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Editing shoot 2
Working on my second shoot of the fest that I had with @tara who I first worked with in 2006. I love to work with models more than one time. Once you figure out how each other works on the first shoot it’s over, the good stuff comes on shoot 2 and 3 and on and on. Here are a couple I just finished working on… more to come. We had a good shoot. For the first few days of the festival this location provided much tranquility and privacy and people who didn’t mind. If it had only lasted… but that is another story…
It was the perfect place to swim in calm water. A part of me is still there I think.
While we were in the water shooting the Frigate Birds kept diving and flying by giving us a great show. I wonder if they wondered about us. 😉
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Brooke
I was happy to work with most of these wonderful models inside, and Brooke made great use of the props.. I mean furniture… 🙂
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Vassanta calls up the 15 year old…
After this part of the shoot we were warned by a young fella that we were on a “family” beach, and that nudity would be frowned upon….. This was around 7:30am… as it was, we hung around til nearly midday, when the families started to show up..
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Vassanta and Christian in infrared
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Christian in Infrared
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Jess and Vassanta
This was really a tree built for two.
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Tree Cuddles
model: @jessamyne
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Rainy Group Shoot
Our last day there was a spectacular storm but we carried on with the group image of all the models who attended the retreat. Thank you ladies… and gent.
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Beauty has no age limit
@billysheahan and I were talking and he made the observation that not one model at our retreat was under the age of 30. I’ve never really thought about that before other than to make sure everyone I work with is over 18 because age was never an important factor in my work. Though after it sinking in that every single woman there was over 30 years old it really made me happy. When I tell someone I’m 45 years old they always say, you don’t look 45. Well what is a 45 year old supposed to look like? What is a 30 year old supposed to look like and what is someone 18-25 supposed to look like? Are we supposed to stop being youthful? Does not looking your age give you more power or does it take it away? It’s something interesting to think about. Sometimes I wonder if I looked my age if people would take me more seriously or offer more respect by not treating me like a kid. Is looking timeless a blessing or a curse? And is it really all about looks or is it life experience shining through that exentuates a timelessness? And it isn’t specifically directed towards the female models amongst us since our one lonely male model is also over 30 and doesn’t look it. I’m sure the ravages of time will come for us all, eventually, though will that make any of us less beautiful or less youthful? The only thing we can really do is love ourselves and be patient with ourselves and try not to allow outside influences dictate when we are too old to be beautiful.
Enjoy an image @vassanta and I created
