Almost entirely man-made and built between the years 1858 and 1873, its visionary designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, referred to their creation as "a single work of art." Composed of natural elements - turf, wood, water, and rock - and balanced with exceptional examples from the decorative and fine arts, the Park could also be perceived as an outdoor museum that brilliantly combines the kinds of attractions in its neighboring cultural institutions like the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is the intention of this thread to guide you through this unique masterpiece and "museum without walls," interpreting and explaining - through words and images - how to see Central Park.
-National
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
For our first-ever opening act, we have a woman who is one of the nicest people I have ever met in my life. If I gave you a list of words that I can use to describe this lady, the word discourteous, impolite, unmannerly, or any other adjective along those lines would be so far down that list, that I don't think I would ever get to it.
Central Park is a place full of great opportunities and openings to meet women. For a man such as myself, this place has become my home away from home, a place where a passel of females have open invitations to make themselves at home as well, a place where a guy like myself can have my kind of fun with practically anyone I decide to share my company with. Each woman has with her a character trademark that is different from the ones before them and the women I have yet to meet. With all these women all at one place, the possibilities of fun and having a great time are endless.
With all of that being said, I should tell you all that I did not meet this woman inside Central Park. In this case, I used the Park as an attraction to extend our conversation that started somewhere else.
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I hopped into the subway to catch the downtown B-train at the Columbus Circle station. This was a late-Friday afternoon and I was going to check up on a client of mine as part of my work. I was looking forward to seeing him because I knew that after that was over and done with, that my day was going to be finished and that my weekend would begin.
The doors to the train were just about to close when this very nice, delicate lady walked in. I thought to myself how wonderful it would've been if I were to take pictures of her at the park and to get to know this person for who she is. Just as I thought that, she walks further into the car of the train and has a seat right next to me.
She said, "You look like someone who has the answers to everything. Can you help me out with something?" She has a sweet voice. It sounded hazy, wispy. It was like listening to a little child trying to get her point across to an adult. In no way is that meant to come across as something she should be ashamed of. In fact, it's something that makes her her. The voice lets you know that even if you're upset at her for any reason, you'll still find it within your heart to go soft on her in a heated exchange. She never uses words like ass or bitch. Instead, she opts for words like bum and witch in the place of those other words just like a little child would. None of these are things that I can say about anyone else I've met in my life, except for one other person who I met during my days at Bryant Park:
MARRY FAITH
Both Marry and the woman you're about to know are the co-winners for the award of the Nicest Woman on Earth. Anyone who has the time to go back and read what I said about Marry Faith would come to appreciate how much I adore her.
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Back in the subway. She wanted directions on how to get to a certain section of Queens. I told her that I wasn't going that far, but that I was headed in that direction. To do that, we had to transfer from one train to another, to another, ... and yet another. We made some small talk during our time train tagging. She's very much so into the arts (paintings) to the point that she's an expert on the subject. She doesn't come across as someone who's the girl next door, someone who's "down to earth", or someone who's realistic or interested in everyday occurrences. To some people, these traits can be a bit off-putting, but I found her to be someone who was probably the *easiest* to please and get along with. She has an extravagant and fantastical imagination that's almost fairy tale-like, and she somehow finds a way to push those ideas forward to accommodate her lifestyle through her contributions in the world of art and fashion.
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At some point during our ride in the subway, I threw out my pitch and gave her the idea that spending some time together in Central Park would be a great way to get to know one another some more. She loved the idea, saying that she was in no rush to get to where she needed to go.
We're standing outside 515 Park Avenue and I tell her to wait for me right there, by the building's entrance as I go inside to have this talk with my client. I expected that conversation to go about 5 minutes. Instead, I found myself in there for 15-20 minutes! It was one of those things were I was looking for a way to end the conversation but he kept on talking and talking. I was starting to fear that this guy had cost me a very good session with this girl who's waiting for me outside the building. I thought that by the time I was done that she would be gone. To my surprise and relief, she stayed the whole time, waiting for me. To her, it was as if two minutes had gone by.
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On our way to the park, and during our walk through the park, she was having a very hard time walking on her shoes both because they were falling apart and because her feet were causing pain to her with each step she took. There were many times where I found myself walking in ahead of her and then having to wait for her to catch up to me. It was a poor and sad thing to watch, really, but that gave me the perfect excuse to offer a lengthy foot massage later on. She was very appreciative of that gesture and couldn't thank me enough for how soothing it felt.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
With our next woman, she was absolutely cool with the idea of letting me take pictures of her feet. She was taking in the beauty of the day by basking in the sun on this very warm day. It seemed as if the sun's only purpose was ray light on her because there was nothing in the way between herself and it. She was probably clearing her mind, giving herself the rest she needed to rejuvenate to live life the way she wanted, at the pace she desired. Exchanging in some small talk with a perfect stranger was a token she was willing to accept from me.
This is someone who is not averse to the whole concept of men who are very appreciative in having a deep fond of the female foot and whatever kinks that come with that. She was a bit hesitant to do the shoot to begin with only because she felt that her feet were in less-than-ideal condition. But after a minute or two into the shoot, she became more relaxed and became more of joy to work with.
She's a dog lover and is a regular visitor of the park where she spends a lot of time taking magnificent pictures of the sights that Central Park has to offer. She is someone who loves to have her own crazy, spur-of-the-moment fun during her day- and nightlife adventures just like many other people.
She is a very intelligent person and she loves a man who can hold very interesting conversations with her on a variety of topics.
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
National, beautiful stuff as always. You know I truley love your work. Thank you!
Unfortunately, Imagebam is becoming a major pain in the ass. It is always hijacking my browser with adware, tieing up my browser with additional windows instantly when I touch a picture scroll. Not blaming you, of course, just venting. At least I can gaze at the intro pannel and dream of seeing the pictures zoomed in.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Sorry to hear about this.
Imagebam is my image hosting site of choice. I love it for many reasons. It does add a tab to my browser when it click on a picture to enlarge it, but only to the first two images I click on. After that, it doesn't give me that problem for the rest of the time I'm on the internet. I just click on any two images real fast and problem solved within a matter of seconds. I have no desires of uploading my images on any other image hosting site.
Other than that, I do thank you, Icarus, for liking what I do here. You've always been a good man to me.
-National
Posted by HighArchesPT (Member # 45164) on :
First of all, welcome back! I kind of missed your updates and I am curious to see how this new pictures perspective will work as time goes by and more sets you share.
About the problems Icarus mentions with Imagebam, things are not that simple, especially when you access Imagebam from an Android device.
Not only the website redirects you to other very suspicious sites as soon as you touch the screen, but also redirects you to other sites that makes the device to automatically download obviously harmful applications (apk files) without user confirmation.
This is a really serious problem for Android users and you should really take this into account, as we are definitely in a "mobile age", and the percentage of mobile users must be very high, if not already well above regular desktop PC users.
Welcome back once again!
Posted by Talos (Member # 39913) on :
Welcome back! We've missed your work!
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
It was worth the wait, my friend. An eloquent, enjoyable and multi-faceted post. I see that you are exploring new and very interesting types of shots. In particular I like how you have made use of reflections and how you have manipulated perspective. Well done indeed!
***************** As for Imagebam, Firefox makes a browser for Android, but all Android browsers have a threshold of suckiness, IMO. I mention Firefox because it has a couple of great add-ons (which a fellow Wus member told me about) called Ad Blocker and Ghostery. Those do a terrific job of blocking popups on my PC. Firefox also has robust settings that prevent unauthorized downloads.
As for Android, it is shit for privacy. A terrific mobile OS otherwise--but it tells Google when you pee and what you had for lunch and whether or not you're thinking about the Sta-Puff Marshmallow Man. I like it for work but for play, I go with a different device/OS.
Geez I hijacked my own post. National, great to see you again. Peace!
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
ALRIGHT!!!! Now we're talking!!!
It is a glorious day. Welcome back, National!
-footboy1
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PS -> I use a Chromebook and have absolutely no issues with Imagebam whatsoever Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I am going to say this one more time. Imagebam is my image hosting file of choice and I love it for many reasons. It will always be featured here and that is not going to change.
Thank you.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: It was worth the wait, my friend. An eloquent, enjoyable and multi-faceted post. I see that you are exploring new and very interesting types of shots.
That's why I love shooting at Central Park so much because the possibilities have become endless for me, allowing me to free my mind and imagination to take advantage of what the natural settings of the park are giving me. I'm constantly exploring new ways of seeing the things in completely different ways through the lens. I think that part of it alone is what makes me come back to the part - to make observations of these women and their feet in new (and sometimes peculiar) ways that I haven't been able to capture it in the photoshoot preceding that one.
I love to mix up my style just to keep my creativity alive and to grab hold of everyone's interest in my work so that he can expect something new as time goes along.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: **In particular I like how you have made use of reflections and how you have manipulated perspective. Well done indeed!**
That last part might be hard to explain or put into words, but I like where you're going with this. I would like to know which pictures you're talking about that made say what you said in that post.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by HighArchesPT: First of all, welcome back! I kind of missed your updates and I am curious to see how this new pictures perspective will work as time goes by and more sets you share.
For a long time I refused to go to Central Park because I loved what I had going for me in the old park with the chairs and everything. I thought that if I had spent some time at Central Park that I would become bored with what I was going because I felt that I wasn't going to dig the angles that I would get from that place.
This is new thing for the viewers to see as well because you guys are curios to see as to what I am able to come up with that made me decide to ditch the old place and make Central Park my new stomping grounds.
As time goes along, you (meaning everyone reading this) will be reminded and refreshed as to why I feel Central Park is so much better for me and my ever-evolving foot photography style than Bryant Park ever was.
This will be a journey that will turn out to be surreal!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by HighArchesPT: Welcome back once again!
quote:Originally posted by Talos: Welcome back! We've missed your work!
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: National, great to see you again. Peace!
quote:Originally posted by footboy1: ALRIGHT!!!! Now we're talking!!!
It is a glorious day. Welcome back, National!
-footboy1
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Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Posted by afn (Member # 36235) on :
I've been patiently waiting for this...It's great to see you back National!
Posted by HighArchesPT (Member # 45164) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: As for Imagebam, Firefox makes a browser for Android, but all Android browsers have a threshold of suckiness, IMO. I mention Firefox because it has a couple of great add-ons (which a fellow Wus member told me about) called Ad Blocker and Ghostery. Those do a terrific job of blocking popups on my PC. Firefox also has robust settings that prevent unauthorized downloads.
Had to come back to this Hyp. Just opened Firefox, latest version just updated from Google play, accessed one image from Imagebam, intentionally allowed the advertising redirects to complete without pressing the back button like crazy to abort that crap, and guess what? The device simply started to download a malicious apk file:-)
I had serious doubts about your claim, especially because the way browsers are implemented and interact with your operating system are not the same when you compare against browsers developed for desktop PC's. In my case, with my very specific (stock by the way) version of Android, it does not matter which browser I'm using: the b*tch will download that crap anyway.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Oy, vey, sorry to hear of your troubles there, H.A.PT. Sounds like I was overly optimistic about Firefox for Android.
That said, I feel I was correct to disparage Android browsers.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
quote:Originally posted by HighArchesPT: First of all, welcome back! I kind of missed your updates and I am curious to see how this new pictures perspective will work as time goes by and more sets you share.
About the problems Icarus mentions with Imagebam, things are not that simple, especially when you access Imagebam from an Android device.
Not only the website redirects you to other very suspicious sites as soon as you touch the screen, but also redirects you to other sites that makes the device to automatically download obviously harmful applications (apk files) without user confirmation.
This is a really serious problem for Android users and you should really take this into account, as we are definitely in a "mobile age", and the percentage of mobile users must be very high, if not already well above regular desktop PC users.
Welcome back once again!
I am using an iPad, so I'm sensing a way they are exploiting week ness in tablets. But Imagebam didn't use to do this, it's a fairly new development.. Imageview seems not to do this. I'd use another browser but I think it's Apples plan to make them slow an unfavorable on the iPad to protect their market share. Chrome, for example runs VERY slow on my iPad.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I contemplated asking her to pose for me, but I didn't think too long about before I decided to give her a shot. The two of us didn't say a whole lot to each other - it was one of those shoots where she would do what I want without a lot of words exchanging between us. Because of that, there's pretty much nothing I can tell you about her personality. What I will say, however, is that she was very easy to work with, she took my directions well, all in a very peaceful, very quiet atmosphere. She was absolutely fine with the whole concept and she seemed like someone who doesn't make things complicated for anyone she's talking to or dealing with. She came across as someone who can be a reasonable person to deal with and someone who likes to go with the flow. She's someone who can enjoy just about anything just as long as it doesn't hurt any animals or children.
Even if she does want to talk about something, I don't think that she would say a whole lot because she likes to keep a low profile, keep everything as stress-free as possible and just enjoy the more simple things of life.
NATURAL CLASSIC As you will be able to see from the notes she's reading, she depends on her voice more than a lot of other people to support her livelihood. She is a singer who performs dramatic work combining words and musical notes, usually in a theatrical setting. She is involved in the operas scene.
Her passion for singing goes back many years, traced to her childhood. She is realizing her dreams, they have come to fruition, and she is making the best of her life by singing in a form of grace that can only come from her natural talents and getting better at her craft whenever the time calls for it.
She's very easy to talk to, very easy to get along with, very easy to make her laugh, never that awkward feeling of trying to figure out what to talk about next when there's that dead air of silence.
She was very busy, involved in her work before I came through. After the shoot, she was glad that she was able to become distracted from what she was doing and pay more attention to what I was doing. A nice way to take a much-needed break from studying.
Don't think for a second that these are the last women I'm going to show this week. I have a few more women left before we can call it a week at the Natural Park. I will show those women tomorrow night.
[ September 22, 2019, 12:37 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Different forms of ballgames were being played in American cities in the 1850s, but the form that eventually matured into baseball was then known as "the New York game." It was developed in the 1840s by the Knickerbocker Club, a social club of mainly upper-middle-class members. Having no suitable place to play the game in New York, the men took the ferry across the Hudson to the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, where Alexander J. Cartwright first created the now familiar diamond-shaped field with bases at four corners. In the design competition for the Park, the commissioners required each design to include three "playgrounds," the term for ball fields at the time.
Nonetheless Olmsted and Vaux's main agenda was for people to gaze upon the green lawn, not necessarily to play on them. The designers wanted the landscapes in the park to serve the greatest good for the greatest number of people, and they considered ball playing too specialized a use for the general public. The commissioner did, however, value the use of the park for educational purposes, so they rewarded school boys with good grades and good attendance the privilege of ball playing in the park, though the lawns were only open a few hours a week for this purpose in order to protect the turf. Vaux designed the Ballplayers House as a comfort station for these young ball players. Girls were relegated to the East Green for croquet; co-ed sports simply weren't tolerated in public society in the mid-1800s. Adults were not permitted to play baseball or cricket in Central Park until the 1920s. Rebuilt in 1990, the Ballplayers House now serves as a concessions stand for players and spectators.
^^^ This was "Simple Evening's" view during the time of our shoot. I don't know if she understood the rules to the game, but it she certainly enjoyed watching those people take part in their after-work activities.
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Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
It's so great to see you back!
I don't know what more you have in store for the rest of us, but I'm pretty sure that I won't be disappointed. I love what you done with this, I love the change of location from one park to another and I love knowing that this Natural Park thing has a much different feel than the National Park one.
The Asian girl was a very good find and the shoot itself was so amazing to look through. From the photos, we see that you have changed your attitude when it comes to showing how you are going to photograph them. I love the closeups of the face and I love her look in those face shots. Love how she's playing with her hair and I love those funny shots with her sunglasses. These are things we never saw from the your old place, and I'm pretty hopeful that photos like the ones we have from the Fashionista chick are the signs of more great things to come.
The other lady (cool chic) is gorgeous as well. I love the pictures that shows her reading that magazine towards the end because the glasses makes me want her even more.
Of the last two, I love the classical voice lady more, although I really love what you did by including the socks in Simple Evening's set. Seeing those drives me nuts!
This is awesome stuff and can't wait to see the other girls tonight.
Posted by NFH (Member # 37814) on :
WOW WOW WOW, after a spectacular time in the National Park, here is an outstanding start at the Natural Park now, WOW WOW WOW
We impatiently wait for your outstanding updates featuring outstanding girls, yeah not pro foot models, but in fact way hotter when casually modeling their natural feet.
"Simplicity Makes Beauty".
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
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This woman will remain a mystery. I was looking for someone to shoot. When I first saw her, she was sleeping up on a hill somewhere. From where I stood, I thought I was looking at a blonde. I assumed it was a blond because I saw enough of her to know that whoever she was, she had a great body. By the way, let me just say that I'm not saying that women who aren't blond aren't attractive. Besides, I prefer brunettes. All I'm saying is that I thought she was a blond for some reason, that's it.
When I was about to continue my walk through the park, that was when she woke up, the Awaken Beauty. That's when I saw that she wasn't a blond after all.
She stretched her arms towards the sky, and you could tell that she had an enjoyable sleep. That's all you will get from me when it comes to this woman because I intend to keep the rest of her story a mystery.
A married woman from Estonia was visiting New York on business, although I forgot what that business was. She has a three year-old son and a friend who had this to say about him among other things. She's neither too crazy about the foot fetish concept nor repulsed by it in any means. Having said that, she never gave in to his foot needs by letting him touch her feet or take pictures of them long before she met the man who eventually became her husband and the father of her child. It's funny because she would't let that guy touch or take photos of them, but she allowed me - a complete stranger - to have leeway with her feet. There was no time (meaning I had no interest) in trying to find out what the logic was behind her way of thinking. All I knew was if she was going to let me check out her feet, then I was going to take advantage of that opportunity.
She's another who has an unusual voice. I can't find the right word(s) to describe her way of speaking, but I would have to say that her tone of voice sounded wicked even though what she was saying, the things she talked about were anything other than that. She came off as a very nice, very introverted, someone who prefers to be a lone wolf, modest. Yet when one hears her voice, the mind will go for a spin because the voice doesn't seem to match how she is as a loving wife and mother. The voice wasn't Wicked Witch of the West wicked - it was more "refined" instead. I was drawn to the whole thing. She's not someone who talks a lot, like a Cool Chic or Classicistic Voice. She is someone speaks few words.
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I first saw her as I was walking on Central Park South, approaching Sixth Avenue. I just so happened to look to my left and I saw her from what could've been 250-300 feet away. She was sitting at the exact spot where this photoshoot took place. To get to where she sat, one must walk up a steep hill. It's one of those walks that takes time to complete.
I remembered that as I was about to talk to her she was just getting ready to stand up so that she could leave the park. I was starting to think that I got there too late and that there was somewhere she needed to be. I started talking to her anyway, and to my relief she was in no rush to get anywhere.
There were times throughout the shoot in where she would keep looking behind her shoulder to see if anyone was looking at us. She was curious to see what kind of reaction people would have when walking by us. There was a group of guys, in particular, who stopped to take a look without being too obvious that they were looking. One guy took a picture of us while the rest of them were had a few chuckles and giggles. Yes, giggles. When she told me that the guys were laughing at us, we looked at them, then we went back to the photoshoot before they laughed again as they walked off. She was laughing because they laughed at us. In fact, I think there's a shot of that somewhere in the gallerie. You'll just have to look for it.
She's a nice person and I hope you'll like her, too.
[ September 22, 2019, 12:51 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
When Calvert Vaux and Frederick Olmsted designed the Cop Cot rustic summerhouse, they could never have foreseen that it would one day have the city's modern skyline as a dramatic backdrop. Nevertheless, the shelter still provides visitors with an experience of rural life immediately upon entering the park and is a cool respite from the noise and heat on the city street below.
^^^ I didn't take this picture, but this was the view I had as I was approaching the Estonian chick, When Serenity. The photoshoot took place just outside of the frame to the left. You can see the Cop Cot in the backround of the images in that set.
[ September 22, 2019, 12:54 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Loved by everyone she knows, yet so misunderstood when it comes to finding the right man for herself. So many women like herself hope that the day will come where Mr. Right walks into her life so that everything will be taken care of. She always seeks advice from others, wondering why guys do or say certain things and/or if there's something wrong with her? She's wonders if it's something about herself that she seems oblivious to that doesn't connect with men, or if it's just bad luck that there's just little chemistry between herself and the prospective boyfriend. She's afraid that the fact that she can't cook anything has something to do with her misfortunes.
I felt bad for her in a way because she is the kind of person who is very outgoing, always provides a spark to have lots of fun with. She has a lot of friends and a very loving and supporting family. She had nothing but nice things to say about them.
In the middle of the shoot, she would make comparisons between the fun we were having and the guy she was on a date with the night before. She was enjoying herself with me during our time together and she never saw the other guy again.
I was about to leave the park to have lunch. As I was about to leave the place, I saw her already lying on the grass. Yes, I was hungry, but my hunger for food had to be put on hold. My appetite for befriending someone this woman was my calling instead.
"Hi, my name is National. What's yours?" Yes, I introduced myself as such. Why? Because I can. "National?" she asked. "Pretty cool! I'm (she gives me her name)." That's when I sat on the grass to meet her eye to eye, to make things more personal between us. I told her how I thought she looked very nice and other g-rated compliments to get her into a new wave of ambiance, set the tone into a new climate that set the foundations for that guy-meets-girl type of stories. She was very receptive to me, and that's how this whole encounter began.
The tattoo on her feet was something she got at the spur of the moment when she was with a group of friends. They were probably a little drunk at the time she got it, but she doesn't regret making that decision.
In all, she's just a typical woman looking to have fun whenever the opportunity strikes up. She's family oriented and someone who will have your back and lie for you, if needed, to keep the loyalty between friendship and relationships intact.
She's cool and laid back. Everything will be just fine.
That will be all for this week. I thank everyone who has made a visit to the park and enjoyed the views it had to offer. The Park has more spectacular views and I will be here to serve as your guide through the Park.
Thank you all for everything.
-National
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Posted by gooolah (Member # 39684) on :
National,
Have you received any foot action from any of the models that you post on here...foot rubs, sniffing, licking, or footjobs? If so, which models and what have you done? I'm a Nosy Rosy.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Wow Nora is great, totally my phenotype... Woof! I liked Serenity too, she has a nice smile and nice nails, I like how you combined her toes with the skyline and the setting sun. That kind of thing is what I'm talking about regarding perspectives.
As far as your questions re: reflections, it was the sunglasses, yeah.
I like the name you gave to Stacy, and her pretty blue toes. Perhaps men her age are afraid she will use those big black boots to kick their teeth in. Just kidding, she looks to be every bit as you described her.
Getting to your stuff can be tricky for me, and even trickier to write a thoughtful response... This is because your stuff requires time to stop and appreciate it, and comments need to be as artful and carefully considered as what you show us. Those chunks of time can be fleeting, but Sunday morning seems to work!
If I'm ever in Central Park and I see a suave dude taking pics of pretty feet I will walk right up to them and say, "If you're National, I'm Hyperion. When you're finished here let's get a coffee or a beer. I'll be right over there (point)." If the dude punches me in the nose I'll know it's not you.
Well done, Jedi Master.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
I swear, I'm at a loss for words here. You have done a masterful job with these ladies and I cannot thank you enough for the amount of time you put when you're out there meeting these ladies and getting them to agree to take pictures of their feet and them making this thread as organized as it is. It's amazing how you do all of this. I applaud you, sir.
Posted by footjoyboy (Member # 26478) on :
Such good stuff.... Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by gooolah: Have you received any foot action from any of the models that you post on here...foot rubs, sniffing, licking, or footjobs? If so, which models and what have you done? I'm a Nosy Rosy.
Yes, I've done this and I've done that with this girl over here and the other one over there. Life is good.
Hyperion ... Zora being great only begins to describe her...
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: I liked Serenity too, she has a nice smile and nice nails, I like how you combined her toes with the skyline and the setting sun. That kind of thing is what I'm talking about regarding perspectives.
Thanks for expanding on what you said earlier on perspectives. It also goes back to what I said about Central Park being the place that allows me to become more free as a foot photographer and letting my imaginations run wild in an infinite number of directions. This park does wonders for me in the kind of style I do. The best part about of all of this is that you haven't seen anything yet.
I like the name I gave "Stacey", too. It's one of the more catchier names I've given someone in here. The sound of the name tells you that you're about to be treated for something real fun and that she's a real fun person to be with as well. I can still remember that shoot as if it was yesterday. She can be naïve and quite oblivious about certain things, and that cuteness is what draws you in to her. She is every bit as good as you think she is.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Getting to your stuff can be tricky for me, and even trickier to write a thoughtful response... This is because your stuff requires time to stop and appreciate it, and comments need to be as artful and carefully considered as what you show us. Those chunks of time can be fleeting, but Sunday morning seems to work!
It's priceless to know that my style of presentation is unique to the point that carefully planning out your thoughts to fully justify what I've done. I thank you immensely for feeling that way about my work.
It's kind of tough to describe, but when I'm out there at the Park doing a photoshoot, my mind starts to brainstorm and tries to compose a work of art in a way that has not been presented before, in a way that has my own "trademark" that hasn't been showcased by anyone else. I'm out there to have fun, and I'm also out there to take my style seriously and try to push it into many directions that makes my work stand out as uniquely my own.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: If I'm ever in Central Park and I see a suave dude taking pics of pretty feet I will walk right up to them and say, "If you're National, I'm Hyperion. When you're finished here let's get a coffee or a beer. I'll be right over there (point)." If the dude punches me in the nose I'll know it's not you.
Let's have a cold one instead, as I don't drink coffee.
To 18th Floor and footjoyboy, I salute you as well. Thank you.
-National
Posted by Talos (Member # 39913) on :
quote:Originally posted by National:
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: If I'm ever in Central Park and I see a suave dude taking pics of pretty feet I will walk right up to them and say, "If you're National, I'm Hyperion. When you're finished here let's get a coffee or a beer. I'll be right over there (point)." If the dude punches me in the nose I'll know it's not you.
Let's have a cold one instead, as I don't drink coffee.
-National
I often wonder if any Wu's members ever run in to each other.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
About 4 years ago I had lunch with a fellow member. I was going to be in a city and I posted that on the forum, someone responded and we arranged to meet up. Someone like National would be easy to spot.
quote:Originally posted by Talos:
I often wonder if any Wu's members ever run in to each other. [/QUOTE]
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Wow Nora is great, totally my phenotype... Woof!
The truth as been spoken. My GOD, National, that women just blew me away, absolutely beautiful and breathtaking!
Whatever brand of shoes she wore that day is a company that should pay her feet a royalty!
ZORA is a Goddess!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Talos: I often wonder if any Wu's members ever run in to each other.
I've met with three or four other members of this forum. Two of them saw me in action at the park, getting women to show their feet for me for pictures. One of them is a member of this forum. The other one isn't, although this Frenchman has his own channel on YouTube where he has women pose their feet for him. The guy who's the member of this forum wanted to see me in action and we set up a time and date to meet up. This was something he had to see to believe. It's just like watching a sporting event in that it's one thing to see the sport on TV. But when you're at the live event, in person, the experience is so much better. The same thing can be said about listening to your favorite band on audio or watching their music videos. It's one thing to see it on TV, but when you go to see a live concert in person, the experience comes to life and the feelings of exhilaration and excitement becomes second to none.
Essentially, that's how he felt after seeing me in action, right in front of his eyes. It looks good from afar when you see the results I've been able to pull off on the internet. But if you were there to see the whole thing in person, you become overwhelmed! That's how he felt, and he had nothing else to do but to shake my hand at the end.
The other guy with the YouTube channel just happen to be at the park on one of the days I was shooting. He came up to me after one of the shoots and we started talking for a bit.
Good stuff.
-National
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
"The other one isn't, although this Frenchman has his own channel on YouTube where he has women pose their feet for him... The other guy with the YouTube channel just happen to be at the park on one of the days I was shooting. He came up to me after one of the shoots and we started talking for a bit."
National, do you mean Fred? That guy does great work, he reminded me of you. I like to screen-cap his videos.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy: National, do you mean Fred? That guy does great work, he reminded me of you.
No, although the one I'm talking about is good friends with Fred. The guy I'm referring to is the one behind this channel:
I met him a long time ago in my Bryant Park days. I was just done shooting pictures of some girl when he comes up to me from behind and starts to talk to me. At first I thought he was one of those Christians who try to "recruit" guys into joining their Bible study group. I was about to get rid of him because I wasn't interested in having a conversation about religion, but he assured me that he wasn't one of those guys. He wanted to tell me that he couldn't help but look at what was going on between myself and the woman I was shooting and that he does something similar to what I do in France.
We didn't talk to too long because he was with his wife and she wasn't too pleased with the fact that he was talking to me about about other women's feet. She never said anything as she was waiting for him from afar, but the look on her face said it all. We really had to cut the conversation short when a drunk guy started hitting on his wife.
For the few minutes that we talked to each other, he seemed like a pretty cool guy, someone who I can see being great friends with had we both lived in the same country at the same time.
I'll see if I can get in touch with him again because he wished he had the time to spend an entire day with me.
-National
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Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: We didn't talk to too long because he was with his wife and she wasn't too pleased with the fact that he was talking to me about about other women's feet. She never said anything as she was waiting for him from afar, but the look on her face said it all. We really had to cut the conversation short when a drunk guy started hitting on his wife.
Jesus, talk about a situation deteriorating quickly! What a train wreck. .... I'm sure had his wife not been there the two of you would have been at that park together for hours!
-footboy1
Posted by Talos (Member # 39913) on :
Wives/gf's tend to mess up a lot of things for guys. -.-
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by footboy1: I'm sure had his wife not been there the two of you would have been at that park together for hours!
-footboy1
The whole thing was quite funny, actually. Well, at least for me it was. His mind was pulling him in all sorts of directions because he knew that I knew that had his wife not been there, that we would've had a lot of fun at the park that day. Posted by lovepaintedtoenails (Member # 8935) on :
National, as always, TOETALLY TOERIFFIC work from you. A lot of sexy feet caught by you again. Glad as the rest that you are back and still doing what you do. I am loving all of those sexy long toes you are taking pics of and wish I could be there to watch you in action. I am thankful though that after hours of finding women and making pics of their sexy feet, you still find time to come here and upload them and share them here!! Thanks for taking the time, and effort to keep your foot buddies here happy. Please pass on to your next long toe woman you get a chance to make pics of, that your fans are also thankful that they share their lovely feet and toes with us!! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
All great shares National, thank you so much for sharing. I love how you always provide a synopsis of each girl, so that way it gives the viewer a feel for what each girl was like. Even though the main focus is obviously her feet, half of the enjoyment for me personally is knowing what each of these girls are like and seeing just how much they all differ from one another and possess their own unique qualities. My only humble suggestion for future shoots, would be if you could perhaps include a few more sole shots of their feet outstretched side by side, with the subject's face visible behind them.
Even though I like all of the ladies you posted as they all have their own unique qualities as mentioned, I think my favorite would be "THE COOL CHIC". Aside from possessing a nice smile, she really does smile with her eyes as well, and it helps light up her face. She seems like a very down to earth girl and very open minded and fun. I love just how down she is with the whole notion of foot fetishism, and open to whatever kinks come along with that (by '"kinks", I presume that means foot worshipping, smelling etc.) I also like how she is an intellect. Perhaps part of the reason why she's so accepting of foot fetish, as she possesses the intellect to rationalize that it's not that big of a deal in the big picture. She also has a perfect foot size for me, at a size 8.5. Definitely not small and probably more on the larger side, but not overly large. My favorite would be anywhere from a size 8-10, so an 8.5 - 9 is right in the wheelhouse.
Part of what allures me to her also, is based on her down to earth personality, spontaneity and being down with foot fetish, I can totally imagine her indulging a random stranger in a little bit of harmless fun foot play to humor them, provided that they introduced themselves accordingly, made small talk and piqued her interest by finding that individual interesting and non threatening so to speak. Based on your description of her, I just don't envision her being very off put by it, more like she'd find it humorous and fun because of the humor aspect. If it were me, as soon as she said, "Sure," "Ok," "Go ahead," etc, it'd be the last you'd see of my nose for a few hours as it'd be buried in the bottoms of her bare feet and smelling away at those soles and toes faster than you can say "feet". Haha.
Ok, perhaps not literally hours, but I would certainly be quite acquainted with her feet and what they had to offer by the time I was finished.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
BareSoles84 ... I'm glad that you were able to find someone who you feel quite attached to from the beginning of the Natural Park journey. I can still remember her being a bit shy about showing her soles because she felt they weren't in the best condition they could've been. But after we got into a grove, whatever insecurities she had about her feet became an issue no more. She became comfortable in her role and was compliant to what I wanted or needed out of her.
I want to to acknowledge the time you took in preparing your post for your undying interest in Cool Chic because imagining what it must be like to spend a good deal amount of time with her had to have taken your imaginations into some sort of a whirlwind.
And if you liked the fact that she was an intellect, then wait until you get a load of some lady who I will show in the future. When it comes to academics, this woman is a bibliophile to the Nth degree.
But back to Cool Chic. There was nothing you said that I can disagree with. She's pretty awesome, and the way you described her is an extension to what I said about her my introductions about her.
lovepaintedtoenails ... I had a great time and a good laugh while reading your post. It was quite enjoyable and a good piece to read. Thank you for your support. Thank you a million times over.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I was at the park looking to see if I could befriend another woman before I called it a day. I was just a few minutes from leaving the park when I caught this lovely creature from a distance, walking my direction. Everything about her outfit caught my attention, knee-high socks and all. I'm walking in one direction, she's walking in the opposite direction, and we were about to meet at the end of the bridge that I walked over.
From the way she walked, she was on pace to get nowhere very soon, aimlessly roving about. She took her sweet time taking her sweet time and she was daydreaming as she did so. She's been to the park many times before, but treated this particular visit as if it were her first from the way she admired the trees, the squirrel that was just to her left, and the joy that such a gorgeous day could turn into quite an evening. Her eyes wandering towards the sky or whatever was the moment when I had to catch her attention because she was so zoned out of this world and well into her own. She probably had no idea that I was in her proximity.
I said hi, which seemed to snap her out of whatever she was fantasizing about. She acknowledged my presence with a hi of her own, which was inviting from the tone of her voice. I then said something about how I liked her boots and asked her where she got them from. Her answer to that question was irrelevant to me because that was when the floodgates had open, making for a much easier conversation about things that had to do with her feet.
A very soft spoken person who doesn't take too many things seriously, although she's not quite as talkative as many of the other women I met. She does an excellent job at preserving her thoughts before expressing them whenever the time suits her best.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
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Posted by dicksonjoe (Member # 6527) on :
quote:Originally posted by National:
I was at the park looking to see if I could befriend another woman before I called it a day. I was just a few minutes from leaving the park when I caught this lovely creature from a distance, walking my direction. Everything about her outfit caught my attention, knee-high socks and all. I'm walking in one direction, she's walking in the opposite direction, and we were about to meet at the end of the bridge that I walked over.
From the way she walked, she was on pace to get nowhere very soon, aimlessly roving about. She took her sweet time taking her sweet time and she was daydreaming as she did so. She's been to the park many times before, but treated this particular visit as if it were her first from the way she admired the trees, the squirrel that was just to her left, and the joy that such a gorgeous day could turn into quite an evening. Her eyes wandering towards the sky or whatever was the moment when I had to catch her attention because she was so zoned out of this world and well into her own. She probably had no idea that I was in her proximity.
I said hi, which seemed to snap her out of whatever she was fantasizing about. She acknowledged my presence with a hi of her own, which was inviting from the tone of her voice. I then said something about how I liked her boots and asked her where she got them from. Her answer to that question was irrelevant to me because that was when the floodgates had open, making for a much easier conversation about things that had to do with her feet.
A very soft spoken person who doesn't take too many things seriously, although she's not quite as talkative as many of the other women I met. She does an excellent job at preserving her thoughts before expressing them whenever the time suits her best.
OH MY GOD
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Whenever I see a girl in elaborate footwear like this, I assume she wouldn't remove them for pics. I like very much being proved wrong about this.
I went out foothunting last week and it was a bust. I'm seeing that this is a younger man's game, and you are indeed the Man.
She's a sweet looking girl. Well done, amigo. Well done.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
dicksonjoe took the words right out of my mouth. HOLY SHIT! What an amazing find she was! Those preview pics were so mouthwatering that I had to click on the link first and then read the story afterwards. She's hot, NICE legs, nice feet.
Oh man, oh man, oh man! Someone like her can make a man lose his concentration in a heartbeat. I salute you once again.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: She's a sweet looking girl. Well done, amigo. Well done.
Not only that, Sacred Heart looked well done as well. Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Nice, love her small feet, but yet plumb and juicy toes!
Posted by 27cedw80 (Member # 35792) on :
nice
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Thanks to those who have responded and thanks to everyone who hasn't responded but still had the time to look at the pictures and liked what you saw. There's no way that a women who looks like her and can dress the way she did that day can walk by you without you taking any notice.
I had to take pictures of her, there was no way that I wasn't. Someone like her is worth storing memories of.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Here we have a visitor from Uruguay. She's seriously considering moving to New York to pursue a career in fashion design. This was probably the only time I picked someone to pose for me even though I had zero interest in her footwear, both because she wore clogs and because it was made from Crocs. I liked the way the rest of her looked, so I was willing to put my differences of those shoes to the side and overlook them.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
When I'm out at the park, I never know who I'm going to meet, where I'll meet her, and when it'll all take place.
I saw this woman walking along and for some reason I felt very risky and thought that it would be a crazy idea to snap photos of her as I approached her. I don't know what drove me to do that, but there was something in me that wanted to capture the moment and thought it would be a super-cool way to spark a connection between a male and a female. Yes, it was a bit risky because being that we were complete strangers to one another, there was that possibility that she was going to be flattered but not interested, that I would become too much of a nuisance to her or something. Instead, the enjoyed the sudden burst of attention that came from an unfamiliar source to her. After she looked to see who it was that took a picture of her (because she was snapping a picture of something else as I took a picture of her), she gave me this smile that I would never forget and I told her to stay right where she was so that I could take another photograph of her.
She said, "Wow, I can't believe this! This amazing, you so funny! Who are you?"
After I gave her my name, she seemed more interested than before my name being given because she wanted to know if I was from Brasil like she was, being that my name is quite common in that country?
I'm not from that country, but all was not lost because she liked me already.
It was her first time in the United States and it was going to be another two or three days before she would get on the plane to return home. She didn't know anyone in the City, she came by herself, and sometime after the shoot was over, the two of us agreed that we should spend the rest of her time in New York together. She liked the idea of that, and so did I.
After the shoot was over with, I lied down next to her and we got comfortable with each other, sharing a nice moment.
So again, you're never know who you're going to meet, when and where it'll happen. On top of that, you don't know what might or can happen afterwards.
**By the way, when you pronounce the word "tropical" in her name, you're not supposed to read it in English. Instead, it's pronounced the way one would say it in Spanish or Portuguese.**
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
In the Sixties, Sheep Meadow became the iconic gathering spot for New York's counter-culture, the site of anti-Vietnam War protests, draft card burnings, peace rallies, Earth Day celebrations, love-ins, be-ins, and popular concerts. Originally a rocky and swampy terrain, the designers transformed the landscape into a pastoral meadow by blasting the outcrops and adding four feet of soil to the fifteen-acre site. It became the most expensive landscape in the Park to construct and the best example in today's Park of the designers original pastoral vision.
Sunbathing, picnicking, or tossing a Frisbee - all popular activities on the meadow today - would have been frowned upon by Olmstead, who wanted park visitors to receive calming and refreshing thoughts by just looking at the greensward, not necessarily walking on it. The lawn only received visitors only when signs were posted.
The name "Sheep Meadow" was established in the early twentieth century by Park visitors who had grown accustomed to the ever-present flock of pedigree Southdown (later Dorset) sheep that had been gazing on the meadow for fifty years. In the 1960s, the meadow became a popular stage for concerts and events. But after decades of misuse and mismanagement, the meadow had become an unhealthy and unsightly dust bowl. Clouds of dust from the meadow choked the celebrants of the first Earth Day in 1970.
Under the care of the newly formed public-private partnership between the City of New York and Central Park Conservancy, a restored and managed Sheep Meadow (1980) became an immediate success, sparking passion and inspiration among New Yorkers - many of whom had never seen a green lawn in Central Park in their lifetime - to restore all 843 acres of Central Park.
**The last two women I posted were shoots that took place in Sheep Meadow.**
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Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
I only ever see Central Park on TV or the movies, so thanks for the interesting backstory on it.
As you say, Crocs are horrible but she is cute indeed! I always love the way you pose them showing tops and pointing their toes inward towards each other. My favorite kind of shot, thank you.
RE: Tropical...That face! That bottom! The angles of certain shots are suggestive of time spent after the park.
We are definitely living vicariously through you.
I would wish you all the best, but you already went out and got it.
PS: I know you'll enjoy this question because you are a man who pays close attention to detail. Is that Tropical's towel she's sitting on, or yours?
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Very nice work with Floresta! I hope things went well with her after, I like her. Her soles look very nice and would love to feel them. Well done!
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
This is AMAZING!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
Walking along, I was able to spot someone who was atop of a rock. I wasn't able to get a great look of her because she had her back turned to me, but I knew that whoever she was, she looked pretty good to me. I had to climb up on this rock to get to where she was sitting and I saw that this women who I caught a glimpse of just a minute before was actually pregnant.
I was able to take pictures of another pregnant person before. With that one, I knew going in that she was expecting to give birth. With this one, however, the site of her belly caught me off guard. I thought about leaving her alone, but when she looked up to see me, I had to speak. I spoke to her, not thinking that she was going to have time for any of this. But she was actually quite cool with the idea. She thought it was a bit weird at first (weird as in funny, not weird as in creepy), but she went along with the ride, thinking that the interaction between us would be a bit amusing.
After I got settled in, I suddenly realized that this poor lady's feet must have been put to great use that day. She walked around a lot that day and she still had the will in her - after what must've been an exhausting day - to hike up this huge piece of rock to get to the top of it, considering that she was just about due to give birth. There were benches all over the place and it had never occurred to her that perhaps sitting on a bench would be far less strenuous. It was a great thing that she didn't loose her footing on the way up, putting the unborn child at risk. And she never removed her shoes once she got up there. She said that as soon her shoes are removed, everything slows down for her and she would not be able to keep her focus on the work she has to do, she has to keep moving along with the individual brainstorming session she was having that has to do with work, trying to get her project done by the deadline that her employer set. This tactic has always helped her, but she was willing to make an exception this time because the idea that some random guy wanted to take pictures of her feet was unusual, but cool. And because she liked the way I came across to her.
A foot massage was in order after the photoshoot was done (which was also the same time that her work was about to wrap up before heading out of the park) and she greatly appreciated that, a reminder to her that even someone who is as active as she is needs a relaxing cooling off session for her over-worked feet. After the massage, and after putting her shoes back on, I helped her down the rock to make sure that she didn't fall to the side or trip over something and tumble forward.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
This happened before lunchtime on a Tuesday morning. I could tell from the looks of this one that having some company would be something that the doctor ordered.
She lives somewhere in New Jersey and I don't remember how in the world she wound up in Central Park. Really, it seemed like she was at once place the night before and now she found herself at the Park, with a memory lapse between the previous night and the moment I walked up to her. I mean, I'm pretty sure she told me a pretty crazy account as to what happened twelve hours before, but I'm having a hard time remembering that story myself. All I know was that it was some pretty sordid stuff and it isn't something that I would want to experience myself.
She's in her early-20s, she's married and she's starting to come to the harsh possibility that getting married at such a young age was not such a great idea after all. I'm pretty sure she told me the reason(s), but her details are very murky in my mind at best and I'm doing my best to remember them.
A lot of our conversation towards the end of the shoot revolved around sex and she's extremely open minded when it comes to many kinds of kinky acts. I won't get into details, but let us just say that whatever you're into that you're ashamed of admitting to anyone, she's pretty much game. If you like crazy chicks, she's your candidate.
We had a long conversation after the shoot talking about each other's lives, and she wanted to meet up with me again in the park a few days later, but that wasn't going to be possible.
Despite whatever hardship she's going through, she's a pretty cool person for sure.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
Arguably the greatest pair of feet I've seen in my life. It's too bad that I could only do so much with the limited amount of time I had. Going in, I knew that I wasn't going to have all the time in the world like I usually do because I had to be in another part of town in a short period of time.
I was walking right outside the park along Central Park West in hopes that I can meet someone new. Just then, I was able to spot someone inside of the park. I entered to get a closer look of this woman to make sure that she was as attractive as I had imagined her to be when I first saw from about 200 feet away. As I got closer, I was every bit as glad that she was just about the way I thought she would look. Being a lot closer to her made things a lot better because of the possibility that she would be perfectly fine with my foot fetish, that I would get her to remove her shoes for me without giving it a second thought. And that's exactly how things turned out.
She was more than happy to comply and was very accepting of me as if we had known each other for years. When it came time for her to remove her footwear, I couldn't believe the spectacular vision that my eyes were going to be in for. I knew that someone who looked like her would not have terrible feet, but at the same time her feet far exceeded my expectations! She had the type of feet that made me feel that all of my Christmases had come to all at once.
I go foot hunting at the park for an unveiling such as this, and she was so glad that she was made to take her shoes off because she had just discovered how great it feels to have her feet breathe out in public and she began to understand why so many other women do the same thing.
On a side note, I've had other women express the same thoughts to me, that airing their feet out was something that felt so good them that they regret not having done it long before. For this woman in question, the air circulating around her barefeet was a new sensitive area for her, if we can call it that.
She's a financial adviser here in the City and she couldn't stop talking about how great she thought were. She has a very outgoing personality, she likes to keep herself in shape and she "loves, LOVES" to cook, especially sea food. In fact, she's looking into opening up a restaurant to help make her passion into a profession.
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Posted by Talos (Member # 39913) on :
Best pair? I agree!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: I only ever see Central Park on TV or the movies, so thanks for the interesting backstory on it.
Just like the last sentence of the very first post in this thread said, it's my intention to guide everyone through the maze of the park, to help people understand the historical significance that has made the place the spectacle that it truly is. I bet everyone thought I was only making reference to the women I stopped. In part, yes. But also the other aspects that makes this place a truly wonderful place to visit.
Thanks for your appreciation.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: I always love the way you pose them showing tops and pointing their toes inward towards each other. My favorite kind of shot, thank you.
I've had a few girls who've modeled for me call it the "pigeon toe" pose.
That pose was something that came to me by accident. In my Bryant Park days, I asked someone (who I named Cherry Coke) to pose her feet for me one way. Instead, she held the pigeon toe pose, completely misunderstanding how I wanted her to pose her feet. But when I saw that, it was a lot better then how I originally wanted it. I'm telling you, if it wasn't for her, I would be completely bored with taking pictures of toes and would probably give up on them. Because of her, I've gained a great appreciation for the toes, since I'm a soles guy. That girl single-handedly added more years to my appreciation to this hobby.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: RE: Tropical...That face! That bottom! The angles of certain shots are suggestive of time spent after the park.
Oh, the memories .... !!!
And to answer your question, that was her towel. The only things I bring with me to the park are my camera, charm and good looks!
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Very nice work with Floresta! I hope things went well with her after, I like her. Her soles look very nice and would love to feel them. Well done!
They felt just as soft as you would imagine them to be. That woman is amazing! And speaking of amazing, ....
quote:Originally posted by caseman: This is AMAZING!
That's all, folks!
Thanks so much for expression your thoughts on the matter.
-National
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Man, what adorable little feet Tortured has! Wow, love them! You meet the most interesting people. She kind of looks like a young Molly Ringwald, or maybe could pass as her daughter.
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Special Kaye does have very nice feet. Can't say I like them as much as you do, though. I liked Tortured Lullaby better. But, to each his own! Great work on both, thanks!
Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
National, I want to start by giving you a million thanks to everything you have done for us, are doing for us, and what you will continue to do for us down the line.
After about a dozen models so far, I can see that this is going to be far, far greater than your experiences at the old place you used to visit for feet pics. I love the new set up, the new format, as everything presented here is much more organized than what you've done previously.
I love how in some of these stories you have the font size in some of the sentences enlarged to make the stories stand out and giving it more substance. It kind of reminds me of the articles you read in magazines in where they will highlight something that the interviewee said that'll catch your attention, just like you did with Special Kaye, for example.
And while we're on the topic, Special Kaye is PHENOMENAL! Her feet are PHENOMENAL! Too bad you didn't have the time on your side to be able to stay with her longer to shoot more photos in the way that only your creative mind can work.
The story with National Fashionista was very cute and I can only wish that I was that guy cool enough to meet someone in the subway and talk her into spending time with you at the park when she had plans of going somewhere else. That's fucking awesome, no matter how you slice it.
I love how you shot her face in those portrait shots. Very natural and it seemed like she was comfortable being herself around you.
Tortured Lullaby is kind of a sad story, which kind of ties in to what Icarus said earlier about meeting very interesting people.
I have a lot more to say about all of this, and I will. But I just want to take this time to thank you and salute you for doing God's work for us. This is all fascinating!
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
quote:Originally posted by Talos: Best pair? I agree!
So do I!
One of the best looking feet I've seen, whether it's on this forum or in real life. It's going to be very hard for someone to take that title away from her. National, you've found a very special girl in Special Kaye. I love her look, love her glasses, love her personality, and I really love the name you gave her. I'll never forget that one.
Her feet are so hot, that it sweats lava!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Special Kaye does have very nice feet. Can't say I like them as much as you do, though. I liked Tortured Lullaby better. But, to each his own! Great work on both, thanks!
That's okay. I was only expressing what my personal tastes were, and you will not get an argument for me for thinking that someone else has "better" feet than Kaye. You are free to like what you like within your own confines, and I'm happy that you were able to find a some sort of connection with someone I posted.
As an individual, you're as different as anybody's fingerprint is. For me, if a woman's feet are "good enough", then she gets posted on the forum because I know that there will be those who will greatly appreciate them, just as in this case with you and Tortured Lullaby. In the end, if someone can find it in their lust to be drawn to a certain female, then that makes me very happy.
Tortured Lullaby was a truly memorable shoot for me and we spent a long time talking to one another after the session was over. The shoot with her was truly special and I'm glad that some of those results have rubbed off on you in a way that resonates with you a bit.
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: Her feet are so hot, that it sweats lava!
Posted by foot fetishism King (Member # 9930) on :
National,
Special Kaye is indeed a goddess. Any girl with high arches ranks among the very best. Simply because of just that unusual trait. High arches are a rare find. The extreme high arches, even more so. She definitely has amazing arched feet. I can't wait until you post another high arched girl. It will show just how truly hard it is to find. I'm betting that you don't have at least 10 different photo sets yet to post of super high arched girls. Hopefully, I'm very wrong.
Thank you for what you do!!!!!
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
I like all of your new models, National, especially Invincible Woman:
O' what I'd give to have my face right here...
fresh out of these....
Those soles are PERFECTION.... Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
And to think that all of this is only going to get better. Who knows what's in store for us in the future? What I do know is that whatever National has planned for us, it's going to be the stuff that only legends are made of.
Thanks for your generosity.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
I I were president, all pregnant women would have federally funded footrubs. We're just the guys to contract that service. Great toes on Invincible. I wonder what she's writing about.
Tortured Lullaby: The smile hides some unhappiness indeed. You captured the poignancy well. Thanks for the belly, hand and bottoms shots. I noticed that in some shots she's wearing a wedding ring, but in others she's not. Did she purposely take it off at some point?
As an aside--it's very impressive that you've been able to get this latest batch of girls to pose their asses outright.
And Special Kaye... Totally my phenotype, wow! Perfect. And the little canvas shoes are lagniappe for sure.
Thanks man!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
foot fetishism King ... Although I appreciate the site of high arches, it's not something I go out of my way to look for. It's entirely possible that I have photographed others who had high arches without even noticing them. So I guess you can be the judge as to whether a woman I post has good enough arches for you.
It's kind of funny, too, because right when Special Kaye agreed to pose for me, the first thing she did was talk about how high her arches were, quite enthusiastically, I might add.
footjoyboy ... I always like it when you lick your chops like the Big Bad Wolf at the sight of something good!
I don't know if you'd literally give an arm and a leg to have your face implanted into her soles, but I know what you mean.
caseman ... I couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks.
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
Mr. National:
Two words for now,
THANK YOU.
-footboy1
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by footboy1: Mr. National:
Two words for now,
THANK YOU.
-footboy1
Two words for now: you're welcome!
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: I I were president, all pregnant women would have federally funded footrubs. We're just the guys to contract that service.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Tortured Lullaby: The smile hides some unhappiness indeed. You captured the poignancy well.
She kept to herself in the beginning of the shoot. But she started to open up to me about her life and whatever situation/predicament she was in in the second half of the shoot. Sometimes she would talk about it, other times she would try to forget about her personal dilemmas with various other topics that seemed a lot more fun and exciting for her. It was a form of escape from her real-world life.
We spent a couple of hours talking with each other after the shoot was over because she felt a special connection with me and she was grateful that she was in a totally different world with me.
I hope that things are much better for her now. I really do.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: I noticed that in some shots she's wearing a wedding ring, but in others she's not. Did she purposely take it off at some point?
She did.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: As an aside--it's very impressive that you've been able to get this latest batch of girls to pose their asses outright.
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Posted by foot fetishism King (Member # 9930) on :
National,
Fantastic to read your comments about Special Kaye, talking about her high arches. I love that. Would you recall more of what she said. Example, if she said guys are into her feet because there high arched?
Thank you.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
^^^
Before me, no other guy said anything to her about her feet that would've made her think if the person had a such a fetish. However, she does have a girl-friend who loves her own feet and is always saying things about how special and nice she thinks they are. Special Kaye was thinking about her throughout the shoot and how jealous she (the other girl) would get upon hearing about the foot fetish shoot I had with her.
-National
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
It's been awhile since we've had any updates. I know he's probably busy with life, but just hope our friend Mr. National is ok.
-footboy1
Posted by mistressweronika (Member # 32226) on :
Nice feet collection Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by mistressweronika: Nice feet collection
Thank you. Glad that you like what you see.
quote:Originally posted by footboy1:
It's been awhile since we've had any updates. I know he's probably busy with life, but just hope our friend Mr. National is ok.
There's nothing to worry about, I'm doing just fine. When I'm ready, I will show more pictures.
-National
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
quote:Originally posted by National:
quote:Originally posted by footboy1:
It's been awhile since we've had any updates. I know he's probably busy with life, but just hope our friend Mr. National is ok.
There's nothing to worry about, I'm doing just fine. When I'm ready, I will show more pictures.
-National
Take your time.
-footboy1
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
It was a bit chilly on this day and her feet were getting cold towards the end of the shoot.
We have here a woman who was just enjoying the afternoon at the Park, trying to improve on her French by reading an autobiography written in that language. I first saw her from a distance. I knew going into the approach that she was going to be with someone else because I saw her talking to someone. But from my vantage point, I couldn't see who she was talking to. Perhaps I thought she was talking to her mother? I don't quite remember who I was thinking of. I think the reason I thought of her mother was because there was a children's playground just a few feet away from her and whoever she was talking to, she was looking in the direction of where the children were playing. Perhaps the mom was looking after a younger sibling of her's (the model who I was about to shoot)?
So I go up to her and introduce myself. She was by herself and I couldn't spot the person she was with. She seemed perfectly fine with the idea of me taking pictures of her feet. So I'm thinking that if she's fine with this, then so will the other person, whoever that happens to be. After talking to her for a few minutes, trying to get to know her a bit, I was still waiting for the other person to appear in our conversation. Just as I started to take photos of her, I asked her if she was with anyone.
"Yes, my father."
Right when she told me that, that was when her father saw what was going on between myself and his one and only daughter. He walked up to us. I thought he was going to ask us a whole bunch of questions. I mean, he did ask a number of questions to me, but not in the sense where it felt like he was interrogating me. Instead, he was curious more than anything, wanting to know why someone out of the blue would take interest in his daughter's feet? His daughter started to explain what was going on and I filled in the rest of the blanks for her.
After that was over, the father wanted to shake my hand as we exchanged names. He then told me what his daughter's name was as if he was giving her away to me and he told me to treat her well. You'll be able to see her father in about five of the pictures in this gallerie.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
An incredibly hard-working woman, someone who has a whole lot going for herself. Words that immediately come to mind when those closest to her think of her are friendly, very ambitious, and highly, highly respected within her line of work and among those who don't work with her but who are very proud of her because they care and have love for her.
At the time I saw her, she was already lying on her back on the grass, going through her phone. A few minutes into the shoot, I learned that someone she had known (but now close enough to consider him a friend) for years had just been taken to the hospital after suffering a heart attack. She saw the whole thing happen, not too long before I got to that area of the park. She kept going though her phone to tell others what had happened and to see if she could get any updates on the guy's condition. I don't know if he ever survived it, but I certainly hope he had and is taking some precautions to better monitor his daily routine.
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She had just finished playing a game of tennis. That was her first big sporting activity after having surgery done to her knee that she severely damaged from a skiing accident. She felt great about her outing and was glad that things can return to the way they were.
Among her hobbies, one of them is beekeeping.
The name I gave her refers to the fact that she first played tennis, then went to lie on the grass to relax. It also reflects the fact that the game was first played on grass back in the 1800s.
*I will show the second-half of the shoot later this week.*
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For this next women, the initials I've given her is the scientific abbreviation to the word Megapascal. It's named in reference to French mathematician, physicist, and inventor Blaise Pascal. It's very fitting that this introduction ties in quite nicely with who we're about to meet because based on the textbook she was studying from, she is destined and very determine to pursue a lucrative career in mathematics and/or physics. She was more specific to me with what her ideas were after she gets her Masters, but I can't remember what that was exactly.
It's quite remarkable that she is able to translate all of that into English because the average person would read all of that and not be able to know with to do with the information. If you were to skim through that book, you might come across a passage that reads something like ...
The electromagnetic thermonuclear fissionable atom-powered explosive creates tension. The detonation of that the hydraulic expression results in spontaneous redox reaction. Graphical construction for a material that deforms homogeneously ... is a solution that contains Mn+ ions in which M is the arbitrary metal.
Indeed! Spoken like a scholar.
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All kidding around aside, I met her on a Wednesday afternoon. As I walked in one direction, I was able to catch her out of the corner of my eye as she was climbing some rocks to get to the spot where she ultimately sat. I liked her casual wear, as it suggested that she was either extremely busy running errands around the city or busy jogging not too long before she decided to settle down to catch up on her studies. Or both.
I liked her Plane Jane look and her very unassuming demeanor and outlook towards life. She does not strike anyone as someone who's pretentious or disdainful. By the way, I don't have a problem with women who are pompus. I'm simply saying that she doesn't possess those qualities.
Not too long after she made herself comfortable, that's was my cue to make a new friend. She was very welcoming to me and the two of us sat there, going about our own business as if this is something we do with each other all the time.
And if anyone is keeping score, she is into Marvel Comics based on the shirt she wore that day. I suppose that makes sense only because those superheros are more likely to study the topics that she's trying to master herself, moreso than the superheros on the DC side of the equation. I'm more of a DC guy, myself, but whatever.
She's a pretty nice person and I thought she was pretty cool.
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Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
I'm definitely glad to see that you're back and I'm definitely looking forward to see what more you have in store for us this week. Thanks for sharing your wonderful work once again.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
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Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Great stories you have for all three women. Each one has a life of it's own and that's why I love reading your material.
That was pretty sweet deal that you got the girl's father to sign off on the idea of letting you take pictures of her feet. I always thought that someone like a girl's father would be very, very protective of his daughter. But if there was a smooth operator who can pull that stunt off, it would be you.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
Presenting another woman whose feet possess the qualities that I most certainly look for in a woman, right alongside Special Kaye, to name a few. One of the great things about doing this is that you never know when you're going to come across a woman who has the kind of feet that is specialty made to fit your preference, your tastes, the kind of feet that "speaks" to you in the way that only you can understand it. And when the rest of the woman looks the part that appeals most to your senses, then what you have is a dream that's to come true.
Now I can understand if what you prefer most is a woman who doesn't look quite like her or someone who has the feet that can be described differently, but in my specific case, someone like her is a woman that stands out.
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She was taking a whole bunch of selfies as I first spotted her from a distance. As I got closer to her, she still couldn't help but to admire herself by fixing her hair and taking more photos of herself. I decided to have a little fun with her to get her attention. As she was taking more selfies, I photobombed her by standing about ten feet in the backround, holding a pose like a guy would if he was a participant in a bodybuilding contest. It worked. She turned around to see if who she saw in the photo was actually for real. She smiled when she saw me and that's how I knew that my presence was welcomed. I walked right up to her and sat right next to her and asked what brought her to the park.
She's preparing to start a career in cosmetology as a student in one of those beauty schools in the City. Her classes didn't start until later in the day, so she decided to get lost in Central Park and wander into a world of her own imagination. Being that her goal is to make others look good, I asked if she pays special attention to how she handles the care of her feet?
"My feet? Definitely. Why?"
Well, we all know the answer to that question, don't we?
When the moment came for her to remove her sneakers, I was expecting to see feet that were pretty nice, but not as nice as the way they actually looked! The fact that I didn't catch a heart attack upon seeing them right in front of me can be described as a miracle! I think the reason I didn't was because the will to live long enough to enjoy the fruits of my labor was even greater.
In the middle of the shoot, a group of tourists from Oklahoma happened to be walking by. They stopped in their tracks and looked on to see what in the world was going on between myself and this model. The whole thing seemed alien to them. So one of the guys in the group kept inching closer and closer to us, trying to make sense of it all. He finally asked the girl in his southern accent, "So ya'll's a foot model?" I don't think he pronounced the "d" in "model", but I knew what he was trying to say. Seeing something like this was totally new to him, and he could understand that with her being as pretty as she is, why I would take pictures of her feet. He actually went as far as to call her a Goddess. Then had to go back to his wife and the other folks who were with him. His wife wasn't close enough to hear him shower the model with that compliment. She (meaning the woman I was shooting) kind of laughed it off and thought it was cute.
As far as how she felt about me, she was totally open to the fact that I would be interested in her feet. She liked spending the time we had at the park.
I will return within the next 24 hours with more women to share with all of you.
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Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
National, you mean to tell me that this Allure girl is breathing the same air as WE are? The ladies in the bar would think that she's so hot that they'll ask me to remove her so that they'll have a chance.
When that farmer from Oklahoma called her a goddess, how can anyone disagree with that? The only reason he walked up to you guys was because he never saw anything that looked like that except on TV! He couldn't believe that women like Allure Iconica was actually breathing the same air as he was! He sworn he saw an angel.
National, this woman looks amazing. She's probably the best looking girl we'll see today. This is beautiful.
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Thank you, National, great work as usual! On this page, for me, I thought Demure Madame's feet were the best. Amazing arches and they looked so soft!
BTW: you switched to IMAGEBAM, didn't you? So much better!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
caseman ... I don't know if the guy is a farmer just because he's from Oklahoma, but I wouldn't be surprised he knows someone who is. I couldn't believe all the other things you said because they cracked me up!
She's extremely attractive, yes, but I wouldn't go as far as to call her a Goddess to her face like that guy did. He was trying to be innocent about the whole thing, and we could see that, so it never bothered us.
Icarus ... I always used Imagebam. The difference is they changed their format a little bit.
You're not wrong about Demure Madame. I remember us saying the same thing about Special Kaye and how I thought her feet were one of the more spectacular pairs I've ever seen while you felt that Tortured Lullaby appealed to you more.
We (meaning other guys, not just the two of us exclusively) have different tastes, and it makes for a nice discussion that keeps the conversation going in this thread.
Thanks so much for stopping by.
-National
Posted by jediofthefeet (Member # 1463) on :
Demure and Allure are exceptional subjects. I loved their big toes and that both had unpolished nails. Regarding the tourist affixing the term goddess to Allure, it was totally refreshing to see her rough heels. Knowing that seemingly perfect people have imperfections make them more realistic. But even if we didn't have this knowledge, we would still need to treat her as a regular person. Doing otherwise would be detrimental to having any type of relationship with her.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This is a continuation from a set I showed earlier in the week. She started to open up to me a little more and became more talkative towards the end of the shoot. I guess she was hoping for the best that the guy who was taken to the hospital earlier would find a way to survive and take the steps necessary to make things better for his overall health.
The things we found ourselves talking about had to do more about how to excel in business, and not so much delving into each other's personal lives. Beneath her professional exterior, she can be very charismatic, a personality that can draw anyone closer to her and feel as if they were right in their own homes when they are around her. She has a way of putting smiles on people's faces and is someone who is great source of inspiration and positive, competitive energy.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
In 1928 banker and philanthropist William J. Wollman offered to erect a "Mother's Rest Center" in Central Park. He proposed that the building be staffed by professional nurses who would serve the needs of poor mothers and their children, who on most summer days "don't dare to go home [staying] in the park for hours and hours." Ironically, invalids and their caregivers had been Olmstead and Vaux's intention when they envisioned the Dairy, which was to offer a quiet place for those in need. As construction of Vaux's Gothic dairy was being completed in 1870, however, the corrupt Tweed administration decided to turn it into what we would call today a "fast food" restaurant, which remained until it became a park maintenance shed sometime in the 1950s. Today the charming country cottage has been restored and serves as the Park Visitor Center and Gift Shop.
The next photoshoot I'm about to show took place on the piece of rock that's located on the left hand side of the picture you see above.
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Though the Mother's Rest Center was never built, a member of the Wollman family did finally get to make a significant contribution to Central Park in 1951, when Kate Wollman, William's niece, dedicated the new Wollman Skating Rink to the memory of her parents and her uncles. Built just several hundreds of feet south of the Dairy, the rink is probably the most beloved of Commissioner Robert Moses' changes to the Park's original design.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
I love the feeling I get when I come across someone who I can immediately sense as having the time and right attitude I look for when searching for amateur models who are willing and open to participating in an impromptu photoshoot and to form a nice connection with a nice looking gentleman all at the same time.
She was in no rush to get anywhere and really just taking a nice, leisurely walk through the park. Someone who's in that kind of mood is very open to meeting someone new and doing something unplanned at a moment's notice. I could tell from the way she was walking that she was tourist.
She was walking up a hill and what caught my attention was her legs striding in motion as she made her way up the steep incline. When she walked past me, I turned back to check out what she had going from behind. After taking an appreciation for the view, I knew that I was looking at a woman who would become a very understanding person, comfortable in her own skin.
She's from the Czech Republic. After the shoot was over, we went for a stroll through the park, as I've done other women I met. She's very pleasant to talk to, making the moments with her enjoyable times to remember.
Doing this photoshoot with her allowed me the time and the freedom of my imagination to make more sense of what my purposes were in Central Park, to truly be taken aback and become very proud of my work that gives the Natural Park thread an identity of it's own, a venture and anthology that's real, that's genuine, wholesome, and with women who are all of the above.
The gallerie you're about to see is something that should be looked at and admired at a much calmer pace. Take it all in and enjoy the scene. Enjoy it with the same amount of gratitude I had in putting all of this together, being there to have orchestrated the whole encounter from the very beginning.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
I was walking along when I came across this cool chick. When I first saw her, she was in the process of removing her boots and socks. I saw this from a distance and I needed to get closer to her to have a closer look to see if who I saw from far away looked just as good as she was upon closer inspection. What can happen a lot of times when I'm out there is that a woman can look good from afar. But once you get closer, she's not what your imagination had conjured up to be. I had to do a similar double check just to make sure that my mind wasn't playing tricks on me.
It was a very hot, and especially humid day in the City, and I think the atmosphere got to oppressive for her to the point where she felt that her footwear needed to be eliminated from the equation by taking it upon herself to take them off and to cast them aside. When I got closer to her, I was relived to see that this woman was indeed someone who was in no position to let me down.
When I told her that I wanted to take pictures of her feet and I gave my stance as to why I wanted to do so, I think my message discombobulated her brain. It must have because when she spoke her first words to me, she had the kind of voice that would make one think that she was a frivolous young woman. A space case, if you will. One can't help but to think such things when trying to get to know the person for the first time. But considering the fact that she's an architect, and the fact that she was reviewing new models on her laptop for future projects for the firm that she works for, being a dumbbell is one of the farthest things from the truth when it comes to describing what kind of a person she is.
So what was it that puzzled her about my request to take photos of her feet? Don't know, but I thought it was funny seeing her facial expression when she tried to make sense of what was going on. So you can imagine what her voice sounded like when she finally said, "Umm ... okaaaaaaaaay!"
She didn't care what I was doing to her feet just as long as I was able to let her concentrate on the work she was doing for her job.
She was another woman whose feet I thought were simply fantastic. They were extremely soft and in need for a massage.
The weather report for the day said that the skies would become unsettled and that thunderstorms were to be expected in the afternoon. That's indeed what was happening: the sun hid behind the clouds and the shoot had to end when we started to feel some raindrops. Apparently, she didn't pay attention to the news because all of this came to her as a surprise. We had to wrap it up before things got uglier with the rain.
That does it for the week. I truly hoped you enjoyed this visit in Central Park. You are invited to come here at any time and be at peace with yourself. I'll see you guys next time.
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Wonderful! I think you saved the best for last with Makeup Principle. Loved her soles!
