April Salon

We did our Salon virtually this month. I think it worked out OK given our current lockdown orders. In fact, we had more people than usual, 12!

This is what I showed.

Covid-19 Predictions

To help me deal with the stress of this covid-19 shut-in I’m currently under. I’ve been doing daily predictions based upon exponential curve fits of the number of cases in the US. My current plt shows that within 10 days from now, there will be 166,300 cases in the US. This is as of 3/22. The yellow curve seen below is the original projection when I started doing this 6 days ago. As you can see, the rate is accelerating.

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March Salon

Given the covid-19 madness, there may not be an April Salon. But there was this month and this is what I showed.

February Salon

This is what I shared with my group this time around.

Instagram Madness…

This image was removed from Instagram because it was sexually explicit. What the actual fuck?

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January Salon

There was no December Salon. But there was a January One. These are my images…

3D Stuff

Back in the day (like 15+ years ago), I used to dapple in 3D rendering. This was before I really worked with models much but still had a vision for creating nude art. Lately, I’ve been sort of looking into getting back into it, especially in a way that I can try concepts before fumbling around in the studio. Today, I spent the morning playing around and this is what I came up with.

November Salon

Met last night with my group. This is what I showed. In other news…things are gonna change here. I’ll be moving to a Patreon based subscription system for more in-depth image series (I have 15 years worth of material. I hope some people will help to contribute a modest amount to see new shoots.

October Salon

Per the usual. Here are last months’ showings at my salon group. Getting ready for this month’s…

September Salon

I missed last month’s Salon so this month I brought stuff from the Eastern Sierra, New York City, Mt Tamalpias, Mt Diablo, Secret salt ponds and just a couple from my Rogue River raft trip. I hope you enjoy.

July Salon

I missed the last two months of my salon group. This month I made it, and here’s the images I presented.

A random old shoot

Facebook reminded me of this old shoot with Jessi. As with many of my old shoots from years ago (5 in this case), I often wonder what happened to people who passed through my life that I shot with. Jessi is no exception.

Tilt Shift in the Studio

I bought a tilt shift lens last year. It’s pretty fun. It’s completely manual focus so you have to work a little harder to get your shot. When I was in the Studio with Bex in March, I pulled it out and played a little. These are the resultant shots. If you want to know a little more about tilt shifts, it’s easy to google :)

April Salon

We met a little later than usual this month, but wow, some awesome images were shown last night. These were my humble additions to the evening. I’m way behind in my editing, so this is sort of a mishmash of a few different shoots. Please enjoy!

March Salon

Each month I meet with a group of talented local photographers and show off my best stuff from the previous month. This is what I showed this month.

An instagram request...

I had a guy on instagram ask me about seeing the original images from this composite.

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So being the sycophant that I am, I though I would oblige (although sycophant doesn’t apply here because I get no advantage from this nice guy behavior). Anyway, here they are. You will notice that some of them were flipped because my artistic vision thought they should be :) Please enjoy!

Back from Antarctica...

As always, I’m a crappy blogger. Since I last posted, I’ve done a few shoots, traveled to the South Pole, toured around Antarctica with Devi, and now I’ve been home for a couple of weeks. I’m still organizing my photos from the South Pole and New Zealand, but I went out locally on Friday February 15th to Cataract Creek and then on the 17th out to Rodeo Beach. These aren’t award winners…but what the hell, I’m gonna post them anyway. Look for more updates shortly.

Cheers.

Jay.Marie

I recently met a model on Instagram who was just starting out and somehow decided it would be a good idea to drive down to Oceano at the crack of dawn (I left my house at 2AM) to catch the sunrise on the dunes. It was a bit of a risk (new model) and logistics and whatever, but I felt a good vibe from here and honestly just needed a day off work. Everything went amazing. We had plenty of time to shoot on the dunes (though, she froze…and was awesome for doing so). We got some amazing shots. We then had breakfast and headed to downtown Arroyo Grande where we stealthily got some shots in under the swinging bridge. Here’s a few out-takes from the shoot. I’ll post the whole set a while later. I’m sooo glad I made the trip and a new friend! I can’t wait to shoot with her again.