I appologize to all and Zoe for not posting in several months. I have found this internet life lately has gotten bigger than I can handle. So much so that it is effecting my art and photo work.
So much stuff sitting in hard drives and black film bags that needs my attention away from the computer per se.
This photo was from my last shoot.
model: Katlyn Lacoste
Place: My Home
© Art Silva photo
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Sorry for being absent lately, things have gotten a bit busy ’round here.
Just wanted to share a wonderful new model I started collaborating with recently, a artist model and someone who ya’ll will love. A sweetheart, intelligent and talented in other creative areas from music, writing as well as nude modeling. As far as artistic beauty goes, she is my cup of tea!
Introducing Katja Gee (Kat) from SLO :)
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I love the actual photoshoot and the interaction with the model, so much so that I tend to shoot too much. Well more like book too much but sometimes I have to stop and think that I need to balance my limited time of photoshoots with post work and concentrate on the hundreds and thousands of frames I have already shot. Rolls of film and countless digital raws just sitting here untouched and overlooked.
…Yet I can not resist the lure of a great model and an opportunity to create magic for the camera… I guess I’m a sucker for a beautiful nude ;)
model: the amazing Vassanta, from her visit to Santa Barbara with Rebecca Lawrence over a year ago. Shot on a public accessed beach below my house. shhhh nobody saw us, I think 
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Even though this location is quite popular with Santa Barbara locals and artists from all around, I always have good luck when I bring models up here. I am just blessed with great models and photography guardian angels :)
Model: Bailey Devonish
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Wow, I have been away for so long. Things are moving quickly, ideas are taking form and creativity is flowing.
Since my last post I have done a few shoots, and getting my film gear a good workout, (thanks Zoe, the scanner works awesome, great to see you and the kitties again)
This is a photograph I did a few weeks ago with the amazing Floofie who I have worked with three times in the past year, only this time she came to visit me in Santa Barbara. As good luck would have it, mother nature gave us a most gorgeous day to do a location session with up on the mountain, gotta love when that happens in the middle of a wet winter.
Kira, always a blast to shoot with you my friend!
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Finally! installed my own Photoshop and Lightroom on my Mac after a year of absence and red tape of changing platform license.
Adobe had a black friday coupon code on an already reduced package deal for a [now do-able] cross platform upgrade and I had to jump on it. Received the boxes over the week and installed on friday. Now comes the big task of playing catch up on all the work I did since not having PS, or my Dell.
I know I said I was focusing on film but I still have a lot of unseen digital baggage just sitting in my HD.
Anyways here is my first edit, a digital capture of the lovely Zinn Star in my home just 3 1/2 weeks ago.
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I have a some catching up to do AGAIN… I really need to spend more time here. Networking on the other modeling sites has gotten well lets say not the direction I want to go with a few exceptions that are also members here.
…Just a quick post and thoughts I have today 
Photo is of the wonderful Zinn Star who was so kind to visit and create with me a couple weeks ago. Long time admirer of her work I was honored to finally work with her awesomeness and beauty.
Film work coming soon when ever I get a quality scanner….
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The latest entry on the front page of ARTnudes Networkwhich features a video clip of Dennis Mecham interviewed by Salt Lake City Weekly really fits into this image post.
My goal with Bailey Devonish here was for us to create a thought or question of nature and ourselves and how we organically tie into this rock we live in. Is it mother nature that originally bore us or are we from the pages of the book of Genesis? How did our existence really begin, are we all tied in organically somehow with our natural environment through natural selection or were we one day miraculously formed out of dust from the garden?
As questions arise the more it makes sense to me that we are a piece of this big carbon puzzle we call Planet Earth… this image is our interpretation of those questions… something porn can never do!
Ironically for my birthday today I chose to post this image which we shot a couple of months ago on her birthday, a perfect fit to the subject of our blog here and the annual ritual of celebrating ones birth.
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– The statuesque and incomparable Kat on a Rock – Santa Barbara, Ca
Sooo, yesterday morning as I was wishing the lovely Rebecca Lawrence a happy birthday I clicked to revisit her blog, Model Mayhem and OMP galleries.
I was (as always with her work) immediately inspired and reminded why I do what I do. She is absolutely one of my favorites to work with.
Now I have been struggling with motivation since my last post over six months ago and have only done 3 real photoshoots all year. Looking at Rebecca’s work gave me a slap in the face in terms of that I have been blessed to have beautiful people around me like Rebecca that keeps me in touch with my artistic mind. I sometimes don’t thank them enough for their inspiration.
Also I tend to overlook this wonderful community here on ArtNudes network and all the wonderful work and resources available at my fingertips… something I need to recognize more often.
I am now convinced that I need to simplify my networking to what is important to me and my art… too many online modeling and mindless social network accounts can really distract from creativity.
I guess this is my 2010 mid-term resolution, to re-define my photography and focus. I hope not to be a stranger around here again
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