Lasik day

I have Lasik today. The old fashioned, PRK, eyeball peeling, 5 days of contacts, 4 months of sun glasses Lasik. I'm not doing it for vanity or even for convenience. I'm doing it for the metaphor... the idea of seeing things in a new way, relying less on tools I know and on being freed up to do things sans excuses is the lure.

Still I do feel a little like this about it all.

Who knew I was 'sex positive'?

It seems that as I photograph more and more people without trying to jump on them, "introduce them" to my dog or generally reveal an agenda better left hidden my reputation as a 'sex positive' photographer grows. I'm about to do a Stella benefit (stella works on behalf of Montreal's sex workers in the absence of full unionization), am doing some backstage burlesque and have more and more people calling me and asking whether I'd be part of their project. I'm saying yes to anyone with a good vibe and being careful around the rest and I'm enjoying it.

Turns out I'm good around nudity.  The weird thing is though that I find it much easier to photograph men than I do women - and for that I blame Fiesta, Knave, Splosh, Big Uns and all of the other Reader's Wives porn mags of my youth. They basically programmed me to shoot naked women in a certain way. Later reading and the odd museum taught me that they were vessels around which light might shine.

Now when I shoot women I find myself trying to avoid the obvious, while shooting men has no real thinking involved. Weird... not a major thing but a sign that maybe the world needs a little more 'Sex Positive Thinking"

Cutting down on the shoots

So I rushed back from a great few hours in Toronto (who'd have thought THAT was possible?) and straight into a photoshoot that took up my whole evening... I had two more arranged for the next day, two for Monday and one for Wednesday too... which suddenly seemed like a lot. Yes I wanted to get in as many shoots as possible before Lasik took me out of the game on Thursday - but surely I wanted a bit of a life as well, didn't I?

Result? Cutting back on the shoots, trying to bundle them into Studio Days where I can get hair, make-up and real space and manage to get 8 hrs of time in a row.

Mind I do have my first night at a decent camera club tonight, some skiing either Tues or Weds, Judith's brother coming over, a really important proposal to get out, scans to arrange, taxes to do and a lot of money to make. Very excited by the potential in the business at the moment.

Right -am at the office time to stop stalling and get down to some actual work