'The best laid schemes of Mice and Men oft go awry.'
Robert Burns
Every year, I think how great it would be to take a week, or even a few days off early in December. I'd get ready for Christmas in advance, and get all my shopping done early, before the stores and world gets crazed as the holiday grows closer. I imagine having everything done ahead of time, then just relaxing and enjoying Christmas week without having to run around and battle the traffic and crowds.
Sadly, I've never been able to manifest that plan. It's difficult to get time off from work anytime in December, I work in the mental field, and it's one of our busiest times of year. Even when I do manage to get things done early, I always find more things to do, more places to go, and more things to buy. It's a part of the holidays that's hard to escape from.
Dave from Immortal Form always also plans to take time off in December, a full month if he can get it, from shooting. Photography is only one of his jobs, so putting it on hold for the holidays, and focusing on other things, is a goal he sets each year. Like me however, usually he doesn't quite make it, but for very good reasons. When opportunities arise, even the best laid plans need to be modified or changed.
This can be especially true for photographers, when given the opportunity two work with a model they've been trying to schedule a shoot with. For Dave, despite his plans to take a brief winter pause, December turned out to be one of his busiest months behind the camera. This shoot with Derek, took place just last week and given the positive experience, and the results they achieved, Dave doesn't regret for a second having to put his hiatus on hold.
'The shoot was extremely positive. Derek has a lot of energy and although it wasn't as long as some of my shoots we got a lot of great photos. And whereas I'm usually tired at the end of a shoot I was still full of energy at the end of this one. '
Derek shares that he has equally positive feelings about his creative collaboration with Dave. He expressed some of his ideas to Dave about wanting to have the full shape of his body in some of the shots, and they worked together to find the right poses and perfect angles to show off Derek's incredibly hot, and full body featured.
'My experience working with Dave was amazing! He made me feel super comfortable and accepted all of the ideas that I wanted to try out, while at the same time, giving his vision to be combined to make the photos turn out great!
Dave was very professional but also was super friendly and we were able to joke around and have fun with the costumes. I think my favorite part of the whole shoot were the poses with the fishnet//netting. My experience with the shoot was amazing and I’ll definitely be seeing Dave again in the future for some more photos. '
Given Derek's long, lean dancers boy, Dave featured him in poses that really benefit from his look. Although he didn't intend it, as they were shooting, Dave noticed that many of the poses had sort of a 70's vibe. During the 70's, many singers and entertainers seemed to take full body promotional shots, as if they were dancing. Dave also felt the vibe from the colors he was using, but midway through changed to green and gold, then red and green for the Christmas shots.
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