Continuing on with this shoot with Kat Malone - photographers who work with Kat know she has no fear of dirt. The first time I ever shot with her she dropped to the desert floor in Joshua Tree to scoop up a handful of dirt to lick. I have to say though, I really wasn't expecting her, already covered in baby oil and holi powder, to escalate things, but as we walked out of the trees and back onto this dirt logging road in Oregon, the moment took her. I wasn't even prepared and didn't catch the first moments when she fell to the ground, but I started clicking away after that just to document whatever she did (I wish i had also been shooting video at the same time, but she gave me no warning at all!).
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Its been really interesting for me to share so many images from one single shoot. I usually would trim it down to just 35-50 images, but I feel like this go well over 200 images from a very short moment in time. Kat Malone and I were only pulled off this logging road for about 30 minutes, but it felt like a whole journey. I would put her in a spot, or give her some prop (first holy powder, then baby oil, etc) and let her get into her space of creating with her body and face. When looking back through the images months later, i could see the addition of the pink visor took the shoot off onto another chapter.
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When Cacia Zoo visited me in October we took a short road trip to Nagano and stayed a few nights at the foot of Mt. Asama, the most active volcano on Honshu. We wanted to hike up to it, but when we drove up to the visitor center to park and start our day of hiking we were told the trails heading up to the rim were closed due to the current activity in the volcano. Sure enough it was smoking out the top (spewing toxic gas into the sky). So instead we did a hike two peaks over from the volcano, hoping maybe we could at least get some nice views of the peak.
Surprisingly, there weren't so many hikers along the ridge between two small peaks the trail took us over, so even though we hadn't planned to, Cacia stripped so we could do a quick bit of shooting on the peaks. I don't think my shots were great, but they do make for a nice memory of that hike. I think most of the hikes that get embedded in my long term memory involve some kind of nude images shot along the way - hah!
Anyhow - its a good think we at least got to take some photos as the view of the volcano from the peaks was't great. clouds rolled in behind the volcano by the time we got up to the top of the nearby peaks, and most of it was obscured by the peak in between us the volcano -guess we should have hiked up that one instead!
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My friend's inn where I took Eirenne to shoot when she visited in October, is up a small mountain village not too far from where my wife grew up (in fact its in the same city actually) here in Yamanashi. The first time I visited their property was in 2006, a decade before they renovated it and 13 years before they opened it as an inn. Ever since then I had wantec to d oa shoot there so it was great to finally make it happen with my friend Eirenne, not only inside the house itself, but in the other old buildings and out in their garden and on the hillside beyond the house itself.
I have shot with Eirenne outdoors a lot of the years, so you'd imagine she was very comfortable being out in nature or wandering around naked in the countryside. On the contrary she is deathly afraid of animal and bugs and things poking her (like twigs or rocks), so while she likes the idea of being outdoors, she only looks comfortable in her photos through sheer will and modeling/acting skill! When i was getting ready to post this set i was reminded of this because I had a few outtakes of her noticing a bug flying around near her... :D
...and again a few minutes later...
I find the contrast between the cool, alluring version of herself she projects in her modeling, and the vulnerable, adorable reality of her personality to be so charming!
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Continuing on with this shoot with Kat Malone that we did in Oregon in 2019, after she had doused herself in Holi powder and oil, she gravitated toward this particular fallen tree trunk... I don't know what she was thinking about but it definitely changed the tone of her movements and actions, and it was pretty fun to sit back and watch!
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After 4 years here I FINALLY did a little shoot in our traditional Japanese guestrooms in our house. Its kind of silly that it took this long, but definitely inspired me to try to find local models to make good use of the room in the future - sheesh! Freshie Juice is a total Japanophile (something I never knew about her all these years until she asked to visit) so she was really feeling posing in our Japanese style rooms (washitsu) and getting to try out the kimono robe she had just bought while in Tokyo before coming out to stay with us in the countryside.
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After we got up our first morning in Komoro, Nagano, Cacia Zoo and I noticed it was quite misty outside our little cabin in the woods. We really needed to get packed to leave to meet my friend Megumi for a hike, but we couldn't resist getting out in that mist quickly to make some images (always have to make good use of an AirBnB when you book one!). Being in a misty forest with a model friend is truly one of my happy places!
