So I was out doing some urban exploring ’round the bay and ended up finding this incredible old abandoned navy base with warehouses and all kinds of goodies. Like a kids in candy stores, we went adventuring through these buildings checking out everything we could, and then security came. Security being one old man in a pick up truck who happened to see our car parked. We climbed out of the 2 foot hole that was our entrance to the warehouse and greeted him as if it was completely normal for people to be in and out of these buildings through holes in the wall. He seemed ok once he saw my camera and I tried to ask him how I could get actual permission to shoot in the buildings. His response was somewhat mumbled, but my interpretation was “don’t get caught”

SO of course we were back within the week with the lovely Vanessa Rae to do some industrial fashion/awesome shooting. Doing the smart thing we parked the cars behind the warehouse as to not be completely obvious we’re chillin inside, hoping no crack dealers are squatting around us. And we get to shooting.

I could not have asked for anything better, I started to shoot into the warehouse when we found this incredible window with almost cartoonish beams of light blasting through, making things all purty. Everything was great! We shot for a few hours and got to the end, (when here was not enough clothes left to shred) and started to pack it up, when who shows up? Mr Security man! Not sure if it was through a random chance of him finding us, but we broke the cardinal rule (don’t get caught) I promptly informed him that we’re all taken care of here and we walked by him to start packing up the car. I find the best thing to do in these situations is to play it cool and act like you know what you’re doing. He again mumbled something and walked away. Whew!

But even more awesome than normal, I have a behind the scenes video! So heres how my shoots normally go down:

Yep, they’re normally just about that epic. A big thanks to Daamun for making the video and Brian for taking the vid and all the help on the shoot.

I’m in a bit of a Photoshop identity crisis. I don’t know if I liked highly processed pics right now or just naturally awesome ones. So heres a bunch of both, let me know what you think!

And in case you missed it, heres a link to Brian’s behind the scenes pics, check em out!