Posted by lovepaintedtoenails (Member # 8935) on :
As always, great shots and I still think of you as a foot genius with your shots and your models. Great work!!!!! I wish that was my principle!!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by jediofthefeet: Demure and Allure are exceptional subjects. I loved their big toes and that both had unpolished nails. Regarding the tourist affixing the term goddess to Allure, it was totally refreshing to see her rough heels. Knowing that seemingly perfect people have imperfections make them more realistic.
That quote kind of reminds me of something I said about why some foot guys are into smelly feet. I said: To learn that this beautiful, flawless-like female has feet that smells can leave quite an impression for us. The power of the thought that it can smell when it isn't expected out of her, is a very erotic element ...
Essentially, you just said the same thing with regard to the heels of Allure's feet.
quote:Originally posted by jediofthefeet: But even if we didn't have this knowledge, we would still need to treat her as a regular person. Doing otherwise would be detrimental to having any type of relationship with her.
Either that, or she'll walk all over him like a doormat and use him like a dog in leash. The biggest difference being that she'll care more about the actual dog than the guy that she has in the proverbial leash.
One of the reasons women agree to pose for me is because they can tell from my demeanor and language that I won't do or say anything during the shoot that will make the situation feel awkward or uncomfortable.
Personally, I don't mind if other guys post comments calling some of my girls Goddesses and what have you because it's all fun and games. When I'm at the park, I'm just there to keep things simple and to get to know what makes each woman the person that she has become.
Icarus ... I love Makeup's soles just as much you do!
lovepaintedtoenails ... Your last sentence had me laughing. Thank you with your comments. It's awesome that you're taking notice with the style I use into these photoshoots.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
These newest ones are simply amazing and I must say that you are a truly gifted artist when it comes to capturing these women's feet.
Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
National, I'd have to say that what you've put together is not only very organized, but also a very special place in this forum that so many of us can truly enjoy. The layouts are well put together, the stories are well worth the read and should be put into a memoir so that it can be on the New York Times best-selling list.
The pictures, especially from the last two women, shows the growth in how you see things, especially when you make the comparisons between those and the first few women you showed in your old thread. Everything is starting to take form and I certainly cannot wait for the mastery that your photo style brings from now on.
These photos of Nevzana looks very mature and it looks like you took your time and making it turn out the way they did. That's not the sense I got when looking at the photos of Demure Madame, for example, where that one looks like it was kind of rushed and the effort wasn't really there to make some magic happen out of it.
I really love the poses in Nevzana's set because the way you made her look in her first dozen photos or so, made it look like I was looking at a clothing brochure for the autumn season. The poses you had her hold in the photos of the second page is really something to appreciate. This is really one of the best shoots you've ever showed us thus far.
And Makeup Principle is another one that deserves a medal. I love the pictures where you had her stand towards the end, where we are looking up at her from the ground. In this one, for example, I like how her hands are tied together as if she was hoping for something: http://www.imagebam.com/image/a0e9d8418262970
On top of that, her feet looked amazing! They probably tastes like cherries considering how well her red toenail polish looked. I especially loved the shots where her soles are sitting side by side somewhere in the beginning.
Her soles do look so soft and massage-able. Can't believe you got to rub your hands all over them (at least that's what you implied).
I have to return later for my thoughts on Allure Iconica. For now, all I have to say is that if you still think perfection does not exists after looking at HER, then I cannot help you.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
quote:Originally posted by foot_fashion_industry: I have to return later for my thoughts on Allure Iconica. For now, all I have to say is that if you still think perfection does not exists after looking at HER, then I cannot help you.
It's a good thing I don't need help because I agree with you. National, you certainly hit a homerun with her! I cannot find one bad thing to say about this woman because she's the complete package. You have a hot face, hot body in those very tight jeans, and the kind of feet to die for. I don't know how a man can ever be angry when he's with someone like her?
Makeup Principle has some pretty nice feet and I love how you shot her. I see you like to experiment with new type of angles for your pictures, and this is a theme that I think will make your work really stand out from the others. I love the shots where you got close to her toes after you had her cross her feet at the ankles. I'm talking about the last three ones of that sequence.
One picture I really like in particular is this one. I like seeing that cute lady running past you guys with her little puppy. Looked like she was out for a jog with her cute pet. Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: I truly hoped you enjoyed this visit in Central Park. You are invited to come here at any time and be at peace with yourself.
Oh yes, yes indeed! Thank you for the invitation and I certainly will be stopping by quite a bit in the weeks and months to come!
Oh and by the way, Makeup Principle is so fucking HOT!!!
-footboy1
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: One picture I really like in particular is this one. I like seeing that cute lady running past you guys with her little puppy. Looked like she was out for a jog with her cute pet.
There's a lady with a puppy in this picture?
-footboy1
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
quote:Originally posted by footboy1:
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: One picture I really like in particular is this one. I like seeing that cute lady running past you guys with her little puppy. Looked like she was out for a jog with her cute pet.
There's a lady with a puppy in this picture?
-footboy1
I'm sorry, it's actually a guy with his pet ostrich. And as I look closer, I don't see any bare feet from a hot woman in that picture.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
The beauty you captured and the skill you have captured it with have pushed my mind beyond the boundaries of madness... I plunge into the abyss...
Makeup Principle and Demure Madame are the best-those toes and those curves!
Your emphasis on tops and overall body contours is what got me this time. You have a talent and instinct for topology and I hope you keep doing shoots like these.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
From the Land of the Rising Sun. This woman speaks very little to no English. Japanese tourists are very polite in nature, and she certainly was no exception to the rule. She was willing and flattered to take part in this. I don't quite remember how I was able to get her to follow my lead into this because the language barrier between us was a bar code that was very difficult to decipher. But we were able to work things out someway, somehow. Trying to convey the message of what you find very special in a woman who can't speak your language, in very few words, becomes a universal social dialogue that can be understood by everyone with no interpretation needed or necessary.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: The beauty you captured and the skill you have captured it with have pushed my mind beyond the boundaries of madness... I plunge into the abyss...
So deep and quite touching. The words, poetic. If there were any group of words that would sum up the emotions evoked from this thread, those would be the ones.
When I'm out there, my imagination takes an unusual trip into parts unknown when it comes to how I want to photograph these women, seeking more and new concepts that will make my mind conjure a different perspective of how to present their feet, pushing off the ledge, plunging into a sea of insanity!
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Your emphasis on tops and overall body contours is what got me this time. You have a talent and instinct for topology and I hope you keep doing shoots like these.
This is such a wonderful compliment directed towards a man who's heart lies more in the soles of women's feet. You will be in for a treat as we go through the passage of time in this thread. The extensive amount of content I have yet to unveil will make your conscious and subconscious escape your mind and get lost out in space and into a newly-discovered dimension, where nothing can properly explain what had just happened to your psyche.
- National
Posted by sftfan (Member # 1959) on :
Great work on Nocturnal She - a stunner Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
RAWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRR !!!!
-footboy1
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Despite my oft stated love of Asians, Japanese girls often leave my wanting. Not this girl, though. Natural beauty with beautiful feet. Well captured!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Thanks!
I'll be here all week to show pictures of more women.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This woman is a nineteen year-old student, majoring in Language and Mind at a university here in the city. You can say she's taking courses in linguistics, but what she's going to deal with in her studies over the next few years is going to be a bit more broader and complicated than that because psychological and philosophical courses are going to get thrown into the mix, which should give her a well-rounded understanding to how humans are and how we interact with one another.
If I can sum up this person in one word, it would be secluded. She struck me as someone who prefers not to interact with too many people, someone who is easily tired, a woman deprived of force or strength. For what? I don't think even she would know the answer to that question. Having said that, I can say with certainty, based on the conversation I had with her during and after the shoot, that she is not afraid of a lot of things, among other things. And it's my guess that she's impervious to physical pain. She has the open mind to go with the flow, but she won't contribute much to the conversation with other people because she is disposed not to speak freely. I guess harboring those traits is what helps her get through her day, that is when she's in her own comfort zone, that's how she copes with everything.
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I found myself walking on a path that I almost never take. It's a wonderful feeling when someone just seems to magically appear from out of nowhere. It seemed as if she wasn't there just seconds before when I happened to glance at that spot. Now that I've gotten closer to that same area, there she was all of a sudden.
She was staring into the ground, scribbling some figurine into the soil with a twig while whatever music she was listening to further spaced her away from the reality of the world around her. I don't think she knew or cared for the stick figure that she drew, the music playing from her earphones were only there to numb her senses as to what she was doing or thinking about.
Perhaps the volume on her phone wasn't that high because when I spoke out to get her attention, she immediately heard me. As soon as she heard me and saw me walking towards her, she got up and walked towards me so that we could meet face to face half way. I could tell that she was willing to be very helpful to me, regardless of what I was going to come at with her. She probably thought I was going to ask for directions.
When asked if she would like to have pictures of her feet taken, it was like a hot knife through butter when she said yes. She didn't ask any question, except for wanting to know how I wanted her feet to be posed. Her composure and demeanor about the whole setup was very business-like, as if she was going for her routine check-up at the dentist. Nothing out of the ordinary for her. Her attitude during the shoot can be described as very professional.
She's very friendly and is quite willing to accept the wishes, decisions, or suggestions of another or others, despite the fact that she has a drowsy, very lethargic form of letting that side of her personality shine through in spades.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
When Central Park Commissioners drew up the list of features they required for the park, there was no mention of the structures or landscapes specifically targeted to children and their caregivers. Once the Park was opened to the public, however, the commissioners saw the need in the lower Park for a "Children's District," which would meet the recreational and practical needs of children, in particular underprivileged children, who often had to walk several miles just to reach the Park's 59th Street gates.
The first structure that Vaux designed was the Kindeberg - a Dutch word meaning "children's mountains" - an elaborate rustic summerhouse, specifically designed with small tables and chairs for young children. In the 1950s, the Kindeberg was replaced with the Chess & Checkers House. Today it is a visitor center that also features game tables around the building's perimeter.
Olmstead and Vaux would never have promoted such a popular and commercial feature as a carousel, yet one was installed during a rival administration in 1871. Through a succession of either three or four different carousels onver the course of history, it has always been one of the most beloved attractions in the Park. Early carousels had no platforms; the animals probably hung on chains and flew outward due to centrifugal force, and the ride became known as "flying horses." They were often powered by pulling a rope or crank. This early Central Park carousel is probably the one that is still pictured on every can of Dr. Brown's Black Cherry Soda.
When Olmstead and Vaux returend to power in 1873, the created a two-level structure, connected by a central pole of the riders above. By the 1920s, "horsepower" gave way to electric power and the Park's new carousel even featured a brass ring and an organ. When that carousel burned down in the 1950s, the Park acquired it's present carousel, abandoned for years in a Coney Island storage depot. This carousel is a masterpiece of American Folk art, created by the celebrated Russian carvers Solomon Stein and Harry Goldstein, who were noted for their unusually spirited and colorfully decorated horses.
**You can see the rooftop of the carousel in the backround in some of the pictures in Immune Soap's gallerie.**
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Posted by FootLongSub Zero (Member # 19380) on :
Miss Asian Foreign Tourist, soles are SO DAMN AMAZING , Thanks so much for sharing these
Miss 19yr Language Student seems like she built up some decent funk. Would be good to have a whiff of them .
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Very cute girl with nice long toes. I like the cross-legged poses you put her in, and there are some very interesting lighting effects (sky) in some of those. Very nice work amigo.
I'll be off the grid starting Saturday for a week, so you'll notice a lack of commentary from me. Peace out.
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
quote:Originally posted by FootLongSub Zero: Miss 19yr Language Student seems like she built up some decent funk. Would be good to have a whiff of them .
I was thinking the same exact thing.
And nice pics too, right all up in your face!!
-footboy1
Posted by solelover58 (Member # 2185) on :
I would love to see a few pics of your lovely models pointing their toes or scrunching their feet up if possible
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
This thread is always a pleasure to come back to and read these stories, see their amazing pictures and get to know some great facts about the history of Central Park. You really value your stuff and have made great use of your new home away from home.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Immune Soap has som great soles!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Every once in a while I come across someone who is just like this woman. The name I've given her goes hand in hand with the book she was reading and her strong belief system to support the sermon delivered by its author. You can click on an image in her gallerie where you can read the title of that book.
At first I misunderstood the purpose of the book based on its title, thinking that she was a devil worshiper in-training. She laughed at that idea, telling me that the book will help her get closer to Jesus by not falling for the Devil's deceiving tactics, about how he's a wolf disguised in sheep's clothing.
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We talked to each other for a few minutes before the shoot started. She's studying to become a cardiologist, and after years and years, it's only a matter of time before she is a finally a recipient on an MD specializing in that field of medical care. Going in, I thought she was studying for her next exam or something because the book was thick enough to help her cover all the bases she needed to know about heat attacks and strokes. Nope. Instead, she was catching up on her studies that had nothing to do with medicine. But when you know the heart more than you know the back of your hand, like she does, there's always the time to devote your studies to something else. That was part of her reason for why she was on that book.
I was hoping that she wasn't going to go on some soliloquy about the greatness of Jesus because I'm never in the mood for that. Good thing she never did. Just about everything we talked about had nothing to do with that book.
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She's another person who likes to stay quiet. I guess when your life is devoted to prayer and relentless studying on your university exams, you can't have much for a social night life. She is a very sweet person and is someone who is willing to lend you a helping hand in time of need.
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Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Great stuff as always, man.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
What an unusual callus pattern on her. Not sure I've ever seen anything quite like it. Wonder if it's due to over pronation? Did you ask her about it?
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Icarus ... She does jog for many several miles quite often throughout the park. I thought about incorporating that into the story originally, but decided to leave that part out.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC The weather felt particularly nice on this day, a perfect opportunity that had many people taking advantage by spending most of their times away from their homes and workplaces. I love taking my time at Central Park because I get to enjoy the sights of seeing people reading books on the grass, playing softball, picnicking, parents keeping a close eye on their rugrats as they run around without a purpose. And if one looks closely enough, you just might find someone easel painting.
She was well into her artwork before I got there. The fact that the bare soles of her feet were already facing in my direction was enough to make me stop suddenly because I wasn't paying attention to anything that was from a distance from me at that moment. The sight of her taking her time in enjoying what she loves to do caught me completely by surprise. I cannot remember another time where I was caught more off guard than that.
There was an immediate rush running through my blood because my senses were became hypersensitive, my heart began racing. I was running short on oxygen suddenly and I had to take a deep breath and collect my composure before I took another step closer to her.
She thought my idea of wanting to take pictures of her feet right then and there while she continue to paint was so imaginative and original that she had to take me up on the offer. The whole thing would be "very original" and "truly organic" for the two of us (meaning myself and this woman), she said as she was trying to make sense of what was about to happen here.
I let the model play the part of herself, and she grew comfortable in her role even with the photographer present. She's very earthy, a person with a highly individual or unique attitude, lifestyle, and imagination. She's not someone who is restricted by other people's opinion and accepts everything for what they are and just goes on with her day.
Oil painting is her passion. She has a quick-study technique that makes her break down the process into simple steps that's comfortable for her to handle.
The shoot had to come to an end when it was time to put her flats back on her feet.
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Great stuff! Would have liked to see her painting as well. I love the way you put these together.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: I love the way you put these together.
So do I.
I loved how you showcased the Japanese girl. Seventh Creed seems like a person you can bring home to mom, and Flower Mood seems so down to earth. That phrase gets thrown around way too often, but if there was ever a time to use that phrase to describe someone, this would be the time.
A true magician when it comes to outdoor picture taking. Thanks, National, for spoiling us with these women and your talents.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I want to thank you all for your comments. They always make me go back to the times I did the shoots and relive the fun and great moments that I've shared with these ladies. It's very nice to read what your feelings are with these women.
I really enjoy the times I spend when I'm out there. From the moment I enter the park, to the moment I organize the stories and galleries, to the moment where I read your responses feels complete and special.
Thanks so much!
-National
Posted by jediofthefeet (Member # 1463) on :
I know you usually have no idea what you will find inside a pair of closed-toe footwear when you meet your subjects. But it was definitely a pleasure to see Immune Soap and Seventh Creed had no nail polish on their toes. Also, both girls had big toe shapes I found appealing, especially SC's.
The contrasts were nice to see too: short nail beds versus longer nail beds, supple feet versus feet with more character, lower arches versus higher arches. I also liked IS's toe hair. Hair on the big toes, I can handle. Hairy legs, I cannot handle. I have my limits when it comes to "The Fly" look.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Flower Mood has terrific soles and ankles. Great poses and shots as always, my friend.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Early one evening.
This woman was already lying on the grass when I saw her for the first time. She was lying on her back and I wasn't sure if she was asleep because she had her sunglasses on, blocking my view as to whether her eyes were actually closed. I didn't get too close to her and made my choice to move on and find someone else, assuming that she was asleep. Walking away from her was kind of a downer for me because her feet were already out of her sneakers and her soles looked so good to me as from the distance I walked past her, thinking how great it would've been to actually get close to her feet.
It wasn't too long after deciding to leave her where she was and walking away from her, that's when she sat up. She told me as the shoot began that she was never asleep, but staring into the sky instead. I suppose she was thinking about nothing in particular when the sky was the only thing available to her sight as she lied on the grass earlier.
What harm is there in taking pictures of someone's feet? Apparently she saw no harm in that, and apparently I agreed.
Speaking in Spanish was our only means of communication because she didn't know any English. She was a visitor from Spain and she was relieved to know that she was able to have a decent conversation with someone who can speak that language as well.
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The apostrophe in the first word of her name is there because without it, you would pronounce Real in English. It's placement in the middle of the word is my way of getting you to pronounce that word in Spanish instead, which means the same thing in English anyway.
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Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
I was pleasantly surprised by Barcelona's blue toes, thanks for getting so many shots of those. I gotta love those Iberian girls. Was she shot in autumn or early spring?
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Was she shot in autumn or early spring?
Early spring.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
It's nice to see you again. Great stuff as always. I'd have to say that the soles on Re'al Barcelona are exceptionaly nice. They're the kind of soles that make you take a sigh of relief.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Love her feet!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This woman teaches seventh- and eighth grade science in another part of the country. It's funny (funny weird, not funny ha-ha) a person's job description can match the outward appearance of said person because when you look at her, she does bare some characteristics of someone who is kind of nerdy, baring the expertise in a subject such as science.
She's come to accept the idea that she's not hip or someone who's in the know of what is currently fashionable or any other trend that's "in" in the present day and moment. She came to that conclusion when she noticed that her students were seeking advice on anything other than science to other teachers or faculty members in the school. She feels left out in a way that these kids don't look at her as someone who can be that go-to source for therapeutic help in the treatment of minor emotional disturbances that students that young go through on a daily basis. She is not a big fan of social media outlets and wishes that times can reverse to an era where things were "more simple."
She takes it all in stride, though, and lives a meaningful life that's meaningful to her. As long as things in life stay uncomplicated and as long as she stays close to her parents and older siblings, she can go on with her life at the pace she prefers it.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
In case anyone starts to wonder, the name I've given this lady is NOT her real name, although her first and middle initials are E and M, while her last initial is something other than T. The reason behind the pen name is because those three initials give away what she does for a living.
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Working in such a strenuous job such as her's, a well-deserved day off is something that the doctor ordered. This was one of those such days.
Doing what she does for a living is very gruesome and too extreme for the weak and squeamish. A lot of her days start out as a memorial montage that plays in her mind over and over about what the day before was like. The hectic chaos takes its toll and her body and energy wants to give up from being so overworked and exhausted, but her mind won't let her. Sometimes she wonders how she makes it through the entire day without killing or even hurting a co-worker (or herself) or losing her job.
She and her team have to go to one place after another and have to attend to someone who's life has to depend on her and her team. She has seen many things in her line of duty - things that I won't get into detail in here, but you can imagine what they were.
All of this is very real and all too surreal for her all at the same time. Whenever she works, there will always be someone, somewhere who is going to need her help because their life might be hanging in the balance. But she keeps at it, doing her job by whatever has to be done to make sure that no further damage has been done on the way to the hospital where the doctors can take care of the rest.
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Her attitude that day seemed like she was on her vacation as opposed to just taking a day off from all the headaches that she must get from time to time. The only kind of sports she follows is mens college basketball. I don't pay much attention to NCAA college hoops, but she is an avid fan and tries to keep up with that stuff as much as she can. She's originally from Connecticut, so her favorite team is the UConn Huskies.
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She is one of those true everyday heroes and should be commended once again for her willingness in trying to save lives at the drop of a hat.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Nearly 2,500 Japanese cherry trees were given to Central Park and Riverside Park in 1916 as a gift from Japan to commemorate the Hudson-Fulton Centennial. The trees were lost in transit, and a new lot had to be gathered together from the nurseries in Japan. The later consignment comprised many rare varieties, and miraculously the journey of three months didn't damage them. One hundred and seventy-four Yoshino cherries were planted on the east side of the reservoir, and 187 Kwanzan cherry trees were planted along the west side of the reservoir. Those trees bloom throughout the months of April and May. These are the two most outstanding grooves of flowering in the Park.
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The next woman I will show had her photos taken in the allée. It's also the same location where I shot Makeup Principle (Page 7 of this thread).
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This woman was on vacation from Louisiana, visiting some friends.
I can't quite remember what her story is, but the impression I got from her was that so many things seem to be unbeknownst or oblivious to her. When people tell her something, she doesn't grasp the significance of that message conveys, she doesn't seem aware or concerned about what is happening around her. She can be very forgetful of things, probably more so than any other woman I photographed. She's a daydreamer, and her mind is modeled for a state in which everything is perfect or foolishly idealistic.
She is one of the sweetest persons I've ever met. Her way of thinking and communication skills comes across as something that's not clearly understood or expressed. For someone like her, I think she would be perfectly suited for someone who wants to write books for children who are younger than nine. Or eight. She would be able to conjure up ideas that those kids can magically relate to.
If you were to meet her, she would probably tell you that you're the most successful person she's ever met. Most of the people she knows are very lazy and I could tell that from hanging out with them one too many times, that that has rubbed off onto her.
The name I gave her comes from the fact that I once knew a woman who went by that name, and because each one looks like the other. The difference is that the one I once knew was not a lazy person like this one is, with much more drive and determination to get things done. This woman I photographed is so much easier to get along with, however; she gives off a sense of happy satisfaction. She has a very welcoming personality and is friendly to be around.
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Posted by TheProgram (Member # 34255) on :
I must say that I owe you a ton of thanks for putting together this amazing piece of work you've got there. It's amazing that so many women you meet are so open to allow you the time to spend time with them and to allow you to take photos of their beautiful feet all at the same time. You must be living the ultimate dream life of many of us foot guys out here. I'm truly inspired by your work and style, and you have just made a new favorite fan out of me. Thanks.
I really love the toes and soles of the EMT worker you just showed us. Just perfect in every way.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
What a great set of soles from the 29th post! Thanks.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Though the Children's District in the Park was originally created in the southern-most section of the Park, today we would probably consider Conservatory Water as the area that features the attractions most beloved by today's youngest visitors. In 1945, the movie Stuart Little - the story of a mouse that sailed his ship on the Conservatory Water - may have influenced Park Commissioner Robert Moses to site the Hans Christian Andersen statue, the Alice in Wonderland statue, and the Kerbs Boathouse and outdoor café to the area where children had been sailing their model yachts since the 1860s. Today children can rent a model boat and have them sail in the water for fun.
A formal garden was one of the requirements in the 1858 design competition, and Olmstead and Vaux planned to place their garden as well as a greenhouse or conservatory in the site of the present Kerbs boathouse and café. During the construction of the park, however, they substituted a formal reflection pool for the flower garden. Though the conservatory was never constructed, the pool still remained the name Conservatory Water.
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The location of the next photoshoot I will show happened on a spot that wasn't too from the Conservatory Water. In fact, you will be able to see that (along with the boathouse café) in the backround of some of these images in the up-coming gallerie.
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Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
I really like the hand shots you've been getting.
The anklets of LA and EMT were cute, I liked seeing those, and you captured the jewelry well in those shots. Both girls have nice long toes.
But Bio is my favorite. Totally my phenotype! She has those kinds of soles where I want to just lick and lick the spot where her toes meet her foot. I just loved her. Great job on immortalizing her!
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
This has turned into the most fantastic thread ever! So many ladies to choose from that we won't have enough time in our lives to get to every one of them!
That Ena Marisa EMT girl is a hero, a lifesaver, and I really admire and respect that in a person. What a great person she is. The description to her story really made me pause to reconsider just how tough these people have it on a daily basis. If she doesn't deserve to take a day off, then I don't know who does.
Her feet are one of those to die for, in my opinion. They're well shaped, well cared for, and well looked after. I, too, enjoyed the hand shots.
Lucienne looks every bit as a fun person to chill with as you described her, National. She also looks like someone who loves to get buzzed every so often.
You're doing a tremendous job. I admire what you've done here and continue to do. I know I'm not speaking for just myself when I say that. I thank you once more.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Icarus ... That was a clever way of wording your last post in here. At first I didn't know who you were talking about when you talked about the "great set of soles" on said woman, but I knew it had to be one of the last three I posted. If my count is correct, then yes, I don't disagree with you.
The Program ... Living the dream is better than dreaming the dream. Having said that, I am very appreciative of the fact that you have become new fan of what I do. Being a spectator is an enjoyable experience because you can sit there and enjoy the spectacle that is the Natural Park.
Meeting new people when I'm out there is always an incredible rush and a soothing calm-down all at the same time. Getting to know- and learning about these women I meet is a fun diversion and part of what makes life worth living.
hyperion ... BioLogic has become more popular than I thought she was going to be; people on the other forum have been giving her much praise as well.
18th Floor... There's nothing more I can add to what you already said. Thank you for leaving that great message in here. This really means a lot to me. I love what I do.
-National
Posted by HighArchesPT (Member # 45164) on :
Lucienne was the real deal for me. It's been a while since the last time a new girl perfectly matched my taste around the forum.
Posted by lovepaintedtoenails (Member # 8935) on :
Hey National, really want to thank you for your time, quality, of sexy feet. I am always happy when I come back and see a new update from you. Thanks again for your time and effort!!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
Personally speaking, this was one of my favorite shoots I ever had in Central Park. Of course other shoot I had before this one were great, but the feeling I had with this one was a sense of relaxation and relief. Serenity had really set in and it felt as if the two of us were in a visionary state of sedation or social perfection.
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Going into a shoot, I usually have a good sense as to how well the photoshoot is going to turn out, what I can get out of the model, how eager she is to help and please. Sometimes a shoot would go better than I had expected it to be, and this was most definitely one of those times. In fact, during the first few minutes of the shoot, I had thoughts about ending the shoot early. But something told me to stick in there, but once it got going, I got settled in to my comfort zone and began taking more photos of what turned out to be a very sentimental shoot. The feeling of nostalgia was present throughout and it felt complete to me to have lived it as it was happening.
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She was already seated on the rock where the shoot took place and had a book in her hand, but she wasn't reading it. She was staring out into the trees and grass ahead of her in a way as to judge the significance or worth of ... something. Perhaps it was the book she was reading, perhaps it was her own life. All I knew was that she was deep in thought to the point that if a fire broke out in a house down the block from her that she would not acknowledge it and just go back to reading her book or just wondering.
She's from Finland and came to visit New York for a vacation, staying with her Godmother who lives in a private residence just off of Fifth- or Madison Avenue, not far from where the shoot took place.
She comes from a family that has a lot of money, but she never seemed too eager to use it to be a showoff or to become the center of attention in anywhere she goes. She doesn't act as if she has a lot of money and likes to live below her means instead.
She has no interest in being pretty - or at least pretty in the way that society deems is pretty, which is usually an interpretation of what men think it pretty - rather, she is interested in the self-fulfillment of her own desires. She doesn't think she's beautiful and kind of rebels against the notion of trying to make herself look like a Cinderella or a Snow White because it's "not her."
I had to become a source of inspiration to her by reminding her that by being unapologetically herself, and her already accepting the fact that she has a no-nonsense, take-it-or-leave-it type of approach to life, that those things already make her an awesome person, especially when one considers the fact that she's all those things and steadfast without being antagonistic and antipathetic all at the same time. She knows enough English to get by, but she didn't know what the word "unapologetically" meant, so I had to explain it to her and that's when everything began to make more sense to her. That put a smile to her heart and we both felt the shift and dynamics of our conversation change at that very moment. She became much more comfortable with who she was as a person.
She is self-possessed, loves to spend a lot of time to herself, and she's learning how to dance salsa.
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Some time into the future, some people might start to think that while, yes, it was a fantastic photoshoot, those people might start to think that this photoshoot will have had its profile a little bit artificially inflated, BUT those same people will also say that it does definitely have its place in the history in the Natural Park anthology because it was that first kind of truly great National photoshoot where he started to understand that his photography style can go anywhere it wishes at will.
Even though you'll come across many, MANY others that you will feel are better than this one, you will agree that this one was truly special as well.
Now whenever I think of her, I have this song playing in my head. The video seems perfect for this stage because it's a tutorial of women doing something that Unbeauty hardly does at all. Personally, I have no problem with women doing what they're doing in this video - all I'm saying is that she doesn't go to those lengths to achieve beauty. I like listening to this song as I'm looking through her images in her gallerie.
I really enjoyed spending time with this woman and taking photos of her. Frame it and hang it, my friends. This is a Natural Classic. Its personal value to you will grow as you transition through each stage of your life.
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Lovely soles! And by the sound of it...a lovely soul!
Thanks.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
What we have here is simply amazing. You have done such an amazing job in capturing this lovely person. From the photos it shows that there was a lot of compassion there and that you truly cared about this person't well being. This was simply beautiful.
You are really something special, and I thank you for all you're doing for us, National.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: I really enjoyed spending time with this woman and taking photos of her. Frame it and hang it, my friends. This is a Natural Classic. Its personal value to you will grow as you transition through each stage of your life.
That statement really hit the spot for me and nicely sums up the pleasure I had going through her pictures. She looks quite gentle to me, but also someone who can be a bit of a rebel. Actually, you were the first one to point that fact out to us in your backstory to Ms. Sans Luring, but it was amazing to actually get a sense of the same thing through these pics.
I really love the photos in where her eyes were closed. She looked so calm and very comfortable around your presence and was quite open to whatever suggestions you had for her during the shoot. And I love how the sun plays right nicely into a lot of the shots. You have a very artistic way of playing with the elements around the models and how that incorporates into these photos that tells a good story of its own.
She has very nice feet and her soles look so very nice as well.
Now I'm really looking forward to how to anything more you have to offer in the future. If it's anything like what we just saw from Luring, then we are all in for a very special treat. I, for one, can't wait.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
This photoshoot took place on a Saturday, right before noon.
There are so many places to venture through in the Park, many things to see. On this day I decided to see what goods were to be found in a section of the park I had yet to walk though. Sure enough, I found someone who was going to be just what I was looking for in order to turn the shoot into something I had wanted it to be.
This woman wanted to take her studies to the outdoors and enjoy the piece of mind that comes from not being distracted by television and radio in her own place. Being out in the sun at Central Park definitely puts the mind on pause and relaxes the mind, body and mood.
She studies in philosophy. She loves to challenge herself in tackling general questions about reality, knowledge, language and conduct.
Speaking of tackling questions, she certainly had a question or two for me after I made myself a company to her. I was walking along and I spotted her sitting on the grass, right where she was where the photoshoot took place.
She asked me if I was a comedian. I never had anyone ask me that question before. When she asked that question, she wasn't sure what to make of the proposal I gave her. It looked as if she wanted to laugh out loud after hearing that I wanted to see her feet out of her shoes, but wasn't sure if she wanted to allow herself to grant me my wish. She probably thought she was on Candid Camera or something, being that a request such as mine is not something one can expect after getting out of bed first thing in the morning.
She really thought I was trying to pull a prank on her and that none of this was for real. She wanted to laugh at the situation and it seemed like she was waiting for me to deliver a punchline to my supposed joke.
I love it when a woman asks me a question that I wasn't expecting her to ask because it forces me to out-wit her and come up with a sarcastic, wisecracking or humorous kind of response in a manner that is perceived as a bit cocky. This happens quite often.
I said, "A comedian?"
"Yeah. This has to be a joke, right?" I could tell that she was waiting for me to tell her that there was a cameraman hidden behind a tree somewhere, filming this whole thing. She wanted to laugh but was waiting for me to give her permission to laugh. But since I already had her smiling, I knew I had her.
I said, "Let me ask you something: Have you seen me do stand-up before? Like on Comedy Central?"
"No."
"Well, that answers your question."
"Are you sure?"
"Oh my God!" I couldn't believe she was asking more questions. "Are you sure?"
"No."
"It figures. Since I'm no stand-up comic, and since you don't know what you're talking about, let's find a way to amuse each other. It's Saturday, so why not? You have nice feet?"
She didn't answer my question, but gave me that look as if to suggest that she likes the fact that I'm this sudden interesting character that just appeared into her life, making her morning a bit more ... diverting, shall we say. So I took that as a yes.
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Vivien Nicely: *gasp* Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Yeah, nice shoot!
Posted by FootLongSub Zero (Member # 19380) on :
Her soles are so darn amazing ...lol Candid Camera. I wonder if you had a weird smirk on your on your face like trying to hold in a laugh when you asked her .
Always look forward to your updates, thanks for sharing your adventures Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
My goodness, what have you done to us, National?!
I usually like bigger feet, but I would certainly make an exception to Ms. Viven over there! I love the first photo from the sample shots you showed right before providing the link to view the rest of the photoset. That smile is so inviting, yet somewhat sinful at the same time. If that's not hot to you, then please seek psychic evaluation! That in itself is enough to get a man's attention if her were that close to her. For National, we was RIGHT THERE!!! Lucky guy, you!
The last photo from the sample set, where you elongated her legs was enough to make me click on the link faster than I could blink.
You've done a masterful job with her and I might have to agree with you that you probably saved the best for the final day of the week. Viven was well deserving to close out the week.
This is one of the better shoots I've seen in a while here.
And the story to go along with her was pretty good. You handled her reaction to your approach like a fox that always knows how to sly himself out of any situation. She was more relieved that this was indeed real instead of a prank of some sort.
Excellent job! Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Luring:
I don't ever compare one piece of your work to another, for the same reasons it doesn't make sense to compare an apple to a deck of cards, or a car to a flower. Shall I compare her to a summer's day?
Great shots of her pretty hands. You got some amazing lighting effects on p.2. The shots of her clasping her knees on p.3 are a type of shot I hadn't seen before, and I really like the pose. It's especially right for her and the narrative you constructed. Well matched and thought out--once again I tip my hat to thee.
Hearing about this connection you made was gratifying. Well done, friend. I have to come to NY to take you out for drinks.
Must dash, more later.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Luring:
I don't ever compare one piece of your work to another, for the same reasons it doesn't make sense to compare an apple to a deck of cards, or a car to a flower. Shall I compare her to a summer's day?
You may experience a certain type of feeling depending on how you view a photograph. The answer is really up to you.
quote:Originally posted by FootLongSub Zero: Her soles are so darn amazing ...lol Candid Camera. I wonder if you had a weird smirk on your on your face like trying to hold in a laugh when you asked her.
I wasn't looking to make myself laugh, but I was smiling at her because the whole bit inspired a great affection in me.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Lovely soles! And by the sound of it...a lovely soul!
Nice!
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: I have to come to NY to take you out for drinks.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Vivien: The word that describes her is "lithe." You captured that property suberbly. Did she know you were taking pics of her bottom? Nice bottom, for sure! And nice arches.
She has a lovely face, too, with delicate features. That smile is disarming. You must have enjoyed that. She poses so well and looks like she was terrific to work with.
I really like the one foot up in the air poses.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Vivien: The word that describes her is "lithe." You captured that property suberbly. Did she know you were taking pics of her bottom? Nice bottom, for sure! And nice arches.
Absolutely!
When she saw that I had the camera pointing at, I could tell that she kind of figured that that would happen and she was totally fine with it. "Guys are guys are guys," she figured. She knew I was a type of person who wasn't going to do or say anything that would give her cause for concern to her emotional or physical well being, so she signed off on it
Besides, she already knew I was attracted to her, and she knew that I knew that she knew that she liked me as well, so everyone went home happy.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: She has a lovely face, too, with delicate features. That smile is disarming. You must have enjoyed that.
You have no idea how much I enjoyed that. I don't remember seeing a smile like that since, making it a physical characteristic that can be "trademarked" only to her. Speaking of which, she made a similar face when she knew I was taking pictures of her backside.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: She poses so well and looks like she was terrific to work with.
She was wonderful, indeed.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Here we have a tourist from Brasil.
It was just after noon on a Sunday and I wasn't at the park for more than forty five minutes when the opportunity kind of ran into me. Sometimes when I'm out there, I would spot someone who I'm interested in shooting from far ahead, and that would give me enough time to come up with a way to introduce myself by the time I get close enough to her to where she notices my presence. Other times, someone would "magically" appear from out of nowhere, catching me off guard, and I have less time to decide if she looks interesting enough for me to want to spend some time with. This was one of those times.
I'm walking north, she's walking south on the same walking path. I guess what caught me off guard about this more than anything was the fact that she was the one who started the conversation. She was walking though the park, looking for people to draw something for her from a little sketch book she had with her (in fact, if you look closely enough, you'll see that same instruction labeled in the book that she held on to. The instructions were in Portuguese.) So she wanted me to draw something for, anything, it didn't matter what it was. I asked how much time she had on her hands. From her answer, I could tell that I had enough time on my hands to do this for her and to get as many photos as I wanted out of this deal before she had to meet up with some guy who was touring the City with her.
I told her that if she wanted me to draw something for her, that she would to do me a favor first.
I don't remember what the story was behind the marking on her foot (as you'll see in one of the preview photos above), but it looked to me as if either a vampire or a python bit into it. Of course, that actually didn't happened, I can't remember how she got that mark, like I said.
After I was done with the shoot, I was able to fulfill my part of the bargain by drawing something for her. Something abstract, nothing too spectacular. She's good people, like they say, and I have no reason to believe otherwise.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
The Great Hill was originally the site of British encampments during the Revolutionary War due to its strategic view of the North (now Hudson) River and its proximity to McGown's Pass. Olmstead and Vaux designed the proximity as a carriage turnaround. Today the Great Hill features a beautiful pastoral lawn and spectacular specimen trees. When the oval was restored in the 1980s, the designer created a mound, the peak of which would have been graced by a sunbeam at the moment of the vernal equinox had the surrounding buildings not existed. The woodland edge of the oval, the Children's Glade, is now the site of wonderful programs for families and a maze of country paths and quiet walks high above Central Park West.
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The photo shoot I had with Patrícia took place just below those locations, and the next shoot I'm about to show happened right in between both spots.
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On the day of this shoot, all public schools were closed. It was around eleven o'clock in the morning when I spotted this woman. She teaches music in the city to a bunch of young kids, and she was using this opportunity on her day off to grade her students' performance and/or going over some plans for up-coming lessons she was planning to teach.
She didn't think that my taking photos of her was going to get in the way of disrupting her concentration on the important paper work she had to do. She wanted to be a famous singer when she was very young herself, but discovered that her calling would be teaching kids the fundamentals of music; how it sounds, the beauty of it, and introducing several musical instruments, helping them practice the more simple steps on how to play them. She hopes that one day that she would be the first inspiration for her students that could springboard them into pursuing a new passion in the music industry when they become adults.
From what I was able to piece together from our conversation was that this woman is a great balance between someone who is quite tenacious and very reasonable all at the same time.
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Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
These are very good pictures of very nice women. You certainly know how to make your mark, and I still appreciate everything you put into this thread.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
I finally got some time to sit down and review these properly.
Patricia: Again with the one foot up in the air; I like that pose. I also like the on-the-knees poses. More likes: The way her skirt comes off her backside when she's on her tummy; and leggings. Love, love, love leggings. I also enjoyed the head-and-shoulders shots. I tend to pay close attention to more characteristics besides feet out there in the real world, so when you do this it crafts a more holistic image of the girl for me.
Musical: It's impressive how she can remain totally focused on her grading while you're shooting. The distance shots are interesting b/c they sort of accompany your narrative of spotting her from a distance. I like her "wholesome" look. It's easy to imagine that she's never had her toes sucked before. She also has that linear indentation across the top of her big toe, which for some reason is a turn on.
Keep getting shots of them watching you shoot. Those are great.
On an unrelated note, how does Imagebam decide which thumbnails to show large or small?
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:how does Imagebam decide which thumbnails to show large or small?
It doesn't.
I make that decision. When you create an account, it gives you the flexibility to create the galleries however you see fit, however you want to present it. You can certainly create a gallery without an account, but the difference is that all thumbnails will have to appear the same size and you have to upload all of them in one shot. With an account, you can decide which thumbnails are going to be large or small without uploading everything at one.
I could certainly upload all my pictures at one time and the whole process is going to take a few minutes, but I prefer to do things my way. Putting together a gallery the way I do, with as many pictures as there are, the whole process is very time consuming, especially when I'm being distracted by the TV.
I take a lot of time during the shoots, and I love taking the time to organize my galleries to make them look as presentable as I would like them to be.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Patricia: Again with the one foot up in the air; I like that pose.
Glad you liked it. Off the top of my head, I don't remember having that many more women after her holding that pose. What I do know, however, is that the next two women I plan to show were doing the same thing.
quote:I tend to pay close attention to more characteristics besides feet out there in the real world, so when you do this it crafts a more holistic image of the girl for me.
I feel the same way. And so do the women I shoot when I show them the pictures afterwards. When they see them, they're impressed by how the photos exceeded their expectations. They saw themselves in a brand new way that they didn't know had ever existed prior to the shoot.
quote:The distance shots are interesting b/c they sort of accompany your narrative of spotting her from a distance.
I love making shots like those because it makes people see things in a very different day, to give the message that for me, this is more than just feet. This is more about the person in front of the camera who's playing the role of herself and to emphasize the natural elements around her to compliment her appearance.
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What we have here is a woman who is dedicated in her studies into becoming a well-respected member of a society that houses art historians. With enough knowledge and understanding of the great artists from the past, and the paths and inspirations they were able to instill on more artists of their future, such a career entails building the credentials necessary to preserve the integrity of who the great artists in history were and help keep their legacies alive so that the present day folks can able to get a better understanding, a more complete picture of what the subject of art is really about.
This was on an early-Monday afternoon and the weather for the day was nothing but cooperative, although for her she felt just a bit chilly. Poor thing! In an attempt to prevent herself from feeling too cool for her to handle, she was able to make use of the American flag and cocooned herself in it as her blanket. The feelings of knowing that the United States is there for her to pursue- and achieve her aspirations in the Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave, might have been enough for her to feel quite secure that the flag would even go as far as to protect and comfort her from the cool breeze, to retreat from whatever stress there was into a more cozy private world of her own.
There was a sense of patriotism, the love for the country in seeing her grip the American flag closer and much tighter to her back and arms as she kept reading a book throughout the shoot without going as far as to add stress to the fabric by stretching it.
By the way, did I tell you that she not American? She's not even a citizen of the U.S. citizen. She is Polish and she had been living in New York City for not too long by the time this shoot took place. She's in New York to stay and she knows enough English to be able to carry a conversation without running into too many problems.
Getting her to agree to pose for me was as easy as counting to 1. She saw no harm in this whatsoever and she never got the impression that I was the type of guy who was going to do or say anything that was going to make her feel uneasy or awkward about any of whole thing.
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After the shoot was over, I sat next to each other on the grass. Now that she lost the energy to read anything else from her book, and now that I felt satisfied that I got everything I wanted from the shoot, that was time for us to really know each other a little better. We talked for about another hour afterwards. It feels so nice whenever I have these type conversations with someone who I just met, who had no qualms about the fact that like her feet, she knew that that was my way of telling her that I find her interesting, and she liked that because it's a pretty unusual way for a guy to introduce himself to a woman.
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One trait about this woman that stood out to me was her dry sense of humor. When she tries to deliver a joke, when she tries to be funny or sarcastic, it comes across without any change in emotion or body language, in a tone of voice that is quite casual as she expresses either a calm or a grave demeanor, in spite of the ridiculousness of the subject matter. Of the women who I've shown before, I can think of two others off the top of my head who were just like that:
IMMUNE SOAP & FLOWER MOOD
Another way to describe her, I would say that she is meticulous with her honesty while using as few words as possible to get her point across, sometimes lacking in intellectual subtlety if she's not careful with how she describes the atmosphere of a certain situation. She speaks with a heavy Polish accent and her speech delivery is a bit slow, deliberate and cold. When she's happy about something, it's not easily detectable from the sound of her voice. You're going to have to rely on her facial expressions and body language to get an idea of how she's feeling. In essence, her voice and conversing style is similar, comparable, or even complimentary to the dialect of a femme fatale in one of those 1940s movie. Sometimes, even as she was talking to me on a variety of topics, I was able to sense that there was a little voice in her head that would tell her to quit moving her lips to prevent herself from saying something that would make her come off as a bit too blunt for someone's good. Perhaps she was feeling some "stop talking" as she was talking, pausing a lot as she was heading into dangerous territory. By doing that, she was doing some very simplistic math with me, in that she was trying to bait me into completing her sentences so that she wouldn't look or feel so guilty or shameful about how she viewed the world around her. I would complete her sentences at times, and she seemed to like that quite a bit.
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Posted by markn (Member # 13818) on :
Been across the George Washington Bridge on business twice and never saw the park but I'd crawl to Hunt's Point to see these beauties relaxing in natures other splendid beauty, the beauty of Feminine Allure
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
I like the "prowling through the grass" shots. Nice soles on this one.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Very lovely! I would love her soles on my face!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
markn ... The next time you find yourself going across the bridge, you should stop by Park.
hyperion ... It was around that time when I started experimenting with those "ant vision" (or "prowling through the grass", as you would call it) shots. Doing something different in these photoshoots keeps giving me new reasons to fully enjoy what I do out there.
Glad you really liked it.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Very lovely! I would love her soles on my face!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
In Germany they have an expression: 'Das ist wie Schall und Rauch' ['This is like sound and smoke' (or, more figuratively, 'smoke and mirrors')]. It is used to refer to something that seems to be a big thing, a major event, but ends up being nothing much - it vanishes. Like smoke that disappears after you have blown it out, a short exciting moment. And to me, these photos have a similar feeling. I believe you can only capture these moments in a photograph. There is not much to remember about them - like when you have great sex with someone and it remains in your memory. These photographs are something visual, but they left me with a kind of taste - a visual taste. I actually like that very much.
Since this forum only allows you to put up very few pictures per post, instead of posting an infinite number of photos in one shot, I will have to bump this thread a few times over the next few minutes.
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Unlike with the others in this series, you can click on a couple thumbnails here to enlarge the images.
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^^^
What you just saw with these women was only a snippet of the entire photoshoots I had with them. These are my "hidden" encounters at the park that for one reason or another didn't make the "final cut" for me to release them to joy of everyone here. These are what I consider to be the "B-sides" of the album, a secondary photographic series that has a history of its own. Some people might look at these photos and can make the point that, just from the few sample photos I've shown from each woman, that the models in these photographs are just as good as the ones I did show, the ones that have the backstories, and these hidden gems are going to become popular in their own rights. If you want to take that stance, that's perfectly fine with me.
In any event, I hope you enjoy these photos.
-National
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Yeah, I'm going to take the B-side-as-great stance. The road less traveled has its strong appeal to me, though.
RE: Sensory capture, yeah, I get that. Nice. Your vision and perception of the world is really quite interesting. At some point I'm going to land in NYC, let's make time to get together and shoot the shit.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Yeah, some nice soles on the "B"-line!
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
These are some real awesome pictures you've got there. I love the stars stripe girl. The American flag helps make that shoot you had with her stand out and get noticed. Love, love the soles of her feet, as they certainly can grab anyone's attention, and I don't know if I would've been able to keep my tongue in my mouth if those things were as close to my face as they were with yours, National.
I also enjoy the Patricia shoot very much as well. Love those shots with her soles at the end of the shoot.
All of this work shows your unique sense of vision and how you're able to see them through the camera lens in ways that I would not have had I been the one doing the shoot.
Excellent work as always, and I didn't get to the "hidden tracks" yet........ Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
quote:Originally posted by National:
WOW!!!!!!!!! She's got kind of the J-lo thing going on.
-footboy1
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
hyperion ... Yeah, we should do that one day.
Icarus ... I think everyone will agree with what you said 100%.
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: Love, love the soles of her feet, as they certainly can grab anyone's attention, and I don't know if I would've been able to keep my tongue in my mouth if those things were as close to my face as they were with yours, National.
That's a good way of putting it.
footboi1 ... She's Egyptian. She wears a size 7. She said that the Gods from above must have blessed her with small feet because her mindset is that women with large feet are truly cursed and that they'll have a harder time finding men who would eventually become their husbands. She feels sorry for them. "Men want everything about their women to be feminine, and that includes their feet," she told me.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
More from the "Hidden" collection. I will return later in the week with my usual presentation with stories and tons of full size photos from those shoots. But first, I just want to get these out of the way and give you guys know how some of the other women looked like.
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Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Of the latest batch of the women from your hidden track collection, I particularly enjoyed looking at the first and last ones. They have some of the best looking soles I've seen.
Posted by 57dozzer (Member # 43406) on :
Nice pics...so why cant we make em larger like the other sets?
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
57dozzer ... When I made the decision to post those photos, I knew going in that I was never going to make those pics bigger. By only showing them as thumbnails, I know that that'll somehow make the people want to see them even more. And with my decision not to ever show the full size photos, that that'll keep the people's interest those women alive. That's how I want to keep it.
-National
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NATURAL CLASSIC
The name of this woman is pronounced nice. She's a nice person in ways one would think a person would be classified as nice, as in being respectful and considerate of other people. Although she a well behaved person, that's not quite what first comes to mind when I think about her. Nice here means something a bit more informal like someone who's very relaxed and easy going, fun or otherwise appealing. She's modest, very unassuming, and natural. She's just your normal, casual, everyday chick who's relaxed in her own skin. As for the spelling of the name I've given her, the first three letters should give away where she was born and raised. The last letter is the silent one.
I particularly enjoy taking photos of local women because of the familiarity of who's who and what's what in the city, and because we are in-the-know of the more interesting things of what's going on in town. The local models and myself develop a sense that we grew up within three feet of each other all these years without even noticing it, and that we're just catching up on the good 'ol times from the years gone by with a chance to "reconnect" with one another at some point particularly soon. She was another example of what I'm talking about.
I was out there early one Saturday morning and there was practically no one sitting on the grass or rocks anywhere in the park because it had rained heavily just hours before. With the grass still soaked and some rocks still wet, I was thinking that I was going to have to wait for another while before the rocks dried up even more before I could start making my moves on some women. The sun was back out, but it wasn't going to stay out for too long because there were threats of more of the heavy rain to return later. That meant that time was of the essence.
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After walking around the park for some time, I finally caught a glimpse of someone who I knew would make for the type of model I would love to take photos of. I just knew, even right after spotting her from hundreds of feet away, that wasn't going to turn me down. I felt this rush going through my body and I knew what I had to do. I was walking north and she was heading east before we met at a crossroad. I could tell from the way she was walking that she was in no rush to get to where ever she planned on going.
She smiled and said hi to me as she was about walked by. I didn't know if she thought much of it, but I thought much of it and walked right beside her for a few seconds before I said, "You know, I couldn't help but notice the high tops you're wearing. I mean, I've only seen you for a few seconds, but they seem to be a pretty cool for someone with your personality."
"You kept noticing my what?," she asked with a smile.
"Your tops - your shoes, I mean."
She laughed to herself for a second because she felt a bit embarrassed for not hearing my question fully the first time around and because when I reworded the question, I made it sound like I was making a reference to her breasts (which I probably sort of did, though not really because I was vaguely pointing at them, but not directly before I finally pointed to her shoes for real) before finally realizing that I was talking about the Converse she wore on her feet.
"I don't know, you're pretty funny," she said. "So what can I do for you?"
I could tell that she had let her guard down, and after making some small talk for another minute, we went for a small walk through the park. I never asked if she wanted to walk with me, I sort of told her that we should. I started walking north ahead of her for a few a few seconds just to gauge her interest level in my. I got my answer when she started to follow me. She caught up to me and I took it from it from there.
I told her that she was wearing the right footwear of choice for taking long walks through Central Park. She agreed. After waking for a few minutes and sharing small talk about something else, I suggested that we sit on that rock over there and relax a bit because her feet must've been already tired (by that time she had been walking for a little over an hour straight). Besides, before I we ran into each other, she was going to walk an extra long distance. After running some errands during the daytime, she was heading straight for the Asian Society Museum, which was another 40-50 minute walk from where this shoot took place. She was looking forward to the rest and sat with me.
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Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Holy shit!
This woman is going to keep me here all night. Her feet are just about PERFECT. I love these photos. I truly love your style, as you have a different way of seeing things. Love her face, love her hair, love her everything.
This is amazing.
She is most certainly real "NYCe". Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: This is amazing.
She is most certainly real "NYCe".
As far as her feet go, I have to agree with you. Her long toes and shapely soles made me fall in love with them. You know, when you're out there doing this, and you're trying to get someone who you just met for the first time to remove her footwear, you have no idea how they would look like exactly. When that person removes her shoes for the first time, you don't know if you're going to get something that's above or below your expectations.
With this woman, however, I wasn't expecting anything too spectacular. But when I finally saw them, when I saw her soles for the first time, I knew I had hit the jackpot and that I was going to do my best to make the shoot worth remembering for a very long time to come.
It was definitely worth the experience.
-National
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Shades of Taylor Swift there, face and soles. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I was walking along when I noticed this woman who was sitting right at the same spot where this shoot took place. When I saw that she wore legwarmers, my eyes lit up and I made the decision to get closer to her to see what she was all about.
She was resting on the grass because she wanted to give her mind some rest after attending a convention for people who practice the art of jiu-jitsu. I walked by that spot an hour or two earlier and wondered why there were so many people crowded in that area. She was sitting by herself well after all of the others from that convention left.
She now wears a brown belt after four or five years of vigorous training in self defense tactics, grappling, and ground fighting. She's trying to master the technique of manipulating her opponents' force against himself rather than confronting it with her own force.
When I walked up to her I began to tell her that I love the look of her legwarmers when she interrupted me in the middle of my sentence when she inhaled suddenly with her mouth open.
"Oh my God!," she said almost to a whisper in her Russian accent. She looked at me for a few seconds and seem transfixed out of astonishment, though I wasn't sure why. Not knowing if she had just seen a ghost, I gave her a look as if to ask what happened?
"What happened?" I finally asked.
"My God. You have the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen." The last word of that sentence was something I almost couldn't hear, but I knew what she said. It appeared that she almost couldn't get that last word out of her mouth.
I couldn't believe that this woman became so drawn to me all of a sudden even though I never had a chance to complete whatever my first sentence to her was going to be. I knew right then that my chances of messing this up was very slim to none because she was giving me a sign that she was interested.
So I hat right beside her and made as if I didn't pay attention to her eye comment by switching the subject to whatever, I forget what. I spoke for a bit. I turned to her to see that she was still looking at them. I asked what it was that she was looking at, even though I knew what her answer was going to be. I just wanted to hear it from her directly to make myself feel good.
"Has anyone told you that you have beautiful eyes?"
"I don't think so. What about your eyes? Any ever tell you they're beautiful?"
"Why, you think they're beautiful?"
"That's not what I said. I'm asking if others have told you that?"
"I don't remember. Probably not."
I felt a bit of sad for her after hearing that and she tried to give off the impression that that never bothered her too much. She's not an overly expressive, girly girl type of woman. She's the type who's headstrong, determined to do what she want even if other people advise against it. She's another woman who's very quiet, very reserved, secretive and private.
After telling me how she can see through my eyes and straight to my soul and see that I am this wonderful person, I nodded a bit and steered the focus of the conversation to her legwarmers, which reminded her as to why I was there in the first place. I told her that there's a correlation between women who wear those things to the high possibility that those same women have very nice feet and that they are usually well looked after. How did I know that, she asked? Observation, I said.
I told her that I bet she had nice feet and that I was ready to take pictures of them.
She was flattered that I thought she had nice feet and kept asking if I was sure that this was something I wanted to do, meaning taking pictures of them. She would say once or twice that I might not find them pretty and how she felt bad that she didn't have the toenails painted to the color of my preference. This happens from time to time when they try to talk themselves out of it while at the same time they want me to talk them into it. Kind of flirtatious, embarrassed and silly at the same time.
When I told her that I know her feet would look lovely just her eyes do, that was the icing on the cake for her and she agreed to do it.
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Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
NYC: Nice long toes and milky skin. I like her lipstick and curvy legs.
Jiu jitsu: I love her expressive face and the way she looks around. Nice smooth feet and long toes. I also like her strong-looking tarsals.
Great shots and especially the narrative. Thank you!
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Great work! Boy, I would love to be a fly on your shoulder.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Fantastic story about behind Aksiniya. I never had a woman tell me that my eyes are the most beautiful things she had ever seen, but it seems like you've got it made no matter what.
It was a fantastic read to see what the accounts were that lead from the moment you saw her to the moment she agreed to let you gawk at her feet. It's refreshing to read how all of this played out, and it's something I can imagine myself doing one day.
Aksiniya herself is looks very nice. The photos show that she is probably very quiet and someone who prefers to keep things to herself.
Thanks so much for this.
Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
This picture right here tells me that you're really expanding your mind on your photography style because I don't think I've seen anyone shot a foot photo in the way that you did here. You're using all of the natural elements to your advantage and making the most use of them.
I love how the sun just appears in the photo and how it's giving light to the woman below it. When someone looks it this picture, their eyes would spend half the time looking her her feet and the other their time looking up at the sun that's all the way up in that photo. This is really something special, what you're putting together here.
Photos from that woman who knows jiu jitsu are well done as well. I love how your pose their feet by having them point towards one another when you take photos of the top of the feet. This woman is another example of why those pictures look good, especially when she was wearing her Coach shoes at the beginning.
If you go to the forth and fifth rows of the Aksiniya link, we can see your genius vision at work, your style maturing more and more. To see her shoes from behind like that with the trees in the backround is great work that should not go unnoticed. This stuff is pure gold.
Love how you present feet.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
*This is the start of the final week in where I will be posting photos in here before I go on my winter hiatus just I did last winter. Afterwards, I will be MIA for two or three months before I return in the Spring to start a brand new season of photo and story sharing for everyone. So enjoy this week while you can.*
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I don't have a whole lot to say about this woman other than that she's from Portugal and that she's friendly and is there to be very helpful and supportive for the people who are very close to her.
A drama teacher decided to do an impromptu photoshoot with me. She teaches theater to children in grade school. She moved to the city from somewhere in Ohio and she was only days away from starting her teaching career at the time of the shoot. It was her first ever visit to Central Park on the day I approached her.
She was so helpful an found no harm in letting me shoot photos of her feet.
Sometime during the shoot, she took a phone call from her potential employer or her soon-to-be employer. I guess the first question he asked her was what she was doing at that moment because she said, "Oh, ... I'm ... (there was a pause here before she said) taking a walk through Central Park." She didn't want to tell such a person that she was having pictures of her feet taken, so she kept the call as professional and as quick as possible before she hung up. They were trying to finalize a few details for their next meeting.
It was going to rain in a little bit and she didn't have an umbrella with her, so the shoot stopped when it did.
She is a lovable person who's very easy to get along with. I would go as far as to say that these children would not add her to a list of teachers that they don't like because she's very relatable and I could tell that she is someone who can get along with children and someone who would make a great, loving, and caring mom one day.
A young woman who has her whole life ahead of herself, and I certainly hope that everything works out for the best.
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Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
I enjoyed looking through the Star stripe photo set for the same reasons Hyperion did. Those photos in where the eye level is in the grass (the "crawling through the grass" shots Hyperion was referring to) looks quite innovative and it gives us a brand new perspective on new ways to look at these women.
Her soles are fantastic, and her toes look so delicious. It's so cool that you got to talk to her for as long as you did. She made great use for the flag, as it was done in a way that would make anyone proud of representing the country they love. Something about her relying and the American flag the way she did can make someone feel at home.
It's pretty incredible with the contributions you show us, and we are forever thankful of your artwork and outlook in life.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Foot_fashion_industry: I second absolutely everything you said about the shot with her feet down low and the Sun up high. It was beautifully composed. I share your outlook totally with regard to National's photographic skill.
National, comments for you: Portugal: Great smile, nice full lips and pretty eyes. Interesting shape to the bottom of her foot. Thanks for the hand shots, always nice to see hands.
Drama: I like the stages-of-exposure you captured documentary style. The way you compose these pictures must make the girls feel special and pretty. I also like her athletic look, and great bottom! There's a thread in the Talk section about teachers who made an impression on the guys when they were in school. In a few years, someone will likely be writing about her.
Enjoy your well-earned winter break. We look forward to seeing you in Spring. Happy trails!
Posted by 57dozzer (Member # 43406) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: 57dozzer ... When I made the decision to post those photos, I knew going in that I was never going to make those pics bigger. By only showing them as thumbnails, I know that that'll somehow make the people want to see them even more. And with my decision not to ever show the full size photos, that that'll keep the people's interest those women alive. That's how I want to keep it.
-National
Ohh k... a simple "because i didnt feel like it" wouldve been good enough but thanx for the response..
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Of the last two women, I like Scene Twelve better. She does seem every bit as a genuine generous and caring person that you made her out to be. Love the bit when she was on the phone with her future boss there. To an authority figure who she'd barely knew, especially to someone who was going to be responsible for signs her checks, I would love to know how he would've handled the news that she was having pictures of her feet taken?
I'm not a big fan of toenails polish that's falling off, but she's pretty cute anyways, so that kind of cancels out the fact that the polish was chipping to begin with, especially since she didn't wake up that morning thinking that some guy was going to take photos of her pretty feet.
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This was one of those quick photosessions I had. It lasted for a few minutes. It is rare that I have a photoshoot that takes place over the course of ten minutes or so. I would say that on average a typical photoshoot that I do in Central Park takes fifty to sixty minutes to do. That's on average, meaning that half the time it goes longer than that, past the one-hour mark. Yes, that also means that other shoot don't last as long, but it's very rare that I have a shoot that fails to reach the ten- or fifteen minute mark.
I had a friend (who also has a foot fetish) tell me one time if a woman allowed him the fifteen minutes to take photos of her feet, he would be in heaven. For me, however, that is clearly not long enough because my photographic style, my perspective, my ideas needs more time to allow a novel to be told through the photos in these shoots. Once in a blue moon, almost inconceivably, I will be asked to write a poem instead of a narrative of considerable length and complexity in a form of a photographic presentation. And that's what happened here.
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She told me in advance that she only had a few minutes to give because she had to be somewhere. This happens sometimes. When it does, I decide to look for someone else because in a place as huge as this park, there are willing models all over the place who will give me the amount of time I desire ... so if I miss out on one, I can always find another. But the reason I made an exception here is because I didn't have a lot of time left myself as I had somewhere to be as well. I figured that after this shoot, I wasn't going to have enough time left to find someone else. Besides, she had big feet so I was sold.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I was having a such a wonderful time at the park which culminated with this nice photoshoot that put a very refining touch to my joy in the park that day.
I could tell that she was not from the area because she was trying to support the weights of a duffle bag that she would carry one side and a backpack that was more suited for mountaineering on her back. Both items probably weighed as much as she did. The boots she wore were made hiking through the forest terrain, and it is something that she wears quite often when she's out there exploring the world at large.
She wasn't walking when I first saw her. She was sitting on a bench somewhere, going through the photos she took on her camera. I could tell that she was finally exhausted from having walked an infinite number of miles through the city that day. If there was anyone who deserved a break from walking around so much, it was this woman. Her bags were placed next to her because the weight of them finally got to her. Her body - especially her feet - were completely drained of strength and energy. She looked so beautiful.
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I made my presence known to her and sat myself right beside her to make so that we could warm up to each other's company.
She is very soft spoken, almost to a hush at times. The warmth from her voice makes you feel like you're finally back home after spending a lot of time out in the cold weather with and there, waiting for you is nice hot cocoa ready for you to drink it to sooth your senses. I would go as far as to say this: if I came up with a list of words that I would use to describe this woman's personality, the word vulgar would be so far down that list, that I don't think I would ever get to it. Anything that arouses affection and loving care, this person would be darling.
She travels all over the world. She just came to New York after having spend several months in Peru saving lives, helping alleviate the suffering of the people there. New York was just a quick stop along her way before she finally returns home to where nature calls, somewhere by or in the forest, in a small town that's just a blip on the map probably. Somewhere like a Wyoming, for example. In fact, that's where she's from, that's where her home is.
However much she enjoyed visiting the Big Apple, she is not a city girl by any means, so New York is not an ideal place for her to live out the rest of her life. Her heart lies in the type of town where everyone knows one another.
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After spending some time getting to know each other, I chose a spot for her to have this shoot. I had to carry her stuff for her. From the way she described it, she has definitely put a lot of miles and more miles on those boots in order to support the weight she carried and the trails she had to explore through in her visits to different spots during her travel adventures. That was a perfect time to give her feet some extra rest and a massage that was long overdue.
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Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Lasting Jill, National. Something about her, something about that shoot, feels so wholesome. They MUST have been smelly when her feet finally came out of those boots for the first time in a long time.....
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Helene: Nice use of sunlight in those shots.
Jill: I like her soles. You have a knack for finding wayfarers, don't you? I'm reminded of that hitchhiker from West Virginia you got with a couple years back.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Great work! Boy, I would love to be a fly on your shoulder.
I suppose. Since Central Park is a museum without walls, there's now you would love to be a fly on the wall. A shoulder would be a more ideal spot.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Drama: I like the stages-of-exposure you captured documentary style. The way you compose these pictures must make the girls feel special and pretty.
When I show them how the photos came out after the shoot, they feel the same way. It isn't until they see how I was able to put them on display that they become fully aware as to how their feet can be seen as something that can get someone's attention in a way that goes beyond just by simply looking at them with the naked eye. It isn't until I capture them in a series of photographs that come to fully understand why feet can be seen as something quite instrumental and not be taken for granted anymore. The photos super-exceeds their expectations.
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: Of the last two women, I like Scene Twelve better. She does seem every bit as a genuine generous and caring person that you made her out to be. Love the bit when she was on the phone with her future boss there. To an authority figure who she'd barely knew, especially to someone who was going to be responsible for signs her checks, I would love to know how he would've handled the news that she was having pictures of her feet taken?
I know. We were joking about it afterwards.
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: I'm not a big fan of toenails polish that's falling off, but she's pretty cute anyways, so that kind of cancels out the fact that the polish was chipping to begin with, especially since she didn't wake up that morning thinking that some guy was going to take photos of her pretty feet.
That's right.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Helene: Nice use of sunlight in those shots.
This is one of the reasons why I love shooting at Central Park. The natural elements from what can be found in the park to what's going on in the skies up above, I am given an infinite number of ways to play around with what nature is giving me and make the backround of these photos just as important as the forefront. The image with the lady lying on the grass with the sun blaring from way up there on a clear blue sky day is another one of those examples this.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Jill: I like her soles. You have a knack for finding wayfarers, don't you? I'm reminded of that hitchhiker from West Virginia you got with a couple years back.
For a few minutes there, I didn't know who you were talking about. I was too lazy to go through the archives, but then it all came back to me.
SUNFLOWER Hitchhiker from West Virginia
LASTING-JILL Excursionist from Wyoming
There's always a very interesting story behind women like them, as their journeys transport your mind to parts of the world that people rarely talk about.
Thanks for the flashback.
-National
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Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Yes, that's exactly the one I was thinking of.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
Just before lunch time on a Sunday morning, another beautiful day at the park. I was walking along and saw a woman lying on her stomach in the pose position as she was sunbathing. She was listening to her music on from her iPhone and she wasn't paying attention to anything that was happening around her, with her eyes shut while letting her music take her where ever she wanted to be.
I had to climb up some hill to get to where she was. Before making that climb, it was worth noting to myself that looking from where I was below on the ground to where she was up there on the hill, just looking up towards her somehow made the invitation that much more enticing because I wanted to see what more there was to see once I got there.
There was no need for any elaborate word structuring to magically get her to make good use of each other's company, to befriend this complete stranger. I waited to approach her at the moment it appeared that she wasn't too distracted by her iPhone so as not to startle her. I walked up to her and simply told her that I wanted to take pictures of her feet. That's all I did in that one sentence, in ten words or less. That wasn't the first or the last time I made an approach that bluntly direct, and it seems to work like a charm because they agree to it. I don't do this all the time; I pick and choose my spots. But for me, I found that it could be that easy to get women to let some guy they've met before to pose her feet for me.
"Ok.," she said. "Why, you like my feet? But I don't know, my feet are not clean. I didn't get a pedicure, so I don't know if you'll like them."
I waved my hand at her as if to say that that wasn't going to be an issue for me. And off we went.
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She has a bubbly personality, and that was apparent from the sound of her voice. She's just a typical girl who likes to have fun and not take things so seriously. If one were to engage in a long conversation with her as I did, it's best to keep things silly, comically hysterical, and amusing in a slightly odd or peculiar way. The context of the conversation will sound immature and unripe, but I didn't see any problem with that because I had a blast. For me, talking to someone like her made the time move faster. She's pretty cool.
