Greetings all! Loooooong time lurker first time poster, so be gentle.
I first started paying for foot content over a decade ago with a membership at FMConcepts. For me a that time it was an amazing experience. I still remember the models well (hat tip to Nikki Nova - miss you babe and hope you're doing well!)
The pictures were small by today's standards, but loaded with content that reached right into my gut and didn't let go.
Time and technology march onward. I let my membership lapse and lived off web findings until I discovered youtube. I was hooked. Amature feet and toes of all shapes sizes and inclinations everywhere. I'm guessing most of you have youtube accounts for foot content. If you don't you should. It's that good.
My fetish had found a home, free and easily accessed from anywhere.
Any foot guy who spends more than 10 minutes on the internet will come across (pun intended) CBF. There are a few good HD videos and piles of pictures everywhere... great big beautiful shots of feet, with incredible amounts of detail. These demo shots immediately found there way into my collection.
There are a lot of free CBF pics floating around, here at wusfeet and elsewhere. Good Guy Neighbor is very free with his content, bless his soul.
So I felt very little need to sign up. Sure, it was always in the back of my head, but between the forums and youtube I could generally find whatever I was looking for, all for free.
Eventally I found myself looking at CBF's Join page more and more often. GGN claims the world's largest collection of high rez feet. So I did it. I signed up for one month for around $30
I'll say it now - best.money.spent.EVER , at least for something like this!
There is literally so much content on CBF that it's hard to describe. The slim majority of models appear to me met-on-the-beach types, with a generous dollop of professional models mixed in (hello Roxanne! hello Harper!)
The photography is, well, amazing. GGN's approach is simple. He lets the model's personality do the work, and simply points his super high res cam at their feet.
Fucking amazing stuff. Hundreds upon hundreds of women, all unique, all barefoot, and all in beautiful life-like fleshtones and startling amounts of detail.
He's not just a perv though. GGN's an amazing photographer, from coaxing smiles and personality from his models to using natural and directed light to make, well, art. I've never seen anything like it. Even more than that is his consistency... for years, after hundreds of shoots, he hasn't lost his edge.
Compared to other sites, it's expensive. DO NOT let that put you off. If you like big beautiful shots of wiggling toes and feet of natural women, its a small price to pay.
Look, this guy is a fetishist of the first grade. More than that though, he is a photographer of the highest calibre. He's not afraid to approach attractive women with a completely absurd question - "excuse me miss, may I see your feet". Then he creates art.
I read somewhere he's had gallery showings. Now I understand why.
And, if you think you've seen it all, you haven't. There's so much more than what you may have seen. A lot more. More of the women you love, and so many more to discover.
So Good Guy Neighbor, a heartfelt thanks for being brave enough to ask the first girl, whoever that was, to take pics of their feet, but thanks also for having the talent and perseverance to create actual portraiture, unconventional granted, but that's what this is. This isn't just a guy who takes picture of a girl's feet. He, like his art, is so much more.
So my fetish has found a new home, and 20 gigs or so of DLs later I'm still blown away.
Keep up the good work lad.
TTboy
Posted by bluetoelover (Member # 14736) on :
One of the best reviews I have ever read here on Wu's. Excellent grammar skills coupled with beautiful spacing making it easy to read! Hope you stick around here contribute to the discussions
Me personally I am into the sites that offer FJ's on them, but if I was to join a site that didn't focus on(or show at all for that matter) FJ's then I would sign up to GGN based on the pics I have seen of his.
Posted by hyperion2424 (Member # 39397) on :
Welcome aboard, dude! Chime on your post quality, we cud use moar gramer skils hear. Kinda like this:
GGN's expertise commands respect indeed. No doubt about it.
Best wishes, -hyp
Posted by ttboy.orion44 (Member # 44630) on :
Hi boys. Thanks for the warm welcome!