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Continuing with this particular shoot with Kat Malone shot somewhere on a logging road outside Umpqua National Forest in Oregon in the summer of 2019. Once she doused herself in Holi powder Kat came alive - I think she always feels most herself in front of the camera (or at least she becomes the character she is most comfortable performing as, perhaps?) once she gets covered in something. Then i just sat back and watched as she reacted to being caked in the powder and baby oil. I just tried get in a decent spot and keep the camera focusing on her...
I never ask her, but often wonder what, if anything, is going through her mind when she is posing for long periods with little to no direction...
The last morning the Eirenne was staying at my house, we got up very early to drive around my village and the rice paddies and vegetable fields beyond. We did a shoot with my keitora (minitruck) next to my own vegetable field (hatake) but also stopped along around some of my neighbors rice paddies (tonbo), and got some fun shots with Eirenne standing in the middle of one, just a few days before it would be harvested. It rather amused me to imagine one of my neighbors driving up and stumbling on us in their rice field - it probably would have melted the mind of some 75 year old Japanese man to see this particular naked woman standing in his rice!
Towards the end mt. Fuji made an appearance, bursting out through parting clouds in the distance - it was the first time Eirenne got to see the mountain in the flesh, so to speak and she was very excited!
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Its been years since I have seen, shot with, or posted images of adult performer Freshie Juice, but she messaged me out of the blue saying she was coming to Japan and wanted to come visit us, so of course I welcomed her with open arms. She is such a fun character, straight shooter, down to earth, and a true artist of the perverse, so it was fun to have her stay with us for a few days!
She was motivated to make as much new imagery and videos for herself while on her trip to Japan (she wants to move here eventually!), so we got to shoot in quite a few places. One day we went driving up Yatsugatake, the big mountain our village lies at the bottom of, and drove into the parking lot of an abandoned mountain resort. Its a place I had passed many times while hiking, but never really thought to check out. We found the front door locked, but then noticed right around the side of the main entrance a door had been propped open and we were able to walk right in. The place was not as ramshackle as one might expect - clearly it been closed for a long time, maybe decades even, but around here no one is disrespectful enough to vandalize such places, so it was just as it had been left years ago.
Once we found the empty onsen bath rooms we knew that was the spot we needed to shoot! She was giddy at the discovery, so even though it was freezing (literally 0° C as it was halfway up a mountain at the end of January) we proceeded to do a very quick shoot, so we'd have something to remember her first Japan abandonment exploration experience!
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It wasn't until the last few hours of Cacia Zoo's October visit to my place in Japan (even though we had spent 5 nights together during her trip to Japan) that we finally set aside a few minutes to actually shoot in my house. I had NEVER tried to do a nude shoot in my house ever, even though I moved in 4 years ago. Now I wish I had made more time for it of course since it was great to have a model in the space wanting to make images - there is so much potential! After a very quick shoot, however, she needed to pack up so I could get her to the train station so she could head off to her next destination. Such a bummer, but at least we got to make this nice set. I was just shooting, with Cacia deciding herself that she wanted to stretch and play with fruit in the engawa.
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While driving up the West Coast in 2019, Kat Malone and I stopped on the way to the Umpqua wilderness in Oregon, pulling off onto a random logging road, looking for some place to shoot. Passing some clear cutting, and sections of trees marked to be cut, we pulled off where the forest was still a bit untouched (although obvious to me that it was a grove planted for lumber). I had been carrying around a pouch of non-toxic Holi powder in my bag of props for a few years now, and had always known Kat would be the perfect model to use it, having seen her always dive into getting dirty (including literally picking up dirt in the desert and licking it for the sake of a video).
I really just gave her the bag of powder and stood back a ways and started shooting. I didn't really do a ton of direction (Kat is such a pro - its best to just observe her modeling instinctually), and didn't know where it would go. I just knew she would look amazing coated in that vibrant powder... My only wish from these moments is that I had thought ahead of time to rig up my phone and camera together so I could have made images and slow motion video together. SIgh!
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I remember that Kat Malone and I were thinking of holding this shoot back from posting on IG/Twitter/ Patreon/ OF at first because we both loved so many of the images so much and wanted to submit them to some online publication to be featured. I remember we even made a small group of selects for submission, but the publication she wanted to submit to had recently published something vaguely in the same vein, so we held off from submission. Then the Pandemic hit and we were both swallowed by the various upheavals and both our lives, and this shoot kind of fell to the wayside. I don't think I even ever got around to finishing making all my pics and doing basic edits on them all, but going back into the files in Lightroom, the memories of how fun that shoot (and the whole road trip) was came rushing back! So I want to finally start posting the images, and I will add more parts as I have time to go through the files to make sure I have all my favorite ones prepped.
