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Oh my!
So at first glance these pictures don’t really stand out (has CD completely lost his mind you wonder?). After all we are all so used to seeing the wonderful photography of Hywel and lately of Kate on the site, not to mention our favourite models in seductive bondage scenes. And that is exactly the point I am trying to make – at first glance these photos are every bit the high standard we have come to expect from the site. For you guys to have achieved this standard in a tutorial shoot is, well, remarkable. To tell you the truth I am amazed at the quality, you have all really captured that RE style so distinctive amongst bondage websites. In fact I am more than a little jealous now that I was not there too!!
Particular congratulations to Andrew for that first shot. I really had to double-take before realising that was Ariel. She is of course always very memorable but this shot has got a really different look to it and her.
Also, as a bit of an amateur (really very amateur actually) photographer myself well done to those of you who got the Sammie candles + dark room shots – a complicated scene to expose I guess.
Well done to all involved (btw Sammie and Ariel are looking HOT!)
CD
Dr Philips you are a tease. In the December preview (all of which look stunning by the way! – just in case I get carried away further down the page!) I was hoping for a sneak look at this years Christmas themed set. Does its absence from the above pictures indicate that there won’t be one this year or are you keeping it as a surprise like the last window of my advent calendar (I am just guessing but I think it is one of those mini mars bars).
It is probably too late for this years sets but I think one year you should do some children’s story themed sets like the windows of the big London department stores used to do when I was a kid. A different scene per day from one of these stories, and of course with a bit of bondage thrown in for good measure. I am thinking sleeping beauty (elegantly dressed, bound and asleep in a glass case in the woods), Snow White biting the poisoned apple, falling passed out on the floor before being carried off by the witches evil henchman (in bondage of course!). Cinderella – heck a childhood story where an elegantly dressed woman looses a shoe it’s a no-brainer! There must be a few more, I am sure someone will suggest some. You could Christmas up the scene a little with some snow and wintery scenes.
As I say though, looking at the pictures above December looks as though it is going to be every bit as good as November was, and October come to that and……
CD
(And some of the sets I find most frustrating – mostly on other sites – are the ones where the model is totally, extravagantly nude except for high heels, or boots or other fancy footwear. )
You are so right. In some sets it borders on forgivable but there are some, and this exclusively other sites I am discussing here, where the model is completely naked and strapped into some elaborate bondage device/metalwork and it just doesn’t work – you are left wondering WHY THE HELL HAVE THEY NOT TAKEN HER SHOES OFF!! It seems so obvious (do you know until I typed that out I hadn’t realised how wound up about it I was! this has been strangely cathartic!)
I guess if the model does not like her feet it could be acceptable in a normal shoot – but a bondage one?
CD
Hey Jade!
You were certainly in my top three of the bondage X factor finalists and a glimpse at these latest photos confirms that judgment. Wonderful pictures + beautiful model the inclusion of Chanta and her fantastic bondage and the way the pair of you worked together I for one can’t wait to see the full sets (am loving the PVC!). Oh and a belated happy birthday to you as well – did you get anything nice?
Also, apologies for my part in the quietness of the forum when you first returned back – explanation in another thread.
I would have to second LouisaInChains (who are you by the way – I am intrigued by the name?) comment that looking this hot and having taken so naturally to bondage photography I am sure you could have those student depts paid for in a jiffy – I would certainly welcome more photos of you on RE. Incidentally what did you spend the 8grand on?
I would love to have added a pair of high heels to the outfit buy hywel is too much of a foot fan to allow that very often
Oh, do you know that guy is great! As a fellow foot fan I agree entirely with Hywels judgement on that particular subject. It’s been said before but you can’t be submissive in high heels now can you? (submissive = barefoot, or at very least without shoes) and besides you have good feet – show them!
Hope to see you on the site more often
CD
Right then, that should be CD gone for another couple of months..
Cheaky cow! Sorry Bull (Bull my a*?â€
Hywel you disappoint me. How have you missed the fact that your resident bondage superstar is ticklish?
In case there is any speculation on whether I think this is a good idea or not allow me to clarify. PLEASE SHOOT THIS!!! I’m thinking photos and accompanying video – am VERY VERY enthusiastic!
