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Oh, what adorable creatures. Haha, a bunny is definitely something I'd have a soft spot for.

Thanks, all! I really appreciate both the kind comments and the critique/suggestion Here's a fun one from the shoot for PP that didn't quite make the final cut, because it looked a little more awkward, but I loved it for how bright it makes the Hanadama shine look Funnily enough, the...

Thank you, Charlotta! Much appreciated. Here's Ari again, with a strand of natural white Hanadama pearls. This one has a slight shift of artistic feel than the others. I'm not one who hugely leans to black and white images, but every once in awhile I'll find one I really love in it...

How fun, Pattye! I think it's always cool when any image invokes a story. Now that I know how to reliably get the full size upload, here's another of Jaden. Ari will make a stop again tomorrow.

Not really sure what you mean by this, because nothing seems especially disproportionate (to me, at least). Jaden is almost 5'10" and lots of "leg," anyway - crossed legs also tend to make legs look shorter and not longer, which I assume is what you're referencing. In any case, thank you for...

Ugh... this is going to drive me nuts... Let's try this

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Thank you so much, Jeremy! That definitely means a lot. Tonight, I'd like to introduce Jaden -- and here she is in some Natural White Hanadama pearls (8.5-9mm). She was astonished to wear them, firstly, because of how heavy and large they are and she also said they felt really luxurious and...

That's awesome. Believe it's from the same batch as my Mom's Rikitea strand, which is amazing.

This is a fun idea - I bet we could get a portable setup together and do photos of all the P-G'ers and their pearls at a Ruckus. How cool that would be. :) A P-G hub! - That would be cool to be near one of them. If any of you are ever in the CO area... ;)

Holy rope, Batman! - BN, PLEASE send me a PM sometime and Tell me more info about that rope! Those Akoya are incredible.

Here's another treat for everyone - Rocio doing her thing once more. Can't wait to get some real pearls in action. She wears them so well.

You would probably get a kick out of knowing that the entirety of photo lighting is ratio and mathematically based -- angle of incidence, angle of placement, ratio of power from main to fill to tertiary light, etc. I am pretty "middle brained," I have found, which I think is what makes the...

Thanks for the kind comments, everyone! I agree! They're some talented folks. Not at all! It's always a process and pearls are definitely among the hardest things to photograph. It was lots of fun! Thanks to all of you here for reading :)

Lovely pearls.

Sobellejanet, the lighting certainly helps, but actually with a little finagling these shots could have had something similar done with a window light. I didn't use any particularly special lens - I used a 105mm macro lens, but again many options I could have done. I think most of these were...

Well, hey, I have a long awaited blog post for you all! First and foremost, I wanted to thank the great folks at Pearl Paradise for even making this possible. :D Without them, there would be no pearl photos here, no blog post, anything! Secondly, I wanted to thank all of you great folks...

I wanted to share a quick photo of Rocio, who is simply yet another amazing and graceful model I get to work with. For this shoot, she was wearing some pearls, but they were faux. For the next shoot of this time, we're going to use some white Hanadama pearls instead. I just couldn't help it -...

Thanks all for the well wishes. A chaotic day, for sure, but all has resolved it seems. Enjoy looking at everyone's goodies.

Those are really cool! South sea pearls are definitely something special.