Three in a Row…

Eva, Nude Study in Doorway

Three updates, made consecutively. That hasn’t happened in a while.

Photographically speaking, there’s not much to report. I have hopes for new work to be created; magnolia blooms are heavy in the trees and summer time clouds heavy in the air. The outdoors beckons. The outdoors is also quite warm. The thermometer on my car display read 107° one day this past week. I should remind you its only just halfway through June.

Melissa, Nude Study #3

Thank you again for all of your support, your comments, and for those newly following the blog. Here are four images; Eva braving a cold April morning and rain to pose in the doorway of my backyard shed; Melissa and Katlyn beautiful in springtime window light; and a lovely, warm color vision of an elegant dancer’s toes.

Katlyn, Nude Study #7

As always, good health to all and please keep in touch – happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there!

Christa’s Toes

Summer Has Arrived!

April

After an unusually cool and rainy spring, summer has arrived. So has the first tropical storm of the Atlantic Hurricane Season, Tropical Storm Andrea. Fortunately for us in the southeast, Andrea was no worse than a typical winter gale, but she did produce record rainfall in the northeast portion of the country.

Otherwise, I’ve little new to report. I’m working with established and new models to schedule outdoor sessions in June and July as time will permit. As is always the case, more will follow.

Melissa, Nude by Window

The gallery representing my work in San Francisco is said to be doing well. It’s called ArtForms. I’m expecting to have a full announcement soon, when contracts are completed and signed. The gallery website is also still under construction. I’ll post the contact and website information as soon as I’m able.

Katlyn, Nude Study #2

Here are three for today; April, Melissa, and Katlyn.

Please stay in touch, and feel free to drop me a line anytime.

Simple Works

Katlyn

My apologies for the long gap between updates. To say that life has been busy is an understatement.

Nonetheless, I’m here now, and with work from two new models. That’s Katlyn in the black and white image and Melissa in the color. While color images do appear here once in a while, I confess that I don’t consider myself a color photographer as I almost always default to the monochrome image, both in my mind’s eye and here. I like this one, however. I think most of you will as well.

Melissa

Actually, there is some news: I spoke briefly with my agent regarding my San Francisco gallery representation. Because of my nutty schedule, I’ve not been able to relay much information about it as I’ve not been able to sit down and prepare a formal announcement. The formal announcement must continue to wait, but I’ll hope to have something by this weekend. Suffice to say the gallery is open, my work is on a wall, and things seem to be off to a good start. More to follow…

Thanks again to those following my work; your comments are always appreciated more than you know.

Until next time.

Falling into Spring

Lauren in the Afternoon

I’ve managed to squeeze a shoot in here, a shoot in there, between the passing weather fronts and the stormy days they bring. Actually, we’ve not had any really ‘stormy’ days per se; certainly nothing on the scale of last week’s tornadoes and severe weather which covered the eastern half of the States. We have had strings of overcast, deeply clouded days, gloomy and not so good for window light photography.

Overcast skies are good for getting outdoors to shoot, and while I’ve hoped to take advantage of those days, scheduling just hasn’t worked. So, I revisited some work from last fall, and found these two images from my session with Lauren in October of 2012.

Portrait of Lauren at Window

I hope you all are well. Thank you again for your interest in my work. Please stay in touch.

Catching up, and Waiting…

Christa and Brittany, West Hall Street

There’s not too much new to tell you about since my last update.  I’m continuing my session planning and waiting on the return of warmer weather. I’m waiting for spring to spring, the trees to leaf. It’s getting there, albeit slowly, as am I.

So until then, here are two images from my session with Christa and Brittany in the spring of 2011 on West Hall Street.

Christa and Brittany, Couch Study 121

Take care, and stay in touch.

With Spring Comes Change…

Theresa

I’ve managed to get another update on the books, and amazingly enough, did so within a week of the last one. Well, perhaps slightly longer if one goes solely by the time-stamp. It counts as far as I’m concerned.

In the past, I’ve written about the idea of taking my camera outside and returning to my landscape photography roots, but with the incorporation of the figure. I’m also wanting to do more travel, street, and documentary photography; genres which I’ve not worked before. It seems that 2013 will be the year these things happen. It’s not that I’m bored with working indoors, (I love window light and will be getting access once again to my West Hall street location), but with the changes coming in my life, I want to keep the work at an even flow, and allow it to become more adaptable and ever changing .

One step in this regard is a significant change in my gallery representation. My former gallery director, and De-facto agent of sorts, is an owning partner in a new gallery set to open in San Francisco, California in the late spring. At the end of last year, he and I made the arrangements to end my gallery representation with Horizon Gallery, located here in Savannah. Everything in my inventory there was stuffed into a container and sent west. It’s still early to make a formal opening announcement, but I’ll keep everyone posted on the details. I love Savannah, but it is not the market for figurative work. To say I’ve struggled here would be an understatement. I’m hoping for San Francisco to be a more accommodating and supportive lady.

Midday Poise

Here are two images, from early sessions this year. I hope you all enjoy.

Please stay in touch; it’s always good to hear from you.

Coming Up for Air…

Morning Light

If you’ve followed my work for a while, or even from the beginning, you know that gaps in my postings, lapses in my ability to give any attention to the work, are far more frequent than I like. Life interferes; the need to earn a living interferes. Not bad things, but interruptions nonetheless.

Annoying and frustrating as they can be, these lapses in the work and in time foster bursts of creativity more than they stifle it. Or, so it seems. New work is imagined, new energies are burned and recycled, and from the efforts, new images are brought to life.

Thank you for your continuing interest in my work. Stay in touch, and let me know your thoughts.