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Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
HOLY SHIT!!!
Dotty Pink
I'll tell you what, liquor is not the only hard thing around here. Now I don't know if she sat on a pile of sugar or not because she has a pretty sweet ass. Posted by garrison (Member # 34624) on :
Very nice work. I love Helene, nyce, and Dottie Pink. The last girl was certainly great to look at especially. Looking at women getting a tan in their swim suit out in the open like that never gets old. Thanks.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
caseman ...
garrison ... Thanks a lot. Makes me very happy that you like them as well as I do.
Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
Dotty Pink was really something special. It seems like you take your style and find new ways to make each photo shoot stand out in its own way that is quite different from the other shoots. I particularly love the shots with her while she was on her stomach and the shots of her lovely behind made set really fun to look through because those angles of her ass were done in a way that left your "calling card" on it, meaning that you showed it in your own way.
The preview pictures that teased what was to be in the set looked very promising and I became overly excited when I saw them. The story was fun to read, and your way of describing this woman was said in a way that was tailor made, specifically designed for her and no one else.
A great shoot all in all.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
NP: "Hi, excuse me, could I take some photos of your CROTCH?"
DP: "Oh, yeah, sure. Here you go!"
Only you, man. Only you.
Her nails need some TLC, but great bone structure. I like the POV down her legs shots, and great job on her hands, too.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Where do I start here? Helena looks nice and her feet look so nice.
quote:Originally posted by National: It is rare that I have a photoshoot that takes place over the course of ten minutes or so. I would say that on average a typical photoshoot that I do in Central Park takes fifty to sixty minutes to do. That's on average, meaning that half the time it goes longer than that, past the one-hour mark.
That's unbelievable! It's so cool that you have these girls spend all that time with you during the shoots, looking, ogling, posing, and even massaging their feet (whenever possible), and who knows what else that you're doing with them that you're not telling us. I mean, I don't even know what more to say about this other than you're the man.
Lasting Jill is a precious stone. I like the whole look of that shoot. The photos look like spring and that the two of you were eating granola bars or something. I don't know how else to explain it, but it certainly has that look to it.
Her toes look well kept and I love the angles you took in those shots of her toes. Very unique and I like her very much.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
Every once in a while I would throw in a that old conversational gambit, "Have you read any good books lately." That always keeps a conversation going because it delves a bit deeper into her personal interest that other people closer to her may not know about. It gets them to talk about themselves a bit more. So when asked, she said ... And while Santayana says that the goal of speculative thinking is to live in the eternal, James makes his philosophy of pragmatism that the mental core of (I forgot the part she said here) practical dynamic energy."
By that time in the conversation, I should have come to expect that she would give me an answer that was as detailed in design and planning. This woman has a high level of intelligence that is very rare or remarkable.
"I'm sure those books were quite fascinating to read, dear," I said. "Why don't we say we go for a walk through the park, huh? Perhaps you can share some more of what those authors said in their books."
"I have a much more exciting idea, (National)! There's this old book store right over a coffee shop on [the West Village]. They have some first editions of Jean-Paul Satre and a folio of Thucydides history of the Peloponnesian War. Of course, I have a copy at home. I don't what I'd do without my Thucydides."
The question I wanted to ask was, What was she doing with it? You might say that the answer to that question is that a woman who is the utopian combination of brains and beauty is dangerous ... or desirable. And to that, I would tell you that that's the same thing. She suffers from a severe illness called brilliance.
In any event, I we wound up getting some drinks instead at a pretty nice spot not too far from where she lived.
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HOW THIS ALL STARTED I was riding in the subway heading downtown. It was around 11:30 in the morning. The train was about to pull into the Rockefeller Center stop when I just happened to look to my left. And there was this woman who was taking pictures of me with her iPhone. I knew this because when I looked in her direction, she twitched in a way that someone would when she's caught doing something that she wasn't supposed to before putting the phone down. She was seated not too far from me and there was no one else standing or sitting between us, so there was no doubt that she was taking pictures of me.
I don't know, but that was so hot because now the two of us had just shared a moment between ourselves that started with girl thinking that I was appealing to her senses and she wanted to cherish what she was seeing.
I took a good look at her and then down to her feet, and couldn't believe just how gorgeous she was! Everything was happening so fast that my mind was running at a hundred miles an hour trying to come up with a way to make the situation worth something special. So I got up from my chair and walked up right next to her. I leaned into her ear and whispered, "I think you're pretty hot, too. I get off at the next stop." Then I walked away from her and stood in front of the train door, waiting for it to open once the trained made its stop in the station. I did all of that quite openly in the car of the train and there was a possibility that the other people in there might have seen me do it.
I could see that as I leaned in to her, she widened her eyes because of heightened sensation. She and her eyes were still in a state of shock when I left her there. Other than that, she never a muscle when I made the whisper. She just sat still as if I was invisible, but I could sense that something within her five senses were about to change.
As I stood facing the door of the train, I could see in the reflection from the window of the door that she opened a pack of breath mints from her small-cutesy backpack and put one in her mouth. I pretended not to see that as my heart was starting to pump a little faster as I was sure that her's were as well.
When I got off the train, I never looked back to see if she followed me out. For a second there I thought she wanted no part of whatever was supposed to have happened in that sequence. But I was so glad she did because she finally caught up to me in the middle of the platform and said hi.
We only talked for a few minutes but we were attracted to each other instantly. There was somewhere I had to be at the moment, but we did set up to go on a "date" later that afternoon. I told her to meet me at the corner of 59th and Fifth at three in the afternoon. And we did.
Since she took pictures of me earlier that day, I thought it would be fun to return the favor.
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Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Marry her. Don't walk--run.
This is a girl over whom risky double lives are created and marriages are wrecked.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Marry her. Don't walk--run.
This is a girl over whom risky double lives are created and marriages are wrecked.
Funny that you say that because she's in her mid-30s and still doesn't believe in marriage to this very day. She had to attend her brother's wedding not too long after the shoot. She wasn't looking forward to it. Nothing against her brother or the woman he was marrying, but just the hassle of getting prepared for such an event and going through all of the festivities wasn't worth her discomfiture.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
I love this girl, I love her feet and I love this story! You have out done yourself this time. You, my friend, are nonpareil!! And I thank you.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Marry her. Don't walk--run.
This is a girl over whom risky double lives are created and marriages are wrecked.
Hyperion, you sound like a man who has some experience of this matter? Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
The best woman and the best story of ALL TIME!!!!!
to Industria and to National.
She is one of the hottest women I have EVER seen in the entire forum. She is the total package if I've seen it. From beginning to the end, this is the greatest story ever told. From top to bottom she is probably the hottest women we will see in a long time. If this is the last model you're going to show us before you go on your break, then you have done an amazing job going out with a bang!
This has got to be the be all end all of everything that I will ever see in my LIFE.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: You have out done yourself this time. You, my friend, are nonpareil!! And I thank you.
Thank you very much. I really appreciate you noticing that. That really means a whole lot to me.
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: If this is the last model you're going to show us before you go on your break, then you have done an amazing job going out with a bang!
You're talking about Industria here. No, she's not the last one. I have one more model to show everyone before I call it season. Industria was one-half of the double feature attraction. I have one more woman to show, who will be the second-half of the double presentation and I cannot think of a better person to close out a season with.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
To know this person, I would say that she is the type of woman who refuses to just accept information given to her, but has to think about it and question it in order to figure out why it's true. Or she'll reject it and form her own opinion that she thinks makes more sense. She is someone who looks for truth even in the midst of chaos and uncertainty. Industria is someone who looks at a problem hoping to find an answer and once an answer is found, asks more questions. She usually has an answer to many things, but provides caution on what she says.
She loves to debate on a variety of topics and makes a living as a sculptor and does some work as a ceramist.
-National
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Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus:
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Marry her. Don't walk--run.
This is a girl over whom risky double lives are created and marriages are wrecked.
Hyperion, you sound like a man who has some experience of this matter?
Nope, not as such. But if I were to go out and do those things, she'd be on the short list. I guess Nat'l has dibs. You go, brother!
Feet aside--those lips, those eyes, those nose! Nat'l, I hope you ran your fingers through her hair, and over her ears and down her neck. I hope you held those lovely hands. Imagine making out with her. I hope you did that. And of course we all hope you got to suck those toes.
Back to her feet: her toes are so long that I thought you'd stretched the aspect ratio. You could drive under those arches. Fair Adam's gonna clamp the arch siren on the top of his car and speed over there (like in a 70s cop show). She has that crease across the top of her big toe that I love.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT Finally, we have a woman who is probably the most beautiful person I have ever seen and met in all of my time getting to know women in Central Park. Someone who took my breath away because she is a woman of exemplary conduct and virtue. I'm only half joking when I say that I wasn't sure if she was dead or alive. And I say this only because from what I've been hearing all of my life, only the dead can be angels. I never knew they could fly so close to the earth. But she's very well alive. And if anyone in here wants to believe that there is a heaven after death, then what we have here is a preview of how things will look for you when it's your turn to leave.
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I first laid eyes on her as she was getting up from the grass. She had just finished eating her lunch and was on her way to leaving the lawn. I was getting closer to her when a couple of elderly tourists stopped me and wanted some directions on how to get to a certain spot in the park. I was kind to them and gave them the directions they needed, which lead to a few more questions they wanted to ask me about the park. I couldn't believe that this was taking me a bit longer than it needed to take to get those folks on their way because I was starting to lose sight of the woman I wanted to see. After now knowing where the old couple needed to go, I had to make up for some lost ground because I was becoming concerned that she indeed had disappeared into the crowd.
After about a minute of searching for her, I was about to give up hope and look for someone else. It was at that moment that I magically spotted her again. I was given a new chance at life. This time she was seated at a bench, enjoying the sounds of a jazz band playing some 1930s tune. On a beautiful such as this one, the mood and the atmosphere was just right for listening to those type of songs, especially at a place a nice and peaceful as Central Park. She smiled along because she really enjoyed the music.
Since the bench she sat on was full of people, I had to wait for either the person sitting next to her to get up and move, making room for me to sit next to her, or wait for her to get up from that spot so that I can approach her as we're walking along.
So I waited for a few minutes.
I took my eyes off of her for what seemed like a few seconds and when I turned back to see what had happened, she was gone. I could not believe that this was about to happen to me again, losing her to a sea of people. I was finally able to see where she was walking. She wasn't walking fast at all; she really took her sweet time getting around the place and I wasn't walking that much faster than she was. I finally caught up to her and started to talk.
"Hi."
She looks up at me and smiles. "Hi"
"I wanted to tell you that I was over there and I saw you, I thought you were really cute and I just wanted to say hi."
"Oh my God, that is so sweet! Hi." We shook hands as we exchanged names. After asking her some questions about herself, I said that I couldn't help but notice that she had very cute and shoes on and how they complimented the rest of what she had on. I didn't say it in those exact words, but you get the idea. That got her talking about her shoes and feet for a little bit. As she did so, she would move or pose her feet around this way and that way as if to show them off in its best angles and viewpoints. She was very proud of herself in a way that a little child would after singing the alphabet for the first time in her life. It was very cute and it brought some fun-spirited, breath of fresh air to her already-positive attitude.
I asked if I could take photos of her feet and shoes because she seemed like someone who understood the fashion of footwear and how they could give off the vibe and message that the person wearing them is as unique to them as a different set of shoes are to person wearing those.
That sounded like a fun idea to her, but she had to think about it for a second. After which, she shrugged her shoulders and said, "Why not?"
As we were walking along the park to find our spot, she asked me what I thought her shoes said about her. The answer gave her a sense that her life is on the track of living out its purpose. She knew that I was the right man to spend the time with her. The things I found out about her makes her such a special and loving person. She is fun, very easy to talk to and get along with, determined to finish the goals she has set for herself, and beautiful. I mean, I saw that in her as I looked at her from afar and as I was talking to her in the beginning. But to know this person for who she is and what her principles and values are on the inside, made me feel so much better for knowing that what is on the outside is just as beautiful for what is in her heart.
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The same I've given her is pronounced dollhouse. It speaks to her beauty within and her beauty without. It's spelled differently give the word a more modern and European look all at the same time.
She's from Finland. Unlike other Finnish women who I photographed in the past, she can speak perfect English and she does not speak with an accent that would suggest that she was a foreigner. She sounded as if she was born and raised in the United States.
For a young woman who is only eighteen years old, she is mature beyond her years.
"So soft she looked, so sweet, so fair, With such a winning, yielding hair ..." - William Pattison
"O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful ..." -William Shakespeare
"A creature, for feature I never saw fairer, So witty, so pretty, I never knew a rarer ..." -Anonymous
"And finding her beauty such powers has got, Her heart pants for something-she cannot tell what." - W.B. Yeats
"The innocence and beautiful Have no enemy but time." - W.B. Yeats
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Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
The greatest thread of all time has now run its course for the season, and I'm going to miss this place. But it was certainly an adventure while it was here and I enjoyed every minute of it.
Dalhous is indeed one of the most beautiful women ever seen. Her feet look so nice, her poses are cute and sexy at the same time. I love her toes. They are well taken care of and her facial expression in these photos makes the person looking at them feel so relaxed.
Industira was one hell of a person, and Dalhous is so precious in her own way.
Thanks for all of your contributions, and I hope you enjoy your break.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Marry her. Don't walk--run.
I'll marry her tomorrow, but I'll honeymoon with her tonight. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
*In reference to Industria*
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Feet aside--those lips, those eyes, those nose! Nat'l, I hope you ran your fingers through her hair, and over her ears and down her neck. I hope you held those lovely hands. Imagine making out with her. I hope you did that. And of course we all hope you got to suck those toes.
The two of us shared a great chemistry with each other. There was a power of evoking interest that sparked between the two of us, a connection that was evident and easily understood. And that was something that we needed to express to one another in ways that words could not possibly do justice for.
-National
Posted by 57dozzer (Member # 43406) on :
Yep Dotty Pink was very nice!
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
quote:Originally posted by 57dozzer: Yep Dotty Pink was very nice!
Yep.
In fact, if this picture is anything to go by, then I'm behind her all the way.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Great work with Dalhouse, as well! She is an angel!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
DALHOUS "Why do you look at me so? - what do you see? How shall I ever know, that what you see is me? Questions I ask, answers I wait, Will my innocence become my fate?" - Richard Overcombe
"Your skin so delicate and white, like snow and like the lily ..." - Paul Verlaine
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Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Young and dangerously pretty, this one. Still with the original factory accessories.
Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
It's such a nice touch to close out your season with the last two women you showed us. The stories are well written, as they give us a great sense of what's going through your mind in those moments. As the best story teller that you are, your photos, however, tells us another story that our imaginations would need to have imaginations of its own to fully appreciate the art form in your foot photography. It's like imagination squared.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Foot_fashion_industry: I share your outlook totally with regard to National's photographic skill.
Industria is a match made in heaven for you, National. She has the looks you're looking for, and she has the brainpower and intellect to engage in conversations that are mind stimulating. If I asked a woman what books she has read recently, I don't know if her answer would be just as in depth as the one she gave.
Her photos are award winning. Her looks matches so well with the back round. One of the things I like about your style is that the back round on these shoots are different than the ones before those. That park must word wonders for you because the back round can be anything that the mind can conjure up. In her case, the back round gives this shoot the life it needs to make it stand out and become so memorable.
I love how you incorporated the flowers into a few of these shots. Love the huge rock and that house-like structure in the back round as well. They all bring out and accentuate the true beauty that is Industria.
I look at her glasses and something about them really turns me on. The fact that she is that smart and hot and wears glasses like that is all a man can ever ask for.
Her feet are a thing of beauty. There must be something wrong with my eyes because I can't seem to take them off her feet.
A woman like her would own me a drink because if I see her, I will drop mine.
Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
About Dalhous. I now know why Solomon had 600 or so wives. It's because he never found her. If Dr. Phil ever tells you that you're afraid of commitment, then you can prove him wrong if Dalhous was your woman. I don't see how a man would ever be upset about anything if he had a woman like her.
She has the type of feet that lived up to my expectations to what they would look like if they belonged to someone who looked like Dalhous.
At first I thought I was looking a Monet, but she is so much more beautiful up close. Very pretty and truly wonderful.
And those lines you recited from those poets all fit Dalhous like a velvet glove. Those lines truly make me feel that she is very special and so kind.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
She's one of the nicest people you'll ever meet.
A woman in her early-20s, native New Yorker, a delightful person to be around. She stays out of trouble, she is able to be trusted to do what is right and do things that are expected or required - the type of woman that her parents are proud of. The cutest thing about all this, is that not only does she behave like an owl, a complete stranger would be able to tell from her outward appearance that she is the type of person who doesn't put innocent people down.
She was all too generous and she welcomed me with open arms to have photos of her taken. The concept of having photos of her feet taken was unique to her, and she thought that I would make for some good company to make her reading and stay at the Park more pleasant and enjoyable.
She has aspirations of starring on stage in a play one day, and attends a school specially designed to help her getting closer and closer to actually living out her passion in theatre on Broadway or even an off-Broadway play because stage acting is in her blood, it's her passion.
With her kindliness that can win anyone over, it's quite easy to feel a bid sad for her (as I did) when she talked about how hard it has become for her to land roles in plays. It has been a constant struggle for her looking for that kind of work. Audition after audition, only to have little results to come with it. But knowing how she's not a quitter and how she's destined to land a role that can help launch her career in the right direction, she knows and understands that hard word and dedication pays off later and that she will ultimately live a life that was meant for her to live. Just like with many other things, trying to achieve success in Broadway is very competitive because so many others are vying for the same roles. It's going to be a bumpy ride for her, and I'm pulling for her.
Being a New Yorker myself, I thought her shirt looked pretty cute on her. She loves New York and she loves what makes the Big Apple the mecca that it is. The taxi in the middle of the shirt. They are synonymous and widely recognized icons of the city. It made the two of us feel that much closer to this place.
She wins everyone's heart without hurting them. And with all sincerity, she's a very sweet kid.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
A tourist from the south of France was visiting Central Park. Her look and demeanor fit the description of the preconceived stereotype of what a typical runway model is actually like, which was what got my interest in this woman in the first place.
My feeling was that she had a slight desire for revenge against someone, but I was left wondering as to who that was and how that form of punishment was going to be exacted. If that was the case, then it was too bad I had missed out on that encounter, to see the drama unfold before my very eyes as a person who was present at the incident but does not take part.
Anyone who knows her a lot better than I do, would tell me that she's great to be around, she's kind of quiet, and would tell me about her strong determination to succeed in whatever she sets her mind to, even if it means that she has to be too hungry and a bit impatient to achieve her goals. I wouldn't dispute that because throughout our conversation, I was also able to get a sense of those same qualities that could be an inherent part of who she is. If there's a word I can't use to describe her, that'll be lazy.
Her English was somewhat limited, but it wasn't limited enough to understand that I wanted to take photos of her and how I wanted them to look. I knew that because she was cool with it and wanted to go for it.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I like this woman for some reason, and it wouldn't be hard for anyone else to see her as a pretty easy-going woman. In New York City, everything is going at a thousand miles an hour and everyday is a scene out of an action movie. A place like Central Park is truly this woman's path to serenity because that is a word that can sum up this woman's natural self. She is totally devoid from harshness, she's good-natured, and not easily annoyed or angered. Someone who has softened or matured by age or experience.
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She makes her living as a gardener/plant ecologist. Her passion and nurturing care for the infinite species of plants is such that my guess is that she wouldn't mind being reincarnated as a plant, probably that's more rare than anything a typical person is usually familiar with.
I saw her studying some leaves as she was walking along, sometimes peering into them as if her eyes were lenses from a microscope in an effort to discern clearly what its DNA sample showed. She took her time doing that with different leaves and flowers around her. She took her time smelling them, too. She was in no rush to get anywhere and I could tell that in doing what she was doing, she was in the middle of caring for and encouraging the growth or development of her beloved plants in whichever way she knew how. For her, this was kind of like paradise.
Her knowledge of plants and the environment is such that she could write or co-author a book on plant physiology.
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I remember smiling to myself when seeing how she was trying to wrap her mind around the concept that I wanted to take photos of her feet because the whole thing about how one can find beauty in feet must've been alien to her, as if she never heard or knew that such a thing could exist. She decided to join along because it was interesting and uncommon from what people would normally do from time to time. Besides, she acknowledged that her feet really needed a break.
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Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
I like those botanical feet; nice nails!
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
It's great to have you back! Another year of great photos to look forward to. Can't wait to see what more you have in store for us this week.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
hyperion ... Yes. For some reason, I was pleasantly surprised by the tops of her feet. I really enjoyed taking pictures of those. A real down to earth lady, she was an enjoyment to have a light-hearted conversation with. I liked her look, I liked her feet, and I also enjoyed the shoot and her willingness to take the time to relax herself to let me take capture the encounter.
Thank you.
caseman ... Indeed, another year of some of the most fantastic photographs anyone will ever see. I will have more photos to show everyone before this week is over. The folks should truly enjoy the style in which I captured these women, the Women of Central Park.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
We have a woman from Germany.
She saw no harm in having her photos taken as we looked for a spot to have the photoshoot. It was such a beautiful day and we figured that the grass was a pretty peaceful spot to spend out time together. On a day that wasn't so hot, the sun setting on her beautiful skin during the late afternoon hours provided a soothing relaxant for this young woman.
One thing that made this photoshoot a thing to remember was that not too long after the shoot started, a woman and her two young children walked onto the lawn and sat on the grass not too far away from us. Her daughter looked no older than nine and her little brother must have been no older than five. The kids were playing with each other while their mother wasn't paying too much attention to them or to us. I think she was in her own world and she seemed to have been at ease to just set her mind free finally.
After a while, her two kids came over to us just to get a sense of what was going and what the purpose of the shoot was. They were cute kids and curiosity certainly got the best of them, though the boy was more attached to what was going on than his older sister was.
He kept walking up to us and asking questions, talking to us and asking for advice on things that a typical five-year-old would worry about. On what seemed to have been the ninth time he came up to us, he wanted advice on what to do to keep his sister from bothering him so much. The model in the shoot said, "Well, maybe you should be nice to her." The kid then looked at me with a look on his face as if to wonder if she actually believed what she was saying. The look was priceless.
Treating the issue with deliberate inappropriate humor, I told him something along the lines of, "Look at her (meaning the model). Don't pay attention to what she's saying. She's just saying that 'cause she's a girl and they're on the same team. Look, just be yourself, just be a cool kid and she'll leave you alone eventually. People don't bother cool kids."
He high-fived me and went on his way to play with his sister. The model, after seeing and hearing all of this, laughed it off and kind of rolled her eyes at us all at one time as if to say boys will be boys and respected us for our stance on that issue, even if she didn't agree with it wholly.
Gretel spends inordinate amounts of time on obscure or non-mainstream activities, most of which is geared towards fiction or fantasy. She's into comic books and loves to read through books that are thousands of pages deep, perhaps. Science fiction novels.
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Posted by the-moment (Member # 38821) on :
I love Gretel. Love what you did with her and your photos are quite amazing.
I must tip my cap off to you. You certainly have quite the collection here. There's so much information in here and so many photos to look through that I can't help but feel that I've hit the jackpot.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Terrific job on the overhead upper body shots, and I like the camera tilts too. Gretel has nicely curved arches. I am not a breast man, but her are also nicely curved.
Posted by FMUK (Member # 48775) on :
Really Nice work!!!! Keep it up! Posted by JRB (Member # 49438) on :
Photosynthesis....... Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Greta looks very nice. It's pretty neat to have someone capture a nerdy girl in the way that you did it. I love the face shots and how you were able to utilize the back round in these shots. You're an amazing photographer, National. I will certainly remember Greta's photos.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
Central Park is never short of tourists, and here we have a Canadian visitor from Montréal, Québec.
I saw her sit on a bench to remove her socks from her feet and put her shoes back on without them. Apparently, she felt uncomfortable walking with the socks on and decided that going about her day without them would be the way to go. I wasn't going to let her go anywhere, especially after having a pretty decent look at the tops of her feet as I was walking closer to her.
She got up and started to walk in the same direction she was going before she sat on the bench. She was walking a little slower than I was which made it easier for me to catch up to her.
She told me how funny it was that I would want to take photos of her feet right after she had made some adjustments to them just a minute before. I told her that I knew that because I saw her do just that from that bench over there. A little laughter from her as if to say that that makes sense, that that would explain how this whole conversation got started.
She's an engineer for an architecture firm. This woman has scientific knowledge, she is a great mathematician, and she certainly has the ingenuity to address and come up with solutions to technical, societal and social problems.
Being that she's French-Canadian, it came to me as no surprise that she's a huge hockey fan and she attends as many Montréal Canadien games as she can. She has one of best looking feet I've photographed - the toes well done, the soles nicely shaped.
This shoot lasted for about two hours and it was very nice giving her a long foot massage afterwards.
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Posted by the-moment (Member # 38821) on :
This is really fantastic stuff. Celine's feet are the stuff dreams of made of and I would not mind burying my face into her soles. Her toes look inviting and it's awesome that you were able to get her to do this. Words can't describe it, but I really dig your style and your work.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
More great camera work. I like the parting shot, too. Boffo!
Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
I agree with the sentiments shared by everyone here. I love the presentation of these women, I love how you photograph them as well. Something about the way the photos look and the angles you choose to take these photos makes your photos a look that is unique and synonymous to your work. They way you talk about these women and how you show them gives this whole thing a more "genuine, more real" look that many of us truly appreciate and we're thankful for your magnificent artistic expression.
Juliet Arts is very cute and I'm immediately drawn to her innocence and friendly spirits. Her toes look so cute. Actually, hot in fact. They look, and probably, taste as sweet as candy. She has some pretty nice arches from the way her feet look when they're crossed over when looking at her toes. She's probably the most easy going of the bunch that you showed this week.
Oui Fragrance. Judging from the insoles of her shoes, her feet were probably smelly, which is pretty nice for a nice looking woman.
I enjoyed Photosynthesis' set. There's something about her that makes her appealing in her own way, and her feet look exceptionally well. Love her soles and love that she has the presence of mind to keep her toenails looking all cute and nice by painting them.
I'll get to some of the others later.
Great to have you back here. It's truly a pleasure being in here.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Terrific job on the overhead upper body shots, and I like the camera tilts too.
I particularly love those shots as well. It's so much fun experimenting with new types of shots because it allows me to capture new perspectives about the woman that I wasn't obvious to me at the beginning of the shoot. Doing those shots makes me feel I'm taking great care of her as if I'm preserving the core nature the woman she has become and helps the viewer delve into other mysteries about the person that the viewer wishes to know more about. The overhead shots all started with this woman ...
I don't know if besotted is the right word to describe what you felt, but if I recall correctly, there was certainly something about that woman that brought out a strong feeling of wanting to have her or wishing for something to happen that you couldn't put into words that I never sensed from you when I posted any other woman to this point.
Believe me, I can see and understand why anyone else would feel the same way.
JBR ... Glad you liked Photosynthesis. She's a nice lady.
FMUK ... Thank you very much. It's great reading that from you. Keep up with the great work you do.
quote:Originally posted by the-moment: Words can't describe it, but I really dig your style and your work.
Means a lot to me and it tells me that you're quite observant. It takes courage and being proud of who you are to be your best self by presenting a new outlook, by showing something that has been seen millions of times in this forum (female feet) and implementing your own twist on how you see things, how you see the world. It takes *no* courage to be someone else. It takes no guts and no fortitude to pretend to be someone else. It takes no expression, no artistic ability, it takes a lack of being original to yourself and with the audience to copy someone else. I'm most at ease being in my own skin and conducting my photoshoots the way I see fit.
I try to make my style as different from everyone else as possible and that's something I embrace. If I believe in my own style of photography and presentation in this thread, then other people will buy in and truly appreciate it for being great and different all at the same time.
-National
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Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
This truly takes my breath away! You find ways to outdo yourself with the way you take these pictures. I truly admire your work and contributions.
Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
To continue from where I last left off.
Gretel's shoot was done with a great sense of vision. I especially love the shots where it seems like you're an ant looking up through the grass on the lawn to see her feet. Either that or you can think of it from the idea that you're the Incredible Shrinking Man and you are beholden to this majestic viewing that is this woman and her lovely feet, soles all bared out. Wow!
Her face shots are pictures that I can look many times over. Each shot gives you a different feeling, all positive.
With Celine's shoot, I love how you take pictures of her toes. And I really love how you were able to get her lying on the grass AND the sun from the sky all in one shot. It reminded me of the three sample photos you showed back in page 13. I will pull a quote from hyperion that once again sums up what your photos show.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Your vision and perception of the world is really quite interesting.
I can't agree with this more. It's amazing how you're able to see things differently.
Great work.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
We are back for another week as I have several ladies to show everyone. Just like anyone else, you'll like some more than others, but I hope the overall product that I'll show throughout the week will be pretty good for you guys.
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We begin with this woman who probably had the day off from work because these photos were taken early one afternoon and she was in no rush to get anywhere to do anything, just someone taking it easy in a moment that has been afforded to her by free time.
Not too far into the shoot, her gay friend walks in on the shoot and wanted to know how everything lead up to this moment between his friend and myself. She quickly caught him up to speed to explain what he was seeing before his very eyes, and I helped filled in whatever blanks needed to be filled before finally introducing myself to him.
I just let those two talk to each other just to see how good the chemistry is between them. For some reason, I felt like the world was a place without worries and troubles during the moments I listened to those two tittle tattle and telling tales to one another. No harm in having casual conversations that involve details that are not confirmed as being true. It was all in good nature, though. Nothing salacious.
They seem like pretty nice people and it was nice talking to the two of them for a little while.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
We have another German tourist who we're about to meet. She's pleasant and is someone who is able to have a pretty easy conversation with other people, someone who is not difficult to deal with.
She's most likely to not be found in an office somewhere adhering to corporate standards and practices. Instead, with her time is most likely spent in a rain forest somewhere (she resides in Brazil), dealing with the natural elements there. I forgot why she made the move to Brazil.
I ran into that woman later that same day in another part of town (down the block from where I live, actually) with another woman who was about her age. By that time it was raining. That was kind of funny.
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Posted by the-moment (Member # 38821) on :
Great to see you back. I certainly have looked forward to this, and I can't wait for what lies ahead this week.
Molley's feet look absolutely fine. Her soles are perfect, her toes nice and long. Pearls Jule has some pretty good feet herself. Granted they don't look silky smooth at the time you caught her, but the shape of her feet is well formed. Wondered how they smelled like? Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
You take up a hobby. The more you get to know it, the more fascinating it becomes. These women become quite fascinating. In fact, there were times where I felt that they almost belonged to me.
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In a sense, those were my sentiments during the time I spent with the next woman you're going to meet. I like this woman. She truly has a mind that is quite imaginative, a vision that has creativity and inventiveness that shows through her poetry that's expressed in a visual form, producing work that's to be valued for their beauty or emotional power and inspiration.
What's also pretty amazing is having the time to get to know her, as she is very gentle and not easily provoked. Benevolent, but also a strong woman who's resilient enough to withstand adversity, distress, and bad luck. A very prepossessing creature indeed.
I knew immediately that she was someone who I wanted to get closer to and see what she was all about. I liked her sense of style, which was pretty simple, yet something that was very nice to look at and appreciate. The one tattoo on her leg certainly added to her appeal because it must have had a very personal attachment to her, something that helped define the person she has turned out to be, as opposed to another permanent marker that could be interpreted as anything else, something that could've belonged to anyone else instead of a particular person.
I wanted to know who that little girl was tattooed on her leg and how that connects to her. But I wanted to talk to her about other things before I got to that.
I wanted to take photos of her and she was flattered with the compliment and accepted the proposal to be photographed in my own rendition. After a while into the shoot, I told her that she had a pretty impressive tattoo there and that I admired it and wondered if she had any on her feet as well. She said she did. Can I see, she was asked. By going through the photo gallery, you will know what the answer to that question is.
It should be noted that she had a surgical procedure done to her feet. She was born with webbed toes and the surgeon did what was needed to make her them look normal.
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As she was allowed to be herself during the shoot, she felt at home in my company by taking out her sketchbook to add more designs to her artwork that she started earlier in the day.
She's originally from Maine, but she has been living in New York since she was nine or ten. She is a very private person who was able to find her sense of comfort through the type of music, movies and stories that can be described as gloomy, a bit grotesque, mysterious, a bit decaying perhaps, violent even. A bit of romanticism thrown in the middle somewhere and that'll move her into a total state of focus that soothes her mind, body and soul. That was her way to break free from the "confinement and control" of a strict upbringing. She's not the type who looks for- or cause public unrest or some other type of problems. She's just a cool person who likes to keep to herself mostly and not mind into anyone's business. She loves to have fun just like anyone else, and she loves to just take it easy and relax more than some of the other women I've met in Central Park. A unique character, and I certainly had an affection for her.
The tattoo on her leg is a photo of her grandmother when she was a child. Her grandmother practically raised her throughout most of her life. The bond between those two, the love they have for each other runs quite deep and will always be inseparable.
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Posted by the-moment (Member # 38821) on :
National, you are what we call a God on planet Earth.
This was well done. The story really brings these photos and women to life. Dark Lillium is a beautiful name for someone who's beauty lives up to its name. Great story on the tattoo and your way with words puts things in a different perspective than what I normally would have noticed.
Great artist, too, she is.
Lovely woman. Great work, my man! Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Molly is cute. And ja, the Deutchlanders you meet are wery cooperative with the feet, ja. D.L. has great little red shoes. It seems that the more interested you are in a girl, the more varied the poses are you capture; and the more artistic. Great job on the faraway shots of her. Nice hands, too.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Lillium's shoot is amazing. The tattoo looks amazing, and the artist gets all the credit in the world for making it look as realistic without messing up once. Dark Lillium, in turn, is a better artist than I can dream of. Her feet are very cute. Love how she has her toenails painted black.
Posted by JRB (Member # 49438) on :
Thank You National...... I truly appreciate your posts....because of the beauty of the women's feet and the way you capture them on film. But most important is the confident, intelligent, honest communication you have with the women you photograph. That is *exactly* what helps erase the stigma and negative attitude regarding our fetish. Having a foot-fetish makes us unique and is the most common fetish in the world. Bless you for being smart and approaching it the right way. Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Love, LOVE Mollie Polley's feet. And I liked how Mollie rhymes with Polley. She has the type of soles that a man can always fall for and she has such an amazing ability to flex her toes back the way she does.
And I like the part where her friend walks in to the middle of the shoot. He looks like a pretty cool friend to have and it makes me happy to know that she can confide in him. But her soles, man, are just out of this world hot!
Pearls Jule has lovely soles as well. I particularly enjoy the shots where she's on her stomach with her feet closer to your face by bending her knees. You can tell that she's got a pretty nice ass, too.
And Dark Lillium has the type of personality that would be quite interesting to learn more from. I just love how she has her hair black, her sumglasses pitch black, her fingernails black and her toenails black.
Her hairstyle is pretty cool, too. I would not have guessed that she had her hair like that based on the sample photos you showed before you provided the link to her set. Very nice.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
hyperion ... Ja! The Germans have always been very helpful to me, always accommodating. Gretel (from page 18) is another example of German women who were ready to rock from the get-go.
In relation to what you said about our Dark Lillium, your observations are spot on. No matter how much I put into every shoot, there will be shoots that will be better than other, but I do find myself really trying to go out of my way of making the best of the situation when it comes to the women who I find more interesting (Dalhous and Industria [one of your all-time favorites] and prime examples that illustrates that point). Makes my adventures through Central Park all the more fulfilling and complete. Life is good.
caseman ... Thanks for your support. You're always welcome in here.
18th Floor ... Amidst the intricately folded and tortuous patterns that presents Dark Lillium as the woman that she has become, lies an everlasting soul who's so gentle and compassionate, hence the pseudonym I've given her.
JRB ... Your words are well thought out and well spoken, and I give thanks to you for taking the time to make your sentiments known.
Since honesty is the best policy, I give it the ol' college try. That way, I go to sleep knowing that it was the real me that they fell for.
Look, there are many stereotypes that are associated with guys who have a foot fetish, and a good portion of those stereotypes are well deserved. But when I'm out there, I don't have those thoughts running through my mind ever because I'm doing nothing wrong and it's all fun and games when the ladies think about it. And because I'm doing nothing wrong, that positivity is felt through my message when I'm talking to them and they don't get the feeling that anything is strange about the whole thing. They just go along for the ride as if this was something that happens on a regular basis.
I want to thank the women who have taken the time and have have helped made this whole journey for me as fun as I've ever wanted to be, for being generous, for being unbiased and broad-minded about this whole approach and concept. They are wonderful people.
-National
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Great work, as always!
Posted by JRB (Member # 49438) on :
I spent 2 years worth of lunch hours in Central Park back in 2003 to 2005 and it was amazing. I saw *so* many female sole exposures fall by the wayside because I had to walk back to my truck and finish my deliveries after lunch. I had another guy with me when we did our Manhattan Run and he would have questioned the camera.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I'm going to add two more women to the mix.
In our first of two stories, I remember sitting on the bench (the same bench you'll see in the backround in her photoset) because I wanted to take a break from walking around. After a few minutes, there was this woman who walked up to me and started a conversation by asking questions about this and that and other unspecified things that I foresaw had nothing to do with anything I would be interested in. I was waiting for her punchline to whatever story she was trying to set up for me. And I knew it. She wanted to recruit me to join her in her in her Bible study course and how Jesus died for my sins or something like that along those lines.
She was a nice girl, in her early-twenties. I have no interest in religion. When she couldn't believe that I would ever think that my parents were the actual reasons to why I was ever born by forgetting to go to the drugstore one night and started humpin' and pumpin' away, and how God had nothing to do with that, that helped cut the conversation short.
Then she pointed to a woman who was sitting on the grass about sixty feet behind me and said that she bets she believes, and how God has put her there and how he's responsible for why that squirrel climbed up that tree.
I looked behind me to see who she was talking about. And sitting on the grass was the woman who's photos you're about to see. She was not there when I sat on the bench to begin my break from walking around.
I told the woman in front of me how I'm pretty sure that I'm in the minority when it comes to be belief in God's existence, and how I wouldn't be surprised if at least eight percent of the people in the United States believe that there was a bearded man living up in the clouds somewhere, and how he was the biggest factor in deciding who wins the Superbowl. She could tell from the way I said that that I wasn't taking the conversation as serious as she was hoping I would take, and we said our goodbyes.
If anything, I quietly thanked her for pointing the other woman out for me because I was no longer lazy to remain seated on the bench and I walked towards her. When she took note my presence, I asked her where she got those shoes from. She answered kind of, because she couldn't remember where she purchased them. She probably thought I was interested in buying a pair for some woman I know. I told her that her shoes had a unique way of holding and catching the attention. She liked my choice of words and I knew I was in. I started taking photos of her feet right away.
Somewhere in the middle of the shoot, I asked if she believed in God. She does. I immediately thought of the nice lady who spoke to me right before this shoot happened.
I didn't get into a long conversation about that with her; I was only curious to see what her position on it was. I quickly changed the subject into something else.
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She has a very unusual habit. Towards the end of the shoot, she started to eat the grass that lied around her. She likes to pluck the plant from the earth and chews on it for a bit before the whole thing is finally eaten. Just like someone would eat a green-leaf salad, only slower and more deliberate. This went on for more than five minutes and this is something she does all the time. Just look at some of the photos and see for yourself. She told me the benefits from eating grass straight from the soil, and suggested that I eat it alongside with her right at that moment just to kill some time.
Ok, I'll admit - I took one blade (that was underneath the heel of her feet) and I ate it. Never again. Never. She kept chewing away, however.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
The second of two women does not believe in God, but that's neither here nor there.
I saw this lady in the train earlier in the day as we were riding in the same crowded car. I really liked how she looked, but I didn't think too much of it. I did think to myself about how great it would've been to photograph that woman in the park, just imagining how her feet would look if they came out right from her sneakers within the snap of my fingers and have them laid bare and exposed just inches from my face, just for my eyes and appreciation exclusively. Her glasses made me more attracted to her and it made me think how she would sound like when she speaks and what interesting thoughts would run through her mind.
But I had to get off the train at my stop to go into the park. She stayed on the train. I thought I would never see that woman again. The world, as it turned out, was not as huge as I thought it was that day.
A half hour after I walked into the park, after being unsuccessful in my first two attempts that day to get a woman to pose for me, there she was - the same woman who I saw in the train not too long before. Seemed as if she got off at a later stop and then found herself walking south after I had gotten off the train earlier to walk north in the park. Life has a funny way of working sometimes, and I was given a second opportunity to do something with that someone. If I didn't do anything this time, then I would trully never see that woman again.
I stopped her to say that I thought she looked very nice today. We exchanged names and chit chatted for a bit as we started to walk along. I told her she didn't look like she was in a rush to get anywhere and suggested that we should go for a walk a little bit. I also made a comment about the shirt she was wearing and made an interpretation for her about how it can speak for her about her mental and moral qualities that are distinctive to her as an individual, an observation about how she is trustworthy and loves to speak her mind. She loves a good challenge, I also got the sense that she is a stubborn person, so I told her that as well.
That was so unreal for her to hear, that someone who has never met her before can possibly know much more about her than she actually does. She became interested.
She is a lovable person, loves to curl up on a couch with a big old glass of wine, loves to read non-fiction books, and loves to spend her Friday nights in her home by herself doing all of those things while after she orders some takeout food.
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Nice stories! I guess I admired Earth Living's feet the most...but didn't care for those shoes too much! LOL she has an unusual look. Did she say where she's from?
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Those are great stories. I didn't care much for GrassyGirl's shoes either, but great feet in them. I like her arches, nail beds and that line that goes across the knuckle of her big toe (one of my absolute favorite foot features). I like her facial features too, esp. her lips. All captured very well by you.
Do me a favor next time you run into a Bible-thumper; run the experiment where you offer a footrub to see if it runs her off or she's keen to do it.
Great hands and feet on Pantheress too. Nice long toes, great smile and yeah, those glasses... Your shots of her in repose are terrific.
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Posted by the-moment (Member # 38821) on :
These are real nice, and thanks for being THIS generous to all of us. I don't even know where to begin because both women are win-wins as far as I'm concerned.
The Pantheress looks like she's been walking in those things for a pretty long time before the shoot happened, and I'm guessing that her black socks really sped up the process for her feet to be smelly somewhat, and you were probably in heaven if that were the case. Her feet are just........... so beautifully shaped.
So you are grass with Earth girl? How did that taste like? Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Now for our final two ladies of the week.
The first one was a very quick shoot I did of a pretty blonde who was already lying on the grass and barefoot long before I stopped by. As with many women before and after her, she laughed for a sec before giving me the green light to do my thing. She laughed because the request to have have photographs of her feet taken for an impromptu shoot by me is quite harmless and because that same request is so random that they had to say yes.
She is your quintessential Manhattanite through and through. Born and raised here, she knows the ins and outs of New York City. She is one of the millions of faces one would see during the chaos of the morning rush hour in a crowded subway car with a cup of Starbucks coffee on one hand and a copy of the Wall Street Journal or Daily News on the other.
This shoot was right around lunchtime on a Sunday afternoon. Even though she had no work that day, she kept herself busy taking notes in preparation for whats to come in her line of work of interior decorating.
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NATURAL CLASSIC In our last presentation of the week, a woman with a lot of time to kill who didn't mind being the center of my attention. I could not let a woman like her just walk by me and have that moment disappear just as fast as it came in. I wanted to hold onto her for a while and capture the moments I spent with her in the way I wanted to remember her best.
She not a talkative person, but her mind is full of bright ideas as she is one of many students attending a specialized institute for anyone interested in pursuing fashion as a career choice.
As we made our way to the spot where the shoot ultimately took place, there was The Dark Lillium chillin' at the bottom of the rock with a man and another woman. They weren't saying much to each other - they were just enjoying the weather and the moment. You won't see her from where this woman and I sat down for this shoot. This was a pretty long shoot, and I think they were still there by the time we were done. Still chillin' and not saying a whole lot to each other. Just quiet and minding their own business.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
For the last few people who have left a response in here, I'll get to those at another time. Thanks for the support.
Posted by FMUK (Member # 48775) on :
Amazing work!!!! Phenomenal!!! Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Haha now it's you needing time to catch up to me. Nice role reversal there. I like Steph's veined tarsals and little bone spur.
Pale's legs sure are long. Great arches. I like that scissors pose you had her in. As usual, great job with lighting.
What's with Birkenstocks making a comeback? They were ugly 20 years ago.
I'm gonna have to visit that rock when I get to NYC. Kinda like kissing the Blarney Stone.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Two more excellent collections! I especially liked blonde's feet. Her soles looked so pillowy, nice toes, too! Lovely, thanks!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Nice stories! I guess I admired Earth Living's feet the most...but didn't care for those shoes too much! LOL she has an unusual look. Did she say where she's from?
I'm pretty sure she told me where she was from, but I can't remember what her answer to that question was.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Do me a favor next time you run into a Bible-thumper; run the experiment where you offer a footrub to see if it runs her off or she's keen to do it.
That reminds me of someone whose photos I have yet to show ...
quote:Originally posted by the-moment: ... and you were probably in heaven if that were the case. Her feet are just........... so beautifully shaped.
So you are grass with Earth girl? How did that taste like?
Pantheress is a real sweetheart. Anyone would be drawn close to her after hearing her speak for a few minutes because she keeps loves conversations that are intelligent and "have substance", yet she doesn't go too deep into the discussion because she doesn't want the listener to feel like he's in a global history course. She speaks at a slower pace than what one would normally hear from just about anyone else, making the person listening hang on to every word she says.
I love her feet, and I don't remember ever blinking during the entire shoot because I didn't want to miss a thing.
As far as the taste of the grass goes, it tasted like what I would imagine a hand sanitizer would taste like.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Pale's legs sure are long. Great arches. I like that scissors pose you had her in. As usual, great job with lighting.
What's with Birkenstocks making a comeback? They were ugly 20 years ago.
Speaking of long legs, Glowing Pale was one of the very few models who's taller than I am. Not too many of the women I shot could say that. As far as Birkenstocks go, I don't like them myself. I was impressed with how the rest of Glowing Pale looked that I simply never paid much attention to what her footwear was.
quote:Originally posted by JRB: I spent 2 years worth of lunch hours in Central Park back in 2003 to 2005 and it was amazing. I saw *so* many female sole exposures fall by the wayside because I had to walk back to my truck and finish my deliveries after lunch. I had another guy with me when we did our Manhattan Run and he would have questioned the camera.
I know what you mean. There was a time when I would go to the Park right around lunch time only to get a call from a client of mine, cutting my stroll through the park very short, feeling quite disappointed. If there was ever a heaven for sole exposure, Central Park is the place.
You were probably cursing to yourself when it was time for you and your co-worker to leave the park to do some more deliveries.
quote:Originally posted by FMUK: Amazing work!!!! Phenomenal!!!
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Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
You're blessed with a talent to be able to capture these women in unique way that truly makes your work stand out on its own. It's one thing to just simply take photos of people, but to do it the way you do, and the way you then put that all together with such an organized presentation is what makes us truly appreciate of how grateful or lucky someone can be for loving women's feet the way we do. Much admiration and respect to you, National.
Stephanie SolBlond is someone whose profile should stand the test of time in this thread. I really love seeing her pictures, and I love these two in particular:
In the second one, I love how the tree is incorporated into the backround on what must have been a very beautiful day. That picture looks like someone one would see in an ad somewhere promoting a product that has nothing to do with feet and/or it looks like a simple photos that could be found in a place like iStock or Getty Images, meaning photos that was not intended for a foot fetish audience, but men with foot fetishes will look at a picture like that and become fixated on it. That's what I love to see in your photos and this is why your vision, the way you see things is unique.
And you gotta love the arches on Glowing Pale's feet. Her gallery is nothing short of fantastic, it's the type of thing that will keep any man up all night.
There are so many more things I could say here, but I don't have to time to go through the entire list, but you know where I stand in terms of how much I love seeing your photos, National. Fantastic all in all.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Not too long after breakfast on a Saturday morning.
A very cute girl lying on the grass, enjoying the comfortable breeze and enjoying the only sun she was going to get that day because the forecast called for lots of rain right around lunch time.
The way she looks, the sound of her voice as she spoke, her relaxed and rather casual demeanor gives the impression to anyone around her that she is cheerfully unconcerned about her future. Just adorable.
I must have very cute feet - of course you may ..., she first thought to herself at the opportunity of being photographed by yours truly. I know that's what she thought because she told me in the middle of the shoot that that went though her mind. She thought her feet were pretty and was delighted to know that had the same admiration for them.
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Lovely!
Posted by the-moment (Member # 38821) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Lovely!
I agree totally. She's lovely, she's cute, she looks like a cool chick to chill with. Her feet are very cutesy, toes and soles. Love her positive reaction to you when you came up to her.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: I must have very cute feet - of course you may ..., she first thought to herself at the opportunity of being photographed by yours truly. ...She thought her feet were pretty and was delighted to know that had the same admiration for them.
I love it when they do that. Amazing how you set up that contrast between the sky and her foot in #92. Great girl, terrific job.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
We have three women tonight. The first and last ones were very quick shoots. I usually don't have shoots that doesn't last long, but it happens sometimes and it doesn't hurt sharing those photos with everyone here. The average photoshoot for me at Central Park, in terms of how long it lasts, is an hour. I've become so spoiled about it, that it catches me off guard sometimes when a shoot is short lived. Something is better than nothing, and I'm thankful that I was able to capture those moments.
The first woman. I have to tell you, I have *no* recollection of ever meeting that woman whatsoever. I knew there was going to come a time that my memory was going to draw blanks because I have met so many women in Central Park that I wasn't going to be able to keep tabs on something in particular that might be of some significance. Such is the case with the first woman (the first two thumbnails on the samples above).
I don't know who she is, I don't remember if she's a local or a foreigner. I don't even remember where in Central Park those photos were snapped. It's one thing to remember shooting the person but forgetting certain things, but like I said: I don't remember ever meeting this person. Apparently, I did.
The name I've given her is not her real first name. If it is, then it's purely coincidental that I was able to get it right on my first guess. I gave her that particular name because her face reminds me of someone famous who has that first name.
The other short shoot (the third woman, the last two sample photos above) took place on a Monday morning. She is a psychology major. She knows in her heart that she has made the right choice when she chose her major and is very much looking forward to the challenges ahead that will make her earn her near-perfect credentials that she is going to need if she intends on pursuing the many possibilities in careers that psychology can offer. Speech pathology, perhaps. I wish this woman all of the best in her future after she completes her studies and in the rest of her life. She is a very reserved person, always doing things in accordance with the rules of convention or etiquette. She kind of shows timidity in the company of other people, and is reluctant to draw attention to herself. She's un-presumptuous and respectful.
And good for her.
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The second woman (the middle two photos in the sample lineup). She also attends the same learning institution as the third woman, but she's majoring in something different, I forget what that was. She wasn't studying. She was just jotting down formal thoughts instead that had nothing to do with classes. She was killing time at the park before meeting up with friends to go bar hopping or something like that.
The "live" in her name is meant as a way to say that something is done in front of an audience, performed in front of people - not as a way to mean living or being alive.
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Posted by prn999 (Member # 20950) on :
What size does the second woman wear?
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Monty, I'll go with door #3! Posted by FMUK (Member # 48775) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Monty, I'll go with door #3!
Door number 2 for me! Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Sign me up for Door #1, Mystery Girl Penelope! Wowzers!
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
I'll take doors #1, 2 AND 3 !!!
-footboy1
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion:
quote:Originally posted by National: I must have very cute feet - of course you may ..., she first thought to herself at the opportunity of being photographed by yours truly. ...She thought her feet were pretty and was delighted to know that had the same admiration for them.
I love it when they do that. Amazing how you set up that contrast between the sky and her foot in #92. Great girl, terrific job.
The one you're talking about is the one on the right. What you said reminded me of the image you see on the left, from the woman I called Seventh Creed (page 9). But yeah, I really loved how that photo came out.
I also love how they think of their feet as cute when asked if they would love to participate in a shoot. Very cool.
prn999 ... I don't remember the size of any of the three girls I just showed.
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I guess no one likes Wayne Brady. No worries, 'cause I also prefer Monty. It's pretty awesome to see how preferences in women differ from person to person in here.
Before the week is over, I'll show everyone what's behind two more doors.
-National
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
About a half hour after I was done shooting photos of one woman, I was all too happy when I met another woman who didn't mind spending the afternoon with me, a man she's never met before, for an impromptu feet shoot. No time for preparation for her, as she was going to be shot just the way she was.
Going into the shoot, I wasn't expecting to get a whole lot from her or the shoot itself because I was expecting the battery of my camera to die out not too long after the thing started. I figured that I was going to make the most of the situation with the little time the camera was willing to give me. Even though I didn't get as much I would've loved to have gotten from her had the battery been full to begin with, I was amazed that the battery lasted a lot longer than I thought it was going to. It felt more like a regular-length shoot that I was more accustomed to. Had it died when I thought it was going to, the shoot would not have turned out as well as it wound up being.
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This woman was New York as a visitor from Samara, Russia. To her surprise, I told her that I knew where that city was and I described it to her as if I were giving her directions while looking at a map. Female tourists become really impressed if you cite a few facts and other small and particularly interesting items of information; they don't expect many Americans to know more than two or three things about their countries, but when you demonstrate that you're an exception, they like you more.
In any event, her English was well enough to understand what was going on and what I wanted from her, so we got going. She also has a three year-old child that she loves more than anything else.
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Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
I like the looking-up-at-the-sky shots. Great all-around foot structure on her.
I suppose when you work with a model with limited English, you have to pose her with your hands. Fun!
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Great job on the photos of Roksana. Love how her unpainted toenails look and I really enjoy how the shots look from where we're able to look down at her from up above.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
hyperion ... I pose all of my models with my hands. All of them. I'm a hands-on type of guy.
caseman ... Thanks. I really love how those photos came out. Always trying out different things from one shoot to the next makes this pastime of mine all the more enjoyable. Making those type of shots makes me feel very compassionate towards the women, Roksana included.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
To close out the week, I will show another woman from Russia, this one lives in Moscow. She was vacationing in New York, and the day I shot photos of her was her last full day in the city before going back home to resume her normal life and routine. I was fortunate to catch her on that day, considering that she told me that she was in the park a few times before to suntan in the same spot where the shoot took place.
Just like the last model I showed, this woman's English was also limited (but not so limited). But as long as the communication - and the understanding of what to expect from one another during the shoot - is good, then we're essentially speaking the same language.
This woman makes her living as a hair stylist/make up artist. Some of her clients include very powerful/famous Russian people (and in some cases, the same type of people who are not Russian). She owns of a couple of successful hair salons, and is considering teaching the art hair design. When it comes to doing what she does, there's nothing she can't do, nothing she doesn't know about.
I'm sure she's busy making demands when she's hard at work, but with me she was very nice, quiet and very cooperative. She didn't talk much throughout the shoot, but when she did she spoke in a low, steady tone and was very polite with me. She didn't mind my presence because I presented myself to her with "like a gentleman, respectful." Her words. She didn't mind at all the fact that I wanted to take the type of photos I wanted of her, provided that I let her listen to her radio in peace. That's how she always suntans, with her radio on, no interruptions or loud noises.
Okay, sounds fine to me. Sometimes I'll talk with the model throughout the shoot. Other times, we won't say much to one another because she's busy catching up on her studies (women like Sally Akers), catching up on her work (Stephanie SolBlond, Invincible Woman come to mind), and just listening to her radio and just to think (like this one). Whether the woman is talkative or is very quiet during the shoot, I love it either way. I love the peace and quiet during the shoot.
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What's funny was that I didn't know she was Russian until the middle of the shoot. What she was listening to was a talk radio station and the man talking sounded French to me. All that time I assumed that the woman I was shooting was French. The man talking sounded sophisticated, stylish, also charming. I wasn't sure if he spoke in a soft voice on purpose or if she had the radio volume on low, but everything about his tone of voice, down to the accent sounded French. When asked what she was listening to, she said a Russian political radio station. "Russian?!," I asked. Look, I'm saying that speaking Russian cannot be romantic, but speaking French is more synonymous to romance and seduction than Russian is.
She gets her joy and relaxation listening to Russian political talk, and perhaps to whoever she was listening to in particular. So I listened to the radio more closely because I was curious to know what the man was saying, even though I don't speak Russian. A minute or two in, he mentioned Vladimir Putin's name. Even though the name was pronounced in Russian, it was obvious that he was talking about the man himself, and he kept at it with his name a few more times within the two minutes that followed.
I had her translate to me some of the things the man was saying. Basically, he was waxing poetic lingo about the president, and she agreed with his opinions on the man. She loves Putin. Deeply interested in Russian politics, this woman is.
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Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Ya gotta love these Soviet girls and their foot jewelry. She's got a lot of textures and surfaces on her feet that you captured nicely.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Very lovely! There are many beautiful women with outstanding feet in Russia!
Posted by the-moment (Member # 38821) on :
This is some truly fantastic stuff without question. This is one my favorite shoots you've done so far, Helenka, the woman in the bikini. I know it must've been real fun taking all those pictures of her. Just WOW when I see these pictures, especially with her lying on her stomach. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by foot_fashion_industry: Stephanie SolBlond is someone whose profile should stand the test of time in this thread. I really love seeing her pictures, and I love these two in particular:
In the second one, I love how the tree is incorporated into the backround on what must have been a very beautiful day. That picture looks like someone one would see in an ad somewhere promoting a product that has nothing to do with feet and/or it looks like a simple photos that could be found in a place like iStock or Getty Images, meaning photos that was not intended for a foot fetish audience, but men with foot fetishes will look at a picture like that and become fixated on it. That's what I love to see in your photos and this is why your vision, the way you see things is unique.
Thanks for the time you took to leave that comment. Part of what makes doing this so fun for me is trying to come up with ways to make one shoot different from the other. While some aspects of my photo and model-posing style remain constant, there are other aspects that change over the course of time.
It's not about my camera - it's about me, meaning it's about my ability to see. It's about my abilities to see old things in a new way, to put my own perspective on things. It's all about the vision, never about the camera.
I like the analogy you made about how some of my shots look like those found in iStock, or even in depositphotos, for instance. I want the audience to see many of my images as moments that were going to happen regardless of whether or not I was there to capture it. Though the photos are staged, I like to make it look as if it wasn't staged.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Ya gotta love these Soviet girls ...
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: There are many beautiful women with outstanding feet in Russia!
You guys are not kidding! If you thought the last two Russians were outstanding, then wait until you see the Russian I plan on showing next month. There was no way on EARTH that I was going to let that woman pass me by! She was one of those ladies that I HAD to get a hold of. I had to.
You have got to love these Soviet girls.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
She is woman in her very early-twenties, who is only in the beginnings of her journey in life, broadening her perspective towards the potential opportunities and liberties that lie ahead. Audrey enjoys life and her first step towards discovering who she is and who she wants to become is traveling to varies parts of world and embrace the life and lives many different people are living, taking in the impressive beautiful sights that gives those parts of the world the characteristics that makes them majestic for their own reasons.
Audrey is by herself, and Audrey loves to be around other people. Audrey loves to learn new things, and Audrey loves to try new things.
Audrey comes to us from Paris, the heart of France. She was in New York for the very first time in her life. To quote writer and philosopher Elbert Hubbard, "There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else in the globe." Audrey saw that sentiment play out live in front of her during her stay here and she loved it almost in the sense that New York was starting to become her home away from home.
Being by herself for as young as she is in a place like the Big Apple can be daunting because it makes her vulnerable. At the same time, Audrey - who is relatively a physically weak person - is also feisty, courageous and someone determined to live life at her own pace, however she pleases without regrets.
I love how she speaks English. Her accent flows easily and evenly throughout the conversation. French cafe music plays in my head whenever I think of the sound of her voice.
Audrey is a young woman who has the desire to succeed in whatever she sets her mind to. And Audrey loves to enjoy herself, as she is very comfortable with who she is.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
The park's southeast corner was always considered its main entrance. Not wanting the area to feature any grand monument or major atrractions, Olmsted and Vaux preferred a small plot of tree-lined turf for each side of 59th Street. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, the new philosophy of Beaux-Arts urbanism had taken hold in American cities, preferring the Parisian look of broad avenues, sweeping vistas, and plazas featuring grand fountains and gilded monuments.
In 1899, Karl Bitter, an Austrian-born architectural sculptor, proposed a plaza and fountain that was similar to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Twelve years later the journalist and publisher Joseph Pulitzer left $50,000 in his will to build the Bitter-designed symmetrically arranged, horseshoe-shaped plazas on 59th Street. Situated in the southern plaza is the Pulitzer Fountain, which is topped by Pomona, the Roman goddess of abundance, who symbolized the opulence and prosperity of the Gilded Age.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
ANNOUNCEMENT I want to take this time to tell everyone that this week will mark the end of the first half of the 2016 season in this Natural Park thread. After this week, I won't post any more photos of new women until late-September when I kick off the second half of the 2016 season.
So enjoy this week, the July 2016 issue of Natural Park, while it's here. I will be here all week, and this place will be packed with photos in what will be a fantastic lineup of women, of their stories, and of their photos. I haven't been this excited about posting new photos of women since December 2015, although I will have to say that the May 2016 issue was pretty good as well.
The week starts with Audrey, as we just saw. Enjoy her photos, and enjoy the rest of what's to come this week to mark the end of the first half of the season.
-National
Posted by the-moment (Member # 38821) on :
You certainly know how to pick 'em! I like what you've done here with Audrey. Her toenail polish are chipped a bit, but that doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things because the shape of her foot is excellent, her soles are a footman's dream come true, and you have done a masterful job when it comes to capturing her in these photos.
The introduction to Audrey makes me envy you even more because you got to do all of this first hand, you got to know these women, and I still can't believe that all of these ladies let you take pictures of their feet in such a public place.
Already you're off to a great start, and I can only predict that things will only get better from here.
Glad to see you back. This is going to be a very fun week for all of us!
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
Audrey:
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the shape of her feet and soles!
And that pic of her cute pink socks inside her New Balances is AWESOME! Great idea to snap that one!!
-footboy1
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Audrey is hot!
What made her shoot worthwhile is that you separated them into two different parts. You gave us great shots in the first part of the shoot. Then later you give us even more shots of Audrey in what looked to be a very different shoot only because the sun played a big role in that one, whereas the first link to her photos had clouds dominating, it looked like.
It's places like this that makes me so glad I have a foot fetish. Audrey's feet are beautiful, and I can only imagine what it must have been like in PERSON with her feet ALL CLOSE to your FACE and nose. Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by the-moment: ... and I still can't believe that all of these ladies let you take pictures of their feet in such a public place.
I still can't believe it, myself, sometimes. If I had known that it was this easy to make random women take their shoes and socks off for me for photographs, I would've started doing this long before I actually started doing this.
Sometimes I'm reminded of the character Rob Schneider played in the movie Susan's Plan. He plays a contract killer and someone asked him why he keeps doing what he does. His answer was something like, "Once you find out how easy it is to kill someone, you just wanna go out and do it some more!" His facial expression was what made that line as funny as it sounded.
In any event, the same principle can be applied here with my foot hunting adventures. Once I found out how easy it was to get women to do this, I just wanted to go out and do it some more.
To add to something you said in the last part of your sentence. The part about the ladies letting me take photos of them in public. A good number of women would let this stranger photograph their feet in broad daylight, in part, due to the fact that they feel safer precisely because Central Park is a busy place and the act is so public.
footboy1 ... Audrey has the kind of feet I tend to like best in terms of size and the shape of her soles. And I'm so glad that I was able to spend some time with her and got to see her feet up close, as-is, in real-time condition of what they would have looked like even if I hadn't stopped her for photos.
I say this because just when the shoot was about to start, I received a call that I knew was going to be work related. I could've answered the phone. I knew that the call was going to take me out of the park, so I ignored it. I had Audrey, a woman who was pleasing and appealing to the senses; a woman who was willing, available and ready to go right standing right in front of me, waiting for instructions from me -- yeah right I was going to take that call! Besides, the work day was practically over anyway. I was willing to deal with the consequences the following day, but nothing ever came of it. It was as if nothing ever happened.
Had I gotten the call a minute before I first laid my eyes on her, I would've answered it and this shoot would've never taken place, her feet never to have been discovered, never to have been loved by everyone.
caseman ... Yeah, you talked about the weather. There was a threat of rain that afternoon, but nothing happened. And thank Goodness for that!
quote:Originally posted by caseman: Audrey's feet are beautiful, and I can only imagine what it must have been like in PERSON with her feet ALL CLOSE to your FACE and nose.
Icarus ... Thank you.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Girls who are exploring their lives such as she make such wonderful models. Such willing, spirit, laughing and loving the act of life's currents sweeping her along.
Great ankles, and such smooth soles. And wotta face!
Life is too short indeed to take work calls near the end of the day.
It's interesting that the architects chose such an austere entrance. A nice counterpoint to the profligacy of NYC.
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: [QB] [QUOTE] ...I had Audrey, a woman who was pleasing and appealing to the senses; a woman who was willing, available and ready to go right standing right in front of me, waiting for instructions from me -- yeah right I was going to take that call!
You know something, you're absolutely right about that! I was once married to my job and made myself available 24/7, checking my work emails constantly, even when I wasn't in the office. But I have come to my senses and realized recently that no one appreciates it and it's not worth it. So basically what I'm saying is I don't really give a shit as much anymore. And this all-too-short life is that much more enjoyable now!
-footboy1
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Really, really like it!
Audrey is going to be a tough act to follow. But considering that you made her the first model to show everyone this week, and considering that this is going to be the end of the first half of your season before you go on your little break, I can only surmise that there will be other models that will steal the show and make us folks remember them for a long time to come. Can't wait to see what more you have up that sleeve of yours there......
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I was going to meet someone on the corner of 74th Street and Madison avenue, just a block east from the Park. I was on 71st and Central Park West when it was time for me to make my way east to meet up with him. I could've taken the bus across the park, but it would have to go south a bit, then across town east through the 65th Street Transverse (a road that connects the east side to the west side through the park), then go up north to where I needed to be. I wasn't in the mood for that trip and I didn't have the patience to wait for the bus for what could've been a very slow trip in the middle of the madness of the afternoon evening rush hour traffic. Whoever said that getting there was half the fun, has never experienced rush-hour traffic in New York City.
Instead, I decided I would be better for me if I were to walk straight east through the park.
Just when I was about five minutes away from exiting the park, I spotted someone who I thought looked very nice in her very casual attire. She looked like she was in the middle of studying for a test, but she made it look as if she was just reading a novel, so stressless and undisturbed. I sensed that she was the kind of person who wouldn't be disturbed if I had sat next to her and strike up a conversation. She looked easily approachable and a very good person. The kind of woman who does not have an enemy in the world. And that's exactly the kind of person she is as I got to know a bit about her during the shoot.
I thought the pink sweater she had on was very cute and it made her look more comfortable in the environment she was in than had she not worn it. It's probably something she wears often when she's just out and about like going to shop for groceries at a D'Agostino or reading and buying books at a Barnes & Nobles. She probably sleeps in it during the cold winter nights. Just your regular, everyday woman with no illusions and pretensions; practical and sensible.
And don't think for one second that I didn't notice her low-top Converse she sported on her feet. Matches her sweater and her easy-going personality. My blood started to race so fast as soon as I saw the kind of shoes she wore and my blood was back at ease when I got to know the person that makes her especially important or loved by those who know her best.
I looked at the time and thought that the friend I had to meet up with could wait another 25 minutes. I sent him a quick text saying that I was going to run a bit late before making my approach towards her - I just knew that she was going to allow me to spend some time with her.
I liked the looks on her face she made during the shoot; she looked a bit confused and often also somewhat amused all at the same time. She thought it was funny how she went from studying something in a more serious frame of mind to having a complete stranger hold her attention in a pleasant manner by letting me do something enjoyable all in a matter of seconds. I knew she appreciated how I was able to divert her attention away from her studies, even if it was just for a little bit.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Here we a woman who lives in Texas, a woman who is of Mexican decent. I knew I wasn't going to have any problems getting her to do this because of the way her hair looked. There are a number of ways to know if a woman is going to be a willing participant for an impromtu photoshoot, and each woman is different from one another in that regard. In her case, her hair was the first thing that caught my attention.
This shoot turned out to be better than what I thought originally.
It's kind of difficult to know what goes through her mind because even when she speaks, her sentences are short. Her sentences are complete, but they feel incomplete because one gets the sense that there is something more that is left unsaid. I was left guessing what some of those things were as I was shooting photos of her. She's a bit weird that way, but that was what made the conversation interesting in its own way it gets a bit tricky to get to the point of the discussion at hand.
All she wants is peace in the world and everyone having fun. She never said it to me exactly like that during the time we spent together, but judging from the things she did say, judging that she rarely had anything negative to say about anyone, judging from the way she described her upbringing, peace and fun is what she wants at the end of the day.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Have you ever met and spent some time with a woman from Iceland?
Well, I have.
European women are (probably) my favorite type of women, especially those from the Scandinavian region where vikings are immortalized as Gods.
