• Acacia + Ana

    Acacia + Ana

    The summer of 2008, I was about a year into living in South Beach and six months into shooting models. Ana (the blonde) and I somehow met up and talked about shooting. She had a friend, Acacia, with her and they were visiting from somewhere. New York, I think. In any event, they decided they…

  • Ade

    Ade

    Ade and I met through mutual friends. As Ade was into yoga, we planned the shoot around that with her striking various poses on the beach. Ade was awesome. I wish we had met much sooner than we had. Two photographic peculiarities with this shoot: 1) we shot all of this in crazy harsh and…

  • Allison

    Allison

    One of the great things about the small towns in Costa Rica (and really, anywhere) is that you know everyone if you don’t at least know of them. So Allison was visiting a friend at a neighboring cabina in Jaco one day and we were introduced. We set up our first shoot for the next…

  • Alyssa

    Alyssa

    Alyssa was the first model I photographed from North Carolina after moving to the state. Shot in the early months of the COVID-19 lockdown, we planned from the outset to be cautious. In reality, there was far more risk going to pick up groceries than our socially-distanced shoot. You remember. From the start of the…

  • Amber

    Amber

    Amber’s shoot was a great one-off shoot. I was back in the states, having returned from Costa Rica and was temporarily living in North Carolina while I recuperated from dengue fever. Was getting cabin fever and somehow I connected with Amber. Can’t remember if I found her or she found me but either way, I…

  • Anastasia

    Anastasia

    Anastasia was one of the nicer earlier surprises in my shooting career. Spent forever trying to coordinate our first shoot. Every time we’d set it up, something would come up and it would fall through. The last time we tried to schedule a shoot, I got up in the morning as I usually do and…

  • Andariel

    Andariel

    Andariel and I connected through ModelMayhem. Was living in Ybor City at the time and she was somewhere just north of there. She had mentioned that she had this house for shooting so I was pretty stoked. When I arrived, I was looking everywhere to try to find something that was going to work, both…

  • Andy

    Andy

    Hands down, Andy is one of the coolest people I know. And one of the sexiest. And she has the most intoxicating accent. When I met Andy in Jaco, she ran Rasta Rica, a small business built entirely around all of her own hand-crafted footwear and jewelry. Sandal-less sandals (see photos) and body chains. All…

  • Ashley

    Ashley

    Ashley and I were actually coworkers when we met at a little sandwich shop on the beach. I always thought she had a really cool look and style so we did a couple of fashion shoots around South Beach. Super cool human.

  • Ava Addams

    Ava Addams

    Ava was referred to me by Renna even though Renna and I had never met, let alone shot. It was because she liked my photos of Britney (who she was friends with) that Renna sent Ava my way. At the time, Ava had been known for being in one of Playboy’s special editions. Something about…

  • Britney Brooks

    Britney Brooks

    Britney was referred to me by her friend Madison after our shoot together. I can’t remember much specifically about our first shoot except I was shooting with Canon’s thrifty-fifty lens which I had purchased specifically for that day. I was still shooting with one of the original Canon Rebels at that time and that lens…

  • Care

    Care

    Care and I had mutual friends in Columbia and we might have spoken once or twice. Not often. Followed her on Instagram, very “life as it is” kind of stream. Then one day I’m scrolling down and there’s this gorgeous redhead on my feed. And it’s her. So of course I reached out. We immediately…

  • Carrie

    Carrie

    I don’t recall how Carrie and I connected but I know I was the one who reached out to her. Was totally captivated by her look. We did one shoot together and, unfortunately, not long after she moved to Germany. Super nice and super beautiful.

  • Catrina

    Catrina

    Catrina was visiting Miami and while she was there, she and I scheduled a shoot. Very laid back shoot. I picked her up at her hotel, we drove to the metro station and then over to Little Havana, shooting some in Domino Park, a landmark to the area.

