January 6th, 2020 - Dresses, Gowns, in a Bookstore followed by Peaceful Protest and Tacos

Vivian genuinely cares about her fellow man and woman. She’s not just someone who writes about helping others and/or only goes out to volunteer once in a while, she does it regularly, and she uses social media to push content to make people aware of what is going on in the world, and even her looks to get people to come and participate in making a change.

I was fortunate enough to plan a shoot with Vivian then attend, participate in, and photograph a protest after. Our shoot took place at a bookstore that also deals in records, coffee, comics, pinball and even has a setup in back for live music. Shooting with Vivian was great - she’s intelligent, charismatic, quick-witted, and, believe it or not, she’s a big dork (and it’s awesome). During the shoot we were walking along the sidewalk and suddenly I heard my name being yelled from what sounded to be a familiar voice. I turned back, confused, and saw my mom a quarter-of-a-block back! Turned out she was eating with her husband at a restaurant as we walked by and she ran to say “hi!” A little odd at first, but I adore my mother, and seeing her and giving her a huge hug in the middle of the shoot was a pleasant surprise! Back to the shoot though.

We took pictures in an old film photo booth, with her reading books about strong women, holding fake flowers, posing to devour the record So Many Men, So Little Time, and in front of a chessboard next to an old hat, all while she posed in three beautiful dresses she looked stunning in.

After the shoot, I met a friend of hers and picked up someone she knew from the Colorado People’s Alliance for a rally outside the Aurora I.C.E. Detention Center where a relatively large group had come together to protest the conditions people detained there have said they face daily, and the fear of immediate reprisal upon speaking to anyone outside the facility of their experiences. That is a topic for another post, however.

At the end of the rally, just as the sun was fading from view behind the Rocky Mountains, I pulled Vivian to the side to capture one last photo (below), before racing to Torchy’s Tacos for tacos, margaritas and good conversation in celebration of a full day’s work!

Thank you, Vivian, for the experience. I’ll never forget it.

Vivian-After the Rally

August 29, 2020 - Rainy Day Photo Sesh with Angela / Veronica Vixen

“Unprecedented times” is a phrase heard over and over and over, feeling like the theme for 2020. We have Covid-19 affecting people in every part of the world, spreading freely across the U.S., in tandem with the wildfires doing much the same. Riots and peaceful protests, people caring about things and having the time to work on making a difference instead of just focusing on, well, work. People are losing their homes, unable to pay bills, and tented communities of people line many streets where they have now been forced to merely exist and survive. The world has been caught in a tempest of extreme unpredictability, leaving us all wondering “what will happen next?” Luckily, for me, I was able to find some semblance of the “old normal” amidst the chaos in the form of a photo session with model, and a dear friend, Angela.

We had set up our shoot to be on the private rooftop of a one-hundred-forty-year-old building that spans half of a city block, and we were to shoot some street fashion for public posts on social media, boudoir and dance video for a project I’m working on, of which she is a participating model. However, the anthem of 2020, called “Murphy’s Law,” had to play loudly for me. First off, I was late to the shoot (sorry again Angela!). Second, the sky was overcast and rain started to fall just before Angela’s arrival, and because of the rain, we were unable to access the rooftop as planned so a last minute change of plans was required.

We instead ended up driving to check out a location for street photos and found a gem of a location to make a shoot work out. We ended up shooting just two outfits in and around the urban, but relatively empty area. As we shot, all we could think about was the plan we had made to get food afterwards, and we went to a wonderful Asian restaurant that I used to order delivery from many years ago.

I have already edited a number of the photos and I cannot wait for Angela to see them! The shots are completely different in their style from our previous couple of shoots and I think it’s a wonderful thing that the rain came through to afford us an alternate location to shoot different ideas, and for us to chow down on some great food in good company! Angela, thank you for coming down to work with me again!

June 1st, 2019 - American Apparel, Calvin Klein & Art Nude - Madison Flowers & Olivia Daniel - 06/04/2019

Good Morning!

I just recently had a really fun shoot! Ms. Madison Flowers (@empyrean.soul) came to my studio for the third time and we were able to create some artwork for a coffee table book I’m in the process of creating with a wonderful graphic designer friend (Nathan Benner here’s a shoutout). She brought her friend Chey who is trying to get into modeling and is trying to absorb the wealth of knowledge that Madison brings to the table. We shot a bodysuit from American Apparel I had ordered during their 40% off sale, then a CK separates set, and some art nude.

