Ladies of Boulevard Leopold

Last weekend I was honored to join Zoi Morgan's "Ladies at the Mansion" event in Antwerp for a fabulous shootday with extraordinary styling.

I had a great time with co-models Zoi, Ivory Flame and Mischkah Scott and the participants. There is something about Zoi's events that attracts like-minded creatives for a relaxed day and lots of stunning images.

Photographer: Maarten Scholtheis

Photographer: Bob Zietse                                     Photographer: Hans Miller

Photographer: Bernhard Ehrminger

On Tour: USA's East Coast

Boston:

Photographer: Yuri Kriventsoff

New York:

Photographer: Spyro Zarifopoulos

Photographer: MamudsNY

Photographer: Marcin Dobrev

Atlanta:

Photographer: Sublime Lightworks

Latex: Westward Bound

MUA: Molly Todd & BXCCS

One morning in Paris

It's strange how some days go. One minute you're getting up at 6.30 in the morning, a little later you are on the train to Paris to enjoy a walk in the sun through the Parisian streets only a few hours later. As grumpy and tired I was in the morning, that's how lighthearted I was when walking the streets. I had enough time so decided to do everything on foot in stead of taking the metro.

Around noon I arrived at the hotel where I was going to shoot with Julien Sunyé. As usual it was great working with Julien. He did a few testshots to see how he wanted to approach the location and to check light and angles, and we were ready to start. We shot a few setups on the balcony of the hotel, which had a great view of the Eiffel Tower. It was a beautiful day, which was a bit of a challenge with the sun playing hide and seek behind the clouds. We ended up with great shots!

A little later I was back in the Parisian streets with a little time left for sightseeing, to hop back on the train home a few hours later. What a great day!

On tour: Germany & Switzerland tour

Day 1: Neurenberg, Germany

Shot a set on location with Gert O Photo.

Day 2: Munich, Germany

I can share a few BOCs of my shoot with Akinari Yakomoto. We shot art nude, vintage lingerie and latex on location.

Second shoot of the day was with Armin Reinhardt. We started with a black and white beauty set and ended with blade-runner inspired portraits. So cool to do! I could play around with the tube lights and light myself with it.

Day 3: Sankt Gallen, Swittzerland 

Got the chance to shoot at this wonderful location with Donnerstern, an old villa in the center of Sankt Gallen, which will also be where I spend the night.

Day 4: Amriswil, Switzerland

Next up was Bruno Birkhoffer, who has been on my "want to shoot with" list for a few years. We shot portraits, art nude, a commercial set for Filanea jewelry and fashion. It was so nice to work with him. He is very nice and professional and had all these great ideas! I loved shooting in the hammock as well, it was definitely challenging and probably not very elegant in between poses, but really amazing what you can do with something so simple. It created opportunity to try out new and crazy poses, things that are impossible when posing while standing. I love how it turned out!

Minnie and frills

Earlier this week I shot with Robbert Poel. We had shot before during a workshop a few years ago, but now it was time to do our own thing. 

The cabin

The location for my shoot with Ronald Cools was a cute cabin by Styling10. It was beautifully decorated, with nice windows that let in soft, natural light. Here's one of the behind the scenes shots to give you an idea of how stunning the location was.

We only used available light for this shoot, which worked nicely with the theme we were shooting. Soft colours, frilly lingerie and messy curls. I did my own make up and styling.

Golden Hour

Had a lovely evening shoot with Gert Onsia. We didn't shoot very long because we only used the golden hour for light. I love these results!

If you are wondering why it is called 'the golden hour', this shot was taken 5 minutes later. The effect of the golden light lasts for about an hour, then suddenly it's gone. This effect is created by the last rays of sunlight.

This is my reading face 😋 #concentrate #reading #book #cantogeneral

Een foto die is geplaatst door Riona Neve (@riona.neve) op 29 Feb 2016 om 4:26 PST

NYE 2015

My last days of 2015 were an amazing closure to an amazing year. My year ended with a short shoot after which I hosted and gogo danced my way into 2016 at the closing night of Sun Studio. So sad they are closing, I always enjoyed working with them! 

Photos by Gert Onsia

Hosting and dancing at Sun Studio. Stayed partying afterwards with Rubia Stri.

 Photo by Party ShotZ

Adamant Amazones

Adamant Amazones is a project by Bart Ramakers about strong women. Red line through the series are vintage and rare cars. There will be a calendar and exhibition about this project.

Opening image of the calendar is an image shot during a previous shoot in a Tesla.

For the first set I was a stylish jewel thieve, wearing a long, black glitter dress. There was no image selected from this set for the calendar as only one image per type of car can be in the calendar. Bart chose an image from the second set for the Mercedes 190SL.

In the second set I was a spy, spending all her time in her car, listening for sensitive information. I'm wearing a wig by Insomnium Wigs.

See the video of the project here:

Workshop: Aerial Hoop in Stuttgart

I have some pretty amazing news; I am now fully booked until January 2016! :D
Currently taking bookings and requests for January and it's already filling up rather fast! I am so happy about this. The time and work to be done to be able to stand in front of the camera must not be underestimated and can sometimes be rather stressful. Keep in mind that what you read here is not the only thing that I do. I do a lot more shoots and side projects that I don't write about here.

Exciting things that are coming up for winter 2015 is a trip to The Netherlands, a trip to Spain and a few super secret projects I will definitely write about as soon as I'm allowed! Stay tuned!

In other news, I went on my long-announced Stuttgart trip last week, where I mainly modeled for Brian Cann's workshop. He ordered an aerial hoop for the occasion and I had a wonderful (and quite frequently silly) time doing acrobatics and pretending to know what I was doing. I love challenging modeling jobs like this, they are my favorite type of work at the moment!

Lingerie shenanigans

Shot another lingerie set earlier this week with Meredith Thorina Juliana. I don't know what it is, but there's something about shooting lingerie with female photographers that I really like.

Lingerie: La Chaton Bottée