2005 Has been more than usually hectic with the launch of my glamour magazine web site SexyXposures which represents the culmination of two years traveling twice round the world to four continents to cast and shoot some of the most beautiful glamour models on location in their own countries.

Kate

The year really started for me in November 2004 when I flew into Bangkok to meet and photograph “Kate” one of Thailand's top models and my good friend. Earlier in the year during a calendar shoot in Ibiza we had planned this one month trip, traveling all over Thailand to photograph Kate in her own country for her new web site scheduled to launch soon..

This Thailand shoot took us from beautiful old Thai houses in the north to bamboo beach cabanas on the Islands of the Aderman sea in the south which were to be destroyed by the tsunami which struck just a week after we left the coast!

The new year 2005 found me in the rain & cold of London having cast three European girls to shoot but not in the gloom of Northern Europe , so we flew off to the Volcanic island of Lanzarote in the Canary islands which is one of my favorite locations for winter sun.

The models were Kiki, Francesca & Sasha and our location was to be a whitewashed villa built in a volcanic lava field and the pool was fashioned out of a blowhole in the lava! Lanzarote is also famous for black beaches and is a fabulous photo location.

villa built in a volcanic lavafield	Lanzarote famous black beach

In February I organized a trip to Arizona as my makeup artist Roberta Duran is based in Scottsdale & where she had set up locations for us to shoot fitness models in and around town in the amazing desert homes there.

Arizona desert home

Carrie Lee in Hereford

March saw me back in Europe shooting English models at country mansions in the Hereford countryside.

In April I received an urgent call from my friend and fellow photographer and film producer “Mick Gleissner” who was in Phuket Thailand Scouting locations for his company “Nautical Angels” annual calendar.

He asked me if I could cast four girls, all able to model underwater! and be ready to shoot in a week, on location with the models in Thailand at Phi Phi island, which is where the movie “The Beach” was shot, As there were two calendars to be shot, one underwater & one above water, it was decided that I would shoot the above water calendar and Mick would shoot the underwater one as he was also shooting a music promo that also required underwater scenes. The theme of the calendars was based around the location of Mick's two motor yachts a 70ft Sun seeker& a 60ft Azimut which he had taken to the Island from his base in Hong Kong.

“Nautical Angels” Annual Calendar Shoot Thiland Phi Phi Island

The models that I took were Marketa from Prague who is like a fish underwater, Jewel who is Thai but based in England , Hani from Kuala Lumpur & Tia from the Philippines . The logistics of shooting in the mid day sun in Thailand required the use of studio flash units on location powered by the generators on board the yachts,I also called on the services of my best friend and photographer Amanda Langford who is based in Miami but flew out to Thailand to help me.

In May I was in Prague again, as I try to shoot there at least twice a year and the Czech models have a natural beauty and are a pleasure to work with. My work in Prague is made all the more enjoyable because my Productions are so efficiently coordinated by Gabriella Kleinova my Czech makeup artist who arranges locations as varied as country castles to 400 year old houses in old town Prague.

Stacy

By June I was arranging a calendar shoot in the south of France with five models and locations around Nice, Cannes and St Tropez. Roberta Duran & Todd my location producer and Roberta's other half flew over to Europe to help me with this shoot as we were working from sunrise to sunset & Roberta was having to keep the makeup on five models in 90 (35c) degree heat and locations as much as 50 miles apart There was barely time for us to include wine tasting at the numerous vineyards producing Excellent Provence Rose.

The models were Alex from Paris, Darlene Silva from Brazil , Charlotte from England , Rebecca from Kenya and Kiki from Norway .

Alex from Paris

In July I was back in Scottsdale Arizona helping to edit the thousands of images from the previous months ready for the design stages of SexyXposures and to shoot some more models which will begin to appear in the coming months.

In September I spent much time on the computer or a tractor at a Farm in the south of France editing more images away from the diversion of creating them!