Winter Editing

Joey Darke at Fairy Creek

Since I retired from my full time job a few years ago, I was able to concentrate on shooting more projects with various local and traveling models. So, for about 4 years I was shooting about about 50 sessions a year with many different models. Of course, many of these sessions were repeat shoots with the same models in different settings and shooting different concepts and themes. Nevertheless, as you can imagine, I have built up quite the inventory or images, very many of which have been edited and published, but a majority are untouched except for some preliminary global editing for white balance and exposure as they were imported into my Lightroom catalog. This winter, I've been working on editing some of this backlog, and even re-editing previously published images with new techniques that I've learned in recent years.

These days, besides picking up a few shooting gigs here and there to help out local models with their various endeavors, I'm primarily spending time taking care of my family and grandchildren, which leaves me little time for shooting. Though I do plan do shoot this year with several of my favorite models, I'm sure my yearly average of sessions is going to drop significantly. So, you're likely to see fewer new shoots with new faces on the sites where I usually publish my images, and more images from past shoots and concepts.

Nikko at Sauvie Island