Some models make me exclaim “holy shit!”. Every time I work with them, I can’t believe what I’m getting.

Kari is one of those models.

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this on the blog before, but there’s more to modeling than just being pretty. There’s professionalism, there’s reliability, there’s flexibility, there’s passion, there’s creativity, there’s versatility, there’s hard work, but above all, there’s the way they move.

Photography is of course all about the STILL image, but you can tell you how well a model moves by looking at their work. The better they know how to move, the less a photographer has to do. With an exceptional model, you just point, shoot and occasionally suggest something.

The last time I shot with Kari, it was in a cemetery and I kept asking her to look really sad. This time, it was all about looking really cool and man could she pull it off! Kari has all the qualities I mentioned above in spades, plus she’s ultra nice. The complete package.

I hope I get to work with her many, many more times.

Day 84/365

Like Benjamin Button, the new pictures are aging backwards…

Or something.

Alisha is an awesome model and another personal friend of mine. She and I have worked together several times. Here’s my personal favorite from the last shoot we worked on in the summer of last year:

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It’d been way too long and we both knew we needed to work together again. We threw around some ideas in our various conversations but nothing really stuck.

Until Natasha suggested we use these cool aviator glasses she’d bought online recently. That sparked the ideas this shoot was based on.

Enjoy!

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