How’s it going, folks. I’m checking in for a late night Hive post. 
Here’s some new photography from Australia. Helena is a curvy, bodacious pinup model and amateur strongwoman in Melbourne, VIC. Last year, I had an opportunity to meet her and shoot with her during a series of dark pinup sessions between cities in New Zealand an Australia. We’d talked for quite a few weeks leading up to the trip, and she was kind enough to pick me up at the airport. My first friendly face in Melbourne. We caught up at a Vietnamese restaurant and discussed concepts for our shoot a few day later.
The space we shot was a beautiful bar/hotel right on the water’s edge. Our make-up artist brought up to the location, and showed up an incredible parlor room. We began shooting, making some beautiful photos as we moved from room to room, until we were asked to leave. As it turned out, we didn’t have permission to shoot in the venue. Oops! We left the property grounds, laughing by glad it wasn’t a legal ordeal, and shot this portrait at a stone structure, tucked under a walking bridge.
I had another quarantine shoot tonight. It started at 10:30p.m., which is kind of hilarious. Figuring out these timezones is so funny, since of course, I can’t be there. The process is getting more and more refined. It’s more IT work, setting up cords, cameras, phones and technology, then it is “art”. I always feeling mentally drained, so I’m going to try and wind down and get some more sketching done for this big 