An uncomfy bear
I'm having a bit of a rough time at the moment and will be taking a few months break from modelling.
I wish I could report that my injuries are the result of either mind blowing acrobatic sex or a death-defying stunt involving an extreme shoot. (I do so enjoy trying to push myself to the edge with regard to modelling, but unfortunately the results are rarely photogenic, and most of the images get wisely deleted).
Alas, the truth is far more mundane, and I appear to have reopened an old wound due to excess overenthusiastic vacuuming (and not the fetish kind!). I’m blaming the kids as usual (three c/sections in the past), although I suspect it is also a feature of age. This comfy teddy bear is losing her stuffing!
So as I do tend to “give my all” when modelling, I'm not up to my usual stretching and posing, as I fear this would result in more discomfort (for that read “extreme pain”).
In the end, this break comes at an opportune time, as I keep getting pestered (sorry I mean “repeatedly approached”) by a photographer who wishes to book me, but with whom I have declined to work. Now after the flaming I got last time with regard to judging photographers, I have no intention of saying any more about the matter. Suffice to say I am NOT shooting with any other photographers for the foreseeable future. In effect, I have been “spooked” by recent events and need to back off a bit. Time to take a wee sabbatical, methinks.
Changing the subject, Richard had a great shoot earlier on this week with a beautiful model from Norwich called Roswell Ivory
Unfortunately I didn’t get much time assisting with the shoot, due to the fact that the central heating in the studio had a meltdown, and I was too busy trying to manage the heating engineer who was VERY interested in the beautiful model and kept trying to get into the studio, despite being told that it was out of bounds (He didn’t succeed because I stood between him and the studio door for three hours, but I was extremely frayed by the end of the shoot!).
Richard and Roswell, both professionals as they are, just kept on shooting regardless, and you will be seeing some great images in the next few weeks. Thanks Roswell, and I hope I finally get a chance to work with you in the future!
I wish I could report that my injuries are the result of either mind blowing acrobatic sex or a death-defying stunt involving an extreme shoot. (I do so enjoy trying to push myself to the edge with regard to modelling, but unfortunately the results are rarely photogenic, and most of the images get wisely deleted).
Alas, the truth is far more mundane, and I appear to have reopened an old wound due to excess overenthusiastic vacuuming (and not the fetish kind!). I’m blaming the kids as usual (three c/sections in the past), although I suspect it is also a feature of age. This comfy teddy bear is losing her stuffing!
So as I do tend to “give my all” when modelling, I'm not up to my usual stretching and posing, as I fear this would result in more discomfort (for that read “extreme pain”).
In the end, this break comes at an opportune time, as I keep getting pestered (sorry I mean “repeatedly approached”) by a photographer who wishes to book me, but with whom I have declined to work. Now after the flaming I got last time with regard to judging photographers, I have no intention of saying any more about the matter. Suffice to say I am NOT shooting with any other photographers for the foreseeable future. In effect, I have been “spooked” by recent events and need to back off a bit. Time to take a wee sabbatical, methinks.
Changing the subject, Richard had a great shoot earlier on this week with a beautiful model from Norwich called Roswell Ivory
Unfortunately I didn’t get much time assisting with the shoot, due to the fact that the central heating in the studio had a meltdown, and I was too busy trying to manage the heating engineer who was VERY interested in the beautiful model and kept trying to get into the studio, despite being told that it was out of bounds (He didn’t succeed because I stood between him and the studio door for three hours, but I was extremely frayed by the end of the shoot!).
Richard and Roswell, both professionals as they are, just kept on shooting regardless, and you will be seeing some great images in the next few weeks. Thanks Roswell, and I hope I finally get a chance to work with you in the future!
posted by Lin at 2:40 PM
1 Comments:
While I would hardly consider my response to your "creepy photographer" post to be "flaming." I like to think I expressed my view in a level-headed and respectful manner. It may not have been a view you particularly wanted to *hear* but it was hardly "flamimg."
As I said before, I would hope that your husband's experience with the camera club [much documented in this very blog] would serve as a cautionary against judging other photographers [and models] out of hand. It would be easy for someone like myself, Don Nelson or your husband to say "well I'm not like those other photographers," but in the end we do ourselves a disservice by doing so: We simply enable those forces who would like to see *all* of us dissappear by giving them a foothold in the overall discourse...a foothold we cannot allow those negative forces to have.
I routinely defend photogaphers whose work i don't care for, because my personal preference shouldn't be the deciding factor in the validity of anyone else's art.
If you find a certain photographer "creepy" all well and good: Refrain from working with him, block his email, etc. But as I've said numerous times, *all* photographers who do what we do have *someone* who thinks they're "creepy" -- What would you feel reading another model's blog only to find your *married* to a "creepy photographer"?
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