When asked if she was from Reykjavik (the country's capital), she was shocked or like greatly surprised that I would be able to recite something like that at a moment's notice. Although they won't expect you to know everything there is to know about their countries, these women will still be very impressed if you a few things about their culture or lifestyle that the average person is not in the know about. They will even tell you that they're impressed and will take a liking to you even more.
As a fun fact, here's something I want you to put into perspective. There are more visitors to Central Park on a typical Saturday or Sunday then there are people living in her city! Take five boroughs of New York City out of the equation for just one moment. I'm only comparing the population of her city (where the *vast* majority of the entire country's population reside) to the number of people visiting Central Park in a single day alone! Just the Park!
That stat made sense to her, but it was still astounding for her to even comprehend that idea, mostly because I also already knew (roughly) the number of people who live in her wonderful city of her native country.
"Have you ever been to Iceland?," she asked. "No." "You sound like you've been there once or twice before and liked what you saw."
Towards the end of the shoot, and after having a good having discussion on a variety of topics, she tells me, "Whenever you decide to come over and visit Iceland, let me know. Perhaps you can stay with me." She said and acted in a seemingly jokey manner when she said it, but I could tell there was some serious intent behind her words at the same time.
Even though Icelandic is the official language there, English is widely spoken and understood. Her English is perfect, and she is also fluent in Swedish.
She listens to alternative and independent rock bands, music with medieval/celtic thems, and something that's a little more Gothic or otherwise heavy. She also loves electronic music. Let's not forget Bjork. She loves the nightlife by going to nightclubs and bar hopping. (this is the part where i talk about her personality more)...
I love the milky white that is makes the color of her skin, practically pale. I was immediately attracted to her. I was immediately attracted to her passionate, sensual personality. She is someone who is always open and unbiased to new ideas. This woman understands and is okay with herself knowing that her world views are not the absolute worlds views, and is and even-tempered person who doesn't mind getting into trouble every once in a while. "Fun can found not too far from where trouble is sometimes," she told me.
At the end, I asked what she was doing later that night. It didn't sound like she had much of a plan. A girl like her with no plans on a Saturday night (the shoot took place on a Saturday)? Luckily for her, I had the solution to her problem. We made plans to go out with each other that night.
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Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Your Icelandic friend must have channeled all that geothermal energy into a personal hotness. Whoa momma. The crossed-ankle toes-up pose is a new variant, yeah? And that sculpted face and glowing hair... One is serene, the other is on fire.
Roana: what is that pattern in the middle of her shirt? It kinda looks like a post-production blur effect. Did you do that? Talk about a long-waisted girl. Most girls have kissable tummies but hers is especially so.
Shycolor: cute as a bug and great toes. Love those expressions, yeah. An apt nickname.
Rockin'!
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
And the hits keep on coming!
So many to choose from, I don't know which one of the last three girls I like best. I mean, it's like you're doing all of this in your sleep, National, how you can basically get just about any girl you want and get her to whip her ripe feet away from her shoes. This is the coolest thing ever.
I think it's safe to say that you own Central Park. Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
National, I may have to start calling you sensi...
Great work, all around. I swear I can never leave Wu's as long as your contributions keep coming. Heidi does seem the most sensual on these last three. If I were you I would start planning my trip to Iceland! Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Like Icarus, I like the last one of the last three you showed (the Icelandic queen). Of the five preview pictures there, the sole shot when she's on her stomach (preview pic #4), was the one that really sold me on viewing the gallery. And I was floored when I saw that it was more amazing than I thought it was going to be. Photos like hers is what makes me hooked to this thread. She's looks like the most fun and the most outgoing of those three.
Although not to discredit the other two, I appreciate their time as well, and Shy Color has the most well-cared for feet of the three, I think. She is on top of her foot game when it comes to presentation and I love her choice to toenail polish. Heidi, though, won my heart with her bigger feet and the kind of vibe she gives out.
And you had more fun with her outside of the park. Great day. Pictures of hot girl and her feet, then you meet up again in the night time.
This is so cool.
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: We made plans to go out with each other that night.
And we did.
...and.... and ???
Come on man, there has to be more to that story! Don't leave us hanging!
-footboy1
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
footboy1 ...
As much as I love to give details in the stories of a woman I met in the park by recounting what happened during the shoot, I don't feel right in breaking or violating a trust or a special bond I had with someone I met in the park by giving a blow by blow account of what happened between myself and said woman when we were away from the park. Well, I might do that with someone who I consider to be a close friend or confidant (and even then I'm still going to hold back on a few details), but there's a difference between doing that and giving away all the gory details in front of the whole world.
There's only so much I can say, but what I will tell you is that Heidi and I had a really great time when we went out, just like any other couple would when they are really enjoying the chemistry of each other's company. We saw each other a few more times before she left to go back home to Iceland.
Fantastic and fun woman, and I'm delighted/thankful for the times we shared in getting to know each other some more.
I'm flattered by your prying into such a matter, though. I can understand it (because I did make mention of the fact that we went out in the first place), and I'm not holding it against you at all.
The only way I might make an exception to the rule is if I told a juicy story **WITHOUT** pointing fingers, without naming any names or attaching a woman's photo to that story.
-National
[ July 28, 2016, 12:38 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: The crossed-ankle toes-up pose is a new variant, yeah?
Are you referring to this pose?
If so, then the answer is yes. There are many new ways to pose feet, giving us more reason to find feet as attractive as we do. Every once in a while I will have someone do a new pose that I hadn't seen anywhere else to make people marvel in art body posing even more so.
And yes, her hair is that color to signify the burning passion and desire that smolders within. The passion and reminder to stay strong to herself, especially in times when she's feeling down or a bit vulnerable; the desire to live life with the fun that it's meant have.
For Roana: It's interesting how you see things sometimes, and I always greatly enjoy your posts here. Her shirt was already like that. None of my photos have ever been retouched.
Icarus ... Yeah, I don't need any brochures or pamphlets telling me how great Iceland is; Heidi sold me on that idea better than anything else. I must go there.
18th floor & caseman ... Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
In the midst of all the great showings in the way of these women that I've presented so far this week, I would like to throw in a different set of photos that I've taken. It's very short, very sweet.
A woman was sunbathing on what was a very hot day. She trusted that I would take photos of her without doing or saying anything that would make her feel uncomfortable.
This was very quick. I knew I wasn't going to get much out of this because she wasn't going to move from the position she was resting on and because her face was not going to be shown.
The way you see her was exactly how I found her. This will be the first and only time in where I will show a set of photos without the woman's face appearing in the set. Considering the several photos I took, I was willing to make this unprecedented exception here.
All I can say is that she's a white lady and native New Yorker. I wanted to take photos of her, though I never told her that I wanted to take pictures of her feet specifically. In the grand scheme of things, that doesn't really matter because her face is not shown (although you can see the back of her head), the name I've given her is not her real name (I've given her that name to be simple and because it's a name used that could be used to describe any woman), and I'm not providing any information about what she does for a living or if she's studying for anything in particular in her academics. This is a mystery woman.
She smiled at me and gave me the green light to use the camera on her. She didn't care what I did with the photos just as long as her face is not in them.
[ November 24, 2019, 07:30 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Yes, that was the pose. I liked that, which is funny because I dislike very much sole shots with the toes bent back. Nice going.
I figured you never retouch anything but that shape just looked weird. Glad I can keep you amused with my view of the world. At some point we will have to go for a drink and the I can really keep you laughing.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Jane: Posted by the-moment (Member # 38821) on :
quote:Originally posted by caseman: Jane:
You're not the only one drooling, bro!
I don't know how National was able to keep it in his pants. We all know bikini shots are sexy as fuck, but the closeup in the second shot there was GOLDEN
Sexy soles and sexy ASS!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: I figured you never retouch anything but that shape just looked weird. Glad I can keep you amused with my view of the world. At some point we will have to go for a drink and the I can really keep you laughing.
Perhaps that space there in the middle of her shirt was there for design to get men to think that they can have a decent look at her cleavage, only to not have that privilege upon closer inspection. A tease bait, if you will.
We should kill a few drinks sometime in the future.
Speaking of which, as a message to everyone else, I'm not done showing photos for the week. I suggest you pour some of that Jack Daniels, Captain Morgan, that Jim Beam bourbon whiskey, or whatever your choice of hard liquor is into that glass you've got there and just really chill and enjoy yourself. I have some more women to show everyone by this time tomorrow.
A good drink always goes well with well-written stories and photos of engaging, photogenic women.
-National
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: footboy1 ...
As much as I love to give details in the stories of a woman I met in the park by recounting what happened during the shoot, I don't feel right in breaking or violating a trust or a special bond I had with someone I met in the park by giving a blow by blow account of what happened between myself and said woman when we were away from the park. Well, I might do that with someone who I consider to be a close friend or confidant (and even then I'm still going to hold back on a few details), but there's a difference between doing that and giving away all the gory details in front of the whole world.
There's only so much I can say, but what I will tell you is that Heidi and I had a really great time when we went out, just like any other couple would when they are really enjoying the chemistry of each other's company. We saw each other a few more times before she left to go back home to Iceland.
Fantastic and fun woman, and I'm delighted/thankful for the times we shared in getting to know each other some more.
I'm flattered by your prying into such a matter, though. I can understand it (because I did make mention of the fact that we went out in the first place), and I'm not holding it against you at all.
The only way I might make an exception to the rule is if I told a juicy story **WITHOUT** pointing fingers, without naming any names or attaching a woman's photo to that story.
-National
It's all good bro!
-footboy1
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Friday afternoon. It's around that time when most people are leaving work to get their weekend started. I was getting my weekend started as well, and a great shoot at Central Park was what I was looking forward to.
I couldn't wait to enter the park to start my search for someone cool enough to show me her feet. As it turned out, I really couldn't wait to get into the park because I saw someone on the street who had that naturally sweet and that genuine complexion to herself by way of her looks and character that I always admired in a woman. Quite virtuous, she is.
The healthy bloom in her cheeks gave her an aura of innocence.
I was walking by the Metropolitan Museum of Art on my to the Park when I saw her walking down the steps from the main entrance and exit of that building and onto the streets. She took her time down the steps, and as she did so she would look around and take in the view around her. She sat on the steps and drank from her bottled water. Perhaps she wanted to take a break from walking all over the museum?
There she sat, in the sea of people around her who were either sitting on the steps as well or walking up and down it to get around her. Talk to her. Cheer her up, I thought to myself. She looked like a nice girl, someone who is very simple to talk to, someone who looked as if she could use some company. She's the quintessential girl next door.
I took a few steps up. She takes notice of my presence as I get closer to her and she smiles at me. She was only being nice with her smile and there was nothing much to it other than to be polite. She probably did not think that I was going to stop and talk to her, but I did. I just walked up to her and didn't hesitate to start a conversation with her.
"Hi. It's kind of random, but I was just walking by, I saw you, thought you were cute, and I just wanted to come over to say hi." A little shy, then a little laugh to herself before saying, "Hi." "What's your name?" "Rosie. That was the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me today, thank you."
That ever-familiar, unmistakable English accent of hers was agreeably stimulating to hear, the lady Londoner. It's always a marvel how that accent can make Americans pay closer attention to what is being said, and I was certainly catching onto her words that were spoken.
Although she was right next to me, she spoke as if she was whispering into the light winds or if , in her normal voice, her words got trapped into the winds before it disappeared into the air. Whatever it was, it made me feel good inside that this cutie was being very receptive to me, and I could tell that it made her feel good inside when she was being nothing but genuine to me when she said what she said. It just felt right and it felt nice between us.
We struck up a conversation, made each other smile throughout to lighten the mood on what was otherwise a busy day for the two of us. For us, it felt as if we were on an impromptu date, and we connected.
Not wanting to stay in front of the museum for too long, I invited her to go for a walk with me through Central Park where everything would be much more calm and peaceful. She liked the idea and said sure. I stood my in front of her and had her hold my hands so that I could assist her in getting her off the steps so that she could stand up, facing each other. And she held onto my hand as we walked into the park.
Her sweater represents the learning institution she attends as a student, where she strives to earn a Bachelors Degree in English. It's one of the more prestigious universities on land, and within the courses she's involved with, she has opportunity to discover the earliest works in English, deepen her knowledge of Shakespeare, and find out what else is great about Renaissance literature.
She is a class act through and through, and her parents cannot be more proud of her.
I really enjoyed that shoot because it was so restful. And I really enjoy spending the time with a woman who has such a kind and sympathetic nature to her.
[ November 28, 2019, 07:20 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
In the same way that Hudson River School artists depicted a distant mountain peak in the backround of their paintings, Olmsted and Vaux selected Vista Rock as their main feature attraction for visitors to the lower Park.
The site of Vista Rock - so named by the Park's original engineer, Egbert Viele - features the most commanding views in that area of the Park, and the Belvedere, Italian for "Beautiful View," reinforces the site's most significant functions.
Just as designers of eighteenth-century private European parks created follies or "eye catchers," so, too, did architect Calvert Vaux create his own folly, a miniature Norman Gothic castle, to enchant visitors to Central Park.
Belvedere Castle was designed without doors and windows, as it was originally only meant to be a viewing platform. In 1919, however, the castle became the offices and instrument station for the U.S. Weather Services. Today weather readings are still taken from instruments at the top of the castle and sent by computer to Brookhaven, Long Island. When you hear on a radio or television the words, "the weather in Central Park is ..." you'll know that the weather report - often a bit of a folly itself - is being sent to you from New York City's most famous folly - Belvedere Castle.
**Speaking of which, that castle will appear in the backround of some of pictures in the very next gallery below this post. Be on the lookout for it!**
[ November 28, 2019, 07:23 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC CJ Bella owns a T-shirt with enough holes to pattern a slice of Swiss cheese. She took that shirt with her when she was visiting her mother's house on a vacation trip. The two were heading out when the mother said, "Sorry, can you please change that?" But overall, she doesn't have to tone it down.
Such is the life of a woman who belongs in two worlds. She grew up riding horses, the daughter of a man who shoots guns and rides a Harley. Today, she lives in Manhattan - where she specializes in brand imaging and public relations development for the fashion, beauty and lifestyle industries. Both places are home; CJ is a product of the two of them.
She has polarities. She listens to alternative metal and gravitate to dark things at times, but she grew up in the middle of nowhere, going to Walmart. In her own words, she's weird but also completely normal.
For this woman, who is half Spaniard-half Mexican, reconciling these disparities is her coming-of-age. She says that living in New York City is like being in a abusive relationship. She gets burned out. It's important for her to go back to Arizona, where her heart is, and hear no sirens and see the sky. "You never see the sky in New York. But then I'm like, Fuck, I want to be back there. It's an addiction." Therein lies her quarter-life calling. Like many people her age, she's still figuring herself out - and she's okay with that. She likes being human. She thinks that nobody knows what they're doing, and that's totally fine for her.
WHY SHE KEEPS UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS She's a big fan of the Kardashians. She has two personalities. She can be weird and dark, but she thinks the Kardashians appeal to the basic side of her personality. She also tries to intellectualize the show in an anthropological way. She rationalizes this by saying that they're human and no less valuable than anyone else.
THE ART GALLERY She loves the Austrian painter Egon Schiele. Sometimes she'll go to a museum and not feel much, but one when she saw a Schiele show at New York City's Neue Galerie, she wanted to spend the entire day there. That tells you how much his work resonates with her. It was weirdly uncomfortable for her to look at, yet delicate and artistic.
A TRAIT THAT SHE FINDS UNATTRACTIVE Any man who's overly polite bores her.
[ November 28, 2019, 07:32 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Rosie: What a lovely little one. I love watching a girl take her shoes off. Cute little anklet, too.
A few times, I've held the hand of a girl I've met in a "foot" context. Sometimes it just simply feels casual and natural; other times they cling, either a little or a lot, as if I was some island in the eye of a storm. Sounds like she's a bit of the latter.
CJ: I like the seated pose you put her in, with her legs visible and too the side. She has a something of a royal look about her.
My friend, I think what's outside your experience is the call of Desert Homeland. Sometimes I want to just stop at a red light and get out of the car and run.
Posted by FMUK (Member # 48775) on :
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Nice! Thanks, National. I was wondering how you recall all the intricate details, as you do? Do you take notes?
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
CJ Bella. WOW!!!
What a HOTTIES and I love her choice of toenail nail polish. Outstanding stuff!
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
I said a few days ago that Audrey is going to be a tough act to follow. You did a great job with these last two women, National. Your collaboration with Rosie Holloway and CJ Bella epitomizes why you are as gifted as you are.
I will be spending my time splitting hairs here trying to decide which one of those two I like better, but even if I ever decide which woman or whose feet I like better, the other one will always be right beside her.
By the way, I followed your advice and drank some Jack I had with me sometime before coming in here to see what was going on. What a way to escape reality and into your comfort zone in a much better reality that National is actually living.
You the man, son! Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC On this particular Saturday afternoon, I went into the park knowing that I was not going to stay in there for a long time because there were places I had to go and other things to do with a group of friends. So I'm in the park operating on a limited window of opportunity to find someone spectacular to photograph.
I had a hard time looking for- or finding someone to spend some time with and I was starting to think that the visit to the park was going to wind up being a waste of time and I was starting to feel as if I was becoming dispirited or less hopeful that a magical connection and immediate spark was going to happen with a woman that day.
I told myself that if nothing happens by such and such time, that I was going to leave the park to have fun with these other people that I had promised to meet up with. As that time was just about to arrive, lo and behold - who comes walking up the hill? A solid 9 or 10. A Slavic Beauty born and raised in Russia. The message on her shirt tells you which part of Russia she's from. A desirable, striking Russian ... who is also *nineteen* years old. Guys, if you ever thought about doing this, you have got to approach when you see somebody like her. You don't want to let girls like that go because they are hard to come by.
Nineteen years old. That meant that by the time I started my freshman year in college, that was around the same time this woman was starting to learn her ABCs! How refreshing is that?
She had just moved to Manhattan from Russia and currently lives in TriBeCa. Tribeca is one of Manhattan's most fashionable, desirable, and most expensive neighborhoods, well-known for its celebrity residents. And it's probably the safest neighborhood in New York City. She lives with both of her parents and wants to study to become a preschool teacher. I mean, talk about your ABCs ...
We were walking towards each other when I first saw her and there was no way I wasn't going to do anything about it. Just when I was about to open my mouth to say something, it was she who started the conversation. She was lost and wanted to know where she could find a certain in the park. I forgot what she was looking for exactly, but that's not important to the story here. I said, "It's funny you should say that because I was just thinking of heading in that direction," I lied.
Just realizing that this was a small world after all, she gasped, "Really?! Then maybe you can help me." "I know exactly how you feel. We've been brought here to this spot at the same time for a reason, and I don't know what that reason is, but I would love to find out. Since we're going in the same direction, let's take a walk together. You're not in a rush to get there, right?"
With the Russian accent, "I was maybe, but not too much anymore." In other words, now that she's met me, she was willing to bend some rules just to spend some time with me. Her body language gave that same message away as if to say Ok, now it's your turn again to make a move.
"Excellent, let's walk together and see what's there." "Ok, sure. You smell so good. Why?"
Why?, I thought to myself. I didn't know what kind of question that was, but considering the way she asked it, it made her sound like an inquisitive little child who was starting to learn things and it was all too cute at the same time, so I let it slide.
"Because life is beautiful. But, of course, you already know that." That was probably the best answer she ever heard in her life, probably because it sounded philosophical, and we continued to walk.
Her Russian accent is strong, the tone of voice sounds young and new, and she know enough English to be able to get by while she's living in America. Give her another year or two before her English becomes excellent.
THE REASON BEHIND HER NAME Her hero/idol besides her father is Vladimir Putin. She likes very powerful men who use their authority to become even more powerful to the point where he becomes the judge, jury and executioner. She's always had a thing for men like that, men in power who can corrupt perhaps. She has a fascination for men who served as kings or dictators of Russia's past who rules with an iron fist. I think that's pretty hot and awesome of her to feel that way.
The name I've given to her is also the same title that is given to the daughter of a czar. She likes to think of herself as the daughter of a czar.
----
She has never modeled for anything before in her life, so when the idea came up that I wanted to take pictures of her feet, she listened with an open mind and took me up on the concept. It didn't take long to convince her to let her have her photos taken because I made it sound like there was nothing to it. And there isn't. She did tell me, though, that had another strange man (her way of saying stranger) wanted to take pictures of her feet, she would've felt weird about it and not let him do it.
She was all good for letting this shoot happen, but also this was all new for her because she never thought that her first "modelling" opportunity would be shoot that was focused on her feet. She didn't know how she felt about her own feet and was a bit nervous that I wouldn't like them upon seeing them bare without any prior preparation to make them look as good as she could had she known in advance that this was going to happen. I assured her that there was nothing to it and that she would be just fine.
Just when I thought I wasn't going to find anyone to shoot photos of, just when I had started to consider leaving the park to meet with my social circle, it was well worth the wait because I thought her feet were fantastic. I knew I had struck gold with her, and when she sensed that I was becoming more into her, she relaxed, became more like herself, and really became more agreeable with me. She felt safe and felt like there was somebody in New York who likes her, that somebody being they guy who she had that chance encounter with a stranger at Central Park.
[ November 28, 2019, 07:42 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
That's it, people. That was my final set of photos to wrap up the end of the first half of the 2016 season in this Natural Park thread.
Before I finally head out, I will respond to the comments you guys have posted sometime within the next 24 hours.
Thanks to all.
-National
Posted by rush440 (Member # 31001) on :
Thanks again for all the pictures and the stories behind them! Looking forward to the next installment sometime in the future.
It seems like the girls are all pretty comfortable with you taking pictures of them and their feet, which is awesome. Your approach must be second-to-none.
Oh - I responded to your thread over in TheMousePad too... I understand if you don't want to share the details of your date with that Icelandic girl I bet she had some very talented toes!
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
Very limited on time here, but I will say that these three latest additions to the gallery are absolute stunners, all of them!
An observation--- I have noticed in your recent posts an increase of hand shots, and other "neutral" innocent poses as well, not involving feet. I assume this is done in part to ease the subject into eventually taking her shoes off and posing her soles?
Great work as usual, man.
-footboy1
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by footboy1:
You know something, you're absolutely right about that! I was once married to my job and made myself available 24/7, checking my work emails constantly, even when I wasn't in the office. But I have come to my senses and realized recently that no one appreciates it and it's not worth it. So basically what I'm saying is I don't really give a shit as much anymore. And this all-too-short life is that much more enjoyable now!
-footboy1
Amen.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Life is too short indeed to take work calls near the end of the day.
That's right. A person can only do it so many times before he's had enough and decides to ignore these work related calls at the eleventh hour on purpose. If I had taken that call there would've been no Audrey to speak of. The shoot with Audrey was worth having the shots taken, and it proved to have been well worth it because she was well received and very appreciated.
Keeping the topic on Audrey, you also said this about her:
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: Girls who are exploring their lives such as she make such wonderful models. Such willing, spirit, laughing and loving the act of life's currents sweeping her along.
Women like that Audrey live by the seat of her pants, willing to go along with what makes her feel good at the spur of the moment and what ever happens, happens.
In reference to the Grand Army Plaza entrance:
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: It's interesting that the architects chose such an austere entrance. A nice counterpoint to the profligacy of NYC.
That pretty much sums up the contrast between the city of New York, where pretty much everywhere you go it's a scene out of an action movie, you have Central Park where you're in a very different environment, much more serene where it's easy to forget that you're actually in the middle of New York.
I'm pretty sure that the designers didn't ever envision that NYC would become the futuristic epicenter it has become when they first designed the layouts of the park back in the 1800s.
But with the buildings that surround the park and the skyscrapers that can be seen at distances beyond the park, the stark differences is remarkable, turning it into the go-to spot for many locals and tourists.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: A few times, I've held the hand of a girl I've met in a "foot" context. Sometimes it just simply feels casual and natural; other times they cling, either a little or a lot, as if I was some island in the eye of a storm. Sounds like she's a bit of the latter.
Sounds a lot like a little of both, if you ask me. It was all real and natural, genuine, authentic. I also got the sense that Rosie was going to get lost on her own had she let go of my hands, being that I was her only source of guidance to anything and everything that is New York, and also because what's not to like about holding hands with someone you just met that you find attractive, someone someone who seems like a great person where there's connection to be had on a certain level? Take the first steps to see if it leads to a moment in time that's more fun and exciting.
quote:Originally posted by hyperion: CJ: I like the seated pose you put her in, with her legs visible and too the side.
Not sure which pose you're talking about, but thanks.
quote:She has a something of a royal look about her.
I know. It's a futuristic old-schooler look of a woman who bares the resemblance of someone who held the position of power in the Aztecs or Egypt around the time of 1400 B.C. It's all in the face, the eyes, the clean exotic-olive complexion, and the simple, yet decorative, jewelry adorning her neck.
FMUK ... I'd figure that if there was ever a time that you would drop by (whether it be by coincidence or design), it would be when Rosie's pictures were posted. A woman who is closer to your home is just as good as home cooking.
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: I said a few days ago that Audrey is going to be a tough act to follow. You did a great job with these last two women, National. Your collaboration with Rosie Holloway and CJ Bella epitomizes why you are as gifted as you are.
Thank you for the accurate observation. Anyone can take a picture. It takes vision to develop a style that is uniquely and distinctly your own.
[ November 30, 2019, 07:04 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by rush440: Thanks again for all the pictures and the stories behind them! Looking forward to the next installment sometime in the future.
It seems like the girls are all pretty comfortable with you taking pictures of them and their feet, which is awesome. Your approach must be second-to-none.
They feel pretty comfortable because all that's happening is that photos of their feet are being taken, which is really not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. They're comfortable because the instructions I give them are all too simple, I take my time during the shoot, and I have normal conversations with them because they're human, too. The conversations are so easy to have with these beautiful women that it's very easy to go from one topic to another. After a while, they sort of forget that their feet are being photographed even though it's happening right in front of them because by that time they have been "conditioned" into accepting the idea that this whole thing is completely normal, even though complete strangers asking women to take photos of their bare feet is an extremely uncommon request when they're out there in public just going about their daily lives.
I might touch on this a little more, but I'll leave it here for now.
quote:Originally posted by footboy1: It's all good bro!
-footboy1
quote:Originally posted by rush440: Oh - I responded to your thread over in TheMousePad too... I understand if you don't want to share the details of your date with that Icelandic girl I bet she had some very talented toes!
Thanks for understanding, you guys.
[ July 31, 2016, 06:44 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by footboy1: An observation--- I have noticed in your recent posts an increase of hand shots, and other "neutral" innocent poses as well, not involving feet. I assume this is done in part to ease the subject into eventually taking her shoes off and posing her soles?
-footboy1
I don't think that's why I take pictures of their hands, although that's a good guess on your part. In the overwhelming percentage of shoots I've done (including the ones I have yet to show), I don't include hands either because I'm distracted with other things that are going on in the shoot or because I simply forget to include them in the array of photos. In many of the shoots, the hands are not included in the shoot at all. The ladies feel comfortable with me with or without the hand shots.
The real reason why I take photos of their hands is to highlight that there's more to the woman than just her feet. I want to do something different and show something different. In this thread, the stories tends to focus more on their personalities than their feet, and that's by design. I leave it up the members here to talk about her feet. I goal here is to have neutral shots (meaning shots that look more artful, less pornographic) and stories that sound neutral that just so happens to have the feet element involved somehow.
I like to explore different things about the women. The more they let you explore, the more grateful everything feels.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Nice! Thanks, National. I was wondering how you recall all the intricate details, as you do? Do you take notes?
One of the best questions I've ever received here.
There are two reasons why I would take notes. One, is if she recommends some type of music that she wants me to listen to and that I might find interesting. Either I do it during the shoot or right after the shoot is over. Two, to record her foot size (in that case, I don't take note of that until after I get home). And that's it. Other than that, I don't take notes of anything at all.
I love observing how different one woman is from the next, and loving the fact that different types or different kinds of women would allow me to take photos of them from out of the blue. Each subject has something different to offer to the table and I love the dynamics that make up their personalities, regardless if she's outgoing or very introverted. I just pay attention to what's going on.
I don't think anyone remember this, but back in my old thread, I talked about how I invited a friend with me to Bryant Park to see me in action in person. But if he comes across this post, he'll tell you that at no time did I ever carry a notepad with me to notes.
I make them feel at ease and these women just open up to me and their stories just stays with me. And that feels so good.
-National
Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
This past week was probably the best showing of pictures that we've seen in a while. That week was packed with great women from start to finish. That "Jane" set, although short, could've been mentioned about more in these pages because it seems like National knows how to do bikini shots better than anyone that I can think of. It was sexy seeing the sweat on her back and ass as she laid there sunbathing. I wish that National had found a way to stay there longer. That would've been one of the more talked about shoots in here, but something is better than nothing, I suppose.
Tsarevna is Queen. It's a shame, but also very sexy that someone as hot and as young as she is would admire people who abuse their power. Reading that part of her description, I can't help but think that Tsarevna is also a Trump supporter, and that she would like him even more if he became judge, jury, and executioner. She already loves Putin, so for her this is a tag team match made in heaven.
Politics aside, she is clearly one of the hottest women I've ever seen in this ENTIRE forum and her feet do not disappoint in the very least, as they live up to the rest of her hot body. The second part of the shoot was also one of the more memorable ones for me because of the closeups of her face with that tall building in the backround on that sunny day. Those particular shots are so well taken that I will remember those for a long time to come.
Any man twice her age would be thrilled to have the kind of interaction that you had with her. You're such a smooth operator with these ladies that I don't have the time to touch on them all in this message.
But Tsarevna? Man, her feet are HOT and you made them look priceless. Women like her giving you the time of day to let you do all of this to them? You must have the looks and charm to get her to follow your lead.
I will never forget this Russian.
Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
Tsarvena: Geez, man. Foot_Fashion said all there needs to be said. However, I do admire that you took shots of her reflective eyewear without your own reflection being revealed except your hands. Probably happenstance but still, that sorta captures your ethos.
The legs-to-the-side pose I was referring to is this one:
Enjoy your break my man. Catch you post-equinox.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
quote:Originally posted by National:
I love observing how different one woman is from the next, and loving the fact that different types or different kinds of women would allow me to take photos of them from out of the blue. Each subject has something different to offer to the table and I love the dynamics that make up their personalities, regardless if she's outgoing or very introverted. I just pay attention to what's going on. ... I make them feel at ease and these women just open up to me and their stories just stays with me. And that feels so good.
-National [/QB]
Well said, sir!
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
quote:Originally posted by National:
quote:She has a something of a royal look about her.
I know. It's a futuristic old-schooler look of a woman who bares the resemblance of someone who held the position of power in the Aztecs or Egypt around the time of 1400 B.C. It's all in the face, the eyes, the clean exotic-olive complexion, and the simple, yet decorative, jewelry adorning her neck.
Yes, there is something about CJ that is unlike any of the other women we've seen here in that she exudes the type of sexiness that can hypnotize you with her eyes, especially with the way she looked into the camera in some of those shots. Perhaps it is royalty.
It's also funny was that royalty line was brought up, especially when you consider that a CASTLE was in the backround of some of her pictures. It's funny how that all came together, the royal comment, and the fact that a castle was also in the picture, even though I suspect that Hyperion had never given the castle a second thought as he was thinking that. Not that that's a bad thing, it's just that it's funny how all of this just happen to happen.
This is the first time that something this strange has happened in this thread.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
I must say something about Russia's finest - Tsarevna. Taking into account how hot she is, I would happily lose my dick in the molten lava inside her vagina if that meant getting to have sex with her for five seconds!
Love the shots with that tall building in the back. Love how she looked as she looked into the sky with the building in the behind her. Classic shots, my friend. Her feet are the stuff of dreams, her soles are perfect, her toes are beautiful. She is so hot.
Even though I read the story about her, I still don't know how you did it, National. You're THAT good! Posted by hyperion (Member # 39397) on :
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: I suspect that Hyperion had never given the castle a second thought as he was thinking that.
Hey yeah, you're right. I read his subsequent post about the castle with interest but I failed to notice its presence in these pics. Funny!
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Those shoots with Rosie and CJ Bella are perhaps two of your most well-rounded shoots you have done. With Rosie, I like how you have her walking around the park in some shots, and I liked that you included the samples that you took in front of the museum that you included in your story. Love the face shots because it makes us look at them differently than the way we look at them if the shot also includes their feet. Your style of shooting their faces makes the entire viewing experience pure.
Love how you were able to include shots of CJ's purse in the mix, making the shoot more complete. And I love how 3 of the first 4 pictures of CJ shows the sky matching with the white of the page, making it hard on the eyes to be able to tell where the frame of the thumbnail begins.
Masterful as always.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by hyperion:
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: I suspect that Hyperion had never given the castle a second thought as he was thinking that.
Hey yeah, you're right. I read his subsequent post about the castle with interest but I failed to notice its presence in these pics. Funny!
You can't miss it. I appears in four pictures in Page 2 of her shoot.
quote:Originally posted by National:
quote:Originally posted by rush440: Thanks again for all the pictures and the stories behind them! Looking forward to the next installment sometime in the future.
It seems like the girls are all pretty comfortable with you taking pictures of them and their feet, which is awesome. Your approach must be second-to-none.
They feel pretty comfortable because all that's happening is that photos of their feet are being taken, which is really not a big deal in the grand scheme of things ... I might touch on this a little more, but I'll leave it here for now.
With these women, I see them, walk up to them and start the conversation. There was nothing creepy about it, there was nothing weird about it, the interactions were totally normal. What's being demonstrated from me when I talk to them is your basic Law of State Transference, meaning if you don't think it's a big deal, she's not going to think it's a big deal. But, if you walk up to her, and you're feeling like the creepy old guy, saying things to yourself like, "Ew, I'm creepy, I'm doing this – what ... um, um, um, ... I'm so much older than her ... this is not gonna work ..." If you go up to her with that mindset in your head, then guess what: she's going to feel that. If you feel creepy, SHE'S going to feel creepy and she's going to feel, "Yeah, this IS creepy ..."
You can even be not that much older than her. Suppose you're a year or two older than someone like Tsarevna, or a CJ, or an Audrey, and you walk up to her thinking, "... oh my gosh, this is creepy!" she's going to get creeped out, even though you're only a year or two older than her. Why? Because you are projecting those feelings onto her. So again, what you feel, she feels.
As you see from these stories and photos, there was nothing creepy, nothing weird about the interactions, these women were totally into it. The fact that I'm ten to fifteen years older than these aforementioned women, including Heidi from Iceland and Rosie Holloway, it was still something that never became an issue for them. It was never an issue because I never gave off that vibe that suggested that the age difference was weird or out of whack. I was just talking to these women, they knew I was attracted to them.
With Rosie, for example, I went right up to her, sat next to her and told her she was cute, and I was pretty honest about it. At no time was there any point in that conversation where she was like, "Oh my God, this guy is so much older than me, ... it's weird, ... it's creepy!" None of that even came up because none of it mattered.
-National
[ August 03, 2016, 01:37 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
These three women above are some of the more memorable models I have ever photographed and even better females I have ever known. These women, along all of the others in here, have been "discovered", and later befriended, from my visits to Central Park.
Relive the stories and enjoy the photos as this thread goes on a mid-season break. I will be back here for the start of the second half of the 2016 season as we transition from the summer into autumn.
I thank you guys so very much. It was an honor and pleasure to be able to produce original content that I have created. Thank you for sticking around, I appreciate the support you have given me, and I hope you guys have a safe and incredible summer.
-National
[ November 30, 2019, 07:10 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Posted by aznfeetish (Member # 49370) on :
love it! can't wait to see asian soles!!
Posted by ExoticFemFeet (Member # 32686) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: NATURAL CLASSIC CJ Bella owns a T-shirt with enough holes to pattern a slice of Swiss cheese. She took that shirt with her when she was visiting her mother's house on a vacation trip. The two were heading out when the mother said, "Sorry, can you please change that?" But overall, she doesn't have to tone it down.
Such is the life of a woman who belongs in two worlds. She grew up riding horses, the daughter of a man who shoots guns and rides a Harley. Today, she lives in Manhattan - where she specializes in brand imaging and public relations development for the fashion, beauty and lifestyle industries. Both places are home; CJ is a product of the two of them.
She has polarities. She listens to alternative metal and gravitate to dark things at times, but she grew up in the middle of nowhere, going to Walmart. In her own words, she's weird but also completely normal.
For this woman, who is half Spaniard-half Mexican, reconciling these disparities is her coming-of-age. She says that living in New York City is like being in a abusive relationship. She gets burned out. It's important for her to go back to Arizona, where her heart is, and hear no sirens and see the sky. "You never see the sky in New York. But then I'm like, Fuck, I want to be back there. It's an addiction." Therein lies her quarter-life calling. Like many people her age, she's still figuring herself out - and she's okay with that. She likes being human. She thinks that nobody knows what they're doing, and that's totally fine for her.
WHY SHE KEEPS UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS She's a big fan of the Kardashians. She has two personalities. She can be weird and dark, but she thinks the Kardashians appeal to the basic side of her personality. She also tries to intellectualize the show in an anthropological way. She rationalizes this by saying that they're human and no less valuable than anyone else.
THE ART GALLERY She loves the Austrian painter Egon Schiele. Sometimes she'll go to a museum and not feel much, but one when she saw a Schiele show at New York City's Neue Galerie, she wanted to spend the entire day there. That tells you how much his work resonates with her. It was weirdly uncomfortable for her to look at, yet delicate and artistic.
A TRAIT THAT SHE FINDS UNATTRACTIVE Any man who's overly polite bores her.
Would let her dominant me in anyway with her feet! Posted by ExoticFemFeet (Member # 32686) on :
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by ExoticFemFeet: Would let her dominant me in anyway with her feet!
You know, she has the makeup that would fit in perfectly with that role. When I say "makeup," I wasn't talking about cosmetics, although I love how that looks on her. Instead, I mean her inherent qualities of her mind and character, qualities that are distinctive to her nature.
She can be more happy-go-lucky than other women I've showed when she's in a very playful and cheerful mood. Within the recesses of her fundamental and unique characteristics, within the secluded place that carries her genetic information, however, there is that hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-woman-scorned side to her that would come out if anyone is clueless enough to push her wrong buttons.
If the dynamics were being used in a dominatrix sense, however, then I have every reason to believe that she would play that role perfectly. For now, though, she is very comfortable in her own skin, living life amidst the chaos, just letting herself be. CJ Bella.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I'll start things off with a woman who I don't know much about because the shoot was relatively quick as she couldn't give me a whole lot of time to do my thing because she was on her way to see some friends to fling a frisbee around, I suppose. She was already running twenty minutes late and someone had started to wonder where she was. Even then, she was down for the concept of removing her sneakers for me, just to make her trip over there a bit more interesting and unscripted.
The reason behind her name stems from the fact that a few strands from the front of her hair would stand out like the plume on top of that bird's head.
I was walking through a part of Central Park that I rarely walk though. I became quite discouraged making my rounds through that portion of the park without nothing to show for it. I decided to the area another look-see just to see if my luck would change. Why not, I thought? You never know what you can find, you never know which new lady you're going to meet when you're out there doing what I do.
I come across this woman lying on her stomach on top of the grass, studying. I could tell from looking at her that she was in for a pretty long day. She looked as if she would've rather been doing anything else but prepping up for an exam. I sensed that she was coming to terms with the fact that reality was setting in in advance of her study session after staying out the night before, having a great time with her close friends.
She is a dentistry major and was going through her notes and books that would help her better understand what was to come for an upcoming biochemistry exam. Once she was settled in for the shoot, what became more noticeable to me was how kind, friendly, and patient of a person she was. She lost her concentration from her class assignment once everything began and the entire shoot provided a nice distraction for her, away from the burden of having to mentally prepare herself for an exam that would count for practically half of the semester's grade.
Throughout the summer, the Central Park Conservancy presents eco-friendly performances for families every Sunday around noon. I think that particular Sunday had many children bopping around to some musical storytelling. We could hear all the exaggerated and uncontrollable emotion and excitement coming from behind us as the children were all into it. We couldn't see the children from where we were, but we could tell from the way everything sounded that they were having the time of their lives. That, coupled with the very easy-flowing conversation I had with her, made for a pretty cool way to spend a Sunday morning.
This woman is very laid-back, someone who does not require constant pampering, attention, gifts, or other things done "their way or no way." She is someone who genuinely enjoys the company of others, and is willing to put the needs or wishes of others before her own. To top it all off, she is a joy to be around.
Erica is lovely!!! Great to see you back.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Nice! She can give me an oral exam with those toes! Posted by Footman44 (Member # 49159) on :
quote:Originally posted by ExoticFemFeet:
Simply stunning soles. Love big feet Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Well done.
It's pretty awesome how you're able to smooth talk them into doing all of this for you.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Caseman ... Yeah. It's pretty awesome how these women are able to let me take photos of them and spend time with them as if we were catching up on the good 'ol days after not having seen each other for a long time.
rush440 ... Erica is lovely and so was the time we spent with one another. The shoot was quite enjoyable and it reminded me of just how fun and rewarding partaking in this hobby can be. I want to relive that moment in time when I had the shoot with Erica.
Icarus ... If you were to make that dentist appointment to see her, I bet your teeth would wind up being in the best shape it has ever been in your life. You'll probably visit her a second time just to "double check" ( ) the status of your teeth.
footman44 ... I agree with everything you said. Big feet are my favorite kind.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
What happens a lot of times when I'm out looking for someone to photograph, I'll catch someone out of the corner of my eyes. It's one of those things in which if I had looked over in that same direction a second or two later, I would not have known that any woman was there and I would've completely missed an opportunity to become friendly with someone new, to miss out new feet to capture in photos. A lot of the women I discovered by chance were those who were in an area of the park that I was not particularly focused on when it just so happened that I turned my head in that direction at the final split second before continuing walking along without knowing that there was anyone there to begin with. This woman you're about to meet was one of those who were spotted under that context.
There she was from a distance. She was playing a game and/or texting someone on her phone when she looked up at me as I got closer to her.
"If all you wanted to do was photograph my face only, I would've found that strange, but pictures of my feet seems like a pretty cool idea!" That was what she said soon after the shoot started. She got it by understanding where I was coming from without giving it a second thought and was completely non-judgmental to me and to guys who share the same attraction to feet as I do. Things like that make the shoot a more comfortable environment.
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She's a vegan. Preventing the exploitation of animals is not the only reason for why she became a vegan, but it does play a factor for why she's going to stay a vegan. Having emotional attachments to animals is part of the reason, as she believes that all sentient creatures have the right to life and freedom. Avoiding animal products is one of the ways she takes a stand against animal cruelty and animal exploitation. She's also a vegan for health reasons.
In fact, she works in a food truck that specializes in preparing vegan food. She works in that truck with her family. Sometimes she's in the back cooking, while at other times she's at the window taking orders from people who are lined up a mile long. Her father is also her boss and he gave her the day off on the day this shoot happened. This was on a Friday and she spent some of her free time buying things in advance for a day or two of outdoor family fun in their backyard during the upcoming weekend. Things like a hula hoop, water guns and bubble bottles. Her father sent her out on that mission and she was so much looking forward to spending the Saturday and Sunday her family that she is so close with. She has nothing but nice things to say about them.
We talked about a variety of things, and she was all in a positive mood about whatever the conversation was about.
My hat's off to you once again. I really like both Erica and Fawn. You have an incredible memory to be able to recall a lot of the things that went on during the shoot and a lot about what these girls personalities are like.
The entry about Fawn, for example, had its own way of grabbing my attention because what she chooses to eat (or not eat) and how that leads into how passionate she is about animals.
Her feet are very cute. They're very neat, and it's relatively clean for someone who's been walking on flip flops for most of the day. Her toes are cute, and so is she.
Erica's pics was a real joy to go through. Her toes look delicious because the red on her toes look delicious. She is very adorable and I would not reject those feet if she placed them on my lap.
I can live vicariously through you whenever I'm in here because it's so much fun.
Thanks for being the great man that you are. Posted by jaric (Member # 35292) on :
I can't believe these women would let some guy they never met before to take as many pictures of their feet as he wants to.
What you do is amazing because it takes testicular fortitude to be able to do this so effortlessly. I cannot see myself doing something like this for fear that something terrible is going to happen to me.
You're a hero.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
quote:Originally posted by jaric: I can't believe these women would let some guy they never met before to take as many pictures of their feet as he wants to.
What you do is amazing because it takes testicular fortitude to be able to do this so effortlessly. I cannot see myself doing something like this for fear that something terrible is going to happen to me.
You're a hero.
That's what makes National's kind of work amazing. Part of it has to be that he's probably a good looking guy and people tend to give more leeway to those who fit that profile. The women tend to me more generous to better looking guys and things like that.
I'm glad that we have someone like National to freely share all of this with us. I really feel grateful.
By the way, nice addition with Fawn there. I have a special fond for women with glasses. Her soles look so massagable. What a real cutie.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Love Fawn's feet! While I think she's really kind of average looking, I'd date her just for her cute feet and nice personality. Anyway, I often go for the off-beat nerdy type of girl. I'm no Brad Pitt, after all. Posted by the-moment (Member # 38821) on :
I like Fawn as well. Interesting that she said that asking for pictures of her face only would not make her feel comfortable, but asking to take photos of her feet is something that she's completely okay with. Come to think of it, I think she's onto something there. It makes sense.
And I like what you did with Erica as well. Love how her toes look and I like the fact that her soles are not wholly clean.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by jaric: I can't believe these women would let some guy they never met before to take as many pictures of their feet as he wants to.
What you do is amazing because it takes testicular fortitude to be able to do this so effortlessly.
Welcome aboard!
In response to your first paragraph, if you go back one page (to page 25 of this thread, the one I posted back on August 3rd), you should refer to the comment I posted there. To answer your second paragraph, it's funny you say that because that's one of the reasons these women give me when asked what made them agree to model for me, with the language being more direct. Something along the lines of ...
Her: "Asking me to do this took a lot of ... (she pauses, searching for a word in her mind to fill in the blank) Me: "Balls?" Her: "Yes!"
quote:Originally posted by jaric: I cannot see myself doing something like this for fear that something terrible is going to happen to me.
A response to this deserves a separate post from me, and I will get back to this issue sometime before the week is over.
caseman ... Looks do matter. You'd be insane to believe that they don't. I know I'm a good looking guy based on the reactions I get from other people to my looks. But looks are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition to get women's attention for the better. In other words - you don't need looks to attract women. And being good looking by itself is not usually enough. Otherwise, you wouldn't find guys who think they look good complaining about how they can't find a girlfriend and/or complaining about how these hot girls are sleeping with these men who they think look uglier they are.
Of course, you should make the most of your looks, just like you should make the most of all aspects of who you are. But here's the thing: being good looking for a man has much more to do with fashion and grooming than what you look like with your shirt off. Go get a new haircut and start buying better looking, better fitting clothes for you, and you'll be a good-looking guy too!
If you're not naturally attractive, be grateful that you're a man - it's much easier to improve your looks than it is for women, and they matter much less. It also gives you the chance to go under the radar a bit more.
So, no more excuses!
Posted by HighArchesPT (Member # 45164) on :
The Quail has "that thing" which I don't know what it is but that is very good to look at. Great looks with great feet.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by HighArchesPT: The Quail has "that thing" which I don't know what it is but that is very good to look at. Great looks with great feet.
This is one of those times in which you wish you could invent a word to better describe what that "thing" is. The thing that's not definite or clear to the mind.
Makes me happy to know that you like her.
quote:Originally posted by jaric: I cannot see myself doing something like this for fear that something terrible is going to happen to me.
It is my opinion that feeling nervous about approaching women for feet pictures comes from not knowing the situation you're in. Some might say that feeling this nervous about approaching strangers for feet photos comes from not having done it at all or not having done it enough, meaning that the guys who are among the best are those who have done it the most. However, if you have an intense case of feeling so nervous about doing this, it's because you let those negative thoughts creep into your mind to the point that your negative thoughts disallow you to start your practice.
I said this once before on the other forum, and I will say it in here for the first time. The first thing you must do to overcome your feelings of nervousness when it comes to doing this is that you accept it. I want you to feel that you're strapped in a seat of a roller coaster and that it's too late to get off the thing. If you're not on the roller coaster to begin with, then it's much easier to walk away and get on a much easier ride that's more suited for children. Or you can go out and get some popcorn instead and watch the other people have fun in your place. But once you're on the roller coaster, and there's people behind you, then it's too late to get out. So I suggest that you use that fear of approaching these women to your advantage and accept the fact that you're going to feel nervous anyway.
Another analogy is watching a horror movie. You watch those movies to get yourself scared on purpose. So when you're doing this, yes, it can be scary ... yes, this can make you feel nervous. You must let those nervous feelings manifest itself and just accept it because it's normal to have that reaction. Just don't let those feelings affect your behavior when communicating with these women. Once you've done it, the feeling of exhilaration afterwards will be much more rewarding because you had that fear.
Speaking of scary movies, one thing you'll notice is that movies are always scarier if you can't see the monster or killer. For some reason, that unseen threat is way scarier than seeing a dragon with a head of a lion or some guy in a mask. The same is true when it comes to approaching complete strangers.
You probably have a worst case scenario in your head that is way scarier than anything that has actually happened or will happen in the future. Perhaps you fear that the girl's boyfriend is going to come by and physically assault you or the girl laughing in your face? Maybe it's the people who are nearby turning and watching you then making fun of you when you're rejected?
These worst case scenarios are literally just like the unseen movie villain. They're scary until you get out there and get rejected a few times and see that it's really not that bad.
The most common rejection I get is the woman being polite about it. That's it. And if you can handle that, you're opening the doors to an amazing time with these women.
Stop being scared of the unseen monsters of approaching and start seeing what they actually look like.
-National
Posted by the-moment (Member # 38821) on :
Probably the best advice ever!
I had to read it over and over again it speaks right to the core of what the issue is all about and how to go about resolving the situation.
What you said was something that I could not have said any better myself.
Well thought out and well delivered.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet ...
Just fooling around with you folks. It's kind of funny that I start off this way because if you saw her the way I saw her when I first noticed her, she looked very nice and undisturbed, playing with the grass around her, and enjoying her surroundings in the forest that's in the middle of The City.
I don't remember if she had just eaten anything for lunch when along came a spider and sat right beside her ...
Sorry, getting carried away again. What I meant to say was that someone as lovely as this woman is, and all she's doing is playing with the grass, then a striking young man such as myself giving her some unexpected but welcome company was exactly what she needed.
"My feet?," she asked, with the look on her face as if suggest that she was all too willing to tag along, but just wanted to make sure for sure after hearing it from me. Just like with all these other women I photographed, it was all too easy to get them to accept my proposal to partake in an impromtu shoot that focuses primarily on her feet. She had no problems with the idea that I find feet as attractive as other men find a nice set of breasts and was hopeful that I thought that her feet were just as nice to hold my attention long enough.
Personally, I do like them a lot, especially her toes. I prefer soles over toes, but her toes were as well kept as any woman can have them. The shape of the pinky toe of her right foot was her unique characteristic that played a part in why I really love staring at her bare feet whenever they lied flat on the rock.
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When she's not a tourist in New York City, she is most likely to be found along the shorelines of the Adriatic Sea, where she hails from the city of Split in Croatia. It's nice to see women from so many different parts of the world come to New York and see what all the buzz, hype, and excitement is all about. Central Park was a place for her to take a break from everything and to reflect on whatever her mind wanted to.
I really like her choice of footwear here, the classic Converse high-tops. They go well with practically anything else that the woman decides to wear and it either blends stands out or blends right in (however you want to look at it) with practically whatever situation the event or time of day calls for.
What I particularly like about those sneakers is the damage that naturally and inevitably occurs as a result or normal wear and ageing, which tells us that the woman wearing it is a pretty cool with a casual personality. Her shoes definitely bore some of that ageing-in-the-process trait.
I think she spent a great part of the eight hours prior walking the very crowded and busy streets of New York City in those pair of Converse. Good thing I caught her at the right time because her feet needed the rest.
After a good foot massage, her feet were re-energized to walk around some more.
Lilly is a woman of very few words and exhibits behavior that is respectful and considerate of others.
[ September 24, 2016, 12:25 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
This is real incredible stuff. I can only imagine the moment of what massaging her feet must have felt like considering that she's been doing all that walking.
A fantastic job in being able to take these pics the way you have.
I love Converse for the same reasons you do, except that the way you worded your reasons was a lot better than what I would've said. Now, having read it the way you put it, I like them even more, and Lilly deserves extra points for wearing them.
You sure know how to win these women over. Thanks a million.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Just like what it says on her Converse, Lilly, too, is an All Star. What I like about this shoot (and others that you as well, but this one in particular) is that it doesn't looked rushed, that you spent a good amount of time with her. And your description of her gives that impression as well.
If they were smelly after all that time, then you were probably in heaven for quite some time.
Nice soles to have all over my face. Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Nice set! I love her soles!!
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
The set with Lilly is pretty good, as I've said before. If you plan on showing someone else today or tomorrow, then I would love to see how that one would be just as good as Lilly, or perhaps even better. This just keeps getting better and better. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC I took great delight in doing the shoot with this woman - and it was also a pleasure in getting to know her during the time of the shoot, in getting to know some of the more natural ingredients that expresses the essential features of what makes her the type of person of is free of being pompous or artificial and doesn't put on airs, but who is instead simple and straightforward as a matter of habit. In her own way, it's a cute and distinctive side to her that comes across to anyone who's in her presence as something that can inspire love or affection.
As I was walking towards the park on this particular day, I noticed these two girls who were about thirty feet ahead of me, walking towards the direction of the park as I was. They were not walking with any sense of urgency, but instead in a more easygoing pace. As they were walking by people who were going in the opposite direction, or anyone else who just happened to have been standing in the middle of the sidewalk for no particular reason, these two women kept drawing stares from people. Others would point fingers at them as if they were out of place and something that isn't commonly seen.
At the pace I was walking on, I caught up to them eventually just to get a closer look as to what the other people were could've seen in them. One of the women had with her an albino rat with its beaming red eyes. It was pretty big from what I can remember and it was hard for other people not to notice it, kind of like when someone walks around with a parrot on its shoulder.
Although it was crawling up her arms and around her shoulders, it was a well behaved creature, very kind. It was easy to read from how slow they walked to their entire demeanor overall, that these two women were completely detached from worry, strife or stress.
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I stopped them and struck up a conversation with them in the middle of the busy street and wanted to know what the deal was with the rat out of curiosity. It was her beloved pet because she likes the oddity of the fact that it's not a common of a pet as a dog or cat is, but still be adorable at the same time. How they are misunderstood by many people and how she wants it the love and understanding that Eden (the rat's name) deserves.
I eventually switched the topic to foot fetish photography and noticed how that aroused their interests. Sylvia jumped on the idea of being photographed while Olivia (Eden's friend and caretaker) just wanted to watch just for the fun of it.
These two girls were eighteen years old and were on board with this whole notion that people with foot fetishes are as normal as anyone else. In fact, Olivia (the woman who watched the shoot from the sidelines) knows a woman who is a dominatrix. The dom would tell her tales from the Crypt, if you will - stories of what would happen during these sessions in her dungeon. The stories are hilarious and quite harmless to her all at the same time.
Anyway, Sylvia (the woman who wanted her photos taken) slipped her right foot out of her flat in the middle of the street after I told to show it me. She was hoping that it would get a passing grade from me. It did.
She asked me if he has a foot fetish. I confirmed her suspicions. Then she and her friend started getting into a new conversation about the movies that he's directed and the foot scenes that were in those movies. I let them talk about that to themselves for a bit before they asked me what my favorite scene from a Tarantino movie was. For me, it's a toss up between the one from Jackie Brown and the one from Death Proof with Rosario Dawson. Death Proof is my favorite of all his movies, so I might give the slight edge to that one.
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This woman's personality is derived from a subculture that involves a rejection of conventional values. She seeks spontaneity and direct personal relations expressing love and expanded consciousness. She's opposes violence and war, a truly uninhibited person. Olivia as well. What I will say about her is that based on the way she dressed that day, based on what her personality was like, I would say that she is a life-like rendition of a nursery rhyme character come to life, only a bit more devious. Just a tiny bit. By the way, I say that as a compliment and I really enjoyed sharing the time we had together.
The entire experience was a transcendent state in which there was neither suffering nor desire. We were all in a neutral state of being in an ideal or idyllic place of peace.
[ September 25, 2016, 04:47 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
I don't know what more to say to you that hasn't been already been said.
I think that Sylvia is becoming a new favorite of mine. She does seem like the type of woman who has the intelligence and understanding to have an open mind to accept that there are different aspects in different people that one can find quite attractive and even a sexual turn on.
From the way you describe her, she has a very positive outlook on guys who have a foot fetish. Her friend Olivia is also someone who makes for a perfect partner in crime for someone like Sylvia.
As far as Sylvia's feet goes, I have nothing but positive things to say about them. She has the ideal set of feet that most foot guys are looking for.
A great story, a great woman, a great friend, great photos.
I'm at a loss for words. Posted by the-moment (Member # 38821) on :
I had to stop in here to see if there was anything new since I was last here.
Sylvia is really the icing on the cake. Very very nice soles and well cared-for soles. She get the blue ribbon from me.
I like how her friend looked in the back round of some of these pictures.
Great account of how you met these two on the street on the way to the park. Great poses, too. Very nicely done and definitely someone I will remember for a long time to come.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Sylvia and her friend Olivia. So young and yet with such an open minded outlook. On the way to the park with these ladies, did you notice the stares from other people coming your way now that you were walking with someone who was carrying this "unusual" pet with her?
Sylvia's feet are just simply nice to look at. You probably had your hopes up when you had her give you a peek of her foot in the street there.
And that Tarantino mention there had me sold to her on top of the other aspects that makes her the cool and laid back person that she is. Oddly enough, I've never seen Death Proof. I should check it out now that you mentioned it.
I don't think someone like Sylvia would ever need toenail polish because her feet looks perfect in an all natural, colorless state.
Posted by jaric (Member # 35292) on :
Thanks so much for taking the time to respond to me. Thank you for the the advice that was far more informative than what I had bargained for. This was really helpful. The last part you said about not being scared of the unknown monsters of approaching was something that's going to stick with me.
Much respect to you.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I've met and have gotten to know many tourists while I walk through Central Park and finding women who wouldn't mind spending the time- and taking a break from their daily routines with me. Oftentimes, the tourists I meet are from Paris, France. Like Audrey, for example. The woman you're about to see here is from Paris, making the best of her first-ever visit to the United States.
What makes my visits to the Park as enjoyable as they are, is when I come across someone as cute as she is lying on the grass or rock. Someone like that wouldn't mind some male company, even if it's from a stranger who fits the description of myself (or some other equivalent).
As I approached her, it looked as if she was going through her tour guide, looking at the map of the City of New York, planning her next sites and landmarks to visit and/or writing some notes in her notepad.
She's in her early-20s and was taking a nice break from her home to enjoy some of her independence. It was a nice, cool evening and she didn't see the harm in extending her break to really enjoy the scenery around her and to put herself more at ease.
She is one of those people who will laugh at things you tell her even if you're aren't trying to make her laugh, making the flow of the conversation more simple. There are not a lot of things that she takes too seriously, which makes sharing the same space with her all the more amusing.
Very nice!
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Not bad.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I found another French woman walking through the park who was not too shy about spending a few minutes with me while I take photographs of her feet. It was her first trip to New York and she was here on business. She makes her living as a marine biologist and was planning to stay in New York for a few days to attend a convention that was being held, if I remember correctly. She loves the challenges that come with being in that line work, always carrying a fascination and curiosity of the untold number of species that have yet to be discovered living in the oceans, among other particular parts that makes being a marine biologist that makes life worth it to her.
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I saw her walking in the opposite direction from where I was going. She was off in the distance from me, but not so far from me that was able to get a pretty good glimpse of this woman I found myself being drawn to all of a sudden.
I made up my mind in an instant that she would be a genuinely kind woman that I like to look for and I turned around to follow her. As I got closer to her, it became apparent that this woman was taller than I, which made my adrenaline race a little faster because it is not common that a woman I stop to photograph is taller than I am. Looking at her feet as I got closer showed that the size was appropriate (or in proportion) in size to the rest of her stature.
The day of the shoot was also her first day in New York and she had not been in the city for more than 90 minutes (and for no more than 10 minutes in the park) before I came up to and flat out told her that I wanted to take pictures of her feet. She went along with the idea because it was so unexpected and so sudden, just like the way of life and the way culture in the Big Apple.
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I love women with big feet, and hers fit the description.
I love it when someone with big feet removes her shoes and socks for me at my command, especially someone with feet that are her size because the sudden feeling of excitement and pleasure takes over. After finally seeing them bare, in the flesh, all ripe right in front of my eyes, it's joy and then looking at the feet and having the woman share your company becomes a stimulant that acts as a relaxant.
She's typically shy or well reserved whenever she's in the company of other people when the gathering is just a social engagement. When it comes to her job, however, she lets herself be heard more often given the level of expertise in whatever the subject matter happens to be. She does not like going out unless it's to go somewhere far from home and explore more of what nature has to offer.
If your tastes in women include being very smart and quite the laid back person, then perhaps you can get to enjoy what this woman has to offer.
The hits keep on comin'. Just like the last two women I showed, the woman you're about to meet here is also French, and also from Paris.
I remember going up to her without paying too much attention to her feet other than to notice that she was wearing sandals of some kind. I payed more attention to everything else about this woman and never having anything to worry about in terms of what my feeling would be about her feet once I got a real good look at how they look whenever I would take a few glances at them while talking to her.
I liked her denim overall shorts and liked that she had her hair knotted up somehow. I liked how she was really taking her time in her casual stroll in the park. Everything just seemed to fit nicely altogether, just easy and nothing too complicated. Just a real woman enjoying her surroundings on what was a beautiful late-afternoon on a Friday.
She wasn't in a rush to get anywhere and was all too willing to be very giving to me. She only had one question for me: "So where are we going to do this?"
"Right over there," I said, looking at the first spot that I happen to lay my eyes on. "Okay," said.
I love it when they say okay. Love it. I have a harder time taking candy from a baby than to get women to do this for me while in motion.
Like every woman else I've met in Central Park, she's never had anyone take photos of her with her feet being the primary focus - she was curious to see what the entire experience would look like. After the shoot was over, she had a new perspective on the value of her feet ... all in some harmless fun while spending some time with a very good guy she had just met for the first time minutes before.
You actually live the dream life we all want by getting practically any girl to do this for you while we vicariously live through your success.
The first French girl I didn't like too much, but the last two French women were much better in my opinion. Much better job with those two. So far my favorite for this week would be Claire. I would think that women with big feet would be more self conscious about this whole thing, but it's real cool that they saw something in you that made them feel comfortable about "giving" their feet to you.
Claire's soles are Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Very nice, National. No complaints from me. These are nice pictures. The bigger the feet, the more they can be on your face, I'd say. Posted by shocker (Member # 35461) on :
This collection of feet is incredible. How do you do it? You mean to tell us that these women just say yeah to this, just like that? Central Park has got to be the new capital of the foot world.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I saw this woman walking along the trail. She slowed down before coming to a complete stop. She seemed not to have any idea as to where in the park she was exactly.
I recognized that woman as someone who I saw in the park just an hour and a half earlier farther north. From the way she was walking when I saw her the first time, aimlessly, with no real direction or specific plan, I could tell that she was a visitor from another country. I wanted to approach her, but decided against it because she was far away from where I was standing. I never run after a woman if I spot from from a long distance. The distance was too far for me to run towards her, only to be gasping for air once I do catch up to her. I always take it easy when I'm out there and let the situation present itself within reaching distance from me. So I continued walking, thinking that I was never going to see her again.
Fast forwarding now to later in that day, I see her once again in a different part of the park. I thanked my lucky starts (or whatever it is I believe in) that I have been presented another opportunity to get to get to take off her shoes - shoes that she's been walking on for hours now up to that point. What her feet must've been in those shoes and without socks for as long as she has was something that was making my mind run wild with the possibilities.
I liked her reaction when asked if she wouldn't mind letting me take photos of her feet. That look that tells you that of all things she thought you would've said, she didn't think in a million years that you were going to ask that, but at the same time she was going to be happy to let me have at her feet. She wanted to take the dare because I could read it in her face. It read like someone who was expecting to be tickled on her sides but kept flinching when you would move in to tickle her but stopped yourself just short of doing it just to torture her in a playful way. She has that expressing when she was waiting for an explaining behind all this.
"That's it? You like feet? Wow, ok."
I think she was expecting a long-winded explanation, but she went with it because I kept it simple and to the point without making myself sound like Sigmund Freud. That's how I do it all the time.
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She was visiting from Poland and was finally relieved to take a break from all that walking she did around the park during the day. Her feet needed the well-deserved breather.
I'd never thought I'd come across a willing subject to model her feet for me to have French pedicured toenails. She's the first girl that I can remember to have her toes like that, and I'm almost certain that that was the last time that I had foot model that French pedicured toenails. I'm not a fan of that particular toenail polish style and so it came at me as a surprise to see that when her red shoes were finally came off.
After the shoot was over we took a walk around the park for a bit. After a while, we came across one a bright yellow police call box. I pointed that out to her. She saw it and then, while putting on some theatrics, she imitated what a woman would do in a moment of distress by acting as if she opened the box, picking up the phone, and then actually saying - in an attempt to mock or ridicule how a woman might react to me wanting to take feet pictures of complete strangers - "Heeeelp! Police! Some guy wants to take pictures of my feet. Help me, help me!" It was her way of being funny. She wasn't yelling those words loud enough to attract attention from other people to us, but instead she said it with an almost childlike voice in a volume low enough so that only I could hear it. She smiled at me and we both laughed at the situation.
She was cool enough not to be that kind of girl who would do something like that and even cooler enough to poke fun at the women who might do that. She sensed that I was comfortable in my own skin to own up to the fact that I like feet and she went along with my idea because the vibe she got from me was that I was casual and sure of myself, having no uncertainty about the things I like in a woman.
I really like this one. I especially love the shots of where she was on her stomach with her soles facing you.
Great story as well. What happened after the shoot reminded me of something I've wanted to ask but kept forgetting. I know Joanka was making a joke out the situation, but was there ever a time when some woman you asked wanted to call the cops on you? I would think that doing the thing you do, it would scare off the women. But you've been doing this for a long time, which kinda answers my question now that I think about it.
Wondered how her feet smelled like because they sure looked smelly. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
What drew my attention to this young lady was her very calm, her appearance, her outward behavior - just of a purely innocence that gave anyone the first impression that she was pleasantly free from the wind. Someone as young and kind as she is, someone with an unselfish disposition as this lady does, someone like her should have been in school given that the time was before noon at the time the photoshoot happened. But on a beautiful Saturday morning, she's free to roam on her own to form on her own to enjoy some independence, to enjoy a day that she wanted to dedicate to herself.
I was glad that this was on a non school date because I would not have gotten to know just how comfortably warm and affectionate she purely is, all categorized by complete sincerity and commitment. Whether we're talking about family, friends, or even people she's meeting for the first time, they would vouch for her qualities that make her easy to get along with. As someone who has meet her, spoken to her, heard her speak, delve into her mind, spent quality time with, I will tell you that this sweetheart is just adorable.
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She is only nineteen years old and lives with her family ... not in a town or city or another industrialized area. Instead, her home is on a countryside in the state of Minnesota. Her entire life has been growing up in an area that is a vast expanse of farmlands used for farming or left in its natural condition. Her idea of fun is going to the movies with some friends her age at a nearby town. In such places, everyone knows each other's business.
It's a pretty big step of self encouragement to take the trip to New York City, a place that is nothing like what she's used to. She needed a lot of time to adjust to the differences between the two places because she's never seen so many people in one place all at the same time, for starters. Everything was moving too fast paced and everything was too loud for her. But she enjoyed all of it, needing to take her sweet time to observe the atmosphere and to take all of that in. New York was more than what she bargained for, but she didn't complain it. Just like in her farm town, everything was okay with her in New York.
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Her TOMS shoes went perfectly with the rest of her outfit. Her backpack put the finishing touches to her appearance quite nicely. She's never had anyone compliment anything she wore on her feet and she never met anyone who thought her feet could be look at or admired as anything too special in the same way that a man would admire a female form from close by. She decided to go for it because it was very unusual to her that a man would find feet attractive in that way. She went with it because this was something new to her. I told her that this whole thing was going to be was the easiest thing she will do all that day. With that, she felt that she had nothing to lose and we found a spot to have her feet all to myself.
She really enjoyed it because the whole thing was innocuous and because I gave her the time to give herself a small break from the world and enjoy the quietness that that area provided.
I really liked how her soles looked. Once her TOMS came off, the feeling inside me felt very nice; the feeling inside her felt very nice as I was massaging them. She never had anyone massage her feet before I did it and never knew that something like that would feel as good as it did.
She loves her family very much and the only sports team she follows is the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team. During the football season, she spends her Saturdays watching their games with her father, mother and younger brother.
She is someone who is respectful, quiet, and bashful. Her parents have raised a very good daughter. They have everything to be proud of and nothing to be ashamed of.
