PHILLIP D BRESKE PHOTOGRAPHY

The US Navy's aerial demonstration team was at the Harrisburg airport and they were practicing right over our home for a few days before an air show. I figured I could get some nice shots from near the river, so I went down to the Steelton Boat Launch and got these.

Another traveling model comes to PA! Alex is currently traveling from her home in South Carolina and reached out to me on her way to Pennsylvania. I have been wanting to shoot at this location in central PA for a while and this was a great excuse to use it as the setting for our time together. I'm afraid I didn't make a good impression at first: I didn't correctly read the instructions for how to find these formations and we ended up hiking almost half a mile past the turn. B

Since moving to Pennsylvania, I've tried to establish connections wih local music venues so I can get back to practicing as often as I used to in Florida. The Englewood in Hershey was the first and the manager there has been very helpful. The venue hosts some bigger traveling performers as well as established local musicians. A Tom Petty tribute band called Damn the Torpedoes was my first event there and it was a great show. The lighting on stage is better than what I'm used

I've been playing with a new-to-me-technique and wanted to share a few new images. It's actually quite easy to set up, but the editing process is quite a bit more demanding than my usual B&W edits. In this case, my model dipped her hands in wet paint and smeared or dripped it across her body. I use bright green paint to differentiate the liquid from skin tones and thus make it easier to separate in the edit. Careful selection of the background and skin to give a silhouette ap

I met Kitty on Model Mayhem and we scheduled a shoot at the ruins of a WWII POW camp call Camp Michaux in central Pennsylvania. It had been raining all morning and the skies were still gloomy while we worked, but it turned out to be the best possible conditions for these images. My favorites: