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Wyldhardt as Fire Dancer
At last, the fourth and final collection of images from my most recent photoshoot. “Fire shoot” was actually Wyldhardt’s first pitch to me These images were a real stretch for me. I did some candlelight shoots with Kraken and Katarina, a few years ago, and some real firespinning photography with my ancient Canon PowerShot back in 2006, when I lived in St. Louis, but I This set, as yo can probably guess just by looking at it, was the hardest to cull. Arguably, I should have cut at least ten of these on percentages alone. While we have often had difficulty communicating about shoots in advance, particularly scheduling, once we’re…
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Witchcraft With Wyldhardt 3/3: Black Goat Bride
This is the third and most focused set of images from my latest shoot with Wyldhardt. The title, Black Goat Bride, comes from a Dionysiac ritual that my crew and I do every year, which I plan to re-write and write up in the coming months and for which purpose I built this particular set. In my own mind, I divide a lot of my occult art photography into either “authentic witchcraft” or “witchcraft aesthetic”. This set splits the difference very nicely, and features a great deal of my actual religious paraphernalia. The altar in the foreground is contrived, but features actual ritual tools. The altar in the back is…
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Witchcraft With Wyldhardt 2/3: Priestex Aesthetic
At the end of June, I managed to arrange a photoshoot with Wyldhardt, a model I have worked with several times before. She reached out to me back in March to see if I was up for an art trade: modeling time for a piece of custom jewelry for her boyfriend. Working out the details of the jewelry, shoot, and scheduling took us a while, but it all came together in the end. This selection, which invokes my recurring theme of Priestex Aesthetics, was high on the list of things I specifically wanted to do. I pinned her peplos with steel O-rings and steel nails that I sharpened to that…
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Witchcraft With Wyldhardt 1/3: The Veiled Sorceress
Behold! A new photoshoot at last! The second of 2026! I shot these images with Wyldhardt at the end of JUne. Those of you who’ve been here a while may remember her as the muse of several previous shoots. Back in the days when I was still on Facebook, we usually got together when she liked one of the pitches I’d throw to group I made for people who had modeled for me, or were theoretically interested in doing so. I always paid in image rights, and usually in jewelry. This time, she reached out to me, hoping to get a custom piece made as a gift. I was seriously…
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Pride Paint With Jaxi
From June 2024, returning to a theme that brought me so much joy in 2020: Gay Pride colored paint and glitter with Jaxi Juniper, a queer model from here in Kansas City. This was my second time shooting with Jaxi. I met her through Clover, when they arranged last October’s Witches’ Sabbat shoot, and she enjoyed that shoot well enough to join my (now deleted with all my meta accounts) FB group for models, where she responded to my bat signal for people to get messy in a pride-colored paint and glitter shoot. From scheduling the shoot to publishing the pictures, this is hands down the fastest turnaround I’ve ever…
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Pride 2020 Paint and Glitter with Corvus and Emily
Another one from the archives! My first paint and glitter shoot from early in 2020, featuring my friends and recurring models Emily and Corvus. When I first shared these images with my Patreon supporters, I had this to say: I’ve worked with both Emily and Corvis before, and we are all friends outside the studio, so this was a really great way to start shooting for the year: we spent more time laughing than shooting. Each had their own ideas for color palates, which led to some really interesting color mixtures before we just went hog wild. Corvis wanted rainbow and bi Pride colors, and I made the executive decision…
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Elemental Postures with Feral
Having finally (as of May 2026) gotten the site working again and ready to serve as my photography portfolio, I find myself in the position of having to decide where to start. This set seems as good a place as any. Behold, the four Elemental Gestures, from my March 2016 shoot with Feral, featuring elemental masks I made myself. These images are part of my slow-moving, long-term project “Satyr’s Grammar”, aimed at depicting magical acts in photo for a hypothetical illustrated grimoire which may or may never be written. At the time I did the shoot, it was a lot easier to find information online about the Golden Dawn’s various…
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2025 Road Trip: Denver and Colorado
Hello, friends, and welcome to the first of a series posts showing off the photos I took on my road trip vacation. My partner and I had been planning this trip since we got back from our 2019 roadtrip. Covid, and then a series of other events, forced us to put it off several times. Originally planned as the celebration of my 49th birthday, it became the celebration of my 45th. While I would have been delighted to make the trip sooner, and gone on some other birthday adventure this year, it was definitely worth the wait. I have chosen to break the photosets up by location rather than day.…
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Samhain Self-portraits 2025
In all sincerity, it is my ambition to do at least one self-portrait shoot each month. Despite that, I literally can’t remember when the last one was. (I could look it up, obviously. I won’t.) Frankly, I’ve been depressed, which makes self-portraiture uniquely difficult. But, as you can see, I got my shit together at the end of October (literally yesterday, just barely in time for the month-end report) and pulled off a seasonal solo shoot. These were all shot with my Nikon Z6 using the basic 24-200 kit lens that came with it, and using my phone as remote control and shutter release via the Nikon SnapBridge app. The…
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Hidden Worlds Newsletter No. 9: Halloween 2025
Holy shit, my friends, it’s Halloween! Yes, I know. Yes, technically Halloween was yesterday. But I’m spooky year round. It’s always Halloween in my black and putrid heart, and I’ve decided that if I can get my hands on some deeply-discount decorations, my I’m Now Officially Middle-Aged crisis is going manifest as making yard is also spooky all year round. Month in Review October started strong, despite the unseasonable warmth. I took in a couple orders. I put up a bat signal for models to do seasonal shoots. I got in some real quality time with my sketchbooks. I fell behind during the second week. I’m not really sure how.…