NATURAL CLASSIC I was in the middle of my lunch break when I just so happen to find myself in Central Park. Going to the park to get find a willing and able woman to be my foot model was going to satisfy my appetite more than any food I had to eat at the time.
It only took me a matter of minutes of entering the park that I was able to find someone who didn't mind posing for me. It was probably a blessing in disguise when I first saw her with her bare feet separate from her footwear because I didn't like them at all. Had she kept them on at the moment I approached her, I would not have been as encouraged to stop and she was she was all about. You won't see what she wore on her feet in the photoset because I didn't think it would add any value to the shoot. However, when I do have the time, I go back and look for that photo that includes her footwear in the shot just so you have an idea what it was that made her feet look so dirty.
Speaking of which, I have never, before nor since, taken photos of a woman who had feet that were as dirty as hers.
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She was in the park because she had nothing else to do and she was bored. The longer the shoot went, the more comfortable she became with herself and the more it seemed like she got along with each other. This was one of those shoots where I really felt as if I could go on for the rest of the day with the camera because the two of us were really in a world of our own, in our own bubble, separate from anything that was going on in the world outside of Central Park. Our chemistry just took on a life of its own and we kept feeding off of each other with each snap of the shutter.
My favorite type of shoot is where the model and myself are not saying much to one another and we just let our movements do the communication for us. Just like how animals don't use words to speak to one another but are still able to understand the needs and wants of what the other is trying to say by their movements, it felt as if we were conveying how we felt about one another, correctly guessing the non-verbal message was between the two of us in order to tell an incredible story of how two people were able to get along even so well even though they had just meet each other. The whole thing had a gently calming effect that brought out an intimate bonding and a sense of closeness that was no longer concealed or secretive.
This wave of emotions took over the both of us as the afternoon went along. She no longer felt neglected like the way she did before the shoot; she felt only wanted, finally desired. I felt like her protector, someone who had to look out for her well being.
She didn't have to tell me this, but I knew she has surrendered herself to me and that she was at the behest of my every word that seeped into her.
The whole thing was so public, the shoot was. Yet, it felt very special, it felt very personal, private. We were performing on stage in front of an empty audience, it felt like. And I loved every sacred moment of it.
Your amazing work continues on. Both stories and photos serve as inspiration to many of us guys who share a love of feet, myself included. If I did the same thing you did, I don't know if I would have put as much thought, time, and preparation into putting all this together the way you have. Thank you for all of this.
Posted by rush440 (Member # 31001) on :
Sarah Henning =
Amazing pics, as always!!!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by shocker: This collection of feet is incredible. How do you do it? You mean to tell us that these women just say yeah to this, just like that?
Pretty much. Once I found out how easy it was to do this, I wanted to go out and do it some more.
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: I know Joanka was making a joke out the situation, but was there ever a time when some woman you asked wanted to call the cops on you?
Never. Not only has it never happen, but it will never happen. Ever.
When I started asking women for their permission to let me photograph their feet, I thought something terrible was going to happen to me. But after I was rejected for the first time, nothing happened to me. She didn't make a scene out it or anything outrageous. With me, the rejections I get are just as painless as someone telling that they don't know where such and such place is after asking that person for directions on how to get there. But when someone doesn't mind going with the shoot, you're so grateful about it that you forget about any rejections you had before.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Very cute girl in a flirty pretty dress. I saw her walking along jogger's track of the Reservoir and was really taking her time enjoying the view of the water. I was walking behind her hoping that I would finally catch up with her, but she made my job easier by stopping on her own by stepping up to the fence that surrounds the reservoir and leaning up against it so that she could observe the turtles that were swimming along edge of the water where the water and rocks met.
She turned her head just in time to see me walking towards her. Just when I was going to say something to her, there was a question she wanted to ask me. She asked if I could take some pictures of her with her camera right at the spot where she was standing. She wanted to get body of water in the backround as she posed by the fence. I said okay and took some pictures of her.
After that was over with, I struck up a conversation with her because she seemed like a very nice person and very gentle with her mannerisms. She welcomed my company and I got even closer to her to talk about whatever came to mind. The two of us were now standing within an inch of each other as we were both leaning against the fence, facing the water. She was starting to enjoy the conversation and was receptive the little flirting that she sensed from me and began to smile more often here and there. I switched topics after a while and I told her that I wanted to take some photos of her because I thought she looked very nice. That had her attention. The conversation we had up to that point and the compliment I just gave her made her feel attractive and worthwhile. She said yes to me and I started shooting away. She felt free as she felt that the eyes from the people walking and jogging past us were on us.
I then complimented her shoes and said something about how they made her feet look cute in them. She looked down at her feet and started to pose them in different direction by twisting her ankles a bit to look at her feet from different angles, finding a reason or two to agree with me. Wow, thank you, she said smiling.
"You know, I wanna take pictures of your feet as well because I like how the shoes just goes with everything else you're wearing."
"Wow, ok."
So we walked for a bit and found a spot to have the shoot.
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She's from Beijing and was in New York to visit some members of her family who live in Chinatown. She's 23 and her English was good enough to be able to speak and understand it, which worked out for me because I had a good time talking to her and spending some time with her on what was a very pleasant late afternoon on a Sunday.
After the shoot was over, we left the park together, took the train down somewhere and grabbed something to eat.
She was a very nice lady and she was pleasant to be around. It was a nice way to spend a day in the park.
Sometimes, the shoes are as interesting as the feet and I appreciate you getting shots of those as well!!! It's nice to see how worn some of the pairs are.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This is one of those times in which I am not able to recall most of the details of what happened here. I do remember that she's Russian and how easy it was to get her to agree to be my foot model. I also remember seeing the same woman the following day in the park riding on a rented bike along the West Side Drive of Central Park. She was by herself and just taking the time to enjoy the different ways of viewing the Park. I can remember the look on her face when I saw her riding the bike as someone who truly enjoyed being there, enjoying the peace of mind that looking at all the trees brings your senses.
When I first saw her, I knew that a woman with her hair styled in the undercut fashion like the way she had hers had to have been a pretty good nominee for someone worth taking photos of.
She lives a bit on the edge and does not want to settle for living a "normal" lifestyle that seems very mundane to her and very predictable. She love to live life in a way that's a bit erratic most of the time. And good for her, living her life the way she wants to enjoy it.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Nice! Looks like they could have been a little stinky!
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
These last few women are pretty good. The last one looks like a pretty cool chick. The Chinese one is very pretty and I love how you were able to transition from whatever the two of you were talking about into focusing on her feet. It's also pretty cool that she was able to go along with it.
This is pretty good stuff.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by rush440: Sarah Henning =
Amazing pics, as always!!!
Thanks. It's nice to go back and remember the good time we had having that shoot. I like the soles of her feet. I also love her choice of footwear and how much she relies on them to get around town. Speaking of shoes, ...
quote:Originally posted by rush440: Sometimes, the shoes are as interesting as the feet and I appreciate you getting shots of those as well!!! It's nice to see how worn some of the pairs are.
Yes.
I also like shoes that show some signs of life and wear, shoes that have been gently creased, molded to the shape of the woman's feet. I find this very exciting. There are considerable pleasures to be had in imagining what type of person she is, speculating about her feet, her personality, her sexual preferences and all that.
This is what I said about Lilly when I posted the photos I took of her:
"I really like her choice of footwear here, the classic Converse high-tops. They go well with practically anything else that the woman decides to wear and it either blends stands out or blends right in (however you want to look at it) with practically whatever situation the event or time of day calls for.
What I particularly like about those sneakers is the damage that naturally and inevitably occurs as a result of normal wear and ageing, which tells us that the woman wearing it is a pretty cool with a casual personality. Her shoes definitely bore some of that ageing-in-the-process trait.
I think she spent a great part of the eight hours prior walking the very crowded and busy streets of New York City in those pair of Converse. Good thing I caught her at the right time because her feet needed the rest."
[ November 26, 2016, 12:18 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
We will close out the month with two women who were visiting from Argentina, both of them from the capital of Buenos Aires. That place is a huge tourist attraction. So much so, that it is the most visited city in South America. It is also a multicultural city, being home to multiple ethnic and religious groups. It is known for its preserved Spanish/European-style architecture and rich cultural life. Several languages are spoken in the city in addition to Spanish. Speaking of which, both women can speak only Spanish. To accommodate for each one and make them feel that they're not lost or that the interaction was not going to be some complicated task, I had to Spanish with them for the entire time that I shot photos of each girl.
When they were relieved to find out that I could speak their language, they were more willing to pay attention to me and go along with the plan.
With the first woman, I was just about to leave the park and call it a day. I was unable to find anyone to pose for me when I saw this woman walking in the park. The tattoo on her left foot really caught my attention and that provided the extra spark needed to stop her and see what she was all about. She always felt that her feet were cute enough and she thought that adding a tattoo on top of it would make her feet look even better. She thought it was cool how the tattoo was a big reason why the shoot was going to happen in the first place.
The second woman is very pretty. She's more outgoing than the first girl and always has a reason to be happy about something. She was in Central Park with her parents and older brother, although I can't quite remember how or why she got separated from them by the time I saw her. The family seemed to have had a predetermined spot for where they would be able to meet up with each other by a certain time.
She's someone who likes to be at many places at once, doing all sorts of different things at the same time, but the sound of her voice whenever she spoke to me was very smooth, carefree and quite docile as well. I don't think she has the slightest knowledge or suspicion of how messed up the world can be sometimes as she is someone who's a very young woman and only sees the good in people. She's so cute and innocent that way.
The last post is one of the best!!! Great pics, beautiful girls and feet!
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Very nice! Both are feet-in-my-face appropriate! Posted by Pjay (Member # 35692) on :
What I continue to be amazed by is the fact that so many women are willing to take time out of their day and let themselves be photographed for what most of them surely understand is a foot-fetishist's prurient interests, and without compensation!
National, I understand that you get some who agree and surely some who decline; but it still amazes me that you or anyone has as much success as you do at getting women to pose themselves and their feet.
Do these women typically care to see the photos, or ask about being able to see them posted? And if so, do you tell them to come here?
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Pjay ... This is going to be a long post, so hang in there.
What's funny about this is is that there were a number of women who told me that they wouldn't do it unless I paid them. I've had that happen to me. I tell them that's it was nice talking to them and I move on. What incentive would I have in paying someone to take photos of her feet if I can find someone else within a matter of minutes, who looks just as good as she does or hotter, who's willing to let me do the same for free, especially when one considers that I make zero dollars and zero cents doing this?
I have been rejected many times simply because they don't want their photos posted on some foot fetish site, which I can understand. And there have been times in which the women who rejected me have gone on to thank me for being upfront with them about what the photos and my intentions were really about. There have been times in which they have given me strange looks or have said "no thanks" and that would be the end of that. In other cases, if I could tell that they're on the fence about it, if they're not sure about it, I'll push it a little more (just a little bit more) as my last attempt to convince them. Results are about 50/50 in a situations like that.
Thankfully, I was able to find many others who have said yes without giving it a second thought.
All I have to do is just keep it simple, don't language them to death about it, keep the conversation light hearted and chicks will go it.
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Here's a couple of posts from a member in here who goes by the name Dancing Fool.
First post: "Folks, this guy is for real. He and I live in the same city and are friendly, and I went up to the park myself to see Mr. National in action. This guy is the smooth real deal!! The night I met him there, I hung out closeby and acted as if we didn't know each other once he started his method, and let me tell you. I think he asked 15 girls that night, and 1 said no!! 1!!!"
For the record, I asked about four or five women that night, not fifteen.
Second post, responding to a question someone asked him:"Yes, I did manage to maneuver myself so I was sitting right where I could see her soles. And like National said, I did assist him in the first girl he asked that night because I had gotten to the park a little before he did and plopped myself down right across a girl I wanted him to ask. I kept playing with my phone to make myself busy (and in fact I was on the phone at one point, with my length in doing so to the chagrin of National:) ...I don't remember seeing any who already had their feet posed...well there was that one National asked who was ashamed at how big her feet were. Hers were perfect and were plopped up but she was the one I believe who refused. But all of the others had their shoes on, so you have to just hope for the best once she is asked.
There was even a brief moment when I considered getting in on the action and asking a few myself, but it's still a bit strange for me. Plus I have to admit I would get too excited at a few and would end up asking if I could worship their feet. It was a fun experience watching The Man in action, and also a bewildering one, as I could not believe girls who are comfortable with this sort of request exist!!
NYC is great. There is a dungeon I occasionally frequent (you like that? 'Occasionally frequent'??) closeby where the park is and I thought about dropping in for a session cause I was getting hungry for some action, but I decided against it. It happened to be 9/11 and I felt guilty enough being in the park and enjoying myself on a such a somber day with so many others overseas suffering and sacrificing to prevent such a day from happening again."
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To your last two question. Girls love to see how they come out in the photos, so I show them after the shoot and I'll even email the photos to them within 24 hours, along with the link of where the photos will wind up (meaning here) along with the timeline of when she can expect to see her photos posted.
I remember this one time when a woman told me not to tell her what I intended to do with the photos. I wanted to, but each time I was this close from telling her, she would stop me in the middle of the sentence. She allowed me take as many photos as I wanted, but she didn't want to know where the photos were going to end up. I had fun with that, and I was thankful that she was gracious enough to let me do it.
Thanks a lot and have a good night.
-National
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: Pjay ... This is going to be a long post, so hang in there.
What's funny about this is is that there were a number of women who told me that they wouldn't do it unless I paid them. I've had that happen to me. I tell them that's it was nice talking to them and I move on. What incentive would I have in paying someone to take photos of her feet if I can find someone else within a matter of minutes, who looks just as good as she does or hotter, who's willing to let me do the same for free, especially when one considers that I make zero dollars and zero cents doing this?
-National
Well, I'm sure I speak for almost everyone on this site, we greatly appreciate what you bring to us each and every time you post here. Your work is legendary, and I thank you very much! Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
That Isabelle girl is one cute Chinese girl. The photos you took of her by the water were pretty neat and I just loved how comfortable she looked when you took more pictures of her on the grass. Nice soles to her feet. Nice shoes as well. I don't blame you for talking to her at all because she would make my mouth water too. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Well, I'm sure I speak for almost everyone on this site, we greatly appreciate what you bring to us each and every time you post here. Your work is legendary, and I thank you very much!
You're welcome. I enjoy what I do and it feels satisfying when I put the final pieces together when I present those pictures everyone here.
I will be back in here with new photos at some point before the new year arrives. Those new photos will mark the end of the 2016 Season before I go on my three-month hiatus.
Throughout the course of that week that'll close out the 2016 Season, I will put on a presentation that will be the show that will close out the year with a bang!
One shoot after another will be something to remember for a long time to come. It's like a concert with many iconic bands playing throughout the week and you have a hard time organizing the lineup of which band you want to perform in the order that'll be best for the event.
Hey National, let me start off by saying I'm a huge fan of your work. Secondly, is the IG page above ran by you? If not, dude is using your pictures claiming them as his own.
Just thought you might want to know that.
[ December 16, 2016, 04:51 PM: Message edited by: afn ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
She's half German, half Russian.
I really enjoy what I do, and it's women like her that always gives me that nicely reminder as to why doing this as a hobby has become an experience that became richly rewarding.
I spotted this woman jotting down some notes on a small notepad that could not've been bigger than her hand. Something gave me the impression that she wasn't reminding herself of anything serious because she was kind of smiling to herself as she wrote down whatever it was that she wrote.
I remember my eyes widening as I got closer to her. I sensed something about her and the situation, without really knowing why, that I was sure that she would not only make for a great person to take photos of, but that she would also give me the time and generosity to show me her feet just like that.
She lives in the city and knows that in a place like New York, anything can happen. When I asked her if I could take photos of her feet, she thought the request was a bit strange but also pretty cool at the same time. She reasoned that something like this can only happen in New York and that she might as well go along for the ride and try anything at least once.
She did admit a few minutes into the shoot that she never quite understood why anyone would be so attracted to feet and find some "erotic pleasure out of it," as she put it. The say she said all of this suggested that she was finally going to be open to an explanation about why feet can be seen as something sexual. She also pointed out (which also tied into her willingness to have a more broad-minded, neutral viewpoint of why people enjoy feet the way I do) that there are a lot of weird people in this world who like feet. But there was something about me, she said, something about the way I looked and spoke to her that made her realize that all of this is not that big of a deal in spite of any indications or expectations she may have had to the contrary.
"Perhaps some of the misconceptions you had were just ... some figment of your imagination," I told her. "You just had a bad dream, that's all."
Sometimes, saying very little can help explain a whole lot. And that's exactly the kind of effect it had on her and the script was flipped just like that and she became a lot more comfortable with herself, with the situation, and more comfortable with me.
The experience I had with her was one of the more relaxing shoots that I've had in all of my time doing this. There were times when I would show her the photos as the shoot was going along - and she really loved it and became more close to me with each photo I took. She was having fun and it made her day that much more enjoyable to live.
After the shoot was over, we moved to a spot right next to a tree so that we could take a break from the sun. I put my arm around her shoulder and began showing her the photos that I just took of her. She really loved how she came out in those photos and decided to get more comfortable with me by resting her head on my shoulders as I showed her some more photos.
We talked some more about other things before we left the park together to go somewhere else.
The story behind her stage name is that she kind of reminds me of the supervillian with the same name because of the combination of her looks and personality, which can be describe as "shock-static." The way she dressed that day kind of gives off the vibe of what type of person she is - her shirt, necklace, hairstyle, and everything else that completes her persona.
The links below are the songs that come from the album "The Path of Totality" from my favorite band, Korn. I bring this up because that's the only album they did in which all of its songs reminds me of everything about her, especially the way the music sounds even if you remove the lyrics from there. This album is unlike any other they did in that it was their "experimental album." They wanted to give a different sound to their music than what they were usually accustomed to producing. It received more mixed reviews than any other album they did, but I was one of those who really enjoyed it a lot. If you want to know what nu metal (or alternative metal) might sound like a thousand years into the future, take a sneak peak by listening to some of the songs here.
You don't have to listen to any of the songs linked below, but if you want to have more of an idea of what this woman is like, then you can listen to any one song that I posted while you're looking through her photos at the same time. I posted the individual songs so that you don't have to listen to the entire album.
I can't hear those songs without thinking about her and her livewire-like personality, and I can't look at these photos of her without listening to any one song off of this album.
Hey National, let me start off by saying I'm a huge fan of your work. Secondly, is the IG page above ran by you? If not, dude is using your pictures claiming them as his own.
Just thought you might want to know that.
Thanks. I wouldn't mind if anyone wanted to show my photos on his blog, just as long as he either gives the proper credit to where its due or if he didn't say anything at all by just posting it on his site and leaving it just like that. Even if he didn't give anyone credit for it, I would be just fine with that. But whatever.
As the saying goes: "Imitation is the highest form of flattery."
For him to want to take my credit for my work, that means he recognizes my ability of how good I am at doing this. Otherwise, why would he want to steal my credit for? It would have been silly if he thought I sucked at this and tried to take credit for it; this would only make him look lousy.
Not only that, he could have taken credit from many other people but he didn't. Instead, he chose to take mine. I imagine he would only want to associate with the very best, so if he tried to steal my credit, that probably means he thinks I'm doing very well in what I'm doing. I can only take that as an affirmation of my ability!
This would be the same if someone tried to take your credit in something. If you're not good in it, why would people try to take your credit? So I take it as praise for my ability, albeit invisible praise.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This will mark the final week in which I will post photos before I go on my annual winter break from the forum. There will be more to come as the week goes along. In my opinion, this could very well be the best week I've ever had in this thread because all of the shoots I plan on showing were very memorable to me.
I will be here all week. Enjoy your stay while you're here.
-National
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Happy Holidays, National! Thanks!
Posted by afn (Member # 36235) on :
Hey National, let me start off by saying I'm a huge fan of your work. Secondly, is the IG page above ran by you? If not, dude is using your pictures claiming them as his own.
Just thought you might want to know that.
Thanks. I wouldn't mind if anyone wanted to show my photos on his blog, just as long as he either gives the proper credit to where its due or if he didn't say anything at all by just posting it on his site and leaving it just like that. Even if he didn't give anyone credit for it, I would be just fine with that. But whatever.
As the saying goes: "Imitation is the highest form of flattery."
For him to want to take my credit for my work, that means he recognizes my ability of how good I am at doing this. Otherwise, why would he want to steal my credit for? It would have been silly if he thought I sucked at this and tried to take credit for it; this would only make him look lousy.
Not only that, he could have taken credit from many other people but he didn't. Instead, he chose to take mine. I imagine he would only want to associate with the very best, so if he tried to steal my credit, that probably means he thinks I'm doing very well in what I'm doing. I can only take that as an affirmation of my ability!
This would be the same if someone tried to take your credit in something. If you're not good in it, why would people try to take your credit? So I take it as praise for my ability, albeit invisible praise.
-National
Great response dude,respect. Pretty much agree. I'd be personally upset if he was trying to make a profit off them but that doesn't seem to be the case. Still a dick move to claim them when you're the one out there for hours and days putting in the dirty work. But it's like you said "whatever".
Anyway, keep up the amazing work. Cant wait to see what you have in store for us this week.
Cheers, Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by afn: Anyway, keep up the amazing work. Cant wait to see what you have in store for us this week.
Cheers,
Thank you very much. I can understand if he wants to live vicariously through me, but this is ridiculous, sad, and hilarious all at the same time. If my photos are going to make his thing look better, then I'm glad to know that he thinks very highly of me. Although, I don't know if others would say the same about him ...
In any event, on with the real show with photos posted by the original producer.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC I saw this woman walking along and thought she looked pretty nice. Since she wasn't walking too fast and was kind of taking her time to get to wherever she was thinking about going, I was able to catch up to her.
I walked up alongside her, got her attention and simply asked if I could take photos of her feet because I thought they looked pretty cute. She asked if I was serious, but in a way that I knew that she was not going to say no. "But they might be a little dirty at the bottom ... are you sure?" She was a little embarrassed to admit that and kind of wished that she wore something on her feet that wouldn't make her soles appear dirty had she had known that something like that was going to happen. I think she felt like shrinking at the moment and all of this was so cute to watch. So I answered her question with a question. "Why wouldn't I be sure?" I made it sound like a mystifying question posed as a puzzle that needed to be solved or guessed, presented as a game in a sense.
To her, that made all the sense in the world and she went along for it.
This was a nice distraction for her in what was otherwise an uneventful day for her. She almost never paints her toenails as she likes the way it looks all natural on her feet. She typically doesn't mind her feet being a little dirty and was felt just fine when she realized that I didn't mind the bottoms of her feet looking the way they did. The fact that I wanted to spend that much time with her and focus on her feet the way I did made her feel good about her decision to wear those sandals that day.
You're 2 for 2 so far this week. I really like what I see from both ladies. Too bad this is the last week before your winter vacation, but I'm going to enjoy these two women and whoever else you have in store for us for the rest of this week.
Thanks for everything you do.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Yeah, nice! I like her feet
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
There are different reasons to like both Live Wire and Stacey Hazel, and those reasons are all very good. Great stories behind these two women, especially in reading the things these women tell you and how you respond to their comments. You certainly have a way with words in how to ease these women into posing their bare feet for you.
Two very good shoots with two women who brought something different to the table. I greatly enjoy these.
Posted by rush440 (Member # 31001) on :
Valerie and Stacey are perfect!!! Man, the things I would do to those soles...
Thank you again for everything! This is easily the best thread on Wu's.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This is another one of those rare cases in which I totally forget the details behind the story of a shoot. The only thing I can remember about her is that she lives a couple of miles from the spot where the photos were taken. Judging from the number of photos in this set, it must've been a quick shoot. I don't remember how I approached her or what made her agree to do this shoot. It took me a few minutes to finally remember that she does live in the city, but after that, I'm memory about this woman is drawing blanks. It's hard for me to remember that I even took these photos to begin with, the shots with the Converse and all of that. She must be a very sweet person based on how she looks in the photos. Right?
I'll call her Addison because she looks like an Addison to me. To bad I didn't get a chance to know more about this woman because she looks like someone I would get along with.
NATURAL CLASSIC I first saw this from a distance as she was sitting on a rock, minding her own business. I decided not to approach her because I spotted someone else who was a lot closer to me (in terms of distance, not how well I know the person) than the first lady I saw. I thought the second woman would be happy to let me take photos of her feet. But she declined my offer. After that, I decided to have a seat on a bench somewhere because I got exhausted from walking around a lot. After I was done with my break, I walked back in the same direction in which I came from. I was happy to see the same first woman I saw from fifteen minutes before. By that time I had forgotten about her and was happy to be reminded that something great was well within my reach.
This time I walked up to her to get a closer look at how she looked like before I thought about saying anything to her.
There was really nothing for her to think about before she said yes to me. This was yet another great shoot I had and I enjoy every moment of it. I can't really remember where she's from, but I guess she's from Taiwan. I guess. Again, I don't remember ... perhaps someone would make a better guess as to what her nationality is.
She was going to spend another few days in NYC before she made the trip back to her country. She was here on business and I forgot what business that was. I do remember that she had a real bad day at work and her boss gave her a real hard time about something and she was getting very worried about losing her job - a job I didn't think she could afford to lose. So most of her day was spent in panic mode as she was trying to come up with solutions to make the problem go away. She didn't tell me any of this until we were towards the end of the shoot.
After the shoot was over, she told me a little more about her situation. She would walk back and forth on the grass as she talked and I would sit on the rock listening to her. I felt as if I was her psychologist and that she was a patient who was in desperate need of advice.
I didn't mind any of this because it's not unusual for a woman to open up to me with details about her personal life which would turn into long, insightful conversations in which we would learn so much much about each other. For her, she needed to express whatever her thoughts were to help her feel better because there was no one else for her to talk to. I wasn't going to leave her there until I came up with a solution for her. And so I did. It didn't take too long, either.
I felt good with myself for helping her out, and she was so grateful that she was at the right place at the right time to meet a complete stranger who able to give her the advice she really needed.
Afterwards, she felt like all the weight has been lifted off her shoulders and we were able to talk about other, less stressful things into the night.
NATURAL CLASSIC Nothing like feet that's fresh and succulent to the point of pure readiness in the right moment for a foot shoot that was completely with no preparation, spontaneous, on the spur of the moment with their feet in their conditions just as they are, as is. All pure, unadulterated, virgin and unconditional in its natural sense.
That's the joy of doing what I do as a hobby, especially when it came to this woman in particular. She's a 19-year-old college student who was on assignment as part of her photography class to take photos of whatever interests her most through her walk of Central Park.
I was walking over a bridge at the same time that she was walking underneath it. I was immediately attracted to her because she looked good, she dressed like someone who would be open to any new ideas that can lead to having fun, and she was already in a relaxed mood because she took her time to enjoy the views.
When I'm in Central Park, sometimes I'll find someone who I feel would make an interesting subject to photograph and things would work out just fine. Other times, however, some things are a little more obvious to spot, which makes my decision to approach her that much more simple. The decision to approach her was so obvious to be appropriate, that it required no contemplation to decide on. There she was all nice, loved how she looked in her jeans as she walked down the path, loved her boots that she spent who knows how many hours walking in. There she was, taking her time and enjoying her day - she's good to go!
By the time got to her, she made a stop in her trail to get a sip of her drink to stay cool on what was perhaps the most comfortable afternoon from the weather in all my time doing this. She was closing the cap on her bottle as I got her attention.
I could tell from the way she smiled and laughed that she was going to accept me with open arms and that I was in. Then she told me that I caught her at a very good time because she was just about to sit on the grass somewhere to remove her boots to enjoy her break from the day and to enjoy her break from walking around the park a lot. I was very excited at the sound of her voice saying that. I told her that that was a good idea and that we should sit on the grass right there to get this started.
This woman lives in Brooklyn. She doesn't get to visit Central Park often, so she decided to make the trip and to see the many sights and spots that the park has to offer.
I would imagine what the woman's feet would look like from the moment I start talking to her up until when the moment of truth arrives when she finally removes her shoes from her ripe feet. When I told her to remove her boots, she smiled affably enough and shucked them off. I was prepared for something dramatic - feet that were supremely beautiful or supremely disappointing. All I can say is this: perfection is a difficult concept and it is not a thing you can prove rationally or convince someone else of. Nevertheless, as far as I was concerned, the feet that this 19 year old young lady so casually revealed to me were among the feet that were as close to perfection as I can ever describe. That's my opinion, my tastes and it's okay if you don't disagree with me.
It's that feeling you get when you come across a pair of feet that you've been looking for your whole life. You know that feeling, and it was the same feeling I had in my stomach. I could not believe my eyes.
My only regret was that I wish I hadn't taken photos of anyone else that day before her because then I would've had more time in my hands to take photos of them. But because I had the other shoot earlier in the day, I know going into this shoot that I wasn't going to have a lot of time left before the battery to the camera died out.
She was so nice with me and very generous with her time. I had to massage her feet and I did so for about twenty minutes to her complete and total feeling of great pleasure and happiness. This woman was a pleasure to find and a pleasure to be around.
I'm going to have to agree with you there!!! Nathalie's feet are amazing. Perfect soles and toes, and a cute face to boot. The jeans she was wearing complement her pale feet nicely!
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Man, you're on a roll this week!!!!!! It's like a basketball player who scored 40 points by the end of the first half! If things are going this well so far, then I can only imagine how the second half is going to look.
quote:Originally posted by National: She must be a very sweet person based on how she looks in the photos. Right?
I see what you're talking about. Addison does look like a sweet girl. Her feet looked smelly from the way her soles looked, considering that her feet must not have touched the floor for a least a few hours wearing those shoes. Did you at least remember if they were smelly? Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Speaking of pure, there is something about that shoot with Nathalie that looks "pure." Perhaps it's the scenery around her. Not sure what it is, but looking at them makes me think reminds me of how good you when it comes to this and to continuously get these women to go for it. When it comes to whoever you for the rest of the week, when it comes to how good their feet might look, those women will have a tough act to follow because Nathalie's feet are the stuff dreams are made of.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Two great stories, two great shoots! Thanks, National!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC This was a very nice and peaceful was to spend a Sunday evening.
I was this woman reading a book. She looked like a sweet, innocent kid, and could tell from the condition or the discoloration of her shoes that she spends a LOT of time in them as her go-to footwear.
She is a sweet, innocent kid at heart even though she is of legal age to drink alcohol. She rarely drinks, though. She is one of the nicest women I've ever met in all of my time doing this. She is incredibly easy to get along with and someone who I will never get bored of. Never.
With the exception of one, the shoots I had with the women I'm showing this week were all incredibly long. This one in particular felt exceptionally long, and she went along with my ideas throughout the shoot the entire time. She's one of the most accommodating women I've ever spent time with during a shoot. Nothing was rushed, and she was willing to spend the entire rest of the evening with me. I love it when I have shoots in which time is not of the essence, allowing my mind to have the space it needs to become creative with the subject I have in front of me. She was one of those women who gave me all the time I needed to do whatever I wanted to do.
At the time I approached her, she was just about to leave the park because she was starting to fall asleep from reading her book. She told me that she enjoyed the male companionship that I was able to provide for her because it made her day feel alive and she never got bored reading her book throughout the shoot.
And that's the other thing. I let her just be herself, reading her book. We spoke for a bit here and there during this whole thing, but for the most part, we let each other do whatever we wanted to do. It made for a great relationship between photographer and object of affection.
She clearly had no problems with me touching or staring at her at her feet all I wanted if I wanted to, she said to me at some point.
She's not one of those people who has an outgoing type of personality where she would be the life of a party or a social gathering, not very lively. She's more of the private type who prefers being withdrawn from company, unless it's with a small group of close friends. She certainly found comfort with me for spending all that time with me, she confided to me. With me, I became a new person in her life who she can tell things to that are of secret or private matters while trusting that I would not repeat them to others. Very valuable to her.
This shoot gave both of us the peace of mind we both were looking for the entire day.
[ July 02, 2017, 03:38 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC I have a special treat for everyone here. An Italian woman who is of a certain age. It is rare -and I mean rare- that I take photos of women who are quite a bit older than I am. In all of my time in Central Park, I can only think of three other women off the top of my head who I took photos of who were at least 40-something years of age. I'm not saying that there hasn't been more than three, but as far as I can remember, I cannot come up with more than three instances of that. And if it is just those three others that I'm thinking of, then that's probably all there is.
For any very guy reading this who's had fantasies about this type of stuff, you can classify her as a cougar if that makes things better for you. This woman simply wants to take it easy and have fun. Although she isn't young anymore, she may actually look just as young as the younger guys who find her quite attractive and quite desirable. And if you're a young guy, she will not attempt to trap you into marriage, children, or even an exclusive relationship perhaps. And she's definitely not interested in dramas or games.
She came to visit from Italy. You're almost in a trace when you listen to her speak with the strong and rich Italian accent, and her English is pretty good. She took my up on the offer to show me her feet because no one has ever made an offer like that to her in her life. She was flattered that someone would take that kind of interest in her, that someone would find something different about her to like. It all caught her interest and curiosity got the best of her when she decided to become center of my focus that would bring me satisfaction and enjoyment.
The shoot was very fun and she had a lot of fun herself. Like Nathalie, this woman had the kind of feet that I really enjoy looking at ...
I loved the shape of her soles, love how her toenails were the perfect size in relation to the size of the toe, centrally and symmetrically place. They were the shape of tiny television screens rather than of seashells and I love that she had them painted.
She was in New York City by herself. An older Italian woman like her needed to have a male companion while she was here, I thought. So I extended my invitation to her to spend some time with me away from the park for the time she was in New York. She felt very nice from the inside, I could clearly tell, and she accepted the offer for some wine. She told me that she had the feeling during the shoot that I was becoming more attracted to her, although she didn't say it quite like that. It was more subtle, but I got the hint. I told her that I sensed the same from her as well.
Wow! Just wow!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Up to this point, the woman you're about to see here is the tallest one I've taken photos of. She is 6'3'' tall (190.5 cm), and this was one of those extremely rare instances in which the woman I photographed was taller than I was.
When I first saw her, she already had her sneakers off and was relaxing on the grass and taking in the sun. Her bare feet were already out there in the open when I decided that that was a great time to make great use of the moments that her feet were going to be out there, taking a breather of its own. As I got closer, she stood up and began to stretch. It looked as if she was getting herself ready to leave the spot. It wasn't until she stretched when I realized just how tall she was.
She was visiting from Frankfurt, Germany, but it seemed like we were catching up on each other's lives as if we knew each other our entire lives with the way we got along during the shoot. She was friendly, good-natured, and very easy to talk to. She's sociable, full of life and exuberant.
Like other women with feet as big as hers, she talks about how hard it is to find shoes her size. There were times when even got teased as a little girl growing up about the size of her feet and she felt insecure about herself in part because of that. But as she got older, she got over that stuff and embraced herself for who she is more and more. She enjoyed the attention she received during the shoot and she felt great about herself.
[ January 18, 2018, 11:20 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Katherine Kate is a pretty big girl, and at 6'3'', she is built just right. This is one of the best shoots you've done. The soles of her feet look fantastic. Love it, love it, love it.
Katherine is amazing!
You're something else, National. I'm forever thankful for your contributions here.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC This happened late-afternoon on a Saturday.
Sometimes I'll spot someone from a mile away who I think would make for an pretty interesting shoot. In other times, those opportunities will appear from out of nowhere and you have to be prepared to have something to say at that moment to get her attention.
This all happened when I saw a woman lying on the rock. A brunette who was probably in her late-30s. She looked nice, I really liked her feet as they were already out of her shoes. I said OK and made the decision to approach her. I'm telling you, just when I was about to a word to that woman - and I mean I was that from saying something - out of the corner of my right eye, I saw this woman whose photos you're about to see in a few minutes.
You know how when your heart starts to beat so fast that it feels like its about to come out of your mouth? That's how I felt because the situation just got that much more interesting at a moment in which I wasn't expecting to see see someone sunbathing in her swimwear all of a sudden.
This happens often. I'm out there. As I'm getting closer to the woman who I want to photograph, another offer that's just as- or even more tempting comes along right from out of nowhere. I had to make a choice there and I went with Door #2.
This is kind of like walking around with a gold metal detector. I'm walking around with one and it has different sounds when it detects different pieces of metal. If you run it over a coin and a gold ring, you'll notice the difference in the sound of the beep. You'll hear a stronger beep from the ring than from the penny. In essence, that's what happened to me here.
I decided to have a little fun with this one so I went ahead and used one of those pick up lines just to see if it'll work. I said hi to get her attention and I followed that up with, "Can you kiss me on the cheek so I can at least tell others that a cute girl kissed me?"
"What? You want to, like, kiss you?" "Look, I noticed you from over there, thought you looked very cute, I like what I see and I just wanted to say hi."
I could see that smiling to herself and laughing just a bit, and it was the kind of expression that told me that I was about to win her over. She just needed a moment to get over that tingly feeling she had inside. She was getting butterflies in her stomach because this got off to an affectionate start, but there was a part of her that was playing tug of war with herself as to whether she'll actually do it, but I knew she wanted to do it. She needed me to take charge of the situation so I introduced myself and she gave me her name and asked what brought her to the park. After answering that question, she me the same thing - what brought me there to the park. To get a kiss from you, I told her.
So we shared a kissed for a bit, and it wasn't on the cheek ...
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She was lounging there for close to a half hour before I got there. She had just arrived from attending a Mets game. She made a quick stop in her home to change after the game was over before coming to the park to get away from everything and just take nice break. This was her way to do enjoy herself.
She was smoking pot for a bit while the shoot was happening (which you can only see from one photo in the set) and she had music playing from the speakers that was attached to her iPhone. Music from rappers T.I. and 50 Cent, and other very popular songs from the late-90s/early 2000s from N*Sync, the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, and I think Blink 182.
At one time she told me that I startled her when I approached her. Me: "Oh." Her: "That's okay - I kinda liked it."
It won't look like it from the number of photos that are in this set, but this shoot went on for close to an hour and a half. The attraction was there. There was a little flirty flirty and kissy kissy going on here and there. It was all nice - how it all felt, the settings throughout as it all happened right underneath the setting sun on a day that felt just right on a summer day. It was very nice.
Towards the end, she said that she was going to tell her friends that she just met a great guy today. She looked right at me with a smile on her face hoping that I would pick up on the hint that she was talking about yours truly.
[ January 18, 2018, 11:18 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
That will all for this season. Thanks to everyone who supports this thread for sticking. It's been so much fun going out there and doing this, and it's been a pleasure to share these photos and stories with each and every one of you.
I want everyone to enjoy the holidays. I want everyone to have a happy new year.
The 2017 season will start sometime in the Spring. Until then, you all take care and have a safe and incredible time.
-National
[ December 25, 2016, 01:54 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by sftfan (Member # 1959) on :
Thanks for another year of great pics! Merry Christmas!! Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
If Sunkiss is not in my top ten of the greatest shoots I've seen in this forum, then I'm going to have a hard time coming up with ten others that were better than that one.
Both stories and photos when it comes to Sunkiss are grand slams. You've really outdone yourself here.
What a way to end the year.
Happy holidays to you National. Posted by rush440 (Member # 31001) on :
National, we will be looking forward to your return! What an amazing year...
Posted by Sol (Member # 2476) on :
I've started to really like big feet on girls so it's great to see Katherine Kate and her glorious size 12 feet.
Do you remember any other girls off the top of your head with big feet (size 11+)?
Thanks again for your amazing work.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Way to close out on a high note! You may not be living THE dream but you are certainly living MY dream!!
Thanks, National, and have a nice winter break!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
sftfan ... Thanks. Hope you enjoy your holidays as well.
caseman ... The shoot I had with Sunkiss belongs in the category that will stand the test of time along with the shoots I had with Dalhouse, Industria, and Tsarevna, and a few others.
The two of us had so much fun during the whole thing. Looking at the photos of Sunkiss, I can't help but to be reminded of a Coors ad. In fact, she told me that the only thing that was missing for the shoot was beer for us to drink.
There was music during the shoot, as I said in the story. The last song that was played was "New York, New York" from Frank Sinatra. That was so different from all of the other songs she played and it came from out of nowhere. A fantastic song that wrapped up the shoot, and a great song remind us all that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
rush440 ... Thank you very much.
Sol ... I've always liked big feet on girls. To me big feet starts with a size 9. Off the top of my head, I can think of one other girl with bigger feet than Katherine Kate's. That same woman I'm thinking of also stands taller than she does.
There might be others who wore a size 11 shoe like this woman, for example: Claire St. Amour. But I can't remember who they were at this moment. You're much more likely to run into a woman with a size 8 than you are running into a woman with a size 11 or up.
Icarus ... Thanks for your appreciation as always. Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: Nothing like feet that's fresh and succulent to the point of pure readiness in the right moment for a foot shoot that was completely with no preparation, spontaneous, on the spur of the moment with their feet in their conditions just as they are, as is. All pure, unadulterated, virgin and unconditional in its natural sense.
One thing I like about your thread is that you certainly have a way with words. You're able to describe things in ways that I wouldn't if I had the time to organize the story. I'll just be basic about it. But your words makes the story worth reading every word of. This quote in particular is something that I can't get over because it reminds me of how good you have it, getting the real sense of real women's feet the way it's supposed to me.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
I enjoyed every shoot you showed last week. The last two in particular. The one with the Asian girl was pretty good too. It's not often you stop an Asian girl, but when you truly know how to make them look great. I enjoyed that shoot as well.
But the Katherine Kate and the Sunkiss shoots are AMAZING!!!
The shoot with Katherine was one of the best I've ever seen in my life. From the looks of it, she's every bit as big and tall as you say she is and her soles are magnificent. Love the poses you had her do towards the end. It'll be stuck with me forever.
Sunkiss was an cool story and the photos that came as a result was just as much fun as the story itself. I wish I had that much fun on a Saturday with some girl I just met and kissed and let you take photos of her beautiful feet and body.
Great stuff. Just great stuff.
Posted by luvwomensfeet (Member # 12887) on :
National,
Thank you for continuing this amazing threat. It's the stories that make it special.
I have to admit, I dug Sunkiss though I wasn't too particular about the polish on her toes. Regardless, if I were in your shoes, I would have overlooked it and pushed on.
Looking forward to taking some snaps together in 2017. So sorry it didn't happen a few months ago with this absolutely lovely person with size 9 US feet. She is truly a "National Classic".
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This shoot took place on a Saturday morning. In fact at a quarter after nine that morning, this was the earliest I've ever started a shoot. I don't remember what made me go to the park quite earlier than usual, but I'm glad I did because I would not have been able to meet this nice-pleasant lady.
She was a French tourist enjoying her time in New York. Her English was pretty decent and communication between us was always noble and appropriate, having conversations that felt casually calm and relaxed. That's always great to have during the shoot, when the photographer and the subject of desire can just talk about anything or nothing in particular and have it feel as if the two of you have known each other for quite some time and are just catching up on each other's lives.
When she removed her sandals from her feet, I was taken aback when it was revealed just how worn those were from her having walked on them as often as she had. Not that I'm complaining. I thought the soles of her feet would be just as black as the insoles to her sandals were. Nope.
There are women who I have shot who have apologized to me for the condition of their shoes not being in the best shape, saying how they're sorry for the way they look, being so worn out or anything else that might be mentioned or that one would expect along those lines. Something about them being ashamed of themselves when they apologize for their shoes makes them look adorable when they do that. I get the sense that they feel as if they're literally shrinking as they say they're sorry. By the way, some of these women get like that if they feel like I'm going to be put off by how dirty or smelly their feet might be upon removal of their footwear. When they see that that doesn't bother me, they feel as if the weights have been lifted off their shoulders and they can feel free to be just be free with themselves and with me.
The reason I bring this up is because the exact opposite happened with her. I don't think she felt ashamed for the sweat marks that her soles left on her insoles from all the walking and walking and walking over the course months of years maybe. She doesn't see anything wrong with the way they look, being that it's just natural for feet to do that, she said in her French accent.
[ January 09, 2019, 08:36 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by rush440 (Member # 31001) on :
Yes!!! Awesome to see you back and posting again. Looking forward to the next several months!
Posted by Footman44 (Member # 49159) on :
Nice to see you posting again. Can't wait for more Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Nice to see you posting again, my friend. Really like a lot of the photo angles in this first episode, particularly the ones towards the bottom of the first page where she's sitting on her side and the three on page two.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Great start to the season! Love her feet!
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by rush440: Yes!!! Awesome to see you back ...
quote:Originally posted by Footman44: Nice to see you posting again. Can't wait for more
It's great to be seen, thank you. I've got more where that came from. Real women, real feet.
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: Nice to see you posting again, my friend. Really like a lot of the photo angles in this first episode, particularly the ones towards the bottom of the first page where she's sitting on her side and the three on page two.
Great to have you back on board. Looking forward to your comments throughout the year as I'm certain that there will be women I post that will get your attention and would be of great interest to you.
I agree with what you said about which shots from Elise that you enjoyed best.
Icarus ... It's been a long time. You've always been good to me and I always appreciate the few minutes you take out of your time to stop by in this thread.
aka.footjoyboy ... That says it all. Licking your chops like the Big Bad Wolf. I do the same thing when I'm out there.
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Don't think for one second that this is all I have for the week. There are more in store ahead, and I can't wait to show them off to everyone.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This was a real quick shoot I did just after noon on a weekday. I decided that I was going to extend my lunch break by looking for a willing and able model who thought it would be flattering to her that some guy random guy would want to take photos of her bare feet for an informal, off the cuff shoot. Exploring for women who would openly let a complete stranger look at her feet, take photos of them and touch them for a few minutes and then going to get something to eat after the shoot makes for a pretty good lunch break if you ask me.
Usually I look for someone who looks like she's willing to kill a lot of time because the average shoot for me takes about an hour to do. This time, I couldn't afford to spend to spend that much time with someone, which was good for her in this case because she was on her way to meet up with a few people herself for some outdoor lunch at a restaurant nearby Central Park. It sounded good to the two of us and we went ahead to have the shoot.
She had a good attitude about it all. Even before the shoot started, when asked if she wanted to do this, she said, "Why not. What are the chances that these photos are going to come back to haunt me? I mean, I'm going to tell my friends about it anyway because it's is so unexpected and pretty harmless. If someone who I haven't told were to find these (photos), I'll be like, 'Oh yeah, that thing ...' And we'll laugh it off as just one of those things. As long as children and animals aren't being harmed, I mean what the big deal?"
One of the most laid-back persons I've photographed is this woman right here. She had no qualms about letting me take photos of her whatsoever and expressed opinions about having an understanding why someone would have a foot fetish and spoke about it as if she knew it was the most common fetish in the world before we became aware of that fact. The women I photograph would ask me questions that touches on the subject of having a particular attraction to feet, but I don't remember too many questions coming from her about it because understood it enough to the point where she was unreservedly fair about it. I mean, whatever she did ask about my foot fetish, any answer I had for her was going to be all right with her. She was of the mindset that she understood what my mindset was, was cool with it and she started talking about what she had plans for that night.
Before any of this started, she asked, "Are you gonna post these on a foot fetish blog or something?" "You can say that," I said. "Ok - awesome, cool! You want me to take these off now? ..." Referring to her sandals. "Like, how do you want my feet?" "We shall see," I answered. "Whatever happens, I know we'll both enjoy it. I like you necklace, by the way." It seemed as if she had forgotten for a moment that she even had it on before I brought it up. She began to touch and stroke it a bit as she was explaining the story behind it. "Let me see," I said. "Sure."
So she let me touch it for a second before I started to play with her hair for how I wanted to look for the shoot.
I like doing things like that sometimes. And they let me do it. A cool way to get them in the mood and settled in for the shoot and the interaction between myself and the woman, expressing some interest on my part and being receptive to the interest on her part.
She was sitting on the grass for about an hour before I came along. She said that it was a good thing I arrived at the moment I did because she was starting to think about leaving the park not too long before I said hi to her. I seemed like someone she liked, she thought, and thought it wouldn't hurt to kill some more time in the park.
The topics of our conversation revolved around relationships, sex, fetishes and anything else that feels good. I let her do most of the talking and it was fun listening to her.
Awesome...loved their attitudes!
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
I like BECKY's attitude. Finally a gal who acknowledges and realizes that having photos taken of your feet is innocuous and isn't the most shameful and embarrassing thing that you can do and wouldn't want anyone finding out about because you'll be derided and scorned for life, yet while having no compunctions about posting embarrassing photos of yourself while intoxicated on your Facebook or Instagram for all to see.
Plus, if anyone you (they) know should come across the images, such as on this site, that could only mean they were likely searching for feet pictures themselves in the first place.
Posted by jasespace (Member # 33963) on :
Her soles look so smooth and soft. Must have been nice seeing those up close. Posted by jasespace (Member # 33963) on :
I like Becky's attitude as well as Melissa's, like Icarus said. Why can't we meet more women like those two?
Posted by Sol (Member # 2476) on :
I've grown to love tall girls with big feet so Melissa Parsons was a huge hit for me!
Looking forward to more soon. Thanks as always Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Baresoles84 ... Women like Becky who have that mindset and sees this as a pretty neat way to kill some time are those that you find yourself opening up to more. Another reason why they agree to having these shoots with me is something that I talked about in some length on page 25 of this thread. Anyone can go back and read it for more details, the comment I posted back on August 3rd. Basically I said that the reason they don't think it's a big deal is because I don't make it sound like a big deal.
But women like a Becky get extra points for going the extra mile and saying what she said. In their (in reference to many women, not just the ones I photographed) personal social media outlets such as Facebook, Instagram, Tinder ... it's all a contest between these ladies to see who will get the most male attention. And to get that, they'll have to post photos of themselves that are slightly (or very) indecent or liable to shock, especially by being sexually suggestive. One can make the argument that they're being short-sighted if they fail to make that connection and elect not to have photos of their feet taken and posted on the internet. To me, I don't care. If they want to do it, fine; if they don't, they don't. I don't force them to do something they don't want to do.
On a related note to something Becky and Melissa said, I've had many of these girls tell me that they would've been more weirded out if I had wanted to take headshots of them out of the blue as opposed to photos of their feet. And that's an unsolicited comment they would make. In other words, I've never said- or asked them anything that would make them make that comment.
Icaurs ... What you said is something that everyone can agree with.
RexRyan29 ... Assuming you're talking about Sunkiss (the woman in the photos right above your post), then you have no idea how right you are. A hot girl letting you see her feet up close is real nice.
Sol ... Tall girls with big feet are a favorite of mine. Glad to know that you like her. Greatly appreciate it, man.
jasespace ... at that Kobe Bryant gif!
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: Baresoles84 ... Women like Becky who have that mindset and sees this as a pretty neat way to kill some time are those that you find yourself opening up to more. Another reason why they agree to having these shoots with me is something that I talked about in some length on page 25 of this thread. Anyone can go back and read it for more details, the comment I posted back on August 3rd. Basically I said that the reason they don't think it's a big deal is because I don't make it sound like a big deal.
But women like a Becky get extra points for going the extra mile and saying what she said. In their (in reference to many women, not just the ones I photographed) personal social media outlets such as Facebook, Instagram, Tinder ... it's all a contest between these ladies to see who will get the most male attention. And to get that, they'll have to post photos of themselves that are slightly (or very) indecent or liable to shock, especially by being sexually suggestive. One can make the argument that they're being short-sighted if they fail to make that connection and elect not to have photos of their feet taken and posted on the internet. To me, I don't care. If they want to do it, fine; if they don't, they don't. I don't force them to do something they don't want to do.
On a related note to something Becky and Melissa said, I've had many of these girls tell me that they would've been more weirded out if I had wanted to take headshots of them out of the blue as opposed to photos of their feet. And that's an unsolicited comment they would make. In other words, I've never said- or asked them anything that would make them make that comment.
Something only being as big of a deal as you make it out to be couldn't be more the truth. This doesn't apply exclusively when it comes to a penchant for feet, but really anything in general. For instance, I've overhead and witnessed a few times various dudes having a conversation with a woman and then him going out of his way to mention an age discrepancy between the two and asking if the woman was ok with his age; completely unsolicited and probably wouldn't have even been broached nor mentioned by the woman. The best response I've overheard one of these women say was "Uh, I don't know. Is it (your age) ok with you?" The guy then responded that he's just trying to be polite and that some women make a big deal about those kind of things and he just wanted to make sure.
The whole time I'm just thinking to myself "and you're STILL making a big deal about it after not getting the hint that it's not a big deal to her."
To me, the entire point is let the girl, or person in general, decide for themselves what their sentiments on something are. You bringing it up and belaboring it actually has the opposite effect of what your intentions are and helps sway their mind to thinking it's a big deal. Why? Because you're making it one and are totally oblivious to it!
And you're right about many social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc) being the places where many females get their ego boosts these days, based on the amount of male attention they can garner. Like you said, in order to do so, they have to post images that are galvanizing and provocative. Females like BECKY who acknowledge that merely having pictures taken of your feet in a carefree manner is not the most shameful and embarrassing thing you can do and most likely will not come back to "haunt" you later on, are not only awesome, but pragmatic, which helps attribute to them being awesome. Most of these risqué pictures mentioned that many females post to any of the aforementioned social media sites to garner male attention would likely be seen as being far more shameful and are more accessible and easier to find than having pictures taken of your feet.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Well said, deserving of a golden medal.
I facepalmed after reading your first paragraph. Not at you, but at the guy in your story. I can only imagine how cringe-worthy it must have been for you having to overhear that conversation, knowing that that was going to crash and burn in a way that it ultimately wound up happening.
A person is setting himself up for failure if he talks to her with the preconceived notion that she's going to taser him anyway. I've said this in great length over at the other forum, but to summarize it here real fast, I said that you need to be indifferent about your views and ideas when communicating with them because you don't care so much about what her reaction to you is. Indifference is the difference that makes the difference. If you are indifferent about the age discrepancy, then neither will she. Even if she decides to that she wants no part of the deal (whatever that happens to be), then fine. At very least she'll know that you had no qualms about your beliefs, even if it's something that she doesn't agree with or likes.
There are so many more things I can say here, but I don't have the time to get to them now. Besides, you get the gist of what I'm saying here.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Ashley is a very helpful person. She is the type of person who you would like to have on your team. She is there to give or render aid or assistance to someone who needs the help after having injured themselves in some sort of accident. She shows and expresses a liking of goodwill and trust towards others and expects to be treated the same way in return. She has the quality of not putting herself first but being willing to give her time and energy for others. A good-natured woman in many aspects, thoroughly and fully.
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I spotted Ashley from a distance. I could tell from the way she look around and observing what nature looks like and the beauty that nature can be in Central Park, it seemed as if she was in no rush to get anywhere. What she wore, especially the backpack she carried on her, told me that she likes to stay active when it comes to running or even hiking with the running shorts and a pair of sneakers that offers breathable support and exceptionally soft cushioning to help guide her through her longest runs. She wasn't going for a job, though, but I loved how she choose to wear whatever she had in her closet that morning, just through on herself without thinking much of anything else that was in there and just go for the very casual look to go along with the relaxed and easygoing flow of her moment.
As I first spoke to her when I was finally able to get her attention, I looked at me and listened on as if I was a doctor giving her the good news about her heath and about how she had nothing to worry about, not saying a whole lot to me but just nodding along and accepting what I was telling her. Not too long afterwards, she finally spoke. From how she spoke and expressed herself, her overall demeanor, she was reserved and modest ... and she decided to go along with this. Then something that she had not thought of originally suddenly popped into her head. "Just thought I'd let you know, I'm quite new here and I've been walking around a lot so far today. I walk in these quite often. Is that, like, okay?" She looked at me as if she was afraid I was going to say no, that that wasn't okay.
Trying to further gauge the volume in which how often her feet are in those sneakers, I asked, "What, you run in those as well?" "Well, not much since I moved to New York, but yeah." "Don't worry," I assured her, "that's okay with me. Let's go over there."
She smiled with her mouth closed as if to say that if I was okay with her feet being the way they were, then she was willing to go along with it without being judged one way or another. I took her smile as her way of saying yes and told her that we should go over there to have the shoot. She went along with me to our spot.
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Ashley just moved to New York from Oregon because she received an offer to make more money and to advance her career as a veterinary physician, performing complex surgeries on animals, adhering to the laws surrounding animals and their welfare, diagnosing illnesses, working on-call for emergency cases, and just being an overall life saver for the well-being of animals. Her love of animals, the empathy, her patience and sensitivity for them also carries over for how she connects with people in general.
She wasn't kidding about just moving to New York when she took out the map of the city to further familiarize herself with how the streets are set up and to figure out how to get from one place to another, asking me general questions one would ask to get themselves caught up to speed after having just moved into a city.
Before the shoot began, she told me how the timing was perfect that I caught her at the moment I did because her feet were getting tired from walking all over place. It turned she was looking for a good spot to sit down and relax when I approached her and give herself and her tired feet a well-needed rest. One of the first shots in the gallerie shows that that was indeed the case.
I also love the first two of the four sample photos that you see just above. By that time she had grown to become quite warm and friendly with me that she was just completely fine and accepting of the fact that I liked her feet quite a bunch and she was grateful to know that I was enjoying her company by getting to know her as a person as well. The first shot I'm referring to here shows her looking at me taking more photos of her feet. The sample photo right next to that one was her way of saying being totally accepting of this whole foot photography shoot by smiling to herself with her mouth closed. She was probably thinking good things with what was going on.
MY THOUGHTS ON HER FEET I liked her feet a lot. I love the shape of her soles. I was enjoying this shoot so much, from the way her feet looked, from the way the photos came out to spending the time with Ashley, that I would've been just fine if I couldn't find anyone else to shoot that day. I love how she takes care of her toenails and how well cared-for they were when we see how they truly are in their natural state without any toenail polish applied to them. Ashley almost never paints her toenails, and I mean almost never. In fact, she couldn't remember the previous time she had done so before this shoot even happened.
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OTHER ASPECTS TO HER PERSONALITY Ever since Ashley was young, she has always been quiet and shy. She thinks she was born shy. She had plenty of friends when she was a kid, but she was always known as the "quiet girl" who didn't say too much. As quiet as she was, she still made friends. Ashley didn't have the amount of friends as if she was the most popular girl in school, but it's not like she was anti-social.
When encouraged to talk to her classmates more, it was never that simple or easy for her. The reason wasn't because she didn't "feel" like it, she told me. It was because she wasn't "always comfortable doing it." In many ways, Ashley is still like this. At times, she might rather eat lunch by herself instead of in a large group of people. She might need her "quiet time."
When she speaks, the words don't sound as animated, bouncy or high-spirited in the ways that they "should." She thinks before she speaks and she thinks as she speaks so that her words come out in just a bit of a slower pace than that of the average person, I suppose. It seems as if nothing she says can be misconstrued as something that can land her in a lot of trouble with someone. There are many people like that, and that's how she is.
When talking to me, she summarizes her life with bits and pieces of wit or humor that can be described as ... stale. If she does try to be funny or witty, there might not be a lot of emotion there (other than her cute smile that appears from time to time) that is in contrast with the ridiculousness of the subject matter. Any funny story she tells are meant to be sarcastic or unintentional. At times I found myself having to look for the humor within the contradiction between her words and the context of the stories she told. Anyone listening to her who fails to identify the contradiction, that person will find her humor unfunny. For me, I took a liking to her style of speech and she's someone who's company you'll enjoy.
She is an overall good-natured person.
[ September 02, 2017, 01:03 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by rush440 (Member # 31001) on :
Amazing! I couldn't agree more with your thoughts on her feet... awesome shape and lovely color. I bet they smelled great!
Really love the poses you get of these ladies on their stomachs with their soles pointed up behind them, as in the last pictures on Page 1 of your Ashley Miles set. Very suggestive!
Also your descriptions of the encounters you have with these girls really add a nice element to the whole thing. I feel like I know them personally after reading your posts!
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
quote:Originally posted by rush440: Amazing! I couldn't agree more with your thoughts on her feet... awesome shape and lovely color. I bet they smelled great!
I hope so too.
Ashley Miles looks so good, her feet belong on the cover of ESPN's Body Issue.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Very well done, National! I like this girl, too. It's a shame...she has no idea how many guys she made happy this day. At least we can tell you...thanks!
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Love when girls you photograph have the sudden revelation that Ashley Miles had.
They agree to having photos taken, are swept up in the moment, totally forgetting about anything else at that time. Then it suddenly dawns on them and goes through their mind, and they remember:
Wait. Smelly feet!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Towards the end of the shoot, she tells me, "I know how to play an electric guitar. Cool, right?"
When talking to Misha Anasov, who hails from the Russian Federation, and was visiting New York City (because ... why wouldn't she?), you'll learn that she's not an easy read - and that's a beautiful thing. She lives a pretty good life in Russia but also wants to study marine biology. She can speak a little French but enjoys mindless TV like Adventure Time. She can turn heads in a bar as the girl dancing like nobody's watching, but she hates to stand in line, so you won't see her out on weekends.
Altogether, Misha takes pride in being a woman who opens herself up to the world around her. She would rather live adventurously and test her boundaries than be shy. That's boring to her. She wants to meet new people, do new things and live a full life. She says that being afraid is not going to get her what she wants. If there's any advice she has for anyone, it's to show the world why you're special.
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A WOMAN WHO WANTS TO HAVE FUN WITH LIFE Misha loves going to places where she can spread her wings and not worry about how she'll be perceived. She's definitely more of a dive-bar girl, and she doesn't even go out on Friday or Saturday nights because she needs her space to dance. A Russian trait of hers is her drink of choice: vodka on the rocks.
STUDY BREAK She never went to college, which is something that reminds her of how disappointing that is because she liked being in school and learning in a classroom. Everyone wants to feel that what they do makes the world a better place, and part of her wants to be an astronaut; other parts want to study marine biology. She doesn't know where she wants to take her world, but she definitely wants to explore other interests.
WHAT SHE LIKES TO READ AND WATCH She dabbles in comic books, and cartoons are her guilty pleasure. She's obsessed with Adventure Time and a few other shows that deal with mystery, drama, suspense and science fiction. If she were to act in a movie, she would want to play a badass bitch like a Catwoman or a Poison Ivy.
HER FEEL-GOOD MEAL She loves a foot-long turkey sandwich and a Snickers bar when she's having a bad day.
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Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
I swear I can smell Ashley's feet right thru my screen.
-footboy1
Posted by jasespace (Member # 33963) on :
This is how I feel about both Ashley Miles and that Russian girl Misha, both women looking good with great feet:
Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
Nice to see you back once again!
I really love what you've done with these ladies. You certainly have a style to your photography that is unlike anything else I've seen in here. It looks pure, it looks natural and something about them has that realness factor to it that makes it feel like you can get along with these women who don't see it as a big deal that some guys would find their feet sexually attractive.
The stories you put together for both Ashley Miles and Misha Anasov, especially, really completes the package of who these people are. The same goes for Melissa and Becky. Everything is carefully crafted and well presented.
I like your taste in women and your taste in the style in which you shoot these women.
Nice to see you back.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Posted by aznfeetish (Member # 49370) on :
Hope to see some asian soles soon! keep up the good work!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by aznfeetish: Hope to see some asian soles soon! keep up the good work!
Thanks. However, I don't take requests.
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foot_fashion_industry ... The things you say always reminds me of how great it is to be out there, meeting new women and having a lot of fun taking photos of them, and introducing them to you folks through the stories that are attached to them.
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: Love when girls you photograph have the sudden revelation that Ashley Miles had.
They agree to having photos taken, are swept up in the moment, totally forgetting about anything else at that time. Then it suddenly dawns on them and goes through their mind, and they remember:
Wait. Smelly feet!
I, too, love it when the moment arrives for them in which they finally realize something (slowly over time), which is the same thought that went through Ashley's mind. After that, they continue on anyway, when they gift me with their feet in their truest, genuine form.
footboy1 ... The fragrance.
quote:Originally posted by rush440: Also your descriptions of the encounters you have with these girls really add a nice element to the whole thing. I feel like I know them personally after reading your posts!
Doing this is something I do take for granted, and I'm out in the park cherishing every moment I have with these wonderful women who were generous enough to do this for me and to open themselves up to me and have some pretty nice conversations about who they are, what kind of things they're into, and many other things along those lines. In this thread, I want people to feel that there's more to these women than just the photos you see. These are the average girls that you might come across in the supermarket one evening or reading a book in the train while she's on her way to work, just like the rest of us. There is a connection there.
-National
Posted by rush440 (Member # 31001) on :
Anxiously awaiting more! I know it's sort of been unseasonably cold so far this May... which would likely affect the numbers of women willing to bare their soles for you a little bit Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
The first shoot here was a real quick one. She was nice enough to take a few minutes out of her time to do this for me. I thought she was real hot and I had to get photos of her. I didn't want to let this woman just walk by me and have just that be my only memory of her. I wanted to freeze time with her and have memories of her etched in my mind through these photos for the rest of time.
I thought her soles looked exceptionally well and I loved the way they came out in the photos. I was so glad I was able to stop her, and I'm thankful for her caring enough to show me her nice feet without giving it much of a thought before agreeing to the shoot. I loved how her Adidas matched perfectly with the rest of the clothes she wore that day. Showed me that she really took her footwear into careful consideration when thinking about what else she should wear that would go perfectly with that. She values her shoes that way quite often. She's worn them for a while and she is able to take great care of them by keeping them in as much as she can.
We talked for a bit, but considering that the shoot was pretty quick, I didn't have the time to get a great read on what made her her. But from what little I can remember of her, I got the impression that she's very outgoing, loves to shop, loves to do this and loves to do that, and more of the typical girly-girly stuff.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This woman was walking along when I spotted her from a distance. I knew immediately that she was going to be fine with this and let me have my time with her feet. Sometimes you just know it when someone is going to say yes when you first lay eyes on her, even if it's from a distance.
She looked like a cool chick. And I turned out to be right. I loved her casual wear, nothing extravagant, nothing that cost too much money, particularly what she wore on her feet. She confirmed it for me by admitting that she's just a simple, casual woman. She tends to avoid formal social events because she doesn't like feeling the pressure of wearing something that's done in accordance with the rules of etiquette, suitable for an important or official occasion. She likes to have a drink every once in a while while she's sitting in front of her TV watching her favorite shows, laid back.
You can tell from the bottoms of her feet that she has worn those sandals for quite some time now. I love the shape of her soles and I didn't mind that they were a bit dirty. The shoot took place on the grass, and one would think that the dirt beneath her feet came from walking on the grass. Seemed like a pretty nice fit for me.
quote:Originally posted by rush440: Anxiously awaiting more! I know it's sort of been unseasonably cold so far this May... which would likely affect the numbers of women willing to bare their soles for you a little bit
The time to wait anxiously has come to an end. I do have to say, however, that the weather has nothing to do with why I post or not post any photos.
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy:
Just like a rottweiler staring at a rack of lamb. I don't blame you.
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I'm looking forward to showing more photos throughout this week. The two women whose photos I posted on Sunday were the opening acts that started the show that will prepare the audience for the main attractions who will close out the show by the end of the week, including a young, (very) young woman who was only days shy from receiving her high school diploma.
-National
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Wow, CALLIE SKY is hot indeed. Her outfit, shades, blonde hair and tan almost make it look like she just stepped off of a plane that flew in from my state (California) and immediately started strolling Central Park. Aptly named "sky" as well, being that she apparently was in a sky colored mood that day. I'm guessing that's where the "sky" in her name was derived from?
Glad you were able to spend some time with her, even if only for a short while. I also like how she presumably made the conscious decision to make sure her sneakers matched the rest of her outfit, and near perfectly as well, as the light blue stripes of the Adidas logo on her sneakers match the light blue stripes of her shirt. Difficult to describe, but her sneakers themselves are almost as cute as the rest of her; almost to the point where I'd get just as much enjoyment out of sniffing the insides of her Adidas sneakers as I would her actual feet. Also noticed that her toes are light blue as well. Not sure if that is mere coincidence, or if she had REALLY been in a light blue kind of mood lately.
Also don't see any socks anywhere in the pictures. Was she wearing her Adidas barefoot?
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
BareSoles84 ... You pretty much nailed it with regards to the "sky" part to her name! That, and because you can tell that it was a very nice day just from looking at the color of the sky.
What she wore that day to make match of her Adidas could not have been an accident in that she probably gave it some thought before stepping out of the door, and her sneakers played the most influential part as to how the rest of her was going to look.
As for her toenail color, my guess is that the color of her toes and the rest of her outfit that she decided to wear that day was just a striking occurrence of two things that happened at one time by mere chance. I never struck me that she painted them that color earlier in the day, but perhaps no longer than a week before we ran into each other for the shoot.
She wore white ankle socks that day. In one of the shots, you'll be able to see the impression the sock left on her ankle. I don't remember where she hid it, though.
There were many times in which I would take photos of women and then decide not to show the photos and for some reason I decided not to include them as part of my journey through Central Park. Of the women I've shown here, there are uncounted others that I have not shown to everyone, others that you don't know about.
Showing the entire set of these "hidden" shoots would not do much to help them stand out. Also, none of these photos can be enlarged by clicking on them. By showing just a few photos of these women, it'll somehow make people want to know more about them and would make them wonder if there's more to them that I'm not showing.
