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Abandoned
Click here to view this self portrait set in my favorite abandoned house. Yep, that’s goose shit all over the floor. A peacock used to live in this big house, too. Such an interesting place… I haven’t been there in a couple of years, I doubt it’s the same as it used to be back when I was visiting it a few times a year.
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Kitchen
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Above
Click here to view this self portrait set I took in an old apartment I used to live in.
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FREE ARCHIVED BLOG & PHOTOSET
I originally wrote this for Patreon on November 12th 2016. I no longer use Patreon and have replaced it with my website (here) but thought I would share some of my old blogs with you for FREE to show my appreciation for you visiting my website! <3
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Last weekend Antisocialdisposition and I went to New Orleans. We left at around 8pm on Thursday and drove through the night, trading driving and sleeping when one or the other of us got too tired. Arriving at around 7:30am, we immediately went and got some breakfast, then headed to City Park to hang out. Oh my gosh I loved City Park and really want to go back and explore it more! There are so many huge live oaks just begging to be climbed and hugged and appreciated. Of course the first thing I did was climb on one, sitting on one of the long, low branches. We had a few hours to kill until we could check into our Airbnb so we walked around for a while. It made me so happy to see the big patches of wildflowers they have near the entrance! City Park backs up to the New Orleans Museum of Art and they have a free sculpture garden so of course we checked that out too. I’ve uploaded some videos and photos of some of the artwork we really liked.
As soon as we were able to, we checked into our Airbnb and showered, it’s surprisingly hot in New Orleans in early November! I was super happy with the Airbnb we found, it was really private and comfy and nice, I would definitely recommend staying there and would love to stay there again. We went for lunch at Seed, which is a super yummy vegan place, and then walked to the French Quarter to meet up with some friends. We hung out with them for a bit and then I went off on my own to explore Bourbon Street. This was a Friday night and there were so many people everywhere! Most of them were drunk or on their way to being drunk. It’s so weird to me that in the city of New Orleans you can drink 24/7, wherever you want. Outside the city you would get in trouble for drinking on the side of the street but I guess they let people drink all over the place in the city because it’s one of the reasons so many tourists visit.
I people watched, went to a few stores (they have a Lush store! I had to get a couple of bath bombs), watched some street performers, and I even spent a bit of time in a VooDoo shop. They had some really great books about crystals and magic and tarot, a small selection of herbs, lots of talismans and dolls, and a lot of magic kits. I’m fascinated by so much of this so of course I spent a while in there just milling around looking at everything. I bought a book called Circle of Eight by Jane Meredith that’s about creating magic in your local area, I’m about 80 pages in and really enjoying it. I plan to start having circle with some family and close friends to incorporate some of the things I’m learning into my life and practice. I’m interested in so many metaphysical things I feel like I’m kinda all over the place and know a tiny bit about a bunch of different topics. I want to dive into one particular thing to have a more in depth understanding of whatever that one thing is but it’s so hard to choose what that thing will be! I guess I’ll let myself explore a little bit of everything and let my interests organically point me in the direction of whatever it is I’m meant to know more about.
On Saturday I spent the morning modeling for a super nice photographer, Mysa Photography, then spent the rest of the day walking around New Orleans, looking at all the pretty houses and then going back to our Airbnb to take five HUGE self portrait sets. I haven’t been able to go through all of them yet but the first one is up in the galleries and a few of my favorites are below!
We spent all day on Sunday driving back home. Blegh. That was a super long drive, especially since neither of us wanted to go back to work/school on Monday. I’m hoping we can go back to New Orleans again sometime soon, and spend more time there next time! And next time I want to go to a cemetery!
Have you been to New Orleans? What was your favorite part about it? Where should I go next time I visit?
All members have access to this complete 82 image self portrait set by clicking here.
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Bodypaint
Click here to view this self portrait photoset of me with bodypaint!
I have 2 videos from this day of me playing with the paint available for download HERE!
