Land + Sea

Lands End.  I adore this place.  Literally where the land ends, and the sea begins.  It's poetry to look at, and to be in it, I get lost in its vastness.  For this, I know that I must always live by the sea.  There are scientific reasons of course as to why the land stays dry and the water just stays in it's place. Yet in my imagination I see it ready to pour out whenever a whale makes a leap, like a swimming pool brimming with water, until someone canon balls and all the contents seem to splash out.  I love watching my dog run along the shoreline chasing the sea foam as of taunting it to rise higher.  Mental pictures that makes an imprint and inspire me further. 

Sand + Skin

I've never shot artistic nudes before but now I'm hooked.  There is so much beauty and grace to bare skin.  The movements of a body are endless and unencumbered.  Its not wonder that the Romans were obsessed with it.  I was always very conservative, "skin was sin."  Upon my trip to Rome I laid right under the "creation of man" in the Sistine Chapel.  I laid under it for an hour staring up.  The painting was commissioned by Pope Julius II who wanted to celebrate the gift of our bodies that God gave us.  Michelangelo's nudes were covered by leaves as it was deemed too much skin.  Yet later Pope John Paul II had the leaves removed once again, to which it now stands in its original form.  Bodies which all creatures are made to envy. 

Coast to Coast

"Photographers are like the popular kids in high school, everyone wants a piece of em."  I forget who told me that.  Its somewhat true, in the sense that are always meeting new people and making exchanges.  Today I had the pleasure of meeting Anne.  A sweet spirited girl from Lyon here to soak up all things American. 

Lace + Pearls

French boudoir is one of those classic themes that has been made popular by Sue Bryce and the likes.  Regardless of body type, everyone needs to know how to feel sexy.  I love shooting this genre because its not normal for the everyday girl or guy to get in their laces and look up at a lens.  I love being able to unravel people to get their personality to come through.  Sometimes you never know what you get when you unravel them...sometimes your a therapist.  But that's when you get the best images. 

Frame By Frame

I can't really recall when it all started.  When did I begin to frame everything into photos? Long before I called myself a photographer.  Now I spout the name freely.  I call myself this as if it were second skin.  Indeed it is, I would be naked without it.  For my eyes see beauty and stories to communicate into a single image, it satiates my hungry soul.   From the day my father gifted me with his 35mm camera.  I looked through the viewfinder, and  I can not undo what happened after.  I would see sleeping babies, and I could see them in that luxe black and white film.  I would look at a wedding couple, and I could picture that dreamy blurry bokeh.  Photography lingo is my second tongue and I speak it to anyone who would hear it frame by frame