The first girl I met while she was strolling through the park after she had gone to buy some groceries. Just a peaceful walk through the park to enjoy the quietness before heading back home makes running her errands not much of a hassle anymore. She did not mind removing her shoes for me on a day in which she did not wear any socks and her feet. Something about women's feet right out of her canvas shoes, pure and undiluted, on a day in which she wasn't wearing socks at all is a weak spot that wins me over many times.
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The second woman was a tourist from a remarkable country called Paraguay, located right in the middle of South America. Of all the countries in that continent that people could visit, her country is probably the one that gets overlooked most often.
From the small amount of time I spent with her, she brought mind into her world of what life is like living in Paraguay. Many Spanish-speaking countries in the world, with each one having characteristics that are unlike anything else that you would find in another Spanish country. What a peaceful, lovely lady she is.
I had to speak with her entirely in Spanish because she knows no English whatsoever. She is quite nerdy, I can assure you of that. But I think she's beautiful. When it comes to how her soles look, I doesn't get much better looking than that.
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That's all I have for this edition of my lost files. I'm not sure when I plan on bringing this feature back to this thread, but I hope you guys were able to enjoy this. It's been fun.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This is another one of those instances in which I can't remember a single thing about this shoot or the woman who I shot during the shoot, other than to say that she was a tourist, probably from Germany, if my memory is correct. I don't remember how the approach went, except that I was walking in one direction and she was walking in the opposite direction as we were about to walk past each other. I vaguely remember taking these photos. I was trying to draw up some memories about that shoot, and I'm my memory is drawing blanks on this particular woman, which is a bit unusual considering that shoot was about an hour long, according the information on the memory card. I don't even remember how tall she was when she stood right next to me.
Judging from how her feet look, sneakers is not something she wears often during the spring and summer months. Looking at the tan lines on the tops of her feet, you will most likely find her wearing sandals during that time of year. On the day of the shoot, she was wearing sneakers, and I stopped her it looked as if she had been walking in them for a long time before I first spoke to her.
Tan lines on her feet aside, I'm pretty glad that caught her at the time that I did because I do like her feet. Her toes are kind of long, which is a trait I prefer in women's feet. I do enjoy the photos that I took of her, even though I practically don't remember much about taking them. I love how her soles look; I certainly wouldn't kick them out of bed. I really like how this shoot came out. Not bad at all.
I've noticed over the past couple years, that a TON of the women who model for you are of European descent. Do you find that they're more willing to pose for you than their American counterparts, overall? Or are you just more attracted to the European women
Either way, thank you for continuing to make this thread one of the best places in the foot fetish world!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
rush440 ... I have gone on record once before to say that Scandinavian- or Nordic women are (probably) my favorite type of women. European women, but a of a more specific type. Having said that, what I have found is that one is just as willing to pose for me as the other.
-National
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
When it comes to Johanna, I look at her feet in the pics and all I want to do is sniff, sniff, and sniff. For some reason they look quite smelly to me.
Can't believe you don't remember anything about this, National. Someone like her with the feet like hers would be someone I would remember for a long time to cum.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATHALIE The photos you see above are from a woman I shot once upon a time. What you just saw were some of the many photos I did not include in her gallerie. By showing everyone these images that I hid from everyone months later after her photos were posted, it would make people go back to a place I had taken them aforetime so that her story gets told again, so that people can have new thoughts about her in a positive light that gives you a neat vibe that you can feel but not fully be able to explain.
As I was taking these photos, I don't think I was able to blink the entire time because her feet were truly remarkable to me, as I explained in the original story back when I showed her photos. Her toenails were the shapes of tiny television screens rather than of seashells. They were large, in relation to the size of the toes, centrally and symmetrically placed. The shape to the soles to her feet are well-formed, just wonderful to me.
I knew from the moment I first saw her that she would be an ideal model for me. I had to take of that woman, who is very mature for someone as young as she is. I knew immediately that I was going to be in for a fantastic shoot the very moment I saw her. It was such a beautiful day that Saturday. It was not humid at all by the time I got to her and it wasn't terribly hot, unlike earlier in the day, which made the conditions ideal for relaxation and mind escaping.
She's lovely for anyone who's in the mood of having a calming conversation with. When talking to her, it felt as if the noise level that was already low magically disappeared into the air and away from the atmosphere. Nice girl who's an easy conversationalist, nice feet, peace and quiet ... nice things that make a visit to Central Park worth the visit.
This thread is about presenting you the geuine feet of the normal everyday girl, captured through the stories and images that the normal everyday guy can enjoy because he feels that he has some sort of connection with - or that he can understand or relate to - the women shown here. Nathalie is your normal everyday girl. Very simple and natural.
quote:Originally posted by National: This thread is about presenting you the geuine feet of the normal everyday girl, captured through the stories and images that the normal everyday guy can enjoy because he feels that he has some sort of connection with - or that he can understand or relate to - the women shown here. Nathalie is your normal everyday girl. Very simple and natural.
Pretty good with what you have there with Johanna, that German girl, considering that you have no recollection of the time you spent with her. I like how you were able to capture her soles in many of the angles you shot there. Still amazes me that you're able to talk these women into doing this. Johanna has good feet.
And I remember the time you should Nathalie a while back. One of my favs. The feet that dreams are made off.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC This is a true Classic for me. Of all the shoots I've shown up to this point, this is one of those that belongs on my personal lists of one of my all-times greatest pieces of art. If I made my personal top ten of my greatest (or favorite) shoots I've done in Central Park up to this point in the thread, there is no way that I'm going to leave this one off that list. Will it remain in my top ten by the time all is said and done here? We'll see, because there will be many others to come that you truly amaze everyone in here - masterpieces that will live on through the annals of time. But this shoot was definitely one of my early favorites, and I will always preserve this shoot as a something of a wonderful significance in the anthology of the Women of Central Park.
She is declared as the youngest woman I've ever taken photos of. So young this woman was, she had yet to graduate from high school when these moments were captured on camera. Pour yourself a glass of wine and drink to that. Savor the aroma and taste as you sip into that glass and truly be beholden to this precious creature who was ripening before my very eyes with each photo I took.
She looked so young, she sounded so young, she felt so young, she smelled so young ... all at the same time.
I was inflamed with a feeling of love for this gentle lady who was not yet an adult. When I saw her, I was just overtaken.
Everything about that shoot was everything I could've asked for out of a model during a shoot. She was understanding, so easy going, and one of the most accommodating model I've shot. I don't remember many other shoots in which the atmosphere around us was as quiet as it was throughout the entirety of the shoot, which was perfect for me.
BEAUTY SLEEP I gave her young, precious, newly- and freshly ripened eighteen year-old feet a well-deserved foot massage. That was the first time in her life that anyone has touched her feet in the way that I did. From wall the walking she did that day, from the mileage she put in her shoes, her feet needed a lot of care to keep them healthy.
I could tell from her face that the foot massage eased the tension all over her body. Something magical happens when the massage increases the release of hormones that create relaxation and a sense of calm, and decreasing the release of hormones that kept her tensed and stressed. She thanked me for being so kind to her and making her feel as if she was melting in front of me before closing her eyes not too long afterwards.
Something about seeing a beauty sleep peacefully, to lay my eyes on this model just lying there they way she did made me attached to her and somewhat more protective of her because she relied on her instincts that I wasn't going to do just leave her there or run off with some of her personal belongings. She felt so comfortable from being with me that she depended on me with full trust and confidence that I, being some guy who she has never met before, was going to keep her safe, to allow her the time she needed to be in another place where everything will be just fine. Such a beautiful creature, sleeping. Aesthetic. Comely.
When she finally woke up, she stretched, ... in slow motion ... took a deep breath, looked at me and gave me a little smile with the look that said she was so glad that I stayed beside her side all that time. We talked for a bit more before continuing with the shoot.
NOTE **In the photos in which the back of her shirt is shown, I had to soften those images a bit. The words on the back of her shirt contained the name of the high school she was about to graduate from, along with the names of everyone else who was going graduate from that class. All of the names, including hers. So what I did was I had to fog the images somehow so that whatever it said on the back of her shirt became less distinct.**
It's just ... a little lush ...
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Posted by rush440 (Member # 31001) on :
Holy hell... you've outdone yourself, once again National!!!
I wonder if she'll get any feet attention in college. One can only hope...
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
quote:Originally posted by rush440: Holy hell... you've outdone yourself, once again National!!!
You took the words right out of my mouth. This is one of National's finest pieces of work he's ever shown here. I cannot put this any better than how National described her, but other than to say that Lush is beautiful and that her feet are so small and cute, I'm left speechless. You're truly gifted, National. I can't thank you enough. Reminds me of the times I had in high school, dreaming of the hot girls I'd love to have gotten to and taken their shoes off. But you were able to do that with her in no time flat. Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Amazing set of pictures. You've really put a lot of time into this one, in story preparation, the photo layouts, everything. Lush is the appropriate name for this girl. Well done 100 times over.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC As we're in to this new season of the Natural Park thread, I want to introduce everyone to Anjelinna Sarrah. She is a woman who models the characteristic traits of a person who is living a busy and fun life, full of purpose and vitality.
Angelinna is a talented oboist from Austria who favors Tchaikovsky and Mahler. She will inspire anyone who has resolved to learn a new instrument or explore a new career path this year. She dreams of transitioning into being a working classical musician. In the meantime, she makes her living as a licensed sports therapist. She focuses on exercise, training and rehabilitation related to athletics. She works with athletes of all ages. Some of the work she does helps athletes improve their overall performance by performing proper stretching techniques and doing effective exercises. Another facet of her job is to help individuals recover from injuries. She splits her time working in a clinic and working with an athletic team.
She is also the perfect motivation for those hoping to improve their eating habits - she's been a vegan for two years and spends her nights cooking at home, munching on cherry tomatoes (her favorite snack) and sharing her healthy living tips to anyone who's interested. Pursuing her best self is always top-of-mind.
A CHANGE EVERYONE CAN MAKE Anjelinna suggests that people should meditate everyday. She doesn't want to hear someone give a million excuses as to why this won't work for them. She said that mindfulness is a key to stress management and all-around happiness. Doing this lets her know when she needs to pay more attention to her health. She suggests that anyone should dedicate just ten minutes a day to meditating; it could change your life.
GOODIES PAST AND PRESENT Her soft spot is when she eats a chocolate bar that has caramel inside. It's her favorite non-vegan food. But if you can nail making a vegan Thai curry, you'll nail life in her eyes.
A SONG THAT CHANGED HOW SHE SEES THE WORLD "This Time Tomorrow" by Kinks. It's about sitting on a plane, wondering where you'll be the same time tomorrow. For her, that song pulls into focus the need to live every moment because tomorrow is unknown. She doesn't want people realizing that they've spent the past 24 hours being sad.
THE ONLY DIET TIP YOU NEED Her advice is that food is not about having "cheat days" and restrictions. She said it's about living and enjoying yourself.
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Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Anjelinna Sarrah. I would buy her a drink, but I would be jealous of the straw. Posted by jasespace (Member # 33963) on :
This is what I would do if I were National after showing the last two girls:
If this isn't the best thread in this forum, then I haven't seen one.
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: NATURAL CLASSIC This is a true Classic for me. Of all the shoots I've shown up to this point, this is one of those that belongs on my personal lists of one of my all-times greatest pieces of art. If I made my personal top ten of my greatest (or favorite) shoots I've done in Central Park up to this point in the thread, there is no way that I'm going to leave this one off that list. Will it remain in my top ten by the time all is said and done here? We'll see, because there will be many others to come that you truly amaze everyone in here - masterpieces that will live on through the annals of time. But this shoot was definitely one of my early favorites, and I will always preserve this shoot as a something of a wonderful significance in the anthology of the Women of Central Park.
She is declared as the youngest woman I've ever taken photos of. So young this woman was, she had yet to graduate from high school when these moments were captured on camera. Pour yourself a glass of wine and drink to that. Savor the aroma and taste as you sip into that glass and truly be beholden to this precious creature who was ripening before my very eyes with each photo I took.
She looked so young, she sounded so young, she felt so young, she smelled so young ... all at the same time.
I was inflamed with a feeling of love for this gentle lady who was not yet an adult. When I saw her, I was just overtaken.
Everything about that shoot was everything I could've asked for out of a model during a shoot. She was understanding, so easy going, and one of the most accommodating model I've shot. I don't remember many other shoots in which the atmosphere around us was as quiet as it was throughout the entirety of the shoot, which was perfect for me.
BEAUTY SLEEP I gave her young, precious, newly- and freshly ripened eighteen year-old feet a well-deserved foot massage. That was the first time in her life that anyone has touched her feet in the way that I did. From wall the walking she did that day, from the mileage she put in her shoes, her feet needed a lot of care to keep them healthy.
I could tell from her face that the foot massage eased the tension all over her body. Something magical happens when the massage increases the release of hormones that create relaxation and a sense of calm, and decreasing the release of hormones that kept her tensed and stressed. She thanked me for being so kind to her and making her feel as if she was melting in front of me before closing her eyes not too long afterwards.
Something about seeing a beauty sleep peacefully, to lay my eyes on this model just lying there they way she did made me attached to her and somewhat more protective of her because she relied on her instincts that I wasn't going to do just leave her there or run off with some of her personal belongings. She felt so comfortable from being with me that she depended on me with full trust and confidence that I, being some guy who she has never met before, was going to keep her safe, to allow her the time she needed to be in another place where everything will be just fine. Such a beautiful creature, sleeping. Aesthetic. Comely.
When she finally woke up, she stretched, ... in slow motion ... took a deep breath, looked at me and gave me a little smile with the look that said she was so glad that I stayed beside her side all that time. We talked for a bit more before continuing with the shoot.
NOTE **In the photos in which the back of her shirt is shown, I had to soften those images a bit. The words on the back of her shirt contained the name of the high school she was about to graduate from, along with the names of everyone else who was going graduate from that class. All of the names, including hers. So what I did was I had to fog the images somehow so that whatever it said on the back of her shirt became less distinct.**
It's just ... a little lush ...
Holy fucking SHIT.
-footboy/1
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
^^^^Ok,, so in this pic she was either laughing at a joke u just told, or she was laughing at the fact that "I can't believe this guy is taking pics of my feet" which one was it?? And I know when she was dozing off u got a good whiff of those soles please what did they smell like?? forgive me a few too many black 'n' tans tonight thanks !!!
-footboy1
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
quote:Originally posted by jasespace: This is what I would do if I were National after showing the last two girls:
If this isn't the best thread in this forum, then I haven't seen one.
Oh! It totally is!!
Great stuff always!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
footboy1 ... To answer your first question, I don't remember what she was smiling about in that photo. It could've been either one or a combination of the two. If it was a joke, then I don't remember what I said that made her put on a smile. In any case, she was glad to spend the time with me.
To answer your second question, not too long after I started massaging her feet, she became so relaxed and the massage felt so good to her, that she gave me the freedom to move and act as I wanted with her feet before she fell into her light sleep. It felt so good for her that she just went with the flow.
Her feet smelled like teen spirit, ... just like the rest of her did - so young, so ripe, so fresh.
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: footboy1 ... To answer your first question, I don't remember what she was smiling about in that photo. It could've been either one or a combination of the two. If it was a joke, then I don't remember what I said that made her put on a smile. In any case, she was glad to spend the time with me.
To answer your second question, not too long after I started massaging her feet, she became so relaxed and the massage felt so good to her, that she gave me the freedom to move and act as I wanted with her feet before she fell into her light sleep. It felt so good for her that she just went with the flow.
Her feet smelled like teen spirit, ... just like the rest of her did - so young, so ripe, so fresh.
Great stuff. Kinda like winning the lottery, isn't it?
-footboy1
Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
You are definitely outdoing yourself time after time with your posts, National. I really enjoyed many of the last couple of dozen of women you showed. Your style is really unlike anything I've seen, it is original and a style that is synonymous to you and you only. I can touch on each girl I really enjoyed and say what I liked about her, but that would take me forever to do. For now, I'll just focus on Anjelinna Sarrah, the last one you showed.
She's a hot woman and it probably takes a lot of great skills and fantastic showsmanship to be able to get someone as pretty as her to have no problems about taking her shoes off for you just like that and let you take as many pictures as you like. The shoot itself not only does a great job of showcasing her in ways that no one else might have, but the backround really reminds us that these were shot in Central Park and how scenic that place can look.
These women you walk among us everyday and it's amazing when you think about that - how we missed out on a similar opportunity to ask women like them to pose for us on a regular basis. Many of us can only dream of having this type of fortune that you do. But you actually live it, feet after feet served to you on a silver platter. Amazing!
Angelinna's hot with sexy long toes. Nice soles and lovely legs, too. Such a cool chick.
Also, I know I can't be the only one who feels this, but I feel like a well-read person whenever I read these stories about these women, especially the ones like Angelinna. You have a nice drink, you read the stories, you see the pictures, you come out of it feeling well-informed, as if you read a best-selling novel.
Thanks for your generosity and your style of photography.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Jasespace ... I really like the gifs. They say things that words can't describe and they're quite accurate, I might add.
Icarus ... Thanks for your support, as always.
foot_fashion_industry ... Thank you so being so observant and bringing your points to the forefront. It always reminds me of how great this thread has become, from the backround of the images, to the style in which describes exactly the intrinsic nature of something quite abstract that defines the character of my style, shown from these women, stories, and photos. The type of women one can chill with everyday and form a real bonding, platonic or intimate. Real feet from the everyday girl. Doesn't get more honest than that.
footboy1 ... It's a lot like winning the lottery, a lot like winning the championship.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
My personal list of some of the most distinguished models who I've personally met and taken photos of. They are the women of Central Park. They visit the park to relax, have fun, kick off their shoes and just enjoy themselves. I've added two more women since I last showed this list. More names will be added throughout the course of this thread in the times to come.
Thanks to all who have shown their appreciation for what I've done here.
-National
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Posted by sftfan (Member # 1959) on :
Just thought I'd warn everyone: Imagebam has announced they will be closing at the end of June. Given that the photos in this thread are hosted at Imagebam, if you want to keep them, probably best to download them now.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
sftfan ... Thanks for the heads up. I will download the photos of every gallery in this thread. By the time July 1st gets here, I will have new links for those same images in every set that I posted here.
Posted by rush440 (Member # 31001) on :
Crisis averted! Whew
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
She's from Budapest. This was first-ever trip to the United States. It takes someone who lives in a majestic city such as the one in Hungary to have a great idea as to which other majestic city to visit outside of her country. New York City was her choice, a place that - to quote the late author Susan Ertz - "was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world."
- From her book Anger In the Sky, 1943
That quote pretty much sums up the reason why anyone goes to visit the Big Apple. It's the same reason why she wanted to make that trip over here. Someone like her is going to spend most of her time walking around if she doesn't know how to make good use of the public transportation, and that's exactly what we had here.
It was late-afternoon. I'm pretty certain that by that time of day she had taken at least twelve thousands steps in the day, in her footwear that supported her feet in the summer day, no socks. And you can tell that she had been on her feet for much of her time that day from the markings the shoes left on her feet as soon as she removed them for me. Her feet really needed the rest and breather. They really needed it, and it set the tone for what was her first real break of the day. Her mind was put at ease and so did the rest of her mood.
**After you enlarge the image in the gallery, right click and select 'Open image in new tab.' That way you'll be able to scroll through the photo left and right. Besides, the photo will appear larger if you do it that way as well.**
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Nice! They look like they would had a strong scent...
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC This happened early evening on a Sunday. I caught her out of the corner of my eye, walking in the opposite direction in which I was going. Such a little girl in stature who probably needed some male company, I thought. She was walking slowly, just taking in the scenery from the sights around her. So I took my time to walk up beside her, knowing that she wasn't going to leave the park anytime soon.
When I finally caught up to her, I told her what my name was and explained why I wanted to take some photos of her. A part of her couldn't believe what she was hearing, but whatever she heard was enough to hold her attention in some enjoyable manner.
As if she was sad to give me what she thought was bad news for me, she told me that her feet were dirty in Portuguese. Oh yes, I should mention that she's from Brasil. Her English wasn't great, but she knew enough of it to know what I was saying in English. What ind of struck me was how after hearing me talk to her after I first approached her, she answered back in her native language and continued on to talk to me in Portuguese as if something made her pretty certain that I would understand what she said. So I asked what made her think that I knew Portuguese, in Portuguese? My name is pretty common in Brasil, and so she tried putting two and two together that way. I finally told her being Brasilian is something we don't have in common, but since I can speak some Portuguese anyway, we can have a good time together. So the rest of the time we spoke in a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese, since she had much rather preferred to speak that way than to have to settle for English.
I think she has the smallest feet of all the women who I've taken photos of. In fact, I can't think of anyone else whose feet were smaller than hers. They were such cute little things, her feet. When I first walked up to her, I wasn't paying that close attention to the size of her feet, and I didn't think they would be as small as they were after the moment when she removed her jelly flats. I love how you can kind of see how a woman's toes look like when she's wearing something like that. It makes you wish that she can remove them just for the sake of it so that you can get a better visual of her they actually look like. And that's exactly what happened here.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Now we go from someone with very small feet to a woman who's not old enough to purchase alcohol in the United States and who has big feet, with spectacular long toes - just the way I like them. Unlike the last woman who holds the distinction of having the smallest feet I have ever taken photos of, this woman who we're about to meet doesn't even have the biggest feet I ever came across in my foot hunting adventures in Central Park, but this woman's feet are big in their own right.
She's only nineteen years old, this woman is. Someone that young with big feet, quite extensive toes, and her toenails being as nicely pedicured as they were on the day I met her, is a recipe for what is a pretty neat combination. She's your down-to-earth girl next door who lives among us. If she is not the most humble, most respectful and modest woman I've meet in all my time at Central Park, then she's certainly up there in my list. You want to talk about someone who's down to earth, then this nineteen year-old is a personification of what someone might look for if that's the kind of young lady a potential suitor is seeking.
It's not often I come across someone who talks about religion much, but she was one of them. In fact, that topic was the first one we talked about. She was the one who brought it up. She's Christian. Her Lord and Savior is Jesus Christ. Her father, who she loves and admires, became her biggest positive influence in her life. He is a minister, a spiritual overseer in charge of a Christian church or congregation. Every winter, she, her father, and the rest of her family visit the Dominican Republic to offer some help and give relief to those who live in the more impoverished neighborhoods of that nation. It fills her heart with joy that she's able to take part in extending a helping hand in the best way she knows how.
The bright spot in last sample image, by the way, is the sun. I had a little fun with it by incorporating that into the story as my way of showing that God is with her. My little twist on things, you can say.
Right before the shoot started, she did something I did not see coming. This woman wanted to say a prayer to Jesus and give him thanks for the opportunity - for what she believed had to have been a sign from destiny itself - for making a new friend in me for (and I'm paraphrasing here) having the spiritual and creative power to find an aspect of someone and see the beauty of it in such a way many others may overlook. At the end of it she said Amen. I just nodded my head. By the way, I'm an atheist. And as you can imagine, that admission from me to her made for what was a quite an interesting discussion.
It was a very healthy debate and at no time she try to talk me into believing in God; she was just very understanding of my point of views and she really took a liking to me when I challenged her point of view. It gave her food for thought and she loved having her mind stimulated in the way that I did. Her prayer before the shoot was appreciated and I didn't want to interrupt her moment of with her Lord. She felt compelled enough to share that private moment with me and I thanked her for it. It guess it should be noted that I had a fifteen- to twenty minute conversation with her before the shoot even began as we were walking through the park together after I initiated the conversation with her and told her that I thought she looked wonderful.
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Her mother teaches a Bible study course for little kids ... She loves to cook and she loves to bake, as it's something she takes so much pride in ... One thing she really want to learn how to do is speak Russian ... She enjoys going out once in a while, but I she's not really a night person ... She is
- One of the friendliest person you will ever meet. - Agreeable. - Compassionate and kind. - Understanding. - Unselfish. - Stresses a friendly readiness to be helpful.
After the session ended, she wanted to give me a huge hug for being the coolest and most interesting guy she's met in a while. So I have her a hug. And I mean it was a hug, a real long one and it seemed like she didn't want to let go of me. So we just kept each other there. A hug so meaningful and heartfelt, in a place where's there was no noise from the city streets, all calm and hush. I guess the hug was one of her forms spiritual healing when we connected the way we did. It felt very nice.
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Great work! Living the dream!! I prefer smaller feet but wouldn't turn either of those girls feet down.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
OMG!!!!!!
The one from Brazil, Adelle Victoria.........
I really enjoy some of the poses you had her do, like the one similar to the first picture that you included into your story about her. Yummy, yummy.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Amazing as always. Virtuous Hope brings inspiration and a sense that everything will be okay in the end. You have a way of capturing the real essence of these women. Her set is one of my favorites that you've done.
Love her long toes, lovely girl and a lovely person, it seems. Something about her being this religious makes this whole presentation about her something special to me. Not that I'm a religion follower in the sense that she is, but knowing that she's that type of woman after having seen the pics is pretty amazing.
Among other things, I like that third preview shot in her story. Either that woman is an Amazon or that tree behind her is very small. She's one healthy girl.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC It's amazing that women in New York City would agree to remove their shoes for me, allow me to look at their feet and take photos of them. This girl right here is no exception.
Another woman who has lived in the city all her life. She doesn't live too far from the park. She had just returned home from a trip to Canada about an hour before I met her. I knew I wanted to know her more. I thought to myself how nice it would've been to see her feet come out right from her Adidas, straight from her black little socks, exactly the way supposed to look and feel when those sneakers come off, pure and in real life conditions.
There are times when I say to myself that this is not going to work out, that she's going to say no. But I talk to them anyway because nothing will ever happen if I say nothing. So walked up beside her as she was walking to where ever she was going because ... what if she said yes? What if I can get to see her feet? What if she lets me? The results of what you're about to come from what happened when I put myself out there and started talking to her.
I like to see women wearing Adidas, but the style and make she wore that day was not something I come across often. She loves them and wears them every once in a while. She loves how she can mix and match them with practically anything in her wardrobe, go out and still look pretty good. In this case, she was just out for a casual stroll through the park, not looking for anything in particular and was all to happy to spend the time with me with her shoes off and her nude feet out in the air and next to me, all winningly and able. Pure.
She wears those Adidas every once in a while, but she wears flip flops most often during the summer months. As you will be able to tell from looking at the top side of her feet, that she does wear flip flops often from the tan they have left on her feet.
I don't think there's one genre of music that she particularly enjoys over another one, but what she does know is that her favorite artist is probably Eminem. She likes to listen to his music because he comes close to topics that others hardly rap about. The fact that he is very honest and blunt makes many of his songs appeal to her.
I like how she kind of looks like Kate Upton with the sunglasses on. Without them, Laurie just looks like, herself.
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Posted by jasespace (Member # 33963) on :
My reaction to Laurie:
Posted by FMUK (Member # 48775) on :
quote:Originally posted by jasespace: My reaction to Laurie:
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
You're getting better and much better at this. These are probably the best pictures that anyone will ever take of her in her life.
Also love the fact that the soles of her bare feet are dirty from the soil and grass that was underneath her feet. Something about seeing a hot chick with her feet dirty that looks real good. That was not something I was expecting to see when I went to click on the link.
I can also see some similarities between her and Kate Upton that you alluded to earlier.
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
WOW! I saved so many images of this shoot...
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC This was on a very hot, very humid, oppressive, muggy day. It was uncomfortable walking through the park that day. Some much-needed relief for the air quality was heading in the direction of the city because the forecast called for torrential downpours during the afternoon. I knew heading into Central Park that day that I wasn't going to have much time to find someone.
I remember talking to this one girl, looking to see if she would be interested in a shoot. It was hotter still by that time. While that conversation was going on, this woman with tattoos covering most of her body walked by the scene. She was off in a distance somewhere, but close enough that she was able to grab my attention. She was walking through the park and minding her own business.
At that moment I knew that that woman was going to make a better model for me than this other woman I was talking to. The memory of that tattooed woman walking by became a distraction for my concentration because it started sound like the first woman would be okay with the shoot while at the same time I was starting to look for a way to cut that conversation short with that woman if I wanted the woman covered in ink that badly.
I don't remember what I told the first woman, but I was able find myself out of that situation in my pursuit of the other woman. But I lost sight of her and I couldn't believe myself. I was trying to figure out where she could've gone to, but after a few minutes I had to give up and accept that I let one go by, never to see her again.
But luck happened to be on my side again because about 25 minutes later, I saw the same woman again at another part of the park. It's one thing see someone, unique as she is, from a distant. It another feeling to be able get up close and personal with her.
Another native New Yorker we have here; she lives in the Bowery (the name of a neighborhood in New York City), and co-owns a thrift shop in the Lower East Side, not too far from where she lives. She loves living the eccentric lifestyle and usually doesn't care if other people see her as someone who is unconventional or slightly strange based on her appearance. She took my offer to take photos of her because she was flattered, first off, and because she loves showing off the artwork that has been decorated on her skin, decorated all over her body. It flattered her to know that I was interested in getting to know her without casting aspersions on her character because she has faced- and has been the victim of discrimination from people throughout her life. It can hurt her because she is human and she does have feelings; in the end, though, those episodes serve as re-enforcement that her tattoos are her "protection shield" and that she will never be not proud or ashamed of who she is. By and large, though, she loves life and she values herself.
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The day was a scorcher, but by the time I was finally able to get to her and to start the shoot, the clouds had started to darken and it was starting to look as if I wasn't going to get the shoot off in time.
It turned out to be a false alarm. It remained cloudy, through. There was a time during the shoot, however, in which it did rain. She was so into the shoot, that she didn't want the rain to damper the spirit of the moment we were sharing in our own little world together. So we waited for the rain to pass through (as you will be able to notice, the rock in which the shoot happened was dry to begin with and then it appears all wet from the rain that stopped by).
That lasted for a few minutes. Towards what turned out to be the final moments of the shoot, the skies turned black again and we could tell from the sound of the thunder that it was time to wrap it up and leave because it was going to be serious this time.
The rain got to us before we left the park. Even though she shared the same umbrella, we were both completely soaked because the thunderstorm was simply too much to bear. After just standing there for a few minutes under the umbrella, we made a run for it to the train station, which was a minute or two away when you're running. We paid for it with more rain. By the time we were able to get underground, she was soaked still. Her shoes were all wet. I couldn't help but imagine the conditions her feet were in after her shoes and socks soaked in the water like a sponge. She was all good about it, though. Her attitude was all positive.
Like an animal that uses camouflage, I love how the designs on her left foot was able to blend in with the rock beneath it. You'll see what I mean in some of these photos.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Great work! Living the dream!! I prefer smaller feet but wouldn't turn either of those girls feet down.
I prefer bigger feet, but I agree with everything else you said there. Living the dream is a dream come true. To pick any woman I like and have her agree so readily to show me her feet, without giving it much thought, in real life, is something that dreams are made of.
caseman ...
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: Among other things, I like that third preview shot in her story. Either that woman is an Amazon or that tree behind her is very small. She's one healthy girl.
"She's one healthy girl." I'd say you're right. In response to your Amazon-tree comparison, the tree isn't small ... and neither is Hope.
quote:Originally posted by FMUK:
quote:Originally posted by jasespace: My reaction to Laurie:
My thoughts exactly.
footboyjoy ... Thanks. You can't take your eyes off of her. She's so pretty, her feet are scrumptious.
Posted by jasespace (Member # 33963) on :
@ Symbol Beauti-ink: Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Symbol Beautyink is one of the most interesting characters you posted. The tattoos are amazing to look at. Love how her feet have been decorated with the stars in one foot, leading up to the big toe, while the other foot has an interesting design on it of its own.
I really enjoyed looking through her pictures and be able to see her feet in different poses. This is one the better ones you've done. Love how her feet looks. Just wow, man!!!!!!!
Congratulations.
Posted by footboy1 (Member # 4549) on :
Laurie.... wow !!!!
(Sorry for the long post!!! )
-footboy1
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Yeah, some of those sole shots of Beauti-ink were spectacular! Her soles looked super soft! Man, I would love to smell those and feel them on my face! Wow! I was in the Bowery this past weekend!
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by footboy1: Laurie.... wow !!!!
(Sorry for the long post!!! )
-footboy1
Not a problem. I enjoyed reading it.
Icarus ... You were at the Bowery over the weekend? What were you doing there?
I have to tell you: as she allowed me to put my hands on her feet, I felt some heat coming from her feet after having been kept under pressure in her shoes and socks as soon as they were free from them - ideal conditions on a day that was as humid as that day was. So, yes, they were quite soft. Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Been meaning to post in this thread, but have had other things preoccupying me so it's been slipping my mind.
Of the last few offerings, I'd have to say the one that really appealed to me the most would probably be VIRTUOUS HOPE on the previous page. Initially I was a little turned off by her because when reading the first part of her story, it seemed like she was going to be one of those overly religious girls who can't help but try and proselytize everyone she meets. That's a good way to disinterest me real quick. More power to those who use this faith as their guiding moral code, but just as long as they practice what they preach and genuinely believe in what they say; not hold everyone else to a set of standards and ethics while they actively engage in doing the exact opposite. Even if I disagree with them but they still genuinely believe in what they say and actively engage in abiding by that set of principles, I respect that.
I was pleased to see that she was open for a discussion of simply good and bad ideas rather than good and bad people. Just because one has what you feel is a bad idea, doesn't invariably make them a bad person.
The fact that she's good looking and has a pair of size 11's, also helps.
Posted by Kokaith (Member # 22763) on :
Yes! Always good to see more barefoot dreadlocked hippie girls.
Posted by rush440 (Member # 31001) on :
Hope all is well, National..
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Two ladies here to start the week. Both were pretty quick shoots.
The first woman was someone I spotted sitting on a bench reading a book and it really looked as if she was intrigued with the material the story offered. She's a huge mark for that book series and is seemingly one of those people who are first in line to buy each new book that comes out in stores.
I like giving people their peace of mind and not say much to them during the shoot as they read their books.
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The second woman is from Poland. I really loved her look and I really liked how her feet look as soon as they were set free from the constraints of her socks and shoes. She was a bit hesitant at first about agreeing to have photos of her taken only because she felt a little embarrassed by what she thought I was going to be my negative reaction seeing how her feet would look after having been in her shoes and socks for six or seven hours straight. I removed her doubt and fear of her thought process by reminding her that it's only natural for them to look how they were going to look, and how nature is a beautiful phenomenon, something like that. But the most important thing was she knew what I meant and it made so much sense to her.
I love how some of the soil from the from some of the grass and some of the cotton from her socks were able to stick to the soles of her moist feet.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I hope you guys enjoy the photos I plan on posting this week because this is going to be the final week in which I will post any new photos until late September. I always go on my summer hiatus around this time of year, and this is right about that time.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Tonight I have two Asian women to show you. The first one is an American citizen and is of Japanese decent. I think she's visited Japan once or twice in her life, but has otherwise spent her entire life living in NYC. There is no discernible accent when she talks, so if you only go by her the sound of her voice, no one would guess that she's Asian.
She's only nineteen years old and is going to school for visual and fashion merchandising. She had always known that her calling in life is to be involved in the fashion industry. She is highly motivated and driven to make the best of what life has to offer in that field and become very successful at it. She lives for the circus-like environment that comes from working as one of the behind-the-scene at these fashion shows. If she hasn't done so already, the opportunity will present itself in the near future in which she is going to be a volunteer at events such as New York Fashion Week and go on field trips to fashion companies.
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It was a cold but fresh and enlivening day in the city when this shoot took place, and the weather was only going to become more crisp as we were well into the evening. Considering how it felt outside that day, what she wore that day kind of made her stand out when compared to other people who dressed more appropriately for the weather at hand. The hosiery, that was made of nylon or some other stocking material, that covered her feet and legs up to her knees really got my attention.
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I really, really liked her feet, especially her soles. My heart almost skipped a beat when I saw how they finally looked like when her boots. It was one of those things that makes a foot man so glad that he loves feet in the first place. Her feet formed some pretty pronounced arched whenever she flexed her toes back, which made my heart pound even faster.
With pleasure and gratitude, she would let me rub and massage her feet to keep them relaxed and warm on what was an otherwise pretty cool day in the park. It relaxed my mind as well, feeling her feet all over. Whatever made that day stressful for us was all gone when I did that to her.
She never knew that all she needed was a foot rub to calm everything down for her. That was the first time in her life that anyone has massaged her feet.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC The second Asian woman, unlike the last one I showed, has never lived in the United States. Her life resides in South Korea (if my memory is correct).
I liked her demeanor. I saw her sitting on a bench, positioning her posture so that her back was in a straight and that her shoulders were back. She was just sitting there, looking around and admiring the scene around her. It was all very polite and very proper.
She's a woman can hold her impulses very well. You won't see her going off on someone, yelling and making a nuisance. She won't offend anyone unintentionally. You won't see her scarfing down food like a football player (and when she does eat, she would have a napkin on her lap, be sitting up straight, using a knife and fork.) She wouldn't be clomping around -- she would be graceful in her walk and mannerisms. She would not make any noises with her body around others (burping, loud chewing, etc.), and no loud cell phone conversations or anything that would disturb other people in public. She's an overall pleasure to be around.
This was a fantastic shoot, as I was able to incorporate a new aspect into my style of presentation in this photoshoots: being at peace with seeing a beautiful woman sleep (just I like did with Lush). She became so comfortable that she slept for a bit during the shoot without having any worries that I was going to walk away with any of her personal belongings. She looked so peaceful and beautiful as she lied there with her eyes closed, taking well-deserved break from the day. She knew that I was going to take photos of her sleepy feet and she was perfectly fine with that. Real sleepy feet.
One thing I really liked about her feet was how well pedicured her toes were. Shows that she loves doing the little things that would give her the overall look of someone who's pristine, of someone in mint condition.
Unlike Ayame Dove who was quite talkative in her shoot, this woman made little to no noise throughout the entire encounter. She understood everything that I wanted out of her in the shoot and was happy to oblige to go along with whatever my vision was for my presentation of her.
She is lovely, she is respectful, she is a gentlewoman. Take in and relax, as you enjoy for what was a quiet and very peaceful shoot.
[ August 11, 2018, 07:36 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by jasespace (Member # 33963) on :
@ Ayame Dove:
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Wow! Well done NP! You brought it, again... Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
This is great! I love these two girls. I really love these pictures. Anything to have their soles pressed against my face.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Amazing stuff.
These two Asian girls look very beautiful and the way you show their feet makes me want to look at them longer and longer.
The first one seems to have a bright future ahead of her while the other one seems to be living a good life.
Love your style and these women fit your style perfectly. Love, love, love their feet!
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
I really like AYAME DOVE, great find with her. She has a cute, soft, delicate face with porcelain skin; porcelain skin contrasted by pink, wrinkly soles. As you mentioned, I too like her well formed, pronounced arches. Very cool that you were able to massage this random gal's bare feet.
Which brings me to these two images in particular:
I really like how relaxed she seems to be in these images. With her lying down on her back and her soles outstretched, I think it'd be cute to flip that position and lay down on your stomach in the grass at her soles and softly rub and dig into them that way, with her soles and toes literally right in your face.
Posted by footjoyboy (Member # 26478) on :
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
BareSoles84 ... Your last paragraph sounded very appetizing. Although I never mentioned it, I remember doing that exact same thing to Dalhous (I have to re-do her gallerie and position the thumbnails to the way I had originally had them, but that's beside the point). That was the only time in which I was lying on my stomach as I was shooting photos with her soles literally inches from my face. The air was fresh that afternoon, and there was this splendid beauty with her splendiferous soles within tongue's reach! So I stopped what I was doing and massaged them for a bit.
I didn't spend too much time doing that because this was relatively early in the shoot and I wanted to get a lot more out of her so I went right back to the shoot. I didn't know how to fit that part into her story when I originally told it, so I left it out.
With Ayame (which is Japanese for iris [and I'm referring to the plant, not someone's eyes]), she is an enlightening beauty. The use of the word porcelain to describe her skin tone is the most accurate thing anyone can say about it and it made me look at her differently now that you've mentioned it. That explains why I used the word Dove when I gave her that name. Now you know why I named her Ayame Dove.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
WHO WORE IT BETTER?
I'm talking about the boots here. When you consider everything else they wore, who wore it better?
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Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
That's funny, who wore it better. Creative concept, by the way. To answer the question, it's a pretty touch decision to make. Live Wire, I guess. Difficult choice to make.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC The name I've given this woman refers to what I would like to think is the average temperature in her country all year round. Combine that with the fact that the colors blue (or shades of it) and white (the color of her skin) seem to be the predominant colors throughout the photos in this set. Both colors are associated with frigid conditions when one watches the weather forecast. The thing is, I completely forgot what country she's from, and I don't know how that piece of information has escaped from my memory, especially considering that this is (in my opinion) one of the finest pieces of work I have ever put together in a form of a gallerie full of feet photos. Whatever European country you think she's from - a country in which English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, or Greek is not the official language - then you might be right.
On the day of the shoot, it was anything but cold. She enjoys warm days, but she prefers the cold any day of the week, as it always makes her feel at home. Being able to talk to one another was not an issue at all because she can speak English perfectly well.
There was something about her that made me think that spending some time with her would produce some pretty fantastic photos out of her. It's an overwhelming feeling of something that makes one think that everything is going to be okay and that I can make something special out of what's to come from the shoot.
The shoot turned out to be much better than I thought it would be and her feet looked a lot better than I thought they were going to look. I was pleasantly surprised by it all. When I combine how her feet look, just how well the shoot went, how the photos came out, I will have to say this is my personal favorite shoot of all the ones posted this week.
Her all-time favorite band is Rammstein, with Metallica being a close second. She has her older brothers to thank for that because they introduced her to that kind of music and she has fallen in love with it ever since. Whenever she gets together with her brothers to hang out, they listen to those bands (and other bands like them) over the loud speaker with the volume on blast. They do this quite often so the bond between her and her brothers is very strong. She wasn't really interested in any kind of music before, but her brothers made her "see the light" when they exposed her to what the music had to offer.
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I love her toes and the soles of her feet. She never paints her toenails, so they are always in their natural style or condition. I would say that I like a woman's pair of feet every once in a while, but it's especially true in this case. I love this woman's feet so much so that I had to really slow the moment down and just enjoy the shoot because rushing through a shoot robs the enjoyment of everything. Taking the time to do a beautiful thing is its own reward. I felt so grateful and truly indebted of getting to spend the afternoon with her, all the while letting me (a complete stranger she had just met) be that close to her feet just minutes after saying Hi to her. The honors were all hers and she expressed that sentiment to me, so the feelings were mutual.
It's moments like these, during shoots like this one, in which time almost stands still as the opportunity allows me to savor the shape, the color, the form, and the texture that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially my sight. Having a foot fetish feels fantastic.
Feet the way they should be, in it most normal and natural state, from a shoot that was spur of the moment, unscripted, and done without previous preparation. This photoshoot took almost two hours to do. In fact, this gallerie has more images in there than any other one in this entire thread. She had was in no rush to go anywhere and she was all willing to do this for me because she didn't mind having her feet being the object of my desire and to be put on display in this exhibition.
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Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: BareSoles84 ... Your last paragraph sounded very appetizing. Although I never mentioned it, I remember doing that exact same thing to Dalhous (I have to re-do her gallerie and position the thumbnails to the way I had originally had them, but that's beside the point). That was the only time in which I was lying on my stomach as I was shooting photos with her soles literally inches from my face. The air was fresh that afternoon, and there was this splendid beauty with her splendiferous soles within tongue's reach! So I stopped what I was doing and massaged them for a bit.
I didn't spend too much time doing that because this was relatively early in the shoot and I wanted to get a lot more out of her so I went right back to the shoot. I didn't know how to fit that part into her story when I originally told it, so I left it out.
With Ayame (which is Japanese for iris [and I'm referring to the plant, not someone's eyes]), she is an enlightening beauty. The use of the word porcelain to describe her skin tone is the most accurate thing anyone can say about it and it made me look at her differently now that you've mentioned it. That explains why I used the word Dove when I gave her that name. Now you know why I named her Ayame Dove.
I'm glad you liked the last paragraph. What I like is that you did the very thing I delineated in that last paragraph, with DALHOUS. I went back and revisited her gallery for that very reason.
quote:Originally posted by National: WHO WORE IT BETTER?
I'm talking about the boots here. When you consider everything else they wore, who wore it better?
Baresoles84 ... With her soles squarely in front of my face, they were so inviting. That was probably the only time in which I was on my stomach as I was taking photos while being that close to a woman's soles. I don't remember ever doing that before or since. During the whole time, she kept on talking to me and having a normal conversation as if we were having drinks at some hotel bar. While in that position, the only two places for me to look was straight ahead and see nothing but soles, and up to see her face. It was all normal for us.
As a side note, I just fixed Dalhous' gallerie, all organized in the way its intended to be viewed.
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: With her soles squarely in front of my face, they were so inviting. That was probably the only time in which I was on my stomach as I was taking photos while being that close to a woman's soles. I don't remember ever doing that before or since. During the whole time, she kept on talking to me and having a normal conversation as if we were having drinks at some hotel bar. While in that position, the only two places for me to look was straight ahead and see nothing but soles, and up to see her face.
I must say that description sounds very appetizing as well. Based on what you describe, this is what I imagine your exact view to have been:
Or if she were lying on her back...
Except probably even closer than that I'd imagine.
Thank you for sharing that fantastic view that gave you and gives the viewer, a face full of bare soles. Even though you eventually had to adjust to get other angles of her, I'm sure your nose didn't want to go.
Hopefully you get the opportunity to assume that exact position again with another gal you take photos of in the future.
Also as a side note, this particular quote in your previous post sounded quite nice too:
quote:Originally posted by National: ...with her soles literally inches from my face. The air was fresh that afternoon, and there was this splendid beauty with her splendiferous soles within tongue's reach!
...because I can't help but think how humorous it would have been, to have done exactly that! Not full on licked them, but perhaps just quickly darted your tongue out at her soles like a snake and then retracted it before she could look down, just to sort of play around with her.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
You, National, really hit it out of the ballpark with 0 Celsius.
Probably one of the better ones you've put out there. If the imagebam link to her pics was an actual picture frame, I'd hang it on my wall. Her feet look delicious. This should be a candidate for Best Set of Photos of the Year award!
Speaking of the temperature being at 0 Celsius, her feet are so fucking HOT, winter may never come again!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC For such an innocent looking girl, the name I've given her sounds a little too menacing for her upon giving her a first glance. She's also very young at only eighteen years old, which makes the name help her stand out even more. The name is in reference to the magazine that only covers topics involving rock and heavy metal music. She also loves violence to the point where she even told me at one point that violence solves everything. I'll drink to that. This helps solidify her name in this thread, I suppose. Although she doesn't like to act violent (she's has never gotten into a fight), she doesn't mind it so much if someone acts violent on her behalf.
She loves rock, especially death metal. Loves it to death. The more vile the music, the more poetic it sounds to her. You will never catch her reciting lyrics to a Selena Gomez or a Justin Beiber song. When it comes to her kind of music, she loves the painful, gory topics of discussion that are brought up in these songs. Some bloodshed and a little misery. To her, those are her love songs.
You'll notice that she has an earphone in one ear. She was listening to heavy- or death metal the entire time of the shoot. The reason the other ear was free was to hear the instructions I gave her on how to pose for me.
After all the things I said here, at the end of the day she is only eighteen and she's a very sweet girl. You look at her, and one would not think that reading this type of description about her personality matches how she looks in the photos. Instead one would expect that such a girl would don an outfit that would give her more of a Gothic look. Not in this case. When you listen to her talk, she never sounds depressed, she never complains about being mad at the world. She always keeps a positive outlook in life. It's just that she loves listening to music that would make many others feel a bit uneasy, that's all. Nothing wrong with that, right? She doesn't think so.
A unique combination of someone who looks so young and sweet, and at the same time have these thoughts run through her head very often.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
And that does it for the first half of the 2017 season. I am going to take my summer break from posting any new photos and I will be back in here with new photos to share with everyone towards the end of September.
Enjoy the rest of the summer.
-National
Posted by Tenebrael (Member # 3726) on :
Outstanding!!
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Even though I would challenge some of REVOLVER's views on violence and make her consider and question herself on whether or not she even genuinely believes in those views, she does have an innocent looking face and I really like how well kept both her toenails and her fingernails are. While a lot of guys like painted nails, I actually find natural nails appealing as well because it gives you a better gauge on how good looking a pair of feet really are; if they can still look pretty without anything accenting them, then you know they're nice.
She's only a ripe 18 years of age though, so I imagine she still has much to learn and experience in her life that will further form her views on various things.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Thanks so much for giving us 0 Celsius. I love how these girls are willing to kill a good part of their time to let you take all these pictures of their feet, and 0 Celsius is definitely not the exception. There is so much material in her shoot that I could go back to it a million times and still never get tired of it.
I hope they were somewhat smelly because with feet like hers, she looks like a good woman to have around.
This was a golden type of shoot and I love every part of it. Thanks a lot. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
BareSoles84 ... In reference to Dalhous. My view was just about identical to the samples you showed. Being there in person, the view was absolutely breathtaking! I wanted to stay there for a bit longer. If a guy who also happen to have a foot fetish had walked by the shoot and had seen me just lying on the grass right in front of Dalhous' feet, he would wish he had not seen that because he would become so jealous. It was a Friday when this shoot happened, so it was a fantastic way to kick off the weekend. Remember, she was just 18 years old when this happened.
And to your last paragraph from your last Dalhous post, I bet it would've tasted salty ...
Tenebrael ... Thank you very much.
jasespace ... I had that same reaction when I saw how her fresh and ripe feet looked when they came out of 0 Celsius' sneakers, and I kept that reaction to myself as we were going longer and longer into the shoot and how open and receptive she was to this whole concept.
18thFloor ... I don't know how high, but 0 Celsius is up there in my personal list of my favorite shoots of that I have ever shot. I enjoyed the shoot that much. She has a kind heart and is one of those people who is incredibly easy to get along with. You can just be yourself around her and she will enjoy your company. Very easygoing, not easily annoyed or angered.
I'm really happy to know that you got something out of that shoot.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I love doing what I do, meeting new women, getting to know them, getting close to their feet. Feels fantastic because I wake up in the morning not knowing who I'm going to meet or what can happen when I met a certain woman when I go to Central Park. It's great knowing that by the end of the day a new woman will let me touch her feet within moments of meeting her for an improv photoshoot.
You take up a hobby and the more you get to know it, the more fascinating it becomes. And I've met women who were quite fascinating. In fact, there were times in which I felt that these women -- almost belonged to me. This woman you're about to meet is one of those fascinating people.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This was a pretty neat shoot with a pretty neat chick. I loved how she dressed that day, so well put together in her formal-casual wear with her dark-blue skinny jeans (one of many) that are versatile enough to go with anything as they fit very comfortably for her.
Her black ankle boots are made of suede with elastic gores in the sides, sewn-on insoles and rubber soles.
She is a young, modish, up to date in style or influence, very now. She is an editor sales associate for a beauty brand who was taking some time away from the office to enjoy a little stroll through Central Park. She's approachable in that she is very friendly and can give great advice on a variety of topics. Talking to her is a piece of cake because she can communicate with everyone -- patience is key to her. She also a woman who exudes positive energy in that she has a "no such thing as a stupid question" attitude. I found nothing in her that was not to like.
It was late in the afternoon, which meant that she was walking in her boots all day, since 7:30 that morning. Her colorful socks have been so neatly and tightly clothed around her feet, that you'll be able to see some marking impressions that the patters of her socks left on her feet after she stripped them off her semi-sweaty feet. Feet, pure and as they should be.
I prefer soles over toes, but I especially love how well kept she maintained her toenails, which were in the nude, in the plainest or simplest manner. She was immediately down for the idea of letting me take photos of her feet but was a bit nervous that I wouldn't like them so much because her toes were unpainted. When she saw that I was perfectly fine and impressed with her toes, that was her confirmation that I truly wasn't going to be disappointed if her toenails had not been painted, and that's when I noticed that she was ready to settle in and let me work my magic in the shoot.
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A COOL GIRL LIKE MISHY ALWAYS REWARDS HERSELF WHEN SHE'S NOT BUSY WORKING - In her downtime, Mishy ponders how her career trajectory could apply to her, not because material wealth will give her a fancier place to live per se — but because she wants to make a difference and seek career freedom, which financial reward provides. She is passionate about her pursuits — both at work and play.
- Casual dining, especially with friends, is a high priority for Mishy after work or on weekends. She wants to know what she's eating, and prefers organic and healthier foods. Cooking a killer meal is also appealing to her.
- She has a strong social network, and she understands that staying connected is critical to happiness in her spare time.
- Mishy loves to unwind with her favorite pastimes or hobbies, such as socializing, reading, painting, drinking white wine ...
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Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Welcome back, National. Splendid find with MISHY.
Interesting that after hours of being in her boots and socks that just hugged her bare feet, her biggest concern were her natural toenails and not her sweaty, potentially (from her perspective) smelly feet.
While I do like certain colors of nail polish (red is not one of them as it's too common), I'm a fan of natural nails as well, being that they give you a better idea of how nice a gal's feet can actually be when in their natural state.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
BareSoles84 ... A pretty common "concern" of theirs is their toenails not being painted, thinking their feet must be painted for the shoot to look more presentable, they feel. Some of them tell me upfront that they're not painted, thinking that that won't qualify them for the shoot. Others kind of apologize to me for not having their toenails painted when after they remove their shoes and they feel a bit ashamed of themselves for not having their feet "ready". I find it adorable when they apologize on behalf of their toenails not being painted, hoping that I won't think less of them.
The whole bit lasts for a few seconds before I reassure them that they have nothing to feel ashamed of in that regard, that they're the same person with or without the polish. When they see that I'm all right with that, they kind of breathe a sigh of relief and become themselves in front of me. Mishy was no exception.
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
That makes sense that it would be a concern, as one would generally equate "nice feet" with painted toenails, being that it accents the feet. Similar to having makeup on as compared to no makeup.
However, just surprising that would be the first of their concern as opposed to the potential scent of their feet, as one would think that they would think that regardless of the color of their toenails, if they suspect their feet may smell due to them being cooped in shoes all day, the color of their toes wouldn't matter.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: It was late in the afternoon, which meant that she was walking in her boots all day, since 7:30 that morning. Her colorful socks have been so neatly and tightly clothed around her feet, that you'll be able to see some marking impressions that the patters of her socks left on her feet after she stripped them off her semi-sweaty feet. Feet, pure and as they should be.
^ An impression of me after reading that part and then looking at the pictures. Then I did this after I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't help myself. I would magically and instantly at Mishy's feet.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: That makes sense that it would be a concern, as one would generally equate "nice feet" with painted toenails, being that it accents the feet. Similar to having makeup on as compared to no makeup.
However, just surprising that would be the first of their concern as opposed to the potential scent of their feet, as one would think that they would think that regardless of the color of their toenails, if they suspect their feet may smell due to them being cooped in shoes all day, the color of their toes wouldn't matter.
Unpainted toenails is common concern of theirs (it certainly was for someone like Mishy), but there are others as well. I only brought up the toenail thing because I was telling the story about Mishy. Her story was different in that sense. Another concern is the one you mentioned (which wasn't a problem Mishy felt she had). And that other concern plays a part in why they would be on the fence in the first place when it comes to taking their shoes off for me. They would warn me by saying that they've been walking in those shoes all day. That'll be their way of giving me a heads up about the situation of their feet without spelling it out for me, hoping that I'll get the hint. But it wouldn't take long for me to finally get them to go along for the shoot if I see that they're laughing at themselves for feeling a bit embarrassed to admit to something like that to me. It's as if they're saying that they'll do it, "just know that I warned you about it .." If they see that I'm okay about it, then they'll be okay about it.
The thing is, it's not something I try to mention in my stories, with an exception being made to the story I told of Ashley Miles (page 33). Other times they'll warn me about how their feet might smell a few minutes into the shoot, right when they're about to take their shoes off. The vast majority of the times they won't say a word about it; sometimes I would detect a smell when the feet are finally out of the shoes, other times I won't.
-National
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Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Yeah, I can see it from that perspective as well.
If you're going to take pictures of their feet (which is obviously is the case), smelly feet won't affect the pictures themselves at all; however, unpainted toenails would obviously be visible and makes sense why they'd be concerned that their feet wouldn't be the "modeling type", since without polish, they'd likely feel that their feet are less than presentable at that moment.
The smelly feet situation just sort of being a humorous, fair warning type of thing without necessarily worrying about the presentability of their feet from an aesthetic standpoint for the actual photos.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
I love Mishy. I really like how you were able to incorporate the 'Keep Calm, Love Mishy' sign into the series on preview shots at the beginning of the post because it seems like she is a very likable person. They way you describe her makes her very likable. Her feet look real good to me and kudos to her for knowing that she can pull off the look of not painting her toenails in any color whatsoever.
She's a young professional woman and something about that turns me on. She's well dressed and it would surprise or disappoint me that her feet might be smelly, especaily after reading that they were some-what sweaty.
It must be good to be you. Lots of thanks to you, National. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This was a very short shoot for me, but I liked what I was able to get out of it. I really loved how her feet looked, especially her soles. I wished the shoot would've lasted longer because her feet won me over, but it was short and sweet and right to the point.
For some reason I was expecting her feet to have a slightly different shape to it only because of the kind of boots she wore that day. It's not often I come across women who wear those type of work boots. Whenever I do, it's a tough read to guess how they're feet might look like in those boots, probably because the look and style of the boots doesn't have that overly feminine look in the way that Mishy's boots were, for example. I thought she looked pretty nice and was hoping her feet withing those boots would turn out to be something worth stopping for to take some photos of, even if it was just for a little while. This was something to the effect of realizing that the story within the book was better than the cover itself.
Shelby works at a warehouse, which explains why she wears those boots. She is constantly on the move - walking miles of warehouse aisles over the course of her shift, often lifting things that can be heavy at times. She is constantly on her feet. She helps others move things around the place after plastic wrapping the bundles, ... you get the idea. In fact, I'll go as far as to say she was one of the candidates who was extremely hopeful for a promotion in the company she works for.
She doesn't think a whole lot about her feet, but is glad that they don't look ugly. Her feet needed a break and she was glad to have taken that kind of break with me. Her feet look pretty good considering that she probably walks a lot. She never paints her toenails because she doesn't see the need to do it and because they look better that way, she said.
I just love doing this, in which I get to meet these everyday women and have them remove whatever accessory they have on their feet. They feel more relatable and everything just feels as if its closer to home, closer to you. I don't know if she ever got that promotion, but I wish nothing but the best for her.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I remember this shoot. It was with this 19-year-old college freshman. By looking at her feet, you can tell that she's been on her feet quite a bit. I was hoping that that would be the case based on the fact that she was wearing sneakers and it was almost 7:00 in the evening when this shoot happened. I must say that considering the condition her feet were in at the time I met her, some people wouldn't mind it too much while others might mind it a bit. Personally I didn't mind it too much because one doesn't know what he's going to get when he approaches a woman he's never met before and gets them to take their shoes off right on demand without any preparation. Feet, 100 percent pure from their shoes as-is.
She spent most of her afternoon running errands after attending some classes earlier that morning. She talked for a bit about how reliable those running shoes are for her and how she wears them almost religiously. Other than that, we did not speak a whole lot to each other during the shoot because she was trying to get as much done with her math homework assignment as possible. I didn't mind that at all, just as long as she gave me the green light to take my time with the photos, just as long as I didn't distract her from her work. I really like when that's the dynamic of the shoot because one would think that what happened in the shoot would've happened naturally all on its own had I not been there taking those photos, as if her movements were undisturbed by anyone else giving her instructions on what to do next. I really love that style of presentation.
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Actually, prettty similar feet...I thought. Preferred Allyson's, myself. Thanks!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I love how these photos came out, although there wasn't much about the woman that I can remember other than her name (which was music to my ears when she pronounced it to me) and that she's Russian. I remember the exact location in the park in which this shoot took place and I remember it being a very peaceful and comfortable early evening on a Saturday. Pretty ideal conditions for me.
However, I don't remember if she was sitting on a bench or walking at the time I approached her, and I can't remember how she reacted when she heard that I wanted to take pictures of her feet, of all things. I could imagine that she was laughing a little bit because this is not something that a woman hears everyday. I imagine she was all to willing to give her feet to me for the duration of the shoot and just take a break from walking around in those sneakers that looked as if she worn them every day as the midsole of her shoe was partially unglued from the part it was once attached to, which is a trait that is not uncommon when you see women wear something like a Converse. You can tell from the tight the laces were tied, that her feet must've had no oxygen with which to breath with.
Again, I am very proud for how these photos look considering that I don't remember much about the shoot as it was happening. It was a good thing I was there just in time to see her feet see the light of day for the first time in probably many hours.
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Interesting soles, I like em....
Posted by jasespace (Member # 33963) on :
@ Vaana Lomosonova
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
That Vaana name sounds like the name of a superstar tennis player. Love Russian women. That name sounds hot, marketable, very feminine and it makes looking at her pictures all the more fun and pleasurable.
Thanks for this one.
Posted by solemaster1983 (Member # 51210) on :
hot toenails.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
BareSoles 84 ... Yeah, pretty much.
Just the other day, someone didn't want me to take photos of her. Her only reason: her toenails weren't painted. I remember this one time years ago when someone told me that she get her pedicure done every week and that the one time where she decides not to get it done is the same week that someone (meaning me) wants to take pictures of her feet. She let me take the photos anyway, but she regretted not having the pedicure done in time for the shoot that she didn't know she was going to be a part of, being that these shoots are not set up in advance. She told me not to post them on the internet, so I didn't. With someone like an Ashley Miles, it was the other way around ...
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: The smelly feet situation just sort of being a humorous, fair warning type of thing without necessarily worrying about the presentability of their feet from an aesthetic standpoint for the actual photos.
Ashley was a bit concerned about that and not the fact that her toenails weren't painted. It can be a bit humorous in that they way they give me the advance notice almost sounds like they're trying to tell a joke and they expect me to laugh when they get to the punchline of the joke.
Sometimes they'll say something right as they're about to take off their shoes, and other times they won't say anything at all but I will still pick up on the scent sometime after the removal of their shoes. And they'll continue to talk to me about whatever it was we were talking about as if nothing was supposed to happen, completely oblivious to the fact that the smell was able to reach my nose somehow.
These women.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: I love Mishy. I really like how you were able to incorporate the 'Keep Calm, Love Mishy' sign into the series on preview shots at the beginning of the post because it seems like she is a very likable person. They way you describe her makes her very likable. Her feet look real good to me and kudos to her for knowing that she can pull off the look of not painting her toenails in any color whatsoever.
She's a young professional woman and something about that turns me on.
Mishy is a hardworking woman who is very proud of what she does and is very passionate about the creative thinking her imagination can conjure that comes along with advancing her ideas towards having a successful career in the arts and fashion field. She decided to give herself a break when she was walking through Central Park and it was a great thing that I was able to meet someone like her. There is something about a woman in a position like hers that would make a lot of us guys want to have that glorious opportunity to be able to get close to her, to get close to her feet for an extended period of time. Very nice, if you ask me.
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: That Vaana name sounds like the name of a superstar tennis player. Love Russian women. That name sounds hot, marketable, very feminine and it makes looking at her pictures all the more fun and pleasurable.
Thanks for this one.
This could not have been said any better.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Actually, prettty similar feet...I thought. Preferred Allyson's, myself. Thanks!
And in reference to Vaana Lomosonova:
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Interesting soles, I like em....
Thanks for taking notice. I really enjoyed spending some quiet time with Allyson and I really enjoy how Vaana looks in her photos.
solemaster1983 ... I don't blame you for looking at them. Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: BareSoles 84 ... Yeah, pretty much.
Just the other day, someone didn't want me to take photos of her. Her only reason: her toenails weren't painted. I remember this one time years ago when someone told me that she get her pedicure done every week and that the one time where she decides not to get it done is the same week that someone (meaning me) wants to take pictures of her feet. She let me take the photos anyway, but she regretted not having the pedicure done in time for the shoot that she didn't know she was going to be a part of, being that these shoots are not set up in advance. She told me not to post them on the internet, so I didn't. With someone like an Ashley Miles, it was the other way around ...
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: The smelly feet situation just sort of being a humorous, fair warning type of thing without necessarily worrying about the presentability of their feet from an aesthetic standpoint for the actual photos.
Ashley was a bit concerned about that and not the fact that her toenails weren't painted. It can be a bit humorous in that they way they give me the advance notice almost sounds like they're trying to tell a joke and they expect me to laugh when they get to the punchline of the joke.
Sometimes they'll say something right as they're about to take off their shoes, and other times they won't say anything at all but I will still pick up on the scent sometime after the removal of their shoes. And they'll continue to talk to me about whatever it was we were talking about as if nothing was supposed to happen, completely oblivious to the fact that the smell was able to reach my nose somehow.
These women.
Sounds about right to me. Haha.
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: With someone like an Ashley Miles, it was the other way around ...
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: The smelly feet situation just sort of being a humorous, fair warning type of thing without necessarily worrying about the presentability of their feet from an aesthetic standpoint for the actual photos.
Ashley was a bit concerned about that and not the fact that her toenails weren't painted. It can be a bit humorous in that they way they give me the advance notice almost sounds like they're trying to tell a joke and they expect me to laugh when they get to the punchline of the joke.
I was taking a gander at her gallery this evening and reading her bio which made me think of this post again, so I felt compelled to elaborate on and add to it.
It's funny, because the way you say it sounds like some of them are attempting to tell a joke and expect you to laugh when they get to the punchline of the joke, is seemingly exactly what AM did:
"Just thought I'd let you know, I'm quite new here and I've been walking around a lot so far today. I walk in these quite often. Is that, like, okay?"
It's almost like she doesn't want to come right out and say it out of embarrassment, and is trying to humorously convey it. Almost as if it's a game of charades or pictionary or something, and she's hoping that you fill in the blank yourself just based on the picture that she's attempting to paint, so to speak.
"I've been walking around a lot so far today. I walk in these quite often." As if she's essentially ending that by saying "so therefore....."
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Yeah, pretty much. What's even funnier, now that I think about it, is that when I pick up on what it is they're trying to tell me, I, too, must find a way to respond to them in a way that tells them that I understand what they're trying to tell me without me having to say it directly. I know what I said was a bit of a mouthful and it might make some heads spin, but I was only trying to be silly here. What I was trying to say was that just like they don't want to come right out and say it out of embarrassment, and trying to laugh it off as some kind of sophomoric comedy skit, I need to complete the routine by letting them know that I got the hint without being blunt about it, hoping that they get my hint.
So I, and the woman I'm hoping would agree to spend some time with me for this photoshoot from out of left field, will find ourselves talking to each other in this circuitous way when it comes to how she thinks her feet might smell from being confined to her shoes for as long as they have for that day. Ashley Miles is a great example that illustrates what we're talking about.
If she sees that I responded well to her riddle with a riddle of my own, then she's all right with it and will go with the flow of the moment, just like Ashley did.
It's great to see that she is still someone who is of great interest to you and many of the others as well.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I like it when I see a woman take a casual stroll though the park and stop every few moments to observe the views around her, thinking to herself and not bothering anyone. You can tell from the way she dressed that it was a bit on the cool side for anyone who headed outdoors. Just loved how she was able to use her toboggan hat to be able to go so well with her combat boots with its vintage-inspired styling of menswear-inspired details that have a "modern attitude" for the modern female, which then went quite nicely with the rest of her wardrobe.
When told that I wanted to take photos of her feet, she was very nice about it and was very polite to me in return. When getting to know a little bit about her in the little bit of time I spent with her, I would say that Nicole can be described as someone who slightly shows a lack of politeness ... but in a way that is quite amusing and appealing. There's not a lot this woman is afraid of except for insects and other "yucky, icky things" (her words, not mine) with the exception of ants. At one point not too long before I approached her, she found herself crouching on top of an area of soil to see if she can spot some ants crawling within it. That's her more caring and compassionate side to herself.
When she goes out with the girls at night, she loves to get lively and loves to be bold. But on a day and time like the one on the shoot, she wanted to have some time to herself, to be away from everyone else for a while when she decided to take this unplanned visit to Central Park to enjoy the views of the place before spending some time with some guy she's never met before for an unplanned feet photoshoot.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I'm not going to show a whole lot of photos or a whole lot of women this week. If anything, I'm going to use the time this week to fill the gap between the photos I showed last month and the photos I plan on showing everyone next month, which will be the Season Finale of 2017 (usually the best showing of the year in this thread) before I go on my annual winter break.
So this week is going to be pretty short and sweet. But next month, there is going to be a lot to get through for what could be the best presentation of the year in the Natural Park thread.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Nice...I like her soles!
Posted by RexRyan29 (Member # 50140) on :
She has beautiful soles, they look so soft. Love the fresh out the socks lint as well and the size is perfect to me. Great find.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
A series of short shoots.
The first one was a French tourist. I really liked how the soles of her feet looked and how some of the material from her black socks were able to stick to her feet after she had removed them for me. The shape of her soles fits my ideal image for how they should look like. I wasn't expecting her to possess soles that looked like hers, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that they looked how they did when she finally had me see them. SIZE 10.5 (U.S.), 43 (EUR), 8 (U.K.)
