I never post all the shots from any given shoot. I tend to select the best of the best for internet use: I don’t want to dilute the impact. And that means I have plenty of outtakes for “round-up” posts.
Behold a bunch of shots I didn’t post after their respective shoots!

Copyright Anna Rutenbeck 2012
This shot has such great composition. It’s from the first formal shoot I ever did. Anna and I have been friends for something like six years, and she was willing to schlep around with a camera on an incredibly hot day just to help me get a few decent shots.

Copyright Anna Rutenbeck 2012

Copyright Anna Rutenbeck 2012
Kind of a strange angle, but I love my hand on the cross.

Copyright Brent Gould 2013

Copyright Brent Gould 2013
I like shots in which my face looks really foreign to me. This is one of them. I don’t quite recognize myself.
If I trained a mirror on myself for 24 hours, how many moments like this would I have? How many things about my physical comportment would surprise me?

Copyright Brent Gould 2013

Copyright Brent Gould 2012
My mother says I’m starting to look exactly like her mother. I’ll post a picture of her sometime for comparison. It’s really getting kind of uncanny.

Copyright Brent Gould 2012
Such a frigid color scheme. I feel like the most regal of the ice queens.

Copyright Brent Gould 2012

Copyright Greg Gouwens 2012

Copyright Stephen Hayes 2012
If you look really closely at the right side of my neck (my right, not yours), you can see the scattering of pink welts. I didn’t notice it until after I got home that night, and I assumed it was just an odd configuration of mosquito bites.
Turns out it was a motherfucking rash. I went on to develop a fever and be sick for three or four days.
I really, really hate rashes. They don’t gross me out, per se (nothing really does), but something about skin ailments just gets to me. I’d rather have a week-long stomach bug than a full-body rash.

Copyright Brent Gould 2013

Copyright Stephen Hayes 2012
For levity’s sake. I have no recollection of what was going on in this picture, but looking at it makes me laugh out loud. Every. Single. Time.
Also, you have no idea how much I wish I could post my nudes! Some of my best work ever has been nude, and I’m really proud of it. But even though it’s not pornographic (for the most part), there are all sorts of regulations for blogs that host “adult” content, and in my effort to reach as many people as possible, I’d rather not have to worry about the restrictions. If you must go looking, though, my ModelMayhem profile is not exactly hard to find.