I shot Kirsty recently using glowsticks and glow-bracelets to create swirls of light. All you have to do is break the glass phial inside them to set them aglow. With the glowsticks that’s quite easy – just snap them – but with the bracelets they’re just too small and so you have to thump the little plastic beads with something and hope they don’t burst open. We got about half of them glowing, which was enough.

Volution

Crux

These shots of Fuchsia were taken with my Lensbaby Composer. I’ve always been a fan of Lensbabies and the Composer makes shooting with one much more controllable. Perhaps a little slower than the 3G for some things, but it stays where you put it and makes fine focus changes much easier.

Disconnect

Vivid

Very occasionally I get the chance to shoot an image that has been rattling around in the dark recesses of my brain for ages. In this case I really wanted to take a long-exposure shot of a pole-dancer spinning round a pole while covered in lights that would leave a trail in the air as she moved. The only problems were that I didn’t know any poledancers and I didn’t have access to a pole.

The I met Jade. Not only can she poledance, but she also has a pole.

So we duly wrapped her in electroluminescent wire (battery powered) and she spent a rather energetic hour throwing herself around the pole in the dark. I gave her a very specific pose, and hitting it at the end of her spin was incredibly challenging.

After a few attempts she nailed it perfectly and I got the shot I wanted. It’s good when a plan comes together.

Revolution

Repose (nude)

When I first got hold of some electroluminescent wire I wanted to use it for a guitar shot. It took me a while to get around to it, and when I did I discovered that stringing a guitar with EL wire isn’t really that easy. Who would have guessed. Once it was ready Fuchsia played it for me and Sian did the makeup.

Chrissie arrived in Glasgow for a weekend of shoots with this gloriously mad black and red tutu in tow. Over the weekend she also shot with McInnes, Monkeytwizzle and Simon Pole, and everyone got to shoot the tutu. This is my take on it, but if you poke around the interwebs you may find some of the others.

Recalcitrance

Quintessence (nude)

I went on a trip up to Perth last weekend to work with the fabulously talented Chrissie Red. She hardly got cramp at all, despite me posing her in in some particularly awkward locations, and she was somewhat disappointed that I only fell over once and she missed it, so had one less opportunity to laugh at my antics.

Apposites Attract

Essentia (nude)

Violaceous (nude)

Incalescence (nude)

Tenebrous (nude)

A couple of weekends ago I shot with GeorgieK. We shot a little lingerie stuff for her portfolio, and some infrared – the first time I’ve seen hair render purple.

Niche (nude)

These shots are from a recent shoot with India, taken just before she moved back to Poland from Aberdeen. All are daylight, with the exception of Eidolon – which is a single-exposure, move-the-model shot, lit with an incandescent modelling light and a torch. I recently discovered the work of Alexey Titarenko – truly outstanding stuff, so I keep trying to think of ways to add movement to my images.

Eidolin (nude)

Revenant (nude)

Sybarite (nude)

Last Saturday I attended a workshop run by Scott Church at The Roost in London. I met a lot of great people and shot some interesting images (shown below).

Gurney

Taken with: Nikon D100

Nikon D100

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Floored

Taken with: Nikon D100

Nikon D100

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Riband

Taken with: Nikon D100

Nikon D100

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Ashen

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