I have been in Vegas for about a day and I have taken some pretty fun photos. Unfortunately it was all after dark so it’s been all flash stuff. No natural light really. Still, I think you are going to dig some of this stuff.

I headed down to the Adult Entertainment Expo and I took a few photos there after I got my credentials and then I went to check in to my hotel. By the time I got back down to the Hard Rock it was getting dark but I ended up shooting my old friend Samantha Bentley. In the middle of our shoot Dahlia Sky showed up so we took a bunch of photos with her too and then my friend Ronen took photos of the three of us.

After that I tried to shoot Adriana Chechik again but she was doing a podcast so Sam and I went up there and ended up on the Porn Directors Podcast. When it was over I took a few photos of Sam, Adriana and Belle Noire who actually retired from porn but was in town with Adriana and doing make up for girls at the convention.

By the time that was over it was pretty late but I ran into some Burning Angels  and snuck out to the parking garage to shoot a handful of photos with Veronica Rose and Taurus.

After that I put my digital camera away but took some more film stuff at parties and around the Hard Rock so I might have some more cool stuff.

Here are a few preview images to hold you over!

Sorry for the delay in posting this stuff. I have been without reliable internet for the last few days which is pretty much the worst thing to happen to my life in weeks which is a testament to how awesome my life is. Finally I am back in NYC from my 10 days in Vegas and LA and I can’t wait to be back. I don’t have any trips planned until March so I am looking forward to some time at home. Anyway…

I shot a little bit of the 2014 Adult Entertainment Expo on Friday and Saturday but most of these pictures came from last Thursday when I was down at the Expo for several hours. I spent the day saying hi to friends and planning photo shoots for Friday and Saturday. I ended up shooting seven girls for Hustler Magazine’s AVN feature and once I was in LA I shot a couple other girls for this site so I got a lot of good content out of the trip! Plus I shot another feature for Hustler on the burlesque troop Suicide Sirens… but more on that later.

The Expo is a fan and trade expo that takes place at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas every year that leads up to the AVN Awards. It gets pretty claustrophobic in there but it’s really fun to photograph weird interactions between porn babes and awkward fans. It’s sort of the best part of the whole contention. Speaking of fans, I got stopped by this dude Alvin who was with my friend Ash Hollywood and he was wearing my Mishka NYC shirt with her on it. He had us both sign it. It was pretty awesome.

So yeah, there are a lot of pictures in this gallery and obviously the photos are NSFW. So go look at them and stuff. Highlights below.

Click here to see all the photos from the 2014 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas. 

Once again I headed to Vegas to photograph the Adult Video News Awards aka the porn Oscars. Last year I was actually nominated for Best Photography Website but that wasn’t a category this year so I was shit out of luck. The Carrie porn parody I wrote was up for best comedy porn parody but it wasn’t marketed as a Carrie parody for some reason so I pretty much knew it had no chance. Fortunately some friends of mine picked up some big awards, Tommy Pistol won best actor for his roll in my friend Doug Sakmann’s film Evil Head. Tommy was probably the first male porn star I met and it was awesome to see him take home the award. They have been working on Evil Head for like 6 years so it was awesome to see it get recognized. The home girl Bonnie Rotten won female performer of the year which is pretty much the biggest award of the night. Bonnie is one of the raddest people in the business and I was so happy she won after less than two years in the business.

The AVN Week has become sort of special to me in that I met Kimberly Kane in Vegas during the awards years ago, then two years we started hanging out for the first time. Last year we broke up about two months before the awards but sort of got back together in Vegas. This year we went together and despite both of our hatred for Vegas it was nice to spend the whole week with her. I doubt we will ever officially get back together since we live 3000 miles away from each other and that didn’t work the first time, but I love that girl and I am glad to have any time with her I can get.

The Awards themselves have become more streamlined and a bit more organized the last two years but when the red carpets started the Joint wasn’t fully set up yet so all the porn stars had to hang out upstairs in the VIP lounges before they could get to their seats. A few people seemed annoyed but it was perfect for me to get a lot of photos and pull a few girls away to do some NSFW photos without too many security guards around. The Awards went smoothly with only a few bumps like a brawl in the front two rows. Also, Machine Gun Kelly performed twice and during his first performance Selena Rose got on stage and stole a stethoscope from a dwarf and showed everyone her pussy.  So yeah, that happened. Good times.

I shot a ton of photos so go look at them already!

Click here to see the huge gallery from the 2014 AVN Awards at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.

Ps. There should be an AVN Award for Best App and the Girls of Driven By Boredom App should win!

Back in January during the AVN Awards in Vegas I did some sort of photo documentary of the “behind the scenes” of the awards and the Adult Entertainment Expo for Hustler Magazine. The issue came out on Tuesday and you should clearly go buy it. It has 15 of the raddest babes in porn including a bunch of girls I have photographed before like Ash Hollywood, Veruca James, Katie St. Ives, Eve Cates and of course Skin Diamond & Asphyxia Noir and while in Vegas I shot mini shoots with Alaina Fox and Sovereign Syre that I have already published. It also features a bunch of girls I have never photographed before but always wanted to shoot like April O’Neil, Charlotte Stokely, Sasha Pain, Ela Darling and the amazing Stoya!

