Collected photography w/ Adora Tokyo!

Late night here in the Twin Cities and I’m at Caffetto after hours. Quick heads up; another Caffetto family member joined the fold today. Take a minute to follow @mickey12794. He made his introduction post this evening and we had an engaging conversation about Steemit “…where the money comes from” Q/A, and best practices. It’s crazy being the one to explain the things I was asking @mada just about a year ago. 

In other, less exciting […everyone else] but still relevant news, the Shift card came out this afternoon and purchased about $30 worth of Magic: The Gathering cards at Mead Hall Games in uptown. I’m building a new cycle deck, which didn’t exactly rock my world against @tarotbyfergus […but new decks take time to figure out]. The relevance is that we’re just a few weeks away from the next expansion release, “Hour Of Devastation”. I don’t know how many of my followers enjoy my MTG posts, but brace yourself…there will be another one coming soon!

Tonight’s photography post features a beautiful friend of mine named Adora Tokyo. Currently living and working in Atlanta as an entrepreneur, her company, Die Gorgeous does state of the art micro-blading [cosmetic brow procedure]. Adora is originally from Minneapolis and that’s how we met. Several mutual friends eventually led us to have a conversation through Instagram, which eventually lead to a possible shoot. We set it up and a few weeks later, we met at Honey in downtown NE Minneapolis for our first shoot together.

Our first shoot wasn’t my best work. Adora did an outstanding job, but I was extremely sick that afternoon. I had a flu and in hindsight, should have probably cancelled. I managed to get a few shots I’m still proud to share, but I wasn’t on my usual low light game. A beautiful result of our first shoot together was my son @millsguthrie and Adora’s son Onyx becoming friends. The boys had time to hang out together afterwards and immediately hit it off.

A couple years later, Adora was back in town from Atlanta and we set up a light, impromptu shoot at Caffetto of all places. We made great use of the space and lowlight. I wasn’t sick and I was shooting with my new […at the time] Nikon D750 […@dexter-k and I recently bonded over]. That camera handles shadows SO well. I directed Adora close enough to the pin ball machines in the Caffetto basement that I was able to light her with just that, more or less.

Our last shoot was just two months ago […featured at the top of the page]. I managed to have a friend that was able to hook us up with a drop dead gorgeous mansion in uptown Minneapolis. I pulled lingerie from What Katie Did and Adora came ready to shoot. Originally, these shots were suppose to be for the NOIR I Minneapolis event this fall, but with the news of the Dark Pinup book I’ll be doing […you can read about that announcement in my recent post “HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! Steemit milestones and career milestones!”], I’m not sure if there’s going to be time by year’s end.

Thanks for reading! I post this kind of stuff all the time so for more photography, art, illustration and writings, follow me @kommienezuspadt! Thanks so much to everyone that’s recently helped me get to 1,000 followers!