Girls

There is something about two girls that men find attractive. No not everyone, but I bet if you asked 10 men if they thought the idea of two girls was exciting, 8 of them would say yes. Funny thing is, a lot of women I know also feel the same way. Could be the type of people I hang out with, who knows.

These two girls are truly lovers. Been together for a while and although the one girl used to date guys, the other told me she just likes women. Actually great to hang out with and drink beer and not have to worry about anything except being friends. Too many people get the perception that two people of the opposite sex can't just be friends and I disagree. I have had some great friends that were women (one was an avid fisherperson like me and we would get up early and go fishing every weekend). Funny thing is my girlfriend at the time just couldn't understand our friendship and became so jealous we finally broke up. I figured it came down to trust in a relationship and she had a couple of friends that were guys and it didn't really bother me.

Day after Christmas

Hope everyone had a great Christmas. If eating too much turkey counts then I had a great Christmas. The kids liked their presents and actually didn't fight all day so my day was complete.

I'm still working on learning how to convert my photos to black and white. If you check out some of my favorite links, many of the photos are in Black and White. Granted, they are light years ahead of my photos and many are shooting film, but I really like the look of a nude photo in Black and White.

Great body and a great smile, what more can I say. Just another girl I was lucky to know.

Jill

Thought for a while what to post today on Christmas. Decided to be anti-festive and post a photo of Jill. Jill is a wonderful girl who fights for her sanity almost every day. I decided to post her as I remember her telling me how she never got a Christmas present in her life. A lot of time we think we are poor, but until you see how some people live overseas, you don't realize what poor really is. She figured she wasn't good enough for Santa to bring her presents when she was young and later figured Santa was only for the rich kids When I met her she was 19 years old and still had not received a Christmas present from anyone. I first met her in November and then later spent two days in December tracking her down just to make sure she got a present. In fact, bought her a whole bunch of stuff just for the heck of it, including her two younger sisters and brother. Never saw a bunch of people more happy and really made me feel good.

When photographing Jill I wanted to convey her somewhat dark mood and her feelings of solitude. I tried to capture this by having grainy and underexposed photos. A very simple photo.

In the second photo, I added some stuffed animals, but kept teh phto the same dark grainy appearance. Although I have other more happy photos of Jill, this is how I remembered her.

Night before Christmas

It's the night before Christmas so I guess I better post some sort of photo with a Christmas theme. My girlfriend on a night out recently with me. Luckily no snow where she lives or she would have froze to death :)

No snow here, but we are getting a slight rain instead. It has dropped down to a chilly 84 degrees outside. Did the last of the Christmas shopping and the presents are wrapped for the kids. I'm trying to convince the kids Santa prefers Beer and chips instead of cookies and milk, but no luck. Kids really make Christmas special. I also have a Turkey ready to go for tomorrow.

Merry Christmas everyone!

beach fun

There is something exciting about being nude when you have the chance of getting caught. We had hiked in to a beach we heard about for about 15 minutes. When we arrived it was still kind of early and given the remote location and the difficult hike (which included crossing a span of about 40 feet along a cliff where if you fell you would be toast) we were confident no one would come around. I had originally planned on getting some nice landscape beach shots and I did just that. Then my friend decided to go skinny dipping and tore off her clothes and jumped in. I took a couple of photos before joining. the funny thing is, when we finished, her bikini bottom was no where to be found. This left us in a situation where she had no bottom. It took my knife and my shirt to fashion something for her to wear while we hiked out. Luckily no one came around and we made a clean exit.

This shot was just natural light with a slow shutter speed. Hand held (thank you image stabilization on the lens). Just a great day having fun at the beach.

strobist style

Photo of a friend. Trying out some backlighting with my speedlights. The setup was quite simple. One 550ex fired through a diffusion panel to camera left. to camera right was another diffusion panel with gold fabric to bounce some light back as fill. Behind the model is another 550ex pointed at the back of her head. All fired by pocketwizards. I like how the light spills from behind her in this shot.

In a small rut with christmas coming up. Also have Carol coming back from a trip to Hawaii, which will make things interesting. I'm hoping she can help set up some new models for me to shoot over the next weekend.

I decided that Santa is going to give me a trip to the Philippines in June. Yes, a long way off but work is crazy and it will give me something to look forward to. From where I live it is a two day trip each way to get to Manila, which really sucks. I'm hoping to get to Guam for work next year which will put me about 4 hours or so from manila and also allow me to travel to some other SouthEast Asian countries.

Lovers

My friends wanted a photograph that was erotic, yet something they could put up in their apartment. They wanted it not to be the typical portrait type shot. I had never photographed a nude couple, let alone two friends. They are also not shy about their excitment, which made it a little uncomfortable for me. But in the end this is the photo that they really liked.

I goof around with the photos a lot in photoshop. Heck, it gives me something to do. For this photo I took the original shot and then duplicated the layer. I changed the mode to soft light and it added a lot of contrast. Next I ran an action called professional retro and went in and played with the saturation. Lastly I ran another action called Midnight Black. I probably couldn't duplicate this again if I tried cause I also played with the curves adjustments for a little while.