Fine Art Nude Workshop

I'm looking for 4-6 photographers interested in working with not one, but TWO wonderful world class fine art nude models in a day long outdoor photo shoot / workshop / safari / adventure at Wreck Beach on Saturday, August 9th.

Anoush Anou - http://anoush-anou.com/ and Salome -  http://www.sami-art.de/ - are two amazingly gifted models, from New Zealand and Germany respectively, with a wealth of experience and amazing bodies of work in their portfolios.  Please do visit their websites, you won't regret taking a peek...

While they are here in Vancouver, I have volunteered to lead an expedition down to Wreck Beach, a location where I have shot a significant portion of my Nude in the Landscape series (50+ shoots).

This short video will give you a sense of Wreck Beach (half the images were shot there) and the astonishing variety of shots you can get in a one and a half mile stretch of beach, as the sun moves from East to West and the tides roll in and out.  Sand, sea, trees, pebbles, rocks, foliage, drift wood - Wreck Beach offers a cornucopia of possibilities for the photographer with a good eye and the imagination to create an original vision.  And even at the height of the summer season, there are long stretches of vacant beach.

https://vimeo.com/78877418

I am more than happy to share my knowledge of Wreck Beach as a location and provide as much instruction, guidance and counsel as is needed, wanted or desired by the participants.  Advice and my opinion are free.  Cost of the workshop is $200.  All proceeds go to the models.  This is an extraordinary value and a rare opportunity to both stretch yourself artistically and hone your photography skills over the course of the day without feeling the pressure to "get the shot" that can sometimes happen in a one or two hour photo shoot.

You will probably want to bring a small camera bag, because of the terrain and the climb down, but especially back UP the hill.  Good walking shoes, sunscreen, water, a bag lunch, a blanket or tarp if you're going to shoot on the sand, shorts or swim trunks and flip flops if you are crazy enough to venture into the water (I always am), a sense of humour and the desire to create a little art...

Parking is available at the Chan Centre at UBC ($16 for the day), and the location is a fifteen minute walk away.  At the beach, we will divide into two groups, each group having an opportunity to work with Anoush and Sami at different locations, the groups alternating models and locations over the course of the day.

Please message me if you are interested in attending, or have any questions.

Cheers, Vince
www.HemingsonPhotography.com

"Plush" Size Models

Do a Google Image Search for, "Robyn Lawley".  Take a good look.  Frankly, this woman is gorgeous.  Stunning.  A knock out.  How does the mainstream fashion press see her?  The word hefty was used.  If this woman is "hefty", then as far as I'm concerned, hefty IS the new sexy.  Model Robyn Lawley was recently described in print with the adjective,hefty.  Having once been described in the London Times TV Reviews as a "beefy Canadian", for the Vanishing Tattoo National Geographic documentary film I produced and hosted, I can empathize.  But let's be honest, it's different for guys.  Beefy isn't so bad.  But calling a =n unquestionably beautiful woman, hefty?  We need a reality check.

Hefty is out.  It just doesn't sound sexy. It sounds like a brand of garbage bags. And "Plus-size" models? It's almost as bad as hefty.  I get the "Plus" part, but plus isn't sexy either. But if you add an"H" to plus... I think we might be onto something, Watson...

Voila! I give you plush! "PLUSH". Let it roll off your lips. Puh - lussshhhh. Say it again.  Plush is magnificent. Plush is sumptuous. Plush is grand. Plush is deluxe. Plush is posh, ritzy, swanky and classy. You can look it up. Plush is just utter fabulousness.  Plush is opulent and opulence.

Plush is sexy as Hell. "She is so... plush."

We need to have Plush size models, not Plus size models. Beautiful women happy with just being beautiful and not trying to conform to some bizarre, completely out of touch with reality industry standard of what beauty is. Plush is real. Plush is beautiful.  Plush is lush.  Plush is  P  L  U  S  H  ! ! !

Plush is the new sexy. Now that, I want to put on a T-shirt.

"Plush is the new sexy."

Robyn Lawley, you are so plush it hurts...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg3tdqWSi6k