Weese’s Pieces

After a long gap in fun photographic projects, I got invited to join a photo shoot being organized by Bay Area photographer Craig Colvin at a unique studio location in southern California, the Desert Oasis Water Studio and CYC, also known as Weese’s Pieces. It is located in the eastern region of southern California out towards the desert. I drove down to Palmdale the day before and stayed in an Airbnb. The only downside was that the skies in all of California are affected by the smoke from all the fires. The I-5 corridor was just hazy, and even out where we were shooting the skies were still colorless. We could even see smoke rising from some of the surrounding hills from a local fire.

Nonetheless, the shoot was a lot of fun. The property looked like a bit of a collectors junk yard with lots of assorted stuff like cars. The site was a large outside area, colored a bit like a swimming pool with white walls and blue bottom, allowing for water to a few inches deep. The shoot itself was a lot of fun. We were there for 5 hours with 3 models, Sienna Hayes (who I’d shot with a number of times before), and two other models Fae and Kitty who I met for the first time. Fae is an aerialist from southern California, and Kitty and her escort Aaron run Little Boxes Theater in San Francisco. The shoot space had a variety of geometric props to move into the water area including spheres, columns, disks, and cubes. This provides a lot of variety, and I ended up taking a lot of shots. The models were great, providing many artistic and athletic poses in the space. Aaron even jumped in for a bit to provide some variety. It will be fun going trough and picking out my favorites.
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