Maya | Dance in the City Project

In July I took a trip to Boston for some commissioned photography work and reached out to Maya (model and professional ballerina) to see if she'd be interested in collaborating on a dance session. She said yes and the rest was history. Maya is pure elegance and magic and SO absolutely easy to work with. My only regret is that we didnt have more time but I have a strong feeling that we'll be working together again in the future.

Below is my curated set from our shoot. If you've followed me on Instagram you've probably seen most of these since I couldnt stop posting, but if not then enjoy. 

Portrait of a Makeup Artist

Its been my experience over the years that makeup artists are undercover models! Kristiaan and I met Krysta at a wedding in 2015 and we began Instagram-stalking each other then. Fast forward a year later and I reached out as I wanted to do some simple and clean beauty shots (first two images). However we got to creative thinking and Krysta had some great outfits put together so we turned it into somewhat of a personal fashion portrait session. Creatives are always the best to work with.

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Enjoy.

Tailored Rebels - Love, Create, Connect [more]

While this may be new to the blog I've been shooting mini clothing [t-shirt] campaigns for Tailored Rebels for the last few years. I've even modeled once or twice for them. Their brand is all about community, connection and creativity. Its simple but awesome street style and I've loved working with Toni as her ([nd Steve's] brand grew over the years. I've known Toni since college [VCU] and we've been close friends ever since. So its with a bittersweet blog post for me to announce that she's moving to California to pursue new opportunities.  Now who am I supposed to have my "girl talks" with? :)

Images below are from Tailored Rebels "Love, Create, Connect" tee which can be purchased here: http://www.tailoredrebels.com/product/love-more-create-more-connect-more

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Portrait of Belly Dancer - Destiny

I found out recently that belly dancers are super cool! Destiny reached out to me in need of images for her new website so we started to brainstorm. Destiny is not just a dancer but also instructor, mom, snake owner and loves muscles cars - hers had me drooling. However I soon realized there were too many ideas to complete in a single day. So we turned it into a two day shoot. In fact we still have a 3rd day scheduled for later this summer. Below is a just a small sample of my favorites from our two days of pure fun.

Enjoy.