i have joined the wonderful world of etsy [link]
here you will be able to buy some prints of some of my works

my exhibition is still running, until the 15th november

so far i have sold 4 works
yay!!!!
i have to say it is quite amazing and surreal to see your own works all spiffy and fancy in frames

here be some images i love

there is a new face at the asylum, he has come from afar and goes by
he survived a week in brisvegas with and managed to create some gorgeous images
so.......anyone in sydney who may be interested in shooting with =KickStart011 note him he is very cool and i myself am looking forward to getting outdoors to do some fineart nude shooting with him
just to impress you further, here are some of his gorgeous works:

for each photographic session, even if you shoot a model or models on a regular basis you will need a new release form for every new shoot.
and you need to make sure the model gets a copy of each release, not to mention images (either in print or on cd) when it is tf/p/cd. obviously when it is a paid shoot you need to pay the model.

seems to me that there are some photographers out there who have forgotten this and deem themselves 'godlike', putting up images without a new model release and then crying foul when the model is not impressed with this action.

and people, remember most photographers on this site (myself included) are amateurs! and the models you work with more often than not have been amateur at one point or another and therefore you should keep your humanity intact when a model asks you take an image down, especially when it is of the naked nature! i know quite a few photographers who have no problems what so ever taking down an image/images when the model requests it, often for personal and employment reasons. i myself have been asked to and had no problems what so ever. this is mainly due to the fact that i haven't forgotten i am a person just like them

for the ones who make it difficult and often lead the model to a lot of emotional stress i say shame on you
put yourself in their shoes, i mean having a naked image of you on the internet with the risk it could affect your job...would you be so pig headed and refuse?

as i said, remember we are all pretty much amateurs here on da (artists yes) but AMATEURS! afterall if we were professionals we wouldn't have time to be shooting models we don't pay for, we would all be in the 'real' world getting paid for shoots

and at the end of the day, if you are unsure about shooting other people and model releases, shoot yourself that way when you do change your mind you only have yourself to deal with

and to end this on a brilliant and positive note, here are some works from some of my favorite photographers/artists that i have worked with.......

thought it time i showed off the new kittens

this here is poppea, she is a little bigger now, but is a very naughty little kitten whom i love to pieces




and this is atreyu, who like poppea is a naughty little kitten and they love getting into trouble together he is so cute! he has a manx tail




and here is a very special human kitten that was brought into this world via my sister a week ago
her name is calista and she is my gorgeous niece




everyone saw awwwwww

in other news i am still very much in lurve and as happy as a pig in mud
i am working pretty much full time now with my artist modeling and even filmed a short film a couple of weeks ago
i have an upcoming interview to model at the brett whitely studios, that is quite cool ....was my next mission, so hopefully that goes well
and....i have a joint exhibition with an artist i work for coming up in early november is exciting and scarey all at once!
i will have more details about that one when i have the invitations happening

hope each and everyone is happy and if not, that life gets better for you

yep that's right, the one word i thought i would never utter again, let alone feel.... ( i mean i hated it so much i associated it with hell!!)....has found me and whacked me upside the head!!
i am SOOOOO happy!!!
the L word decided that myself and someone i have known for a LONG LONG time should go "shazaam!" and that is exactly what happened .......seriously, the L word always seems to find you when you aren't looking for it
so that is why i have been absent from here for sooooooooooo long
i went to new zealand last weekend....to christchurch and the surrounding mountains and i have to say it was just so mindblowingly beautiful ...thanks to my babe for making that happen
on the creative front, i have been very inactive...what with work and the L word....but i did pick up my old camera the other day and played with it and my tripod...i am still trying to make friends with my new camera...i think it may take a while
we now have 9 cats in the asylum, 2 very very cute, cuddly and sweetfilled kittens have joined this crazy family there will be some pics of these little kitties soon
just to add to the sappy happy that the L word has created around here...i give you L inspired thumbs




ohh and a HUGE thankyou to [link] for this gorgeous and catinspired journal skin