I am sure it is something we must have discussed before but the whole tickling thing is kind of where all of this started with me. Tickling female friends (or even my sisters friends) as a child – so innocent but once tickled the ticklee is completely out of control and under yours – heady memories! From there one thing lead to another and nowadays there is little better than watching someone completely out of control through tickling though confined by their bondage.
Oh and stick me on Felines list of members who have a bit of a thing for feet (I mentioned it – right?) so no prizes for guessing my preference of body part to start with.
Now if this is to be a scientific experiment do I need to assert my credentials as a scientist? Have feathers will travel!
CD
Ps; Has anyone noticed those foot-based/tickling websites out there who insist on tickling women that just aren’t ticklish. It really grates on me – I mean why bother when there seem to be no shortage of ticklish women out there?
Bulls = Big and quite scary
That is the campest bull I have ever seen!
Yeah I rather missed the boat with the tutorial thing – the dates weren’t ideal either – I must make the effort to attend one of these workshops though as I am quite intrigued to meet you all.
On the camera thing I think I am on the verge of getting a bonus at work – am thinking a trip to the lens shop might be in order.
CD
– So is Ariel back from her world tour? How did it go? Where did it take you? Was this the day job or bondage work?
Sabrina!
What fantastic news! I am really pleased for you both – though this is slightly tempered with the realisation that I guess we shall be seeing a bit less of you for the next year or so (or maybe not if Marius talks you into pregnant bondage shoots – the scientist in me is suggesting this might not be such a great idea!).
I would question your version of events however… So there you were tied up in a studio with a cast of strange blokes. Then you feint. And now you are telling us that you are pregnant. Hmmm! Now I am no Poirot but I would have a good close look at that baby when it comes out!!!
I wish you well for the coming months, and hope that you hurry back to the site just as soon as you can (would the mention of MILF be ungallant?). In the meantime the previews (above) are truly stunning (congratulations to all of those involved by the way) and I look forward to the full sets over the coming year.
Take it easy and congratulations once again.
CD
Ps; You are aware that babies puke, poo and cry aren’t you?
Cheers Merlin! as ever your welcome back suggests I have been somewhere which is not entirely accurate – a combination of business at work leading to tiredness in evenings when I normally visit the site (work definitely not likely to be cool about bondage websites – though IT are so idle I doubt they would bother alerting anyone to it!) and a lack of new inspiring things to contribute to the forum – must try harder!
Its the old “Guy who lives in the woods stumbles across a wayward nympho and decides to keep her chained up until he can teach her the “error” of her ways” storyline
were the RE studio set in the woods this could almost describe the recent Ariel slave training video!
CD
Oddly it was the brief close-up of the actresses bound feet in the UK trailor for hostel II that prompted me to raise the question in here.
It quickly turns very bloody as she is hacked up with a scythe.
Eek! perhaps it best if we don’t all flock to see it, can’t see Hywel or indeed too many of the models agreeing to being hacked up with a scythe!
I noticed that captivity had had fairly bad reviews in general – was kind of wondering about it form a bondage perspective so thanks RCJM38 (catchy name that!) for filling me in. Elisha Cuthbert though… I might see it yet!
CD
Oh dear – Miss Anderssen is not going to like the way this thread has gone.
I rather missed the boat on the whole Hywel/Kate spot the difference thing (in their photos of course – the two people are relatively easy to tell apart – I think I shall leave that there!) and for the record I was trully terrible at it anyway!
As a scientist I always regarded myself as an alright mathematician but string theory and nth dimensions has rather shot holes in that assumption. Alas I guess this is the difference between the life sciences and the more physical sciences/maths (too abstract for my liking!).
Should the RE academy require I am more than willing to provide a beginners guide into the biochemistry of the grass that Ariel and Hannah are so elegantly flattening in the photos or indeed, as string theory wasn’t his thing, could provide Merlin with a rough guide to the inner workings of his avatar!
Do we have any students regularly visiting RE? seems to me collectively we cover a whole wealth of fields and expertise – anyone need help with coursework? (I think I may have said in here before this site got me through some of the darker days of my PhD write-up even though at the time I couldn’t really afford it!)
Back on subject the photos do look amazing though – again well done to all those involved.
CD
..anything except her feet heheh
When will he learn? I’ve tried ’till I am blue in the face to get him to see the virtues of a barefoot slavegirl! tut!
