Soles of Silk Blog

The blog below was originally published in  Soles of Silk's  Column section. It was archived and then republished here in 2016. Wow, it's November already - only a few days away from Thanksgiving. It feels like this year didn't start that long ago. Not sure if it is a sign of me getting older or what, but the time just seems to fly by. With a little over a month left here in 2011 I'm still working on some key items for the site that might be of some interest to you. Well, when I have some free time. Been a little wrapped up over the last few weeks between work and becoming a first time uncle. But back to the matter at hand, below is a breakdown of some of those items - some new, some updated: 2011 Year In Review Contest Every January I post a year in review contest for the site. In it I ask Soles of Silk based trivia questions about things that happened on the site for that particular year. In years past the turn out has been one of the best for any of the contests I

Ryan wore these shoes, without socks, all day long at school before shooting. Oh so nice! The blog below was originally published in  Soles of Silk's  Column section. It was archived and then republished here in 2016. October. What a month it has been as far as the site is concerned. Some of it good, some of it, not so much. As the saying goes, which do you want first? The good news, or the bad news? Oh wait, you can't answer. I guess the good news comes first. Good News Items Alienware Aurora ALX -  The computer I had been running was a custom built, bare bones system that I had built roughly six years ago. I got it to be close to top of the line then, so it wasn't until recently that I determined it was time to start looking for something else. Well, last week marked the first update with the  Alienware Aurora ALX system that I had built and man is this thing FAST! I won't go into all of its specs, but I'm loving this thing. Shoot: Ryan - I recently did a

Cierra is Soles of Silk's most photographed model. The blog below was originally published in  Soles of Silk's  Column section. It was archived and then republished here in 2016. When I used to do some writing for a local newspaper I used to be in charge of the arts/entertainment section. I ran a regular column there also and sometimes it was just hard to come up with a theme, subject, or topic of interest that I thought people would enjoy reading. To be quite honest, sometimes I just talked about what everyone else was - like an awards show or celebrity mishap. Other times I ended up doing a repeat column similar to something I had done in the past. The same holds true here. A couple of days ago I remembered a column I wrote a few years ago where I listed some fun, totally meaningless facts about Soles of Silk and its models. And to be totally honest, that might have been the second time I had run such a column. Well, now it is time to do it yet again. This time I deci

It's been way too long since I saw these amazing wrinkles. The blog below was originally published in  Soles of Silk's  Column section. It was archived and then republished here in 2016. This week was a reminder of my early days in my foot photography career. As many of you know, the first ever girl to pose for foot themed photos on a regular basis was my ex-girlfriend,  Abby . On Monday I finally was able to get Abby back in front of the camera. It has been over two years since Abby has posed for the site. She's been quite busy and we just never seemed to match up. Well, we finally made a promise to get together and get some photos in and boy did we ever have some great results. The first set, which the photo above is from, ended up being over the 100 photo mark. Generally I don't do that many photos unless for a holiday or special occasion set. Sometimes, however, a set is just going so well that I want to keep going and take more and more shots. That happened

It was so nice to have both Charlee's (left) & Jamie's feet planted to my nose. The blog below was originally published in  Soles of Silk's  Column section. It was archived and then republished here in 2016. Cute title, huh? Yeah, I thought it was perfect especially with these two great photos taken by none other than Charlee (top) and  Jamie (bottom), which features both of their feet on my nose. It was taken just before we started shooting their first ever sets together on Monday. The two are good friends and I told them I wanted to get them to pose with each other before summer was over. They both took a day off work and we made the plans. We ended up getting in two sets with both of them together, and then after a short thunderstorm, a set with each of them solo. All in all, it was a very productive day with some great photos. Toward the end of the day, when I was shooting Charlee, Jamie came up behind me and expressed a desire to take a couple of p