Smaragd's Photos

Miss Cat says, "Oh, poo to housework!"

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Bitty Boo and Miss Cat are members of Northwest Pinups for Troops.

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Bitty Boo has a new, blue friend.

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Revisiting my favorite shot from the September 2007 shoot with Emma Lee at Fort Casey and the Admiralty Lighthouse. Better tones this time, and now in color.

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"American woman gonna mess your mind." -- Bachman Turner Overdrive

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Miss Cat is your patriotic beauty! She's a member of the Northwest Pinups for Troops.

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Miss Cat is a member of the Northwest Pinups 4 Troops.

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Miss Cat is a member of the Northwest Pinups 4 Troops.

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Miss Cat is a member of the Northwest Pinups for Troops.

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Beautiful, romantic Miss Cat's Valentine's Day dream. Miss Cat is a member of the Northwest Pinups 4 Troops.

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My first shoot with new model Erin Maiden, and her first studio shoot. Erin is genuine metal, and is into all the bands that my friends were into in high school in the mid-80s: Iron Maiden, Slayer, Megadeath, etc. The shoot was fun, and also more inventive and experimental than a first-shoot with a new model usually is.

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Miranda plays "sexy Eskimo" in the studio. She arrived with her own wonderful costume, while I provided snow and other props. We wound up with a fun and quite wintery shoot, despite it being mid-October. Shooting with costumes and a theme is always fun, and this one was especially so.

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It's been quite a while since I took decent new self-portraits. Since I didn't have any shoots scheduled today, this seemed like a great opportunity. The camera is a 1959 Agfa Silette-LK, which is the most recent addition to my small collection of old cameras.

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New shoot with Jessika in the studio. Some real forethought and planning went into this shoot.

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My first shoot with new model Erin Maiden, and her first studio shoot. Erin is genuine metal, and is into all the bands that my friends were into in high school in the mid-80s: Iron Maiden, Slayer, Megadeath, etc. The shoot was fun, and also more inventive and experimental than a first-shoot with a new model usually is.

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My first shoot with new model Erin Maiden, and her first studio shoot. Erin is genuine metal, and is into all the bands that my friends were into in high school in the mid-80s: Iron Maiden, Slayer, Megadeath, etc. The shoot was fun, and also more inventive and experimental than a first-shoot with a new model usually is. Shot in darkness using only a repeating strobe-light for illumination.

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Yesterday was a little landmark in my pursuit of photography as a career; I did my first "senior portrait" shoot. A couple months ago Gretchen contacted me to ask me to take her senior portraits. She wanted something different from the run-of-the-mill senior portraits that every other photographer does. This particular shot was my own favorite from the shoot. She will make her own selections, but I just love this one, myself. (And thank you to Gretchen for permission to post some of her photos.)

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My first shoot with Mariya. We started out in my studio, then went to a church just down the road to shoot in front of their heavy wooden doors, and finally went across town to end the shoot in our local cemetery. Mariya is a strong collaborator in that she had a good idea of what she wanted from the shoot. But she was also receptive to my own ideas and input. I really believe working with a model should, ideally, be an equal creative partnership. This shoot was a perfect example of that -- an even combination of her ideas and mine, the synergy of two creative streams coming together.

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