Happy birthday, @michelinepitt!

Hey, Steemit! A lot happening here lately. The HF20 snuck up on me. I’m usually pretty on top of these things, especially considering I follow many “in the know” Steemian accounts. I’ve been keeping my head down and working so hard on photography edits, I missed the updates. Resource Credits, followed by an RC patch, and Equilibrium. It’s cool. I’m looking forward to how all this resource management pans out between now and next week. It’s nice seeing my Steemit feed begin to propagate with new posts this evening. It was radio silence yesterday, I’m assuming because most accounts couldn’t transact or publish.

Tonight, I’m sharing some really special photos of my friend @michelinepitt […I purchased her Steemit account as a gift, although she’s yet to make her first post]. @michelinepitt is an incredible person and one of the most inspirational friends in my life. She is a model, illustrator, make-up artist, hairstylist, special FX artist, sculptor, designer and business woman. That’s just a short list of her credentials, but she is extraordinary in many ways. We met working together for a pinup brand in Burbank, CA. She know owns and operates two brands of her own. Vixen by Micheline Pitt and La Femme En Noir.

These images are from the last La Femme En Noir look book shot in April of this year. I’m so fortunately tasked with shooting look books and product for the brand, and can’t imagine a better company fit for my style. The shoot was at @michelinepitt’s home in Los Angeles and we shot with another beautiful model, Rachel Sedory. I’ve been trying to get to another set of images from this incredible shoot but as most of you know, I’ve been drowning in work from the time and effort needed to complete Dark Pinup before print deadline. @michelinepitt’s birthday just passed and I thought this would be an appropriate surprise.

I worked on these photos yesterday and was taken back to the immensity of the project. Of course, as a photographer, these kind of shoots are what we dreamt of picking up our first camera decades ago. More than that, though, it reminded me of just how lucky I am to have these kinds of opportunities. All of my shoots with @michelinpitt are milestones in my career, but having the chance to shoot her for the La Femme En Noir brand is such an honor. I paged through 1,700 RAW images and chose these three to edit. There are more coming soon, but until then, Happy Birthday @michelinepitt!

Thanks for reading. Congratulations Steemit, on a successful HF20. As always, the Steemit community is an unstoppable force and I can’t wait to see what emerges on the other side of this hardfork. I always appreciate the support. For more photography, art, illustration and the stories behind the work, follow me here @kommienezuspadt!