BrettDawg

Some girls make a lasting impression on you not just because of how they look, but how they behave outside of the photo world. Take Celeste Trinh, who talks to me candidly about her family and romantic life. Or Brandy Dahl, a voluptuous model who told me repeatedly that I resembled Newman from the Seinfeld TV show.

Raquel Borges was not one of those kind of girls.



The fact is, I never really ...

Of all the models I've ever worked with, Ute Werner might be viewed as the most "classically beautiful," a blond stunner in the Christie Brinkley mold.

Looking at some images from her portfolio, I'm sure you'll see why I considered myself lucky to have found her and negotiated a deal to photograph her:



We met in May of 2005 at Lake Elsinore, where I had her model on a few boats in ...

First-time models present a unique challenge for a photographer. Lacking experience and a set stock of rehearsed poses, these girls are often nervous and uncomfortable, and it's my job to guide them and make them feel at ease. I've shot a fair number of novice models, and the shoots have ranged from delightful to disastrous.

Jackie Couldert was one of the many first-timers I've shot on the water. Although she wasn't a seasoned veteran, she was extremely flexible and took direction ...

This past Father's Day weekend (June 14-15, 2008), I hired four local models to work at
Camp Far West: two on Saturday, two on Sunday. I previously covered the New Year's
Day gathering of V-drives and jetboats at the lake, but it had been too cold to do any
swimsuit photography. This time, I planned to do a lot of it.

But the best laid plans of mice and men often go straight to hell.

First of all, only one of the models, Marla Gutierrez, showed up on Saturday. ...

A couple of months ago, the Boss Man assigned me to travel to southwest Michigan to attend a gathering
of jetboats and V-drives on Gun Lake. The boats would be congregating on an island along the southeast
quarter of the lake called Party Island. I was very excited to go, although I was feeling pessimistic about finding
swimsuit models. Here's why: a few weeks earlier, I had contracted four ...

Lexi Schafer was — and still is, I presume — quite a buxom platinum blonde living in the Southern California area. At one point, she had a personal website, where you could subscribe and see "provocative" photos of her. That is undoubtedly how I discovered her, and ended up making contact with her. I believe her website is now inactive, and according to information I gleaned online, she now refuses ...

People who know me personally are well aware of the fact that I prefer Asian women. I consider them to be the most beautiful in the world. Not necessarily the sexiest — they are, after all, not particularly curvaceous — but certainly the most striking and lovely. If I ever get married, it will be to an Asian woman.

Because of my "Eastern preferences," I've been trying to sneak ...

I didn't know what to write about.

When we launched the PB domain last year, it was decided that we'd all have blogs. My boss, Chris Davidson, has been diligent in creating a lively, anecdotal blog all about his travels to events across the country, including his personal travails and observations about humanity along the way. He's updated it regularly, and for a guy who isn't a writer, it's a ...