Many artists/ painters/ photographers I know of have a sort of regular stable of people they work with, and the more they work together the better the art is for it. I've only been shooting models for 3 months now and there are a few people I feel really comfortable working with, where both parties have a pretty good idea of how the photos should come out, and where the model is repsonsible/ professional and brings something special to the shoot, and where I can say something that on the surface sounds stupid like "let's shoot in a carwash" and the other person trusts me enough to assume everything will come out cool looking. One of those people is my buddy Morgan. 
Actually, on this particular shoot I didn't need the carwash because Mother Nature supplied the water all by her lonesome. Taking a cue from the moody atmosphere and the sounds of the latest Massive Attack album, we shot in a library, a parking garage and a nearby waterfall. 
I think it was helpful that over the last few days I have started putting together a gallery show involving the model photos and have a better concept of where all this work is headed-- I definitely don't want to keep meeting random people and doing "pretty girls in pretty clothes" style photos. I watched a documentary on Vogue magazine called "The September Issue" and not that it turned me off to fashion photography, but it came close, seeing how photos from a $50,000 shoot were thrown away like so much garbage.
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