Rob Ronaldson

My primary motivation is to create beautiful FILM monochrome images of naked models in natural landscapes on Medium Format and now LARGE format too. However in parallel I shoot digitally, ensuring that models have access to the images quickly. I like to shoot in bright sunshine, as this gives the image a positive utopic energy; I want my images to look idyllic.

Gracefully posed on erosion sculptured rock; I want to resonate and reinforce the beauty of the surroundings with that of the model. I seek to reverse the fall of man (i.e. before Eve was thrown out of the Garden of Eden), but at the same time allowing the natural sensuality of the model to reveal itself.

Most of my landscape nudes are shot in Cumbria, County Durham and Northumberland in northernmost England (The Lake District being my favourite place!). I also shoot in Almeria, Spain, up to twice a year and I am always looking for great models to take there!! I am also planning to return to Fuerteventura again in the next couple of years.

Since I seek perfection of light, I need to restrict shooting to days with at least some sunny periods and be able to wait. Therefore I require both the luxury of being able to wait for the light or the flexibility of the occasional postponement, which would be denied me if I booked conventional paid shoots. I therefore lean toward solely TF/trade arrangements.

However I am happy to shoots sets for models for their own pay-to-view enterprises as part of any TF/trade agreement. I am also happy to allow models to take copies of all jpegs taken on the day of shooting.