Hey, Hive! I’m here. I missed a day but I’m back. I’ve been struggling with time management lately, not just for me but for @guthrie. We just finished another Hellraiser movie — well after midnight. I feel bad because he’s going to be wrecked tired tomorrow but we’ve been keeping up with our steak and it’s been alive for over a month now. I just got some new about a change in plans. I was suppose to visit @roadscape for the upcoming solar eclipse but after some family news, I’m going to have to try and catch it in Ohio instead. From there, on to Pennsylvania to visit my Opa who isn’t doing well. More about that in a freewrite, but I’ll take photos on the road.
I managed to get some time in at @caffetto this evening and while I was there, I dug into an old HD that I’ve been carrying around in my bag for years. I rediscovered a shoot from 2018 with my friend Kelly in Los Angeles. If you read my last blog post I talked about how 2018 and 2019 were the peak of my career as a photographer and this shoot falls into that time frame. I felt like I was just, “on”, all the time. I was tired; exhausted, really. It’s like they say; “The flame that burns the hottest burns half as long.”, and that is a summary of the decade I was on the road shooting. I’m glad that I did it, but I’m glad that it’s over.
In addition to having a surge of creative inspiration, there were just so many opportunities coming as well. I was shooting for brands and getting booked by some of the best clients. Kelly was one of them. She had just been on the cover of the Viva Las Vegas promotional magazine and was really breaking out in the rockabilly scene. My relevance was still in tact and this was a great opportunity to showcase her modeling ability with my unique approach using diegetic lighting. We even shot at the Clark Gable estate in LA which is my signature location on the west coast.
I’ve mentioned that this is a therapeutic exercise for me to go back through old shoots and find the gems I’ve previously missed. One of the difficulties with, “the peak”, of the career is that I wasn’t able to keep up with it at all. I was always six months behind on returning edits because I had a backlog of so many clients so I wasn’t able to take the time and care with them that I would have liked. Now that life is slowing down a bit, I am able to revisit these sessions with fresh eyes. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy the work. Have a great night.
These photos are like something out of a movie :) great, I like them.
Thank you, @pavelsku. When I used to go to LA and really broke out in the pinup scene, I used to get that compliment a lot so it's really nice to hear again.
HAppy to see all time this cool warm photos , like all time fell maid :)
Thank you, @foxkoit. I love the warm shots in the lamp lighting. They're so haunting.
Very true :) ... just make more and not stop :)
Gorgeous photos as always, @kommienezuspadt. And I enjoyed reading about some of your career history.
Best wishes regarding your family stuff, and I hope you get to see the eclipse.
Thank you, @jayna! There are so many entries on here over the years many of these photos we're being taken. It's hard to believe it's been 8 years that I've been on Hive. Thank you for the concern. I hope we do, too.
This whole eclipse thing really has people all a flutter. I just wrote a post about it this morning. I have a feeling we are going to be too cloudy here to see anything. My relatives down in Ohio have school off for it and college classes are canceled. Some towns are declaring a state of emergency already.
I saw that, @bozz. Originally I was going to go to Texas. I'm really hoping for a clear day for the eclipse but that's something we're trying for just because it's happening. It would be a bummer if it was cloudy, but now I'll be able to go through and visit my parents and see some friends.
That is cool. It's definitely a much bigger deal than I would have guessed. The fact that it crosses so many major areas is kind of impressive I have to admit. It will be good to see your family.
A stylish photo shoot. The first photo is super!
Thank you, @avada. That's my favorite of this set as well!