A few months ago, I was contacted by a young man who was getting into fashion modeling and needed some assistance with glamour modeling work…he didn`t have much experience in front of the camera and needed to work with a photographer or two to gain some experience. Coincidentally, I had checked out his profile a week before, saw that he was in the Rolla area, not too far from me and had a good look and build. He was also very tall and did have a good look and the height requirement for fashion, so I figured he would prob do well in that area. He asked if he could come and shoot with me so that he could gain some experience working with me since I had alot of shooting experience. I agreed to help him out and we set a date for an afternoon soon after, on a nice sunny day…he showed up at my door ready and rarin to go…he had a sexy Latino look to him and a very nicely toned build, hails from Oklahoma and intended to go to college but then came across an opportunity in fashion modeling that he just couldn`t pass up, and I can`t say that I blame him…..school can always wait, there are no time limits on schooling, but there are in modeling work. I originally intended to shoot some of him in house, but decided we could shoot indoor shots at the farm as well as outside, so I texted Mike and Andy to say we were on the way and took off. It was a beautiful day to shoot, blue skies with a few clouds and just perfect temps…we started in one of the haybarns soon after arriving….

…being from Oklahoma, he had his own hat and jeans and boots…nothing I had would have fit him anyway due to his height….

…we moved inside the barn and eventually the hat left him….

…and then we tried the shadowlight as well…

…we then walked down to the horse barn and started in the tack room…boy was it hot in there…and in no time at all, Brandon was covered in a fine sheen of sweat….

…we then moved out into the horse stalls and breezeway, since it was sooooo hott inside the tack room walls…I needed some air as well, lol….

…as you can see, he looks quite sexy with a saddle….and looks equally hott in jeans only….

…and while next to the stalls, one of the residents decided to come over and check him out…up close…. 

…I then spotted some strong sunlight at the other end of the barn so we sauntered down there and shot some beautiful sunlight illuminated cowboy images….

…I then had him switch to a lighter pair of jeans and to another hat as well….

and we popped back inside the tack room to return the bridles….

..before heading over to the larger haybarn….

…and then we went up to the farmhouse porch and shot some underwear images….first in the bamboo forest….

…then on the porch….

…and finally back to the pool to cool off some….

…and then he switched from the flag shorts to some pretty pink board shorts….

…and then I let him get wet…..

I thoroughly enjoyed working with Brandon, he has a great attitude and is easy on the eyes, he should go far in modeling work and I wish him all the best. 

I started my week long Arkansas vacation in Joplin on the first day and night off, met a couple of my models from Fayetteville there and updated photos of one of my Joplin models as well while there. Joplin is the home of many things and I`m usually there in late September for the Rock and Gem Show as well, but some people have no clue that there is a very pretty waterfall there, guessing because its located outside the city limits just barely, but in recent years the county has adopted it and turned it into a county park, which is a good thing, believe me.

Grand Falls has the widest base of any waterfall at least in the midwest, if not the entire USA, and flows constantly, fed constantly by Shoal Creek which is spring fed and is as wide as any major river.

I have shot models at this beautiful waterfall for several years and I`m glad to see a police presence there these days. A  few years ago, I was fortunate to shoot a beautiful sunset there with one of my Oklahoma models, Tim Lee…we were actually on our way to dinner when we left the motel and saw the clouds forming up for a great sunset…so Tim ran and got his Aussie Swimshorts and I grabbed my camera and off we headed to the falls, putting dinner plans on hold. We got there with just a few minutes to spare and it turned out to be one of those sunsets where the clouds just seem to know you need some extra time and hang up there for a while…giving us lots of options on where to shoot, top of the falls, side of the falls and down in front on the rocks…we took advantage of the hanging light and made the most of it…while most people were leaving the park we practically ran to it.

