Dachs Thoughts

After take a 2 month break from photoshoots, my first shoot of the year was with Amber Flowers, a model who I first worked with 2 years ago. When we last worked together she had just discovered she was pregnant. This time she was dropped off by her husband, and their little kid was in the car. Unfortunately, there was a little glitch and just before we got started she got a call that she had the keys to the car and her husband had driven to a local park when he discovered he didn’t have them. So we took a little drive to return them. After that we got started a little late, but had a nice shoot together and were able to create a nice variety of images.

I got together again with local model Seraphina for the second time this year. As my plans are currently laid out this will be the last shoot of the year after a very busy year of photography. Seraphina is very easy to work with it is nice to have expanded the group of local models I can work with. This was a grey day, but no rain, so we were able to get some nice outside shots as well as working inside. Now I just have to focus on my imposing backlog of editing.

While it took us several attempts to actually make this come together, I was finally able to have a photoshoot with freelance model Kate Snig, a.k.a. artdecomodel, at my place. I first worked with Kate on the first Utah tour I ever went on, and have worked with her at several international locations. She currently lives in the U.S. and we finally managed to coordinate our schedules and make this happen. Kate is an extremely creative and artistically aware model and she always brings something special everytime I have worked with her. Because of where she was staying, it was a bit of a logistical challenge to get to me, but we managed to make it happen. It was great seeing her and working with her again despite the fact that it was a pretty gloomy grey day. I look forward to my next opportunity work with her.

In the third of my flurry of November photoshoots, I worked with another model who was new to me, French traveling model Sandrah. She had reached out to me out of the blue but I’m glad I had a chance to work with her. She has an interesting background and currently splits her work between travel modeling and photography and video production back in France. The time flew by far too quickly. I hope we have a chance to work together again.

I had a photoshoot with the second of the touring duo from the east coast, Anastasia Maye. It was an enjoyable session although for the second shoot in a row we never managed to make it outside. We were able to explore a nice variety of looks and setups.

I’ve not been too effective at taking a hiatus from shooting as too many people I want to work with are coming through town. Today I had the opportunity to work with east cast based model Rebecca Lawrence who had reached out to me a while ago. She and another model (with whom I’m working in a couple of days) are on a three month cross-county-and-back loop. She is very experienced and it showed in the quality of her work. I really enjoyed our session and look forward to future collaborations.

Even though I’ve been working on taking a hiatus from shooting for a while, I got together for a duo photoshoot with models Kisa Hues and Illyria Wulf (who I previously knew as Alaina). I hadn’t worked with Kisa since last December, and I worked with Illyria earlier this spring, just before my Bali trip. Kisa served as our tour guide and we shot in several outdoor locations in Sonoma County, in areas ranging from redwood groves, to grassy fields to some rocky areas near the coast. The weather ranged from sunny to foggy and moody. It was a very fun afternoon of creativity even though it did require a bit of driving.

I ended the rash of post-travel photoshoots with a Seattle based model who is new to me whose model name is Mighty Earthling. She had reached out to me a couple of times over the last few years, but our schedules never seemed to mesh. We finally managed to do it. We had a bit of an early start but managed to get a nice variety of shots on a very grey day. She also brought her service dog along with her, and it was nice to have a small pup in the house again.

I had resolved right before going to Portugal that I was going to back off a bit on photoshoots to allow me to catch up on editing and other household chores that I have fallen behind in with some much shooting in the last few months. This was the last shoot I’ve planned for a while and hopefully I can clear out some backlog of tasks. This was a nice session to end with as this model was a pleasure to work with.