I wouldn't even call this set a teaser, as it doesn't really hint at where the shoot goes, but its perhaps just a preamble... setting the stage of a fairly standard shoot of Kat nude in nature in the wilds of Oregon...
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After Eirenne and I shot at my friend's inn, I immediately thought to take her to my favorite little mountain lake, just a few miles further up the mountain. In the summer I always like to go there to swim and paddle board and just generally beat the heat. Since it was still warm despite it being late September, if I figured it would be nice to go hang out, even if it was too small and crowded to shoot there. When we arrived Eirenne went to the bathroom of the little inn on the lake to change into her bathing suit. When she came out i was a bit taken aback though - even though I spend so much time around her completely nude, there was something about her sexy bikini in this very wholesome, almost naive, environment that made me feel almost prudish! Or, at least, since i come to this little lake often, I didn't want to scandalize the families that are there since Japanese people never even go into this lake without being pretty much fully covered (since they avoid the sun and are always cold) - I don't think anyone had ever seen someone show up on the shores of the lake in a sexy bathing suit, let alone someone with such eye-popping curves as Eirenne has. She looked down at herself innocently, she couldn't see herself from the weird perspective I was having, and she never knew me to be anything other than a naturist at heart, so she was kind of confused, but laughed and relented, throwing her dress back on.
We rented one of the little swan paddle boats from the innkeepers and went out for a tour of the small lake together. Once we had some distance from folks on the shore, and from the big group of stand-up paddle boarders, though I felt like it be a fun little thrill to at least be a tiny bit scandalous and shoot a topless set in the boat. I think the pics came out cute and we had a fun time - we just kept laughing and wondering if there was enough shade under the canopy of the swan boat to make it hard for the families to see what we were up to from a distance...
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On our first morning staying at a little cabin in Komoro, Nagano, we had to get up early to go meet my friend Megumi for the hike to the onsen, but Cacia and I had a hard time getting up and at 'em. Cacia has a long boot up period in the morning, but at least she likes to do her booting up in the nude so it can still be productive for us...
After this very slow start I wouldn't have believed we'd end up doing shoots in 4 different spots by lunchtime. Once Cacia gets going though, she is a bundle of energy!
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A few hours before Eirenne arrived to visit me in Yamanashi, Toyota delivered my new keitora (mini truck), so of course we had to get up on the last morning of her visit to take it for a spin around the village and adjacent farmlands. The keitora is a fun mint green - it reminds me of mint chip ice cream somehow and I want to put chocolate chip decals all over it to make a mint chip ice cream truck. I love mint chip ice cream a lot, enough that I named the truck "Minty". I pulled out a matching robe from a bunch of vintage kimono I had gotten from when we helped our elderly neighbors empty out their storage building before they demolished it, and Eirenne and I set off to be a bit scandalous around the village. Mostly though I had this funny idea about shooting my very uncool little truck like it was some kind of lowrider or sports car in a magazine with a hot girl posing on it. That style of shooting is totally not me though, so even though Eirenne was totally game for it, the results are NOT that - hah. Still it was very fun to kind of christen my new truck with her gorgeous smile and body, not gonna lie.
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I was backing up some files and realized I still had some shoots from my long road trip with Kat Malone up the West Coast that I hadn't yet posted! I just wanted to make sure all of this ended up on my Patreon so I will be adding these posts into the mix in the coming months.
This was shot in the summer of 2019, while Kat and I were camped next to Diamond Lake in the Umpqua National Forest in Oregon. Lushness galore along the "Highway of Waterfalls", and even though the dozens of waterfalls are the main attraction in Umpqua, and it was the busy summer season, it was still so easy to have a massive waterfall to ourselves. Such was the case at Lemolo Falls, which is a pretty wonderful and powerful falls. After hiking the mile trail down to the falls, we stopped short to shoot down river a bit. Even from a several hundred feet away from the falls, we were still get wet with the mist rising from the pool. I really wanted to walk right up as close as possible to the falls to shoot, but my camera would have been useless covered in all tat spray. We had quite an agenda of places we wanted to see that day though, so we made this shoot short and sweet. I will spare you the photos of me, but I looking back at the images I remember that we were in very good spirits as we started to ascend away from the waterfall and stopped to take a lot of selfies together (usually a sign of a fun shoot). I have to say that I feel fortunate to form memories of these gorgeous spots in nature by shooting them with a beautiful friend nude.
