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. You are all wonderful friends, models and human beings. 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
My first shoot of the fest.
My second day of shooting at Fest X started with an early morning session with Vancouver model, Meghan.
I chose to shoot at Casa Dracula because of the beautiful morning light which spills around the grounds and into the many rooms and I thought Meghan would really suit the soft natural feeling that I was trying to achieve. I think I was right 🙂
Cam Attree – www.nudephotographer.com.au
Shot a bit with Ella Rose yesterday. Afterwards I stupidly fell asleep by the pool and got a teensy bit too red. Oops!
Day 1: Cam Attree and I did nothing due to the wall of heat we experienced when getting here… dam its hot!
Day 2 we grabbed a couple of models and made them wake up way before dawn to travel to Cabo to a location we were told about. Cam was chief navigator, and I concentrated on driving the car on the correct side of the road. I still do not understand the rules for a 4 way stop… so I tend to just briefly pause before launching through the intersection… a ploy that has kept us alive so far.
We were a little bummed that the location didnt quite work out, and that there was a bloody great cruise liner in the center of the harbor blocking the view. Not to be detered we made the best of the location at hand…. Here is the lovely Anne Duffy.
The last shoot of my first ZoeFest was with a lovely New Mexican by the name of Stephanie Anne so it was only fitting that I continued on from that fantastic sunrise beach shoot with another here in Baja.
Mal Grant and I drove Anne D & Stephanie Anne down to Cabo San Lucas in the hope of getting some shots with the famous Arch in the background. Unfortunately the massive ocean liner parked in right in front put paid to that idea so we needed to find another spot real fast before we lost the good morning light. Luckily we found a couple of great beaches only a few minutes further south from Cabo.
My shoot with Stephanie Anne continued later that day when the afternoon cooled down a little and we shot at the Hotelito in Todos Santos.
Cam Attree – http://www.nudephotographer.com.au