The shoot with Samantha Bentley and Lexi Lowe didn’t make it into the issue because of messed up paperwork.  I aslo shot Kimberly Kane for the issue but we had to cut some pictures for space so she was the first to go because she is pretty much the person I am closest to in life so I knew she wouldn’t care if she made it in or not. I was right.

Anyway, I did bigger shoots with a bunch of people that I will be posting in the future, but in the case of Stoya, Veruca, Katie, Evelyn and KK I only shot a few photos of them each so I put them all together in one gallery and decided to post it today to promote the issue. So go buy it!

And then click here to see outtakes of Stoya, Veruca James, Katie St. Ives, Eve Cates and Kimberly Kane from my AVN Awards “behind the scenes” editorial in the August 2013 issue of Hustler Magazine!

The 30th annual Adult Video News Awards were held Saturday night at the Joint in the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas, NV. I have been covering the event for several years and I think this year was the smoothest and well done of the ones I have attended. The awards in the past have been a little tedious but I had a great time at this one. My ex-girlfriend and still good friend Kimberly Kane presented all three performer of the year awards and she killed it. The homie James Deen won performer of the year again and a bunch other people I know and don’t hate won some things. Burning Angel won some shit too. Driven By Boredom was nominated for best photography website but we sadly didn’t win, which probably makes sense because the site isn’t really a porn site despite what my parents think.

Tyga played Rack City and a bunch of other songs and the winner of the transexual performer of the year tried to blow him on stage and their was some nudity and weirdness and good times. I took a ton of photos and you should look at them. I would probably talk more about the awards but Vegas was fucking insane and exhausting and I have to drive back to LA now even though I have no idea where I am going to stay. Huzzah. Congrats to everyone who won! Pics from the Adult Entertainment Expo coming soon!

Click here to see all my NSFW pictures from the 2013 AVN Awards at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas.

The Adult Video News Awards happens every year in Las Vegas and it honors the great performances in the adult entertainment world.  The world hold its collective breath waiting to find out who won the best double penetration scene. Okay maybe it’s not quite as main stream as the Oscars but I know a lot of people who care probably way too much about these awards and a bunch of people cry every year win or lose.

The show was hosted by Dave Attell with Bree Olson and Sunny Leone and it included an acrobatic show from Belladonna and a hip hop performance from Too $hort that was the highlight of the show. The awards were not without amazing technical difficulties that ended up making the whole thing pretty hilarious.  I had a great time plus the three major female awards were won by girls I have photographed.  My homegirl Bobbi Starr won the big prize, Female Performer of the Year.  EDM fan and twitter assassin Jessie Andrews took home Best Actress and a girl I just shot last week named Brooklyn Lee took home Best New Starlet. I was pretty happy for them all. Jessie’s movie Portrait of a Call Girl won a bunch of awards including best picture as well.

I was shooting the awards for all the Village Voice Media papers including the Voice, LA Weekly, SF Weekly, Miami New Times, Houston Press, Denver West World and a bunch of others… so you might see these shots all over the damn place. Plus I was shooing for AVN as well so they gave me full access to run around and shoot whatever I want so I got some pretty awesome shots of everyone before, during and after the show.

These photos are of course a bit NSFW and they are a lot of fun. You should check them out.

Click here to see all my shots from the 2012 AVN Awards at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.

So my last Vegas update is probably the craziest. It is at least the most naked. Burning Angel threw a party at a bar called the Black Door.  I didn’t really know anything about the party until I was asked to pick up these two BA girls Skin and Asphyxia from the bus station.  Those two girls are two of the hottest Burning Angel girls I haven’t met yet and I was pretty happy to pick them up despite it being way out of my way.  I took them back to their hotel and later met up with Joanna Angel and a bunch more BA girls and friends and crazy people that all piled into a giant party bus and headed off to this bar.  The madness in the party bus was a clear indication that shit was going to get really weird.  When we got off the bus the G4 network was there to video tape the party. Shit seemed ready to pop off… That is until we walked into the bar…

A bunch of bikers greeted us as we walked into this crowded metal bar. These people were not there for the porn party. They were there to see a band called Dirty Paradise or possibly Dirty Pair of Dice which seems like a funnier name.  The were doing originals when we walked in and everyone looked around like where the fuck are we?  We had a private little area and they gave us a lot of free booze and Dirty Paradise started doing Guns & Roses covers and shit and I started signing GNR really passionately to the girls. I hadn’t slept in a few days and I decided that Guns and Roses was going to wake me up. I am pretty sure I sang a song to Joanna’s vagina at some point. I wasn’t the only one to get crazy and quickly people started getting naked.

