Masha has appeared before here and here. This is the first of a series of photos I took of her last December. More to follow.

Here’s another unposed Saturday morning photo of Marina feeding Nyusha from a couple of days ago.

Last week I did a test shoot with Andrea, a SF local, and Crystal, who was visiting from Hong Kong, where she writes for Harper’s Bazaar. This is one of the looks.

One of  my favorite shots from last Friday’s shoot with Masha. This was towards the end of the night and I decided to experiment with giving the photos more of a graphic and less of a photographic feel.

This is the last of this series of images I’m going to post. At least as far as the digital photos go. There’s still a roll I shot with my Bronica waiting to be developed.

Another shot from the same series as this one, slightly darker this time.

Finally, after weeks of travel and chaos, I was able to do some serious shooting last night. This is our first shoot with Sarinka, who I’ve met on ModelMayhem, and who completely blew me away with her ability to show emotion through movement. We had a pretty abstract concept going into the shoot, a marionette as she’s pulled up by the strings, and she nailed it, time and time again. We shot this at an abandoned artillery bunker overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

I’ll be posting more from this shoot over the next few days. Plus, there’s a couple of rolls of wide film waiting to be developed.

I took this picture of the girl, literally, next door last weekend at my friend’s farm in Santa Cruz. I was trying to take a whole bunch of pictures for her to send to her relatives and such now that her belly’s beginning to show, and finished up with a couple of quick nudes. What’s interesting, is that this is pretty much the only shot from the series I like, looks like we’ll need to re-shoot the ones to send the family.

There’s still a few left on a yet undeveloped roll of film. We’ll have to wait and see how those came out – I wanna finish shooting it.

Another shot of my aunt Tanya and her dog Dazzy from the same series.

I took this picture of my aunt a few days ago, when I was visiting her in Houston, Texas. I knew I wanted to take some pictures of her and grandma while I was there, so I took one of my alien bees, a light-stand, and a softlighter with me on the plane. All of it fit nicely into my carry-on, with plenty of room for everything else I needed for a 3-day stay.

Here, she’s holding up her dog, Dazzy. When Tanya got her from the pound, Dazzy was already sick with distemper, a disease that’s usually fatal for dogs her age. Over the next few months, Tanya faced a daily struggle, trying to keep her pet alive against all odds, and somehow managed to pull it off.