Kay Jay in a Quiet Room
My schedule has lost some flexibility over the last few years. I rarely get the chance now to travel just for the purpose of working with someone unless I can wrap multiples shoot or add in additional tasks on the trip.
This shoot with Kay Jay was an exception. I did work in dinner with a friend on the trip, but mostly it was to work with her. The shoot went well I think, and I particularly liked the column you see at the left side of this image.
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Christelle and Boxes
From a November shoot. It had been a warm fall, and I’d hoped Christelle and I would be able to work outside again as we’d done in the summer. Sadly the weekend before our shoot brought cold and heavy rain, so we ended up working in a studio in Asheville. It worked out well and these wood blocks made a perfect prop for her to work with.
More from the shoot in the member’s area.
Theresa in the Woods
At some point I think I promised these photos, but never posted them. Some work with Theresa Manchester in the woods last summer. The plan had been to move a bit further into the woods, but the poison ivy and stinging nettle were strong on that trail, so we worked around this stream instead.
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In the Studio with Bree Addams
My Charlotte trip in the fall of 2015 had once near constant. Rain. Lots of rain. While driving into the mountains out of Tennessee I stopped a took a nice picture of a puffy, fair weather cloud against the otherwise blue sky.
I think it started raining about the time I hit the edge of Charlotte and rained most of the time until well after I was back home. The few outdoor shoots I worked in all, including this earlier one with Mikki Marvel, included with at least some rain and in two we were pretty well drenched along the way.
So when what had been planned to be an early morning shoot showed a cool and wet forecast for a shoot with Bree and Floofie, we made other plans and ended up working in a studio in the area. Thanks to some lighting work we did at least managed to get close to sunrise lighting.
As always, see more from this in the member’s area.
Winter work with Nathalia Rhodes
I ended up not shooting the entire month of January this year. The break for the early part was a mix of intentional time off and a persistent cold, but my planned shoots the later part of the month all fell victim to various types of wintry weather.
That trend continued into February. The first shoot of my year with Nathalia Rhodes came on a cold, February day, but one where enough melting had occurred I was able to get through the mountains into North Carolina. The next day several inches of snow came down so we did barely squeeze into the one decent weather day out of a week.
More from the shoot on member’s site.
Wading Through the Work
It’s been harder to get back into editing than I’d expected. Mostly I think that comes from the number of photos to work through. It’s easy to sit down in front of my computer planning to edit, but feel overwhelmed by the amount of work waiting. I’ve finally started “faking” myself out by working through only smaller sets at a time. Focus on smaller tasks, and it’s helping. It will still probably be months before I get through everything, but I do finally feel like I’m making progress.
Winter is normally a slower time for work. Fewer people travel in the winter whether models traveling through the area for work or vacation. It’s also easier to talk yourself out of a quick trip when it’s barely above freezing and dark before 6 PM. This January was unusually quiet thanks to two rounds of snow interrupting the shoots that I had planned. Not adding things to the queue right now does help make it easier to catch up.
An example of my recent progress, a photo of Kylie Kohl from back in June.
