Capturing the retro glamour of The Ukeladies pin-up calendar sessions

Written by Amy Spreadborough
Beautiful red-headed woman in a short red dress, pauses with her vintage Schwinn bicycle at a scenic spot beneath Portland's lovely St. John's Bridge. In the basket of her bike are a bouquet of colorful flowers... and a ukulele.

When Portland band The Ukeladies came to us with the concept of doing a pin-up calendar, we couldn’t have been more excited to photograph them. Each of the band members came with a concept for her pin-up photo. We stepped in to help make their poses, lighting and staging look sexy and fabulous.

Beautiful woman with flowers in her long blonde hair and wearing a small red dress poses in classic pin-up girl style with her tiny, flower-adorned ukelele.
 
Lovely classic pin-up girl in a black bowler hat sits inside a metal washtub, her feet in the air, with her washboard percussion instruments.
Classic pin-up girl poster tableau of a lovely young woman in high heels, on a red picnic blanket, cradling her ukulele and smiling for the camera.
In classic pin-up girl style, a beautiful retro-styled woman in high heels, hot-pants and a star-spangled bikini top places a wash-tub stand-up bass into the open trunk of a sea green 1950s-vintage car.
Beautiful young woman with tattooed arms leans across the back of a vintage motorcycle in classic pin-up girl pose. Beside her is a small ukulele.
Classic pin-up girl: red bikini, high heels, straw hat and a tiny, tiny ukelele.
Lovely red-headed woman poses in classic pin-up girl style, has been hit with cupid's red valentines arrow. Behind her on a small table is a red box of chocolates, red roses, red devil horns... and a little red ukelele.
Beautiful, young woman poses in classic pin-up girl style. She's wearing ice skates, white sweated and dress, and gazing happily (and dreamily) skyward. Her dobro-style ukulele sits in the foreground.
In pin-up girl style, a lovely young woman lies on a white sheep skin rug, black-stockinged legs in the air, ankles crossed, holding a small blue ukelele.
Beautiful woman in classic pin-up girl pose: She's in a retro blue swimsuit with white polka dots. She wears pearls and straw sun-hat and holds a little ukulele that's sound-holes are shaped like little palm trees.
This pin-up girl poses in classic cowboy costume: red hat, black vest, little black leather belt, red fringe on her black arm bands, and chunky black high heels. She's making a finger-pistol shape with one hand and holding a small ukulele in the othe
This classic pin-up girl poses on her bare tip-toes. She's wearing a lovely retro brown sun-dress with white polka dots (with just a peek of blue panties underneath). She smiles skyward with a jaunty straw sun-hat on, while holding a ukulele.
Amy Spreadborough
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