Tanya

I've been working with Tanya for over five years now. I also consider her a dear friend. Tanya has worked with over 70 photographers, and for good reason- she is incredibly photogenic and quite a chameleon. More than a few, including myself, consider her to be an inspiring muse. Tanya has always typically modeled nude, although ironically it is only recently that I've really been shooting nudes with her. I always considered her to be a great fashion model, and I've tended to gravitate towards that with her. These recent images, though, represent a different way of shooting for her. She elaborates on this in her blog- http://tanyadakin.blogspot.com/. By the way, I find her blog to be very addictive!

The thumb sucking fetish idea was hers, which I really liked. Most good ideas are usually offered by the person that I'm working with, as opposed to myself. If it's their idea to begin with, then it's more likely that they'll pull it off well. That's not always the case, though. Sometimes my idea is something that they have not experienced before, so they attack it with vigor. Everything's relative...