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After a pretty 2 hour hike up the mountain with my local friend Megumi and long-time model friend Cacia Zoo, we ended up at a little rustic onsen "resort" that is only accessible by hiking in. They do have proper indoor baths and lodgings (although quite rustic in nature), and even serve some food (we got a hot lunch there afterwards), but for us the only reason to come was the isolated little bath built along the riverside about 7 minutes hike further up from the onsen grounds. This place is actually the highest elevation natural hot spring in all of Japan, so it surprises me how empty it is!
We had the bath all to ourselves the whole time (we stayed almost two hours), and cracked open some beers we had bought from the lady running the onsen. The view looking up river toward one of the peaks of Yatsugatake, with the leaves just beginning to change for autumn was quite spectacular. Hot springs always seem best enjoyed when the weather is cold out, but I asked Megumi what time of year people liked to come up to this onsen and she told me it would only be busy in the summer. All the better for us!
At some point Cacia got the idea that she wanted to take a cold plunge by sitting in the river and scrambled her way down to sit under a little falls. Megumi and I laughed (and Megumi screamed with shock at Cacia's bravery), but then we decided we had to see what it was like for ourselves and both went down to try sitting in the freezing snowmelt. After the quickest sit in the falls we were in awe at Cacia's cold plunge prowess! All of us were pretty darn happy to get back in the hot stinky water of the hot spring though!
Eventually we had to dry off and pack up so we could make it back down before it got too cold. A wind was picking up and making it chilly quite suddenly. About halfway down though our perfect afternoon was slightly marred when a freezing rain started pelting us with hail and it never let up. Cacia and I were soaked to the bone by the time we got to the car, but it definitely added to the narrative of the whole hike and made the memory even more exciting for us! Definitely we really nice day!
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When Cacia Zoo visited me in October she mainly wanted to do two things - hike and go to onsen. It immediately made me think of this one spot about an hour drive from my house that I had been to just once, and kind of stumbled on randomly on a hike - a small onsen up in the mountains that can only be hiked into, where they have an outdoor natural hot spring bath built along a river. It is the closest thing I could think of in Japan to an American style of hot spring I was used to in the US - very hippy dippy place where anything (respectfully) goes.
We met up with my friend Megumi, an avid hiker, who had always wanted to check out this hike and onsen, and we set off up the mountain. I will have a post of stuff we shot at the onsen (we lucked out in that no one else was there the whole time - fun!) later, but along the hike up the mountain, Cacia and I were inspired by the misty scenery of these planted forests (most old growth forest in Japan is long gone and so many mountains forests have this very strange and orderly appearance of similar sized tees of the same species planted almost in neat rows. Its quite artificial as an ecosystem, but an interesting setting for photos), and I asked Megumi if she wouldn't mind waiting around for us to do a quick shoot. She was amiable and agreed (and it was probably amusing to her to watch us - this sort of thing never happens around here!) and we walked off the trail a bit for a quick bit (very quick - we felt bad making Megumi sit around the trail's edge waiting for us to finish being weirdos!) of shooting.
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Its funny - Eirenne is a actually such a bubbly, funny person in real life, but when she models she turns into this other "sultry" version of herself, its almost a seductress character that she is playing (I have seen her work with other photographers and this is almost always the case). Admittedly it works, and its hard to resist that version of her. However, she rarely likes to smile when she models, as though she doesn't think its sexy to look chipper, but I think her smile is actually quite charming. Unfortunately its like pulling teeth getting her to break character.
In this set I pulled a few smiles out of her, but mostly we will have to be content with the seductive Eirenne. She looks amazing here in one of the guest rooms at our friends' inn, Kuu House, so I am not complaining!
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There are never many "Safe For Work" images when Eirenne and I shoot together, but here are a few we managed to get. Subscribers at the Archive Tier get 43 other hi-res images that properly represent what she and I shot togehter at my friends' mountain inn in the Japanese countryside in October 2023. It turned out to be a gorgeous setting for Eirenne to do her thing. After four years apart it was amazing to see her work again!