Scenario;
How about a wealthy hotel heiress caught by a policeman for, for example, some traffic infringement. The set could follow the arrest, possible strip search (a CD addition that), dressed up for court to impress the judge followed by a spell in jail.
A possible interresting twist would be that after a couple of minutes in the ‘jail’ (the RE cage culd double for a jail) Samantha could perhaps sneeze and get released due to her apparent ill health.
Actually scratch that last bit – nobody would believe it!
CD
Hi All;
I didn’t get round to posting on the day that Sophia set went up on the site and I was away all weekend but I thought I would just drop a line in agreement with Louisa, Arcanjo and others – that Sophia set was absolutely genious and had all of the qualities that keep me coming back to RE (coming back is a bit wrong here as I very seldom actually go anywhere!) beautiful model, barefoot, in a fantastic outfit tied-up simply but effectively – more please!
Hywel, I guess you have already responded to this in your promise of more Sophia sets but she is rapidly working her way up the list of all time favourite RE models and I for one would welcome plenty more of her on the site – oh and with feet like that you dare shoot her with shoes on!
CD.
Ps Louisa in Chains? There’s an intriguing name! Welcome to the forum!
Right, a couple of things. I’m not wrong am I? She did start this thread asking where the heck I was – but has subsequently been nowhere to be seen. What’s that all about? And to think I was nice about her in my previous post – I should have known… (Hywel have you been going a bit soft on her?)
The other thing – ever since the idea of Ariel as nurse has been mentioned I have been feeling strangely unwel…. Where do I sign?
CD
Do you know I am completely shocked by all of that and a little stuck for something to say. I guess first and foremost thank god it looks like you are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I know you had mentioned in this forum a couple of times that you had been having a fairly crappy time but as you hadn’t volunteered why I thought it best not to pry – I completely see what might have been on your mind. As Kate (whom we now know to be a bit of a hero as well as a beautiful model and damn good photographer) so rightly put it the first few months of 2007 have been pretty special for the site and one can only assume that with all of this of your mind it continues to go from strength to strength.
As RE has just celebrated it’s 6th birthday I guess I have been a member of the site for the past five and a half years on and off (mostly on) and whilst I have never met Hywel you do begin to build up a picture of the man (after all there are many very attractive women on the site who are prepared to be tied up – and rendered essentially helpless by him). I am truly shocked that anyone would seek to harm that good reputation with such allegations.
It has come up quite a bit of late how much like a community this forum is becoming and Belle was there right at the start of that (even, I think, ahead of Ariel). Through her sets, both RE and Belles corner, and her contributions to this forum I began to build a picture of the person as I have for many of the sites regulars (OK it’s a bit easier for Ariel, Hywel, Chanta, Kate and the others as we see them in the films and photosets – oh and Merlin who is apparently a cow that resides in a field to the West of London) and had her down as a fun person who seemed genuinely quite pleasant. Whilst clearly nowhere close to how Hywel must be feeling about the whole affair I feel quite odd at having got it so wrong! It is probably a good reflection of the site actually – the models here are not simply a picture on a website, through Hywels photography and filmmaking we do begin to connect to the models, beginning to learn something of their personality, and it is this connection that has made this whole affair all the more shocking.
Hywel, well done for not allowing all of this to affect the site and for sticking to your principles and sharing this story with us. You are the creative genius behind the best website on the net and long may it continue :drink .
CD
Ps; So that was all terribly serious and it is of course a very serious matter and so I apologise if this is wholly inappropriate but I do hope the irony of the bondage webmaster being arrested at his studio and taken into custody was not lost on you 🙂
Hi Emily;
Welcome to the forum (another model on the forum! yay!) you are most definitely a welcome arrival to both the site and this forum. Oh and don’t panic about all of the lino chat – for the first few years of the forum there was rarely any female input and I fear that this barren spell might have adversely affected some of the old-timers!!
I am pleased at Hywels clarification on the whole bondage X-factor thing. I have registered a vote for about half the entrants thus far and do not think I have given below a three for any – the idea that some might not get the opportunity to reappear on the site as a result of our votes was thus a bit of a worry as I really can’t think of any of the entrants I would absolutely not want to see on the site (that might not have been the case for the first round, by the way!). I think at this stage we are differentiating between the HYWEL YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST SHOOT MORE OF THIS MODEL!!! category and the ‘she is pretty good I wouldn’t object to seeing more of her’ category.
