Scipio

In the last 2 months, I have done 9 photo shoots, with 15 models involved.  I don't know when was the last time I've shot so much.  I said I wasn't shooting any more this month.  Good thing Friday is Feb 1st. ;)  I'm trying to make this year count.  So while I am inspired and motivated, we're going to make things count.  Thank you all for supporting me.  I appreciate every single one of you!

Mark Pett

Do you belong to a song?

I've belonged to lots of songs, one of the major ones from the past 6 months has been sweater weather by the Neighbourhood. One day while driving up the mountains to work and listening to the song on repeat, I realized I wanted to do a shoot, based on the words to the song. Orginally, I was going to do the shoot in Houston and it was going to be based much more on the lyrics. But for some reason, I actually watched the music video, and my plans changed. I loved the video. So instead I based my shoot on the video. Beach. Boy. Girl. Loving. Longing. Leaving. Sweaters (well Cardigans). I'm excited for you guys to see the finished product. It'll be a few weeks. So stay tuned...Until then, belong to a song.
Sweater Weather

G Sharp

I decided to get a little bit fancy. Enjoy!

Trespassing.

Last weekend, Scipio and I met at the same place where we had our incident a few years ago.  What was that incident you ask?  Well, Scipio was like, oh I found this really awesome location.  He forgot to mention you had to trespass to get to it.  Okay.  It was the weekend, people weren't really around.  So we hopped the fence, it's not like it's the first time I ever did that.  Photographers will sometimes do a lot to get a good picture.  Scipio is taking his lovely time getting ready, which he does, and the next thing we know some man is yelling at us that he has a gun and is going to shoot. 

Yeah.  That totally happened.

What did I learn from that?  I don't care how amazing you are, I will not trespass.  I don't need a repeat of all of that drama.

This time around, we didn't trespass.  This time around we stayed outside of fence and made do.  We managed to get decent photos.  So see, sometimes following the rules isn't so bad.  Well, at least when you are in Compton. 

Elias and Laura

I did this shoot a month ago.  In the midst of the craziness that was my life, it's taken me a while to finally finish this set.  But done I am!!!!  Here we go, Enjoy. =)

Thursday night inspiration

I met with Regina aka  Zuccherro Styling the night before our shoot with Clara.  We poured over the internet trying to come up with a cool concept.  The orginal concept got canned based on a model flaking and it being hella cold at the beach.  The final inspiration came from this photo:

 

I'm excited to eventually get to the photos and show you a snippit of the outcome.  It got pulled together last minute, which isn't how I like to work, but sometimes it how things go.

 

Until then...