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Lisbeth (pronounced leez-beth, not liz-beth) is Norwegian. It was not yet noon when I spotted her walking up a hill to give herself the best view of whatever it was she was going to see on the other side once she got to the top of that hill. I could tell from the way a woman reacts within seconds of finding out that I want to take photos of her feet if I can proceed and spend some time with her while her bare feet are facing me, knowing that I have a foot fetish. I knew from the second I saw her that this was going to happen. Her reaction when she accepted made me happier because she was going to me her "tourist feet", as she put it. SIZE 9.5 (U.S.), 41 (EUR), 7 (U.K.)
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The third woman era una tourista mexicana. The third woman was a Mexican tourist. I first saw her across the driveway. I had to wait for the horse carriage to move past me so that I could cross it and say hi to her. That feeling you get when you walk inside Central Park when suddenly you get that feeling in your gut that tells you that you have found the right kind of woman for a shoot like this. I walked by many attractive women and passed on them. But there was something about her that got my attention more than the others. Wasn't quite sure what that was, but it felt nice to have that feeling of knowing a good thing when she looks as cute as this woman did.
When I first saw her from the other side of the driveway, she stopped to look at the map of Central Park that was standing there. Soon after I said hello to her, that when I noticed that couldn't speak English at all. All was not at a loss, however, because I can speak Spanish. She was relieved to know that because she felt closer to home, as I became someone who I could have normal conversations with in her language.
She wasn't ashamed to show her feet. After seeing how they looked once they came out of her flats, it's easy to see why she had no qualms about doing that. SIZE 7 (U.S.), 37.5 (EUR), 4.5 (U.K.)
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Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Good stuff, National. Thanks for sharing. I like Lisbeth the most of those three. From the descriptions you provided, she seemed the most cheery and effervescent.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
When it comes to Paloma, ay Dios mio!!!
Posted by sftfan (Member # 1959) on :
Anne's sole shape is really hot (size 10.5???). Great work Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Icarus & RexRyan29 ...
Baresoles84 ... I knew you would like Lisbeth more than the other girls I posted this week. She was very fun to talk with. Her gestures or way of speaking or the way she behaved gave me that feeling inside that the rest of my day was going to be just fine.
caseman ... I know what you mean.
sftfan ... I agree with you 100%. Her sole shape is what I look for when it comes to looking for women who will agree to have me snap photos of them.
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That's all I have for this month. That's the bad news. The good news is that this was all in preparation for I what plan on setting up for the season finale next month. What I showed this week wasn't much compared to what I usually show, but I will make up for that next month.
The photos I show in December of each year are meant to be showcased as the presentation that makes everything come all together and put a nice finishing touch to the year.
Some of the best women I've unveiled came from the Season Finale issues over the years such as ...
Nathalie LiveWire! Industria Sunkiss Dalhous
For the season finale next month, someone new just might be added to that list.
Can't wait to show them all to you guys. Take care, and enjoy your holidays coming up.
-National
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: Baresoles84 ... I knew you would like Lisbeth more than the other girls I posted this week.
How did you know? Haha. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84:
quote:Originally posted by National: Baresoles84 ... I knew you would like Lisbeth more than the other girls I posted this week.
How did you know? Haha.
I suppose we have similar tastes in women and feet. Some stand out a little more than others and that's where someone like a Lisbeth came in. Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
quote:Originally posted by National:
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84:
quote:Originally posted by National: Baresoles84 ... I knew you would like Lisbeth more than the other girls I posted this week.
How did you know? Haha.
I suppose we have similar tastes in women and feet. Some stand out a little more than others and that's where someone like a Lisbeth came in.
Makes sense. Sounds about right! Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Last month was a slow period in this thread in where I was just filling time during a moment in which there was not a whole lot going on. I kind of did that on purpose just to set up for what's about to come in the 2017 Season Finale in this thread. And yes, while last month's photos and stories did not get much attention and praise, I am here to say that the stories that will accompany the photos that I will show within a very short time from now will be pretty nice. Unlike last month, the season finale will come through with a presentation that will feel like the way this thread should, a presentation that has really great shoots, a presentation that will feel special, a presentation that feels like a presentation should.
I haven't been this excited about showing a group of photos since last year's season finale right around this time twelve months ago. The upcoming presentation will be a fitting finishing touch to the year before I go on my winter hiatus. And you'll also notice something a little ... different with the photos I will show. It's something I'm blending into my already-unique style which will give this thread a slightly different feel that everyone will definitely appreciate. Stay tuned for what will be my early holiday gift to you all.
In the meantime, what I suggest you do in preparation for the Season Finale is to pull up a chair, roll up a fatty, get some popcorn, get some booze or whatever the heck it is you're gonna need to get through all of this because you're gonna need it. And you'll be glad you did.
-National
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Looking forward to your final offerings this year.
Posted by sftfan (Member # 1959) on :
Can't wait Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: Looking forward to your final offerings this year.
quote:Originally posted by sftfan: Can't wait
I'm right with you guys on that one. The world awaits.
National, after reading your last post, I must ask you a question. Do you work in sales? I ask because that was a pretty good pitch you made and you've gotten me pretty anxious already.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
THE INTRO It's photo shoots like these that make my visits to Central Park well worth its time. For anyone who has never visited the park, there are many things to see and do. As you explore through the City's favorite green space, it is amazing to realize that even if you visit many famous spots in the park and do many things in there, you're still just scratching the surface. Central Park is the natural heart of NYC and nearly every visitor from another part of the country or world heads to that place at some point, especially when the weather is very nice. Whether it's someone who lives in New York or someone who lives somewhere else, making the trip to Central Park is always an experience that will be one of the highlights of the day.
People visit the park for many reasons. For me, it's to meet new women. There are many beautiful ladies that visit the park every single day and not all of them are there to do the same thing. I meet new women who are similar to one another in some ways but very different in others. With so many women in Central Park there to escape the adrenaline rush or from the din and chaos of the surrounding city, they see the park as the one place other than their own homes to take their shoes off and relax from the exercise their feet goes through on a typical day in the City that Never Sleeps. In a city like that's always on the move, these women need the rest and their feet deserves them as well.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC This person is quite the special one. She is the shy one, the introverted one, the quiet and private one. Being the silent kid has been her identity since birth. She doesn't cry much, nor misbehave, nor act out. Her grandmother only remembers one tantrum, and she never hit, screamed, bit, or harmed anything or anyone (aside from her brothers, but that was self-defense!)
She was an 18 year-old high school senior at the time I met her and took photos of this such a pretty person. Into her teen years, and now as a young adult, she's still pretty quiet. People sometimes think she's rude or snobby, others think she is somewhat terrified of them. There are always people assuming they know her personality and feelings based on her shyness. However, the reality is, she is just quiet. Whenever she's around people, it's as if she doesn't have anything she wants to say. Besides, whenever she speaks or is spoken to, she gets a little uncomfortable and nervous. Not that they scared her, but her thoughts in response to them scare her. Most people have trouble understanding that.
She didn't change much throughout her childhood and teenage years. Maybe a little bit, but not in leaps and bounds. People made her feel bad about herself, or as though she should be ashamed of her quiet nature. They made her think she had to change her ways or she'd be doomed! For awhile that seemed about right. She had some friends, but she wasn't a part of the "cool kids" inner social circle. She didn't talk with her family too much because she was so present in her own concerns, she didn't even notice or worry about them. Aside from knowing that she wanted to please others by giving them whatever they wanted, she didn't know how to relate to them or what would interest them. Nothing that came to her mind seemed worth saying. Emotional stuff was touchy, uncomfortable, and unfamiliar. Silly stuff was weird, unprofessional, and inappropriate. This left her with little to work with.
When I first saw her sitting on the rock writing on her notebook, at first I thought she was doing her homework. Instead she was writing down her inner thoughts in her diary. I suppose what drew me to her more than anything else were her glasses and the fact that one could easily tell that she was they type of woman who seemed obsessed with hobbies of intellectual pursuits.
By the way, speaking of those glasses, if you take a closer look at them, you'll see that they lack lenses; she wears them in conjunction with contact lenses. Those were her glasses just a few weeks before I met her for the shoot and she only wears them now solely for aesthetic purposes.
She's overly intellectual. She doesn't think of herself as neither better, nor worse than anyone else - she just ... simply sees the world differently and has to exert more effort to master social graces that come intuitively to others. But there is a certain appeal to women who are like that and who look like her and I was immediately drawn to her, although it wasn't romantic or necessarily sexual even though that's how that term is often used. But I was curious. Curious about HER!
I was curious about the quiet, private, mysterious girl who has become this fascinating creature of sorts. I knew she had something great inside of her that other people couldn't quite understand or capture, even though they tried. I decided that she was someone worth getting to know, someone worth working my way into her world. The more I did this, the more she dug into my world. We met in the middle and talked about things that were uncomfortable, touchy and unprofessional (her definition of what is silly). Things she didn't discuss with other people all that often. Things that weren't important in the big picture! But in those moments, we bonded. After doing this long enough, she realized that we're all kind of throwing words out into a black hole and hoping someone receives them and decides to return some of their own.
The conversations we had made her blush often. She is the type of person who thinks and re-thinks and overthinks everything she does and says. And that's exactly how she communicated her thoughts to me in our conversation ... but I still stuck around! Not everyone does. Some people leave. Sometimes she's the one who has to leave. But, the ones with whom she sticks and sticks with her ... they're kinda cool to her.
Since then, she has gone through a bit of a metamorphosis. She's learned a lot in her cocoon. Now she's willing and ready to share it with the people closest to her. This woman is now fearless! She is ready to take on the world as a woman who seems quite mature for her age. There will be good days and there will be bad days, but in the end, she's still the same ol' her, and that has got to count for something! That seems to be good enough for the right people.
[ April 15, 2018, 04:04 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC It was one of those rare NYC winter days in which it felt like spring (63 °F [17 °C]). On a day like that during the winter, it feels a lot warmer than that.
I was in the park when I came across a woman who was sitting on a bench while chewing on a Natural Valley granola bar. I'm not sure what it is, but I love it when I see a woman, as she's chewing on the bar, turn the thing to the other side to read the section that tells you how the nutrients in one serving of the food contribute to the total daily diet, treating it as a very valuable piece of information. It's one of those non-sexual things that gets my attention. It's an ecstatic euphoria for me. In fact, there came a point in the conversation during the shoot in which she told me about her shopping habits, how she would meet a huge roadblock when evaluating the products she wants to buy at the supermarket, sometimes being confused and concerned about the basic elements that make up the food she buys. Considering that I love women who read the nutritional facts on a cereal box, for example, I loved listening to her talk about that stuff. None of this is to say that she eats healthy 100 percent of the time; when she gets the cravings to eat some fast food, you'll find her at a Wendy's.
What makes my time in Central Park worth its visit is that I get to meet your normal everyday girl - someone who's not famous, someone who you can easily meet and actually get to know. Someone who's approachable and a woman whose vibe and individuality makes you feel that there's a connection between you two, a close-to-home, close-for-comfort kind of feeling. This is that of woman. With her, you'll get that feeling that she's someone who you've known since elementary school. Now she's all grown up, and she is someone you can trust and connect with so so many new levels. She is unassuming, but gives you that "she seems so nice, I'd love to talk to her" feeling. She is wholesome, nice, and the real girl next door.
Her daily life can be described as mundane, routine, natural, and normal. She sleeps at least part of the night and is active during the daytime. She eats two or three meals in a day. Working time mostly involves a daily schedule, beginning in the morning, meaning that she endures the daily rush hour chaos experienced by many millions of other people in a place such as the Big Apple. Evening is often leisure time for her.
Other than her chewing on the granola, I loved her overall casual appearance in that she doesn't attract attention. She's "under the radar," so to speak.
When I brought up the subject of wanting to take pictures of her feet, she laughed and said that it was funny that I wanted to see her feet; not too long before that she had her feet out of her shoes in the park while she was taking a break from walking. She told me that earlier in the day she stepped into a slush puddle that was hard to avoid at a crosswalk. Some of the liquid from that small pool got into her shoes and got her socks wet. She couldn't do anything about it at the time, so she spent some part of her day walking around with wet socks in her shoes. She spent the time in Central Park letting her socks dry up while she was sitting on a rock, playing with her phone while her feet were out of her shoes. What was not funny to her earlier in the day when she stepped into that puddle became funny to her now that she knew that I wanted to take a good look at her feet, take photos of them and move them around at the touch of my hands. What I told her never came across to her as weird in the very least and after laughing about it some more, she said "Sure, why not?"
She gave me the free rein to take a close look at the soles of her feet up close (... very close, in fact), move them around and rub my hands on her soles them as I pleased. I could tell that her socks were not completely dry because her bare feet were still somewhat damp and humid from walking in those socks in those shoes that she walked in everyday. She woke up that morning not knowing that something like this was going to happen to her. The next thing she knew, she's letting some guy who she has never met before touch her feet, showing them freely to him just like that. She got a kick out of that just for thinking about how this whole thing transpired.
"Glad you like my feet. And my naked toenails." "Naked what??" I asked.
I mean I heard her. It was that I loved her choice of word she used to describe her toenails. I guess you can say that I couldn't believe it. I didn't see her mouth the words, but I definitely heard it. From the way she sounded, I knew she was getting into it.
When asked what she meant by naked, she was making reference to the fact that her toenails were not painted. Something about the state of nakedness and something being all natural (in this case her toenails) go hand in hand. I was speechless with how quickly she was adapting to this! In fact, at some time during the shoot, she told me that this experience (the photo shoot) was better than some of her first dates she went on based on how we were spending out time together and because of what the next paragraph talks about.
Our special lady here is makes her living as a documentarist. She talked about what made her decide to do that kind of work, why she loves it. Being in that field has broadened and expanded her knowledgeable about the way she sees something or someone, either visually or mentally, and we got into a great conversation/debate about one of the topics she worked on as a project. It left the two of us with a lot of food for thought and she became truly fascinated with me and what my thoughts were on that subject. The way she listened to me with such earnest and eager attention, it was as if she had found her soulmate. You can just tell when a woman gives you that look as you're conversing with each other. The look on her face was as if she was reading a novel that sparked an awakening to the meaning of her own life. I sensed it from her and it was pierced right through me. We felt the connection.
If there was something she always wanted to do without having any chance of failure, it would be someone who practices taxidermy.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Stay tuned because there is a lot more where that came from I'm going to show them to you as we go through the week. This is my early holiday gift to you all.
Posted by RexRyan29 (Member # 50140) on :
Little mousy girl right up my alley, such tiny feet. Posted by positive/negative (Member # 34116) on :
Little Mousy Girl probably has the tiniest teeniest feet I've seen! She's so cute and her feet are just as cute, too. I really like how you described her. Very detailed oriented.
And Rebecca Ainsley sounds like a winner to me! I can't help but wonder how her feet smelled like from the way you described them. She and Mousy Girl both wear glasses. Love women with glasses. They make me real curious to see how their feet look. Thanks for coming through on my fantasy for glasses girls and how their feet look.
Great photos.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Little Mousy Girl. Small, petite, adorable. Meek, timid, avoids attention and confrontation. She reminds you of that shy girl with glasses that sat in the back of your third period English class. The one that always looked at her feet, and barely ever said a word to anyone.
Speaking of her feet, they are small, petite, and adorable. She must have the smallest feet of all the girls in here, right?
She was probably overlooked by many guys in school, but I'm already in love with her.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Great start to the week!
I like Rebecca here. And I like how these pictures look a bit different from your usual offering, as you alluded to days ago. You did something to the photos and I like it.
Rebecca seems like a real down to earth sweetheart, and I really mean that! I can only imagine being able to look at her feet as up close as you did and how she was so allowing of you to take pictures of her feet. That must have been an extended break that her feet took, considering that she stepped into that snow puddle earlier that day.
The fact that she shopped at Whole Foods fit the narrative that she ate a granola bar during her break in the park.
Thanks so much for being this generous and sharing with your adventures and success with these women in Central Park.
I wish my pillow was as huggable as she is.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
RexRyan29 ...
quote:Originally posted by positive/negative: Little Mousy Girl probably has the tiniest teeniest feet I've seen! She's so cute and her feet are just as cute, too. I really like how you described her. Very detailed oriented.
I have a soft spot for that type girl. I knew that I could get to talk about herself a little bit. Shy women like Little Mousy Girl has a way of calming me, and I open them up.
I think the attraction from me, for her, comes from not a desire for excitement, but a desire serenity. Comfort is what I am looking for.
quote:Originally posted by caseman: Little Mousy Girl. Small, petite, adorable. Meek, timid, avoids attention and confrontation. She reminds you of that shy girl with glasses that sat in the back of your third period English class. The one that always looked at her feet, and barely ever said a word to anyone.
quote:Originally posted by caseman: Speaking of her feet, they are small, petite, and adorable. She must have the smallest feet of all the girls in here, right?
That's right. At size 4 1/2, the Little Mousy Girl has the smallest feet of any woman I've taken photos of (that includes any other woman whose photos I have yet to show).
-National
Posted by foot_fashion_industry (Member # 33265) on :
It seems like you have ushered in a new era with with your new twist on these photos.
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: I like how these pictures look a bit different from your usual offering, as you alluded to days ago. You did something to the photos and I like it.
I agree. Whatever was done to the photos, I think it suits you quite well and it is a nice way to compliment your style of work, your style of photography. For example, I like how the bottom left and right hand corners appear to be foggy in these two photos and not in some of the others:
There are other changes to the other photos as well, but I just wanted to point to those two photos in the links above as examples. I like how the fogginess in the second link (the Rebecca Ainsley one) makes the bottoms of her shoes look like they've been through a lot, especially in that particular day when she was walking on the snow through the streets of New York.
And while we're on the subject of Rebecca, I find myself feeling like I have this bond with her because the way you described her, she is the quintessential girl next door. She looks like someone who I can get along with. Her toes look good, I like how they're kind of long. Her soles are just ok, but I would not pass on the opportunity if they were presented to me on a silver platter.
I love the last few photos in the set in where she laid on the rock with her feet elevated.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Talking about Rebecca Ainsley:
quote:Originally posted by National: In fact, at some time during the shoot, she told me that this experience (the photo shoot) was better than some of her first dates she went on based on how we were spending out time together
We're not even half way through the week, and I think we've found ourselves a winner with this girl, Rebecca! If you're gonna start the week with her, as amazing and down to earth as she is, then who's NEXT?!
I'm addicted to reading the story about her. And I've become hooked in looking at her pictures.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC When I saw this woman for the first time, I knew immediately that she would be all too willing to go along with allowing me to see bare feet out in the open based solely on the fact that she wore knee-high socks that day. Yes, it was entirely possible that she was going to turn me down, but the thought of that never crossed my mind. I saw her, I knew she would make for a pretty good shoot, someone who would make this collaboration with me a very easy story to tell through the photographs that came from it.
I forgot how I said this exactly, but in essence I told her very simply about how much liked her socks and boots combination, and how well the go with everything else she has on. She really appreciated how I was able to compliment her sense of style in a way that was so nicely worded. The fact that that compliment came from someone who she never met before was something that lifted her spirits. She said that they way I said it made her feel that it gave her clothes a new sense of life. I wanted to take photos of her socks away from her boots and her feet away from those socks. Now the conversation got a bit more interesting and she credited me on how I was so clever to have been able to make that uninterrupted transition from one aspect of the introductory stage of the conversation into a different topic. So much so that she agreed to do this shoot. To her, it was easy as if I had asked her is she could help me bake this cake ... just because.
This is the only woman of all the ones I've shot before and since who has talked about paranormal experiences she has encountered. Experiences with an S at the end. I forgot exactly how those stories went, but I think she used to live in a haunted house and a ghost would appear from out of nowhere in the middle of the night as she was sleeping. I don't remember if she ever spoke to them or if they spoke to her, but there was never a time in which she felt terrified or in danger. She felt as if the ghosts were watching over her, protecting her. Her stories reminded me of the ones I saw on Unsolved Mysteries way back in the days.
I felt that there was very little chance that her feet would really disappoint me because of the knee-high socks factor. I couldn't wait to see the act of her taking off her socks that were encased inside her boots, letting her toes and soles see the light of day for the first time in what had to have been hours. I wasn't disappointed with hot her feet looked. I was glad I had the chance and the time to see her feet up close in personal. So nice.
Towards the end of the shoot, she told me that she knew she was going to like being a part of the shoot, but what exceeded her expectations was that the shoot turned out to be "waaaay more comfortable and relaxing" than she thought it would be. She loved how I was able to make time slow down when she thought I was going to rush things through. That was break she had been looking for all day, although she never thought it would happen the way it did, which was a great thing.
When the shoot ended, that was when she decided to tell me that she had just found just a few days before that she was pregnant; she was going to become a mother for the first time. The shoot ended on a very positive note, and I was so happy for her when she told me the news. I wish(ed her) nothing but the best in her life and in the upbringing of the life of the child she was going to give birth to.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC This was probably my favorite shoot of all the ones that are being presented this week in the season finale.
Sometimes it is what the woman is wearing that will immediately draw my attention to them. How she styled her hair told me that this was going to be a pretty interesting shoot. Her boots went perfectly with everything she wore that day. Sometimes you come across someone who you know would make for a good shoot. I wanted to take photos of her and there was no way I was going to pass up on this one.
Her name is Corinna and she stands about six feet tall (183 cm). The elastic close-fitting garment she wore over her legs went down to her ankles. I say this because when I first saw her I wasn't sure whether it was leggings or stockings. If they were stalkings, then I wasn't going to ask her if she would remove the whole thing just so I can see her bare feet. When she told me in Spanish that it wasn't stalkings, I was so relieved to hear that because that meant she could sit down with me to have this shoot. She was ready and perfectly willing and able to untie her punk boots and letting me see her feet out in the open so that they can take a break from its activity of walking around so much. They needed to relax and so did she.
I mentioned earlier that Corinna speaks Spanish. She has lived her entire life in Spain before moving to New York a few years ago. She speaks perfect English and is comfortable speaking it all day long. I can speak Spanish as well, but I always loved how the Spaniards speak it because the varieties of the Spanish language are quite divergent from one country to another, especially in pronunciation and vocabulary. Spaniards pronounce certain letters with a “th” sound, which to foreigners may sound something like a lisp, but it is actually just their accent. It is her accent in every aspect. It's pretty awesome that she hasn't lost it after living in New York for the amount of time that she has while at the same time not speaking with an accent that is as close to American as one can possibly get without making that lisp sound. So we spoke in both languages throughout the shoot, but mostly Spanish.
Corinna can be described as someone who is a bit rough around the edges, but she is always nice, always polite and very respectful towards other people. Come to think about it, despite her outward appearance - yes, she looks a bit unpolished or unsophisticated - despite that, I think what won me over more than that was getting to know how calm and natural she really is when it comes how she shows behavior that is respectful and considerate to others. The fact that she dresses the way means she is her own person and not defined or refined by what society thinks she should be. She takes that as a compliment.
She thought that I wasn't going to like her feet because her toenails weren't painted. She thought of turning me down for a second only because of that but then decided to go for it because there's no harm in doing this with a guy who she felt was comfortable with what he was talking about and wasn't nervous about something as innocent as feet, she later told me.
It's been years since Corinna last painted her toenails. The last time she did, it reminded her why she never liked doing it in the first place. And I must say that her toenails look incredibly well and kept in fantastic condition, as we can see how they look on its own in its natural state of being. I think it's best she keeps them that way.
To delve into her personality a bit more, listen to one of her favorite bands here. It's not her favorite favorite band, but she likes them nonetheless. She was giving off a list of bands she likes and this was one of them. Everything kind of comes alive when the song is playing and it brings us a bit closer into the person Corinna is.
SOUNDS Artist: Alter Bridge Song: Farther Than The Sun
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Here we have a mature woman in her late-30s, stands 6'1'' tall (185 cm) with big feet. To get to where she is in life, she went through eight years of college study (four years of undergraduate pre-professional coursework, followed by four academic years in some professional program) to earn her Doctor of Pharmacy degree to become a pharmacist. She is a health professional who, in addition to dispensing prescription medication to patients, she also provides information about the drugs their doctors have ordered for them. She explains physicians' instructions to patients so these individuals can use these medications safely and effectively.
There are times when I can tell right away if the woman I catch a glimpse of will go along for this unplanned shoot with me. Other times it's hard to tell. In that case, I'll still ask for permission to take photos of her feet, hoping for the best. This was one of those times.
I went up to her because from what she wore at the time, you can tell that this is someone who jogs quite a bit. She didn't jog that day, just for the record. She wore the outfit simply to take a long walk through the park, to get out and really enjoy what was beautiful day to be out. The outfit motivates to walk for as long as she was do so.
Even though she jogs on a somewhat regular basis before going to work in the mornings, she is still trying to convince herself that that's something she wants to do on a more permanent basis. She almost never jogged throughout her life. In fact, for exercise, her passion was competitive swimming. It was exhausting, but also addictive. Now that she does what does for a living, applying her critical thinking (solving problems and knowing how to weigh the merits of possible solutions) and clinical skills as a pharmacist, she has little to no time to devote herself to swimming as a sport and has to find something else to keep herself in shape. So she's going to give jogging a try.
There are times when she feels that her legs and feet are giving out on her considering that she jogs and that her job can be physically demanding since she spends the majority of her shift standing. But she keeps going. She keeps moving forward because she doesn't know when to quit. She doesn't when to quit because she wants to help herself by exercising and wants to help others by being able to connect with her patients and provide them with consultation, vaccinations, and good service to her patients.
A true professional at what she does and a helpful individual. I'm glad she was helpful with me in taking some time out in her walk to remove her running shoes and socks for me. If there's anyone whose big feet needed the relaxation, it was her's.
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Posted by jasespace (Member # 33963) on :
Your work shows that you are very artistic, National. My thoughts on Corinna Metal and her photos:
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
Well played on these newest photos you posted of Julie, Corinna, and Patricia. It shows that you really know what you're doing and I am very thankful to seeing all of this so freely in the way that you're doing this. You're really going all out in this season finale. Thanks.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
quote:Originally posted by RexRyan29: Little mousy girl right up my alley, such tiny feet.
Hear hear! Great work, N.P.! Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
Nice finishing way to end the story with Julie Nurture. She looked like a happy mother-to-be in the shoot. Although she wasn’t visibly pregnant in the shoot, I think there’s something beautiful about seeing well done pictures that are done in good taste, showing a woman who is expecting her first child. Looks like you treated her with respect. I tip my hat off to you, sir.
Posted by jediofthefeet (Member # 1463) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: NATURAL CLASSIC
What makes my time in Central Park worth its visit is that I get to meet your normal everyday girl - someone who's not famous, someone who you can easily meet and actually get to know. Someone who's approachable and a woman whose vibe and individuality makes you feel that there's a connection between you two, a close-to-home, close-for-comfort kind of feeling. This is that of woman. With her, you'll get that feeling that she's someone who you've known since elementary school. Now she's all grown up, and she is someone you can trust and connect with so so many new levels. She is unassuming, but gives you that "she seems so nice, I'd love to talk to her" feeling. She is wholesome, nice, and the real girl next door.
Her daily life can be described as mundane, routine, natural, and normal.
Other than her chewing on the granola, I loved her overall casual appearance in that she doesn't attract attention. She's "under the radar," so to speak.
What was not funny to her earlier in the day when she stepped into that puddle became funny to her now that she knew that I wanted to take a good look at her feet, take photos of them and move them around at the touch of my hands. What I told her never came across to her as weird in the very least and after laughing about it some more, she said "Sure, why not?"
She gave me the free rein to take a close look at the soles of her feet up close (... very close, in fact), move them around and rub my hands on her soles them as I pleased. I could tell that her socks were not completely dry because her bare feet were still somewhat damp and humid from walking in those socks in those shoes that she walked in everyday. She woke up that morning not knowing that something like this was going to happen to her. The next thing she knew, she's letting some guy who she has never met before touch her feet, showing them freely to him just like that. She got a kick out of that just for thinking about how this whole thing transpired.
"Glad you like my feet. And my naked toenails." "Naked what??" I asked.
I mean I heard her. It was that I loved her choice of word she used to describe her toenails. I guess you can say that I couldn't believe it. I didn't see her mouth the words, but I definitely heard it. From the way she sounded, I knew she was getting into it.
When asked what she meant by naked, she was making reference to the fact that her toenails were not painted. Something about the state of nakedness and something being all natural (in this case her toenails) go hand in hand. I was speechless with how quickly she was adapting to this! In fact, at some time during the shoot, she told me that this experience (the photo shoot) was better than some of her first dates she went on based on how we were spending out time together and because of what the next paragraph talks about.
Our special lady here is makes her living as a documentarist. She talked about what made her decide to do that kind of work, why she loves it. Being in that field has broadened and expanded her knowledgeable about the way she sees something or someone, either visually or mentally, and we got into a great conversation/debate about one of the topics she worked on as a project. It left the two of us with a lot of food for thought and she became truly fascinated with me and what my thoughts were on that subject. The way she listened to me with such earnest and eager attention, it was as if she had found her soulmate. You can just tell when a woman gives you that look as you're conversing with each other. The look on her face was as if she was reading a novel that sparked an awakening to the meaning of her own life. I sensed it from her and it was pierced right through me. We felt the connection.
If there was something she always wanted to do without having any chance of failure, it would be someone who practices taxidermy.
I would like anyone who reads my reply to carefully review National's commentary about why he enjoyed his Central Park visits, how he describes REBECCA AINSLEY's lifestyle, how he turned something negative into something positive, and how he made something deemed offensive or perverse, into something normal and fun. And be sure to read the quotation he posted in large font. That was the reason I quoted some parts of it in my reply.
REBECCA AINSLEY reminds me of one of my most open-minded, creative models in many ways. She resembles her almost completely, is into artistic media a form of expression [my model was a photographer with her own studio], wears glasses, is very unassuming in her appearance, and has "naked toenails". So when I saw her, I felt compelled to reply! Think of a girl who you once had a crush on, or knew, and years later, you saw her doppelganger. You'd feel compelled to go meet her, wouldn't you?
There are many REBECCA AINSLEY types on this planet. I call them "Sleepers" because we usually sleep on them because they fly under our radar, rarely getting a second glance from us. But the moment we see their feet, they suddenly because "the Dos Equis Woman", and is the most interesting woman in the room! Dude, she was there the entire time, but because society spoon feeds and dictates what our eyes and minds are to register as beautiful, handsome, and approach-worthy, she got right by you! Open your mind, and your eyes will follow.
I am a huge fan of naked, or bare nails. It shows how confident a woman is with her appearance. She doesn't feel the need for smoke and mirrors. Take her as she is, or not at all. And trust me, when a REBECCA AINSLEY decides to doll herself up, she will generally blow away most girls who society accepts as perfect.
Hmmm. I wonder if she realized the irony that as someone who makes documentaries as her art, she became part of National's documentary.
All in all, I must say, seeing her was a fantastic way to wrap up the year as a fan of National's work. It is a first that I didn't specifically make any comments about the feet of the girl National met and photographed.
As I mentioned, his commentary moved me as much as his subject did. So this time, I decided to do something different to reflect that fact.
That is something I want all of you to do for yourselves. Do something different in your lives for 2018, and see how the results will astound you! Happy Holidays!!!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
In response to Jedi's post.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't think there's much more that needs to be added here if the discussion revolves around Rebecca (I mean, if anyone else wants to add his take on her, then by all means do so. ). What Jedi said was something I don't think I could've said any better myself, and this is coming from someone who was actually there for the shoot and someone who went on to know even more about her very well.
The paragraph with the Dos Equis reference was probably the bow on top of the neatly wrapped Christmas box because it encapsulated how I felt during the shoot and her persona all too well.
She is not an all-night uber-party girl who's fan of clubbing and she is not afraid of being home. She loves to spend her Sundays in the winter binge watching episodes 6-9 of that show on Netflix or some other show on her DVR, for example. When she talks, you feel that you want to get to know her even more. Rebecca is awesome!
You, Jedi, must keep great track of how you comment your message on my thread because ...
quote:Originally posted by jediofthefeet: It is a first that I didn't specifically make any comments about the feet of the girl National met and photographed.
BareSoles84 has a habit of doing this as well. Doing it that way produces great pieces of commentary and dialog.
What Jedi said is something that could easily close out the week and the season. But there are more photos I want to show. This week's presentation is not over because there will be more to see before the week is over.
Thanks so much for such a wonderful testimonial.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC The beginning of this encounter was quite different than how things usually begin when I approach someone. Usually what would happen is that the woman would accept the request of letting me take photos of her feet in sixty seconds or less and then we start walking towards the location to where the shoot would take place. Even though this case was different in all of the others I've shown in this thread in terms of how quick we would walk to the spot where I would take the photos of the women, I was still pretty confident that we were going to make some magic happen. Ladies and Gentlemen, this approach was mine to lose - meaning that I was so confident that I was going to win her over, that the only way I could lose her at that point would be if I defeated myself. Whether I was to be successful in this approach depended on my actions, and not on circumstances beyond my control.
So what happened was she was sitting on a bench, reading a book. But when I saw her, she was from quite a distance away from where I was. I felt a little lazy in making my way all the way to her. Besides, there were other nice looking women sitting and walking through the park at spots that were much closer to me. So I kept on walking, thinking nothing of it.
About an hour later, and not having taking photos of anyone during that time, I found myself back at the same area where I saw this first girl (the woman in the photos you're about to see), only this time I was standing much closer to her. I was happy to see that she was still there because from the first time I saw her up until the moment I saw her again, I had forgotten about her completely.
She was still reading the book and probably taking down some notes as well. If a woman who looks like her is just sitting there, and you're just standing right there, why not say hi to her? If I did not approach her, I was never going to see her again. I was lucky to have been given a second chance here and I wasn't going to let her go this time.
So I sat down beside her. When I brought up the topic of taking pictures of her feet, she wanted to know why feet and why her. From the way a woman first reacts to me is an indication of whether it's an open invitation for me to proceed or if I should stop right there and look for someone else. From having to approach so many women over the years, I knew immediately from the way she spoke those questions, that I was given the green light to pursue this even further. The next thing I knew, I found myself having a ten-minute conversation with her about women's feet and I why I find them appealing in the way that I do.
This was the only time in which I had to have an engaging conversation with someone for as as long as she and I had before the shoot even started. She was quizzing me about many things surrounding the philosophies, the conception, the essential features that conjure what something is. In this case, that something being foot fetishism. that it felt as if she was interviewing me to see what makes feet so fascinating so that she could get the finest material en route to finally getting started on writing that erotic novel. She was trying to tap into my own knowledge of my soul, I felt like.
The conversation took place on a bench in a very quiet setting in which the only things that were making any noises were the light breezes blowing through the branches of the trees and the calling of yellow-bellied flycatchers. This was like introducing a new girlfriend to your fetish, and the girlfriend - unprejudiced, showing a mind receptive to new ideas - already thinking ahead to how she can please her man.
The more I spoke, the closer I inched towards her. When she saw that I was comfortable with myself and wanted to get closer to her, she moved her personal belongings (that was sitting between us) to the side to allow herself to inch closer to me. There was a connection sparked between us and we both sensed it.
In that conversation, she talked a bit about herself. She's quite the spiritual being and she seemed to love that I spoke a like a poet or a spiritual guide to her. The way she spoke - the pervasive quality that was emanating from her - was that of someone who had the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision, like a woman who was able to detect things that aren't normally recognized by the senses.
So we talked for ten to fifteen minutes on that bench. I knew she wanted to go along with it from the beginning. She wanted me to explain why feet and why her. I never gave her any impression that this was weird or spooky. Instead, her interpretation of what our conversation meant was that her feet was something to be valued for its supposed magical powers or something that has been inhabited by a spirit. She was sold from beginning to end. I painted us (guys with a foot fetish) in the utmost respectable light.
We went somewhere to have the shoot where she relaxed and became herself again. The shoot was genuine and the shoot was real. Real women, real feet in real-life conditions, the way they should naturally be.
After the shoot, we felt it was a good idea to leave the park at one and the same time and to enjoy our company with one another somewhere else. The night was young.
Amazing pictures. What cameragear do you use?
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
The stuff you did with Dove Ethereal is incredible. I don't know how you do the things you do, but keep doing them. And I agree with Peeter: amazing pictures.
Posted by jasespace (Member # 33963) on :
My reaction to Dove Ethereal:
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Peeter: Amazing pictures. What cameragear do you use?
I am very glad that you like my pictures a lot.
To answer your question, I don't like talking about technique and gear. Photography has never been about gear for me. Photography is about expression. It does not matter the camera, the brand, the lens, the exposure. Only the final image counts, regardless what you used to achieve it, and the emotions it triggers. A camera is a tool with which to create new works of art. I'm using art as the expression of imagination. Imagination is something I use to help me see things differently from other people.
Boring photos are boring when they are the same thing everyone else sees and shoots. With photography, you either show people something they haven't seen before or you show something they have seen before but in a very different way.
Working the camera is easy; knowing how and where to take that camera, and when and where to point it, is the hard part.
It's never about the camera; it's all about taking whatever you've got, looking around, and then taking the picture. Once you find a picture worth taking, it's still never about the camera. It's always about knowing how to use it. The kind of camera is irrelevant.
Pens are all very different, but they have far less to do with what's written than what's written. Would you rather have a $10 check written out to you with a fancy pen, or a $10,000 check written with a BIC ballpoint? It's exactly the same with photography: what's in the photograph is far more important than how the photograph was made. The message matters, not the medium.
Photography is about new points of view. It's not about pixel size, color space or bit depth (just for the record, the last two things I mentioned are things I know nothing about). It's also not about shooting at tripod or eye-level height. Photography is all about what's in your frame, not what's in your bag. It's all about moving yourself and seeing something worth seeing, in the strongest possible way.
I would much prefer people to be moved or touched emotionally than to think technically when they see my work. I want people to go to another place when they see my photographs - and for the photographs to speak for themselves. I want my photographs to be taken on their own terms. There has to be some alchemy – some mystery.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by foot_fashion_industry: It seems like you have ushered in a new era with with your new twist on these photos.
Essence is my style. It's how I express myself, it's how I express the stories of these women. To embrace my style is to never work against myself. It is the basic, real, and invariable nature that makes what I do true, makes what do genuine. It makes these women true, it makes these women authentic and real rather than imaginary. We are delving into the essence of the real girl next door, the everyday girl. These are the unassuming and wonderful girls or women who live nearby.
Over the years I have slowly changed my style of how I present these women through the photographs I take, through the images I show. Over the years I tried to recreate and kind of reinvent myself by the end of each year, and by doing so it keeps it interesting for me and the viewers of my artwork.
The new style, how these photos look different than how they did last year, has me feeling as if I'm in a great place right now. Life is so short and I'm happy to be doing what I'm doing, and you guys are feeling it - it is resonating with you guys. It is beautiful, and I can't wait to show you guys how my work is going to look like a year from now, then two years from now, etc. You look at my work that I'm showing this week and compare that to my photo style from way back in the beginning (the early stuff that I showed from Bryant Park days), you will see just how I became a completely different person. So I can't wait for you guys to see how my photos will look a year or two into the future because you will see that I have tried different things to keep things interesting, to keep things fresh, but also keeping it "my style." So I'm excited for what the future holds. And then I'm done.
The photos I've posted this week marked the beginning of a new era. This era will be known as the Inner Essence Phase.
-National
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC This woman was New York visiting from Brasil, and in some sense she was the wife I never married. I can't pinpoint exactly why I felt that way about her, but this was one of those few times in which the woman I took photos of would've wound up being someone I could've married and spend the rest of my time with. I started to feel that way as we got closer to the end of the shoot. The fact that I was enamored with the look, size and shape of the soles of her feet, that certainly helped make it easier for me to feel the way I did about her. She takes great care of her toenails and I love how the fact that they were not painted with any particular color made it more noticeable for me to admire how those nails blended in perfectly with the color of her skin, clean and clear. Her soles were a bit moist when they came out of her shoes. Due to the fact that they were out for so long during the shoot, just a small portion of the skin from underneath her big toe dried out from being exposed to the air. I guess you'll have to excuse that.
She spoke okay English, but it didn't matter. When the wife you will never wed can't speak your language too much (or too well), you will find ways to keep the bond between the two of you as strong as it can be.
I've taken photos of many women. It's rare that I come across someone in which I feel that the woman in front of the camera can be my wife, which harbors a connotation that runs deeper, and feels more affectionate than someone who's "just" your girl. Someone with feet I will never kick out of bed, someone who is calmly beautiful, someone who is stress free, someone who can please her man and who yearns to receive the same treatment in returns and keeps what happens behind closed doors behind closed doors.
I don't know. Maybe it's just me, but there was something about her quiet nature, her youthful beauty, her freedom in her schedule to allows the two of us to talk about ourselves to one another, something ... there was something there that made me feel that she was that kind of woman for me.
She lives in another country. She'll remain the wife I never married ...
And that does it, ladies and gentlemen. This will end the 2017 season of the Natural Park thread. I want to thank all of you who has taken the time to comment and greatly appreciate the work I have put together to that has made this thread the iconic platform that it has clearly become. I will now go on my winter hiatus from posting new photos in this thread, and the new season will open to the public in Spring 2018.
Thanks to all. Enjoy the rest of your time and Happy Holidays to all of you. This week has truly been the best gifts that kept on giving.
-National
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
THE INTRODUCTION The authentic girl next door is used to describe what all these women are. Even if the terms can range in terms of personal definition, we are usually defining a girl or woman who appeals to traditional gender norms with the allure of simplicity, purity, and charm, with a natural, modest, or effortless beauty.
These women have certain ordinary qualities that usually transforms from unremarkable to idealistic. A distinct lack of flashiness is key to identifying the girl next door, as well as honesty and a sense of humor. An element of realness is implied here when I describe who these women are in the Natural Park thread, distinguishing them from other girls who might be seen as "fake."
Someone's sense of style might be described as very girl next door if she wears natural-looking makeup and dresses in clothes that make her appear wholesome or conservative. Their look can be often defined as cute and not necessarily sexy.
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The Natural Park is completely free of escorts, strippers, or adult industry performers. Not that I don't like them; besides, the internet is for porn, and I enjoy being entertained by what I see from adult entertainers during my free time. But for the purposes of this thread, I only feature non-professional, real amateur girls from next door. These are exclusive and amateur girls I have personally approached at Central Park and ask if they would simply take their shoes off and pose their feet for me just for the fun of it. One of these women may be the girl who lives in Apartment 7D, just a couple of floors down from where you are; they are women who use public transportation everyday, just like you do.
These are real people. She may be your female co-worker or that girl who works over there at the local grocery market, all showing their feet, as-is, in its existing state, in the conditions they presently exist or as found on inspection immediately prior to shoe removal, even if they're not 100 percent pristine. These are feet that appear in their real-life and natural normal state in regards to their appearance and quality.
Welcome to Natural Park! I will see you guys very shortly.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
The mood, environment, and the atmosphere was a match to the pleasing visual combination I was able to find in this lovely, quiet and very peaceful 23 year-old French-Canadian was spotted sitting on the grass, just people watching and enjoying the scene.
I saw her, and everything became so clear to me. It was as if she was placed there specifically for me to find, for me to know a little bit about her simply by walking up to her, say hi, hear how her voice sounds, and see where it goes from there. It was a great thing I decided to take the step in walking to her, talking to her, befriending her. Doing this reminds me of how refreshing it feels to talk to different women every time I'm out there because it's great for your health, you feel so much better just becoming close to someone, chemicals are released to relieve any stress, giving way to the feel-good feelings rushing through your body.
Her feet were already out of her shoes when I went up to her, but for some reason I didn't take any photos of whatever it was she wore on her feet that day. I don't remember what type of shoes they were, but I remember feeling that I didn't like them ... at all. Looking back on it, I wish I had taken photos of them, even if they were a pair of footwear I don't particularly care for.
I love how healthy her feet looked, how very comfortable she was with letting me take photos of them for as long as I wanted, all the while having normal conversations about nothing in particular that made the early-afternoon go by faster, all the while making the air in the park smell that much purer, all the while being in our peaceful little bubble together.
I love the contrast in colors of the soles to her feet: the colors between the part that's walked on, giving it that pink/red/wine color, and the inner part of the sole, which is pure white. The varieties of the color red on the outer portions of the sole may differ in hue, saturation or tone in different women, but I love the color coordinates of the pigment her red was naturally able to produce.
Towards the end of the shoot, there were a group people tossing a frisbee to each other close by to where I was shot the photos. Some of them couldn't help themselves but look over to see what we were doing. Which was fine by us, by the way - and the woman I was taking photos of certainly didn't mind. To her, it was as if what I was doing was very common.
Welcome back. Nice find with this girl; I really like her soles and your description accurately delineates them as far as the contrast in color from the balls, outer sole and heels, to the inner arches. This pigmentation detail in soles is something that I'm fond of as well.
Can't wait to see what else you have lined up for this season.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Lovely!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Two quick ones.
The first is a Russian girl who was enjoying leisure time, reading a novel titled The Marriage Plot. She must've enjoyed the book quite a bit because she was getting close to the end of reading the whole thing when I went up to her. I thought she was very pretty; I loved how her face and her hair looked - pleasant to the sight and soft to the touch.
There is something about her shoes that goes well with her tight jeans, classic denim jacket, and her stylish black and grey stripped shirt. A woman who looks like her, dressed like her, spending her quiet time in a park reading a novel, is someone a man would love to together with. Someone like myself would love sit beside her, talk to her and see how her feet would look when they come out of her shoes, finally free, in its natural form. She wore no socks, which would only make you imagine if they were moist in the type of shoes designed in the way hers were that day.
She was the first woman I can remember who removed her shoes in the form that she did it. It was nice of her to give her time to me, to allow me to see her feet when I wanted to see them.
Fifteen minutes after I shot photos of Bosomy Lovely, I ran into this European beauty from Paris, France. We were walking towards each other and I had to say something to her. The possibility of her rejecting my proposal to allow me to take photos of her feet never crossed my mind.
It has often been said that French girls have that certain je ne sais quoi that speaks to an elegance that is neither boastful or overbearing but sharply present nonetheless. Being that Paris is certainly an epicenter for the world's most fashionable designers, this woman in particular is no exception to the rule that French women are always dressed very well. While an American woman wouldn't think twice about heading to the grocery store in sweat pants, a hoodie and sneakers, that simply is not the case for our foot model here. Just like most French women, this woman would not consider stepping out of the house in sneakers simply because they were comfortable. It is true that you would never -- or very rarely -- catch a French woman in the supermarket with sweats - especially in Paris, especially with her, whether it's in France or New York; that's how she prefers to go out. Taking taxis and walking are consistent modes of transportation for her.
She was on her way to meet up with her boyfriend. If she was nice enough about it to give me a few moments of her time, then I'm just fine with that.
I was glad to have been able to catch her at the time I did because the bottoms of her feet were not entirely clean. When she expressed some concerns about me not liking her feet, that was probably the reason why. Seeing feet in their purest form like the way hers were reminded me why I love doing what I do.
Thanks, Icarus. Even if you liked one more than the other, what was it about the two women I just showed that you liked? I like to know what went through your mind a bit when you saw the photos to those two ladies.
@BareSoles84 ... Something about the varying colors to Quiet Dream's soles that makes them more inviting. It's an intricate aspect to this fetish of ours that makes us like what we like.
Thanks for welcoming me back. I am genuinely glad to see you again, and I'm looking forward to the commentaries you will provide throughout the months to come.
Cheers!
-National
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Pillowy soles to burry my face in, especially the later one. Both had that innocent girl-next-door look.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
It was Sunday, it was a very nice day, and Central Park becomes a place where you'll see many women hanging out, enjoying themselves. Being outside on a day like that, taking advantage of a newly warm spring day in the park puts you in a happier mood; you feel better on longer days when there's more available sunshine. It leads to a better mindset and it reduces stress. For some reason this particular shoot perfectly summarizes just how comfortable we felt with one another, both the lady and I. Everything about this shoot, from the weather, from getting to know a little bit about her, from how it was all marked by utter calm and an unruffled repose of quietude, everything slows down, allowing you the time to be grateful for the moments life gives you.
I was walking along when I just happened to look to my right. Just past the ridge of the hill, there she was lying on the grass. I could not believe I was able to spot her the way I did because had I walked just few inches to my left, away from the hill, I could've easily missed her and kept on walking, missing out on the opportunity to meet this woman. It was a great thing I saw her. I walked up the hill to get a better look of who she was. One thing that caught my attention was the Whole Foods bag right beside her. It's one of those things for me that makes me like a woman even more when I see her with a bag full of groceries from that store. She was having a picnic by herself, enjoying her healthy mid-afternoon snacks she bought from that place, as she was reading a book.
What we have here is a happily married woman of a certain age. She's not young anymore but not yet old - you know what I mean? Everything about this woman I found very attractive from the way she looked, to how presentable she dressed, to the book she read, to the mature conversations we had.
I typically don't see women wearing Sperry's on their feet, but I really enjoyed how they looked on her. She must love how they look on herself as well considering she's wore them numerous times before based on the condition they were in. She allowed me to remove those shoes from her feet, and I loved the texture of the footwear, the quiet sound they made as I took them off for her. I love the look of the feet themselves. Feet look good when they are well taken care of, and hers were both.
She's an intelligent woman who lives a good life. She's a lovely person for saying positive things about her husband. She's a great conversationalist, easy going, and someone who makes the situations around her more simple than they usually are. Seeing her feet in the way she allowed me to really made the day more enjoyable and made the spring air smell that much crisper and pure. Her husband has found himself the right woman.
I hope you guys enjoy the photos I'm contributing to this forum. Please show your support. I hope everyone here is having a fantastic week. Thanks.
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
The Good Wife has some nice feet. I like the fact that she was wearing Sperrys as well. While I wouldn't say they are necessarily the best looking shoes, I do like the fact that females generally wear them sockless and they tend to convey a more casual, relaxed attitude.
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
You're off to a good start this year. Here is for your last three entries.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
SPRING CLEANING Every now and then, I unload some images that have slipped into the deep crevasses of my hard drive. In several cases, I find that one particular gallerie is simply too small for an update. I have to do something with them. You can think of it as Spring cleaning.
Showing the entire set of these "hidden" shoots would not do much to help them stand out. Also, none of these photos can be enlarged by clicking on them. By showing just a few photos of these women, it'll somehow make people want to know more about them and would make them wonder if there's more to them I'm not showing.
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So there you have it. Enjoy. Next update will return to the standard format with a woman I'm sure you will like.
-National
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
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This one looks intriguing...
Posted by sftfan (Member # 1959) on :
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This one is worth posting!
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And this one...
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: The Good Wife has some nice feet. I like the fact that she was wearing Sperrys as well. While I wouldn't say they are necessarily the best looking shoes, I do like the fact that females generally wear them sockless and they tend to convey a more casual, relaxed attitude.
With the exception of Dove, they do tend to wear Sperry's sockless, now that you mention it. I had a feeling that The Good Wife would entice you to say something, probably because you were very fond of one other woman I posted who wore the same type of shoes (the one pictured below on the far left). Other than these three women, I can't remember another time in which I took photos of someone wearing those shoes. All three of these women had casual attitudes, they were easygoing, and everything about them and the shoots felt calm. It must be something in the shoes that made those shoots so quiet, which I love and prefer in a shoot.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by sftfan:
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And this one...
It's interesting you point her out. That was not the first time I took photos of her. I showed pictures of the same woman back in the day. Click Here Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
If your ambition in life is to become some kind of instrumental, New Age musician, I can not help you. However, if you plan on creating an online photographic presentation that features just your normal, everyday woman, the real amateur girls next door showcasing their footwear and bare feet, I can drop some knowledge. For those who are starting out, expect to face rejection like most telemarketers do. Powerful are the taboos of Man. But if you manage to stay resilient, you will eventually encounter women like Szofia. Her name is Hungarian for Sophia. In English, it's pronounced so-fee-a, of course. Since she comes to us from Budapest, I want us all to recognize her by the way she introduced it: Zo-fia, with the emphasis on the Z.
She was sitting on the grass by alone. Szofia was probably thinking to herself as she sat there, having a soliloquy within her own mind, keeping her thoughts and feelings to herself. She was also enjoying the quietness and the comforting breeze from the air. I bet many guys walked by this single woman, thinking she's pretty cute 'n all, but were unable to muster up the courage to talk to her. I thought it was a beautiful sight when I saw her sitting there without anyone else there to keep her company. I wanted to be next to her.
I went up to her and told her that I noticed her sitting there all by herself, I thought she was cute and that I wanted to say hi to her. You can tell from how a woman reacts withing the first few seconds of meeting her if she wants you to proceed. She didn't mind my presence, and she certainly didn't mind going for a little walk though the park with me before I started taking photos of her feet.
She couldn't stay in the park for too long because she had to be somewhere by a certain time; she had to pick up the kids. No, not her own kids, but someone else's. You see, she's in the United States for a year from Hungary as an au pair. When her program year is up, when her visa expires, she goes back to Hungary.
An au pair is a young female from abroad employed by a 'host family' to care for their children. Szofia provides a live-in form of childcare and provides a unique cultural and learning experience for the children she cares for. When people think about what she offers the family, it is hard to simply label her role as 'childcare' or 'kind of like a live-in nanny' – because it is much more than a job.
She joined that family to bond with the children and provide one-on-one care, love and stability in the place which matters most – the child's home. In exchange for room, food, and a weekly stipend, she works for up to 45 hours a week helping the parents calm temper tantrums, conquering their kids' laundry, assisting with morning and bedtime routines, whipping up kids' meals and school lunches, solving math questions, transporting kids to school and activities, playing and having fun with them. Szofia continues her education while experiencing the everyday life with an American family. That's it in a nutshell.
Those kids have her walking and running around; her visit to Central Park was a great idea to give her feet in those low tops Converse a break. Those shoes are classics that will never die. They look good new, they look good old, they even look great falling apart. Not that hers' were, but you know what I'm talking about. I would never kick her feet out of bed because the shape of her soles are nice (!), and her toenails were painted to perfection that day.
She thought it was funny how I wanted to take photos of her feet, but she also thought the whole thing was a pretty cool concept, taking pictures of random women's feet. She felt a bit honored that I choose her out of many others I could've easily asked.
She's heard of men who have foot fetishes, but she has never met one before I approached her. She thought her feet were anything special and never thought what it would be like to be the girlfriend of a man with a foot fetish. If anything, she was certainly glad her toenails were painted as well as they were because that gave her no worries that they would help her feet look great for the photos.
She went along with the shoot because I wasn't weird about it, because she liked hearing the compliment I gave when I told her she was cute, and convincing her that her feet were something special.
And when she told me that she never received a foot massage, I used up the final fifteen minutes of the time she had left by giving them an excellent rubdown as she lied on her back with her eyes closed, before she had to go and pick up the kids from school. It felt so good for her, that didn't want to leave. But she had to; being the great care provided that she is, she had to attend to the kids; they can't be left stranded.
Wow! Pictures and a rub! NICE!!
Posted by aaaaa1 (Member # 31001) on :
Hope all is well, National...
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC I certainly remember this shoot. It was a Saturday morning and it wasn't even lunch time yet when this shoot started. Saturday is a great day for women to be out, a great day to see what they're feet are all about. When the day is as gorgeous as that day was, you have to go out and see what's out there. There are women everywhere, and there are those who wouldn't mind taking the time to become the subject of what this particular philosopher finds beautiful or tasteful in some way, shape, or form. There was something about this woman that caught my attention.
We walked past each other, and I knew immediately she would make for a pretty nice shoot. I knew immediately she was going to say yes in allowing me to snap photos of her feet. It was a gut feeling I had that having a shoot with this woman was going to slow time down, which I love it because everything goes your way when time in on your side.
Her attire was that of someone who was prepared to spend a lot of time outdoors and would be ready to take on whatever curve ball the day was going to throw at her. She looked like someone who was either on her way to the gym or someone who just left it. If it wasn't for her backpack and how hefty it was, anyone would assume that she's the type of woman who likes to go for jogs on a regular basis.
She's not a local New York City girl; she's a tourist from Chile. I've taken photos of a few Chilean women, and I believe she was the first one. The fact that someone like her can't speak English is fine with me. She didn't have to worry, though, because I can speak Spanish, which was much to her delight because that meant she could talk to me about anything without feeling like she's lost in the city. So spent the rest of our time speaking Spanish, and it was fascinating to note the differences in how we spoke the language; the Spanish they speak is quite different from the Spanish you learn(ed) in class.
Well, it's not soooooooo different to someone like me who can already speak the language, but the Chileans have developed a special way to speak it in which they frequently miss some consonants and have added many idioms. That's why for other Spanish speaking countries, it sounds different. It is important to note, though, that we understand each other pretty well. The difference in her way of speaking makes that country all the more beautiful, and it made me wondered what it would be like to visit that country and see what other wonderful things, the wonderful sights and places, what wonderful flavors they have to offer.
From the number of photos in this gallerie, one might assume it was a short shoot. I must tell you that even though her gallerie doesn't have the most number of photos of all the girls I'm going to show this week, this shoot was the longest one of the bunch; this shoot went for an hour and twenty-five minutes. She was very generous with her time, generous with her kindness to display her feet for me for as long as she did, and she's a very nice person.
quote:Originally posted by aaaaa1: Hope all is well, National...
Thanks for showing genuine care and regard for me. I accept your sentiments. All is well with me as always. I hope all is well with you too. Thanks for asking.
And I also hope that you enjoy the women I post in here because things are going to get very interesting in here before the week is over. Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Nice to see you around again, National, and back in action.
Great find with Paola Saavedra, she looks pretty cute. It's fortunate that you were able to communicate with her so that way you would be able to share her in here. Though to be candid, I had a difficult time finding a photo in her set that for me personally, really stuck out to me by giving me a good angle of both her bare soles and her face in the background to really take in both her and her soles at the same time. If that makes sense. That doesn't happen all too often in your image sets for me, as you pretty much capture every angle possible in the overwhelming majority of them.
However, there were some other photos in there that really popped out at me and got my attention.....
Looking forward to seeing what else you have to generously offer during the week.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: Though to be candid, I had a difficult time finding a photo in her set that for me personally, really stuck out to me by giving me a good angle of both her bare soles and her face in the background to really take in both her and her soles at the same time. If that makes sense. That doesn't happen all too often in your image sets for me, as you pretty much capture every angle possible in the overwhelming majority of them.
I didn't even realize that until you just pointed it out. I guess I was trying out different things, different points of view in that shoot that it somehow escaped me. Sometimes I'll abandon something just to make room for something different without realizing it. In other words, it could've been my intent to get the type of shots you were looking for, but I got distracted somehow and went for a new look. I'll go with the flow of the moment during the shoots, and for some reason the emotions and the flow of the moment took my vision to me a different place with her.
I can't promise that won't ever happen again (meaning showing a shoot that didn't include the type of shot you're looking for); but what I will say is that you will (probably) be more pleased (or less disappointed, however you want to look at it) with the last two shoots I plan on showing by the end of this week.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
TWO QUICK SHOOTS
This was one of those rare, quick shoots I had. I was about to leave the park when I spotted this woman reading a book. I thought to myself, why not? I remember her kind of laughing when I told her I wanted to take photos of her feet. Even though she found the request a bit unusual, she decided to go ahead with it.
She must've lived close-by to the park because she had no purse, nor backpack of some sort with her. I guess her plan was to read the book in the park instead being bored in her home, and when she walk right back to her home once she's done reading it. In fact, as far as I can remember, she's probably the only woman I've taken photos of who didn't have her purse or backpack with her at the time. If I did come across someone else like her, then I don't remember who she was.
I really liked how her feet looked. I love the shape of her soles, and her toes looked just like how I would like them to look. The color of her toenail polish went exactly with the color of her jeans and the color of her sweater.
Other than that, there's not much I can say about her because the shoot went kind of fast. But one thing I can say for certain is that if some random girl is perfectly fine with taking her shoes off for me for free, just like that, with no preparations to make her feet look "more presentable," then she's off to a good start with me.
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The second shoot was something I meant to show a year or two ago, but didn't because I thought I lost the memory card containing these photos. It turns out I didn't lose it; last week I was going through an old memory card, looking for someone else, not knowing I was going to run into the photos of the woman you're about to see here. I guess I skipped her photos for some inexplicable reason because they were right under my nose the entire time.
I don't remember this woman's nationality, but I do remember this shoot taking place on an early-Saturday evening and that she's an art student. She was walking through the park, looking for a spot to sketch a scene of grass, trees, or whatever else nature had to offer in Central Park. She didn't mind taking a few moments out of her time to remove her sandals for me for the shoot; she needed the break from walking around the park for what must've been a long time because talking her into having this impromtu shoot with me took almost no time at all.
There's not much I can remember about this woman, other than having the feeling of enjoying how the soles of her feet looked and different she seemed from the other women I've photographed. Different how? That's the part I can't figure out, but it seemed that way to me. Maybe peculiar is the word I'm looking for if I had to describe this woman in one word, but having her participate in this shoot with me and knowing what the shoot was for didn't seem unusual to her because she thanked me for giving her a reason to take a little break from her art assignment, and she thanked me for making her an interesting subject for a shoot that was about her feet, even though she wished she had taken better care of her feet. But she wasn't embarrassed about her feet, though.
National, I love that your new avatar of Marilyn Monroe. Oh, and I love the girls that you showed so far, particularly the last one with Lavinia. That woman's soles look delicious.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Marilyn Monroe and her photographer are walking in Central Park looking for locations. Marilyn tells him that she has been studying improvisation in her acting classes. All right, he says, sit on that bench and improvise something. So Marilyn sits down with her newspaper and overhears the guy proposing to the woman at the other end of the bench.
After The Shoot: Version A - She congratulates the couple and gives them a wedding gift of a hundred dollars, not being very rich herself at the time.
Version B - According to the photographer, he paid the couple for the right to use their picture. He said the woman agreed to marry the man but only if he would give up being a bookie.
Whichever version you prefer to believe, they both sound pretty good to me.
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: National, I love that your new avatar of Marilyn Monroe.
I switched my avatar to a photo of her because it's Central Park, and because the woman sitting on the bench is the most recognizable sex symbol of all time.
A pretty woman in Central Park. Just like that avatar and just like what this thread is about.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC In some cases, I'll spot a potential model from a mile away and have a great feeling that she'll say yes. Other times, such a woman would appear from out of nowhere, kind of catching me off guard, and I have to find a way to introduce myself to her within a matter of seconds. That was the case here.
She appeared from out of nowhere, and I had no time to think about how I was going to start the conversation with her. There are times when I spot someone and something would scream at me, saying that I cannot go wrong with this one. I had no time to think about why she would make for a great shoot, but I was compelled to talk to her and just figure things out on the fly. I didn't know what I was going to say at the moment, but I put myself out there and spoke to her. And I'm glad I did.
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A WOMAN WITH FANTASTIC PERSONALITY To give you an idea of what her personality is like, if this woman is not in my Top Ten list of the **coolest** women I've ever met in all of my time doing this - and this goes back to my Bryant Park days, and it also includes all women whose photos I have yet to show - if she is not in my Top Ten list of the coolest, "go-with-the-flow", most laid back, pleasant, and most unobjectionable women I've ever met in all of my time doing this, then I'm going to have a hard time coming up with ten other women who I can say are more relaxed and easygoing than she is. That's how awesome she is!
She reminded me of Spring Fox, a woman I photographed a long time ago back in my Bryant Park days ... not so much in their looks resembling one another, but in their gestures or behaviors or their way of speaking.
The woman you're about to see enjoys softball (more on that in a moment), hiking, and cooking something over a campfire, among other things. She wouldn't mind watching adult films with her man. In a relationship, she won't bother you too much with serious conversations. She's there when you want her, but when you need space, she's gone without you needing to ask. She looks very cute without spending hours getting ready. When she's in a relationship with you, that's when she'll develop a rare medical condition that means she must have sex with you at least once every twelve hours or else she dies. Ok, I admit - I made that last part up, I got a little carried away, but she is an open minded person, nonetheless. That's the point I'm trying to get across. This was a shoot in which we have so much to talk about that there was never a quiet moment - only good vibes and great chemistry. When asked if she wanted to have this shoot, "Hell yeah!" The way she said it, though, it was if she was asked if she wanted to jump out of a plane. She was probably more ready to go than I was. Her enthusiasm was infectious. It got to me.
I mentioned softball just a minute ago. She loves watching the game and she knows the rules to it, as she used to play the sport in high school; she played third base, in case you're keeping score. It was funny hearing her say that, considering that on the moment I met her, her boyfriend was playing softball in a field nearby. I suppose she became bored for some reason, which explained why I found her wandering around the park. She said if her boyfriend ever walked into the shoot, he would be perfectly fine with what was going on and he would get a kick out of it. The shoot itself was another marathon, as it went for about an hour and twenty minutes, and her boyfriend never showed up.
The tattoo she has on her right foot is the reason for the I've given her for this thread. She's a native New Yorker, and she has the strong longing for self-development by experiencing the unknown, confronting unforeseen challenges, getting to know unfamiliar cultures, way of life and behaviors. She travels not to go anywhere, but to go. She likes to travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Sounds like a case of wanderlust if I ever heard one.
Those with "wanderlust" don't necessarily need to go anywhere in particular; they just don't care to stay in one spot. That could explain why she had the sudden urge to explore other parts of Central Park right in the middle of her boyfriend's softball game. But she had tremendous patience to stay with me throughout the shoot and watch the sun set with me for a little bit with me after the shoot and talked more about life.
Why do I go to Central Park? For photo shoots like this one, with women like her, whose feet I really enjoyed looking at. This woman is a breath of fresh air. She really is. Just unbelievable.
Very nice find with Wanderlust, National. Your description of her had me quite intrigued and I really like the fact that she was wearing moccasins. With your posts, I personally find it a bit more fun to first read what the girl is like personality wise, before scrolling down to see what she looks like. Wanderlust's set contained a lot more photos that I was able to connect with than previously with Paola Saavedra.
It's interesting also that you compare her to Spring Fox, because once you mentioned Spring Fox in your description of her, I was hooked, being that Spring Fox is one of my all time favorites of yours. Presumably like yourself, I have self control when interacting with females, but if I were in your place during the encounter with Spring Fox, after taking her photos, I don't think I could have resisted taking a shot at seeing if I could have a go at her bare soles and toes right there on the spot. Either massage, smell, or worship. Preferably all three. She seemed like she would have been cool enough to probably do it for a lark. Her nicely sculpted soles and her well defined toe stems are/were some of the best I've seen.
In addition to being similar in personality, it's also a coincidence that they're both a size 9.
Posted by mikewil (Member # 50317) on :
Absolutely love your work national.
One request if I may,
Any chance you can lay off the use of the contrasting filters so much. I think your earlier shoots from back in the day showed much nicer natural skin tones (it doesn't look like you edited them back then).
Posted by jasespace (Member # 33963) on :
My reaction to Wanderlust:
From the way you presented her in the story, all the way to the photos, this woman is the entire package, a man's dream come true.
[ May 25, 2018, 08:03 PM: Message edited by: jasespace ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
BareSoles84 ... I remember thinking to myself after the shoot with Wanderlust that you were going to have a particular liking to her as well, due to the nature that those two are quite alike. Wanderlust is the only woman I've shot since SpringFox who reminds me of Spring Fox. I can imagine those two getting along with other very well and would have each other's back until death does them apart. It felt as if Wanderlust was a sister Spring Fox never knew she had. Either that, or both women grew up three feet from each other.
But Wanderlust is an amazing person all on her own. When she talks, the sound of her voice and the way she speaks lets you feel that she won't let a dull moment hover over her vibe. She feels like a motivational speaker without even realizing that she's leaving a positive impact on your mood and outlook. She is that amazing, and I cannot stress that enough!
Any topic you want to discuss, she's comfortable with having that conversation with you, and she can unintentionally find a way to make that conversation fun to have.
Whenever it was that she met her boyfriend, I wish I had met her a month before that.
If I made my personal Top Ten list of the coolest women I've met in all my time doing this, I don't know where I would place her, but she would be the first one who will come to my mind.
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: Very nice find with Wanderlust, National. Your description of her had me quite intrigued and I really like the fact that she was wearing moccasins.
Funny you mentioned that. I was taking photos of her moccasins towards the end of the shoot, she pouted as if she was disappointed in herself or embarrassed. I could tell from the look on her face. She finally said, referring to how worn her furry insoles of her shoes might've been, "They're just comfortable, that's why I wear them all the time."
The way she said it, it was as if she wanted to say, "Please don't take points away from me." Almost as if she was apologizing to me for how comfortable they were to her and how much she relied on them.
I don't take points away from a woman just for being a regular girl. I said some hocus-pocus about how she shouldn't be ashamed of that and what have you - to which she said, "That's why you're the man!"
I could tell she felt good saying that, and it made me feel awesome!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by mikewil: Absolutely love your work national.
One request if I may, ...
I always appreciate your support. I always appreciate your kindness towards the principles my work stands for. And I also hate being the one who has to give you an answer you were not hoping for. The thing is, I don't take requests. Even though what you requested was innocent enough, I love the new direction in which my photoshoots are being presented. I really love the new look.
**I would like to take this time to remind anyone reading this that I don't take requests.**
Jasepace ... Your posts make me laugh. I would like to think the guy in the gif is actually you.
