The Fremont Winter Feast is a winter solstice celebration put on by and for the Fremont Arts Council – the same group that puts on the Fremont Solstice Parade at the summer solstice (wow, has six months gone by already?). Here are a few shots, you will find a larger gallery on my Facebook fan page.

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Version 1.1 of my coffee table book for the iPhone – Burning Man 2008: A Photo Essay by Matt Freedman has now been released:

• It includes post Burning Man 2009 updates to the text of my introduction, packing list, and guide to photography at Burning Man.
• The app has now been gifted to the Burning Man community, and is available as a free download.

Also, if you or somebody you know may be interested in putting out your own coffee table book for the iPhone – either as a free app for promotional purposes, or as a paid app to make money – my platform is available for licensing. See my Monkfish Labs site for more information.

Stay tuned for updates about a Burning Man 2009 iPhone app. There is one coming, but it will be quite different than this one.

I have just posted over 100 of my absolute favorite images from Burning Man 2009 on my Facebook fan page.

Here is a small sample. Click for larger images…

Here are some samples from a recent maternity shoot in my studio. Some of these are shot with a black paper background, and some in the “dungeon” – the back storage room, which is technically part of the Seattle Underground.

There are also few more (non-nude) images from this shoot available on my facebook fan page (which you are highly encouraged to join if you have not done so already).

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Based on how it feels outside today, I think the endless summer of 2009 has finally ended. But I did manage to squeeze in one final summer portrait session  last week, out on the beach at Seattle’s Carkeek Park. It was a perfect day – warm, no wind, and clear skies all the way to sunset, giving us that perfect golden hour light.

The model is a naturopathic doctor who needs the photos for her website, though the look we went for is more fashion model portfolio than business portrait. Mostly because I like to make everybody look like fashion models.

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And we even managed to get some behind the scenes action shots (photos by Danny Berg)…