You're never homeless when the world is your home

I've been behind at updating this thing due to my winter time hiatus. My 2012 traveling started with a trip to Seattle Washington. I took a traveling buddy along for the first time, I must say it was nice to have company! :)  We got some sight seeing in the day before I had to shoot.

Did a trade shoot while there with an amazing artist, the theme was called "Chained Beauty"
Here are some shots from the shoot-  Photographer-Tommy Edwards

silence burning

 I don't know how I got here, I just know the excruciating pain that I'm in.

I never pictured it ending like this.

So abrupt

All I could do was gaze at the sky out of the window and watch it darken as the time passed

The day was just another idle day, how could it turn sharply like this?

My mind is foggy trying to remember what I did last.

I do all I can to stay calm, they always tell you to stay calm in these situations.

You can cuddle your anger like a raggedy childhood blanket from the past.

Silence floods the room filling every corner.

The level rises until everybody drowns

Interstate

Flowing down the interstate like it's a river

Lines fly by like fish headed upstream

Rain drops tip toe across my windshield.

I want this freedom

No, I've earned this freedom.

The road climbs up the gigantic mountain

The storm festers up top just waiting for my arrival.

Green signs give names to the unknown places.

They really are meaningless if you don't have a destination in mind.

Challenges, spontaneous moments and fulfillment live here.

As do I.

Airport thoughts..

The airport was so cold, so impersonal.

but deep down that's the reason I like it here.

Surrounded by people but no obligations to connect

Muffled voices of the surrounding crowds comfort me

Everyone here is so different yet so the same

The sounds of heels and dress shoes hitting the terminal floor

Rushing by , always in a hurry.

The whiff of Cologne that reminds you of a moment from the past.

It tingles my noise and awakens my senses.

Numbers and times flash across the blue illuminated board

Connect me to my next flight

Here I go again.

Make me your art

My focus has shifted onto my self now

I am now my focal point, so zoom in and sharpen that image

Just don't over expose it

I want to see ribs

Make my green eyes glow

I want the light to swim across my body

emerge me in your light

Create with me

Speak through me

Once more

In a few days I will be on a red eye flight headed out on another one of my adventures. Baltimore will be my first stop followed by DC and St.Louis. This will probably be my last east coast trip until early 2012. I will be booking for mainly the west coast during the winter months.

I will have my passport early October, I'm very thrilled about this.

Shooting with my horse

Eric Lowenburg wrote a blurb about our shoot with my horse here in Salem.:) His MM page is http://www.modelmayhem.com/1179757 if you would like to check him out. Here's what he wrote:

"08 September found me in the Salem, Oregon area to again be fortunate enough to shoot with the very lovely and talented Miss Redrose.

We worked during the morning with my new horse friend Lady who is a gorgeous Arabian Mare. Lady proved to be a wonderful model, very patient and cooperative. She is however the first model that I have shot that was grazing during the shoot. Lady and Miss Redrose were the perfect combination for a great shooting with a mix of artistic nudes and lifestyle images.

Lady got to spend the afternoon at pasture telling her other horse friends about her morning while I made the drive back to San Francisco. It was a very enjoyable morning of shooting taking advantage of the heat wave in Oregon. Temps that day were going to be close to 95 under a nearly perfect sky for lighting -- just a very slight diffusing haze and occasional high cloud. All in all a fantastic morning. Miss Redrose is a wonderful model with a great look that always gives her best for a shooting -- and she can park a horse trailer better than any guy I know.
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