A Mother's Love

I met these two beautiful ladies at a friends house in West Hollywood. What started as a dinner party turned into every one crashing at the friends house. I woke up at the crack of dawn the next morning due to the fact that I was still on East Coast Time. I turned to see her in the corner feeding her daughter. It was too beautiful not to capture. I call this series "A Mothers Love".






This is the first shoot I have done before I even brushed my teeth. But I do like the results! Once again I want to say thank you to the my two special subjects. You both are more beautiful than words can describe.

Finally, my series "Sweat" has arrived!!!

Firstly, I would like to thank everyone involved with making this series happen. I thank each and every one of you. I would also like to give an extra thanks to those who didn't make the final cut for understanding. Believe me, it was nothing you did because you are all beautiful. But it was more of a reflection of the picture i took that I wasn't too pleased with. We will work together again and make it happen.

I was inspired to do this series about a year ago. But as all know life throws things at you to get you unfocused, but I figured it was now or never. Even though this series is not exactly where I would like it to be, I felt like it was time to bring it to life and share it with you. I hope you can appreciate and enjoy it. Please leave me some love and let me know what you think. I would love to hear your opinion. Until next time, remember, CREATIVITY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND!! So please share yours. Also drop me a line if you want to be in my next series.

SWEAT NOW COMING SUMMER "08"

Thank you all for being patient! I appreciate all the emails I have gotten. However, I have decided to move this series to mid summer 2008. Reason being, at first SWEAT was just going to be an artistic series. I have now changed it to and ARTISTIC and EROTIC series. So I have to shoot a little more to get it where I need it to be. I still have room for a few more people in the series, but I must worn you, its not for the shy! It's not porn but it is EROTIC! So slide me an email if your interested photographybyseven@gmail.com

This Just In!!!!

A photographic journey that will surely raise your body temperature. Are you ready to SWEAT?

Shooting Fitz

Fitz, what can I say? Well, firstly he is a real cool dude with a promising future. He needed to ad some more commercial, fun stuff to his port, so he made his way over a few days after the tornado's ravished Atlanta. It was another rainy, gloomy day in ATL, but things got brighter once our shoot started. He is not the type of dude that likes to smile at all and you will rarely ever catch him smiling. However, I managed to pull it out of him. He is also multi-talented! He is a model (print and runway), an actor (shot his first independent film this winter and just got cast in a Major Motion Picture to be shot in Hollywood this summer) and an up and coming Ultimate Fighter! So don't get shit twisted and step to Fitz on some next shit because he will knock a nigga out! I really believe that this dude has a real future ahead of him. Oh, and he is doing all of this and doesn't even have an agent. That is sheer determination! Also, look out for Fitz in my 2009 Calender. Here are a few more images from our shoot:

Putting Together a Series

I decided after years of shooting that it was time for me to do my first series. So here it is! Hopefully this will help any other photographer who ever thought about doing a series. I started it in May and was not finished until September. It was a long process, but it was well worth it. There were a few more elements I wanted to bring to this series, but it didn't quite work out. That is one of the first thing you must realize when shooting a series. You will not get everything you visualize in your head for your series. There will come a point where you will just have to draw the line and put your series out as is. I really wanted at least one BBW for my series. I firmly believe that weight and height has nothing to do with beauty. I do not live or play by the rules of the fashion industry. Fuck them and their ideas of what beauty is! I am into art and art has no parameters. But yes, I really wanted a bbw or even a heavier couple for the series. But after a few cancellations and talking to a few other women that just didn't have the confidence to do it. I decided to put the series out as is!

How It Started

The first person I shot for this series was Jeff. He is from Belize and works for an airline. So he is a very worldy dude and just an all around good guy. He actually came for a totally different shoot.


But I caught such a good vibe from Jeff that I asked him to do the shot for me. I had been thinking about starting this series for a while and finally decided to act on it. He jumped right in and my vision came to life. We caught that amazing shot. We were done in fifteen minutes and back working on his other pictures. There was one other possible shot I thought about using:

Although this one was cool. I think I made the best decision with the one I chose.