calendar boy, boudoir style and when I started posting them on social media, they sort of became viral just off my Facebook page.


I’m curious, what was your first camera? I started with my Mom’s manual focus Canon SLR (with roll-film, mind you) and I’ve been partial to Canon cameras ever since.


Who were your influences as you were coming up in photography? The artist Boris Vallejo, Walt Disney, Victor Skrebneski, Robert Mapplethorpe and Helmut Newton.


What would you say is the most compelling thing about capturing an image for you? When I know the lighting hits the model’s physique ever so perfectly and when the model isn’t shy and is confident. When he is comfortable with his body and just knows he looks good in a pose…It becomes easy and natural to compose and capture a good shot.


What are the biggest challenges for you around photographing your aesthetic and when doing nudity? That all depends on the model. If you have a model with issues


about nudity and/or they have hang-ups about how and what poses they don’t want to do, it totally hinders the creative process. They’ve already pre-established obstacles. When that happens, the shoot becomes a bummer and I usually just want to end the session as quickly as possible. Another challenge is when a model wants to be ‘the artist’ on set, instead of allowing me, the photographer, to be the creative director. If the model just wants his own ideas captured, the shoot becomes stale. Of course, if the model is hiring and paying for the photography service, to capture exactly what he wants, then by all means. But, that changes the dynamic of things – because that just


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