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I’ve long considered fall my favorite season and today marks the start of the latest version. September is a pretty quiet month for me shooting, but I’ve kept myself busy with some other photography projects, one of which I’ll have more about around the first of October.

The calendar doesn’t directly affect the weather, but today the first day of fall really does feel like it. I took a long hike this morning in the woods for a few hours not seeing another human soul the whole time. The squirrels scamper around gathering nuts and the mostly eaten remnants of walnuts litter the trails. The first hints of color show in a few trees and the first pioneers of the leaves to soon cover the ground have arrived. In a couple weeks I expect to be looking at a wonderful display of color that the weather of the year should have set up for us.

I do miss shooting models outside as the weather cools, but on those rare days when temperatures and schedules align the combination of the two can be quite interesting. This year I’ve gotten outdoors for shoots less often than I’d like because of the weather and other interruptions and distractions in life. In fact spring and early summer really were a terrible year for shooting outdoors and August really was my most productive month by a wide margin.

Still I’m looking forward to fall this year. I have a pretty nice schedule of shoots for October planned. Hopefully the weather will cooperate for at least a few of them to get some last outdoor shots before winter sets in. While I’m going to focus on landscape, stars, and non model photography while in Arizona this November, I do expect a few shoots out there with some familiar faces.

A few fall outdoors photos from the archives. First a shot of Adrina Lynn from back in 2010 in weather that really was way too cold to do outdoor nudes. We only worked about a half hour and it was obvious that it was just too cold. It took her quite a while to warm up afterward.

Adrina

Also a shot I love of Melissa Troutt from early October a couple years ago. This shoot was very on the fly and scrambling as our originally planned location didn’t work out and we had to improvise. We wound up trying a nice little spot I need to go back to again some day. Melissa was also still getting over a very nasty case of poison ivy requiring a little extra editing and posing care. We still got some pretty good work that day.

Melissa Troutt

I’ve not posted on a shoot since Keira Grant at the end of September. Most of my writing time since then was devoted to my eBook. So now I can actually go back and catch up on those shoots. Instead of going through them by time or by model, I’m going to go by theme.

So first I’ll share a few images from my final two outdoor shoots of the year. I met Melissa Troutt in mid October to work on an outdoor shoot in a nice later October day. Weather was a little cool, but not bad for shooting outdoors. In fact it was so nice that everyone seemed to be out that day. We had trouble finding a spot with the isolation to shoot nudes as everyone seemed to be outside enjoying the beautiful late fall day. We did a few shots at one amazing spot were Melissa posed in some trees over a stream, but it was just a little too exposed. We finally ended up in a nice valley with some interesting rocks and overhangs for most of our shoot. We were at higher elevations so there were plenty of leaves already on the ground, but still a lot on the trees. Made for some nice mix of posing her among the leaves and still putting nice greenery around her. Some wonderful shots from the day.

My last fall shoot of the year came with Adrina Lynn. Last fall she and I had tried an outdoor nude shoot in November, but it was just too damn cold that day. We gave up after less than an hour. The lesson learned for me was valuable though in that I’ve learned to be much more careful about the weather. When Adrina came through in late October we had cool, but usable weather. We got an early start on a cool October morning and the two of us headed out to a new location. We worked further up the same stream and trails where I shot with Melissa, Keira, and Hannah back in June. I hadn’t scouted most of the area so it was a nice exploration along with the shoot. It turned out to be a very nice and isolated spot where we had time to really work. The water was too cold to get her in, but we could work along the rocks and trees around the water. Adrina really enjoyed the sun that day though as you can in the photos.

One last photo of Adrina, more a peek behind the scenes. Here you can see the big, happy smile on her face as I sat down in a puddle of water. Think of it as model’s revenge.

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