Rusty is who I consider as the ‘first really hot guy’ that I ever photographed.  I had just shot my first cover for TWiT Magazine in 2009  and was keeping an eye out for more cover potential when I met Rusty in a Houston club where he was dancing.  He is as sweet as he is sexy; super friendly so he agreed and we set a date.

Two weeks later I came back to Houston to shoot in the apartment of two friends of mine.  He walked in with a huge duffle bag and that Oklahoma smile (yeah, he’s an OK guy).

This shoot almost didn’t happen. 

My one and only light blew its bulb.  My novice-ass didn’t have a backup so my buddy took off to the nearest store to find something that would work.  An hour later he came back with a hanging garage light – you know the kind that has a round aluminum bowl around it – costs around ten bucks.  I was completely embarrassed and it didn’t help that Rusty’s good looks were making me nervous.  You gotta remember I was new to working with guys of this caliber.

What was funny about the shoot was that big duffle bag Rusty hauled in.  I figured it was packed with shirts and jeans…nope, thongs, jockstraps, underwear.  Dozens of them.  LOL  After all he is a dancer but even so, he was a little shy in the beginning – going back and forth into the bathroom to try on different things for us.  We popped open a bottle of wine and an hour later both his shyness and my nervousness were no where to be found.

What started out as a simple 3-dress change shoot for TWiT turned into a full nude photo session.  There are plenty more images of Rusty in my archives; hopefully you’ll vote him in again and I bring back more of him.

The quality of my equipment was definitely lacking then and so were my photoshop skills so I wasn’t too happy with the results, on my part.  Now 3 years later I’m glad you voted for Rusty.  It gave me a chance to go through the raw images again and really do some better work on them.  Not that he needed any real Photoshop magic.  Rusty is probably one of the few guys who, except for a few blemishes, didn’t need one ‘touchup’ at all.  Not one.