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Last days of summer

I persuaded Loulou models to come with me to Kullaberg on what turned out to be one of the last days of summer.

She brought these fancy sunglasses, and we obviously had to shoot a set with them on.
They gave her look a bad-ass feel.

Funny aside:

In the third image, yo...

Piano duet

This spring, I did a workshop at Basford Hurst Cottage in the UK with Wiana and Georgia Brown. Just before the workshop, I set up a duo shoot to ensure they would get to know each other. And other than a series of each of them I ended up with this duo shoot that I find super decadent. It feels bo...

The End of mrs Y

Lilith Etch is showing off her extraordinary posing ability.

We were in an old WW2 bunker off the coast of Denmark in a somewhat windy and cold environment. And this is where professionalism in models shows:
Can you put up and perform in the short timespan necessary to get the shot desp...

The end of mrs. Y - BTS movie

Lilith doing her magic one very cold and windy morning, and cold concrete.

Krisowitz and the round bales

Krisowitz dropped by the studio this summer on a warm but windy day, so we decided to hit the runway and shoot some things on location.

Here is a set from the round bales (bundled up hay, shrink-wrapped and stacked).

As an interesting aside, she brought a friend to the shoot wh...

Krisowitz and the round bales - BTS

Shooting Krisowitz against the ground bales

Isi’s corner

One of the last images with Isinka Luxova from a shoot this spring.

Here, I backed her into a corner next to the studio window so the light barely touched her from the side, creating this moody image.

1/60 sec ƒ3.5

Georgia Brown and the black container - BTS

A 17+ min BTS from the container shoot with Georgia.

Georgia Brown and the black container

I was shooting with Georgia this summer.

We had a stroll around the compound where my studio is, and came upon these gorgeous containers. And we had to shoot some sets around them (anything new, right?).

I love shooting against dark or black backgrounds.

I don’t mean pitch b...

Erotic Duo Livestream shoot

During Spring I did a Livestream Workshop, with Wiana and The endless sinner:

Erotic Elegance Duo Workshop with The Endless Sinner and Wiana Model.

Arsenic and Krissondra

This is a Patron's request for more content from my first Arsenic shoot, particularly of Krissondra.

Well, here you go, brother. I don't have much but I did dig up these.

If you are on the vault tier, you can see much more from this and another shoot at Arsenic; just search for...

Sweet November on Patreon

Gentlemen and ladies:

November is going to be fantastic on my Patreon.

Other than the incredible images, which I’ll be back to shortly, there is a ton of information about the shoots and all sorts of advice on photography.

In addition, alm...

Floor exercises

Gorgeous Celia Cassiel is doing floor exercises.

Light wise, this is one of the super easy light setups: Backlit from two windows diffused through a white curtain.

If you are a stickler for detail, you’ll notice that the last four images have an almost identical pose but are shot fr...

Sidesplit micro BTS

This is so short I'll leave it open for all paid tiers.

Walkaround BTS

Poppy airing her exhibitionistic streak.

Stairway to heaven

An older set with Poppyseed shot in a large studio apartment overlooking the sea.
All daylight from the windows on the left (and back for the last image.

Oh, by the way: When I do mixed shots like this (lingerie + nude) I always shoot the nude first.

That leaves out the "strippin...

Floor exercise - BTS movie

18 min of BTS movie with the flexible Celia in the studio.

Seductive and playful

I shot this set with Wiana during our first shoot some two years ago.

After doing them, I was unsure whether it was “taking it too far,” so I sat on them for a long time. And now, somehow, the time feels right to share.

It’s all-natural light in a massive studio, most of which c...

Cornered

A couple of “leftovers” from an anonymous model I shot with a couple of years ago.

Natural light shot in almost the same spot, only a few minutes apart. The only difference is that in the first image, the model is in the shade, so much less light is reaching her.

That means exposi...

Smack

We can all appreciate the situation and imagine the sound, right?.

I wish I could say it was planned, but it just happened, and I’m happy I caught it.

Lilith Etch (looking at fish) and Poppyseed taking advantage.

ƒ8 - 1/640 sec.

Edmayers Goddess

Goblin Goddesss posing near Edmayers Secret in Arizona.

This was a less-than-ideal situation:

I shot In the cold shade, the sun on its way down, light reflecting off the red rock onto the model just enough to create a little definition and shadows.

Not to mention the grueling wi...

Trio dynamic

This is an offshoot from the group shot I did in April with 14 models.

Three of them had to leave earlier (as they had a 4-5h drive home), so I shot a quick series with them just before they left.

cb.modelling (Cassie), AB tønnesen and Belzen model.

Two large umbrellas (...

Sysiphus Garden

Or perhaps I should call this Kaela’s Garden.
Kaela is @V.Wild.Art on Instagram.

We shot the last two images in a place called “Not So Many Pools” in Zion National Park and the first three in a small sister canyon, which I don’t think has a name.

In the BTS movie, y...

Sysiphus Rock-BTS

12.52 min BTS with Kaela working the rock (ok not THAT rock, but A rock 😅).

Varvara's booty

I can’t vry well let a month on Patreon go by without using the booty chair, so here is this month's installment of Varvara’s posterior.

Window light from my two studio windows.

First image 24mm ƒ4.5 - 1/100

Second and third 50 mm ƒ0.95 "around" ƒ1.4 - 1/160-1/200

(...

Varvara's booty - Multicam BTS

19.08 min of a beautiful woman. What more do you want?

Yakusa / Reverend mother

I shot with Stelladiplastica some months ago.

She’s a heavily tattooed Italian ballerina, and she brought this weird—I don’t even want to call it clothing—look.

It reminded me of the reverent Mother from Frank Herbert's Dune novel (and great motion picture), so that associat...

Facing Dawn

Loulou models in Sweden exploring a cave.

By now, Loulou should be in Bali and will stay until spring, so if you find yourself in that part of the world and need a model, reach out to her on Instagram @loulou_models.

Shooting something like this requires either artificial light...

Facing Dawn BTS

Loulou doing her thing in a cave

Abstractions on a circle

Lilith and I were poking around some old WW2 bunker the Germans Wehrmacht built on the beaches of occupied Denmark to prevent an Allied invasion.

I suspect the circular part at the bottom is an old Canon tower or some such thing.

And I find it poetic that old instruments of war a...