I’ve shot AmyLynn Emm (see previous shoots) a couple of times now, and every time we seem to align quite beautifully in our projects to create something fiercely sexual yet still very casual. I really quite dig it.
Maybe this one wasn’t so subtle as we had a swanky hotel room at the Sutton Place Hotel in Vancouver to shoot in.
As luck would have it, I was handed a hotel room at the Sutton Place Hotel for about 9 days. Naturally, I’d try to stuff that hotel room with as much photoshoots as possible… Alex Mei (soundcloud, fb), a DJ and naturally beautiful woman, was the first one to step into the hotel room.
It was kind of fun totally dismantling a hotel room, then putting it all back together again as if nothing had happened, though it was a bit of work pushing the beds here and there!
Slip sideways with a fuzzy dream
And carry those loose blossoms
That follow your footsteps
With a delicate clutch,
Simply to answer questions
From far away strangers
With elegant movement,
Shared back in a gaze.
As always, Lu Lee (fb, archives) has made simple delight as elegant as a dream.
This shoot was done in the alleys of EastVan. Alleys in any downtown area are a little interesting to shoot in; it doesn’t really offer the same clean style one gets from shooting in a studio with a seamless, but I kind of like things being a little rough around the edges. However, shooting in an alley in a business district during working hours, it’s funny how many businesses really do use their alleys and loading docks. Who’d a thought?
I liked finding that Porsche sitting in the parking lot, conveniently.
When Aurora (IMDB) and I started planning for this shoot, I said I wanted to do something casual, something where she was just being in her natural element (it’s been my goal to capture souls as of late). She responded: “I don’t know what my natural is anymore.”
Aurora is an actress, a model, a multi-talented woman who I think shared a bit of her soul with me.
Your call though, do you agree?
Lola Frost’s (fb, twitter, tumblr, instagram) and mine’s relationship is one of artist and muse, of collaborator and inspiration. We have pushed each other numerous times before, and I can only hope it will continue.
I’ve had the idea to tie branches into the hair of a magical nymph for a while, and finally when Lola and I drove up the Sunshine Coast of BC we found the perfect spot to dig into this.
With the summer’s end fast approaching, it felt like everything was the warm color of gold.
Oh, and did I mention she had long ass braids? Those were done by by Kristi Johanson of East Vanity Parlour (fb)!
