Somebody's writing a documentary about the TFP modeling community, some more thoughts on image theft, and a Leica M8 is shown to be pretty awful for real use in Iraq.

I feel that every guy has this misapprehension that asking a girl to pose nude is like coaxing a girlfriend out of her clothing. Or that there must be a sexual connection between model and photographer. Really, the whole public perception of this sort of photography is very skewed.

A few observations about working with models.

A desert strewn with plants, with mountains in the background.

Ursula with her back turned to the camera and a water bottle.

Ella lying on the ground near a creek

Ursula with a chain

The San Mateo Bridge. While we were talking, Emily was taking a bunch of pictures. I only took one. I carefully evaluated metering and decided this was really the picture I wanted to take.

Desert and mountains in infrared.

A three exposure blend of the lunar eclipse

A three exposure blend of the lunar eclipse

A California Bay Tree in Rancho San Antonio, the third largest in the world.

Ella making arch forms

Ella making arch forms

The eclipse was starting right around moonrise....