Hywel, I pressume it is implicit in the whole competition that ultimately some of the finalists might make it to become RE regulars? Posting in the forum therefore has to be a good start!
Best of luck Emily and all of the other entrants.
CD
Oh Ariel! You have put a smile on my face – imagine a beautiful model like yourself missing little old me! I am touched! I hope that nasty Dr Philips rewards you with some nice cake for your concern for his members (I do hope this once he overlooks the barefoot bondage comment in your post – good joke though, I mean, me, bored of barefoot bondage?!? – good one). Fear not I have been here all along, my relative quiet being down to a number of factors including building a new computer for myself (I now know why all my mates told me to go to the shop and buy one but I think I got the last laugh as I saved myself a packet by doing it myself), a sudden busy spell at work (we are going to a big exhibition with work in a couple of weeks and have been busy putting together a stand) and a lack of anything all that original to contribute. And besides, I wouldn’t want anyone to become bored of CD’s ramblings! I am however aware that during this prolonged period of silence I have failed to comment on a lot of RE news (6th birthday plus a whole raft of new contributors to the forum) and I shall try to remedy this over the next couple of nights.
Now about this limerick? We were unaware that you were a novice poet in your spare time – or is this only when you are drunk? I have known of giggly drunks and pretty miserable drunks (though I still don’t understand drinking if you know you get a bit melancholy??) but poetic drunks are a new one on me. I trust you were not drinking alone? CD thinks this would be very sad.
Indeed the Easter break was very good, though alas there was very little bondage involved (in response to Merlin’s comment my girlfriend is still unaware of us weirdo’s – I notice you didn’t include the possibility that I had told her and was therefore still in intensive care!).
Something that has occurred to me to ask. Ariel you are clearly a busy lady living the modeling high-life constantly jetting of to cities around the world – and for obvious reasons you are clearly very attractive (I am liking Ariel today she noticed I hadn’t posted for a while). So how come I never see pictures of you other than on this site? Now it is just possible that I am reading the wrong sorts of magazines (I do try to avoid the women’s section of the newsagent) but I was intrigued. Actually whilst I am on the subject, I guess you have to choose your bondage shoots well in relation to your fashion stuff – have you ever modeled fashion with rope-marks?
Merlin, so I realise I am getting a reputation for disappearing for weeks at a time and then posting pages in one go – thanks for pointing it out again though (I think it was Hywel who noticed first) I shall try to mend my ways! As was pointed out in the forum over the last couple of weeks though it has been really great the sense of community that has built up around these forums over the past year or so, with notably more regular contributors so I hope I am not too seriously missed when I am kept from posting by the mundane crap that life throws us.
Ariel there is no need to read any further.
So the Nikon thing that Merlin refers to (for those newbies reading this) was a course at Nikon HQ in Kingsdon intended as an introduction to digital SLR photography. I got a Nikon D80 around Christmas, a step up from a compact film camera, and wanted to just get a start from the people who know the camera best. I have to say I was really very impressed. OK, so for bits of the day we were going through material that I thought was fairly well explained in the manual (some present – there was about 10-15 people – admitted to not having read the manual which was a bit irritating for those of us that had) but on the whole I was very pleased, particularly as there was plenty of opportunities to go out and put into practice what we had learnt. If nothing else it was good to dedicate a day (off work!) to really playing with the camera – I have set out with such good intentions so many times only to become sidetracked. They do a D80 specific course quite regularly as well and I am really considering signing up to that when I get a chance – though we were advised to go off and practice the basics before embarking on that course. Of course photographing Kingston fire station on a dingy February morning is not exactly the same as photographing Ms Anderssen but heck a guys got to start somewhere, right!
Hope that wasn’t to long for you Merlin (why did you choose that cow for your avatar?).
I am glad to be back – though never actually went anywhere!!
CD
Abigail Toyne, who turns out to be really QUITE ticklish!
Oh I am already liking March!!
CD, I guess if you want to see more new Jasmine sets and vids you could always be a memebr of her own website too (like me).
Thanks for the advise – though curiously I had already put 2 and 2 together and worked out that the best place to see further pictures of the beautiful Miss Sinclair would be her site! Whilst not a regular member (I save that for RE – finance does not run to recurring membership of two sites) when I feel a bit flush I often buy a couple of months membership to her site and see how she is doing (and am never disappointed).
