A Rose Along the Path

I love to find a new model, get here in the studio and find a great shot or pose and watch how she becomes hooked and powerful in the room. How do you find a new model, you look around and see what's hiding in plain sight!! Of all the models I've worked with over the years - the only ones who surprise me - without fail are those who don't hustle it out for a living. That's not to say that the models who work the circuit for a living aren't good. They are some great ones and some awful ones but that's for another time. What I'm talking about is finding a rose along the desert path. Taking the time and risk with someone who's overlooked by the crowd or who removes herself from the crowd because she's "not beautiful."



Look at the new model I found on the blog and see the strength of the pose, the clarity of the work and it's her first session ever! Nothing pre-planned. Nothing stock, nothing standard - all of it an original idea for her and the camera catches the freshness of it even when the pose has been done before. What a great adventure.

What Do Women Want?? NY Times knows????

An interesting read from The Old Gray Lady. Following yesterday's Book Review on a similar theme.

Have look at this answer to the Age Old Question: What do Women Want????

Summer 2008 @ New York

I believe all women are beautiful. Some beauty is more obvious than others. Some have beautiful hands, some have beautiful eyes, some beautiful feet. Some have beautiful dreams and aspirations. Some have all aspects and All have some. Can you find them. Do you look or do you process all your images of beauty through the prism of what the other guy is seeing. Do you wonder: "could I have done better?" when perhaps the question is more accurately: "how did she do so poorly?"
If you don't believe in the Universal truth of beauty how do you get through your day?
Are you the guy in the bar who is always wondering about the next girl while the girl with you pretends she doesn't notice? Why does she tolerate it? Perhaps she hasn't recognized her own beauty. Maybe she hasn't seen it yet.
Have your even fallen in love with a gesture? A smell, a glance? If so you've been in touch with Universal Beauty.