I’m Ms. Spooky Dammit!

From the Heavy Red fashion show at Havok last Friday. Jinxy Ms Spooky. There are more unretouched images at the photography site.

Havok Heavy Red Fashion Show

The lovely and talented Jinxy invited me to come to a fashion show for Heavy Red that was being held at Havok, Houston’s goth nightclub. Pretty girl asking me to do something and I’m unable to deny her. And if it involves other pretty girls and taking pictures, why would I? The show was suppose…

Heather/Spleen

Another weekend shoot, another goth girl. Last weekend I shot new model Heather aka Spleen. She’s a cooking student at the Houston Art Institute and we’re thinking about doing a goth cooking show. At least as a video podcast. It turns out she’s also the girlfriend of my co-worker Marc. Together they are Seraphemera a…

Writing an Online Model Profile

This entry is from my series: A Photographer’s Guide To Models. Been cruising the online modeling sites today and can’t help but write something about profiles. By a profile I mean the actual text that goes with your portfolio. Here’s a few bad things. Saying you only want paid work when you have a crappy…

Groupie? Date Request?

Recently I signed up for Retro Kitten which is a photographer/model site for pinup and retro people. Friday I got this email. Hello I am called chamy odily I saw your profile today and found youworthy to be mine as some one whom i can lay on hisarms as long as love is concern, caring…

Diet Update

Because I know y’all are waiting with baited breath to find out how I’m doing. It is 3 weeks into the diet now and I’m 199.4 (-11.6 lbs) this morning after a weekend with some cheating. The Mrs made me make homemade ice cream and chocolate chip cookies for a church thing. It is impossible…

How Do You Know If A Business Idea Will Work?

This is a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately. I’ve got a number of money making ideas, but I don’t know which I should do. To some extent I know I should do what I love, but most of my ideas come under that. If I don’t like the idea I stop thinking…

Diet Update

This morning I weighted 203.8, which means I’ve lost 8.2 lbs in a little over a week. I was consistently going down each day until Sunday, when my wife had to make cookies for the church group meeting at our house. See got sugar free cookies, but even then that’s enough carbs to make you…