Las Hermanas de Luz or... why should guys get all the fun?

Las Hermanas de Luz, Silver City, NM

Wick Beavers Photographer

So.

There are these group of small fanatical sects of fundamentalist catholics typically residing in the wilds of hispanic usa (NM,AZ, SoCal) who perform self flagellation and cross hangings whilst in the throes of Religious psycho adulation.

They are always men.

Well.

I found a small group of women, practicing their art living near Silver City, NM.

I snuck up on them, got real close- they never once diverted their attention or eyes towards me they were so enraptured-and shot this photograph...

They immediately pulled the woman down and tried to attack me. I ran off wondering...

Was it lust? Was it sin? Was it religion?

Happily, safe back in my studio now, I can only wonder.

And have faith that my new friends are carrying on in their normal lives as clerks, secretaries and waitresses.

For a view of more of this fanatically fun, zealously cool stuff, please visit my site: www.wickbeavers.com

Fun in New Mexico, photography by Wick Beavers Photographer

Good times in New Mexico!

www.wickbeavers.com

Good night you moonlight ladies!

Love,

Wick

Buckhorn

Buckhorn Sunday Night Fights and others...

a day at white sands...

my girl and i hit the gypsum at 4pm October. winds blew 30mph consistently, the sand fired everywhere.

weston, okeefe, adams, porter and of course, chala, the girl.

9/11 jumpers meet monterey dunes

woman in denim, yankee street

Roun Heeya, a New Mexico Photo Postcard

San Lorenzo, NM

white sands, nm

roun heeya, there's a lot of smoke, dry earth and rock. lots o sky. and light.

not much h2o...

time

city of rocks, nm

not a lot of yer typical big city model types, no $ for advertising, hardly enuff for anything else either

so what's a snapper to do when the trigger finger really starts to burn?

use it

gila cliff dwellings, nm

the town that had great expectations of being something bigger, silver city, puts on an impressive bike tour every year in May...TOG (tour of the gila)

90 degree right hander, downtown san lorenzo, nm

then, the local characterful buildings, edifices and shacks can stand in for the usual hi contrasty modern urban scapes seen in so many tired fashion snaps...

well, stand is indeed a euphemism.

By habit rather. Rabbit hather?

cia black site discovered in small shed, nm

or you might visit a senior center middle of some valley,

beg to fire at some time worn and happy folk

apache elder, francesca vestri, mimbres valley, nm

and shoot, dang, spit and whittle ride that bull when the rodeo hits town

bull fighter, as they now call themselves, tossed, silver city wild west pro rodeo, nm

Maybe take yer preferred armor and some battery powered strobes to the next little dinner party

they'll not invite you back, but at least there's a brief sense of relief!

hans at the werber place, east fork, gila, nm

and if it so happens jesus, allah, buddha and vishnu all conspire to light the whole place up with the state's biggest wildfire ever?

Find yourself a promontory and stand around in the 95 degree heat amongst the scorpions, vinegaroons and rattle snakes to make 45 pictures at 22 mpix each into an HDR Photomerged native high rez 10 foot wide picture of the place alight!

wildfire, west side gila wilderness ablaze, near mogollon, nm

i'm beginning to enjoy this place even if all this and more is freely available.

open up them peepers cuz there's a world to snap roun heeya.

wherever you are.

check out my site for the latest cool pictures and feel free to get ahold of me at wick at wickbeaversdotcom

Hasta la Vista youngsters

Mango Strut Coconut Grove Putting the Nut back in Mango (or something)

Mango Strut Street Portraits

The day began with trepidation, excitement and a mild 78 degree breeze here in Coconut Grove.
If you put your ear to any tree (preferably coconut) in Miami Dade, you might hear the stirrings of a band member wirelessly dialed to a mobile amp, a princess or a wall street pot or tunity lurking in his head on wheels. Smiles and flip flop flipping, too, were coming to a confluence, the best $3 hamburger cookers lighting up, kids of all ages from all over glomming into the Grove for this year's annual running of the mildly fractured Mango Strut.
The various paradeers, announcers and security officiants (or are they paradeers, too? I mean, what if there's a stick up at Moe's Bar and one of these fonay security people is called upon to shoot back... with a cardboard gun?? I felt insecure in the fog of security these days in which we live).
But 5 mpix in hand, I used the phone- armed with Hipstamatic's Libatique lens and Salvador film- with periodic false caller dialing in to give the portrait poacher iPhone 4 a more realistic look and sound to the unwary subjects close up and familiar with cloistering humans cell phone jammed in their ear.
Herein is a look at how the politically incorrect and mostly irreverent and comedic Mango Strut looked to be seen by us, the Public of Coconut Grove and points afar and away...

~Happy New Year~

Wick Beavers Photographer

www.wickbeavers.com

Damage in Cville - Which way to LA!

Outer Banks Outer Limits, a Portrait of a Virginian Woman and some Beauty Photography for Bristles Hair Design and Day Spa...

A swell and creative time in Charlottesville, VA.

The idea behind this photograph was to simulate walking on water. As sunset loomed, the shoot evolved into a Vitruvian Woman concept as well.

Cool to let ideas run the direction of a shoot!

Above, two "Portraits of a Virginian Woman", the setting is her home, a very chic pad in the heart of the old town of Cville...

Here above are 3 images shot for a cool large hair design and day spa in Charlottesville named Bristles. The idea obviously was to avoid using stock, emphasizing inner and outer beauty as well as claiming Bristles is the BEST Hair Design and Day Spa this side of the Blue Ridge, maybe Mars.

Shot some wonderful stuff here in Charlottesville and points nearby enroute to LA.

From a full wall size portrait which will act as a "come on and get a tattoo, like mine" to a cool looking Town and Country inspired Portrait of a Virginian, to an all out Beauty cool Photo shoot for my pals at Bristles Hair Design and Day Spa here in town.

For all shoots, I used at least 2 lights, mostly several more. You will see a more "equitable approach" than normal in the Portrait of a Virginian as the sitter knew she wanted me to shoot her portrait but we agreed the final photograph had to suit her expectations for herself as well as having it meet mine. Cool!

Check these out with a particular eye to the lighting and how the subjects are separated from their backgrounds. I like that as a concept as well a a portrait technique- all I really want to convey is the subject but I love placing them in their own environments.

Next Post will be coming at you from West of the Mississippi River- spell it!

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