As she is a self confessed beach babe and considering she hadn’t had the chance to shoot outside of the hotels, I thought Samantha Grace would like the opportunity to scrabble over some rocks and get wet at the beach. I think it’s pretty obvious from the photos that she appreciated it 🙂
My second shoot at Casa Dracula was with Los Angeles model St Merrique. This space really offers a great variety of areas to shoot in so it’s easy to achieve some very different looks in the one location. St Merrique was absolutely amazing to work with and the way the sunlight bounces off her lovely skin is just breathtaking.
Those of you that know me are well aware that I am a quiet soul and I normally don’t talk a lot during shoots but I think I hardly said anything at all during this shoot but only because I really didn’t have to. St Merrique was so good at posing and interpreting what I wanted all I really had to do was point her in the general direction and let her go for it. It was such an effortless shoot and the results were outstanding. Even if I do say so myself 🙂
If you ever get a chance to work with St Merrique, I highly recommend you jump at the opportunity.
Cam Attree – www.nudephotographer.com.au
Brooke’s reputation as an art nude model had preceded her and I was very much looking forward to working with her. I had seen her portfolio and even heard first hand about her ability to work with the environment, especially with positioning her body in tight, tiny spaces. So with that in mind I thought the rocks at the beach would be a good place to test her out 🙂
Of course she passed with flying colours and I was left amazed at how she carefully manoeuvred her body in behind rocks and crevices and created beautiful poses in such awkward positions. To say I was impressed would be an understatement.
Golf clap for Brookie the little monkey 🙂 Hope to work with you again real soon!
Cam Attree – www.nudephotographer.com.au
There were such amazing people and surroundings at Zoefest 2011! Scott and I enjoyed meeting old friends and making new ones! Thank you Zoe for making this all possible!
I borrowed a tub from Rex, and Claudine had some fun with it out on the beach at Los Palmas. Ella Rose and lensbaby are a great match too….love that mosquito net at Todos Santos Inn!
Thank you Claudine, Ella Rose and Rex for making these images possible. 🙂
Sara Liz seems to be Carlotta Champagne’s partner in crime although I get the impression that Sara Liz is the more devious one of the two lovely American ladies. Mal Grant and I spent the whole day with these two and lets just say there wasn’t a dull moment. Here’s some of the images I shot of Sara from the old cannery, the Todos Santos Inn and the beach in the late afternoon.
Sara, it was indeed a pleasure working with you and I look forward to hopefully working with you again in Australia in the not too distant future.
Cam Attree – www.nudephotographer.com.au
I had such an amazing shoot with Carlotta last year at Mission Beach so I was really looking forward to working with her again this time around. We ended up shooting in a number of different locations including the old cannery, the Todos Santos Inn and the beach through out the day so we got a great variety of images. She is the consummate professional and she certainly didn’t disappoint with this latest shoot.
Thanks again Carlotta! Until next time….
Cam Attree – www.nudephotographer.com.au
Such mixed feelings today. Extreme happiness in the memories of the past 1o days. Sadness and a bit of eye mistiness as the dwindling group of us help to load the cars and hug out what is the end of an extraordinary experience here.
“See you next week.”
It’s the only thing that to say that minimizes our melancholy as we are extracted from this all too brief cocoon of joyful creativity and community. Goodbye is simply too difficult to say at the moment.
I was invited here as a stranger to join this beautiful collection of humans and will leave as part of a family of wonderful artist friends. You have all been so welcoming and generous with your spirit and inspiration that I know this experience, this first ZoeFest for me, will always be remembered as one of the best moments of my life. Thank you for that.
I created images here I didn’t know I had in me due to the collaboration with some of the most beautiful, intelligent and creative women I have ever met. Sometimes with a bit of a plan, sometimes just seeing what we discovered wherever we were, the resulting images were always beyond what I could have imagined.
As I looked over the shoulders of the photographers editing their images, I was in awe of what we had all discovered, sometimes in the same locations but all unique in their point of view. I have learned much from all of you.
Here is a small sample of the embarrassment of riches I was able to create with the help of my new friends.
Billy
Thank you so much to everyone I’ve been fortunate enough to photograph so far. Â You are all wonderful friends, models and human beings. Â xo
Ella Rose is our only UK representative this year as unfortunately we had some last minute drop-outs. Like other English art nude models I’ve worked with before, she is full of  beauty and grace and she certainly didn’t disappoint on our very first shoot together.
Cam Attree – www.nudephotographer.com.au
Here is a candid shot of Candace taken while we were moving to a new location. I love the sunlight in her eyes!
