You never know what you will run into hiking in the woods. About 2 weeks later we had a little earthquake and it collapsed this piano into dust. Vassanta and I passed it together at just the right time. Perfect kind of magic.
Merrique in the Oaks
It’s been awhile… but here’s some new work with Merrique. There’s never just ONE to pick, so enjoy them all. Why not?
Some amazing bends!
I’m still shooting often. Just decided to take a break from the computer one day and it turned into a year. How did that happen? I have a backlog of work to catch up on… and probably a lot of models wondering where I disappeared to. I haven’t forgotten!
Here are a couple images I made with Jasmina, an incredibly bendy yoga instructor + awesome model.
And of course no photo making is ever complete unless Ollie gets in the frame.
Happy Holidays!
Thank you to everyone who made an impact on my photography this year! I love you all! I hope you are all nestled by the chimney with care surrounded by those you love.
Every Christmas I make a donation to the Weingart Center for the Homeless. I hope you’ll join me in helping the homeless of skid row move on to a better life. Having nearly 51,000 homeless people on any given night, Los Angeles is the “Homeless Capital of the Country”. We all need to take a stand against this staggering fact. They provide a way up by helping them find jobs and other programs. It’s not just a bed for a night or food for an afternoon. They actually do something and without prejudice. Help the homeless this season please!
Enjoy a photo I made recently in Australia with Kat Love.
Anoush Anou and Jessamyn
We planned for the beach but there was a dead dolphin there… so we moved to my secret forest. Enjoy a little test shot from my iPhone. Film later…
ChemTrails Conspiracy
Catchy titles for blog posts keep me entertained. You must entertain yourself at all costs or life gets zombied.
Claudine visited California recently and we caught some images and some chem trails. All images shot with a RolleiFlex on Ilford PANF Plus 50 120.
We also visited my secret bamboo forest. I’ll post some of those soon. Enjoy!
Polaroid Type 55 with the Floof
I had plans to go out to the sand with Floofie for our shoot last week but catching a silly cold prevented that. So we stayed in and made some Polaroid Type 55 images. Yes, I still have a stash luckily. It doesn’t like to get warm so I have to press the film against the freezer wall right before I insert it into the film holder. It’s getting very finicky. I like the torn look and don’t really mind unless it’s messing with the composition. I’m glad to still be working with the film and thanking my foresight when it came to stockpiling it before the demise. For now I don’t need to start shooting regular 4×5 film and developing later. I like the on the spot developing. It makes me happy. I obtained a minute amount of solarization on this shoot and I’m super stoked about that. I usually get it easily with the Polaroid Type 85 I use with my Holga and Polaroid Back, so maybe the aging process is lending more funk to the film. I’ll take it.
So, enjoy the shoot…
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Out in the Desert…
Here are some more new images from October 2012 in Palm Springs.
Various cameras and films were used: Holga w/Polaroid Back and Polaroid Type 85 film, Speed Graphic and Polaroid Type 55 film, 35mm, medium format. Nothing was digitally altered. 😉
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One of the Most Surreal Images I’ve made
I just returned from my yearly festival for ARTnudes Network. One of the images I made there with the model Ella Rose is one of my most surreal to date. When pulling apart the Pos/Neg Type 85 Polaroid I decided to only solarize 1/2 of the image instead of the entire piece of film. What happened was a trip! I’m going to do this more often. This is just tripped out. Check out what it did to her torso. And the peel marks… how did they not affect her skin?
There is zero photoshop manipulation on this photograph. It’s all on the film.
Thanks for collecting my work
It’s been a busy summer of print sales! Thanks everyone. This one is leaving the doors this week:
I also had a great shoot with Sara Liz a few weeks ago. We ran into Gary Busey and found the secret zen bamboo forest. In that order. Enjoy.
All shot with a Nikon FM, a Lensbaby Composer Pro and Kodak Tri-X 400 FILM.
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