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Magnolia with Celeste Call
All of the images I created with Celeste Call were taken in the span of a few hours, and this is the last set I have left to share with you from that wonderfully fun and creative day. Click here to see the other photoset she took of me, and click here to see the photoset I took of her!
CURRENTLY: I’ve been feeling off lately. One day I’ll feel totally fine, and another I’ll feel sad, purposeless, anxious, and irritable. Right now I think I’m in a weird in-between space, where I’m still doing most of the work-type things that I’ve been doing for years, but it doesn’t feel quite the same, or hold the same weight that it once did. I feel like there’s something more, something different that I’m supposed to be doing but I don’t quite know what that something is.
I’ve been making videos a bit more recently, but so far I’ve just saved them to my hard drive and then not touched them. The thought of editing hours of videos is overwhelming to me right now, and I still have some self portrait sets from last summer to go through and upload, though that doesn’t feel as scary as it did a few months ago. I tend to put off the computer work/organizing/editing part of my job more than anything else, because it stresses me out and it feels so big and is my least favorite part of being a photographer and content creator. The problem with putting it off, is that it gets bigger and there’s more to do the longer I put it off. I go through spurts of inspired and determined action, where I’ll spend an entire day editing photos or videos, and then not touch anything again for weeks. I get a LOT done on those days, but I don’t want to make myself feel like anytime I edit etc I have to spend an entire day on it. I can allow myself to just do one thing at a time, one day at a time. Things still get done, whether I do 15 photosets in a day or just 1. Just doing 1 is probably kinder to myself, and my eyes after staring at a screen so long.
I really enjoy creating, I just want to be able to hire someone to help me with the admin side of things. That would be so incredibly nice, and also give me more time to create instead of stare at a computer screen. That day will come, I know it will.
For now, I’ll keep doing what I’m doing and let myself figure it all out along the way.
Photo members: click here to view the full photoset of me taken by Celeste Call
Video members: click here to view the BTS video & click here to view the February nude yoga video
First Look members: click here to view the self portrait set from Colorado National Monument during my cross country road trip last summer & click here to view another self portrait set also from CNM -
Magnolia with Celeste Call
Photo members now have access to:
- blog post with the story behind this photoset of me taken by Celeste Call
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63 image complete photoset
Video members now have access to:
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everything above
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6 minutes of BTS video
- 15.5+ minute nude yoga video
First Look members now have access to:
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everything above
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59 image complete self portrait set from Colorado National Monument during my cross country road trip last summer
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32 image complete self portrait set also from CNM
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Among the Trees
Click here to view this self portrait set I took in Colorado during a road trip in 2016.
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FREE ARCHIVED BLOG & PHOTOSET
I originally wrote this for Patreon on November 3rd 2016. I no longer use Patreon and have replaced it with my website (here) but thought I would share some of my old blogs with you for FREE to show my appreciation for you visiting my website! <3
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Hey friends! I decided to do this week’s post a couple days early. Antisocialdisposition and I are driving through the night tonight to get to New Orleans tomorrow morning. No traffic, yay! We’ll be there for the weekend and I want to make sure I have plenty of time to take tons of self portraits for you while we’re there, hence the early post. =]
This week I thought I would share the film I took of Nova Amour when she visited a couple months ago. We hosted her while she was in town and it was really nice getting to know her a little. She’s super sweet and creative and I’m looking forward to working with her again at some point.
I took a few self portraits while waiting until it was time for a doctor’s appointment in a part of town that I used to live in. It was nice being in my old stomping grounds and shooting somewhere that I used to use a lot for shoots. Now that I think about it, I don’t think I ever took self portraits there, I think I always photographed models whenever I was there. I didn’t have a ton of time but I think I got some great images.
All members have access to the complete 13 image photoset of Nova by clicking here.
All members have access to the complete 25 image self portrait set by clicking here.
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Lush
Click here to view this film self portrait set taken in the back yard of an airbnb in Tampa Florida.