There's a fine line one treads when people wearing anything less than the sort of clothing one might wear to a formal dinner are involved in art: Where does something cease to be art and start becoming un-artistic pornography?

What to do when it's cold out and you don't like shooting winterwear.

Five simple rules for working with models. Not being creepy is only number two...

I was talking with a photographer at one point and he asked why I bother with models. See, it is a huge time sink for me to find models to work with. My lightpaintings are often limited by exactly how long I can get a model to stay still, so sometimes I get back film from a shoot and find that the model is very blurry. And sometimes, I set up a shoot and the model never shows up at that appointed time and place which really wastes my time.

I like to view what people are hitting my site about so that I can make the content of my site more useful. Sometimes, I'll notice a search that seems to ask a question but I'm not sure if I've got a great answer for it, so here's some short answers...

So I told Mimu that I'd tell everybody she went on a rampage and broke all my gear, because after our shoot, I was down one flash, one lightstand, and one tripod....

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.

A few observations about working with models.

An example of how clothing does not save a picture from being trashy.

Ursula with a chain

Ella lying on the ground near a creek

Dona bending over with a stick... artistic from the front, probably really trashy from the back.

Mimu in a red dress with the moon in the background.

Kitten in a science fiction glittery costume with the moon in the background

Kitten against the Port of Oakland and the setting sun.