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The blog below was originally published in  Soles of Silk's  Column section. It was archived and then republished here in 2016. In the past few weeks I've been quite busy getting in photo shoots with the likes of Jamie , Charlee , Wendy , and Jessie . This past week, however, I was on vacation and wanted to make use of an entire week off. I made plans with a handful of models throughout the week. The temperature during this time was some of the hottest in the Baltimore/D.C. area - hence the column title, "Hot Feet Week." Of course the feet before me were just as hot, if not hotter than the 100 degree temperatures the girls and I were encountering. On Monday I had plans to shoot with Mindee . My plan was to only shoot models who had no photos remaining for me to use for future updates. Mindee, however, was my only exception to that. I had one unpublished set of her from a little over a month ago. Mindee had told me a a couple of weeks back that she'd be going ou...

The blog below was originally published in  Soles of Silk's  Column section. It was archived and then republished here in 2016. Continued from Hot Feet Week: 2012 Edition, Part 1 - Mindee After trying to come up with a couple of locations to shoot Ryan  the night before after finishing up with Mindee , I was driving to Ryan's with two shoot locations I really wasn't crazy about. When I arrived to find Ryan in a cute dress, looking damn good, I knew we had to come up with something else. The locations I had come up with wouldn't had worked with the outfits she picked out to wear. I thought she looked too good to make her change into more casual attire too. It was now time for a group brainstorm. After throwing around ideas Ryan suggested we just go downtown. She said there was enough interesting stuff there that we'd be bound to find something. I agreed and we went on our way. Set 3 of the Week - Inner Harbor Pier 5 I drove us to a location where I had done...

The blog below was originally published in  Soles of Silk's  Column section. It was archived and then republished here in 2016. Continued from Hot Feet Week: 2012 Edition, Part 2 - Ryan Mileena was the first person I made plans to shoot with during my vacation time. Our plans were to get together for an entire day of pictures. Originally I wasn't sure where we were going to go for the day. I thought maybe the beach, but wasn't sold on it. A few days later, while uploading Wendy's newest photo sets from a few weeks ago, I was reminded of a place I used to go as a kid. The place is called Blackwater Falls State Park in West Virginia. I was reminded of it because when I shot Wendy, we shot in a town we used to pass through on the way. I shot Mileena a text and some photos of the falls and she was quickly on board with the idea. Knowing the ride to Blackwater would be around four hours, I wanted to see if I could come up with several locations to shoot along the way. Fir...

The blog below was originally published in  Soles of Silk's  Column section. It was archived and then republished here in 2016. Continued from Hot Feet Week: 2012 Edition, Part 3 - Mileena Well, the day before with Mileena had been great, but long. I had gotten up at 6 a.m. and didn't get home until almost 1 a.m. the following day. To say I crashed when I hit the bed would be an understatement. Still, I got up around noon and sent Kellie a text. I asked her when she would be open to shoot. After a while she responded that she had a wedding to attend in the evening, but had to get ready prior. Knowing I had Sunday open, I asked her if it would be better to just wait until then. She said yes, so that's what we did. It also gave me a chance to unwind after the previous day. Once I was up and situated on Sunday I told Kellie to let me know when she was free to shoot. She told me she was the one who had a long night this time, so we planned on getting together around 1:3...

The blog below was originally published in  Soles of Silk's  Column section. It was archived and then republished here in 2016. Continued from Hot Feet Week: 2012 Edition, Part 4 - Kellie So my final day of vacation arrived and my original plans to go to Knoebel's Amusement Park were scrapped due to my sore back. I was happy that Nikki was still available to squeeze in a few quick sets with me though. And that's just what we did. We met up at 9:00 a.m. and headed to a local park. She didn't have a ton of time and wanted to try and do several sets. I wanted to get at least two, maybe three sets with her anyhow, so off we went. Set 13 of the Week - Birdhouses Once we arrived we looked around the area and decided it was best to just start walking the paths around the park. Upon doing so we arrived at a large rock with a large post that had numerous birdhouses hanging from it. It was different, but also secluded, so we went for it. Nikki started this set in her blac...

The blog below was originally published in  Soles of Silk's  Column section. It was archived and then republished here in 2016. Continued from Hot Feet Week: 2012 Edition, Part 5 - Nikki After getting home from Nikki's shoots I began uploading her photos to the computer. While doing so I started looking for a place to shoot Olivia in a few hours. I sent her a quick text to see if she was still limited to two hours, which she was. About an hour before we were set to shoot I decided shoot locally to maximize our time to try and get in two sets. I drove out to a waterfront park that I have used in the past with several models, including: Faith , Cierra , and Nikki. Faith did her Flower Flip Flops set, Cierra her Muddy Shoreline set, and Nikki did a set on the Boat Ramp all at this same park. It gets hard not to use a few locations over and over, but I can usually find a spot I hadn't yet used. That was the case with the two sets Olivia did for me to cap off my vacation w...

Congratulations to Kayleigh - this year's Wu's Feet Links feature model from Soles of Silk. The blog below was originally published in  Soles of Silk's  Column section. It was archived and then republished here in 2016. I mentioned that  Kayleigh had shot her set for the June 2012 Wu's Feet Links Feature Model set a few columns ago. Well, the set went up last weekend and people have already been sending me emails and making posts on Wu's Forum on this thread about the set. Looks like the set has been a hit. Now that the set is posted, I will get into the backstory a little as I didn't want to spill the beans, or post any previews online until Wu posted the gallery. I like to keep everyone guessing for these sets, which I love doing for Wu each year since he first asked me if I'd be interested in doing one with Carmen , her Train Switch set, in 2006. Kayleigh's After School Feet  set is actually the seventh feature set from Soles of Silk since C...