…and here at the waters edge with the fading glow of the sunset…

While we didn`t get a great sunset two weeks ago there, we did get some great shots….and a cooperative crowd as well…which you cant always count on there…I took both of my Fayetteville models there, Crys Rae and Dane Adams, shot some pics of them separately and then together…

Crys is one of my favorite models to work with, shot him for the first time down near Lake Ouachita and Mount Ida two years ago, we found twenty seven waterfalls to shoot in that day in a tributary creek that flows into the Little Missouri River and then wound up at the end of the day at Little Missouri Falls nearby.

We were upstream about a mile from the Albert Pike Campground, where the twenty or so campers, many of them children, lost their lives in the tragic flood several weeks ago. Our prayers go out to their families and to the rescuers and recovery personnel as well. We can only hope that the government will do the right thing and install some type of warning system to keep it from happening again. The canyons in that area are deep and narrow, necessitating alot of warning time to get oneself up and out of there and to safety. I pray the Forest Service will do the right thing for the sake of those lost and the sake of all who go to those pretty areas to hike and camp each year.

As I was saying, Crys is one of my fave models to work with, he is in very fit condition, nicely toned, and hot looking…backed up by all the gals that were in attendance at Grand Falls that evening we were shooting…not sure how long Crys has been modeling, but this boy knows how to move and show off his muscle tone. He looks like an art statue to me most of the time and so thats the way I normally shoot him, like a work of art.

He had jeans on and decided to get them wet, and he climbed down to the base of the falls and found a large rock down there, which was covered in this green goo, algae at its finest I`m sure, but like the trooper that he is, he didnt let a little thing like that stop him from creating works of art…

After shooting several pics of him reclining on the rock, I had him stand, and without any direction from me, he got into my favorite pose, which I call a twist and turn, which shows off guys and gals very well…again, the statue of art…

..he just had to watch his footing with the rock being so gooey and slick…and then after shooting several standing poses, he decided to climb into the base of the falls themselves…

and get soaked really good…so I tried some special effects while in the water and liked what I saw…so did he…here he is climbing out of the falls…

and then the special effects version is this….

almost gives it a posterized look…

Then I shot some pics of Dane, who was new to glamour modeling….he climbed down to the base of the falls and started out with some dryer poses at first…I gave him some direction at first because it is extremely hard for a model to hear when down at the base of the falls, even if I were yelling at them, its difficult to understand and so we went over some hand signals too…

Dane has what I call a slim toned build and a captivating smile, as well as smiling eyes…and is great to work with…he caught a lot of attention from the ladies there as well…one in fact, actually came over and asked if she could sit on the ledge above him and watch, and within just a few minutes started yelling at him and trying to boost his confidence and get him to do some poses of her own ideas.  He did his best not to ignore her, but like he said, he couldnt hear her due to the roar of the falls anyway, but she finally got the idea and stopped trying…he climbed up on the slimy log after getting wet down and did a great job of producing some art himself…

Dane has what I call a slim toned build and a captivating smile, as well as smiling eyes…and is great to work with…he caught a lot of attention from the ladies there as well…one in fact, actually came over and asked if she could sit on the ledge above him and watch, and within just a few minutes started yelling at him and trying to boost his confidence and get him to do some poses of her own ideas.  He did his best not to ignore her, but like he said, he couldnt hear her due to the roar of the falls anyway, but she finally got the idea and stopped trying…he climbed up on the slimy log after getting wet down and did a great job of producing some art himself…

Then we went up on top of the falls and shot a few up above…they decided since they were already wet and it was so hot, they would just remain wet…totally wet….

…so they laid down in the water, Crys the art statue, first…

Dane tried the same areas that Crys was reclining in but found that his taller frame just didnt fit as well in those little nooks and crannies like Crys did…but he looked just fine to me….

They then got back down by the log and rocks and did some duo poses in the spray, since they were good and wet already….

and then thinking we might actually get a nice sunset, the way the clouds were forming up, they walked out into the water at the top of the falls again. I decided to shoot with one of my sunset filters and see if I might be able to help things out a bit…not sure if it helped or not, but I liked what results I got from it…

and one last image….

