Coming to a studio near you...

A few more of Raelyn, who's becoming quite a popular model these days, and seems to have made a lot of good contacts at FetishCon a few weeks ago. She's planning an around-the-country tour in October, so if you're a photographer interested in working with her, check out her blog or her thread on MM.

Doorway

Just thought this one of Raelyn was kind of cool... she's changed her modeling name from "Eilispidh" so I'm going to change her tags here. The link at right is still good though.

Another lost weekend...

Well, here it is, another Monday, and I sit here wondering what became of the weekend. Of course, I know, but it just seemed to zip by so fast. Basically did editing, editing, and some more editing, catching up on some more pressing matters, but by no means caught up. Managed to spend time with the old man for Father's Day, which of course involved troubleshooting his computer... which turned into a pretty major upgrade project that will have to be concluded tonight.

Had a shoot scheduled for early Sunday, which was postponed by the model, but it did give me a chance to test drive the upgraded air conditioning in the studio. Went in Saturday night and switched on the units, and then went back about 11 on Sunday and the place was bearable, so that's good news for me and future models, bad news for global warming. Due to apparent necessity, the new unit and its vent were installed in the middle of the studio's long "window wall," further spoiling the vintage warehouse integrity of that part of the studio. If I want that, I'll need to venture out of the space, I guess.

Here are a couple of Raelyn, formerly Eilispidh, from a recent group shoot up north...some of this weekend's editing.

Catching up

The mystery illness kept me from driving to Toledo and running up and down the stairs at the Collingwood for 8 hours, but by Saturday afternoon, I did feel well enough to sit down at the computer to catch up on some editing. The top shot is Eilispidh from a solo shoot, the five pairs are Kimberly, Steph, Shaylene, Athena, and Katherine Rose, all from recent group shoots. Hope to keep up the momentum...

Returning to the scene

Time for another of my "where the hell does the time go?" posts...

Where the hell does the time go?

Here's Eilispidh from a couple months ago. Hard to believe...

See No Evil

Got my music geek on tonight with one of my very favorite albums of all-time, "Marquee Moon" by Television. I was updating my little "song of the day" thing over on MySpace when it struck me to see if there was any Television music I could add to the page. Sure enough, there was, including "See No Evil" the lead cut from the album. Listening to that took me back to when I was about 14 and first stumbled upon the record in my little neighborhood public library of all places. It looked really cool and kind of dangerous, so I took it home and it made a big impression on me. I'd never heard anything like it, with two precise lead guitars duking it out from song-to-song and Tom Verlaine's emotive yelps, and just a strange poetry to the songs -- nobody else had really heard anything like it either, and they remained largely a New York phenomenon, sort of the poor cousins to Talking Heads. They put out a second album called "Adventure" that was somehow missing the magic, except for the amazing song "Glory" -- as someone once said, you get 20 years or so to write your first album, but only a year or two to write the second one (which leads to the frequent "sophomore slump" problem so many bands experience with their second albums, not to mention second novels, etc). After "Adventure" they basically split up into various other projects until they got together in '92 for an album and a tour, so I did get the chance to see them live, and it was really magnificent. Someplace I have pix and signatures from that show. Guess they still get together for shows now and then, which is somehow reassuring. Coincidentally, it looks like Rhino is reissuing Marquee Moon next month... 30 years after its initial release. That's impossible, right? That would make me how old?

Anyway, tonight I played "See No Evil" about six times from the MySpace page, then just loaded up the full album on my iTunes and it really gave me a second wind while editing some shots tonight, although it is tough to run Photoshop while playing air guitar. ;) I did a slight edit on this photo of Eilispidh to make it MySpace safe to sort of tie in with the song... see if you can guess what I cropped out.

Figures

A few quickly grabbed from my session this past weekend with Eilispidh... that's Gaelic for Elizabeth, but neither of those is her actual name. Go figure.

She says she usually doesn't do straight figure work, so it's nice that she made an exception for me. I think she did exceptionally well...