Underwater Nude 05 Travel and a ticket to some

and a ticket to some very distant country they’d barely ever heard of

including a cross-country trip from California to New York

I spent hundreds of hours refining my original photographs to produce the finished images you see here

That’s the point of departure for all my Realty series –

if the passerby did not immediately grasp the woman’s mental state

Underwater Nude 05 Travel and a ticket to someUnderwater is one of the most demanding, yet rewarding environments for fine art figure photography. Bodies, attitudes and relationships transform in a gravity free environment, creating new options for images that would be difficult or impossible to achieve on dry land. These images are photographed in swimming pools in and around Los Angeles, using only natural light. Each one requires many hours of computer retouching and enhancement to bring out