model : Amélie
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Amélie, we will continue your training for suspension today … before to test your ability to bear another position with arched feet and hands up.

that’s a long time I shoot Amélie now and we didn’t make “the” suspension serie yet. You know what I mean, “the” serie you can show to your friends telling us “I did it and I was strong enough to fly a long time” … as a lot of my models, Amélie had never been bound before and like others, she needed time to train her body and mind about that physical challenge. We already did one or two suspensions in the past but we always encountered some difficulties : then, that day, I didn’t build my session around the time she whould fly. I’ve included the suspension time among others things to get more pics and to make Amélie more comfortable with the fear about screwing up the shooting. She is a good model and good models are always anxious about a possible failure or bad result … and that’s how their stress is growing up each time I speak about suspension. Just because they are not sure about being able to bear the pain until they did it two or three times having fun in ropes. We started the day by this serie with my guest Liocarne who visited my studio just for fun and giving an extra hand with essential things like moving furnitures or helping me if we would have a problem during suspension. So, I did the ropework and the pictures while Amélie was wearing nice asian clothes already used in the past with Dana and Neovarda. We started by classic shots about french pin-up trapped in ropes before to tie one Amélie’s leg in the air. Several pictures again before to totally suspend her for a while : you will notice her face gives a rendering of the pain before I decided to put one foot on the floor. I know some of my models who love pain, she’s definately not of them and that’s the reason why the challenge is interesting to me … following my initial plans, I untied Amélie to build another bondage position. I got the idea about making a puppet variation with arms and hands up before we started but as often when I am working, I’ve improvised and added one cool detail. I got the idea to tie each Amélie’s foot in order to force them arching. You should love the result : the shots about her feet are great and the position was pretty uncomfortable. Enough to get some interesting and good pictures and sufficiently to exhaust my model. I think she learnt how being unable to put feet on the floor can be a real torture … Even so, that’s not for her exhaustion I decided to release Amélie but for her bound arms which were getting blue and painful. I know a lot of people who are anxious when they see a strange skin color : don’t be afraid, that’s a natural fact with bondage, you just need to control the situation and being reasonnable. Amélie wasn’t hurt at all … we even did another set of pictures after this one. do you remember the bondage session featuring the black latex catsuit and the leather muzzle gag ? That’s all for today … enjoy the serie and thanks again to Amélie for being such a cool model :)

model : Mina
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back to the bathroom for another bondage experience … don’t you love ropes in water Mina ?

let’s begin with some words about the camera rendering : I told a lot of bad things about the recent Nikon’s stuff since I got my D300, sounds like it works good with low light … even if there are strange textures in the dark areas (not noise but like jpeg compression problems) : anyway, the result is good and better than our previous sessions using low light and candles. I will do it again very soon just to make a longer serie. after two sets, we ended the day with this wet session and I didn’t want to spend two hours shooting with the unknown result. I know which result I can expect now, then, I could work with a cool mind. for the previous reasons, I decided to build a simple but efficient ropework for Mina : arms tied in the back, tight elbows and waist. You can’t really notice it on those pictures but Mina arrived at home with her natural hair color and I must say that’s my favorite one (and the length too) : she looks really sexy into the yellow light made with more than 50 candles. you can’t imagine how the room was hot with all these lights. that’s a good tip when you have no more electricity at home during the winter LOL as I wrote on the blog previously, I already did candles sessions in the past and I learn new things each time to make the result better. furthermore the increased number of candles I used another curtain to hide the window located above the bathtub. For the little story I scheduled this set several weeks before when Mina last time visited me and I decided to cancel it because I wasn’t satisfied about the harmony between the yellow / white candles and my regular curtain. I fixed the problem and when Mina came back, all the stuff was matching together. I bet you will love several portraits as you will like the wet skin when Mina is standing up in the bath. Personally I am happy because Mina should love those pics and that’s really important for our next shootings :-)

Today, I invite you to go back in time… I will release my old series FOR FREE : regularly, you will be able to download a complete set of pictures, 7 years after its addition to the member’s area.