At 5pm, the second model, Olivia Daniel (@liv.dreaming) I was to shoot with arrived, and we started by shooting with both Madison and Olivia in the giant window with American Apparel bodysuits on as well as some figure nude. Olivia is 5’3” and Madison is 5’10” so I was up to the challenge of making them both appear to be of similar heights in the shots. They are very different people in the way that they model, and so they presented a wonderful contrast to one another - Madison with very strong female poses, and Olivia with softer and more purposefully sultry ones.

Madison and Chey had to leave after a couple of hours and we all got a couple of cute videos/selfies as a group beforehand. Then it was time for Olivia to get shots of just herself. We started with some black thigh-high American Apparel Socks, a pink knit bottom and a sheer top doing yoga - middle splits along the windowsill (one of my favorite shots). We did more lingerie, then art nude, and decided to go to the local dispo to grab a pre-rolled joint for some smoke boomerangs. We ran around 16th Street taking more photos and finally called it a night at nearly 11pm.

Absolutely wonderful shoot experience and I look forward to working with everyone again! :)

Patreon

Good morning all!

I just wanted to post a bit about my Patreon and how it works after seeing that some people were confused about it in general yesterday!

Posting on Instagram has been difficult with them changing their algorithm, shadowbanning tags, and even having problems with simple boudoir photos being posted and flagged to receive less traffic. When Tumblr had its “great cleanse,” being able to post uncensored artwork on the internet became even harder to do. Twitter is a viable option on social media to post, however, I feel like Twitter has a lot of gratuitous nudity that gets posted, and even they have begun shadowbanning content (plus I’ve never really been one for Twitter much anyway [though check out @CFOXphoto haha]).

So I went to Patreon, where I can post my artwork freely, where it feels safe, where the followers are people who care and are supportive of the art and its journey. I have multiple tiers for my artwork that are each gated behind a different paywall which includes the previous tier, because I know that not everyone wants to be subjected to boudoir or nude art.

• $1 - shows support and nets access to my photography blogs on the website.

• $10 - technical and architectural photos

• $15 - fashion, beauty, fitness, cosplay, and lingerie

• $25 - implied and art nude

• $50 - Special tier posts specific to each model

I wish that I could just have one tier for my artwork that encompassed all of it from architecture to art nude but I do it the way I have it set up so that everyone following can see what they are okay with seeing. In this day and age that’s pretty important.

For each person who offers their support I ask that they message me on Patreon afterwards to let me know if there was a particular model that I’ve worked with that brought them to the site. That way I can pay it forward to them!

Hopefully this alleviates some of the confusion regarding my Patreon account, which is located at https://www.patreon.com/cfoxartwork - check it out!

Have a great day everyone!

-Christian

March 8, 2019 - Boudoir Shoot - Jordan B - 05/29/2019

I met Jordan by shooting with her friend, Abigail, almost two years ago. Abigail (thank you!) had said good things regarding my work at the time and got Jordan interested. It took a while but Jordan and I set up a mixed shoot that went through some fashion with a dress that she looked stunning in, to some lingerie and implied/art nude. Especially for her first shoot ever, Jordan was amazing! What really shined through was her personality - in and out of photos, she’s adorable, endearing and fun! I felt like I had made a new friend!

March 6, 2019 - Boudoir and Fet Shoot Indoors - Kanani - 05/29/2019

Kanani Boom and I had planned an extremely late-night boudoir shoot with a number of fetish-esque outfits. We talked about music a lot since she is an artist that should be followed, we caught an escort being paid across the street immediately before doing the dirty with her client, and we were hit by a couple of fire alarms that threw us outside the building around 1-3am!

We have absolutely phenomenal photos that we are both sitting on right now - Kanani hasn’t ever filled out a model release before and I can’t post anything without it. We have both been extremely busy so all of the shots have been put to the wayside currently, though we just reconnected and plan to remedy the situation so that we can post what we have! I’m excited to post! She’s a great person and I hope that we shoot again soon too!

March 5, 2019 - Boudoir and Costumed Shoot Indoors - Jackie G - 05/29/2019

Shortly after moving into my new studio I was fortunate to shoot with Jackie G., who brought her boyfriend to the shoot and a plethora of outfit choices and interesting props to work with! I had just purchased a couple of constant light stands that I was excited to shoot with and had just made it to the studio when they did!