Jiz Lee really got that shit going.  She started getting girls naked and doing god knows what to them.  Let’s just say there are a few pictures from the night I decided would be best to be left unposted.  Everyone was making out and Jiz was slapping girls, pulling off clothes and just being fucking charming.  Between me and G4 it was all well documented and luckily people were playing it up for the cameras.  At some point I pulled Kleio Valentien, Skin Diamond and Asphyxia into bathrooms and did mini photo shoots with them. I think there is some really hot, and very NSFW stuff in this gallery.

Also, weirdly enough Dave Navaro showed up and started jamming with the cover band. (Evidently he owns the bar.) It was all a little bit surreal.  In the end I had a lot of fun and took a lot of crazy photos. Clearly you need to stop reading this and start looking at them.

Click here to see the pictures from the Burning Angel AVN party at the Black Door in Las Vegas.

So it’s time to start getting Vegas pictures up. I hope you are excited. I have four galleries and I plan on posting one a day although if I shoot more stuff tonight or tomorrow I might double up and I might always fuck up and not update at all.  That being said, the tentative schedule is AVN Awards pictures today, pictures from CES tomorrow, AEE on Wednesday and finally saving the insane Burning Angel party pictures for last. They are pretty epic, you don’t want to miss that. So let’s get it on…

The AVN Awards for those not in the know are the Adult Video News Awards and they are pretty much the porn oscars. I shot the red carpet last year and honestly it was more trouble than it was worth so this year I tried to change things up. I made sure I got photo access in the actual awards and then I decided to show up late for the red carpet and just catch the very end of it. The carpet was scheduled from 6:30 to 8:30 so I figured if I showed up at 7:30 I would be good. The problem is that the press check in was at 5 and when I got to the Palms Casino at 7:30 I had no idea where to go and there were fans everywhere watching the red carpet and I couldn’t even get near it. The Jets/ Colts game was on and I hate the Jets so I watched the end of it screaming in agony when they kicked a last second field goal to win. At this point it was 8pm and I figured I should probably get on the red carpet, but I still didn’t know where to go. I followed the fans up stream of the red carpet until I got to some security and they let me pass even though I was at the wrong end of the red carpet. They told me to walk down to the other end but I realized that by the end of the red carpet I could be away from all the photographers, the last photo they take before they enter the casino and I wouldn’t have to shoot on a step and repeat wall. It worked out perfectly. I also happened to be the only photographer around when Andy Dick got kicked out…

Meanwhile my friend Tom had come down from LA to hang out with me but couldn’t get into the awards so he was just going to play penny slots until I got out of the awards.  He was up $30 when some random guy came up to him and handed him a ticket to the awards.  The tickets cost $300 each and there were hundreds of fans trying to get in, yet somehow he was just handed a ticket.  He texted me that he was inside so I made my way into the show and actually ended up walking up the red carpet myself which was pretty funny.  I shot a bunch of people in the loby and in the auditorium itself. I ran into Justin from Semi Precious Weapons who was with Pauly Shore of all people. That was pretty great. After that I made my way to my seat and I found that there was an empty space next to me so I texted Tom to see if he wanted to come sit with me.  Turns out the ticket he got was a 7th row ticket in the very middle of the stage. He was sitting with all the big porn stars and stuff. It was pretty funny.

The awards themselves were pretty entertaining for a while but there are so many awards that it drags on a bit so I shot a bunch of photos at the bar throughout the night. Lisa Lampanelli was the host and was pretty funny. The highlight was probably when she called Michelle Bombshell a nazi skank without realizing that Michelle Bombshell was actually at the awards. I am not sure if you care who won what or not… I know I don’t but I do want to congratulate a couple of my friends on their big wins. My homie Andy San Dimas won the best actress award for her roll in the porn version of Glee and my friend Joanna Angel won for best porn star website. Congrats girls!  If you want to know who won stuff you can click here.

So I think that’s all I got for you for today. There are a bunch of highlights down below and then you can click here to see all the photos from the 2011 AVN Awards.  And while most of the porn stars kept their clothes on I can say pretty certainly that this gallery is NSFW.

A few times every year I get out to the west coast… usually Vegas or Los Angeles.  Whenever I go I make an effort to meet up with as many nude models as I can when I am out there.  Shooting new girls is always the highlights of the trip.  I shoot a lot of Gods Girls since they are based in LA and a lot of Burning Angels because that’s my family but I shoot the random porn star, Suicide Girl or just random model who wants to shoot with me.

I just got back from a trip to LA where I shot about 10 shoots with a variety of girls. Starting last week I am posting two galleries every week from my trip. The goal is to get them up Mondays and Fridays but I will probably be off a bit. I decided to promote the new galleries by coming up with a page that lists all the galleries I have shot over the years of West Coast girls. Under their pictures will be their names, where I shot them and site affiliation if they have one.

I will be releasing the new ones on here as well as on the main page with a full write up.

For those who are new around here you might want to follow me on Twitter and/or Tumblr for previews of new sets and live camera phone shots from shoots that I am on plus a ton of other weird fun stuff. Or you could just take a gander at the NSFW category of my site.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy looking at these as much as I enjoyed taking them.  Thanks!
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