 hi-res images is now in the "Archive" folder - subscribe at the $25 Archive Tier for access to this and more than 150 other sets!!!Cacia Zoo underwater in Ladera Heights, Los Angeles, CA in July 2014. Most of these images I treated with a very specific color treatment that giv...
Cacia in floating in the Haze
This set of 22 hi-res images is now in the "Archive" folder - subscribe at the $25 Archive Tier for access to this and more than 150 other sets!!!Cacia Zoo underwater in Ladera Heights, Los Angeles, CA in July 2014.
Cacia California Dreamin'
I recently found and re-edited this set, from one of many times Cacia Zoo and I have gone skinny dipping, that we shot in Los Angeles back in July of 2014 when Cacia was staying with me while in California for a modeling trip.We went to a friend's pool that I had rarely ever shot in, and it had ...
Lydia at El Matadors
I have been using 'the Archive", a folder to which $20+ Patrons have access, as a means of motivating myself to go back through old shoots to re-edit them, and delete unnecessary files. I've been saving out sets of JPGs (sometimes big sets - this shoot of Lydia produced 54 images I was s...
New Exclusive Additions to the Archive
2 more sets were added in the last half of November to the Archive folder for patrons at the $20+ tiers (I added 4 exclusive sets in November in all). For those with access to the folder, go look for these new sets: Ari at Deep Creek and Kai in Blacklight.
Sunset in California - Anna
I haven't really been shooting at all the last couple months, and have been away in Hawaii the last 5 weeks, but i came home briefly for the Thanksgiving holiday and had an acquaintance from the Ukraine visiting Los Angeles, so she crashed at my place for a few nights and we went to see the suns...
Alex underwater
Two physical things that i have been really drawn to when seeking out underwater models are shaved heads and tattoos. I am so drawn to women that have the attitude to proudly bare their scalp to the world, and also really love to see the mixing of ink and bubbles underwater and want to compile a who...
Poolplaytime with Cacia (BTS)
This set of 26 images and a video is now Archived and available only to Archive Patrons and above. Upgrade to check it out!Cacia Zoo skinny dipping in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA in October 2014.
Poolplaytime with Cacia (Extras)
This set of 29 hi-res images is now in the "Archive" folder - subscribe at the $25 Archive Tier for access to this and more than 150 other sets!!!More shots from a pool day with Cacia Zoo in Los Angeles back in October 2014.
Poolplaytime with Cacia
From a random pool day with Cacia Zoo back in October 2014. We had a good day skinny dipping and I enjoying an autumn heat wave in LA.Up to 85 hi-res images and a video coming for my various tiers in the next 36 hours.
Poolside with Cacia
This set of 28 hi-res images is now in the "Archive" folder - subscribe at the $25 Archive Tier for access to this and more than 150 other sets!!!These LOOK like summertime photos, but I live in Los Angeles, so these are actually shot in October (Autumn), but well, sometimes summer refuses t...
Poolside with Cacia
This wasn't a proper shoot by any means (ie - we didn't pick a good time of day for light, I didn't have any "real" cameras with my either for above or below the water), but Cacia and I had so much fun on this particular day at the pool that I think these GoPro and iPhone images ...
Two Very Different "Water Nymph" sets...
Only for "Archive Patrons" ($20 or more per month), I have added two sets depicting very different "woman in water" experiences I photographed in California last autumn. Lilith in tide pools at Palos Verdes in September 2016, and Sara practicing her Wim Hof Method in Yosemite on Than...
Mojave Freedom - Tasha (BTS)
This set is now Archived and available only to Archive Patrons and above. Upgrade to check it out!Shot while taking a weeklong road trip around California with my friend Tasha in December 2016. I love to observe the emotions a person goes through when they realize they don't have to put their cl...
Mojave Freedom - Tasha (Extras)
This set of 17 hi-res images is now in the "Archive" folder - subscribe at the $25 Archive Tier for access to this and more than 150 other sets!!!Besides shooting along a random stretch of highway between Joshua Tree and Death Valley during our California road trip last December, Tasha and I...
Spontaneous Double Shoot - Jess (BTS)
This set is now Archived and available only to Archive Patrons and above. Upgrade to check it out!Just a bit of info regarding the location Jess and I were walking at: Its Charmlee Park in Malibu, CA.
An Unplanned Double Shoot
I mostly shoot my friends (models usually intimidate me with their skill!), but usually there is some sort of plan to take pictures when we go out hiking. I remember this one day in March of last year when I was feeling stressed out about artwork, and my friend Jess was going through all kinds of pe...
November Previews....
of a few sets coming this month! Stay tuned!For those not subscribed - Patrons at the $5 tier typically get a set of 15-25 high-res images each week, and the $10 tier gets a second set on top of that with more images from the same shoot, and $15 tier patrons get those sets and a set of behind the sc...
Neon Ghost - Sara (BTS)
This set is now Archived and available only to Archive Patrons and above. Upgrade to check it out!Usually my wife leaves me to it when I have a model over shooting, but once she saw the water in the bath start glowing she got super into it and later had the idea of splattering more paint on Sara in ...
Neon Ghost - Sara (preview)
Mining more darker stuff for this Halloween week. This was the second time I shot with my friend Sara Haase, who is an amazing painter. She had brought so much to this shoot - her own skills as a nude artists' life drawing model, her creative eye, and also the idea of how to make bath water GLOW...
Ghostly Skeleton - Lexi
I had always wanted to use this sheer lace skeleton dress in an underwater shoot and finally brought it along when I shot Lexi in the pool. These stark treatments seem a good fit for Halloween week...
Celia in Autumn - BTS
This set is now Archived and available only to Archive Patrons and above. Upgrade to check it out!Looking back - this was SUCH a nice day of discovery - discovering how this place I spend so much time in looked in the autumn, and discovering such a fine human soul. Celia and I laughed so much that d...
Technicolor Vampire
I already posted sets from this shoot with Celia in Angeles National Forest from when we hiked there last Autumn, but realized I didn't post images of her in this vivid Eley Kishimoto coat. I just might have to post double sets this week! Also check Celia's instagram as she has been doing so...