We shot a ton of different colors, she wore a dress with horns on her head, mooned the city from the window, donned some faux leather with a gas mask, brandished an LED whip, and the photos have turned out to be amazing!!!

The only downside to the entire shoot was that the pizza we ordered didn’t arrive until we were just about to finish!

February 25, 2019 - Mixed-Genre Shoot - Ashlynn Burch - February 26, 2019

Last night was a wonderful shoot! @ashlynnburch showed up promptly and with a TON of wardrobe! She brought a girlfriend, Cara, with her as moral support and the two of them were a wonderful pair to have at any photo session!

We shot primarily using the windows and natural light coming in. Ashlynn is a joy to be around and her energy on set is amazing - she’s a bit of a dork like I am so playing around and chatting in-between shots was common. It felt like we got a really great vibe from one another and I loved working with her. We were all able to hit things off wonderfully.

Cara is a beautiful woman who has never been a part of a photo shoot, but Ashlynn and I were able to talk her into being a part of the shoot too! That said, I suddenly became violently ill and had to run to the bathroom with my ulcer pain giving me a serious episode, causing me to have to vomit… Cara and Ashlynn could have been like anyone else and ran, but they didn’t . They tried to take care of me as I was on the bathroom floor. They cleaned up the place a bit even!

Big shout out to those models for being amazing human-beings too! Seriously!

Cannot wait to shoot with them both again!

February 25, 2019 - Mixed-Genre Shoot - Ashlynn Burch

Just cleaned up the studio and have the wonderful @ashlynnburch on the way to shoot today! We discussed shooting some boudoir with natural lighting, a sexy-casual set, and art nude, then are looking at possibly going down to street level as well! Should be a fun one!!

January 12, 2019 - Duo City Shoot!

I was fortunate to meet a model, Olivia M. (@lilmissbluntshine on IG) who seems like a wonderful soul! We had plans to shoot boudoir/art nude in the naturally lit studio downtown above the city, but I wasn’t able to get back to her via texts while I was at work, and it was plain to see that she was worried about if the shoot was still going to happen. When we did connect, about 2 hours to the already-confirmed-trade-shoot, she was getting ready to shoot in the city with another female model/photographer Laura P. (@lalalove51712/@capturecreative17). Olivia told me on the phone that she had a lot of recent cancellations where the photographer had ghosted her, thought I was doing the same, and was not wanting to waste her own time. A little hurdle in the road, but after the phone call where Olivia voiced her concern, we would still be able to salvage the shoot, albeit with her and Laura modeling together, and we would schedule another shoot with the original idea which we both really liked, at a later time.

Olivia told me that Laura was running late but we wanted to make the most of the remaining light, so we took off to shoot with her car in the red-brick Denver alleys, still wet with melted snow, the sun drifting west to the horizon. We took some instant film shots in addition to the digital ones, and there was a natural blue and red look to the photos as the sun was casting a deeper and deeper shadow. Olivia and I were able to vibe extremely well and create some wonderful artwork during this time!

When we were looking at shooting at one last spot, we received a call from Laura who was now downtown. Finally, haha. We went to pick her up and moved to a rooftop with the 16th Street Mall Clocktower in the background along with an impressive view of the skyscrapers, city lights, and silhouette of the mountains thanks to a few lingering golden sun rays. It was funny, we all matched with our denim jackets. I was able to take individual shots of each model as the other hid away from the camera to keep warm in jackets. I got a few fun shots of both as they sat high on the world. On the way back, Laura snapped a picture of all of us together in our matching clothing to post on her Instagram, and it left a good feeling. Just before reaching the car, I took some more shots of Laura in her beanie, skirt and backpack next to the Christmas lights along the street.

Speaking with Laura, she seemed like she would be interested in creating more as well!

We went our separate ways after that, but I felt like all three of us had a great shoot, and looking at how many awesome photos were there, I definitely have my editing cut out for me!

Blog Purpose

I should’ve started an artist blog long ago!

I’m going to use this as a safe space to write as I shoot. I already document my shoots with release forms and surveys from the model’s side, I should probably do the same thing from my perspective.

I want to talk about the shoot right after. I want to talk about the great ideas a model and I may have, the projects we work on, plans for the future, etc. I want to add in tutorials for techniques I learn. I want to write on issues I see as they appear to me. I want to post some of my own artwork with poetry I’ve written.

They say that a picture says one-thousand words, but I think there’s a lot to be said that a picture cannot, and I hope that someone can take away some good from it.

Thank you for reading!