“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” Oscar Wilde
What does it mean to be a natural light photographer? It means that the brick wall of the underpass near the parking garage of the historic city center you are supposed to be shooting in ends up being one of your best locations of the day. Whoot!
I’d like to say this was planned— that we carefully arranged her hair to give a transformation effect to her left eye. But we did not, this is just the result of a perfect hair toss.
Is it October? Then we’re back in the cemetery. This time with Miss_Ichor (IG). She’s an amazing model, as you can see, and also make-up artist, as you can also see.
I don’t think my idea quite worked as well as I had hoped. I think the problem was a lack of more. More wings, more roses, more string. Next time!
This is a shoot I scheduled to experiment with using the harsher light of mid-day (and so of course I went and found open shade). But! Look at the great location I found at the same time. Baked_beka (IG) was a great model to work with for this type of shoot. She was totally able to “tires, but make it fashion” for me.
This was a fun shoot with ciarraparra (IG)— it went from downtown Stockton (rough even by my Fresno-raised standards) to the University of the Pacific (fancy!). I think this photo demonstrates one of my strengths as a photographer— utilizing “found light.” Found light is unmodified natural or ambient light, no reflector, no flash, no white piece of paper- just the light as it exists in and is modified by its immediate surroundings. It doesn’t always (okay, rarely) works. But when it does, I love the intimate feeling it provides.
Mari.Callista (IG) was nice enough to meet me at oh fuck o’clock in the morning at Sutter’s Fort so I could see what morning light is like. It’s really nice, but did I mention oh fuck o’clock?
Flowers, and the Moon 
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