No, my concern really was the possible ending to the Hywel/Jasmine relationship – I mean what a tragedy it would be if one of the more beautiful bondage models around (need to be a bit tactful here in case Ariel, Kate and co read this!) stopped working with definitely the best bondage photographer/webmaster. It is great to see the sample that Hywel has posted above – reassurance that you both still have the magic!
CD
Well!
Can I just say a massive thanks to all of you have replied to this already. I guess I was slightly apprehensive that I may have crossed the line between what people were prepared to talk about in these forums and what they were not (it’s that fear of opening up about things even though you are doing nothing wrong thing again!) but I have been genuinely overwhelmed by the positive response that this has received. Special thanks must go to Kate, Ariel and I guess these days to Pling for the special insight and unique perspective that, it seems we all agree, they bring to the forum. And also to Jo for emerging from the lurking shadows and posting in the forum, I really can’t think of a better place to begin to explore these kind of things in the open and hope that all of you other lurkers might follow where Jo has bravely lead!
Looking back over the responses to my original post I guess my overwhelming feeling has been that of surprise at just how many of you are able to share the fact that you are into bondage with your friends and family. I am not quite there yet, and despite the positive experiences that you all seem to have had in doing this fear that this level of openness may be some time off (and I guess when I do, rather like Merlin, it is more likely going to be to a group of mates rather than close family members or the management team at work!). Though not willing, at the moment, to join you all in your openness I must say I really do admire those of you who have been able to discuss this sort of stuff more openly it must be a particularly liberating experience. I guess it was motivated me to write my initial post, this (inbuilt) fear of telling people that I am into BDSM for fear of a possible negative response, though secretly longing for a situation where I could. Of course there are people who I deal with on a day-to-day basis who I really don’t feel need to, or indeed would want to, know (that management team again! – though there would probably some good gossip to be had by there secretaries!) but it all becomes rather more complicated when it comes to those to whom you are close, a situation I feel I probably need, or will be forced, to tackle sooner rather than later (read on).
I really don’t know when I first realised I was into all of this. I have mentioned in here before memories of finding women bound in films and television (even childrens TV cartoons – actually now I think of it imagine Hannah in a gaudy pink outfit and cap and tell me she is not the spitting image of Penelope pit stop!) and soon became a huge fan of the Bond films, King Kong and magic shows on the television. I was kind of fortunate to have a sister relatively close in age to me and remember there often being a group of mine and her friends round at the house. More often than not play turned to a kidnap story or a bank raid etc during which one of my sisters friends would end up tied up with a dressing gown cord or something similar that came to hand (often the kidnapper made off with their socks as well!). Being a little older, and when not tying my young female friends up tickling proved a fun activity – another heady mix of dominance and a young foot fetish!. I often wonder how many of those girls (none of whom I now know) put two and two together in later years, when they grew up and began to learn of sex, bondage and the like, that the young CD was in fact acting upon what were to become two of his kinks!.
As I continued through school and college I remember bondage was always at the forefront of my mind (there was a time when the average break between kidnappings in UK/Australian soaps was about two months – glory days!) and I used to regularly purchase magazines such as FHM, Loaded and occasionally Mens World (UK topshelf – I used to get it around the time that Jo Guest left and was replaced by Abigail Toyne) in the hope of an all too infrequent article on bondage – perhaps even with a handcuffed model to illustrate the article!. Of course during this time I was meeting and going out with girls and, just as now, was reluctant to reveal this growing interest in all things BDSM, my strategy being to introduce maybe some early restraint (often simply by holding their arms down so as they could not move them) to see whether that made a connection with a bondage-curious part of their mind before moving on to a pair of handcuffs presented in a kind of ‘lets both experiment with these’ kind of thing. I remember my first girlfriend was about three months before she went barefoot in my presence (one of these girls with an unnecessary ‘thing’ about their feet) and was completely under whelmed at the prospect of being tied up – we were never going to last!Whilst reluctant to talk about all of this stuff in the open, I still remember my jubilation shortly after I started my undergraduate degree when, on a lads day out in the centre of London, I first entered a Soho sex shop. These have a somewhat seedy reputation (I guess this is linked to exactly the sort of misconceptions that got this thread started in the first place) but I was in awe. Not only where there bondage magazines the like of which you simply don’t see in UK newsagents (the Lyndon and Dom productions type stuff – where I first became aware of Ashley Renee) but there was a huge rack of restraints, gags and the general sort of bondage paraphernalia that members of this site take for granted – though which for me at the time were a thing of fantasy! I remember leaving that shop, albeit with a group of most probably drunken lads who had likely been waylaid by some gratuitous porn, with a feeling that I was not alone – that if these shops stocked this stuff and had such a massive range of it there must surely be folk out there prepared to buy it and that was a most fantastic realisation. Actually now I come to think of it, and as a slight contradiction to my previous post, those shops provide a fantastic method of expressing those innermost thoughts and feelings that you might normally be reluctant to share. Simply by standing by the BDSM stand people know!.