my local fans remember that shot used for the cover of a french bdsm magazine … year 2002, my small appartment in Paris : Mathilde and Natalya came back for shooting together. I know this period wasn’t my best : my photography wasn’t good and my bondage skills were awful : I got my first assistant on the phone recently and he told me that was amazing to see how my work changed since our first sessions … that’s so true ! I tried to give a medical touch to my living room to shoot a classic storyline with a kinky nurse dressed in latex. Mathilde played the sick girl trapped by the evil nurse watching, touching and dominating her. I don’t have a lot of memories about that day except Natalya was really happy to play with another girl : the blonde loves having fun with sexy woman … I loved the harmony of blue colors even with the rope I used was too large : at this time, you could find only crappy ropes in french shops. as I often say to people asking how I improved my skills, the quality of your rope is really important and I had to wait year 2004 before to get good nylon ropes … in USA ! Enjoy those 100 pictures :)

I encourage you to read the BACK IN TIME explanation available here to know more about my decision to release these old sets for free.

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PREVIEW > download : s033-01.zip - model : Mathilde + Natalya

after two weeks working, I took a break for two days and that was a good thing. in few minutes, I will start working on the Amélie interview : 4 DV tapes are waiting for me and I bet the cut will take my whole day. anyway, I think you will love this interview made with Amélie … lot of interesting things including her first breathplay experience. for now, I wanted to share another backstage video from 2006 with Mina as the bound girl, Anaïs as the second model and my friend Alain and I for the shooting team. After one hour being bound and half an hour being gagged, it was time to untie Mina : you will note everybody manage one part of the rope work which is faster to release the girl. Of course, we spoke in french (mother language rules) but, for the little story, we were speaking and joking about the ton of saliva Mina had on her chest due to the ball-gagging. It was really funny also because the saliva ran down under the corset :)

model : Anais
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you know my jungle background … you know the woman too. but what about Anaïs bound and gagged in the jungle ? let’s go !

since the time we were working together, Anaïs never saw the jungle background before and I was happy to surprise her when she arrived for another shooting session. I knew both of us need some changes in my photography exploring new things : that happens when you work almost every week-end with the same people. When I started shooting the pin-up part, I quickly decided to turn off one light source for some pictures, just to create deep shadows and a better atmosphere … kind of exercise digital cameras don’t love especially when you don’t use flashes system :) even if everything is not perfect on a technical point, I made some really interesting shots featuring Anaïs playing the pin-up (she’s definately one of my favorite models). I also love the lingerie wore by Anaïs : I bought it several years ago and used it only for one photo session with Dana which has never been published. that lingerie set is a bit difficult to use (colors, prints) but it was matching with the jungle background and my model’s hair color. I tried to build an original ropework, asymmetric and comfortable for a long time. I had no assistant and I had to manage the bondage and photography that’s why I didn’t push Anaïs in the pain zone. Okay, I admit, things were less comfortable when I added the ball-gag which is a bit too large for Anaïs (what a small mouth !) … the jungle background is cool but there is not enough space for some bondage positions, so, Anaïs got one posture only but I think you should love it. if you don’t notice it watching the pictures, watch carefully her right leg, the ankle is tied to the wall and made the leg suspended in the air. for the little story, we changed the background just after to shoot another set playing with vibrator and nylon ropes. that was another cool bondage afternoon at home, thank you Miss :)

model : Diva + Dana
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welcome back Diva for a french geography lesson with your favorite teacher ! are you dreaming about a teacher wearing a corset like this one ? sure ! but Diva is not a good student. not enough skilled for Dana !

Humm perharps Diva though it wasn’t a true lesson ??? But something sure, she won’t forget this special one … because Dana is now angry. and Dana is Evil ! try to please your Mistress … kiss and lick her shoes ! Dana loves to punish students. She seems excited now : another exercise for you Diva… let’s try spelling ! I think a dictation will be perfect for you :) Do you have any problem working with your teacher disturbing you ? Too many mistakes … take your punishment ! Caning was just a warm up :) spanking would be better for the bad girl you are ! you should work harder within the future … or you won’t sit for a long long time LOL Ohhh, but Diva is sticklish ! Now … it’s time for hell and sweet torture for this wonderful brunette ;-) thanks to the girl and to Alain for those comments. I bet you will love to rediscover that classic serie which has been remastered in 1000×1504 resolution.

model : Neovarda
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here is the second set we did on September 06
bound to the stairs with her right leg suspended … exhausting ?