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A recent photo shoot - Maenad from Model Mayhem

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I met Maenad (Mae, for short) through the online modeling community ModelMayhem a little over a month ago. I wrote to her and described the photo project that I was working on; "Cemetery Girls" and she responded saying that she was interested. We communicated for several weeks, getting to know each other. Basically, I wanted to explain to her what the concept of my project was, that it was tied to the literary project that I was working on and that the girls I was photographing were attempts at helping me better find my novel's character. Mae is a student of psychology at UC Santa Cruz, but as we wrote more to each other I found out that she is many more things than just a psych student. My point in telling you these details is to be able to describe what my experience of working with her was like. I drove form San Ramon to Santa Cruz to pick her up on campus after her last class of the day, which was around 3pm on a Friday. We then drove to her home so that she could ...

oh the delight of being back in Santa Cruz...

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even if just for a few hours. this was around 5:15pm and there were people in the parking lot putting ON their wetsuits to get in the water to surf. (what i mean by that is they were the "after work" surfers.) it was nippy yesterday too!

on the doorstep of greatness...

oh how pretentious, but compared to the usual uninspirational life i live, tonight should be great! since i posted those pics of Adrian and The Power Trio from Thursday night's show i have met two fantastic people that have given me great encouragement; Robin Slick and Burton Lo. Robin is the mother of Eric and Julie slick, Adrian Belew's accompanists on his current tour - two young musical prodigies. And Burton is a fantastic neo-photographer that attended two of Adrian's shows in southern California and took the most amazing amateur concert photos i think i've ever seen. soo, i am on my way to Santa Cruz this afternoon, with my FujiFilm FinePix S5200 in tow to take my chance at improving my own photographic skills. oh and hey, i'm really only going there for one reason and that is to hear the fantastic healing musical vibes that Adrian and this cute, cute couple generate from their hearts. i do not feel inspired to take photographs of just any ol'musicians...