I think I have mentioned in here before that I now have a long term girlfriend (have been together for 5 years now though we live apart – hence the frequent flights on the budget airline and the delay that kicked all of this off!) and whilst we are fantastic together and she is all a guy could ever look for in a partner I have still to inform her of this part of my life. This is something that is increasingly beginning to trouble me though it seems a bit of a delicate balance – on one hand it would be great to get it all out in the open, to have no secrets and perhaps improve our sexual play, on the other there is a lot of history to throw away if she reacts badly, particularly to my membership and involvement of this site and forum. My gut feeling is that bondage really is not her thing – we have dabbled along similar lines to those above – and it really didn’t seem at any point to really ‘click’. I guess I need to decide whether in reality I can sacrifice all of this (in the long term) for the right woman? Certainly, were it all to go wrong, leaving telling until this late stage is a mistake I definitely wouldn’t make again – and would probably aim to find a partner involved in the ‘scene’ (I hate that term!).
That all got a bit heavy didn’t it? Enough of that!
Returning to the thread and to the replies to my original post, special mention has to go to Ariel. You showed your dad an RE video with you in it? WOW! And your family all know. I find that so cool, though must admit when I first read your post I did have a worrying couple of moments. Coming off the back of my post on how great it would be if we were all open and honest about our interests in this sort of thing and how I find the majority of the content on RE thoroughly respectable (am loving Kate’s description of FHM with cuffs and rope – it exactly describes how I see it) Ariels post left me wondering how I might react if my sister told me that she were modelling for RE. However after a couple of minutes thoughtful reflection I concluded that my feelings towards the site would remain unchanged – my initial misgivings can be put down to every brothers right to look out for his sister!. Talking of my sister, she is the one who has come closest to rumbling me on several occasions. She has a nasty habit of jumping on my computer to check E-mails and the like. Normally I am quite careful to clear my browsers history but more than once she must have been seconds away from bumbling into this forum (maybe then she would realise why it was I was always tying all her old friends up!).
I do take exception to Grumpy’s comment;
fact that pretty girls are prepared to be degraded and humiliated for my arousal is, well, arousing.
I presume you are talking within the context of the scene? After all, I really feel that Hywel would soon run out of models were he really to humiliate and degrade them.
It has been another monster post! Thank you all once again for making this a really very interesting, intelligent and personal thread.
Jim
Ps; Kate – you are beautiful and we all think you are great. I was going to write about what a bastard your former hubby sounded, how you clearly deserve a far nicer bloke, and how great it is that you are back on RE but I thought I would leave it short and sweet.
PPs; Lurker (me and he had a chance meeting in another forum the other day!) I have not had chance to read your story yet – hence the lack of a positive review. I will though!
So let me just get this right….
You are looking for inspiration for a bondage photo shoot featuring our very own Ariel though not for RE, and have decided to seek this on the RE forum!. I guess you have got to admire the cheek of it!
An additional word of caution following on from Hywels (above). Killing Ariel by electrocution is not going to play well in this forum! You be nice to her!
CD
I’m beginning to think that the RE forum may be my best chance at finding a relationship
I was considering applying for this vacancy but the picture of the current gf beside my computer made me feel a little guilty so I guess I am going to have to leave you on the shelf. Not to worry – I am sure Iceman will be along shortly to pick you off the shelf again!
