Carl Roberts wrote:
You should talk to Rick with Koryo photography
He is LITERALLY photographing at least one model a day
I have very little doubt that he could hook you up with someone

Yeah, but none live anywhere near the little slice of paradise I've been in: The sleepy town of LaBelle, FL..  About 30 mins east of Fort Myers in the stickety-stick-stick-sticks. 

However, I finally did find a decent model who poses well not far from there - a tad aggressive for my tastes, though:

AmandaFoxx wrote:
Odessa, huh? I live right down the road from you at Caliente

Indeed..  I drove practically right past you on the way home.   I'm at 54/Gunn Hwy.

Joe Tomasone wrote:
Yeah, but none live anywhere near the little slice of paradise I've been in: The sleepy town of LaBelle, FL..  About 30 mins east of Fort Myers in the stickety-stick-stick-sticks.

LaBelle.. Jesus...
God bless you on that one
Why anyone would be in LaBelle... Unless they are running drugs, is beside me

Carl Roberts wrote:

LaBelle.. Jesus...
God bless you on that one
Why anyone would be in LaBelle... Unless they are running drugs, is beside me

It has it's redeeming qualities, although admittedly one must search for them.   Some million-dollar homes, too - something I wouldn't have believed even a week ago.

Joe Tomasone wrote:

Yeah, but none live anywhere near the little slice of paradise I've been in: The sleepy town of LaBelle, FL..  About 30 mins east of Fort Myers in the stickety-stick-stick-sticks. 

However, I finally did find a decent model who poses well not far from there - a tad aggressive for my tastes, though:

Some people like the aggressive/rough play types.... speaking of which, Orias what the heck is going on? 

Joe Tomasone wrote:

Indeed..  I drove practically right past you on the way home.   I'm at 54/Gunn Hwy.

Yes I literally live 15 minutes from you!

AmandaFoxx wrote:

Yes I literally live 15 minutes from you!

Yep!   We should get together sometime and make Carl jealou....err... Make art! 

Joe Tomasone wrote:

Yeah, but none live anywhere near the little slice of paradise I've been in: The sleepy town of LaBelle, FL..  About 30 mins east of Fort Myers in the stickety-stick-stick-sticks. 

However, I finally did find a decent model who poses well not far from there - a tad aggressive for my tastes, though:

Could use a little skin softening..  Hard to believe she's only 22....

Tropical Photography wrote:

Could use a little skin softening..  Hard to believe she's only 22....

nothing like some good ole Gaussian blur to do the trick

Joe Tomasone wrote:

Yep!   We should get together sometime and make Carl jealou....err... Make art! 

We could totally make err, art!
Plus I do live at and have access to a gorgeous nude resort

AmandaFoxx wrote:

We could totally make err, art!
Plus I do live at and have access to a gorgeous nude resort

But where would I keep the lens cap?? 

Once I return from thrill-a-minute LaBelle, we will have to put our heads together...

Joe Tomasone wrote:
PAGE TWO?

This is unacceptable.

This weekend I am eschewing the arts in favor of manual labor.  No, I am not happy about this.  I haven't sweated this much in ages.

I have no problem with manual labor

I can sit and watch people do it for hours

Carl Roberts wrote:

I have no problem with manual labor

I can sit and watch people do it for hours

Hey, somebody's gotta be in charge  .  .  .  in my case, it's usually Jake  .  .  . 

SOS

OwenImages wrote:
I just saw Joe Tomasone interviewed on Bay News 9.

I didn't get to see it (FIOS here), and they didn't put the video on the web site.   How'd I look on that side of the lens? 

Carl Roberts wrote:

I have no problem with manual labor

I can sit and watch people do it for hours

I think I lost 5lbs last weekend.

So I had 5lbs of pasta to balance it back out.

Joe Tomasone wrote:

I didn't get to see it (FIOS here), and they didn't put the video on the web site.   How'd I look on that side of the lens? 

Your head looked well polished.  Lol. 

OwenImages wrote:

Your head looked well polished.  Lol. 

Bey News 9 was too cheap to hire an MUA...  And I didn't even get my video!  How long do I wait before posting a "I DIDN'T GET MY VIDEO ON A TFP!!!!!" thread?   

