Dan Kitchens

Meanwhile in the city...

I began May in the quiet of Joshua Tree, and ended the month in the Chaos of Manhattan.  My only respite was my hotel room on Central Park South, and thankfully my dear friend Cacia came to my rescue and brought her pal Evelyn along to meet me... and trash my hotel room.  I will also be presenting various images and videos (well over a 100 of them) of this last day in NYC to my different subscriber tiers this mont...

Lost in J Tree

....aaaaand we're back!  Patreon was getting real stringent with anything related to sex or nudity and so my account was suspended for a couple days as I had nude images in my public posts and on my page banner.  I made all the corrections they asked for, but it is a bit scary to feel the effects of the recently passed SESTA/FOSTA law (due to how ill-informed people were about the bill). &n...

Shelby in the Mist - BTS

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Lots of images of Shelby shooting with Moss von Faustenberg, as well as one of me and Shelby, and images of Shelby changing on location and of her being goofy during the shoot. Such a fun day!

Shelby in the Mist - Extras

This set of 20 hi-res images has now been moved to the massive ARCHIVE FOLDER (which contains thousands of images and videos from older posts) - you can access it by subscribing at the $25 Archive Patron level.

This visit from Jessica and Shelby, in which I gave them my bedroom for three nights, was actually the first time I had ever met Shelby. I realized about a week after I told them they cou...

Shelby in the Mist

 This set of 23 hi-res images has now been moved to the massive ARCHIVE FOLDER (which contains thousands of images and videos from older posts) - you can access it by subscribing at the $25 Archive Patron level.

When we photographers get up in the morning and see some clouds hanging over the mountains east of Los Angeles we get excited, but we are never quite sure what we'll see if we take the chance on rounding up a model and packing gear into the car and start dr...

Shelby - Misty Mountain Hop (Preview)

Since I am now arrived in Portland, where I will be living for the next 2 months, I thought I should dive into some shoots i did with two of my Portland based model friends back in the beginning of May when they came to visit me in Los Angeles.  Shelby and Jessica stayed for 3 days, and I got to shoot with them a couple times in one...

Celia Underwater - BTS

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Celia Underwater - Extras

This set of 30 hi-res images has now been moved to the massive ARCHIVE FOLDER (which contains thousands of images and videos from older posts) - you can access it by subscribing at the $25 Archive Patron level.

Like most people I photograph underwater, Celia had an outfit in mind (well I don't know if it can be called an outfit as she mostly nude, but with a cape she made of brightly color sheer tulle. I always try to explain to people that most likely the fabric or the...

Celia Underwater

This set of 27 hi-res images has now been moved to the massive ARCHIVE FOLDER (which contains thousands of images and videos from older posts) - you can access it by subscribing at the $25 Archive Patron level.

Summer has arrived! Which reminds me that I never got around to posting this set of Celia that we shot in her backyard pool (with a guest appearance by her dog). We had a blast, beati...

Cacia in Marijuana

I just uploaded a set of 20 images and a video to the Archive for my $20 Patrons.  The images were taken while visiting my friend's farm in the Trinity, but didn't quite fit in with the rest of the shots we made there.  They are a bit  goofy, and mostly I was trying to make promo shots for my Pinipple stickers.

If you are a $20 patron - go check the Archive fo...

Celia underwater

Celia is one of my those good friends of mine who isn't a professional model, but is always up for taking photos with me when we hang out - in the mountains, in the forest, in her bedroom, in my studio, at the beach, anywhere.  She is a goofball, but can strike a sultry pose or two hundred when the camera is aimed her way.  She also happens to have a gorgeous pool in her backyard, so of course we have shot ...

Cacia in the Trinity - BTS

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Giving you folks a big set to thank you for your patience with me - I am finding it hard to edit, upload, and make posts while traveling (nothing exciting related to this photography project -  just a family reunion type trip).

Plus, Cacia as always such a ham in front of the camera, I always feel like i need to post a...

Exclusive Memory Vault Sets for May!

For those who are Memory Vault patrons ($20+), go look for these recent additions to the archive.

The first was shot just this week on a misty day in the local mountains.  My friend Celia and I had a hang planned, but when I got up in the morning I saw the clouds were still thick over the city, so I suggested we drive into the mountains to chase mist.  Celia was gung ho about it and brought some cr...

Cacia at the Trinity - Extras

This set of 33 high-res images has now been moved to the massive ARCHIVE FOLDER (which contains thousands of images and videos from older posts) - you can access it by subscribing at the $25 Archive Patron level.

The swords we found laying around the farmhouse were made by my friend's recently deceased father.  My friend who owned the marijuana farm allowed his dad, who was a drug addict, to live in the farmhouse as long as he stayed clean (ironic that he came to l...

Cacia in the Trinity

This set of 31 high-res images has now been moved to the massive ARCHIVE FOLDER (which contains thousands of images and videos from older posts) - you can access it by subscribing at the $25 Archive Patron level.

One on of our road trips several years ago, Cacia and I spent a night at my friend's marijuana farm along the Trinity River in far northern California. What a TRIP to stay in that place...

