Sometimes things don't go as planned. I made the trip up to New York to shoot Carrie and Kacie together for The Jungle, but we ended up running a couple hours late, and daylight gave way to street lights. I don't know if these will end up being part of he final series because I'm not sure that I'l...
2015-03-24 19:11:48 +0000 UTC
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February 2014 I was in Atlanta, Georgia, and had the chance to shoot with Flowerbomb (http://ohmyflowerbomb.tumblr.com/) one week later she moved to Korea, and I've been trying to figure out how to shoot with her again since....
2015-03-19 06:39:50 +0000 UTC
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If I were to title this shoot for temperance it would be Small Parts Isolated and Defined, a riff off of the title of one of my favorite NoMeansNo album titles. Sometimes when I'm shooting I get words stuck in my head, and I am just sort of drawn to images that fit with those. I think it goes back...
2015-03-17 20:19:28 +0000 UTC
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Kelsey is kind of a hero of mine. She's basically the person you'd most want to be lost in the woods with. Able to identify wild edibles, we spend a lot of our time on our way to locations figuring out what we are going to collect on our way back to eat. She also hitchhiked up to my place from Ba...
2015-03-14 20:22:18 +0000 UTC
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Its weird because I feel like I haven't been busy at all so far this year, but its really because I have been caught up on my photo editing for almost a month now, which is not normal at all. I'm still shooting a bunch, but I've had time to shoot one day and edit the next where I'm normally shootin...
2015-03-10 23:00:47 +0000 UTC
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In addition to cabin fever, we decided to try and shoot a few images for Temperance while Kacie was in town. I recently added a new mirror to the mix, which has been a lot of fun as I know have a few more angles I can shoot from. It also makes it a little harder since I now I have two mirrors I ne...
2015-03-09 22:52:38 +0000 UTC
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I haven't actually been home for winter in years. I almost always plan time on the road, so having this many months in Philly, and not being able to shoot outdoors has been a little crazy. I've done a lot of shooting for Temperance, and all of that shooting makes it a little hard in the struggle t...
2015-03-08 21:42:47 +0000 UTC
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I feel like I have been home for so long, and I'm definitely starting to get a little stir crazy. Its weird going from nearly a shoot every day on the road to a shoot once or twice a week, while home, but I am always trying to do new things and keep it fresh.I'm really starting to like the way Temp...
2015-03-03 17:53:33 +0000 UTC
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One of the challenges I ran into when I first started traveling was finding locations while I was on the road. My early trips were before the days of GPS, Smart Phones, or Pocket Scout...all the things that make finding places so much easier now. Its hard to believe my first cross country t...
2015-02-24 00:29:47 +0000 UTC
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The cold winter, colds and the flu has really inhibited my productivity. I think I've spent four weeks of 2015 so far sick, but I've still fit in a couple of shoots in, and am always trying new things in the home studio.
For this shoot with Sierra McKenzie I brought a new mirror into the Temp...
2015-02-18 16:15:21 +0000 UTC
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I've been traveling to Rio Grande National Forest since my very first road trip in 2009. Vaunt and I have shot there a little bit, but this time I had the opportunity to work with Bae Suicide. We shot in incredibly cold weather as the sun was setting high up in the mountains.
Sout...
2015-02-11 01:31:29 +0000 UTC
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If you live on the east coast especially in New York or Pennsylvania then you know that New Jersey is a state typically relegated to multiple negative stereotypes, but a few of us have found a beautiful oasis in the Pine Barrens of southern Jersey. Its our summertime watering hole for swimming, sho...
2015-01-23 23:57:16 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for my absence the past couple of days. I managed to get sick, and haven't really gotten much done at all aside from the sleeping, eating, and dayquil/nyquil ingestion.
I did manage to get one shoot completely edited this week though! I spent an afternoon with Sash Suicide shooting up ...
2015-01-18 22:07:47 +0000 UTC
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I've wanted to work with Anastasia since the first time I saw a photo of her. Her ability to express/emote in every photo she is a part of is really unparalleled, and the way she moves in front of the camera is really magical to witness.
I was very nervous when the opportunity for us to coll...
2015-01-12 22:08:36 +0000 UTC
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Oregon has been one of my favorite states in the country for a long time. Every trip there I find a new place, a new location that I'd never heard of that I need to see. Thors Well, Cape Kiwanda, Silver Falls, Abiqua Falls, The Columbia River Gulch, Crater Lake, and so on. Vaunt and I decided tha...
2015-01-10 00:52:18 +0000 UTC
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Until 2014 I hadn't even been to Redwoods National Park. When you leave San Fransisco heading north you have a really long winding drive up the coast to the Oregon boarder, from which Redwoods is only about 15 minutes, or you can shoot up I-5 save yourself a couple of hours of tight fisted foggy ro...
2015-01-05 23:25:01 +0000 UTC
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I missed the leaves changing color from 2007-2012. I caught a tiny bit in 2013, but mostly just leaves on the ground, which is fine and all, but fall in the north east is one of the most beautiful times of year. It just seemed that I was either away, or an early winter storm decided to ruin the se...
2015-01-02 02:53:13 +0000 UTC
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I was lucky enough to work with Ari once the beginning of 2014 on my trip through LA the night before I left for Big Sur. I knew immediately that she was somebody I was going to try and work with every time I came though town. This shoot I was really focusing on exploring creating images with a su...
2014-12-31 14:47:01 +0000 UTC
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I've been all over this country the past couple of years. One of the few major cities I hadn't managed to make it to was San Diego. This trip Venom convinced me to make the trip down, so that she could show me what I had been missing. Over the course of three days we shot and we shot and we shot....
2014-12-28 12:46:03 +0000 UTC
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Not really known for its majestic landscape, but full of amazing people to photograph, Ohio has been a difficult place to find locations in the past. After looking around online a bunch I found a great spot just out of town for my shoot with Damsel and Dimples. None of the locals had heard of Hayd...
2014-12-21 08:09:19 +0000 UTC
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One of the the best things that can happen is being asked to do work that would absolutely have loved to anyway. That is what has happened the past two years with London commissioning me to shoot her yearly calendar.
London gave me the opportunity to work with her well before I was...
2014-12-20 06:37:24 +0000 UTC
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For me all of this is somehow finding a balance between work and play. I think if you take anything you love, and make it your livelihood eventually that love will turn sour. There are days where I just don't want to pick up the camera. There are even more days where spending 14 hours in front of...
2014-12-17 00:31:54 +0000 UTC
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Hattie and I have been trying to meet up and shoot all year with no success. We've both made Philadelphia our home base, but both of us traveling 6 months or more a year leaves very little overlap in availability, but we finally made it happen last night.
I'm trying to get a couple...
2014-12-16 00:17:20 +0000 UTC
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Sometimes you go looking for a location with all the information you think you need, and you fail. My first attempt to find Panther Creek Falls was with Vaunt, while we were working on our PNW 2015 Calendar. We drove miles and miles into the forest at the base of mount hood looking for the right p...
2014-12-13 01:34:07 +0000 UTC
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I have been exploring eroticism through photography for almost as long as I have known how to use a camera. Since finishing my series Journey To The End of The Night, and embarking on 50 Models 50 States it had sort of taken a back burner. Living in a new place for me means learning how to be crea...
2014-12-11 20:11:40 +0000 UTC
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I've been traveling to Columbus, Ohio since my first road trip in 2009 when Sophie King promised me tacos if I stopped through. Having the spent the vast majority of the money I had saved up working for Hewlett Packard doing data entry 60 hours a week, and really wanting to work with her anyway, th...
2014-12-10 20:19:35 +0000 UTC
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