The second day of my Arkansas vacation began with me driving down to an old water grist mill, located just west of Pierce City, Missouri and just south of Highway 60, called Jolly……its one of those water mills built before the Civil War that miraculously escaped the harm and wrath of the war and was restored by a group of concerned citizens a few years ago too. I photographed several old mills several years ago, and there are some websites and books devoted to old mills across the country and around the world. I like to photograph old mills and old barns that are well taken care of, they make great backdrops for modeling work too.

I had talked to a young guy who lives just south of there and he agreed to meet me there Saturday morning and shoot some photos with me, so I pulled in about 8:15 am and not seeing him there, turned Missy loose in the parking lot for a few minutes while I got my camera and prepared to shoot the old mill. There were a few fly fishermen in the stream, which is Capps Creek, spring fed and runs into Shoal Creek which feeds Grand Falls at Joplin, and is maintained by the Conservation Department who stocks it with brown trout for the fishermen. There is an old steel truss bridge on either end above and below the Mill and there is a high water manmade dam next to the mill that creates the millpond just above the mill…

…and a big ole Sycamore tree right behind the mill blocks pretty much any view from the millside of the stream below it too…the main problem with photographing the mill, I found out, is that the property on the other side of the mill is marked private, no trespassing, and that would be the ideal position to be to photograph it properly, but I decided not to put my waders on nor venture over to the other side. I`m big on getting reflections in my photos when possible, but opted against it this time. I settled for what I could get on the parking lot side of the mill. Due to the millpond there is a split in the creek so one can get some reflections of the mill itself in this smaller creek from the millside…

and then if you walk around to the east side of the mill, the group that restored the mill, built a concrete walkway to the dam and this is the view from the end of it by the dam…

..a nice view of the back of the mill…

About 8:30 am, Derek and his brother Nicholas showed up and found me phtoographing the mill from the little creek and using some of my filters on the photos….after talking a bit, we started shooting. I explained to both of them how I used to photograph old mills and would incorporate guys into the scenes in overalls or holie jeans, sometimes just sitting or standing next to the mill, leaning into the walls, or even sitting out on the dam or edge of the millrace by the mill, fishing with a cane pole and bobber…so Derek put on some overalls and we started shooting….

for someone who had never modeled before, Derek took to it like a duck takes to water…

the reflections on the creek down in this light were a bit dull…so we walked over and shot some photos up against the mill building itself and around to the side…

then I took him to the downstream side and shot him under the old sycamore tree where there was a little stone platform sticking out into the creek a bit…Derek turned out to be a natural poser too, needing little direction from me…

 and then we walked over the upstream side where the walkway was…I knew that it would be tight up there due to the confined space there..but he pulled it off once again very well on his own…kicked myself for not having a cane pole and bobber on this trip….

 I had him switch back to his jeans and we walked up the little creek to a footbridge that had some beautiful light filtering down thru the trees to it…

and never ceasing to amaze me, Derek plopped down on the bridge and looked down into the water….

 and looked so good, I took a closer up view….

we quickly discovered tho, that the reflections in the water on the downstream side were a bit duller than the upstream side, so after taking a few more closeups….

…we moved around to the upstream side and shot from there, Derek of course had the easy job of just turning around to pose while Nicholas and I hoofed it upstream to set up again, lol.

and we started finding reflections all over on this side of the bridge…

…def should have moved up here sooner….

oh well, this way at least we were able to get a variety of photos and from every angle conceivable too…after shooting alot of photos up on this end, we drove down to the lower steel bridge, the old road bridge which is now a footbridge and picnic area even….

and this is where we stopped shooting at, although I hope to work with both of them again soon, I wasnt able to photograph Nicholas even though he had a hot look too, he didnt want to take away from the session with his brother……and when it came time to leave, Derek and Nicholas took me out to Neosho a faster and shorter route, saving me time and gas to get on the road on Hwy 71 south to Arkansas….

