While I was in Malta this past week I visited the Dingli cliffs, where I ran into this guy, who goes by "John". He sells snacks and soda, as well as fresh fruits and vegetables from his garden to passerby's and anyone stopping to visit St. Magdalen's Chapel. He has supposedly claimed this spot for as long as he can remember, perched at over 750ft on the cliffs outside of Dingli overlooking the Mediterranean. My contact Louise, who I was working on a project with there, made small talk with him and bought some of his oranges, which absolutely ruled. 

 I'll be posting more about the journey and the work I did in Malta over the next few months. Thanks for reading!

Tuesday was a very big day for not only myself, but for my friends, whom I had the pleasure of working with on this project called Cavalier Essentials for the past few months. With the help and collaboration with Wantful, my great friend Taylor Pemberton officially launched the brand that has been in the works for almost a year, and I couldn't be more happy for him. You may remember the the opportunity I had last January to direct and shoot the first lookbook for Cavalier alongside Taylor. The whole things was merely an idea at the time that he had created, but today it has grown into a full line of quality leather goods and curated vintage products.

We had an amazing crew of talented individuals working with us and who all ensured a good time. Without them all this entire release would not have been the success that it was. I'm super proud of Taylor and all his efforts to make this first official launch of Cavalier the enormous success it was.

I'm so stoked to have been involved from the start and to see such an overwhelming response to the project already. Make sure to take a few minutes and poke around the pretty, new website and discover all the content and new product. I'm sure you'll find something there you like (that leather duffle is way hot!).

View the entire photographic lookbook here: cavalieressentials.com/#lookbook 

Credits: 

Director and Producer: Taylor C. Pemberton // Co-Producer: John Poisson 

Photographer: Collin Hughes 

Co-Director: Lauren O'Malley // Co-Director: David Goddard // Cinematographer: Austin Rink 

Editor: Billy Ennis // Composer: Brian Wooden 

Talent: Graden Harrison & Megan Nanne 

Stylist: Loren Maring // Assistant Stylist: Hope Hellberg // Hair and Makeup: Torry Strayhorn // Hair and Makeup: Holly Adams 

Assistant Photographer: Rockie Nolan // Production Assistant: Zachary Dowling 

Photographer and Videographer Assistant: Adam Trevillian 

Special Thanks to Jake Green 

cavalieressentials.com // twitter.com/cavalier 

Back in July I worked with a couple great people to produce the 2011 Lookbook for Ugmonk. I had a blast shooting over two days on a job that was completely self-directed and produced. My friend and stylist Loren Maring did a great job of communicating with the models and getting them to look their best in only a couple short days as well. 

You can view the ful set up images from the lookbook on Ugmonk's website: http://www.ugmonk.com/extras/lookbook/

I traveled to Istanbul and the far eastern part of Turkey last month with my good friend Nick (my friend Gee from Brussels was with us for part of it as well) and have some incredible stories from it to share. Too bad they're much harder and lengthier to explain over the internet and there are way too many photos than could possibly be shown in one post. To be honest, I ended up choosing about 40 images from the entire trip (a process that was as painful as it was time consuming) to at least introduce the underlying stories, but not sure if I nailed the goal of being "selective".

You be the judge, hopefully this gives at least some notion of how incredible and unique a trip it was.

My second test shoot for JOY Models Istanbul was with Anastasia. She was recently in a couple editorials which ran in Harper's BAZAAR Istanbul as well as Vogue, and she's only 16. Her eastern-euro look coupled with some Americana styling was fun to play with, and we had a great time shooting in the evening sun. 

Check out more from the test in a complete story on my website: http://cargocollective.com/collinhughes#1924816/Anastasia