I first met and shot with back in March 2013. We were fast friends and almost immediatley made plans to road trip to shoot out in the wilds. The next month we drove from LA to Death Valley together to make images and found we were good traveling partners as well as friends (the two things don't always go hand in hand, but luckily for us it did). So many fun shoots and adventures with my Scorpio sister over the last decade, but it had been a while since we had shot due to me moving here to Japan during the Pandemic. Cacia decided to make her first trip to Japan last month while visiting her family back home in Taiwan, so of course she asked to visit.
I went to visit her for a night in Tokyo and then she came out to my house for a few days, and we also went on a road trip to Nagano to do some hking and shooting like in the old days. This included a hike up to the highest elevation natural hot spring in Japan, which happens to be about an hour drive from my house. Our friendship is one of those that always feels comfortable, like we haven't skipped a bit. She is as wild as ever, but also it was interesting to note that we are both changing, maturing, with interests that evolve and new goals that emerge. Fun to note these changes in us, even while my camera documents the physical changes in her over the years. Although I have to say I think we are both aging gracefully so far...
2014 Prairie Creek Redwoods, CA, USA - 2023 Yatsugatake, Nagano, Japan. )I still have the same backpack on though!
I wonder how long we will document her physical form and imagination, share laughs, tell all our dirtiest stories we wouldn't tell anyone else, and eat too much good food together. Maybe I will still meet up to shoot nudes of her until we are both old and ugly. That would be something!
I didn't actually shoot with a model for three and a half years. Since leaving Los Angeles to relocate in the Japanese countryside at the Pandemic hit, I have had no way to continue this project. Models from the US couldn't travel to Japan for 2 and a half years from exactly the week I moved here. There is no similar scene here (the Japanese countryside is fairly conservative compared to the freedom of California), plus I do not speak the language so I cannot connect with models in Tokyo except perhaps for a very few who speak English. I had pretty much moved on from the idea of even continuing to shoot nudes to be honest.
Then I started to get some texts from some very close model friends in LA saying they were planning trips to Japan and wanted to come visit and come shoot. I was excited to see these friends again, but also felt pretty ambiguous about shooting. I was woefully out of practice - I don't really even take pictures intentionally anymore. Could I possible remember the skills needed or even muster up the interest to do full on shoots with a visiting model friend and make something useful to them? Of course I agreed to have them come stay with us, but I wasn't sure what to expect from shooting with them. I didn't even know WHERE to shoot around here. Unlike my life in LA, I hadn't spent time finding good places out in nature to have privacy, and wasn't sure if any of our friends with beautiful old Japanese farmhouses would let us shoot erotic/ nude photography in their homes/ places of business, given the relative wholesomeness of the region.
But my first guest, Eirenne, was coming to Japan for the very first time, so I tried to scramble to find some place to shoot in some very "Japanese" locations, as well as see her in some of my favorite places (and also take some funny "hot girl with car" shots with my new mini truck that happened to be delivered to my house just hours before her arrival from Tokyo.
In the end it was pretty much like old times! Shooting with her was always easy, fun and sexy, and she seemed really happy with the images we made together. It was also pretty fascinating to catch up after not seeing her since 2019. The Pandemic altered all our lives, (plus plus we are both just 4 years older) and it showed in her emotional state, life goals, and in changes to her body. I love to watch the ebb and flow in the physical and emotional state of my model friends over the years, and document it through the photos.
I still don't know how I feel about my photography project though - without a lot of like-minded people to collaborate with locally, its seems a lot of effort to continue it. It has felt very nostalgic to do a few days of shooting with a model friend, and spend some more days selecting and editing the images, but it definitely feels like it will be a smaller part of my life going forward, and that maybe I will just occasionally scratch this itch rather than being focused on it heavily. That being said, another model friend that I have been shooting for 10 years now arrived 2 weeks after Eirenne, so i got to try it out again sooner than I would have thought. We'll see...!
A preview for my $1 patrons. I spent some time this week editing and organizing photos and video from this shoot I did with my friend, fetish model Kat Malone, back in April of 2019 when she was staying with me in LA on a modeling work trip. We camped overnight next to the hot springs so we could get into the hot pools early in the morning before many people started showing up.