One of the highlights to my Kansas City trip in June of 2010, was photographing Ed, a hot Asian swimmer at a few of the fountains in Kansas City. I had contacted him and told him of my trip to KC to photograph some swimwear babes all day on Saturday and we decided to meet up downtown KC on Sunday morning before I headed home.

I got up bright and early at the swimwear shoot host residence, and took off after saying goodbye to three of the other photographers who were awake at that early hour and headed for downtown KC. I texted Ed that I was on the way and gave him a projected arrival time, but not knowing traffic patterns up there, I wound up being about fifteen minutes late, due to hitting some heavy traffic in the Shawnee Park area. Lucky for me, Ed is a patient guy and waited for me at Liberty Memorial where we decided to meet up. I spotted him after parking on the opposite side of the Memorial parking lot of what appeared to be a car show starting to organize.

Ed asked if I could take some casual dressed photos of him first, and I agreed, and he hopped up on the wall by the Memorial itself. Looking out behind him, I saw the clouds forming to give us some nice sunbeams behind him…

I then had him whip his shirt off and show me his very hot, toned build.  Ed is definitely one hot guy to work with and easy on the eyes too. I had him stand next to the Memorial Tower itself for a few pics so I could again get the sunbeams behind him…lighting was a little tricky and finally had to resort to the flash a bit…

and there was a steel door there behind him so he backed up to it and allowed me to get a nice shot of his hot build…

we then walked over to the north side building and he asked me to shoot him up against the blue tiled wall….

After this shot, he changed into his khaki shorts and we walked down to the fountains on the west side of the memorial…stopping on the stairs to get this shot…

…to get the Memorial Tower in the background with him…and then we walked down to the fountains themselves…

where I recorded my first beautiful smile from this hot guy…and while up on the fountain wall, he showed me his athletic abilities….

and then while standing still, I was playing with my shutter speed and trying to get the slow shutter effect I get with the waterfalls and instead came up with a high contrast image…

which I decided I like as well…and then he laid down on the fountain wall so I could try some more slow shots…

and while down there, we looked to the west and down the hill and spotted one of my favorite Kansas City fountains…Union Station has this fountain that has several water patterns on the jets, plus a really nice reflection pool surrounding the jetted area….we drove down and decided to shoot a few pics here as well….

and the reflections looked so nice…with him out in front, I asked him to wade out and shoot in the pool itself…

well after shooting at the fountains, we decided to get some breakfast and headed over to get some hot cakes…then he mentioned to me that he had some speedos and wished he had brought them to shoot in…by that time I was regretting not shooting him in my fire gear at the reflection pool, too…we went up to his apartment complex pool near Country Club Plaza and I was able to shoot some nice pics of him in his speedos before I headed home…

and he gave me another winning smile too…very innocent and sexy smile…

and looks great with flowers too…

in fact, he looked so good here between the flower baskets that I placed him in the flower garden too…

Sure look forward to my next shoot with Ed….

I also had the pleasure of working with a hot guy named Joe this summer…Joe lives in the metro St Louis area and is a photographer…a few weeks ago I helped turn him into a model…very cute boy next door looks and a nice swimmers build….

..he also has a beautiful smile and just a great toned build…..total HOTTIE….

I only shot a few of him the first session, hope to shoot him again soon and outside this time…

I found out he looks pretty sexy in overalls only, as well, in the barn…one of these days I want to shoot him outside with sunlight streaming in and backlighting him too…

I also shot him on my fire/lava backdrop in a set of fire gear provided to me by an old friend a few years ago, here is a preview of that one for ya….

…wheww…things are heating up on this page……stay tuned for more of this up and coming HOTTIE….

