Every year fellow photographer Brad Smith and I head down to Mystic, Connecticut for the annual Mystic Seminars.   The seminars are a symposium of photographers showing their work, sharing their business practices and letting us eek out whatever we as photographers can of the very talented lot of speakers.  The down season for us New England photographers is a chance to collect our thoughts, shape our visions for the upcoming wedding season and well, prepare our taxes.  But in an effort to keep our cameras from collecting too much dust or too many pictures of our kids, Brad and I make the effort to book a model to shoot before the seminars begin.  This year, we found Nikki to work with us.  We also invited Rhode Island photographer  Robyn Ivy along for the shoot.   Brad, Robyn and I took Nikki out to Avery Point for some style shooting then went

I had the pleasure of working with a young model by the name of Scout. Artistic nudity in this post…

    As you may have already heard in one of our previous posts, Jennie and I had the great fortune fortune of attending Mystic 5.  A photographers dream, specifically a wedding photographers dream, the event taught us a lot.  We also had the opportunity to hang with our Strawberry Road friend, Brad Smith, of Brad Smith Photography.  Just days before the conference, the wheels started turning and we’d decided a little hookie from the conferences might be a nice idea.  So what did we do, we lined up a gorgeous model and challenged ourselves to a time restrained high speed fashion/boudoir shoot.  Jennie and I shot with no real theme in mind except to get great images that captured the attitude and beauty of our model Sarah…