Last year on a trip to NYC with Nicole I had the opportunity to photograph Madame Ette, one of my favorite artists. Her photography is absolutely amazing, and she is currently in Paris creating images for a book.
This shoot marked the beginning of my love for the Sigma 85mm F1.4. ...
Its so amazing to be lucky enough to have these ongoing creative collaborators. I met Porcelain in 2011, and we quickly became good friends after our first shoots. We've traveled to Europe together, and shot more times than I can count. You'd think after 5 years of shooting we'd ma...
2015-07-08 04:12:55 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the hard things about being on the road is not being able to do anything for Temperance with the many models I get the opportunity to work with. The series is so connected to that space to me that I don't really think that it can exist outside of it, but I still wish I could ...
2015-07-03 23:23:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Finding a locations near Phoenix that isn't a desert filled with cactus, and countless other prickly plants is a pretty difficult task. Its so bad that once Nicole and I get south of the Rocky Mountains we start calling it the Pokey Forest. The search for a little oasis to shoot at is al...
2015-07-01 21:52:43 +0000 UTC View Post
When we left Los Angeles the trip kicked up into a gear I didn't really foresee. In between 8-16 hour drives, shooting, and sleeping 3-5 hours a day I barely had any time to edit, and we pretty much went 3 weeks straight without much in the way of cell phone or wifi service. I forget ...
2015-06-30 18:52:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I woke up at 4:30 am threw my clothes on, and jumped into the car. Idiivil and I had planned the day before to do a shoot in one of California's most notoriously strict but beautiful spots Vasquez Rocks. A lot of people ask me how do you get away with shooting in these amazing locations,...
2015-06-16 18:41:24 +0000 UTC View Post
When I initially started Patreon I wasn't entirely sure what direction I wanted to go in with my work. If I'm being honest I'm still not. I've known for a long time that I wanted to start working in the Collodion process at some point, but Nicole and I shooting Into the Wild and living o...
2015-06-06 18:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post
We drove late into the night from LA through the Sierra Nevada's and to the Coso Mountain Range finally getting to our campsite at 1am. The campground for Fossil Falls looked like one of America's least used. Nothing to really signify that there was a place for your tent other than a sma...
2015-06-06 00:25:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Miranda and I have done quite a few shoots for Temperance over the past year and a half. Its always a bit of a challenge when shooting the same space and a model you have worked with in the past to create something new and exciting, but we've always managed to make something fantastic happen. ...
2015-06-02 19:24:07 +0000 UTC View Post
We hit Colorado right as a bunch of storms and a cold front rolled into town. They started off as rain, but in the Rocky's the rain can turn to snow or hail pretty fast, and it did. Effy and I drove up to Horsetooth Reservoir and hiked up into the mountains away from the trails, so that ...
2015-05-31 20:45:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Some nights when its been too long since we've last showered, or we've spent too many nights sleeping with the car seats leaned all the way back we break down and get a hotel room. I'm always looking for the perfect cheap mote to shoot inl, but they don't really seem to exist anymore...at least not...
2015-05-24 17:56:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We've been trying to make it to White Sands for as long as we have been traveling and shooting nudes in nature. If I were to add it up I'd say we are pretty close if not over 20 times having done this cross country thing, and we finally decided that despite it being very very out of the way this t...
2015-05-17 22:01:50 +0000 UTC View Post
We drove from Nashville to the middle of nowhere Kentucky through hours of fog and rain. Heading off the highway down gravel roads that turned to dirt and mud way off the beaten path, until we found our place to camp . We slept in our car that night, so that we could wake up early and hit the trai...
2015-05-15 19:03:49 +0000 UTC View Post
We left the Mid-West a few days ago for the Colorado Rocky's. As we went up in altitude unexpectedly spring turned to winter at the trail head to our planned location in Rocky Mountain National Park. Not willing to give up, we threw on the cold weather gear and trudged up the mountain.As we hiked ...
2015-05-12 21:47:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We drove into Kentucky on a sunny day, which I always dread. Is there anything harder than figuring out your lighting at noon on a cloudless day? I don't think so.The lake we were planning on shooting at had flooded its banks and cut off almost all of the trails in the state forest of our planned ...
