Xotica was Ms June. She was one of the first models to come in from out of town, in this case Austin.

Little bit of Houston trivia, Howard Hughes is buried in Houston in the beautiful Glenwood cemetery. We shot these images kind of commando. Glennwood is cool with people being in the cemetery during the day, but we weren’t sure how they’d react to a woman in a leather bikini.

Make up by Spleen.

If April was April Showers, then May must be May Flowers.

Here we have model Spleen in a multiple exposure. The suit was specially made for her by the wizards at SINched.

This was an image we shot, but never used. The boots Spleen is wearing have literally 12 inch heels, with a 4 inch at least platform. And she’s standing in the car ramp of our studio. Which is at an angle. We had to help her down then she could carefully stand. Then we needed to fill the ramp with fog, which we did using a fog machine and much dry ice.

April showers with a twist. A drowned model and a man with magic.

This idea was Marc’s and he managed to work himself into another month, though I don’t think that was his plan.

The model was one of only 2 models I would say weren’t goth at all. She was actually tan. Nor is she that gaunt. Heather Stanley, one of the Seraphemera people, looked at her and told her to lay on the ground and just started painting makeup on her. This was the result.

The table is one of those industrial kitchen tables and is still in our studio. I leaned a very big ladder up against the wall, climbed up and shot down.

I paid the models in calendars that they could sell. Ava Ruby is the only one who never got hers. I think she didn’t like the way it turned out. I know it didn’t make her look attractive, but it did make a cool image.

There just aren’t many good holidays in March.

St. Patrick’s day doesn’t really lend itself to Goth.

Ankha’s boyfriend at the time was Brian Crump, who was a body painter. We decided to do something theatrical. We had masks. We got this.

The three masked people? Marc Moorash, my wife Suanna, and Model Spleen, who was also part of Seraphemera back them.

Of course February is dominated by Valentines Day. Which makes us think Cupid.

This idea was actually one of the first I had for the calendar, Cupid with a Compound Bow. Also one of the first shot with model Rain.

Makeup was done by Tara Ward.

We started with the idea of baby – or in this case babe – new year taking over from the old year/father time. Babe was a great idea because we could strip her down a bikini. But we had to put a twist on it of course.

Maybe last year wasn’t quite ready to go.

The model is Skarah Black.

Some points to consider, just to make it interesting. I was just discovering the joy of oiling up model to make them glisten, so we did it Skarah. Didn’t really show up in this image, but it did make her slippery. Which isn’t that great when she’s holding a Bowie knife and kneeling over father time.

Father time is Marc Moorash of Seraphemera Books. Seraphemera was my partner on this and they did a lot of work, including all of the layout of the calendar.

Here’s a couple more. Skarah has a very long tongue, that’s all I’m going to say. The Absinthe picture appeared under the January calendar. Apparently absinthe is very goth.