Happy Valentines Day!

Most of you know by now that I have been working on a Kiss project (More on SML Flickr) for a while now. For this valentine's day, I thought that I would post some recent photos of the project here. These are new so they're mostly shot with my new Canon 7D! :)

Kisses in black and white

Kiss = Love + Affection + Compatibility

Kiss is an active project of mine. I have been working on it since 2007. I rarely photograph in the studio, so most of these were taken in real life, usually during events were I happened to be photographing.

I usually try to get permission after spotted the love birds in their acts. The photos were shot after I gained permission, but as love is in the air, they generally came out fairly natural as they could care less about whether or not a camera was pointing to them or not! (This is true even for my own self portrait with MMF!)

See the whole set on Flickr.

1. Ideal Husbands: Marlone Star + Chicago Tigerboy



2. Kiss (name withheld)



3. Kiss / Ideal Husbands



4. Kiss: Kevin Aviance + Friend



5. Kiss between friends. It's a friendly kiss as the guy is gay and the girl is straight, but they came out just as sweet.



6. Kiss: SML + MMF. Self-portrait. See also SML Photo Blog: Taking the umbrella outside of the studio.



7. Failed attempt while photographing Bert + Ernie. See SML Gay Blog: Bert + Ernie / SML Ideal Husbands.