Back on the subject though, am I the only one here not overly fussed about what the model wears around her neck? Ok, so I am really enjoying some of the metal (neck-to-wrist) stock things we see on occasion but I am really not all that bothered about collars. After all, they are not really about restraint are they? reading some of your posts and stuff in other formums it seems that this ‘collaring’ women and the wearing of a collar is more a symbolic thing (that a master might collar his sub as a display of their unique master-sub relationship) but that really is not something I have ever considered, nor do I feel I am ever likely to do. As for the restraint – well you could tie your sub to a wall or something using one – but it still affords her rather more freedom to move about than I would be inclined to give!
Just the toughts of CD.
CD
Looks like I might be a bit late to this thread – I am already being ribbed for my, at best, patchy posting in another thread!
First off, well I’ve got to agree with Hywel – Sabrina is perfect whatever color her hair happens to be (within reason -I’m not too sure that I could see past green hair for example!).
Back onto the topic though, and it looks as though it is another hop across the channel for RE (do you travel in a van over there? – somehow I can’t help but think of Scooby Doo all of a sudden!!) Anyhow, I thought the pictures that resulted from your previous shoot in France worked quite well. This time I think it would be really cool if you could find something a little more gothic (kind of deserted castle-like). If fitted to modern standards (I wouldn’t want anyone to suffer – well off camera anyway!) and with some nice grounds you could do the usual RE-style stuff, but also some sets with a bit more of an ‘edge’. An old dirty cellar might make for a good dungeon or something? Or if it had some areas or out-buildings that looked less modern and well-kept. I’m kind of thinking a bit back to the Hammer Horror-type films “the maiden stumbles upon the deserted castle on the hill and inside she finds…..” (a Welsh bondage photographer????).
Just an idea!
CD
I am so pleased to learn that I am not going completely mad and that there are some other Ariel foot fans out there (even though she is herself not amongst them!). Heck, I guess the joy of RE, and particularly Hywels approach to the RE members, is to give us a mixture of bondage, model and clothing styles so that over the course of a week/month everyone should get a combination that works with them. I guess I can say this somewhat smugly as, as I may have mentioned before (a few posts up for example) I am here for the combination of beautiful barefoot models in elegant bondage – and whilst always striving to maintain a balance I know that the webmaster shares my view and thus knew that Ariel was never going to be going to be allowed to remain anything other than barefoot for very long!
Hey Kate – you can’t blame a guy for trying can you? I guess we shall just have to see the photos of you as they come up in the archive for reminiscence! (though the last set featured an all too persistent pair of white socks!) Now about these pedicured feet in winter boots – please tell me they are not those big fluffy things (the boots – not the feet) that seem to be in fashion at the moment. I can understand the need to keep your feet warm in the UK in the winter and can cope with some nice elegant leather ones but those fluffy things are hideous!
CD
Ps – have I mentioned how great it is to have all of you models contributing in here? Well it is. Oh, and not sure I have welcomed Sabrina either – so here goes – Hello Sabrina, welcome to the forums!!!
Ah – there’s a lot of love in the room! Group hug 😀
I am very much still enjoying the site – and oddly (CD is still on dial-up with occasional loans of a broadband modem for those must-have large videos) am thoroughly enjoying the larger format pictures – definitely a change for the better even though said dial-up modem is keeping very busy (yeah I know the whole of the rest of the planet changed-over about a century ago – but I have my reasons – a secret love of that screaming noise it makes when it dials!).
If Ariel was hoping I might secretly be one of the photographers then I guess I must apologise for letting her down. The good news is that since last I made an appearance in here I have become the owner of a Nikon D80 dSLR and am off to Nikon in February to attend a course on how to get the most out of it. Who knows – if the experience is repeated I might well be along – umh – I wonder if there will be any shoes in the set……
CD
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Nero – What have you just said!
There I was trawling through all of these posts wondering whether I should go on the posting spree for which I have apparently become renowned when I saw that hardy perennial – what should the models where on there feet? question. I was going to stick a HUGE tick in the barefoot box and then be all syrupy and yuck about Hywels ability to provide a mixture for everyone and how that was fine by me (rather through gritted teeth) as long as it remained a barefoot bondage site first and foremost.
And then…. And then – you go and drop this bombshell!! You don’t much care for Ariels bare feet – I think I need a lie down, I’m feeling feint. Now fair enough, I might be able to accept that she is not your favourite foot-model on the site (I believe Jasmine Sinclair topped that list in here not so long ago) but not liking them at all? That’s a bit much isn’t it!
