Thoughts, Musings, News About The Site And My Photography
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Email Problems6th October 2026 08:10 I have been getting a lot of "undeliverable email" alerts, for new members and for members trying to reset their passwords. All of these are to gmail accounts. That's the problem with gmail, it sometimes just blocks emails from certain addresses. Sorry, there is nothing I can do about it, gmail is just a bit shit!. |
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Back, Broke, Exhausted16th September 2026 16:16 Well, that was an insane trip. 16 new models! Plus a couple of great g/g shoots including Fibi Euro & Noi Feja. Unfortunately it all cost several thousand euros! I can barely move at the moment, but I managed it all, and have several months editing to do. I think I overdid it, but there is a mountain of great stuff to come :) Here's Emily Pink, a stunning Columbian girl, just to give you a taste! |
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No A.I. Here11th August 2026 11:06 Just so you know, I don't do AI. Of course, photos & videos are edited - some skin smoothing, spot healing, tinkering with colours & grain etc, but no AI. Everything you see really happened! |
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The End Of A Great One11th July 2026 15:34 Back in the day Tomoko was my favourite model. She retired and left us about 10 years ago, but such is my backlog that it is only today that I am publishing her last set. I wish her all the best :) |
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Travelling A Lot1st July 2026 08:37 That's my excuse! Anyway, as of July I'm changing the publication schedule a bit. I'm upping the numbers here & on the kitchen to 5 updates every week - my backlog of stuff to publish is getting a bit huge! At the same time I am reducing the updates on the cellar to 4 a month for a while - that material is a little more expensive to produce which is particularly noticeable with the expensive Czech shoots I've been doing, so I'm a little short. Hopefully I'll bring it back to 5 next year. I've shot a lot of new models, here's my favourite, Ruby :) |
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200 Up18th April 2026 11:22 Today I published the first set of Fibi Euro on here. I noticed she's the 200th model on the site. Can you believe it? |
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Oh. My. Word.17th April 2026 09:16 I had booked some very expensive models through an agent for this visit to Prague. Even then, there were several last minute cancellations! These two girls, Noi Feja & Mini Mitzix were replacements. Neither looked great on the agents website, but I nearly had a heart attack when they arrived! Both drop dead gorgeous and incredibly hot. This is what I came for! |
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Major Trip Coming Up5th April 2026 08:48 When I book a trip to Prague, I always say I will do less shooting and actually see some of the city. This time I am there for 8 days, so I should definitely have time? Er no... 2 days at the Prague Erotic Festival and 8 shoots with new models have put paid to that. Maybe I should arrange a trip without a camera! |
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Elegance20th March 2026 13:29 I'm finally home, for a week! It's been a rough ride. Here's new model Genesis - her arms & legs go on forever! |
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Apologies For The Downtime31st January 2026 12:10 Not good enough, I know. There was a problem with the uplink cable in the data centre. I don't know how long the site was down - I was travelling for 30 hours and I only found out when I arrived, then it took the webhost another day to fix it. I can't do much for the members on recurring plans as that is controlled by ccBill, but I will go through everyone on a single payment plan tomorrow, and add 3 days to your membership. |
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Sorry, It's Been A While25th December 2025 17:35 Several of you have contacted me asking whether I am OK. I really appreciate that, thanks. I can't say the family situation is getting better, or that it will ever get better, but we are learning to cope with it. And, I have even more medication. I will be doing a bit more shooting next year. I'll be off to Lima for 6 weeks soon, and I have 10 days in Prague in April which is always mental! I might even do a few shoots from home - apart from Haphazard Kittie I haven't done that for over a year! Anyway, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Here's a very old pic of Natalia Forrest. |
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Shattering Live Experience20th September 2025 09:30 Yes, I got the title from a very obscure Fairport Convention song. This is typical of me. I did 5 shoots in Prague (one was cancelled at the last minute), including 10 hours one day. The workshop in Brno was crazy, we were up at 6am every day, and had shoots all over the place. Then I went to Venus Berlin, which was much wilder than in previous years, the main stage was excellent - but I ended up doing 10 hours a day on my feet! So I don't plan on leaving my house for at least a week, except maybe to the supermarket, which is all of a 3 minute walk :) Here's Fibi Euro. I shot her in Prague, and she was in one of the biggest shows in Berlin. There'll be a lot of her coming up! |
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Things Stabilising Slowly17th April 2025 17:14 I'm home, for a while. When people ask me how things are going, I say they aren't getting better but that have at least stabilised. My guess is that, over the next year or two, I will be spending a lot of time in the USA. Instead of doing my regular 2 or 3 shoots a month, there will be long gaps and then I'll be doing a whole bunch of shoots togther. Don't worry - there is plenty of material! Odd extra things, like blog postings, might be taking a back seat though. Anyway, here's some more of the delightful Cadef :) |
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Retirement12th February 2025 08:59 Yup, I'm in Peru. I'm spending most of my time on the phone sorting out issues in the UK & USA, but there you go! I have done a couple of shoots, and will do a couple more. Yesterday I shot the wonderful Kim D'Noir, and afterwards she told be that she is retiring from modelling. She will be a loss, absolutely one of the best! At least I have a lot of material, probably at least 3 years worth :) |
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How Rude Can We Be?10th November 2024 15:06 OK. This isn't the place for explicit material, even with models who we all know do the rudies. The reason, which I have explained elsewhere in the blog, is that I have shot quite a few models who are happy to be on a nude site, but not on an adult one - so we get more models! The definition of what I publish here is a little vague - I like to have rules and I like to break them! It is more or less the old style "playboy" nudes, ie not open leg, but I do have some open leg pics if they are part of the set but there are only a few of them :) After all, a few bits which are naughtier than they should be are more exciting! |
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Ten Tomorrow31st October 2024 18:40 I can't do the birthday post on the day this year as I am travelling all day tomorrow - I'm going to a show in La Louviere in Belgium for the weekend :) Anyway, 10 years! I can't believe it. If you have been around for a lot of the time (and I know some of you have, thanks!) then you probably can't either. I have more material than ever awaiting publication, so as long as I don't get hit by a bus or something we will be going on for years, even if I don't pick up a camera again - and that is unlikely :) |
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First Time Ever22nd September 2024 10:39 I was doing a big workshop in Brno, with 5 different models. I had been given this girl's real name (obviously I won't put that here), and happily shot her over 3 days. At the end we did the paperwork, and she called herself "Juicy Mermaid". Last night I was going through all the photos of the models' ids, and this one looked a bit familiar. I went through my records, and found I had shot her as Aika May 8 years ago! I wonder if she had recognised me and thought I was a complete idiot! In my defense, she now has a lot more tattoos, bigger boobs, and has had a mole on her face removed... It can be surprisingly difficult to recognise models after a few years, but I never thought I could do a complete shoot and not realise I had shot the girl before! |
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That Was A Day21st August 2024 07:58 It started with a blast down my favourite road, the A31 from the Hog's Back down to Winchester. Then a couple of hours wandering around Hinton Ampner with a really good lunch. Then a long shoot with the gorgeous Suki Star and her handsome boyfriend Zack. Then the blast back up the A31. And finally, a cheese sandwich with some amazing Mango & Ginger National Trust pickle. I leave it to you, dear reader, to decide which was the best part :) |
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