When I first started my studies one of the basic tenets were it be black and white. I started playing with color grading and found that some types of grading lent a way for me […]
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the pauline study
As I move forward with these black and white studies I find more and more that my muses love collaborating and putting their own ‘style’ as it were into it. Putting the idea back into […]
the kayla study
Since 2008, I was at one time or another an official photographer for one of the beauty pageants here on Guam. The Miss Universe Guam or the Miss Earth Guam. In my capacity as official […]
the jaedeen study
I first met Jaedeen doing a shoot for UNO Magazine about 5 years ago and we’ve been shooting. We have been doing several projects on and off and the rapport has certainly grown. So we […]
the chelsey study
In continuing with my black and white studies and asking the women to define for themselves what they ‘feel’ or ‘see’ as being sexy. We have Chelsey. I will be continuing this black and white […]
the sarah study
For almost a year after she contacted me we had been trying to come up with ideas and/or schedule a time when we could do a shoot. Every so often I do shoots that aren’t […]
the sabrina study
I peruse social media every so often especially Instagram since I am of course a visual artist. I wander through to inspire me to ‘like’ & ‘comment’ in hopes of increasing my presence on that medium. […]
the olivia study
As I continue on with my various studies of the girls, I find and re-discover the obvious. The uniqueness of every girl moves me to want to continue on and perhaps branch out in a […]
the jessica study
What started as a birthday shoot for one of the jlb (j’aime la belle model management) girls turned into another ‘study’. That question was posed to me as to what exactly a ‘study’ is, well […]