OwenImages wrote:
I just saw Joe Tomasone interviewed on Bay News 9.

From Jail?

Carl Roberts wrote:
From Jail?

Wait, what?

Tomasone was interviewed from jail or Owen watched the interview from jail?

joeyk wrote:
Hey, hold down the noise, I'm trying to sleep in here...

You're a thread killer!!!  😱

Tropical Photography wrote:
You're a thread killer!!!  😱

Tru Dat!

joeyk wrote:
Tru Dat!

Are you back in country or are you on the road

Oh and speaking of being "In Country"

SOS I'm going to Bogota Colombia this weekend
Any suggestions?

Carl Roberts wrote:

Are you back in country or are you on the road

Oh and speaking of being "In Country"

SOS I'm going to Bogota Colombia this weekend
Any suggestions?

Don't get arrested...

Frank Lewis Photography wrote:
Don't get arrested...

As usual, Frank and I are in agreement!

joeyk wrote:

As usual, Frank and I are in agreement!

me too

Chris Rifkin wrote:
Its almost a miracle I actually found a great local model that isn't controlled by a local douchbag

Yep...Sam's a great girl, cool that you guys got to work together. Looking forward to her bunny appearance..

Chris Rifkin wrote:
Its almost a miracle I actually found a great local model that isn't controlled by a local douchbag


Sam Mathias

Love this one

Carl Roberts wrote:
Just got back from Bogota Colombia
One of the nicest cities I have ever been to

Great area called the Zona T which is like the French Quarter in that it's nothing but bars and restaurants
Beautiful city, clean tons of new buildings
People were nice and well dressed

I did not see a single street person or hooker or slum in the city
They may have been there, but I did not see them

I won $500 at the casino playing a game called "Funny Poker"

$288 round trip out of Fort Lauderdale on Spirit
Well worth the flight

Sounds like ya had a great time CR  .  .  .  AND, "they" paid ya to visit  .  .  .  even better  .  .  . 

SOS

Carl Roberts wrote:
Not sure what the deal is lately, but my facebook model/photographer groups have been filled with images of women that should NOT be modeling lately

Some of them I'm looking at like... DAMN... what the hell were you thinking

And then the crap photography isn't helping either

Well, sadly with the advent of digital, we've got photographers that get a few lucky shots, shit tons of smoke blown up their asses, a few "published" images in some Ezine that no one's ever heard of or even better, paid to be published and they think their shit doesn't stink and they're the next Herb Ritts or Francesco Scavullo.. Forget the fact they won't even know who those photographers are... 

NOW, add in some girls that got 50-100 likes on some cell phone selfie with a shitty Instagram filter and now she thinks she's worth a 100hr for casual and is 5'2" and 140lbs..  AND, will ONLY do nudes if you're Playboy.. Forget the fact that the quality of their images has fallen to the quality of some of the above described photographers..

And bottom line, none could make a living if their lives depended on it.. So yea, it's no wonder what you're seeing..

Tropical Photography wrote:
Well, sadly with the advent of digital, we've got photographers that get a few lucky shots, shit tons of smoke blown up their asses, a few "published" images in some Ezine that no one's ever heard of or even better, paid to be published and they think their shit doesn't stink and they're the next Herb Ritts or Francesco Scavullo.. Forget the fact they won't even know who those photographers are... 
..

Or boast that he "owns all of the Florida market"when he gets the lucky break when a local Tampa area model one person here has shot with makes a catastrophicly horrible decision that sucks for everyone here asks him to shoot a spread for Playboy Venezuela,and she is a Playmate in that magazine (past few months),because they are good friends...
and claims he is the only person in Florida who can get models published in Playboy,thus misleading new models into having to deal with this scumbag/creep
That's Hot though

Carl Roberts wrote:
Not sure what the deal is lately, but my facebook model/photographer groups have been filled with images of women that should NOT be modeling lately

Some of them I'm looking at like... DAMN... what the hell were you thinking

And then the crap photography isn't helping either

Also a result of all the (well,the 2 main ones)Sluggos that have taken over
what you are seeing in the groups are the "leftovers"
sad