I met Ashley Blue at the NYC release of her book on her experiences in the porn industry Girlvert. She is married to photographer Dave Naz who I started corresponding with after we both did guest spots on the blog Late Night Feelings. Dave and I ended up doing a print trade and when he came to NYC for Ashley’s book launch I finally got a chance to meet him. I ended up talking to both of them a ton and when I went out to LA they invited me to a BBQ.

At the BBQ Ashely and I ended up talking about me shooting photos of her. She is semi retired from the adult industry and told me she really only shoots with Dave but she said she liked my work and that she would be down to shoot something.  A few days later I went back to their place and we took a bunch of 35mm shots around the house and talked and looked at Dave’s art books and then finally decided we should get on with the real shoot.

I didn’t really see a place I wanted to shoot in her house so we decided to go outside. They live up in the Hollywood Hills and they have this cool observatory thing above the house. We tried to climb up there but the steps were really sketchy and we quickly gave up on that idea. Turns out climbing a cliff in heels is not ideal.  We tried to shoot in the garage but I was getting picky and didn’t love the light.  We decided to go by the side of the house but we were worried neighbors would see. In the back of the house they had this old BBQ grill.  They got a new one so the old one was sort of just sitting there unloved. Her and I both wanted to shoot something really weird so we figured the BBQ grill was an okay place to start.  We decided to go inside to see if we could find something to put on the grill as a prop and that’s when we realized we were locked out. Shit.

We had to call Dave who was on a shoot and he had to drive all the way back and let us in.  In the mean time we finally got to shooting but by that time I was a bit unmotivated and we shot pretty quickly. It was so bright out there that I didn’t even realize that a lot of my shots were over exposed and she was squinting from the sun.  I was pretty disapointed with the shots at first, but when I finally got around to editing them I sort of changed my mind. I ended up liking the set I got a lot more than I orginally did but I still like the 35mm stuff we shot a lot more.

Long story short, Dave and Ashley rule, go buy Girlvert, this set is radder than I thought and you should check out the 35mm shots of Ashley in this gallery of my LA 35mm shots if you haven’t already.

Also I meant to get this post up yesterday but I didn’t. Stop bitching. Do you want your NSFW shots or not? Yeah, I thought so…

Click here to see all of my pictures of Ashley Blue cleaning her BBQ grill naked.

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