Two Days, Two Shoots Redux

C'est La Vie

I do enjoy landscapes, but glamour photography is my forté, so I was glad to get back to it. K, modeling as C'est La Vie, was my first shoot of the week. Petite K has a charming smile and easily kept up the conversation as we segued through the costumes I had picked for our shoot. 

When I had shot with Jessa last month, she had brought a couple of her own costume items that gave me an idea for a new concept: goddesses of nature. Based on that, I put together this shoot thinking to expand on the idea. I did a little shopping on Amazon, got a few new props, combined them with some existing outfits and materials I had in my inventory and created something new to shoot. 

Wicked Goddess

Since it was the first time shooting this concept, not everything came together as I had hoped, but that was entirely my fault and certainly not the models. K did an excellent job, but at some point we had a loder gentleman that started watching us closely from a distance and even followed us around to watch K pose. That made her so uncomfortable, I had to speak with the man and politely ask him to leave us be. Fortunately, he got the message and wandered off. There are drawbacks to shooting glamour outside even on a nude beach. Unless you're on private property, and sometimes even then, you can't be sure you don't have an audience.

After I got rid of our audience, we continued the rest of the shoot without incident. I think the shoot went pretty well, all things considered, and I thanked K for her patience and persistence when the shoot was complete. Since she was a photographer herself, we discussed other places to shoot as well, and made plans to shoot again.

When I arrived home,  I set the images to downloading and started setting up for the next days shoot. Fortunately, I'd done most of the prep before leaving for Banff so it was simply a matter of printing the release, loading the costumes and props, and swapping out the batteries in the cameras and flash. 

Nanci on the Shore

Early the next day I picked up Nanci W (@ndu1 on IG) at her hotel. We'd been chatting for a while prior to the shoot and we had discussed using lots of colors in our shoot. I did my best to make that happen. We had a fun conversation on our way to the shoot, and I have to say she's one of the nicest and most cheerful model's I've ever had the pleasure to shoot. 

We had an absolutely fun shoot. Nanci is very experienced and it showed in both her poses and her expressions. She has a great smile, but she can provide both a serious and sensual look when asked.  

Graffiti Girl

I picked a spot near the Sauvie Spaceship for our shoot so we could use the colorful graffiti as a backdrop. Nanci really liked the ship as well as most of the costumes and props. There are too many great shots to share here, but I put a lot of the tamer ones up on my Instagram page and I have many more to share there and on my Deviant Art account. When our shoot ended, I told Nanci what a great time I had shooting with her and I promised we'd try to shoot again when she came back to my area. 

Have a couple of more images on me:

Glamour Hiatus

Banff was a fun break. I still did a lot of photography, but it was landscapes, no posing involved. We actually visited Banff, Waterton, and took a quick trip via boat on Waterton Lake to Goat Island in Glacier National Park on the US side of the border. We did some hiking as well––thank goodness for steroid shots for the knees. 

We stayed in a lovely B&B in Banff. Took a gondala ride up to the top of a mountain for an amazing view of the Canadian Rockies, then hiked down to beautiful lake for some more photos, before hiking back down the mountain for some lunch. 

We had poutine for the first time (delicious), tried a few craft beers, got a culinary tour of the Fairmont Hotel (again, delicious), and visited Lake Louise and Morraine Lake for short hikes. We had clear days for most of our visit, but when we went to drive the Icefields Parkway up to Jasper, the winds shifted and the smoke from the Canadian Wildfires to the east of us made visibility so poor that it wasn't worth the drive. 

We managed to get some nice shots of sunset from Lake Vermillion before we headed down to Waterton. On our way there we had to stop for a herd of bighorn sheep on the highway. All-in-all a very relaxing trip. 

Two shoots scheduled this week. One a day for the next two days with models I've not worked with before. One is from just across the river in Washington, and the other, from just across the border from Victoria, Canada. Time to jump back into glamour shooting with both feet.