Dan Kitchens

Cacia at Lost Lake

After setting up camp at Lost Lake (near Mt. Hood in Oregon), we quickly ran down to the lake and took in the view.  We had to snap a pic of the only person we saw on the lake.  once they were gone, Cacia Zoo and I ditched our bathing suits and went skinny dipping!  The lake was far warmer and more clear than we h...

Coming in a week.... Cacia in Oregon

In June 2015 Cacia Zoo and I did a bit of road tripping outside Portland  Oregon and camped by the shore of Lost Lake in the Hood National Forest.  Despite it being summer already there were lots of empty campgrounds and we had the lake to ourselves. You KNOW we had to go skinny dipping.

Besides photos we shot in the...

Spring in Bear Canyon - Jess (BTS)

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Island in the Stream

Jess sunning herself in the chilly creek the runs through Bear Canyon on a Spring afternoon.

Angeles National Forest, CA. April 20, 2016.

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A Maker on Mt. Wilson - Celia

Shooting with my friend Celia inevitable yields adorable results.  I never intended to post these images, but some patrons requested more of Celia, so they got to see a bunch of images from this shoot I originally planned as reference for a painting of Celia nude, out in nature, surrounded by her favorite things, while work...

A Maker on Mt. Wilson

Celia checking progress on the foam devil horns she was in the process of making when i asked her to lug some of her favorite things up near the top of Mt. Wilson for an early morning photo shoot on a surprisingly sunny day this past winter.

Celia ...

Blue - Chantelle (Archive)

For those with access to the Archive ($20 pledge or more), I think I forgot to mention I uploaded this cute set of Chantelle from 2009 to the Archive.

Celia in Her Pool

I am so grateful to have friends who are generous with their time and are game to let me photograph them anywhere.  I realize now that since last fall, I have shot Celia nude on mountain tops, in an autumn forest, body painted her in black light, got her topless with her dog in her room, and now photographed her underwater....

First Underwater Shoot of 2017

As I said yesterday, I went off to my friend Celia's house yesterday to have a swim day.  It was mostly a swim day - her dog has, seriously, an endless amount of energy and loves swimming, so our attempts to make pretty underwater images were constantly being photobombed by this determined canine. At some points we had to g...

The Maker - Celia

Some patrons requested more of my friend Celia.  I showed her the comments and her response was "Oh gosh! When are we shooting next, cutie?" I am about to head off to her house to swim and shoot a bit in her pool (this Los Angeles heat wave blisters on), but in the meantime, i thought I would start posting a few images from...

Alex in Winter (BTS)

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Winter is Here - Alex

Alex and I actually had intended just to go on a long hike in a canyon much lower in the mountains, but as we pulled up to the turn off, we saw dense fog higher up Highway 2 and decided to go check it out first.  After 25 more minutes we pulled off the side of the road at a random spot and walked into the chaparral and foun...

Winter is Here - Alex

I am leaving Japan today to return to Los Angeles, which is currently broiling in a heat wave. Checking the weather to see my neighborhood is currently 95°F (35°C) both makes me want to stay in Japan, and also makes me long for winter again.

A couple other things inspiring my decision to start posting this set of Alex now (w...

Frog and Fog

The last several days I have been off in the countryside of Japan.  The REAL Japan as far as I am concerned. Far from the ugly chaos and consumerism of Tokyo, most of Japan is covered in densely forested steep mountains dotted with small villages, and in between mountains are small, fertile valleys filled with productive fa...

Before and After

Water has a strange effect on people.  Even if I have just met this person literally minutes for we get in the pool, and even if they have never skinny dipped or been photographed naked, there is something so comforting about water, that basically everyone I have photographed in water has been soothed by the protective natu...

Getting reward prints ready to send out...

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A Panda off Rottnest

Just to my $20 and up patrons...

One time (May 2011 to be exact) when my wife and I were in Australia for exhibitions with our Australia gallery, we stayed in Perth for a week for the opening of our show at their location in that city.  We finally got to meet in person an art professor at a university there who goes by na...

Surrounded By Magic - Sara

I had so little expectations about shooting with artist Sara Haase.  We had never met in person before, only talked online and had a lot of mutual friends.  I think maybe we both really just wanted to get in a pool, and this was a good excu...

Jenny Jumping In

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Strength and Grace - Jenny

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 The images I made of Jenny sinking in bubbles really caught my eye, and made me want to turn that into a serie...

Shimmering Mermaid - Jenny

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Jenny Redbird play at mermaid, mostly shot soft focus on accident.  I just re...

Sinking In - Jenny

i love to work underwater with people who are SUPER comfortable in water.  This sounds kind of obvious, but most people who have approached me asking to shoot underwater ('I want to be a mermaid!") don't even realize how uncomfortable they are being UNDER the water.  She was the first person whose bod...

Summer is coming...

    A couple of times i have put my DSLR into its underwater housing with the lens switched to manual focus, and each time it took me a while to notice that the camera wasn't auto focusing from shot to shot (Usually I am just having too much fun swimming around with naked bodies to focus on such details). &nb...

Joe Money in Palos Verdes (BTS)

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Behind the scenes images from my shoot with Joe Money in Palos Verdes - blunt, beer, and booty b...

Palos Verdes Winter - Joe Money

More images from my first outdoor shoot with Joe Money. This is one shoot that I really went to town on while editing the RAW image files afterwards.  I used the whole shoot to experiment, so you'll notice that there are more strange color treatments...

Siren Call - Joe Money

Joe was impatient to get outside and shoot in the water, despite the fact that it was JANUARY!  She toughed it out for the sake of the art, but that was was COLD, no joke.

This set of 20 hi-res images has been moved to the Archive for $...