Caption?

This image seems like it need a caption... 

Also its one of over 100 images from this day along the Trinity River in Northern California with Cacia Zoo I will be dividing into sets and uploading for my various Patron tiers this week for my "Monthly Cacia" series...

Sari in Candy Chaos - BTS

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I let my iPhone run recording video both while Sari and I shot, and also while chit chatting while on a break (after she had to hold poses for a long time in the dark for long exposure shots).‘
For those of you who have been subscribing for a while, ...

Sari - Candy Chaos (Preview)

A little preview of a set that i am in the midst of posting for my $5 and up patrons ($10 patrons get another set, and $15 patrons another set with some videos as well) from my shoot with Sari, a modeling I have been hoping to shoot with for years now. A total of 62 images plus videos available depending on which Patron level you are able to subscribe to.

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Jess at Red Rocks - BTS

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Jess is a good friend of mine, and not a model, and we get together not so much to do photoshoots as to wander around naked in nature. We are more naturist buddies than photographer/model. Its a weird thing to mix the two activities together (ie - me shooting while naked), but if everyone is comfortable (I wouldn'...

Preview for next month

I have been buried in trying to make selects and make editing decisions on a bunch of shoots, new and old, that haven't been seen yet. It will be a mixed bag (as is usual for me I guess) of nature trips, moody nude studio studies, and probably an underwater shoot as well. 

 It will include this playful shoot of Cacia Zoo along the Trinity River in far northern California,  as well is Sari, a model i have wanted to shoot with for several years, and kind of spur of the moment she ...

Joe in the Afternoon - Archive Preview

My friend Jo came over to help me assemble this "set" that I would go on to shoot portraits in the dark the over the the next couple weeks. The set evolved a lot since this first day (as you could tell if you checked out the shoot with Masha posted last week). Joe was feeling particularly feisty and open that day though, so it was fun to shoot her letting loose briefly (her vibrator even got involved) before her best frie...

Masha in Candy Chaos - Video Preview

Normally I only post videos for my $15 BTS Patrons and up, but I had a lot of fun ones to go along with this shoot I am posting today of Masha, so I thought I would make one little snippet available to ALL my patrons.  its just silly stuff, Masha and I goofing around as we marveled at how over the top the set up I created was looking in the shots, and finding simple ways to make it look even more over the top.

D...

Masha in Candy Chaos - BTS

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While we were there to make completely different images, Masha and I couldn't stop marveling at how she looked in the setting I created, we started shooting videos, for which I dug into my bag of tricks to make some effects (using either some cheap raver prism glasses dropped in front of the iPhone lens, or shootin...

Masha in Candy Chaos - Extras

This set of 22 hi-res images is now in the "Archive" folder - subscribe at the $25 Archive Tier for access to this and more than 150 other sets!!!

More of Masha in my so-called "Candy Chaos" set.  Masha herself kept referring to it as a "beautiful Lisa Frank-Hellscape" in her slight Russian accent as she gleefully took selfies in it.  She was in love with the absurdity of the scene, and I was marveling at how it looked almost professional, despite being lit en...

Candy Chaos - Masha

This set of 21 hi-res images is now in the "Archive" folder - subscribe at the $25 Archive Tier for access to this and more than 150 other sets!!!

This set is obviously pretty different from what I normally post here, and to be honest these images don't even hint at the purpose of this shot Masha and I did.  Its a new thing i have been tinkering with and will keep under wraps for now (but...

Cacia in Prairie Creek (Preview)

Exclusively for my $20 Archive Patrons - I have just uploaded a 40 image set of Cacia basking in the morning light of the redwoods in far Northern California.

I didn't specifically mention last month's editions to the Archive, but there was a somewhat racy set called "Chantelle in the Courtyard" as well as "Yuri Exploring Oahu EXTRAS".

2018-04-20 16:06:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Masha in Candy Chaos - Preview

While I am at it (and because I have so many shoots I am trying to edit concurrently), I might as well preview another set I plan to post for my $5-$15 patrons.  I tossed together this little "set" in my bedroom about 2 weeks ago and have been photographing women in it, mostly at night, and mostly in the dark. I might keep the actual intended results of this project under wraps for a while, but me and the models all seemed to like making these shots in the set with a bunch of colored lights...

At Her Edge - Preview

Jess standing at the edge of a cliff in the Mojave Desert, CA. March 2018.

More coming from this shoot very soon for $5-$15 patrons.

Pulp in Winter - Behind the Scenes

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The rather camera shy Moss von Faustenberg appears in some of these images photographing Pulp Suicide.  This is now the third time I have gone off to shoot with Moss a...

Pulp in Winter - Extras

This set of 23 hi-res images is now in the "Archive" folder - subscribe at the $25 Archive Tier for access to this and more than 150 other sets!!!

We drove up the mountain pretty early in the morning (thankfully since on the way down we saw that snow-chain checkpoint had been set up for people trying to go up, and I hadn't remember to put my chains in my Subaru), and show in two locations that we found right of the road - if passerbys had the wherewithal to watch the forest closely, may...