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I had the pleasure of working with a new model from Kentucky, this past weekend while down there for some fun. I was doing some browsing on a modeling website when I discovered in the same town I would be in, there was a hot looking guy named Dillon that was just starting out in modeling…so after contacting him, I found out he had some free time and would like to shoot with me near Lake Barkley, which is near where I was staying at and we met up Friday afternoon at the hotel where I was staying at and after I conducted a short interview, I found out he was in need of some better photos for his portfolio. I started out taking a few photos of him there, in some underwear…

and he showed me his swimwear that he would be shooting in later as well at the lake…

..talk about a cute guy with a hott smile…nice slim toned build too…I quickly found out that Dillon was a lot of fun to be around and work with…we drove over to a local landmark that resembles a castle of old times, overlooking Lake Barkley that is actually a modern day prison for the state of Kentucky…

..complete with turrets and architecture combined…neat little entranceway below that first turret, where a guard was stationed..he was friendly, waved at me as I was photographing the building…

..making me feel safe and welcome somewhat…he probably sees alot of tourists with cameras every week….. we drove on over to the old city park at Kuttawa on the north shores of Lake Barkley from there and found some nice rocks to shoot at, directly across the wide expanse of water from the very prison we were just at…

Well we took advantage of the setting sun and the neat rocks to shoot on...

and…

..and then I had him turn around a bit on the rocks…

Since it was obvious I wasnt going to get a nice sunset like I did last year at this location, I pulled out my sunset filter and helped it out some…

and…

..and then I had him climb down to the rocks near the water and we took these images…

and after this we returned to the hotel room because we were both about to melt from the heat and humidity alone….and then we headed to the Oasis Southwest Grill for a great tasting dinner…its like a really nice steakhouse with lots of flavor, food,  and atmosphere.

I worked with a hot guy named Mike, who is in the Festus area and is a personal trainer, found out he grew up on a farm and has a dazzling smile and great look and build. I first photographed him in my studio barn a few weeks ago and took some great shots of him….

and found out he looks good in chaps too….

…he brought his own hat and some holie jeans too….

He looked so good and photographed so well and was so nice and easy to work with, that I invited him back to work with me again last week on one of my days off. One of my new photographer friends, Bobby, was going to join me but got stuck in traffic and was unable to make it. I met Mike in the Union area and lead him to a friend`s farm for the shoot. The weather was great and we got some more great shots…starting outside the smaller haybarn this time…

and then working with the chaps…

and while Mike has a dazzling smile and smiling eyes, he also has a flirty serious look too, which prob works well for him on the babes……

and looks like an art statue when looking down or away too….

..he def knows how to move and pose on the farm….

and amongst the haybales….

We went over to the larger haybarn next…I have never worked in this loft and now cant figure out why, it has some beautiful light in it and there was a wall of haybales in it too…

The light up above, from his waist upward, was just phenomenal as you can see, looked like he just stepped out of a tanning bed….

I then had him stretch out on the bales for a few photos and as you can see, the light was only up above….

and he has some of the biggest brown eyes too.

After shooting the hay bales, it started getting very humid up in the big barn loft, so we opted to go over to the horse barn and cool off in the shade, and while there, grabbed a saddle and went back to the smaller hay barn for some saddle shots…

..and found out in the next two shots what a flirt Mike can be when in his natural elements….

and…

..and changed the saddle up and gave me a few more smiles…

…from here,  he stripped down to his underwear and gave me some arty poses on a motorcycle….

…and then he donned some leather motorcycle wear and I allowed him to show me his serious, aka mean looks….

We shot a few more but I havent edited those up yet…so will finish this one out later….

Drove down to Florida a few weeks ago for a few days of R and R and was able to photograph a few hot guys while there, and one hot female model, too…my family flew down a couple of days behind me so I scheduled a couple of days of photo shoots while there and then spent some time with them over the weekend…my first shoot was with Greg, a hot USF college boy who was in need of some new photos for his port, glamour and nude both, so we shot some the first evening there…. he is wanting to get into some good paying video work to help pay for his college tuition….

..talk about a hot guy…he is a rower as well and has a nice build and nice eyes and nice everything…..

The next day, Greg came over to Tampa Bay at the beach where I was shooting Justin, a hot Abercrombie model in the Tampa area, and joined the shoot….

