Dark pinup w/ the other vintage Londoner, Sarah!

Good evening, Steemians! Sitting down for my second post of the evening, this one to share some new art from a shoot during Viva Las Vegas in April, but not so fast! I need to talk about my day and do a little gloating first. I won’t make the part of my day long. My day was good. As I’ve mentioned, @guthrie is back to school and I had to afternoon to edit, draw and whip up a new design for the Rock Paper Scissors contest […see previous post]. @vermillionfox’s fancy new seamless backdrop came and we set that up for her next Musings post.

The gloating I might indulge in just a little while longer. Shortly after I arrived at @caffetto, @tarotbyfergus showed up. We broke out the Magic cards and it was clear within the first few games, the sands has shifted and his unprecedented win streak was indeed, over. I won the first “best of” series, then the second, the the third with a new deck. Some grumblings of “…maybe it’s just not my day”, took me back to the darkest period in my life when he constructed the god awful Nicol Bolas deck, written about in great detail in his previous blog post “Planeswalker deck of doom! aka The Bane of @kommienezuspadt”. He thought he was funny writing that, but it would appear that dark cloud has moved from my head and found a home over his own. Don’t feel too bad for him. When he does great at Magic, his personal life is in shambles, and vice versa, so you’re welcome @tarotbyfergus.

Alright. Now that I got that off my chest, I do have some photography to share. About two weeks ago, I made a post titled “Sharing new work here first w/ vintage Londoner in Las Vegas!”. I recapped my entire shoot with Chereeka, and mentioned I also shot with her close friend and British pinup, Sarah. This is about that shoot, with Sarah; equally lovely and a wonderful start to my brutal shoot schedule that is always Viva.

Due to scheduling conflicts and a big mistake on my part, I’d accidentally booked both Sarah and Chereeka the same day as my “Ladies First” guest photographer spot with Photos by Ana J. “Ladies First” was sold out entirely, and on paper it looked like I’d be finishing around 8:00p.m. […so closer to 10:00p.m. any seasoned photographer would know, which was the case]. The only option was to shoot before the event, so after just flying in, I met Chereeka and Sarah before the sun was even up, at an unforgiving 6:00a.m. call time.

Both of these girls were incredible, not complaining once. They sat for hair and make-up by the powerhouse artist Laine Hunkeler […who amazingly had both ladies shoot ready by 9:00a.m.]. I took Sarah a different route, around my friend Yocelin’s beautiful mid-century modern home. I was careful to not make the same shots that I did with Chereeka. We found interesting locations in the backyard […Yocelin’s home is used a lot by pinup photographers and I believe I’m the first and only to want to shoot behind it].

Sarah was a peach. She was a great model and worked hard despite the heat, jet lag and early morning call time. She had a bright face and cheerful disposition but I directed her to a darker, more serious mood for the sake of the photos. She just wrote me an email that included my favorite sentiment, “…these are so different for me.”. I love hearing that! I charge a lot for a photography sessions, and for the clients that hire me, I always want to give them a good experience and return the kind of photos I know only I can take. Very few things make me as happy as that.

Thanks for reading. For more photography, art, illustration and the stories behind the work, follow me here @kommienezuspadt. I post daily.