FJs are just the thing no doubt but 90% of what I see is just some bored girl poking around with her feet, not sensual at all. Kind of like seeing a pretty girl elbow some guy's dick repeatedly. I've seen some good stuff posted here, hippie footjob I think, that looked promising :-)
I've been admiring GGN for years now. He's a genuinely nice guy, at least based on what I've seen here and elsewhere. I've been blown away by his art. I was a pro videographer in another lifetime. I've jumped all over people with a camera myself for news stories - I know how difficult it can be to get "gold" out of them, and how gratifying it can be when it happens. But this guy, well, he's out there. He puts himself out there a lot. He's clearly well adjusted to living with a fetish, and even more, he's developed the skills and maintained the passion to capitalize on it. And we all win as a result. :-)
It's the light, colour and composition in his shots that blows me away. Jesus that guy can shoot. He doesn't get all caught up on the rule of thirds and all that crap. His eye, and his ability to coax a real smile, a laugh, out of his subjects, blows me away. That, and well, I've never seen anyone's work that shows that kind of proficiency with a focus ring in my life. Man could have been a hell of a photojournalist but then we'd all have a great big CBF sized hole in the internet
Fukn guy is a fukn arteest man.
Love the link man! lol... "it's" vs "its" is the one that hamstrings me
That and I've been spelling definitely wrong all my life hahahaha!
Posted by LordLucan (Member # 2130) on :
I wish they all could be California girls! It's a damned fine site, one of the best and well recommended!
Posted by LeDaemon (Member # 198) on :
Goodguyneighbor is very generous with his pics contributing so many here at Wu's every month. The guy does live in the right place for the great girls he finds and great shots he pulls off.
[ April 15, 2012, 08:20 AM: Message edited by: LeDaemon ]
Posted by Sol (Member # 2476) on :
Great review.
I've signed up around 2/3 times to CBF over the years and I almost get a heart attack with all the new content available. Absolutely top grade.
Posted by feetluvr (Member # 1570) on :
Being married I've never taken the chance of joining a Foot site. If I did his would be the first I'd join. Having such a fondness for flip flops and sandals as I do I've always appreciated the shots that include those. I too am very grateful for all the photos he's shared here at Wu's over the years. He is indeed a master at photography.
Posted by Tyler D. (Member # 11452) on :
quote:Originally posted by Spotlight: The guy seems like a real class act.
You gotta hand it to the guy, he is truly one of the best personalities in the industry.
He also treats his customers with respect, which is the exact opposite of what I have seen from other competitors.
CaliBeachFeet also invigorates his genre. While many other foot ventures out there are becoming increasingly repetitive and boring with the same ole crap scenes or same ole crap venues, CBF continually reinvents himself.
Also, GGN is constantly at the cusp of the latest video and photo technologies. He also keeps his shoots on-the-fly, fun, and fresh.
These successes are not only evident by the quality of his content, but also by the quality of his models. I can't recall ever seeing him publish nasty old hags just for the sake of increasing his archive.
GGN enforces good quality control for his brand name. It's just one of so many small things that demonstrates how the owner takes pride in his work. He also responds like a professional to all feedback obtained from viewers, both praise and constructive criticism.
You never see him trying to insult somebody for sharing their ideas or opinions. Webmasters like GGN are the wave of the future because they are the only ones who will ultimately stick around for the long haul.
The others out there who are either bad imitators, or conceited business owners (or both), will fade and grasp for straws as youtube edges them out with free (& higher-quality) variants of their own mundane crap.
CaliforniaBeachFeet will always bring the latest and greatest material to the table. We can always count on it being fun, creative, and well worth the money.
Thank goodness there are some people who know how to do it right!
[ April 19, 2012, 10:17 PM: Message edited by: Tyler D. ]
Posted by NorcalfeetStudios (Member # 732) on :
If only he was more active on the forums in answering customers' questions he could complete the circle of full customer service like other webmasters work tirelessly at doing, but I guess the guitar parts AND shooting take much of his time up. Folks like us are in it for the long haul because of how fun and easy it is to shoot these types of photos for those who can only look from afar and enjoy.
Posted by www.afw4u.com (Member # 37725) on :
100% agree about this review. What I love about his photos is that sweaty slightly grimy " out of the shoe " look he gets from his models feet. Coupled super macro shots you can almost smell these puppies!
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
"What I love about his photos is that sweaty slightly grimy " out of the shoe " look he gets from his models feet." Comment by afw4u
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