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Flavor your Poker Night even more fun, or that game of Solitaire. Two separate decks of playing cards, each featuring fifty-four different images, totaling 108 unique images between the two decks, are now available from The Pinup Pursuit! Backs of cards feature pin-stripping art same as my purse, by DoctorD! Order online, or if you know us drop a line and we can bring a pack along when next we meet.

Growing up I had a deck of Doll Collector’s cards, each featuring a different image. That was by far my favorite deck for solitaire! We also had two decks of Jack Daniels Distillery cards, fun for Rummy with friends. Pinup and Pin-striping, I call these decks a winning combination. Enjoy!

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Frolicking to life’s music…this year I am thankful for Photography, fantasy, friends, and fusion dance.

More in this series: Vintage Beach Baby

A Day at the Beach

One Wet Rock

Come With Me By the Sea

Centurion

Rockside

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MUAH: Danyelle “The Hair Maverick” Johnson
Authentic Vintage suits and camera

Once shooting at the caboose was exhausted, we headed downhill to this beautiful waterfall. The sun already set and the waterfall tucked into a corner of constant shade, this corner of the property is COLD. However, I was determined to get in that icy water and make like it wasn’t.



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MUAH: Danyelle “The Hair Maverick” Johnson
Body Paint: Trevor Holmes
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“I keep going to the river to pray, cause I need something that can wash all the pain…” We blues dance to those lyrics of “Ghost” by Ella Henderson.

Our buddy, Trevor, scouted out this waterfall on private property in Grass Valley as a rad shoot location. The day he adorned me with body paint, we were rushed and the sun set by the time we migrated from the train car to the waterfall. Then, Shane slipped on mossy bridge and snapped the flash off the camera. We were left to shoot past dusk with no light. The water, by the way, was freezing cold as ice or the Pacific ocean. Our posse that day understood if I chose to abandon the shoot. I thought I’d step in a bit, then challenged myself to go deeper and deeper, then to finally actually sit in the fall. Many of these images will not be published as the low light made a formidable challenge for the camera to focus. Not to mention the fact that I am more fully exposed and not sure if that needs to be public. So here is what you can see.

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Danyelle “The Hair Maverick” Johnson

Your grieving process is unique. In no particular order, at some point the experiences are: isolation or denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Remember, we grieve not only relationships with other humans and mammals, but also personal loss of physical ability on account of disease or injury, as well as loss of roles and occupation, or even expectations in time of life. Where are you in whatever grieves your soul today?

Continued from Lost Love

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MUAH: Danyelle “The Hair Maverick” Johnson
Car: 1955 Hudson Wasp owned by Matt Martin

I’ve been to but one small town Rodeo in Athens, TN with my dad and aunt shortly after graduating high school. The previous year, I had a cowboy admirer who gave me a dozen pink long stem roses with an invite to a large rodeo. He had rolled up to my parent’s suburban chateau in his beat up truck, horse trailer still attached to make the delivery. I captured his attention in Chemistry class, where he sat behind me and we were lab partners with a third member. September 11, 2001 occurred and showing American pride the next day in cowboy hats were he, I and two other gentlemen. Sadly enough he was the only daily cowboy in my graduating class. This particular cowboy was the real deal and worked hard. I drove an old beat up truck myself, a 1976 GMC three quarter ton pickup. I think Cowboy spotted it parked across the street from my job at In-N-Out where he quasi-stalked me and followed me home to make the offer for a rodeo date. Some words about rolling in the hay may have spilled, and I was scared off. Looking back, I find it ridiculous that I turned him down. Such a fun and unique offer and a thought-through plan. He lent me his jacket one cold day at school and seemed a real gentleman, hay rolling fantasies aside. Just as well though, as I am pretty sure he fathered a child with another gal shortly thereafter. Too bad that fantasy did not include rubber. Apologies to the faint of heart, these photos are rather lame and felt compelled to use storytelling to make up for it. Desire is much more than what the eye sees, so much as what it imagines which words may provoke even more than images.


To finish my thoughts, and for the record, I would genuinely like to attend another rodeo one day, perhaps a larger scale. Rolling in the hay would have more appeal if I weren’t allergic to grass. Another event I would like to one day enjoy is a barn dance, yee-haw!

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MUAH: Danyelle “The Hair Maverick” Johnson

Bernie Dexter Dresses and a Vintage Car, what else does a pinup require? Makeup and Hair, of course! Provided this day by Star High Beauty! What a fun shoot, working as well with Rachel Anne Taylor. More from this shoot below, more of Rachel Anne.



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MUAH: Star High Beauty

Honoring our Veterans. Thank you for your sacrifice and service.



All images courtesy Samuel Nesbitt

Rachel Anne Taylor was recently intoduced to us while shooting on location for Star High Beauty. She is a student in the Napa Valley. Would you believe Rachel is half Puerto Rican?!

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MUAH: Star High Beauty

Model Mayhem provided an avenue for the ladies of Star High Beauty to contact Shane seeking images for their web site in-progress. The concept: Barber Shop Pinup. Excited to join the project, we showed up in just two days’ notice. I have been wanting to participate in a barber shop scene, but mostly I enjoy that somebody else put in the effort to dream up a concept and organize the shoot. I could grow accustomed to this. What a fun day!

This is the first of a series of images, more to come from this day!

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MUAH: Star High Beauty
Model: Rachel Anne Taylor
Design concept: Star High Beauty
Wardrobe: Mine, by Bernie Dexter