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I just posted 50 images of Cacia Zoo (20 for $5 patrons and 30 more images for $10 patrons and above) from the very first time I photographed her underwater (second time shooting together) way back in 2014 as a patron requested more photos of her if I had any. It was not the best collaboration we ever did (which is maybe why I forgot to ever post these), and kind of an odd circumstance for us (I was meant to be shooting some unusually product images for some friends' handbag company).
Its always amazing to see how movement in water pushes and pulls on bodies, especially the supple parts like bountiful boobs! Heh!
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*A Patron requested more of this model, so dug into my archives to see if I had any shoots I had never posted!
In 2014, a month after the first time I met and worked with model Cacia Zoo in NYC, she came out to LA for a work trip. We made a plan to go to Death Valley together as she had never been there before, and I had a single shot in mind that I wanted to make (which, actually, I have never posted here in my Patreon, but I should fix that! I have posted many other images from the Death Valley trip though), but before that we also scheduled a pool shoot in town as I needed a model for a some products shots I had been asked to make for a friend's bag company, Rewilder.
Cacia had never done an underwater shoot, and while she was a great swimmer (I think she was even on the swim team in high school back in Taipei if I remember correctly), she wasn't as great at sinking, and had never tried to model underwater. I was also not used to trying to shoot product underwater (I have tried a couple more times since and each has been a fail, to my mind). We set our expectations accordingly and just set out to have fun - its hard not to have fun with Cacia swimming around naked in front of you, so I had nothing to complain about. That being said, these are certainly far from the best images we ever made together, and I think the complications of it being a product shoot as well really limited our time in making beautiful images of Cacia alone. So I have never really posted these images and kind of forgot about them (I am not even sure Cacia has seen all of these).
Some fun shots taken of Kitty Malone and Jorden River before and after their blackberry sacrifice along the banks of the Columbia River 2 summers ago. If you haven't signed up for one of the higher Tiers, I promise you are missing a LOT with this shoot. Kat and Jordan model so well together, the setting is absurdly beautiful and the sight of both ladies covering the other in blackberries and making a huge mess all over one another is just so weird and beautiful ad grotesque, and I dunno. You just kind of have to check it out. Going to post well over 150 images and a video of this shoot...
I can't forget to post the uncensored versions of my recent Instagram posts for all patrons! There are all from a shoot with Gema, who found me on IG through a friend and asked me if I ever shot "regular people", which of course I love to do. It took us a while to schedule something but I was grateful we did it as she turned out to be such a great person and made the experience of this hike as good for me as I made it for her. I would trade making photos of someone for shamanic medicine rituals any day! I posted more of this shoot last year for $20 Memory Vault Patrons.
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I have pretty specific memories of this little morning stroll Cacia Zoo and I took through a popular grove of redwoods. It was the first time I had suggested to someone else that they needed to "find the ONE tree that really speaks to them". I thought maybe she would laugh at me for this sort of hippie-dippy nonsense, but she totally got it, and committed to listening to the trees to see who spoke to her (and we made sure to shoot her with that tree).
I thought it interesting that this seriously burned out redwood spoke to her, and she spent quite a few minutes sitting quietly inside the fire cave. She also really took to another firecave that she wanted to make her home. I really like when people "get" the redwoods in this way.
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This may be my last month posting for a while. We have such a big workload to get finished the next few months, so i don't know how much time I can devote to selecting, and editing images, and definitely won't get to shoot (its been just about a year now since I have!). Crazy Times...
As such i have been trying to go through the last 7 years of this project and find all the shoots that somehow never made it to my Patreon, so I can off you all the most complete selection of my work. This includes a ton of shoots with my dear friend Cacia Zoo, including this day from our first year of shooting together (2014- when we became fast, intense friends, shot in NYC, shot in LA, and went on two road trips to explore and shoot in nature all in one year).
This shoot was our first full day in the redwoods, after our first night camping together. I think we were both so relieved to be so far from the city, and were just reveling in the chance of scenery. I love watching Cacia in nature because she is always super joyous and expresses that through her body and movements. When she gets a place in nature to herself she likes to climb, and crawl, and dance, and just feel the earth and plants, and get the dirt on her skin, and drink the water. It was a pleasure to take her to some of my favorite spots.
...and again a few minutes later...
I find the contrast between the cool, alluring version of herself she projects in her modeling, and the vulnerable, adorable reality of her personality to be so charming!
2014 Prairie Creek Redwoods, CA, USA - 2023 Yatsugatake, Nagano, Japan. )I still have the same backpack on though!
