 Smaragd uploaded a photo: One FaveBack in February and March of 2007 I did a series of four different shoots with a gorgeous, sexy, smart, funny and unforgettable model. At the time she made it very clear that she was serious about becoming a professional model. I tried to give her some good shots to show around to get started. Little did I know where she was going to wind up!
Just after our last shoot -- the one with the very popular boxing photo of her -- she went to California during spring break. I didn't hear from her for a while, and then she sent a message to all her friends saying she had made the "controversial" decision to stay in California for the time being.
We stayed in touch, but I had no idea what she was doing and I didn't intrude and ask. But she would sometimes allude to the "controversy" and that a lot of people in Washington State apparently did not support her. Then one day she posted new professional photos on one of her social networking profiles. I looked up the photographer, and found that my sweet model and friend was now a rapidly-rising porn star now working under the screen name "Tori Black." Yoinks!
Where others didn't support her, I immediately did. What does it matter what she does? And what is wrong with sexuality? No, don't post your reply below; I will delete it. There is no argument: there is nothing whatsoever wrong with sexuality, nor with the career path she has chosen.
For more than a year she did fairly typical adult movies with typically silly premises -- the tennis player who gets "tutored", the nanny who gets a "bonus", the naughty school girl who gets "punished", you get the idea. The first movies were obviously super low-budget, but some of the latest ones appeared to be a bit more elaborate.
But now she has truly arrived. She is the Penthouse Pet of the Month for December, and is on the cover. Making the cover and centerfold of either of the "big two" (Playboy or Penthouse) means you've arrived in the industry. It's a big achievement.
I'm proud of you, Tori. You did good. I'm lucky to have done four shoots with you when you were just starting out, and I'm glad to have helped you at the very beginning of it all.
For all the fans of Tori who haven't seen the shots before, here are some photos from the four shoots i did with her before she got into the industry, when she was just starting out:
TORI BLACK shoots by Dave Ward Photography, February-March 2007  3 years, 1 month ago from Web
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Smaragd uploaded a photo:  One FaveRevisiting my favorite shot from the September 2007 shoot with Emma Lee at Fort Casey and the Admiralty Lighthouse. Better tones this time, and now in color.
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Smaragd uploaded a photo:  My first shoot with new model Erin Maiden, and her first studio shoot. Erin is genuine metal, and is into all the bands that my friends were into in high school in the mid-80s: Iron Maiden, Slayer, Megadeath, etc. The shoot was fun, and also more inventive and experimental than a first-shoot with a new model usually is.
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Smaragderm... "not" should have been "now." Oops. 4 years, 4 months ago [Web]
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SmaragdHALP! I'm not unemployed, and thinking of turning full-time pro photographer. Any advice on turning pro, or on opening my own business?
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Smaragd uploaded a photo:  Yesterday was a little landmark in my pursuit of photography as a career; I did my first "senior portrait" shoot. A couple months ago Gretchen contacted me to ask me to take her senior portraits. She wanted something different from the run-of-the-mill senior portraits that every other photographer does.
This particular shot was my own favorite from the shoot. She will make her own selections, but I just love this one, myself.
(And thank you to Gretchen for permission to post some of her photos.)
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SmaragdNice to see some good Greasemonkey scripts for Zooomr. But God we need "recent activity" on Zooomr.... like, BADLY! 4 years, 5 months ago [Web]
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Smaragd uploaded a photo:  My first shoot with Mariya. We started out in my studio, then went to a church just down the road to shoot in front of their heavy wooden doors, and finally went across town to end the shoot in our local cemetery. Mariya is a strong collaborator in that she had a good idea of what she wanted from the shoot. But she was also receptive to my own ideas and input. I really believe working with a model should, ideally, be an equal creative partnership. This shoot was a perfect example of that -- an even combination of her ideas and mine, the synergy of two creative streams coming together.
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SmaragdOkay, Zooomr-friends, what's the secret? How do I get my photos noticed? Nobody sees them, and there are no group photo-pools yet. Clue me in! 4 years, 5 months ago [Web]
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Smaragd uploaded a photo:  This means out
This is your way out
Do or drown
Do or drown in torpor
Leave no trace
All my files erased
Burn my clothes
Burn my Prada trainers
Let's sleep together right now
Relieve the pressure somehow
Switch off the future right now
Let's leave forever
This is fate
This is your escape
Leave here now
Leave here like it's over
Let's sleep together right now
Relieve the pressure somehow
Switch off the future right now
Let's leave forever
--Porcupine Tree, "Sleep Together"
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SmaragdHappy Birthday to AcrophobicPixie! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XL3H62LL6U 4 years, 8 months ago [Web]
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Smaragd uploaded a photo:  Jessika at the local cemetery.
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