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VALENTINE'S DAY 2016 - Pt. 7

"You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan’s Island."

—Ron Jeremy

VALENTINE'S DAY 2016 - Pt. 6

"Even if times are tough and you’re enduring a terrible heartache, it’s important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person."

—Chelsea Handler

VALENTINE'S DAY 2016 - Pt. 5

"We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation."

—Lily Tomlin

VALENTINE'S DAY 2016 - Pt. 4

"We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie."

—Joycelyn Elders

VALENTINE'S DAY 2016 - Pt. 3

"Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone I love."

—Woody Allen

VALENTINE'S DAY 2016 - Pt. 2

"If God had intended us not to masturbate, he would’ve made our arms shorter."

—George Carlin

VALENTINE'S DAY 2016

I rarely shoot images that are more erotic in nature, but here is a series I shot two years ago that has never sen the light of day. From now on I'll be posting the more erotic uncensored stuff at the...

Flashes of Brooke

Shooting on top of a hill overlooking the Santa Maria Valley, as the wind shook the trees and rustled the grass, Brooke Eva took a moment to quietly flash the world, aimed at no one in particular.&nbs...

Brooke Adjustments

Brooke Eva adjusting herself, not caring who does or doesn't observe her.

Torch Song, Pt. 5

As the shoot ended, I blew out the torch and was ready to call it a night. I went to stomp out the fire on the ground I had created as a filly light when I looked back and saw how beautiful the headli...

Torch Song, Pt. 4

This image might be my favorite of the night. It was so simple really, and as a photographer, when you figure out all the necessary elements in the proper way, all you have to do is stand back and cli...

Torch Song, Pt. 3

There's something liberating about shooting in the darkness of night. The outdoor chill of the air and secluded nature feels mysterious and just a bit scary. The black of night has always been the per...

Torch Song, Pt. 2

Ashley is a sweetheart, though still very new to modeling and often very unsure of herself. Thankfully I can set anyone's fears at ease and we work great together, though she does require a bit more d...

Torch Song, Pt. 1

I was hoping to experiment with different color variations using fire, so I created yet another torch and arranged a shoot. Sadly, nothing I planned worked out. Still, with a beautiful model and not w...

Torch Song

After an experiment with fire didn't work out the way I was hoping, I was getting ready to end the shoot when I saw how well my headlights were playing on the smoke of the blown-out torch. With my usu...

No Excuse.

(From a recent Instagram post, this time with the name unblurred.)

GENTLEMEN: There is NO excuse for this. I get these messages several times a week, which means the models I work with pr...

Kat David, Pt. 13

This was probably the last shot of the day, with her relaxing in the slowly fading sun as we joked about posing with cows and other silly things. We arranged to shoot together in the future, and have ...

Kat David, Pt. 12

As our afternoon drew to a close, I kept shooting because I found myself unable to stop. She was such a natural, so chill and fun to spend time with, that neither of us wanted to stop.

Kat David, Pt. 11

But mirrors are meant for reflection, and I directed her to simple "Walk away from me" while I turned my back to her and focused the lens on the reflection itself. The auto-focus was not happy with wh...

Kat David, Pt. 10

I had also recently bought a hand mirror at a dollar store, throwing it in my camera bag for no real reason. As Kat searched for things to wear, i discovered it and tossed it to her, telling her to sh...

Kat David, Pt. 9

In person I worried about how thin Kat was, which had nothing to do with her health and everything to do with her genealogy. Later I learned how much she ate and how she doesn't think of her figure mu...

Kat David, Pt. 8

This angle was a candid throw-away shot I took as she was taking selfies with her cell phone, but I asked her to put the phone down because the light on her was just so simple and nice.

I've sho...

Kat David, Pt. 7

When she could finally take no more of the smoke, she hopped out and asked what was next. With the sun on her skin and the softness of the smoke still emanating from the back of my truck, I told her n...

Kat David, Pt. 6

Talking to Kat, I never get the impression that she struggles with life. She's confident, opinionated, knows what she wants and what she's willing to achieve it. But often in her images she seems soft...

Kat David, Pt. 5

The choker she is wearing here was something I bought when I was thirteen, a recent discovery I made when looking through old boxes at my parent's home. Though she has no Native American blood, her lo...

Kat David, Pt. 4

I learned right away how quickly Kat could adapt into different looks. She switched easily between appearing as a strong and confident woman to an innocent and coquettish teen, though she is well into...

Kat David, Pt. 3

I had also recently acquired some smoke bombs, and when she agreed to my idea, I got things ready, cleared out the back of my pick-up truck, and had her climb inside. I lit the stubborn smoke bomb and...

Kat David, Pt. 2

We must have talked for an hour, just sitting on my sofa and discussing life, art, inspirations, the modeling world, etc. She had already had bit roles in a few main stream movies, participated in sev...

Kat David, Pt.1

I was contacted on Instagram by Kat David, a model from Guam who grew up between the Guamanian islands and England. She had recently moved to LA and by some miracle of social media found my work. She ...

Kalani with Fire, Pt. 13

Finally, as the clouds opened up and the night began to cool, we called it quits. She took one last walk over to a massive rock, which has a base that is usually exposed at low tide, and I couldn't st...