Berlin beauty all alone during quarantine!

Falling back in to bad habits, staying up later and later. I can’t keep doing this with @guthrie’s new school routine. Things were good. Lots of room for independent work and he was diligent with it. Now he has two hour long Zoom calls with teachers and classmates, which in many ways, commits to me splitting my attention. I’ve been focusing on work and being productive with my art. The quarantine/distance shoots have been back to back. That’s what I wanted to share tonight. New work with a beautiful model from Berlin.

I’ve been friends with her for a couple of years. Always wanting to shoot together but missing each other in Germany and LA. We we’re scheduled to shoot together during Viva Las Vegas, then COVID-19 happened. So, we discussed the possibility of a quarantine shoot. She was one of the first models I considering this approach with. We called early in the morning for me in Minneapolis, almost sundown for her in Germany. After a run down of the protocol, we started shooting in her apartment.

This particular shoot has been the best yet. Not just her ability to pose, take direction and model, but the image quality. I’m not sure what kind of phone she was using, but the image quality was exceptional. Even comparing to some of the other shoots I’ve posted here on Hive, the clarity is by far, superior. She did have a tripod, which also makes the virtual sessions much easier. Still, most of my favorite photos from this shoot are pretty much, fancy selfies. I think there’s an intimacy that’s hard to achieve with a typical shoot.

This afternoon, I shot with Cervena Fox. A really big deal in the tattoo, alt model world. What an absolute sweetheart, and those images are coming tomorrow here on Hive. I can’t wait to show them. Overall, productivity is up and my mood is great, all things considered. @robrigo and I had a great conversation about strategies for @eos.detroit for the month of May. Spoiler alert! It’s going to involve more comics, which I’m so excited for. Thanks for all the love here recently. Have a great night!