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Bombshell, Pt. 6

I love this special lady. Having seen her through so many ups and downs over the past decade has only made me respect and appreciate her more. And she's been there for me at certain low moments, which...

Bombshell, Pt. 5

I also love how confident Cherish is. Sure, she's plagued with the same subtle nervousness and insecurities most people have, but she is smart, self-aware, and knows what she wants out of life and isn...

Bombshell, Pt. 4

But if you spend any decent amount of time with her, you'll easily discover how irreverent, goofy, and fun Cherish is, and she refuses to take herself seriously.

Bombshell, Pt. 3

Strangers often think that Cherish is a delicate beauty, the kind of vapid Barbie doll that so many women who look like her might be.

Bombshell, Pt. 2

As mentioned in previous posts about Cherish (click on her name in the tag words and see and read all about her!), we have been friends for a long time and we have a rapport that is as comfortable and...

Bombshell, Pt. 1

I can finally share these images from around Christmas of my dear friend  Cherish. She is one of the most naturally beautiful women I've known in my life, and one of the sweetest and most fun. As...

The Great Kacie Marie!

Kacie Marie is a legend in her own time. This is a set from 2010 that most people have never seen in it's entirety online, and I'm as proud of these images today as I was when we shot them.

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The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 27

Our last outfit change of the day ended up in John's classic kitchen, which hadn't changed much since he bought the house in the 1960s. I had stolen a few classic bowls from my mom's house to add to t...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 26

I believe this was the absolute last shot we took outside, but it worked quite well. The color and composition, the negative space of the grass, I just really loved it, and thankfully Kacie loved it, ...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 25

I love this shot. It's such an odd angle, making her body seem almost distorted, weird and flashy, but still lovely and irresistible, nonetheless. Her gaze and pose is absolutely perfect. I love it so...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 24

For most of these shots, I was standing precariously on a chair that looked older than I was. I was afraid my girth was going to flatten the rickety piece of cracked furniture any moment, but I refuse...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 23

I love how soft and fleshy she looks here. A truly natural, sexy, timeless example of womanhood.

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 22

Stealing this orange off a neighbor's tree was a complicated mess, with Kacie climbing a brick wall in her skimpy panties to acquire it. I'm not sure if I have any images of that, but it would bear a ...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 21

At this point we had been shootign for two hours, and I knew that we just needed to stop at some point. Every once in a while, on very special shoots, everything just lines up, and it all comes natura...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 20

I love her dirty little green feet from the perfectly mowed grass here. I should say that John, the house owner, is a landscaper and gardener by trade, and even in his late 80s, he still tends to yard...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 19

She's such a cutie.

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 18

This was one of the first times I had shot down on a model, and one of the first successful times that I turned the camera in an odd or uncomfortable manner in order to squeeze the model into a comple...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 17

I think this image could easily have been on the cover of Flirt or Titter or Swank magazine in the 1950s.

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 16

...with the harsh, direct lighting, as I had deduced from my analysis of images from that era, I was surprised and impressed how timeless the images actually ended up looking.

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 15

First, we tried her in the gingham shirt...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 14

Finally, we headed outdoors into the sun. She lathered herself with sunblock to protect her delicate, fair skin from the intensity of the California sun. Stripped down to almost nothing, she wanted to...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 13

Kacie and I are both natural born storytellers, and we loved creating these images.

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 12

Everything just worked. She had arranged some flowers from the backyard into her hair, she opened her shirt just enough, and even her hand and finger placement was perfection. She created a mood and s...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 11

I've always loved this set. It was a magical moment where I just kept taking the same photo over and over again with slight variations on her part because she just looked so perfect. 

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 10

Once again, I realized I had achieved something John never had: getting a sexy woman to strip off her clothes in his bedroom. Kacie was a natural, I just let her do her thing.

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 9

But we went back to the bedroom again, and I wanted to take at least one cool shot of her usuing John's large bedroom mirror. I cleared off his dresser and moved some items around, setling eventually ...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 8

Next Kacie put on a more sensible outfit and we took a few soft, straightforward portraits of her in the living room. She can easily convey so much emotion with such minimal effort. 

These phot...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 7

I had to give Kacie no direction, letting her create her own stories in her mind of the characters she was playing. Like me, she enjoyed the voyeuristic nature of photography, and we played with that ...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 6

From there, she went and crawled on John's bed. Having known John my whole life, I can assume he's a virigin, even at his advanced age. So seeing Kacie, who is the definition of a vixen, climb onto hi...

The Great Kacie Marie, Pt. 5

Kacie looks incredible no matter what she's doing. As I went to check on her in the bathroom as she was doing her make-up, I caught her looking at herself and told her to freeze so I could capture it....