Model Credit: Gloria Dubois from www.bodynsoulmodels.com Model Representation: Doré Models Make-up: Gillian Calor Assistance Fausto Fraser This is the last in the Big Cat Series I'll be posting. You know when you enter the CAGE of a Big Cat it can be a gruesome end of your wanderings. Yet for some it is the ultimate challenge, Next time, I'll play it safe and photograph my Big Cats on the catwalk. Watch this blog in May!!

I have not been posting for a long time. While I have been shooting quite a lot lately, I decided to show some work shot late in December last year. I have been quite busy with www.bodynsoulmodels.com. Will have to take time to visit all my friends on SC, who I have truly missed the last few months. Todays shot was shot during a shoot with 3 angels, (yes they called me charlie) this is part of what is called the piano sessions.

Model Credit: Gloria Dubois from www.bodynsoulmodels.com Model Representation: Doré Models Make-up: Gillian Calor Assistance Fausto Fraser Like Household Kittens, Big Cats love to play, Hide and Seek is one of the favorite games, using their camouflage colors to their benefit. Lucky the photographer who is prepared and captures the moment for eternity. The colors of the Lioness blend well in with the surroundings here.

Model Credit: Jo-Ann from www.bodynsoulmodels.com So let's take a break from hai boxers, I have a few more to show, but can't wait to show this series. Suriname's most valuable export is it's people. Young and talented they leave the country in search of studies, training and a new future. Some come back (like I did after my studies in Brazil) others find a new homeland. But when the end of the years comes by, a lot of them return to Suriname to spent the festive season. And then the end of the year came by Jo-Ann also came. playing tennis in louisville, she might well be the next Serena Williams!!! or the next Anna Kournikova. I spotted her at the sportsclub during her summer recess. Found out she was a friend of my niece, we chatted over MSN and Facebook and decided to do a shoot at her overwintering in Suriname. So much energy!!! So much beauty and so much elegance. We did a portfolio shoot for 5 hours and produced numerous great looking images, I will post a few this week.. Let's hear it for Joey!!

Model Credit: Jo-Ann from www.bodynsoulmodels.com Here is Jo-Ann again, Again I am shooting with clothing being an important part of what I wnat to show. Very interested in your comments.

Happy New Year to All. The busiest time of the year is almost over. So I can return to Shutterchance and photography. Meanwhile 64 of my buddies have been posting since I last visited SC, most of them more than once so I will take some time to see all the postings, and then resume to discover new buddies. I will feature a few more of the Thai Boxer series and am starting with Suelle Shepperd, the only female fighter to be featured. Suelle is a champion, as with the other featured fighters there is so much determination in her, it's incredible. More about Simson's Gym can be found at http://www.simsongym.com

Anthony and Suelle in a fantasy pose. No fighters were hurt during the making of this shot!! Rafael (http://rafaelchan.shutterchance.com/) posed the fighters I thought it wonderfully showed from my perspective the differnce between the female and male fighter perspectives I almost am done with the busiest season of the year and should ahve time again to answer the comments and visit my buddies, just hold on one more day or so.... As you know by now more information on Simson's Gym can be obtained from their website at http://www.simsongym.com/

The year is almost coming to an end, so I went back to my archives and am posting from the very first shoot I did in 2007, on January 2, Rachel cmae with Bombelman, and we had a quick session. I have a shoot today, so I will only be able to return to the blog tomorrow morning. Hope you enjoy it, just realised it is almost a year I am blogging on Shutterchance. I should prepare something special for that day :) On another note, I have not beenblogging this week although I have some more material to post. Have had no time for the postprocessing as yet, but you should see it later this week. For now, when you are done looking at Rachel, pay me a visit on my renewed bodyNsoul Photography website. if the link doesnt work just go to http://www.bodynsoulphotography.com/

Anthony Nekrui is the fourht fighter from Simson's Gym. At the same Thai Box Gala, where I saw Andy my previous post I saw Anthony finish a match before I was aware that the match had started,the bell went and the opponenent was knockout, at least it felt like that. Determined, focused and the eye of a champion!! I have had very little time to answer comments and even worse to visit my buddies blogs, Holiday season means a lot of social activities and very little time for the internet. I am sure it will all get relaxter somewhere in the second week of January, until then I'll try to visit and answer as much as possible without giving any guarantees.... Ok now off to the next party...

Andy "The Machine" Ristie is the third fighter from Simson's Gym. Kicking @$$. I do not often go to the matches, but have seen him in the ring at one match this year, and he was amazing!! After entering the stadium with a lot of show, i thought, hmmm, too bad if he looses his fight. Then the fight started and he sure knocked his opponent out, way to fast to remember how that happened. Then again not every likes these figting sports, for those of you that like clothing, he is featured in a Surinamese flag inspired short <smile> and he stole Mal's plastic sixpack holder <SMILE> Simson's Gym is on of Suriname's most popular Thai Boxing Schools, you can read more about them at http://www.simsongym.com/