-After a short period laying in a darkened room contemplating the current state of affairs!-
Now I guess looking at my own feelings/experience with women’s feet I rather prefer small feminine looking feet (I concluded at the end of a post in here not so long ago that it was the definite femininity that comes in seeing a womans perfectly pedicured foot that does it for me I think). Ariel’s problem (and I use the word in its softest possible sense) is of course that she is rather tall and thus has rather large feet (else she’d fall over – this would almost certainly impact on her modelling!) and large feet often don’t manage to look all that feminine. As you might have gathered by my outraged response I think Ariel has rather nice feet – and I would encourage her to show them just as much as she and Hywel see fit.
Here endeth the lesson.
CD
Ps; Kate – there is little point going to the trouble to give yourself a pedicure if we are not going to see the result – should we get Hywel to book you in?
Oh dear! I disappear for a month or so, and then with my first post back manage to get the webmaster throwing his toys out of the pram! Welcome back CD eh! (Hywel, you know I was only joking – right?). You wait – all of March’s updates will feature models in wellies and DocMartens just to get me back!…..Which brings me onto another subject, of the shots above how much of a role did the respective credited photographers have in the actual look of the bondage/model? It’s just whilst I couldn’t fault the look of Bob H, Steve or Franks sets there seemed to be something a bit amiss with Merlins set. It seems he forgot to remove Ariels shoes – and after I spent a whole post a few months back explaining to him the whole foot-thing! (given the new avatar I see he is using I was tempted to call him a silly cow! for this oversight – but I thought I may have already estranged enough forum members for one day!)
In all seriousness, and in response to Hywels and Merlins question, I have in fact not been anywhere. My membership has not lapsed, I have kept updated with the site and all the correspondence in this forum, I have just not got round to posting. That’s about the sum of it – no excuses – I’ve just been a bit rubbish at posting.
He’s only posted ONE post… his usual M.O. is to go away for months then pop up and post dozens!
Ouch! – and just as I was about to congratulate him on another fantastic month for the site!
Until later (when I plan to reply to every post on page one of the forum before disappearing until the Autumn!)
CD
Ps; Do you know I think I can live with horrible hideous stripey long socks provided the model is tied up with them and doesn’t consider actually putting them on her feet!
PPs; I really think you should consider a ring flash btw – ANYTHING to ensure that Paige keeps coming back
PPPs; Shhh! Methinks Ariel is sleeping!
Very well done chaps! What fantastic photos (I like the multi-coloured scarf bondage) – every bit as good as the usual chap! You must all be very talented – or he a good teacher! Actually though, I notice that todays update on the site (Ariels intruder) was shot by Kate – does Hywel do any work any more? I’m wondering if the old chap is considering his retirement!
Liked the look of the model too – very pretty! Is she new? I didn’t see her picture in that whole Bondage X factor thing – will we be seeing more of her!
CD (I do believe this might well be my first post of the year – happy new year then!)
Ps – In all seriousness – welcome back Miss Anderssen – we have been missing you.
I am a very easy going dial-up user and the avatars that are already on the site do not overly trouble me. Kinky or humorously obscure works for me – though given the choice I think it would be kinky every time.
I am loving the idea that my marking my 100th posting with a monster post has set something of a precedent for out of the ordinary posts or events – Ariel’s is coming up soon.
nobody wants to see a pictue of me
Can’t fault that assesment!
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
CD
Ps; on an entirely different subject – as Kate is now back at RE – albeit behind the lens at the minute – is there any chance of us having a Kate month in the archive section soon many of her sets came up when the site was in its infancy in the dark pre-CD era and I would love to complete my Kate collection.
Pling;
So I know I have already made comment on the preview sets that Hywel put up a month or so ago but now I have seen the first batch of the full sets I would like to just restate my initial response – WOW! WOW! WOW!
I must agree with the comments above you are a very beautiful lady but where I think you really win out (and this is perhaps your inexperience as a model working in your favour) is your ability to look completely submissive when photographed – which is clearly always going to win you many friends here at RE. Of the three sets that we have seen so far I think the ring of candles set is my favourite – as this set seems to really symbolise submission for me.
I know I am repeating myself and others now, and make no apology for doing so, but I really hope that you and Hywel might work together again at some point in the future, being really cheeky now – perhaps even for some bigger more intricate shoots!.
Well Done;
CD