Greg kinda tossed me a challenge, he said he didnt take good pictures…so I had to prove him wrong and as far as I`m concerned, I did….he is a very good model to work with…

..his Beach Boy series…

..and then he switched to his black swim shorts…

..very tight fitting lycra shorts…

…and really make his definition pop….

…and sizzle…

And as I said before, I started shooting Friday early afternoon with Justin…I had intended to start shooting late morning but it took me longer than I expected to get to Fort DeSoto Park this time and so we got started late…but Justin is one hot guy to work with and when I first met him at the east end of the County Park on the beach, I thought I was looking at a young Brad Pitt, he had the same look as Brad in Legends of the Fall….stunning…so its no wonder that I had a great time working with him, everyone else there thought he was related to Brad Pitt, too…….

and this was where we began shooting, at the far west end of the beach near a grassy dune……people kept walking up and by and kind of getting in the way, we were at the far end to start due to so many people being at the beach in general…so then we switched and he walked out into the water and got wet and then worked the beach area for me…

…looking like a Beach Hunk Washed Ashore…with waverunners in the distance on the water going back and forth…

..then he got out in the water and washed the sand off….

…as if you would doubt me….

..and showed me what he can do with his hair….

..we then decided to walk back to the parking lot and drive back down to the pier area and shoot some images, but found this grassy area to shoot at on the way…

…and this neat log to shoot at….

…and I came to the conclusion that Justin just looks great where ever he is located and whatever he is doing…sure is very down to earth and easy to work with….I looked out into the water and spotted this tree stump and he waded out and shot this next series…

..and then we finally made it down to the pier and shot these before Greg showed up to join us…

..and here you can see the Sunshine Gateway Bridge in the background…

and then we moved up the beach and shot a few fire gear images….I`m fortunate to have many good friends who are also photographers and work with many models across the country as well…one of my friends gave me a couple of complete sets of older fire gear several years back and I usually carry an extra set or two with me on my trips to use for shoots such as these….

…sure does make good fantasy material for a beach scene tho…

..and he sure has a hot smile too…

…afterwards Justin, Greg, and I went to a nice Chinese restaurant that Justin knew of and chowed down after a long day of sun and liquid….

The next day, Missy and I drove over to the east coast beaches, and met up with a hot personal trainer named Sheriden, who is just starting out modeling and needed some new images for his port…so we met up with him at Hutchinson Island near Stuart and started shooting at the  House of Refuge Beach…

which has a tower high above the water and sand, and a bluff type rocky area above the water…

….so you have sand above and sand below and this is the only rocky stretch like this on the Florida coast…when we pulled up and parked in the limited parking area there..Sheriden was there taking photos of the landscape, or beachscape I should say…he likes shooting as well…and we talked cameras for a bit and then started walking down to a more deserted stretch of beach to start shooting at….

..and as you can tell here, the tide hadnt begun to recede yet, and the angle of the sun was a bit brutal yet, so we backed up and started shooting some images up on the rocks instead for a bit…

..and as we did a few shots here, we noticed a line of birds that kept cirling around and flying over in a line…prob keeping a good eye on Sheriden and his hot build and look, lol….

…we then took advantage of the rocky bluff area….

…we then moved back up the beach toward the tower to see what the higher bluff area there had to offer…and he changed shorts as well…

..then we grabbed some fire gear and headed back down the beach to shoot some images with it…Sheriden is taking classes for paramedic and joined his local fire department earlier this year…prob why he looked so natural in the fire gear…

…then we decided to try some rapelling images since I had a coil of rapelling rope with the outfit and he found a neat place to tie off the rope and rapell down from…

and…

..while he was up in there rapelling and I was shooting him, some gal came strolling down the beach with her husband and once she saw Sheriden in the fire gear, she quickly forgot about her husband and started paying attention to him instead….just one of several times believe me….

I then had him step out to the sand again and we shot a few with the rope coiled around his shoulder....

…ever see a firefighter hunk smile ?

The next day we drove over to the east coast north of Stuart and photographed a beautiful young lady named Aspen…you can find that story in another section of my site….