The fabulous, the marvelous, the wonderful... Hazel Honeysuckle!

And the subject of yesterday's shoot for the Box Project. I met HH at burlesque show on my birthday back in May last year. A small piece of advice for all you budding portrait photographers out there: If you want to photograph someone it would be better not to be staggering drunk when you approach them about a shoot. Particularly if they are wearing only a couple layers of gauze and feathers when you do. However despite this initial... let's call it a tequila induced handicap, I was able to describe the project well enough that she was at least intrigued.

And despite this somewhat questionable beginning (and this is where an iphone portfolio comes in handy!) once she saw the images she loved the project and agreed to sit for me. Then it only took 8 months to coordinate our schedules, come up with a concept and shoot. Here are a couple of quick edits from the day. Final images coming soon!

Today I relaxed.

And did a self portrait.

A Portrait Shoot

This shoot with Ava Katerina was a ball.

A couple of new images from a recent shoot

Sometimes I doodle when I should be doing something else...

A few new images

I love collecting great vintage clothing and strange props and I'm in the process of shooting a new portfolio of fashion images and portraits with some of the things I've collected over the years. Here are just a couple from the first shoots...

Been a while but I'm back!

So it's been a few weeks since I've posted and in my own defense, it's because I was having a ball basking in 79 degrees and sunny out in Tucson, AZ with my family. So here is a quick catalog of images from the last few weeks with more to come.

 

This is the view from my parents' porch at sunset.

The sky as we drove back from a quick day trip to Nogales, Mexico.

As a kid I spent weekends rummaging around in my grandfather's music store, The Chicago Store, which is celebrating 90 years this year.

I used to love digging around in the old stacks of  musical instruments, boxes of strange and unidentifiable metal parts, punched out drums and broken guitars. I always managed to unearth something new and strange. They've cleaned the place up a bit since then but I still manage to find things like this, an instrument case covered in old green shag, left and forgotten.

 

 This is a husk bucket. What more is there to say?

 This is the inflatable display out in front of the home depot. I love Tucson.