  • Chelsea

    Chelsea

    Chelsea was another model shot for the online news/entertainment site out of Costa Rica. Really nice person and fun to shoot. The oddity of shooting at Lummus Park is that it sits on Ocean Drive, one of the most recognizable and defining scenescapes of Miami (though, technically, it’s Miami Beach.) You’ll see everyone shooting there,…

  • Christie

    Christie

    At the time I met Christie, she was right on the cusp of beginning a career in the adult industry. I think she might have done one or two shoots. When we shot, her… let’s call him partner… was there and that was one of the only times where a male has been present who…

  • Cindy

    Cindy

    My first shoot with Cindy was really a shoot with Leidy and Cindy at a local hotel, Doce Lunas. I had seen her around (Jaco is a super small town) but we hadn’t met prior to that day. I was always surprised that she didn’t model more than she did. I mean, she has THE…

  • Cre

    Cre

    Most everywhere that I live, I like to keep an ad running on craigslist, searching for models. Cre responded to one of my ads and sent along some photos. I liked her look; awesome bedroom eyes. So she came over for a shoot and we did two sets, one on the couch and then one…

  • Daniela

    Daniela

    Daniela caught my eye from the first time I saw her. It was on the main drag in Jaco and she came whipping by on skates, twirling and swaying from side to side. Just right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of life, there she was, skating by. Pretty soon after that, I…

  • Delila Darling

    Delila Darling

    Delila was one of the first models I shot for my first adult site. I remember spending a crazy amount of money on a video camera a few months prior to this shoot and I never could get it to shoot in super high resolution. Such a shame. Thankfully, I was shooting photos, too. And…

  • Dubraska

    Dubraska

    Something that always stands out in my mind with this shoot is actually getting to the location. Dubraska rode on the back of my scooter and as we were getting close to the spot, I cut a hard left in front of a car coming towards us. We weren’t hit and there was no real…

  • Elissa

    Elissa

    If pressed, I couldn’t tell you how my path crossed with Elissa. Obviously, it was in Jaco but I can’t remember specifically. What I do remember, though, is seeing professional photos of Elissa before we ever shot. And I feel like that was the impetus for us shooting. Because I’m sure I reached out to…

  • Emma

    Emma

    Emma had a travel notice up on ModelMayhem that she would be coming to the area so I reached out to set up a shoot. She’s the only woman I’ve shot that supports herself entirely from modeling. And she is as sweet as she is professional. Emma actually takes part regularly with this outfit that…

  • Fox

    Fox

    Shooting with Fox was an utterly super experience. After I shot Valkyrie, she had suggested shooting with Fox in Columbia. An excellent, excellent suggestion. The two days that we shot together were just stellar. It was such a good and unique vibe. I entirely meant to shoot Fox and Valkyrie individually while I was there…

  • Emmy

    Emmy

    It thrills me to no end to find local models who I know I’m going to work with regularly. And Emmy appears to fall exactly into that category. Just a beautiful person and super fun and easy to work with. Our first shoot went just about as well as it could. While it ran longer…

  • Gabriella

    Gabriella

    I had come back to the states from Costa Rica for a brief period in the summer of ’14 and had been contributing weekly to a Model of the Week feature for an online news/entertainment publication back in CR. When I came to the states, the editor said that he wanted to continue doing it;…

  • Irmina

    Irmina

    Another beautiful person I met in Costa Rica was Irmina. And I don’t know how we met, but then, how does anyone meet in Costa Rica? Friend of a friend, I’m sure. In any event, we did two brief shoots over a week’s time.

  • Jacquelyn

    Jacquelyn

    Jacquelyn was another model I photographed for the model of the week feature I was doing for the online news/entertainment site based out of Costa Rica at the time. Grateful she responded and I wish we had shot more than we did. Super nice person and gorgeous in front of the camera.

  • Jen Capone

    Jen Capone

    Jen and I did three shoots together over the course of a little over a year. She had been referred to me from Katie Cummings, another adult starlet, who I had previously shot. She was starring in adult films when we met but the first couple of shoots were pretty standard fare: stripdowns and erotica.…

  • Jess

    Jess

    Funny story about Jess. So some media outlet was having some sort of competition looking for photographers and I was really excited about it. After looking for a model, Jess came to the forefront. So our first shoot was all about this. Shot under the causeway going from Miami to the beach. I rarely hire…