2015-05-08 00:09:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This road trip began a little differently than ones I've had in the past. I didn't have the week of anxiety where I tried to figure out how I could cancel everything and stay home that I usually get. Instead we drove straight down to Nicole's parents farm, and spent a day milking goats, making che...
2015-05-05 23:52:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Its crazy how when I'm home the days, weeks and months fly by. It feels like the longest unit of time is an hour. When I'm on the road they are all long. Long hours, long miles, long weeks, long months. It sounds like a complaint, but its not. I love how the time spent traveling has so many ama...
2015-05-04 21:17:02 +0000 UTC View PostI think it was a year ago I told Nicole I didn't think I could do it anymore. The long drives and months away from home were getting to me. I'd just finished a 40 hour drive from Minnesota to Philly that I had managed with cigarettes, shitty coffee and two hour naps on the side of the road.I was b...
2015-05-03 21:33:55 +0000 UTC View Post
For Jessa and my shoot for Temperance I wanted to experiment with the use of mirrors even more, So I switched between shooting through the mirrored closet doors reflected, and the dresser mirror reflected through the circular mirror on the floor. The more reflections in the photo the more the clari...
2015-04-29 16:02:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Beaches, the sandy ones at least, are normally one of my least favorite places to shoot. On the east coast of the United States they are bright and sunny camera killers with pretty much no place to find a soft shady spot for photos. I avoid them at all costs.But out west there are some places were...
2015-04-23 19:25:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Getting to work with models that are traveling internationally is really an overwhelming honor. I've only made it to Europe twice, and I know how hard it is to get around in a foreign country especially if you are getting around to work, so when somebody is willing to fit me in when they are flying...
2015-04-21 23:06:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been trying to find a way to keep doing some landscapeesque photos while I am home in Philadelphia, so I bought the yearly pass to Eastern State Penitentiary and bring different equipment every time to try and force myself to look at it differently.Its hard. Well its really hard. Eastern State ...
2015-04-20 19:25:17 +0000 UTC View Post
When Nicole Vaunt and I first started dating we moved from Philadelphia to Chicago for 6 months. It was starting over from scratch for me. All the work I had done to get my name out there in Philly was completely useless, and I had a hard time booking any shoots pretty much until my last month in ...
2015-04-13 14:55:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In between Bae and I's two looks for The Jungle we decided to try and get some nudes in nature shots for Into the Wild. Above 8,000 feet in the Sangre de Christo's the temperature had already dropped significantly, but ever the trooper she held each pose on the frigid rocks for long exposures as I ...
2015-04-07 23:45:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Photographing intimacy is such a tricky thing to do. There is a constant debate about what is porn vs what is art, and really it all comes down to the individual. For a long time I thought that the line was obvious. Then I discovered photographers like Jan Saudek, Aeric Meredith Goujon, Gilles Be...
2015-04-06 19:36:15 +0000 UTC View Post
After arriving in Minnesota in what felt like a scorching summer and leaving in a freezing winter with my buddy S. Clouse (thisnormallife.tumblr.com) I had a feeling that I was entirely unprepared for the trip we had planned out. A couple days in Grand Teton, a week in Yellowstone, and a week in Gl...
2015-04-04 00:32:20 +0000 UTC View PostApril is beginning, and with that I am getting ready to go back on the road, and shoot myself into absolute exhaustion. Having past my goal to fix my damaged photo equipment (just sent everything out this week for repair), I have made up a few new goals on Patreon to push my work even further, and ...
2015-04-03 01:35:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Rachel came to visit me in Philly, and had promised I would get to shoot this gorgeous but incorrectly sized bra before she sold it. Shooting and posing around clothing that doesn't fit that great sort of comes with the territory...you sort of learn how to make it work as you the more you shoot.Aft...
2015-04-01 00:29:38 +0000 UTC View Post
While I was in Columbus, Ohio I had a bunch of quick shoots with some of my favorite people. At any point in time the number of models living in Columbus that I want to work with vastly out numbers the amount of time I have in Columbus. Luckily they are pretty much all friends, so this trip I mana...
2015-03-27 18:09:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The day after our shoot in Philly Kelsey and I drove up to my hometown to hunt for mushrooms and shoot a little in the black birch forest near by. It was around 3pm, so the sun was still pretty high in the sky, which isn't necessarily the best for photos. The ground was also completely covered in ...
2015-03-26 05:01:18 +0000 UTC View Post