Mirrorless magic w/ Velvetine Suicide!

I’m feeling pretty good tonight. I think I’m finally shaking off the last of the vaccine symptoms. Hive account@lovejoy has been checking in on me and we shared some of the medical/social obligations associated with it. A conversation for another day and thoughts I’ll most likely share with a long form free write. Aside from the physicality, however, I did have an opportunity to celebrate a new milestone within Hive account@eos.detroit and a nice little raise to reflect the work we’ve put in over the last few months. I took the family out to eat […first time we’ve done that in a year].

I’ve managed to discipline myself for these nightly blog posts, which is so good for me. I still have some outstanding photography I owe, and writing for Hive is enough to convince myself that it’s a force multiplier to finish these edits, share them here with a few words, and maybe make some money. The photos I’m sharing tonight are brand new from a shoot I did in January with Suicide Girl, Velvetine Suicide. I’ve know her for years and we’ve shot together many times, but this was our first session together with the new Nikon Z6II.

We booked a room at 300 Clifton, a historic mansion in Uptown Minneapolis. The location is stunning. Honestly, one of the top three most beautiful spaces I’ve ever shot, including all the years of travel I’ve done. Velvetine is a natural creative, and in addition to her beauty, she is unbelievably talented. She’s an artist, a hair stylist, and a wardrobe stylist, making my job so much easier by just filling a suitcase with the outfits she thought would be most fitting. She killed it, as always, and the new camera amazes me with every shot.

So, this is just the first set. There is more from this afternoon with Velvetine Suicide, but the following blog post with most certainly be NSFW. Very moody, haunting and beautiful, though. For tonight, I’m going to try and relax. I just bought the new manga, Remina, by Junji Ito and the first issue of a new Carnage comic. I’m reading them on my new Onyx BOOX Nova 3 Color and I’m hoping to decompress from a week filled with work, meetings and deadlines. Thanks for reading. Have a great night!