At this moment the client galleries are spread over 2 domains, bodynsoulphotography.com and users.patrickkrolis.com. This split has a historical background, as I started out with patrickkrolis.com long before bodynsoulphotography and had a good solution to protect client galleries there. The only downside was the limited space available on that server.

I have tried to minimize the usage of that space by having people with an aacount at www.bodynsoulmodels.com login at this website with their credentials and thus protecting their websites hosted at this www.bodynsoulphotography.com domain.

On his blog http://blog.ericscouten.com/2008/10/lightroom-technique-how-i-organize-m... Eric Scouten shares how he uses his lightroom catalog and why. A very interesting subject to read if you are a photographer and use lightroom. I am using a similar apporach and placed the following comment under his post.

Tasty Fridayzz Flyer front Tasty Fridayzz is a new party event to be held every friday in the Havanna Lounge in Paramaribo.

Of course bodyNsoul Photography provided the photography for the flyer featuring Dore Model Charlene, in a Tasty Fridayzz way.

Charlene for Tasty Fridayzz: click for larger image

bodyNsoul Photography is a co-sponsor of the event and will provide special photographic opportunities to the party goers at some specific events. Tasty Fridayzz and bodyNsoul Photography will provide party goers also with unique cross promotional opportunities throughout the year.

From De Ware Tijd

Speciale aandacht voor Ron Flu op NK 2008

door Bonnie van Leeuwaarde

30/10/2008

Paramaribo - Op de 43ste Nationale Kunstbeurs wordt het podium speciaal ingeruimd voor kunstenaar Ron Flu. Hij wordt volgend jaar namelijk 75 jaar. “Dit jaar gaan we speciale aandacht besteden aan Ron Flu”, zegt Thea Valk, lid van de Stichting Nationale Kunstbeurs.

So finally tonight, my first participation at the Nationale Kunstbeurs (National Art Fair) the annual, oldest and most respected gathering or artist in Suriname.

I am participating with 3 older works, all Fine Art Nudes that have been shot in 2005. The reason for this selection is mostly a very personal and probably emotional one.

Back when I made this work it was censored by my then employer and I was prohibited in participating or showing my work in an exhibition or on the web. When left the company in 2006, I decided that it was time to show the work in the artfair/exhibition, but somehow, I had not managed to register in time for the event.

For a long time I have been blogging alone on this website. For that I simply used the Administrator account. Mixing website news with photography news. From today on that will be different for a very special reason.

My friend and fellow photographer, and indispensable assistant on critical shoots, is joining me on the bodyNsoul Photography journey.

He will still be shooting on his own as well, under his Faustography brand (www.faustography.shutterchance.com) and under his LUSTIG EVENT Photography brand (www.lustig-events.com).

But we start doing a beautiful project together under the bodyNsoul Photography brand, here come "The bodyNsoul Photography Sunshine Sessions"

Finally I took the time to reorganize the galleries into something more of what it was supposed to be in the first place. While still not totally satisfactory, I prefer it very much the way it is now.

I should be uploading most of the Freelance work I have done over the past year into the Freelance photography over the next week or so.

I also can now start preparing my stock images, even though I still have to think of the proper way to offer them for sale.

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Modeling and Modeling photography, especially of the commercial kind need a boost in Suriname. More structure, more quality, more knowledge, and more use of local models by local commercial clients.

That is why I started www.bodynsoulmodels.com. To foster a communiy and make dreams possible for models, photographers, makeup artists and more in Suriname.

This month the website passed passed the 100 members barrier. At the time 3 makeup artists, 8 photographers and 89 models.

Reason to celebrate...

Wow, about 3 months ago I launched the beta version of my modelling photography network website. www.bodynsoulmodels.com has since been growing slowly but surely.

In the month of May the website hit a few personal records, first it surpassed this website www.bodynsoulphotography.com in the amount of page views, visitors and time spend on the site per visitor.

Then late in may it also surpassed my photoblog at bodynsoul.shutterchance.com for the same categories. I have to admit that I have not posted any new item on the Shutterchance blog for the last 5 weeks (see block on the right BODYNSOUL PHOTOBLOG).

My most admired fashion photography couple is definitely Suby and Sinem. I got to know them from being "colleagues" at Shutterchance where I have my popular photoblog at http://bodynsoul.shutterchance.com/, while theirs is at http://suby.shutterchance.com/.

Sinem alerted me through Facebook that BHF Magazine did a nice article on the couple which can be read at http://bhfmagazine.com/bhfadvert_articles/bhf_suby_sinemshouse.html

It is definitely worth a read, but make sure to visit their blog after that, those friends of mine are one of the best around...