Warmer Weather with Faith (Patreon)

Every summer, New York surprises me.

People always think of the state as skyscrapers, traffic, or the same pockets of Upstate farmland—never the hidden waterfalls tucked deep into the woods. But shoots like this remind me how much the landscape here refuses to fit the stereotype. You hike for twenty minutes, take one turn down a trail that barely looks like a trail, and suddenly you’re standing in front of something that feels more like Oregon or Iceland than anything you'd expect in New York.

That’s where Faith and I shot this set.

She drove all the way up from Long Island for this—trading ocean salt air for the spray of a waterfall—and the location could not have matched her energy better. Faith always brings this mix of confidence and softness, and pairing that with a Honey Birdette lingerie set under natural light is honestly a cheat code. The deep blue and black lace popped perfectly against the muted rock tones and all the bright summer greens.

Photo Talk:Waterfall shoots are their own animal. Everything is moving—water, wind, even the reflections bouncing off the rocks change second by second. So the challenge becomes freezing that motion without losing the feeling of it. This set is one of those times where it all aligned: the warm air, the mist diffusing the highlights, the way her hair caught just enough backlight to glow without blowing out.

The whole scene felt like a warm-weather daydream—one of those shoots where you look at the back of the camera and immediately know you’ve got something special.

Thank you, as always, for being here. Enjoy this little slice of summertime escape with Faith.