Confusing

I haven't posted for a while for several reasons. The most important being this whole system confuses the hell out of me. My fault for having more than one mail address I know. Anyway now I have access again more news will follow.

Quite a busy week coming up shooting with two wonderful models Ivetan and Erika Vale plus two new male models. So there shouldn't be any excuses for not getting some great shots.

Happy Christmas

I would like to wish followers of my blog a very Happy Christmas and hope you all have a fantastically busy 2010 modeling and taking photographs.

I will try to make a concerted effect to keep the blog up to date more next year with news of my shoots and projects that I'm interested in.

My mail address has changed and if anybody wishes to contact me for anything to do with photography please use schotzphotos@googlemail.com This is so I can stay in touch with everybody when my wife and I are traveling in our motorhome.

Busy Busy Busy

I had a very busy November with 4 shoots in 3 weeks. Now I'm taking a rest until The New Year when I can come back with renewed vigour and lots of ideas for shoots.

Black and white will rule again and the 'Vanilla' images will gradually disappear from my website and model portfolios.

I had been letting the wrong things dictate which direction I was heading in but have recognised the need to get back to where it all started for me two years ago with art nude photography.

Sick and Tired

Despite feeling like death warmed up I went ahead and did a shoot with the amazing Natural_happy_girl who came down from Southampton. By the end of the day I was feeling very tired but also very happy as it was one of the best days I've ever had in the studio. NHG is one of the funniest people I've ever had the pleasure to photograph, her energy and humour kept me entertained all day and we ended up getting some great pictures as a bonus.

Best ever shoot

Sunday I had an amazing shoot with model and MUA Ryo Love. She is the most creative and remarkable person I have ever had the pleasure to work with and together we produced the most colourful work I have ever done.

Latest

Tasha Callis with dark wig natural blonde hair


Have been busy with two new shoots. A new model to art nude Tasha Callis and a favourite of mine Lottie who I have worked with once before. This weekend is going to be ground breaking for me as I am working with a model who is a fashion model and an MUA. It will be very experimental and I have high hopes of adding some radical fashion work to my portfolio.

IvoryFlame

Holly aka IvoryFlame has written the following words about the above picture on her blog which I'm very happy about and although they were unprompted by me describe the image beautifully.


I love this image by photographer Scott Chappell and model Red Dove; it strikes me as having so much story behind it, the falling hair seems to represent such a personal journey, holding onto years of change and growth, it looks alive as it swirls around the model, in some ways it feels like it's taking over, but her soft, peaceful pre-raphaelite face tells me it is about love, not battle. Maybe she was some kind of wild beast that has had a spell broken and is now turning into the beautiful woman she was underneath, rising sleepily from her enchantment to a new life. That's what I love about it, it gets my imagination going with different naratives, and that's always a sign of a great image for me.