Public Nudity
in Spain, January 2023.
2023-10-28 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike Stacey posts
Hallway Jive
I've mentioned many times that all nighters are one of the important things that gets us going. This was a recent one a week ago. There is a video also in the making from that night.
2023-10-27 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostShasta (and backlight)
Another one of the nude portraits of Shasta that will be posted occasionally one by one.
This one was shot around the middle of the day in backlight, with me and camera in Shasta's shadow. That's how I usually shoot backlight by getting into the shadow of the model and working around the edge of that shadow where the sun starts coming through and providing flare. It's a delicate line that...
2023-10-25 11:36:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe life of a travelling model
For 5 years I’ve chronicled the life of an international travelling model. These images are archived for a prospective book project and to my knowledge there is no archive quite like this. I honestly don't think there are many people who know what really exists behind the scenes. I mean, I was photographing and associating with travelling models for a decade before I met Aurora and I ...
2023-10-24 12:28:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Palac Wiejce [Set 1 of 3]
Shot in a grand old Polish palace we stayed in. We were the only guests as it was winter. Pretty spooky actually out in the corridors at night but a truly memorable stay for sure.
2023-10-21 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHANNOVER HAMMOCK [Part 1 of 3]
Dunno 'bout you, but stockings do it for me 🥵
Nikon Z6
35mm f2.8 manual focus, 50mm f1.8.
Portraits of Shasta
I have a number of different series of portraits of Shasta coming to Patreon, most of which haven't been edited before. These particular images have been shown before. They were shot on the Pentax 67 on Kodak Portra 160 and Tri-X.
What I loved about shooting Shasta was the way her skin glowed and shone on film. I knew this would be the case before hand so I planned the shoot for the middl...
2023-10-20 09:45:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Inside a photoshoot
I shot a heap of images of Jan-Karel Kok (@jankarelkok) shooting Aurora at Emma's (@riel.life) place in Lopik, Netherlands. This is one of my favourite forms of photography - shooting the interactions between two people, it could be a photos...
2023-10-18 14:42:12 +0000 UTC View Post
EITHER YOU FEEL IT OR YOU DON'T - CURRENT CREATIVE CHALLENGES
I guess most creatives don’t reach the stage of development that we have. I’m not trying to say, “wow look how fucking great we are” by the way, I’m saying we’re at that stage where we are desperately trying for something new. This can be painful, for both of us. It means Aurora is looking for ways to escape her ‘model zone’ and I’m looking for ways to break certain shooting h...
2023-10-16 18:16:07 +0000 UTC View PostBelgium - Netherlands - Germany Tour
This tour is nearly done. We’re currently in the Utrecht area and heading to Hannover tonight then via Berlin to Poznan.
First stop was Antwerp where Aurora had a number of shoots. We shot some stuff in the AIRBNB we were staying in, film and digital.
Next stop was Lopik in the Netherlands where we stayed for a few days with Emma (2023-10-14 15:53:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Scheveningen
A little video before we shot a set in the grasses behind the dunes at Scheveningen, Netherlands. Scheveningen is one of our fave places to hang, we’ve been there many times, the first time was 2018 with Zoi model. I’ve posted the shots of Zoi before but included here for today’s context...
2023-10-10 22:03:46 +0000 UTC View PostBURNING DOWN THE HOUSE [2 OF 2] - MADRID
Set 2, the first set is here. The last shot is one of a fashion set we shot in Madrid, which I'll upload soon.
2023-10-09 15:37:43 +0000 UTC View PostBURNING DOWN THE HOUSE [1 OF 2] - MADRID
A flurry of action, disarray and passion. Hope you can feel it.
2023-10-08 11:33:14 +0000 UTC View PostLUCY - OUTDOOR NUDES [SET 2 OF 2]
Set 1 with tech. specs is here.
2023-10-07 12:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostAURORA & ANA
One of a series of images made with Aurora and Ana in Lisbon, April 2023. Most of these will be posted as single images until the whole series has been edited.
TECH
Z6, 50mm, ISO 6400, f6.3, 1/40s, manual focus. Aperture can't be what I normally use when shooting at the minimum focusing distance ...
2023-10-06 18:48:10 +0000 UTC View PostAKROTIRI - SANTORINI
Don't forget that as a Cream tier subscriber, you have access to my CREAM archives here.
The password is !*ThecReaMVault*! - and don't forget where to find that password - it's in the collection "Important News".
This set is 2023-10-06 10:29:03 +0000 UTC View Post
LAKE GEORGE
Lake George is a huge salt lake which intermittently fills with water although the last time it full was 1971. It's said to be over a million years old. I've always loved places like this where there is an unobstructed view to the horizon, no trees, nothing. I spent a lot of time around the L...
2023-10-06 10:13:44 +0000 UTC View PostTRUE COLOURS - PHOTOGRAPHING EMOTION
This video was made at a time when I was searching for ways to push my portrait work toward something more meaningful, something that would make my work something more than "model photography". I talked about this is many previous articles, namely the following recent ones...
Previous Articles
2023-10-03 09:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
CROATIA PREVIEW
This set was shot here just after sunset. The light was something else, the long twilight glow making for great skin tones.
Many more images from this set plus full technical notes in The Cream tier.
2023-10-02 15:47:08 +0000 UTC View PostLUCY - OUTDOOR NUDES [SET 1 OF 2] - WITH TECH SPECS
Here is set 1 of the promised set of Lucy on film...
TECH STUFF
They were shot with one of my Pentax 67's (both broken now) on TRI-X.
Processing was using the same formula I've used all my life, Ilford ID-11 mixed 1:1 for working strength solution. Processing times were usually standard as mentioned in the documentation from Kodak and 2023-09-30 07:42:53 +0000 UTC View Post
CROATIA
This set was shot here just after sunset. The light was something else, the long twilight glow making for great skin tones.
The shots in the water went for about an hour leading up to almost darkness. These were really challenging because the best compositions and poses only existed for a few seconds due to ...
2023-09-29 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCOMPILATION VIDEO
Some work from 2017 Jan-Feb featuring Anne Duffy, Flavia, Lucy Art Model, Porcelain Alice, Taliah, Sienna Hayes.
Soundtrack by Cowboy Junkies.
2023-09-29 12:24:07 +0000 UTC View PostWHAT MAKES A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH AND HOW DO I TAKE ONE? [Part 2 of 2]
We need somewhere to start, a trigger. That’s my left brain talking – see – I need a formula. A formula for being an artist! A little contradictory.
Anyway, here goes…
If you can put any of these emotions into the image that you see in the viewfinder and THEN transfer the im...
2023-09-24 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostYou gotta move
You may be high
You may be low
You may be rich, child
You may be poor
But when the Lord get ready
You gotta move
- Jagger/Richards
Featuring Martyna and Aurora.
2023-09-23 10:31:33 +0000 UTC View PostMISTY MOUNTAIN HOP - MADEIRA [SET 2 of 2]
Set 1 is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/89375784
Z6 with very old manual focus 35mm f2.8.
2023-09-23 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWHAT MAKES A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH AND HOW DO I TAKE ONE? [Part 1 of 2]
This post and much of its content (aside from some small recent updates) was originally presented to a local camera club in Sydney, the North Sydney Camera Club. It was 2012 I think. I'd been approached to give a talk/presentation and at the time I happened to be thinking about all this stuff anyway...
Many years ago when I was preoccupied with landscape photogra...
2023-09-20 10:26:07 +0000 UTC View Post