Christmas Pinup Day 7

Xmas 2004

As we progress closer to this year's Christmas, we'll jump back to 2004 for a quick shoot in our living room.  I love the outfit and the model, but the background could certainly use some work.

Ah, well, the shots were mostly just for fun and we weren't going to any great lengths to create memorable art that evening. We were just shooting and having a good time. It worked for us.

Christmas Countdown Day 6

Winter Wonder

These images aren't exactly Christmas Pinup, but they do have that wintery, holiday fun feel about them. I'm including them just to show what  good sport Wanda has been over the years in posing for me during the brisk winter months.

This shot, for example, was taken at the entrance to Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Park. We drove up there one brisk winter afternoon when the sun was shining and the air was relatively warm and spent the better part of 4 hours shooting in the snow fields and the woods adjacent to the park entrance. We had to climb a huge snowbank to get to the fields where we had the privacy to shoot.

Wanda was a great sport about the entire shoot and I think she enjoyed it more than either me or my assistance did. She certainly managed to cover a lot of ground in the hours were were shooting and was smiling the entire time. She treated it as a grand adventure and made it fun. Though she did wear gloves and boots, she certainly didn't mind getting down into the snow and playing around with different poses.

Playing in the Snow

We've also shot during an actual snowstorm in an area not too far from our home. That was a fun shoot as well, though the falling snow made the shoot a bit more difficult and made protecting the equipment more problematic. Once again. though, Wanda made it fun and we got some great images, as you can see from the shot below.

Beauty in the Snow

Christmas Pinup Day 5

Xmas 2003

I'll have to say, this is one of my favorite holiday images of my wife.  For this shot we used studio lights balanced to provide soft lighting on the model, a tripod mounted camera to use a shutter speed slow enough to allow the Christmas lights to glow in the background, and a shallow depth of field to give them a soft glow.

I just love her eyes and her smile in the shot, and the outfit is pretty sexy too without being too overt. In any case, we had a lot of fun shooting that year.