SARA - WITH BENNETT'S TUMBLEWEED

I was showing a visitor around my studio - he had just purchased one of my Milagro photos.   He saw this photo on my wall -  "I have to have that one."  he said and pointed to a framed copy of - Sara - With Bennett's Tumbleweed"

I suggested I would print one right away if he could you wait.   "Print it."  he said.

I told him there was a story behind this print.   Some time ago my partner, Sue Bennett, decided she wanted to do a photo of a model with a tumbleweed so one day we went out into the desert north of Flagstaff and found the perfect tumble weed.  Sue kept it in her studio for years - never made her photo.  One time I asked her if I could borrow it - she didn't say no,  but more important she never said,  "Yes."   Sue was killed in an automobile accident over 5 years ago - the tumbleweed still  hung in her studio I borrowed it - took it to my studio and made this photo for Sue.  An homage.

And as a note - I attribute much of the success of this photo to my wonderful creative model Sara - 

Four Other Favorites

Here are four other favorite models.   I am fortunate to be able to work with

  these awesome women.  They grace my studio. my camera,  

my eyes and hopefully your eyes.

You can find them on my website www.albumerotica.com

Brenna

Ida Mae

Irene

Erin P

New book on Book Blurb

NATALIA - MUSE is the title of a new book I just published with the help of Book Blurb. The book celebrates 3 years of collaboration and work between photographer and model Natalia Faina. It is a collection of photographs made in the studio and on location. The book has 218 pages and over 200 photographs. It is punctuated with some of the emails sent between the two collaborators. The book is indeed a true collaboration and illustrates the t relationship between two individuals h who "Muse" each other.

The book can be purchase from Book Blurb. It is expensive - but you have the alternative of purchasing a cd of an extended PDF version of the book. let me know if you are interested.

see the front cover below.