Hi SG fam,
How have you all been? Hopefully good ^_^
I've been having 3 days of work a week cooking for a friend business currently operating just for pick-ups. It's been nice to get out of the house and have my mind busy for those hours.
Although I haven't joined protests for Black lives Matter here in the Bay just out of safety (my citizenship documents are somewhere out in a government building) and the fact I'm serving food make me worry about getting involved, I've been reading, sharing info, signing petitions, donating what I can and taking time for myself and my art, I truly wish I could live from my art+photography. It's been nice to see @missy and so many of our community stand up for it too <3
I have a bunch of new sets dropping soon and for the next 2+ months, however, it'd be nice to see more of my work making it to the front page.
This year my plan after my job ended was to travel back to Latin America to shoot in Venezuela & Colombia so I could see my family and bring more Caribbean beauties into SG.
Here are some of my sets from 2016-2018 that are over 2000+ ❤️ a mix of beauties from both Venezuela + the USA
@venusa I shot in Caracas <3 I stayed in Caracas only for 1 day and shot 6 sets, I totally thought @venusa was going to go instapink because she's so gorgeous <3 if you missed this set definitely check her out on Welcome to my Olympus, @venusa no longer lives in Venezuela so I might find her again one day in Europe, who knows.
Don't forget to check out Venusa in Welcome to my Olympus
My darling friend @gaiah which actually had a new set drop this week had a couple sets shot by me, but because we never reached front page with them now 1 of them is gone </3 however you can still enjoy the first set we ever shot in which she let me include my love for film photography in it. Shot it the Bay Area.
Gaiah in Afternoon Delights
My dear friend @raenie has shot with me 3 times <3 I've been lucky to have met her and to be part of her life moments like her wedding. Before the set that turned her pink we shot a set that was really dear to her and what she had gone through and that set is still in Member Review, it'd be such a lovely set to hit the front page to encourage and motivate babes that maybe have also gone through cancer to feel encouraged and hopeful. This was shot right after she moved into her own home <3
Raenie in Times Heals all Wounds
my dear lovely @cigno and I shot waaaay before her incredible transformation, she's such a babe and I totally thought she was gonna go pink with our set although personally by then I thought she ought to be pink with any of her amazing sets and it'd be nice to see her reach the front page again after so long <3 The only set ever shot in my patio :P
Last not least for now my darling @scarletash when we met in the Mississippi for one amazing weekend hosted by the wonderful and incredible @chef literally a shootfest I will never forget. I was lucky I just saw @scarletash in February in Nola and omg she's such a babe but we just laughed and cried so much as we were living room roommates for a couple of days <3 this babe should have so many more sets in the FP, for now, enjoy this outdoors set we did back then while her new sets drop in the upcoming future <3
I've loved meeting so many babes throughout all these years and introduce so many to what SG was a private little corner of the web for me.
It took me 7 years to become a Staff Photographer for SG earlier this year, and even though I don't shoot as much as others of our fellow staff photographers I'm just so happy for the possibility of getting to know and shoot more babes for as long as life allows me to. I keep trying to evolve as a photographer while doing my very best to maintain the beauty in each of the models but I just wish I could help many of these beauties reach the Front Page <3
With Love
Mary
@lemon @missy @rambo @mickey