Wanderlust: A genuine, natural girl next door. She is real and true. That was one of those shoots in which I would've been satisfied if that turned out to be my last shoot. There were numerous times in which I felt that, and the experience with Wanderlust was one of those times.
I'm so glad I love women's feet.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
I've read all the things said in here about Wanderlust. I clicked on the link to her pics. I must say, there's nothing about her that's not amazing. I must tip my cap off to you, National, because she won me over. Truly.
I'm not a big fan of tattoos on feet, but when you consider everything else that she's about, when you consider how she looks and what type of a person she is, then I'm willing to overlook the tattoo because Wanderlust is that cool of a person, as you put it.
If this lady is not the Woman of the Year in this thread, then she should at least be nominated for it.
If you plan on showing anyone else this week, then she must be one hell of a lady because this Wanderlust thing is going to be a tough act to follow.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: Presumably like yourself, I have self control when interacting with females, but if I were in your place during the encounter with Spring Fox, after taking her photos, I don't think I could have resisted taking a shot at seeing if I could have a go at her bare soles and toes right there on the spot. Either massage, smell, or worship. Preferably all three. She seemed like she would have been cool enough to probably do it for a lark.
I have no question that you have self control when it comes to interacting with the ladies. Everything else you said after that was funny.
I'll have you know that I've done at lease one of- or a combination of those things after the shoot with a number of these women right there in the park, even as far the thing turning into a make out session. In other cases, the women and I went on to see each other many times after the shoot. The fresh air of Central Park can do things like that to you.
That aka.footjoyboy guy in this forum usually posts in here with a message. That sums up what you said, and it sums up how I feel during the shoots.
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: In addition to being similar in personality, it's also a coincidence that they're both a size 9.
It had never occurred to me that both women wear a size 9 until you've pointed that out. I don't even know what to say to that because it's that unbelievable!
@18th Floor ...
That was a magnificent post, and thank you.
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: If you plan on showing anyone else this week, then she must be one hell of a lady because this Wanderlust thing is going to be a tough act to follow.
Yes, I'm going to show another female tonight. It's going to be a tough act to follow, but this next woman comes with a story and a photoshoot that can hold its own. It's good enough for me to have it close out the show for the week. I'll just leave it at that.
-National
[ May 26, 2018, 01:25 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: Funny you mentioned that. I was taking photos of her moccasins towards the end of the shoot, she pouted as if she was disappointed in herself or embarrassed. I could tell from the look on her face. She finally said, referring to how worn her furry insoles of her shoes might've been, "They're just comfortable, that's why I wear them all the time."
The way she said it, it was as if she wanted to say, "Please don't take points away from me." Almost as if she was apologizing to me for how comfortable they were to her and how much she relied on them.
I don't take points away from a woman just for being a regular girl. I said some hocus-pocus about how she shouldn't be ashamed of that and what have you - to which she said, "That's why you're the man!"
I could tell she felt good saying that, and it made me feel awesome!
Nice! Moccasins are actually one of my favorite types of shoes for gals to wear, because of their casual nature and the fact that gals almost always tend to wear them with bare feet. So if I were searching for someone whose feet I wanted to take pictures of, Wanderlust's moccasins actually would have probably been one of the main things that drew me to her. I actually think a lady's footwear can say a lot about her personality, by the types of shoes she chooses to wear.
"I know! That's why I'm taking pictures of them. Because they're part of what makes you, you," probably would have been my response to her initial statement regarding her moccasins.
quote:Originally posted by National: I'll have you know that I've done at lease one of- or a combination of those things after the shoot with a number of these women right there in the park, even as far the thing turning into a make out session. In other cases, the women and I went on to see each other many times after the shoot. The fresh air of Central Park can do things like that to you.
So I've read in a few of your descriptions. Haha.
quote:Originally posted by National: It had never occurred to me that both women wear a size 9 until you've pointed that out. I don't even know what to say to that because it's that unbelievable!
Thank you. I'm glad you noticed that I pointed that detail out.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Let me introduce everyone here to someone with the imagination to create something inspirational or beautiful into her sketch pad, someone who wants to master the form of canvas painting, just for starters.
I want to introduce everyone to a young woman with a bright future ahead of her. She's a 19-year-old girl who was born and raised in Helsinki, Finland. Her family moved to New York City when she was sixteen; she has lived here ever since, and she has been able to fit in with the atmosphere that comes with living in this city like a second nature. Another acquired habit or tendency in her character that is deeply ingrained in her as to appear automatic, is her love for visual arts.
Being a young female creative artist such as herself, she is always on a constant quest for discovery and knowledge and clarity and insight into perception, thought, dreams, emotion, habits, mediocrity, and brilliance. As an artist, this woman has the desperate need to communicate to- and inform an audience, even if it's just herself. Our girl here from Finland reinterprets her experiences, the societal pressures placed upon her, the childhood she had, the life she's living, her successes and failures, into a re-imagined form that can speak to others.
This artist is working out her own life with her work. She uses her creative imagination to create, and explore, to communicate, and refresh the symbolic language of art as she sees fit. And to the extent that she is brave and truthful and technically skilled, she will be able to be in a deeper relationship with it and use her work to access deeper aspects of herself and our society.
She attends college here in Manhattan that focuses on art, business, and design where she will get the chance to experience the art world in an internship at a museum or gallery, such as the Museum of Modern Art or National Academy of Design, or in a professional printmaking studio or art restoration company. She also gets to attend art events and exhibitions in New York City galleries.
She already had her shoes off when I walked up to her, giving me the perfect opening to make the transition to go from Point A (saying hi to her) to Point B (taking pictures of her feet). Even though there were no classes for her on the day of this shoot, she took some art supplies with her to Central Park. Based on what she was drawing, I knew the conversation I was going to have with her was not going to be suitable for children.
She was drawing a picture of herself masturbating on her bed in a pitch dark room. That's how she does it in real life right before she goes to sleep at night. The darkness in her bedroom helps her sexual fantasies run deeper where there are no rules or restrictions of where her wildest imaginations take her. That's what she told me.
The conversation we had allowed her to open up to where she became candid, straightforward, and blunt with some of the crazy, sexual desires that takes control of her mind, body, and her senses when she's on her bed as she "pets her kitty".
It felt to me as if I was interviewing her for an article in some sex health magazine for women, an article about how the pleasures of masturbation can feel so empowering and liberating for the modern woman. Body exploration, accepting her own body for how beautiful it is, achieving orgasms were topics of intrigue for a portion of time we spent together.
She talked about how self-stimulation is a great way for her to relax both emotionally and physically. Instead of buying an expensive massage, she can just stay in and give herself one.
The last sentence was slyly humorous; it wasn't meant to be taken seriously, however her sarcasm was subtle.
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During the middle of all this, she would receive text messages from her male friend. She would look at it and would send replies to it. After she sent him a reply, she told me what the context of that conversation was about. She told him about this shoot. Apparently, he was trying to talk her out of it, telling her that must be some creep and that her feet are not for free and that I should pay her like a hundred dollars for the opportunity to take pictures of them. Not for free, he said.
"Can you believe that?" she asked me. "It's my body, my feet, I feel comfortable around you, there's nothing wrong with my feet or nothing wrong with liking feet. Like ... you know? He said my feet are not for free. If it's the right guy, and if there's that natural vibe or connection, then money has nothing to do with it, just like what we're doing here. Right?"
This woman gets it. I was a complete stranger to her, and already we were talking something that was in the center of the sexual universe. Some guy who she was texting tries to talk her out of the shoot with me unless I pay her. She ignores him completely and keeps her feet right there in the open for me stare at, touch it, move it around, and take all the photos I wanted to. Yeah, she gets it.
Later at some point, she tells me, "I think we'd make for an interesting couple." I heard what she said the first time, but I wanted to hear it again. "I said we would be an interesting couple, right?" When asked why she said that, she said something along the lines of, "I feel comfortable talking to you about anything. I like to feel myself at nights, you have a foot fetish, we've never met each other until today, and already it feels normal. Those people over there are looking at us like 'What the fuck are these people doing, taking pictures of her feet, she's drawing nude art - like, what are they doing?' Whatever. They might think it's strange, but it doesn't feel strange to me."
After all that, towards the end of the shoot, we were completely at ease with other's company. There was something about me she totally liked, and I wanted to spend more time with her. There was a little something there between us, so I suggested that we leave the park and go do something. When she asked what that something was, I said I didn't know, but that whatever it was, it was going to feel good.
She looked interested, thought about for a few seconds, and said, "Ok, sure." With that she put her stuff away, put her shoes back on, fixed her hair up a little bit, and we left the park together ...
Alert: Jealous, insecure, controlling male. Avoid like the plague.
I'm glad The Beautiful Finnnish realized this.
That being said and with him out of the way, I'm not sure where to even begin with this gal. Sketching herself masturbating? Not sure how I would have opened that conversation, as that's certainly not something you see everyday. The convo you guys had is something you would see happen somewhere in like a chat room or something, where guys (who are probably similar in personality to the guy she was texting), message random girls and just start asking sexual questions because he's trying to get himself off. Only the genders were reversed in this case, and the convo took place in person between two strangers.
Interesting girl, to say the least.
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Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
quote:Originally posted by National:
quote:Originally posted by 18th Floor: If you plan on showing anyone else this week, then she must be one hell of a lady because this Wanderlust thing is going to be a tough act to follow.
Yes, I'm going to show another female tonight. It's going to be a tough act to follow, but this next woman comes with a story and a photoshoot that can hold its own. It's good enough for me to have it close out the show for the week. I'll just leave it at that.
-National
I didn't know how that was going to be done, but somehow, someway, you were able to pull it off with Beautiful Finnish, a young goddess, if there ever was one.
My thoughts on Beautiful Finnish:
With all this talk about Wanderlust being one of the coolest chicks of all time, I don't know how someone like Beautiful Finnish doesn't make that list after what we've just seen here.
Look at her feet! Marvelous! She's so pretty. The interaction you had with her is a fucking dream come true, man!
I swear I don't know how you do this, but keep doin' it.
Probably the most incredible thing I've seen and read at the same time in the entire week.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
BareSoles84 ... Exactly. The guy was jealous. He probably spent 18 months trying to find a way to get her to like him by doing everything other than to ask her out, by being direct with her and telling her how he feels about her. He probably hoped that she'll "get the hint" that he likes her and was waiting for her to make the first move. He had his secret crush taken away from him - a crush who, by that time, had already had her mind made up about him and put him in the dreaded friend zone because he waited too long to make his move on her.
What was pretty cool about that part was that she told me what those texts said when she could've just read those texts and kept her thoughts to herself. The quote I pulled from her in the story from what she told me after reading what he sent her made me want her even more.
What she said about this being her body and her choice to go along with the foot fetish shoot wasn't meant to be sexy, but it was so hot to me being that it made her defiant against her own friend in some way, making her want to spend more time with a complete stranger with a foot fetish instead.
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I see the girl, I approach her, and there she is doing a drawing of her self masturbating. You're right - how would someone start that conversation? A lot of things that happened in that shoot are not things you see everyday. Even the people who she pointed to who were looking at us also recognized that that was not something you see everyday.
I knew I had to say something about it because you people would never let me hear the end of it if I told you guys that I never asked her a question about what she was drawing. That drawing gave me all the material necessary to keep the conversation interesting and unique.
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For anyone reading this,
No matter what your feelings are about this shoot, this woman, and the story that came with it, one thing is for certain: this was not a forgettable shoot.
The Beautiful Finnish was a beautiful way to finish the week.
-National
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Wow! <standing and clapping> I have been following your work for several years, now. I have to say, that Finnish might be your finest work, ever! What a gem! My friend, you are living the dream! Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Her feet, out of those worn sneakers, look like the would have smelled wonderful.
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
In between gallery posts, I thought I would share my list of all time favorite photoshoots that you've ever done from National and Natural Parks combined, with a brief description what I particularly like about each girl. Granted there's many other gals I liked and whose galleries I visit from time to time in each thread, but these are just the gals whose galleries I made it a point to save to my personal collection so that way I could go to them at a moment's notice as a quick "go to", if you get my drift.
In no particular order:
ASHLEY MILES (Natural Park) - Cute girl with a sweet personality. I really liked the hue of her soles and the fact that she had been walking around the city all day in athletic sneakers prior to your encounter. I also like how she made it a point to tell you that, in hopes that you got the hint that her feet might not smell too pleasant. As if it were a riddle.
CALLIE SKY (Natural Park) - Hot gal that I would venture to classify as being a babe. I loved her sky blue striped shirt, and how it matched her sky blue striped Adidas sneakers. I really liked her soles and their color as well, and how you described her as being a very outgoing girly-girl. Unfortunate though that you didn't get to spend more time with her.
SPECS APPEAL (National Park) - She has a very quiet cuteness about her. Certainly not a babe in the same realm as Callie Sky, but definitely someone I'd consider as being the "hot nerdy girl". I love the fact that she had on Sperrys with just her bare feet, as those shoes did fit her style. Even though she was studious and seemed reserved, there was something about her personality that also seemed like she had a little playful side if it was brought out of her. Perhaps it was the way she responded to you smelling her Sperrys, which seemed very coy and playful. As I've mentioned before, I still maintain the conviction that she probably would have been down for an on the spot foot worship session and likely would have viewed it as a bit of innocuous, devious fun, based on the way she was cool with and responded to you smelling her Sperrys. A brief change of pace from perhaps an otherwise monotonous lifestyle.
SPRING FOX (National Park) - Arguably my favorite shoot that you've ever done. Very pretty gal with beautiful size 9 soles and gorgeous, pronounced toe stems. Love the black high top Nike sneakers that she was wearing as well. Love her outgoing personality also. Another one who I'm almost certain would have probably been down for an extemporaneous foot worship session.
THE COOL CHIC (Natural Park) - Cute gal with nicely shaped size 8.5 feet. I really like her skin tone and the fact that she is absolutely cool with the notion of guys liking female feet, and whatever idiosyncrasy that comes along with that.
WAVERLY PLACE (National Park) - To be candid, I just can't see the Selena Gomez resemblance. Perhaps it's the glasses that's throwing it off for me, I'm not sure, but I just don't see it. However, that's not to say she's not cute in her own right though. Not someone I would personally notice right away, but after taking a second and a third glance, realizing that she actually is pretty cute. I really liked her white sneakers and the fact that part of them appeared to be made out of some sort of snakeskin-esque material, which I found unique. I like her easy going, open minded personality that indicated that she is down for whatever, if you're into it. I also liked the shape of her feet and her soles as well.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
@BareSoles84 ...
It wasn't until now that I realized that you posted that message, giving your list of some of your all-time favorites. Thanks a lot for taking the time to compose that list. What makes it better is that you took the time to give your reasons as to why you like them. There was no way I was going to let your post just sit there and go unnoticed.
It made me think back and relive some of those shoots I did because that's not something I do often, believe it or not. I mean, there are some moments I do relive more than others, and there are women I shot who stand out to me more than others. For the most part, though, I don't sit there and reflect on what I've done in the past as much as I would like to. Your post has given me the time to think about the moments I had that will live with me for as long as I live, the fun I had doing it, and the impact it has left on this community.
I don't have the time to be able to come up with a list of my all-time favs because I won't even know where to begin the process of composing such a list. I will, however, come up with such a list sometime in the future, probably when the day comes that I stop doing this and giving myself more time to properly reflect on the legacy I've left behind.
Having said that, I will go as far as to point out the one girl who probably stands out to me more than anyone I've shot before. If I were to classify anyone as the franchise player of Natural Park, it would be Dalhous.
If there is one girl who is safe from ever being removed from my Top Ten list, it would be that woman. There are not that many women who I can say that about, and as far as I'm concerned, Dalhous is untouchable to me. She is the only woman who I can say is above reproach.
Dalhous is one of the most beautiful people I have ever seen in all my time doing this. Her beauty took my breath away. Literally. Her personality? I cannot emphasize how beautiful that is at this moment in time because it is going to take me a while to explain it in its proper context.
There are others women who I've either shown or have yet to show who are either very cute or hot as f*ck(!). "Tsarevna" is one of them. I can write a novel on how someone who has her looks can make herself millions of dollars.
Waverly Place is a very cute girl. That turned out to be a much better shoot than I thought it was going to be going into the shoot. She was one of those girls who was willing to stay in the shoot for as long as I wanted to.
Funny that you mentioned her glasses being that's preventing you from seeing the Selena Gomez resemblance. Perhaps her hair not being as long as the length as the actual Selena Gomez is what could make someone not compare those two to each other. But for me, it was her glasses that made me think of her; without them, I don't know if I would've made the connection as quickly as I did with them on.
I love "Specs Appeal", and I especially enjoy the shoot I had with Ashley Miles. With Ashley, it was one of those shoots that you realize just how lucky you are to have a foot fetish because of the shape of her soles.
With Ashley, she knows how to master the art of having very few expressions on her face no matter the hilarity of the topic or the reactions she gets from other people to her jokes. It's the type of humor that is common among shy people, and Ashley Miles is a shy person, which makes her all the more appealing to me for some reason. It's her style of shy humor that makes it unique to her. Her jokes are complex and delivered in a way as only a select few truly understand it enough to appreciate it for its brilliance.
It takes her a while to open up to people. But when she does, you'll know that she's pretty laid back. There's always more to her that you want to know about, which makes you want to stick around her even more.
You can also say that Specs Appeal is pretty natured quiet girl. Of the girls you listed, Waverly Place is probably the easiest to get to know and the easiest to talk to. Callie Sky and Cool Chic are the most talkative of the ones you listed, and Spring Fox is just excellent.
But to me, there will never be another Dalhous. To me, she is the Ambassador of this Natural Park thread. She is my representative, the official symbol of everything in here, and she is the woman who sets the standards all of these other women should aspire to. She is the only person I've shot who I can speak that highly of.
I'm not a religious person, but if there is a heaven, I will say that Dalhous is the closest thing I can compare to heaven where angels are said to originate, be enthroned or live.
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
See, that's precisely what I mean when I say there's several others who I like as well, who will suddenly pop in my mind for whatever reason and I'll have the impulse to go back through the thread and look at her gallery. Dalhous for me is one of those. Those images where you were right up and personal with her soles were money shots. However, as I mentioned, the ones I enumerated are the ones whose galleries (at least select photos that I liked the most) I made it a point to save, so that way I can revisit them at a moment's notice without having to sift through the thread.
All of your descriptions on some of the girls I listed are spot on with what I gleaned from them as well.
You know, now that you mention it, perhaps it's the hair with Waverly Place that throws it off as well. Like I said, I can't quite pinpoint what's throwing off the Selena Gomez resemblance for me, but it could be the shorter hair as well. I just finished looking at a few of her images again and like I said, the more you look at her, the more you realize that she is indeed cute. She has a real youthful looking, baby face. Her feet to me are also almost similar in overall size and shape to The Cool Chic's, except that The Cool Chic has slightly thicker and more wrinkly soles and thicker toe pads, while Waverly Place has slightly longer toes. The Cool Chic's feet are a size 8.5, so I presume Waverly Place's are around there as well. Waverly Place was someone who struck me as not really giving things much thought on her own. As long as you told her something and it sounded cool in the way you explained and described it and she can tell that you like it, then she goes with it and thinks it's just as cool and interesting as well. That's not to necessarily say she's vacuous and can't think for herself at all, just that she can be easily convinced and wants to have fun, and as long as what you describe to her sounds like fun to you, then she'll think it's fun also. Like you mentioned once on here regarding her, after talking to her for a little bit, you probably could have told her that you have a buddy who's into feet and wants to have a go at her feet and toes, and she'd probably be down for it.
Both Callie Sky and The Cool Chic seem like they are loquacious indeed, and that came across in their photos. Though I recall you stating that the latter is a bit of an intellect. She seems like the type who you can find reading, but once you get her to put her book down, she won't shut up. Not that you'd wish she would either, because what she has to say seems like it would be very interesting. I'm not surprised that she is down with foot fetishes because due to her intellect, probably has actually given it thought and realizes that it's harmless. Perhaps even interesting and humorous at the same time. She's actually another one who I think potentially may have been down for some extemporaneous foot play. I can envision her likely laughing the entire time as her size 8.5s are being licked and/or smelled, flashing her endearing, toothy grin. Not at all laughing in a condescending manner as she definitely doesn't seem to have a mean bone in her body, but just laughing at the notion and the fact that her feet and toes are being fetishized and perhaps even finding it fun, as she seemed like a really fun gal. Callie Sky seems like a bit more of a bubbly gal who you would find at the mall more so than reading. One who won't shut up either once you get her talking, and will probably mention irrelevant details about things she's talking about. Not that you'd wish she'd shut up either though, because I suspect that's just her way of showing that she's comfortable with you. However, if you wanted the conversation to stay on a particular topic and go a certain direction, I can see having to keep it on topic with her because I can envision her easily taking it off topic, albeit unintentionally.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This was another shoot that happened right before lunchtime. That part I remember. What I don't seem to recall is the country this woman is from. She doesn't live in the United States, but she's certainly European. But the city or country where this woman was visiting from is something I can't remember.
Even though her English was kind of limited, she certainly knew enough of it to understand that I wanted her to become a foot model for me. She kinda laughed at the idea that I wanted to take photos of her feet and asked if I liked feet. I said yeah and that I wanted to know if she would let me see hers because I think I would like how they look. At first she wasn't sure if she wanted to go along with it because of whatever reason, but I knew there was a part of her that was still down for the shoot because I could tell from her expression on her face and from the little smile she gave that indicated to me she was on the verge to saying yes to me.
I can't quite put my finger on it, but there was something about her that I liked. Her hair, her skin tone, something. I was attracted to her, a real amateur girl next door.
You will see from the soles of her feet that they are pillow-y and soft, happy to be free from her sneakers and black ankle socks that held a good grip on her feet during the time they were encased in her sneakers. They were a bit sweaty as well.
The shoot lasted about a half-hour, but it delivered the message it needed to get across. Later that day, I saw her again at a different part of the park and we smiled at each other as we walked by one another as a way of expressing an inside joke, an intimate moment in time we once shared with each other that no one else knew about. It was out little secret. By the time I saw her again later in the day, I had already taken photos of another woman and the batteries to my camera was on the verge of dying out. And it was going to rain, too, so I was happy with what I was able to discover in the park that day.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Wow! <standing and clapping> I have been following your work for several years, now. I have to say, that Finnish might be your finest work, ever! What a gem! My friend, you are living the dream!
From the way you sounded, I could tell that you meant every word of it. Although you have always appreciated the work I put together, you have never reacted the way you did when you got a hold of the story and photos of The Beautiful Finnish.
Incredible that there was something about her that resonated with you so much to compel you to say what you said.
Thank you so much. The Beautiful Finnish is a beautiful way to finish any day.
-National
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC This woman looks incredibly young for her age. She's in her mid- to late thirties, and it's incredible to think she'll turn 40 before any of us knows it, including herself. It was hard to believe it when she told me, but it became more believable to me based on the subject matter of our discussions and the experiences and adventures she had in her life - a life that still has a lot left to live and be explored.
To stay looking as young as she is for her age, she drinks plenty of water - about 72 ounces a day. She said that hydrated skin is generally fuller and firmer. She also has never smoked anything in her life. "Smoking speeds up the natural aging process," she said in Spanish.
This woman speaks both Spanish and French. She was born and raised in Buenos Aries, Aregentina, but she currently lives in Paris, France. She has lived there for several years now. She spent some of her years in Argentina to perfect the French language, and she has put her knowledge to great use by living a pretty good life for herself as a single woman in Paris.
She is a marketing manager. She even gave me her business card with the name of the company and everything. As someone in her position as a marketing manager, she combines creativity, analytical thinking and leadership skills to develop strategies that will allow her to effectively promote her services or products. Essentially, she is responsible for creating, putting to effect and overseeing marketing strategies. She can be responsible for a single product, although she more commonly works with a wide range of services or products.
When I approached her, I could tell she was having a little difficulty understanding what I was telling her in English. When she told me she was from Argentina, I made life a lot easier for her when I told her that I could speak Spanish as well. She was happy upon hearing that and she breathed a sigh of relief because now she can feel as is she's not far from home even though she was. Now she was able to better understand what I wanted from her.
When I told her I wanted to take pictures of her feet, she looked down at her shoes and kind of modeled them for me by moving them around to see which angles gave her the best view of them. Her choice of footwear was perfect for her: a pair suede, ankle-high moccasins. I must tell you that I feel those moccasins looked better on her than some other pair of shoes looked on other women who I photographed before and since this woman. It almost made me think that moccasins were made specifically for her. She had the look: the face, the skin tone, the hair. She had the style that made everything go together with those shoes to the point where it gave her that Disney-version-of-a-Native-American-come-to-life look.
She loves how they look on her, how every detail is a tribute to their roots in traditional moccasin footwear with authentic accents like fringe and embroidery. People will always be in search for something and comfortable and real; and that's what she found after falling in love with those shoes. She loves them even though she wishes they had put a little arch support in those boots.
She typically wears them with no socks, and that was no exception on the day of this shoot. No socks at all, just her bare feet in there, true and natural, just as they are. They also keep her feet nice and toasty, which came in quite handy on that particular day because it was unseasonably cool for that time of year, and it was bit windy. In fact, as I was walking though the park looking for someone to photograph, I was starting to regret making the trip to the park because getting someone to pose for me when it felt as brisk as it did that day, it was going to be a tough sell, I thought.
I was a bit worried that her feet were going to get too cold for her to handle. Apparently it didn't because she stayed the entire time with me. She was very patient with me, and she was very respectful, and she had no plans on being anywhere anytime soon, so she was willing to let me enjoy the view and enjoy the touch of her feet for as long as I needed to.
She has a very sweet voice, she's one of the most pleasant women I've ever been around for a shoot. If you want to have a nice and quiet conversation with a pretty nice person, a conversation with someone whose feet are as well taken care of as her were that day, someone who is a mature, sensible and well rounded person, may I present this woman as someone you might be interested in. She knows who she is whole-heartedly in mind, body, and in her sixth sense.
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Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Cute face, pretty smile, nice skin tone, and a pair of bare size 9s roasting inside moccasins.
I'm in.
[ June 26, 2018, 07:23 PM: Message edited by: BareSoles84 ]
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Yes to Louisa’s pillowy soles!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
There's a certain appeal of a nerdy girl that men like. I love nerdy girls, too, as evidenced by the fact that I have taken photos of a few of them during my times foot hunting in the park. I can go on for hours for why women like those can be fun to be around, one of them being that they won't judge you for being weird. This next girl, for example, won't judge you for being weird because she's kind of weird too! She would find someone boring if they were too normal. If you have an extensive collection of action figures, that's no problem for her! When you want to date someone who accepts you for exactly who you are, a girl like her is someone you're looking for.
I first came across her as she was sitting on the same rock where the shoot took place. She was there, all quiet, being in her own little world, finishing up on the fast food she was eating. It was a long day for her, she just finished her meal, and she was ready to just really relax and forget about everything else. Having a complete stranger take photos of her bare feet right from her sneakers was not something she planned on doing when left work that day, but she was completely up for it when I asked her.
She teaches art to a bunch of four- and five-year-olds here in New York City. So we talked about that for a little bit before she decided that it wold be a great idea to draw a portrait of me using a pen on a small piece of paper as I'm taking photos of her feet. I must say that these kids in her class must be getting great lessons from her because she was able to do a fantastic job doing a sketch of me in the amount of time that she did. It takes a certain amount of talent to be able to draw as effectively as she did. She has that talent.
Of all the nerdy type of girls I have met over the course of time, she is the most talkative of the bunch and she has the funniest looking foot of the bunch; the toes of her left foot are a bit unsteady or uneven in that two of them are not able to make contact with the floor. Not the sexiest pair of feet I've ever shot, but I went ahead with the shoot anyway because it looked different in a somewhat cute kind of way. An excellent job was done on the tops of her feet because the toenail paint job is a great complimentary point because it goes well with the white of her feet, the red of her shirt, and the dark brownish red color of her hair. It also goes great with her glasses.
I don't know if silly is the right word to use to describe this woman because she's not unintelligent. She does not take many things seriously, and there are always silly jokes attached to the things she talks about. I guess it has something to do with dealing with little kids acting silly in a classroom all the time that makes her have such a harmless outlook on life. Having said that, I'm certain she would mind being told that a project she worked hard at is pretty silly. That's different.
All in all, although she has a childish personality trapped in a woman's body, she really is a harmless person - not able to cause harm to anyone or anything. She's gentle, she's always happy and is someone who can put a smile on your face if you ever had a chance to meet her. That trait is a truly wonderful one to have because it brings out her heartwarming nature side. Being someone who can put a smile on anyone's face is special because it can help create a better world where people care about each other more often.
Yes, unusual toe action...wouldn’t stop me from having them on my face, though! I wonder if she broke one at some time and never had it set?
Thanks for the update!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC On this particular Sunday afternoon, it was hot that day. The humidity made it presence felt, and I felt a bit uncomfortable walking through the Park because of how sticky the air mass was. But in photography - if you keep digging deep, you'll find something that's worth it. It was a good thing I kept up with the heat that day because I was lucky enough to have found someone who that turned out to be a great shoot for me when I wasn't quite expecting one.
I was walking up the hill on the grass. As I got closer to the top of the steep incline, I saw this woman (the one you're about to see) who was jogging. In Central Park, there's a variety of terrain and excellent scenery, which makes it the ultimate runner's dream. With its many paths that range in level of difficulty, Central Park allows a runner to experience clarity and freedom in this urban oasis. It's easy to understand why the famous New York Marathon has its final miles in Central Park every year.
This woman wasn't training for that marathon, but I could tell from the way she ran that she took her running regimen seriously. You know how when someone jogs so fast with the intensity that she leaves a cloud of dust behind her? That's how hard her feet were hitting the ground with the speed she clocked in. She ran around the Reservoir twice, and jogged on other soft surface dirt routes, soft surface made of crushed gravel for a total of almost five miles by the time I caught up to her! One could only imagine what she was putting her feet through, all suffocated in those black socks and running shoes in that amount of distance.
I saw her run and thought nothing of it because I didn't think I was going to catch up with her. But as I walked on the same path myself, there she was, taking a break. She wasn't walking or sitting on a bench to take her break; instead she took her break by climbing up a tree to take a breather on the branches. She stood on a branch that was strong enough to support her weight while leaning her back against the bark of the tree. I don't know how she was able to climb as high up as she did on that tree. Because she was all the way up there, I found myself having to speak a little louder than usual to see if she could remove her sneakers and socks for me to let me take photos of her bare feet as-is, in its natural state of condition.
I could tell she was hesitant about doing something like this for me, especially when she was taking a break from her jogging routine. By the way, this happens from time to time, when someone is on the fence about removing her shoes for a complete stranger. She wasn't the first one, and she wasn't the last one to have some second thoughts about it before deciding, "What the heck - why not?" When I find that someone is on the fence about this, when she's torn between two options ("should I or shouldn't I?"), when she has to make a decision that could easily go one way or another, it's not as if I'm spending another five minutes to convince her; it takes me about an extra twenty seconds to get them to do it.
Someone asked me what would I do if someone might not be open about doing this, but I get the sense that I could still persuade her. The answer is to push it a little more. You want to push it just a little bit more - just a little bit, but not too much like someone who's begging for something because you become creepy in her eyes. With her, I could tell there was a part of her that was willing to take part in this impromptu shoot. All I had to do was find that part within her for her. And I found it.
She climbed down the tree and walked towards me. "You don't seem like a typical fetishist or a typical anyone, for that matter, who would make me feel creeped out or uncomfortable," she said. "Okay - what the heck, right?" In her case, there were two reasons why she had second thoughts about this.
During the shoot, she told me a story about something that happened to her just the day before. The day before! This woman is single and she's looking for a man in her life. She put up a profile on Plenty of Fish and finally met a guy she was chatting with online in person. At some point during the date, he was in confession mode and told her the reason he wanted to go out with her was because of her feet.
One of the photos in her profile was a photo of her feet - or rather, a photo of her in which her feet appeared. He told her he wanted to go out with her because he thought she of her feet and how nice he thought they looked. It made her feel uncomfortable and she began looking for ways to get the hell out of there as quickly as she could. The way he brought it up to her, the way he said it made her feel icky and completely insignificant about who she is as a person, she said.
I could tell from that it got to her and that he made her feel useless, even though she understood that wasn't his intent. With me, I got to know her as someone who is a real woman with feelings, emotions. She's trying hard to make things better for herself physically by taking part in vigorous exercise such as jogging, for example. She wants her love life to have meaning, to be appreciated and understood by a man who gets her for her, who gets her for the good things and any complexities that comes from being perfectly imperfect as she is - a strong woman who's a real-life girl next door.
That's one reason she had second thoughts about doing this, because she thought about the other guy. Why did she take her running shoes off for me, considering what happened to her the night before? I didn't creep her out, whatever that meant to her. The shoot was an hour long (a typical length for my shoots on average), during which time I got to know so much about her. She felt good expressing her life and her thoughts during a conversation that just so happened to involve a stranger taking photos of her feet.
ANOTHER PART TO THIS NATURALLY STRONG AND ATHLETIC PERSON The other reason she had second thoughts about doing this was because she felt really bad for being super sweaty for a photo shoot from all that jogging she did on such a hot and humid day - a shoot in which she was worried about her feet being kind of sweaty or something else, a shoot she was not prepared for. Look, if a woman is going to jog around the park for as long as she had, it's natural she's going to produce more sweat than usual.
This woman gets to crush girls on a regular basis since she's on an all-women's rugby team. I had to ask what her opinions were on American football and she called it kind of weak since they use protective padding and halt play during the game. She is not an exceptionally aggressive person (or so she said), but probably receives a therapeutic benefit from tackling others. She always showers after rugby practice and after her long session of jogging through Central Park. I respect that. But I have to admit something to you guys: in the past, I have fallen in love with a woman's pheromones. I seriously doubt I am the only one of us has become powerfully drawn to the dank odors of their partner's body. I fell in love with hers. I mean, yeah, keep it clean, but not **too** clean.
In the end, I have to hand it to her for handling this as well as anyone could've handled it. She was willing to have an open mind about how foot fetishists are, even in light of the experience she had the night before. She allowed herself to feel more comfortable with me as she opened up about who she is and what her life is like, sweaty and relaxed 'n all. After we were done with the shoot, she put her socks and shoes back on and began to jog once more to complete her route. I found her unwillingness to quit her exercise mission sexy in a way I'm not sure of how to explain.
This took place once evening in the middle of the week. I was at the park for a few hours and I was getting ready to call it day. It was one of those days for me in which I had a hard time finding someone to model her feet for me. I was about a minute away from leaving the park when this woman caught my attention from out of the corner of my eye. She was walking along, and it seemed to me for a second that she was walking towards some other location in the park before she suddenly decided that she was going to make a turn to her left and leave the park instead.
I was a little bit ahead of her, but I'd stopped walking just to see where she would go next so I could figure out how to approach her, and because someone with her look is an ideal fit for what I search for that would make some great Natural Park material for a shoot.
There was that sense of comfort when I looked at her because I knew she had to be a native New Yorker. The look, the familiarity she had of her surroundings ..., you just have a way of knowing if a girl is from your own town and not some visitor from some other place in the world.
I could tell from the outfit she wore that evening that she was on her way home from running some errands where she could finally shower, relax, watch some TV. She also had that look and style of someone who tries to stay in good shape. She had that look of someone who is a very busy person during the day, and I love seeing New York women and how they look when they are on the go and survive the jungle-like atmosphere that is the Big Apple. Her footwear is perfectly suited for someone who is always active, always busy, always on the move in the streets of Manhattan.
She had on a pair of trail running shoes. Light trail running shoe type. I love looking at a pair of women's shoes in which the footwear height only goes up to her ankles. Also about those shoes: the low-profile, breathable mesh uppers of her running shoe keeps her feet feeling light and dry. The pair of shoes she wore that day weighed less than a pound. That's not an exaggeration, either. When she let hold them at some point during the shoot, they truly felt weightless. Amazing how shoes that light can take care of a woman who has her build, frame, or physique.
So I saw her walking along and thought to myself this was going to be a hit, for sure. I told myself she was going to be my last shot to get someone on what was a very slow day for me at the park.
I finally walked up to her. I made a comment about her shoes and then asked her if I could massage her feet for a few minutes. I don't know what compelled me to say that, but there something about this woman, something about her shoes that made me speak from my heart. She felt from the sincerity of my voice and calmness in my demeanor that I meant no harm to her and that her feet would be in good hands if she were to let me rub her feet. Before anything happened, she asked why I wanted to give her foot a massage, saying that that was such a random thing to ask someone. But you could tell from the way someone reacts, from the facial expressions to the tonality of her voice, if she's willing to give you the green light. Something compelled me to say what I said, and I knew from her reaction that she was willing to have an open mind and explore something different and spontaneous all at the same time.
When asked why I wanted to give her a foot massage, I said because she looked like she deserved one. It's been a long day, she looked like she deserved one, her feet will be rewarded and that they would thank you for giving them a well-deserved break, I told her.
"Wow! I mean, sure. I don't even know who you are, but it feels like ... even though I don't know, it's like I just trust you. I don't know if that makes sense."
It made perfect sense.
"I was just going to make my way home to see my husband, but yeah ... you can massage my feet, I guess. A bit unusual, but that's real nice of you." That's when I noticed the wedding band on her finger. Awesome that a married woman would be so open to this.
When we got to our spot, I told her that since her shoes brought us together, I wanted to take pictures of her feet. "Go ahead, be my guest," she replied. That gave her time to finish up on her reading while I took pictures of her.
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ANY NEW YORKER WOULD RELATE TO THIS ... Towards the end of the shoot (and when she finished up on her reading), we started talking about New York stuff - you know, things a local person would know about when it comes to anything and everything about the city. Anyone who lives in NYC would know what I'm talking about when it comes to things that makes New York "New York". Things such as bumping into someone on the street and not take the time to say "sorry." She gets angry of waiting in line to swipe at the subway turnstile behind someone who doesn't know how to swipe. She has survived a blackout or two. She heard an announcement in the subway that sounded about as intelligible as Charlie Brown's teacher and somehow completely understood it, and she doesn't remember the last time she drove a car. This woman is a New Yorker through and through, and I love her for that. Love her. Music to my ears.
Sharing those short and amusing stories about real-life New York incidents felt like home cooking to me.
And yes, I gave her the foot massage she deserved. Believe me, she has strong feet.
Great work and two amazing stories!
Posted by MetaFootMan420 (Member # 47778) on :
Wow THE HEROINE SPIRITESS blew me away! Love the rest as well. Thanks for your art man keep doing what you do please haha. Special request for any women with particularly sweaty feet, love the way it glistens. Thank you foot master natural park.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
One Sunday evening, I met this 41 year-old puertorriqueña (Spanish for Puerto Rican woman) woman while I was walking through Central Park. She kind of appeared from out of nowhere, catching me off guard a little bit, now faced with a snap decision as to whether I was going to say hi to her. If I let another one or two seconds go by, we would've walked past each other. All of this was happening quicker than it has taken you to read this story up to this point. That last sentence was meant to illustrate what it can be if you ever decide to take the risk and go out there in public, going up to complete strangers and convince them to take their shoes off for you for foot fetish photos for free in a very rapid fashion. Sometimes the approach moves through with a normal pace; you see her from a distance, and you have the time to figure out what you're going to say to her when the two of you meet. Other times, everything is happening fast; she appears from out of nowhere and you have to be a light switch and make the decision right then and there if you're going approach the lady, say a few things to her, and give her a nice, light compliment about something.
In baseball, when a pitcher throws a fastball, the batter has less than a second to decide if he's going to swing at that pitch. When I'm out there in the park, when someone magically appears from nowhere, and the only thing that stands between you is five feet of space, I have about a second to decide if I'm going to do something about it. I decided to go for it just as we were about to pass each other, even though I had no time to come up with something to say to her.
I could tell she wanted to visit Central Park to take up her hobby of water painting the grass and trees of the scenery. She was just done with her art work and had started to make her way towards the exit from the park. I thought I was going to get a no from her because she had just packed up her art supplies and was heading out. Instead she said yes to the idea of me taking an interest in her feet and wanting to take photos of them. She liked the idea that of me taking a special kind of interest in her feet, and a special kind of interest in who she is as a person, even though I had met her just seconds before. All of a sudden she found me more interesting, and all of a sudden she had more time to spare in the park.
Raised in Spanish Harlem, she now lives in the Manhattan Valley section of Manhattan with her 18 year-old son. To me she looks too young for someone who has a son at that age. She does her very best to provide for his well being, and it looks as if her love and affection for him is paying off because he is looking forward to a bright future ahead of him in the field of law enforcement. She is someone who has a great relationship with him and grateful for everything she has in her life.
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I've said once before that when you're out there doing this, people might point and/or laugh about the fact that you're taking photos of someone's feet out in the open like that in public, but it is rare that someone is going to interrupt the shoot by talking to you and the woman. That's what happened here. An old man walking his dog just happen to come across the shoot (come to think of it, I think the dog lead him to the shoot, snooping around as dogs always do). He stopped by and talked with us for about five minutes before we went on his way. I don't remember what we were talking about, but I do remember it had nothing to do with him questioning the nature of the shoot out of curiosity.
I kept snapping photos of her feet as all three of us were having a conversation. He was a good guy and he seemed like the type of person that no one would say a word about. The dog was nice, too.
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Overall, it was a great way to spend a Sunday evening. As the shoot went on, she became more understanding to why guys like feet. She kept asking me questions pertaining to the this fetish, and the entire tone of the conversation was very polite, and it seemed as if she knew what to do before I told her what to do. In a way I felt stupid for directing her because she came up with some of these poses on her own, considering that I tell these women what to do all the time. But at the same time, she takes orders very well. Almost too well, in fact.
It's a very powerful feeling you have when you talk to someone who knows how to read your mind, and vice versa, and have the conversation be very civil, respectful, and quiet. The conversation felt very, very good inside.
I will be here all week long with many photos to show everyone. This will be my last week in here before I go on my annual summer break. I hope there will be a woman who I will post this week that you will enjoy.
Thanks for your support, and I will be back here soon with more women to present.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Great shoot! She really doesn’t look that old...
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
The next shoot shows photos I have taken of an Italian woman. We were walking towards each other, but she was paying more attention to the scenery of Central Park than she was to me. That's what tourists do when they visit New York, they look up as they walk straight forward instead of looking straight ahead. But since I'm not a tourist, I know where I'm going at all times, and it was a good thing I was looking ahead because I saw someone who I felt would make for a good shoot.
I don't remember too much about this woman's personality, but I do remember feeling that she's the type of person who prefers to take it easy, someone who stays out of trouble, and a woman who makes an effort to be especially polite in a particular situation. I could tell that from the very beginning from the way she seemed delighted to have been asked to model her feet for me.
She was very helpful and stayed with me throughout the entire hour in which this shoot lasted.
I spotted Bethany at a place where I normally don't look whenever I'm out in the park. Even if I did, it would've been hard to spot her because she was sitting where no one would've seen her had they walked by. It was as if she didn't want to be found, and she probably didn't. I was lucky to have found her because I almost didn't.
Her feet were dangling off the edge of a cliff. Yes, a cliff. Down below was the evening rush-hour traffic driving through one of the traverse roads at Central Park. Bunch of taxis and some city buses were moving beneath her feet that was dangling from high above (she was wearing her shoes at the time). Right beside her was a can of Fosters beer. She took a sip of it as I got closer to her (by the way, she had the beer with her during the shoot, but you won't see it in any of the photographs). Her back was towards me and I didn't want to startle her to the point where she fell off the cliff and onto the moving traffic, so I had to be careful there.
I could tell she was thinking about nothing in particular. I guess that's how the mind gets when you're drinking beer at a spot where you can just disappear from the world. She was alone and almost looked like a sad flower.
I thought about turning around and start to look for someone else, but she sensed by presence and turned around to face me. The look on her face said she was ready to be helpful in whichever way she knew how to whatever it was I wanted, although it looked like she was going to take her time with it and not rush into anything. I wanted to take pictures of her and her feet, I told her, just as long as it was somewhere where we were not in danger of falling fifty or more feet to the ground below. She just nodded her head, stood up, took her beer, and said ok as she walked towards me, flipping her hair and tucking it behind her ears. I told her to follow me, and she did. This whole thing was happened so quietly and it was way too easy to get her to agree.
I do have to say as a little warning, though. The condition of her toes are the results of what happens when a woman wears footwear that is too short or too tight or that exerts friction at specific points. Her soles are just fine.
When she took off her high-top Converse, I was pleasantly surprised to see how long her toes were. I generally lean towards more women who have long toes, and hers certainly were. Long toes usually means big feet, so really wanted to know what size her feet were. She said they were a size 7. I could not believe it. There was no way on earth her feet were a size seven. No woman with toes as long as hers wears a size 7. She even said it with a straight face, in a very "quiet-in-nature" kind of way.
I didn't want to leave it at that, so I pressed her a little bit on that to see if she realized how unbelievable she sounded. But she stayed with it, saying she's a size 7, and saying it in a way that sounded lethargic or as she was fatigued, just like the first time. By the way, that's how she spoke throughout the shoot. She talks as if she's shy or embarrassed to say something. The kind of day she had on this particular day really did a number on her mentally. Her mind shut down, she mentally clocked out, and went to Central Park with the beer in her purse to numb it her memories away and just forget about everything. We've all had days like that. That day was her turn to go through those emotions.
But going back to her shoe size for just a moment. I saw the bottom of sneakers. Sure enough, the shoes said Size 7. I didn't know what to believe anymore. It was as if everything I knew about feet was wrong. Her shoes were big, her toes were long, she had big soles ... "those can't be 7's," I kept telling myself. I head was spinning because I something seemed off. It was spinning more than her's were, and I was the sober one between the two. But I finally figured out why they said 7, but that wasn't until sometime after the shoot was over, when I was back home.
Before I get to that, I want to describe who she is as a person, because I feel that's important here. I would say that although she's a silent person, she is also a level headed woman. She is deep in thought and strong in his decisions. She is not given to any vacillations. This does not look at the world; but she observes it and draws whatever he needs to strengthen her personality and moves forward to pursue her cherished ambition and goals in life! He won't allow irrelevant factors to ruffle her!
I didn't think of it at the time, but the reason her shoes were a size 7 is because that's the U.K. measurement for women's shoes. I think she didn't give me the U.S./Canadian size because she would be embarrassed at how big her feet were. She's never been to anywhere outside of the United States, so it's not as if she bought them across the Atlantic and brought them with her back to New York.
There were moments here and there where she smiled and laughed a little bit. At the end of the shoot, she thanked me for making her day. She told me it felt so good getting some things off of her chest and talking about it with someone who won't judge her. She told me she didn't know where her mind was right around the moment I came up to her. Talking to me had the weight off her shoulders and I made her realize that everything was going to be okay. You can tell from the photos that she was going to be at peace finally.
She told me I was everything the doctor had ordered for her and that she had no idea that showing her feet to me would turn out to be some sort of therapy session for her. I see this as a form of therapy as well, and it was nice that someone else felt the same way about it.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Great shoot! She really doesn’t look that old...
I know, she really doesn't. When she told me about her 18 year-old son, I had a delayed reaction to that because that wasn't something I was expecting her to say. And something similar happened to me just the other day with another girl at the park. If she told you that she has a child as old as she said it was, you would never believe her. But it was true, just as it was in the case of Janice.
If she said she had a four year-old, that'll be one thing. But eighteen?! I don't know what to say to that, except to say that she doesn't look that old.
-National
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Good stuff! Yeah, definitely not US 7! Like to snuggle those soles, though!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATIONAL CLASSIC There are times where curiosity gets the best of me, and I walk up to a woman who is quiet and looks very unassuming. She has the look of someone you won't find in a nightclub. She's a typical story of someone who's introverted. She prefers to spend time alone in order to recharge her inner being. She tends to keep to themself due to having a different mindset than other people. She does have a strong sense of self, though, caused by her solitary nature. The friends she have are very precious to her. After trying to get to know her, one can surmise that she enjoys her time to herself very much and considers that time most precious. When I asked if I could take pictures of her feet, she said yes. She didn't quite understand why guys would like feet, but she was willing to have an open mind and go along with it. Her attitude throughout the introduction was that of someone who was very willing to explore and understand the mindset of a foot fetishist like myself, and she was all ears, with no qualms about considering new ideas for why things are the way they are.
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WHAT SHE DOES FOR A LIVING She works in some plant research laboratory. She and about two dozen people try to answer questions such as, "How many different ways are there to build a fruit?" and, "What differences in DNA make avocados different from strawberries?" Her goal is to study plant biodiversity to understand what the plants are, how they are related to each other, in order to preserve that biodiversity. In the lab, she takes the most modern tools to understand how plants are related to each other, and how plant diversity is built at the genetic level.
She doesn't have to travel far for test subjects; with over 100 fine species to choose from, she simply helps herself. A lot of the plants she uses in the lab comes from the team's living collection. Two plants she is particularly interested in are ginkgo and [I forgot what the other one was], which are fruit-like plants. This is all part of the study looking at DNA to better understand how fruits adapt to changes in nature.
With that knowledge, she and her team are better prepared for all of the problems that are going to arise in the 21st century, which includes problems arising from changes in climate, agricultural shortages, and other problems they haven't even anticipated yet. This project is one of sixteen taking place in the lab, with some studying plants found in South America and the Caribbean.
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MANY DAYS LATER, I WALK IN THE PARK. GUESS WHY I RUN INTO AGAIN? Eleven days later, I spot this woman again. The difference that stood out to me this time was the fact that she didn't look like the person who would spend eight hours a day at a library, like she did the first time I met her. She was still the shy, quiet girl on the inside. Outward appearance suggested she was ready to go out. Like on a date.
She was sitting on a bench, and it looked to me as if she was waiting for someone. She remembered who I was and I sat down next to her and we started to have a polite conversation about unimportant things, nothing in particular. It was a form of bonding between the two of us, and I used that time to gauge how I was going to steer the conversation away from the small talk.
It turned out that she was waiting for someone. Some guy who wanted to spend an afternoon with her, probably some scientist in her lab at work. She was waiting for him for twenty-five minutes after he was supposed to show up, only to send her a text after all that time had passed, saying he was going to cancel on the date. About ten minutes later, that was when I ran into her.
At first she was no too happy about it, and I felt so terrible for her when she told me the news. My heart went out to her, and it really sucked seeing her like that. She felt as if the other guy knew going into this that he wasn't going to show up. None of this sat right with me because she's not the type who would do anything to warrant that kind of outcome.
But when she saw me, it felt as if something had changed; she was happy to see me. After talking for a few minutes on the bench, she brought up the memories of the shoot we had, and talked about how she couldn't stop thinking about the amazing foot rub I gave her during and after the shoot. She never knew something like that could feel as amazing as that massage did for her, how it made her feel she was walking on clouds, and she would daydream about it a few times after the shoot, when we went our separate ways. She's not the type of person who would talk your ear off, so when she was in confession mode, she sounded a little embarrassed to admit to that and was afraid that I would find her weird or some kind of akward. She was trying to find the words to express her thoughts, but I helped her get through them by filling in the blanks for her in some of her sentences. She was nervous saying it, but I thought it was very cute to see her like that, and the park felt more silent because we were in our own little world together.
I made a comment about her shoes and how they looked better than the ones she had on last time, and I complimented her in another way by noticing that she looked great overall as well. She blushed but did a very good job of hiding that. Without asking for anything, I suggested she should go up on the rocks there with me. I don't know if she suspected that I wanted to take more pictures of her, but she went right along with it, no questions asked.
Booth shoots combined took about three hours to do. Afterwards, I suggested we should go somewhere together and grab a drink. She's not much of a drinker at all (she barely drinks), but considering everything that has happened to her up to that point, she agreed and felt that she could use one.
I like how you ran into her again moments after she had a date cancel on her. Little things such as that can make one at that moment feel unwanted and rejected, especially if they feel like they were led on, as this girl apparently did based on what you described. It's nice to hear that you were there to let her know that there are indeed people who do want to hang out with her and hear what she has to say and offer.
Though if I had to choose, I think I like her look better from your first encounter with her. It sort of fits her personality a bit better and she seems more herself when in that attire.
Posted by 18th Floor (Member # 35007) on :
I love the ones with Bethany and Helaine. Fantastic job of getting a great read from these women, about what they're like as people, and being able to put that into a story that is well thought out and put together.
I love Bethany's big, big soles. I wish she would've said ten as her size, but she kept opting to say seven. It was like she was denying the reality that her feet were big, but at the same time I did think it was kind of funny that she kept going back to the smaller size the way she did.
Helaine's story was quite touching. It seemed like those two shoots showed two different people just based on the way she was dressed, even though it was the same girl.
I like how you played around with the poses of her putting her feet up in the air like that. Pretty nice, and a nice new aspect to your style.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
BareSoles84 ... When I saw her the second time, I wasn't sure if she was the same Helaine I saw from a week and a half earlier because the style in clothes threw me off for a second. Also, walking up to her, I didn't think going into it that I was going to wind up having another shoot with her and then taking her out somewhere in town away from the park.
When she told me about the cancellation, I couldn't believe it. I went from being happy just to run into her again to being upset that someone would do that to her without offering an explanation or willing to take a rain check.
She's very quiet, she doesn't say much. The mood got quiet as I was trying to figure out how to absorb the news. The news was hard for me to take and hard for me to see her the way she was after being rejected in that way. But at the same time I was so glad I was there. I mean, I can understand someone having second thoughts, but this woman did not deserve to be stood up.
She's not too much of a socially active person, and it seemed as if she wanted to take steps in changing the mood and seeing what it's like to have more fun outside, doing things that have nothing to do with work.
There was no way I was going to leave her sitting there after hearing something like that. I wanted to do the right thing by letting her know that she's a great person and that someone (being me) took a liking to her quiet nature and fascination with science.
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: Though if I had to choose, I think I like her look better from your first encounter with her. It sort of fits her personality a bit better and she seems more herself when in that attire.
She is more comfortable being in the attire just like the one in the first shoot - you're absolutely right. Seeing how she looked in the second shoot. Comparing that one with how she looked in the first shoot really makes the attire in the first shoot stand out because it makes the story of her personality stand out even clearer. Something about that can cause someone to feel very fond of her, I guess.
I don't want to dismiss how she looked in her second shoot because that helped make the second shoot what it was. I don't know if it would've came out looking as great as it did had she wore something similar to the first shoot. The second shoot helped give notice to another side of her personality. Each shoot served its purpose in its own unique way. Each shoot told a different story about the same person. The shoots evoked different feelings about the same woman. It was beautiful how that was able to work out the way it naturally did.
It was nice seeing her smile a little more than usual after I left the park with her.
-National
Posted by MetaFootMan420 (Member # 47778) on :
Wow! Great work as always.
Posted by caseman (Member # 33975) on :
I like the Italian girl, very creative with her poses. And I like Helaine as well. That was a pretty good story, and one I don't think I'll forget for quite some time. Pretty awesome to see that you got some girl to pose for you a second time. This is epic stuff, and thank you.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
@National, great story, Helaine Solphen (I’m assuming that’s not her real name). You sure have a knack for this! (Nay, a gift!)
What I am left wondering... were does she work? Certainly, there is no plant research lab on Manhattan, is there?
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: What I am left wondering... were does she work? Certainly, there is no plant research lab on Manhattan, is there?
I don't know if there's one in Manhattan. But what I do know for a fact is the one she works in is not in Manhattan.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
A woman in her 20s from Australia. What had me drawn to her was her attire because she was dressed like someone who was about to go for a jog. The spandex/polyester capri leggings and her New Balance running shoes that weighs half a pound (7.5 ounces) tells me that she's fit to stay fit. But she was not in the middle of any jogging activity. She just simply wanted to take it easy that day and go with something very casual. But I loved her outfit nonetheless, and I knew from the minute I saw her that I was going to get a lot of feet pictures out of her. And I wound up taking many, many photos of her over the course of an hour with only twenty six of them making it to the gallerie.
She works at a zoo and is also a part of a non-profit, non-government organization dedicated to the conservation and effective management of the wild koala and its habitat. Koalas are not on the endangered species list, but things are not looking good from them from what she told me. This all came to me as news, but I'm glad she is one of the people who serves as a silver lining in all of this, as she's dedicated in doing whatever needs to be done in order to preserve their existence on this planet, especially considering there is currently no legislation, anywhere in the country, that can protect Koalas and Koala habitat in Australia. The koala population has been devastated over the last hundred years and is currently under great threat due to urbanization and massive, uncontrolled habitat destruction, she told me. She is serious about her mission, she is compassionate about them, and I applaud her for that.
It was refreshing to see her remove her sneakers, then her ankle socks, to reveal that her feet were in excellent shape, all healthy and ready to run a great distance in those New Balance if need be.
Very nice, National. I have an affinity for Australian gals, so this is a good one.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC If I ever needed to seek the guidance of a psychologist, I would turn out to be one happy patient if she was the doctor I was assigned to see. That last sentence was intended to be understood as a joke, although a part of me might be serious. In all seriousness, though, yes - this woman you're about to meet IS a real-life psychologist. After this shoot, there's no way I think I could ever be her patient because of the nature of the shoot and the nature of some of the things we talked about. Besides, this woman is from Australia, which pretty much guarantees I will never see her again. Her accent was quite detectable, and I loved the way it sounded.
Jaime has a doctoral degree in psychology, the study of the mind and behaviors. Graduate school provided her an education in evaluating and treating mental and emotional disorders. After completing graduate school, she completed an internship that lasted a few years and provided her further training in treatment methods, psychological theory, and behavioral therapy.
As a licensed professional, Jaime is qualified to do counseling and psychotherapy, perform psychological testing, and provide treatment for mental disorders. She is not, though, a medical doctor. That means she cannot write prescriptions or perform medical procedures. She'll often work in association with a psychiatrist or another medical doctor who provides the medical treatment for mental illness while she provides the psychotherapy.
I asked her why would someone seek her service because there is a consensus that only someone who is "crazy," or someone who has a "nervous breakdown," would want to see her. She still treat serious mental disorders, but she also can provide services for other reasons as well. Jaime explained how many of us today feel lost or empty in a world with a cultural emphasis on superficiality and immediate gratification. Anyone can benefit from her services to enhance and maintain physical and mental health, and to promote honesty and intimacy in daily life.
Jaime talked about how there can be complications that interfere with your ability to solve your own problems. That's where she can come into play. For example, you can feel vaguely dissatisfied with your life, but you can't get a clear sense of what the problem is. In this case you might consult her to help define the problem. Once the problem is clearly defined, you might be able to proceed on you own, or you might discover an unconscious block as well. The good news is that once you have learned this basic strategy for defining and solving problems, you aren't likely to need her help any more.
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With all of that stuff being said, it is well worth noting that she is one of the most relaxed and easy-going women I have met in all of my time doing this. Once you get to know a little bit about her, you will immediately feel the same way. Someone in her profession will not open up about herself to a patient. But since I wasn't a patient to her, she was free to open up to me about her personal aspects of her life away from her work. I asked her some personal and thought-provoking questions. She loved my line of questioning, which made her want to know more about me. The whole experience and the conversation was therapeutic for the two of us, especially herself. She felt as if she discovered some new things about herself that she hadn't realized previously, which was quite a revelation for her.
I say this because even though Jaime is a psychologist, she is someone who is seeking her own peaceful existence, free of self-doubt and ambivalence. The conversation we shared was fun, very playful, also personal and deep in some cases. It served as some quite of an awakening moment when she came to terms with some surprising and previously unknown facts or beliefs about herself, especially some that were made known in dramatic ways. And all of this was coming from a woman who is seeing her own clinical supervisor and psychotherapist once a week, that other therapist being a woman who is her mentor who plays devil's advocate to her ambivalence.
Jaime even told me that she was going to tell her therapist about this photo session. When I asked her how she was going to describe this experience to her? She answered in her lovely Australian accent, "I have nothing but wonderful things to say about you. I just met you, like not too long ago, and you just have this magical way of getting to the inner essence of who I am as a modern-day woman, and that means a lot to me. My personal existence, you made me feel revitalized in a way and at peace at the same time. You were just what I needed without knowing I needed it. And it seems like you like my feet, too, because you've taken what must've been hundreds of photos of my feet. You have a fetish, and fetishes are okay."
That was so touching, what she said. What followed was the silence that occurs after someone has said something that leaves everyone who bore witness to what just happened speechless. I told her to give me her hand, which she did, and she let me hold on to it. We kind of looked at each other as I said something that served as a comforting piece or words of encouragement, all the while still holding her hand. Whatever I said got to her because she took my hand and placed her cheek upon it as if it were a pillow. She held it there for felt like fifteen seconds. Breathtaking and unbelievable.
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She was in New York "because of holiday," she said. I've met other Australian women who phrased that the same way. Finally I wanted to know what this holiday business was all about. So I asked her what holiday were they celebrating in Australia that allowed them to just take off like that to another part of the world. She found that question funny and laughed at it a little bit, "No, I don't mean a holiday 'holiday', but holiday. Taking time off."
"Oh, like a vacation?" I asked. "Yes! Excuse my manners, I'm in America. Yes, I am vacationing," all happy and in a good mood.
SHE IS VERY UNDERSTANDING TO THE IDEA OF PEOPLE HAVING FOOT FETISHES I had to ask her. Jaime knows there are people who do not fully understand fetishes. She knows that foot fetishes is the most common type. She know it involves being sexually aroused by some aspect of the foot including the type of shoe, the look, some accessory involving the feet, and she even that the smell can make someone with this fetish feel very comfortable for liking what he loves.
"If they were not too smelly, or not smelly at all, then I'm glad I could help you because you've been an amazing person to me. Because of you, I have something very interesting to tell people about my vacation from New York." So cute she remembered to say vacation.
In regards to high heels, she talked about how they're not uncomfortable are physically damaging to the feet. But she acknowledged their goal is not comfort because many women wearing the shoes are doing so to be more attractive to others.
For women who resent their boyfriends or husbands for having a foot fetish, "The couple should consider talking to a therapist or sex therapist. I'm not a sex therapist, but someone like that might help her better understand the fetish area more clearly. Should the male attraction to breasts be considered abnormal, since the breasts have nothing to do with the process of impregnation? The similar analysis can be said with feet. A foot fetish should not be considered threatening, deviant or abnormal. So something like that should not anger her. I mean, if the guy is threatening or a psycho, or anything else that's not normal, that'll make the fetish look bad. Having a foot fetish in and of itself is not a bad thing at all. And if she likes the guy, the foot fetish part can be an amazing, healthy aspect that'll satisfy both people in the relationship."
Why does she have such a willing and open mind? It comes from the brain's natural like for ambiguity, she told me.
She's truly wonderful. She has the voice of someone who sounds like she's a lot of fun to be around. And that accent of hers makes listening to her a pleasure to enjoy.
NATURAL CLASSIC We have yet another Australian tourist who visited New York. I thought she was hot. I wasn't going to let her out of my sight and it would be great if someone like her could model her feet for me, as is and just how they were in her socks and shoes, right at that moment. I was super confident I was going to get her to do this. If you want it that bad, it will magically grant you the wish to make it happen.
We were walking towards each other, and I had to tell her I thought she looked very cute, which I did. "Oh my God," she blushed, "Thank you." I asked for her name and she said Georgina. I could tell I had her attention. It was the type of attention she appreciated and wanted some more of. She was smiling and she was stumbling over her words a little bit, trying not to say something that would kill the initial attraction.
A lot of guys would find themselves stumbling over their words when talking to a hot girl, fearing they're going to run out of things to say real fast. But when it's the other way around, when it's you who's making the hot girl make her heart beat faster, trying to be perfect by not screwing up her words like she was, then it's on.
We talked for a little bit, and she knew I was trying to pick her up, and she didn't seem to mind it. She was nervous, but in a good way. I suggested we sit somewhere close by and get to talk with each other some more, to which she agreed. All of this was unexpected for her, but she was willing to go along with it.
I made a comment about her shoes and how different they looked from other pairs of footwear I have seen before, which made her open up about it for a bit. I wanted to take photos of her shoes and her feet, and I brought that up with her. She made that look on her face that told me that me wanting to take pictures of her feet took her aback a bit, but I knew she was willing to listen because the request was unusual but also new and worth entertaining the thought of it.
When she removed her socks to reveal her feet, she said, "I've been walking around quite a bit, you know." First of all, I could've get over the accent and how pristine it made her sound. Secondly, I could tell from the way she said it that there was something I should know about upon the removal of her socks that I should know about, but she would rather not discuss (out of fear of being embarrassed). I love it when a girl like her say something like this because she's trying to imply something without saying it, a lot like how Ashley Miles did. And in a circumlocutorily way, I reassured her there was nothing to be worried about.
After removing her second sock, I picked it up from the ground and observed it for a few seconds, taking mental notes to myself about the texture of it and if it was moist. I teased her by saying her socks probably smelled like strawberries. She chuckled, "I would like to think so, but I don't know about it being quite like that ..." It was at that instant where I took a whiff of it right in front of her. I've got to tell you, inhaling that hit the spot for me.
The look on her face? Priceless.
You know how when someone puts her hand over her mouth in surprise or shock? Yup, that was her reaction. She stayed like that for seven or eight seconds. I guess she was waiting for me to say something. "By the way, I like how you braided your hair," I said, as if what just happened didn't happen.
"Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!," she suddenly said with nervous excitement as she had her fingers crossed from both hands covering her mouth. She paid no attention, it seemed, to my compliment to her hair because I had her held with baited breath because she didn't know if I had good news to report about the smell test. "Look," I said finally, "I'm still here, right? It means you're a winner." She wasn't sure what that meant, whether it meant it smelled like strawberries or something more like feet without it crossing the line of being "too offensive" at the same time. I keep her guessing, which she kind of liked.
She asked what part of the foot is my favorite. She guessed the toes alluding to the fact that her toenails were painted red, and how she's glad she had them painted that color, thinking that had she left them natural, I might not find them as appealing for the shoot. I could tell she was having fun with this after the sock stunt, which was awesome because she was becoming more comfortable with her feet being naturally as they were in my close presence, comfortable with my fetish.
I answered her question, "My favorite part of the foot? The salty part." She laughed real hard because that answer was unexpected, but at the same time she understood how feet could be salty in certain areas. Yeah, she was having fun with this.
By the way, I can't take credit for an answer like that to that question. The credit goes to a friend of mine who I haven't seen in a long time who used to be a member of this forum. In his profile, where it says favorite part of the foot, he had it listed as "the salty part."
In any event, the two of us had a fun with this shoot. Georgina will watch silly animal videos on YouTube. She watches comedies and a lot of chick flicks. She tells corny jokes. When she isn't working, she's hanging out with friends, shopping and having fun. When she gets together with friends to play a game, it's not about who wins or what her score is; to her it's about the camaraderie and laughter that happen when she plays a game with a friend. She photo bombs her best friend, and she'll hang out in her jammies all day and read a book or watch a romantic comedy movie. Just your normal everyday girl.
Three amazing, amazing shoots! Wonderful. Thank you. So what do you think Georgina was concerned about removing her socks, that that the would smell bad? I think a lot of girls out walking all day probably would worry about that. Anyway they looked great to me!
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Three great additions ... Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Three amazing, amazing shoots! Wonderful. Thank you. So what do you think Georgina was concerned about removing her socks, that that the would smell bad?
That's right. Sometimes a woman would try to give me the heads up about any potential smell without actually spelling it out, hoping that I would get the hint. It's very cute, I will say, especially with Georgina.
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy: Three great additions ...
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I will go on my annual summer break from posting new photos. When it comes to posting new stuff, this thread will go on mid-season break, and it won't be until autumn (or spring, if you live below the equator) when I start posting brand new photos for everyone's enjoyment again.
Real women. The real amateur girls next door is what this thread is all about, and that will never change.
Take care, and enjoy the rest of your summer. I know I will.
-National
Posted by sftfan (Member # 1959) on :
Enjoy yourself and thanks for another season Posted by MetaFootMan420 (Member # 47778) on :
Yes! Great women, stories, feet, poses. Thanks man. Enjoy, looking forward to what comes next. Cheers!
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: This took place once evening in the middle of the week. I was at the park for a few hours and I was getting ready to call it day. It was one of those days for me in which I had a hard time finding someone to model her feet for me. I was about a minute away from leaving the park when this woman caught my attention from out of the corner of my eye. She was walking along, and it seemed to me for a second that she was walking towards some other location in the park before she suddenly decided that she was going to make a turn to her left and leave the park instead.
I was a little bit ahead of her, but I'd stopped walking just to see where she would go next so I could figure out how to approach her, and because someone with her look is an ideal fit for what I search for that would make some great Natural Park material for a shoot.
There was that sense of comfort when I looked at her because I knew she had to be a native New Yorker. The look, the familiarity she had of her surroundings ..., you just have a way of knowing if a girl is from your own town and not some visitor from some other place in the world.
I could tell from the outfit she wore that evening that she was on her way home from running some errands where she could finally shower, relax, watch some TV. She also had that look and style of someone who tries to stay in good shape. She had that look of someone who is a very busy person during the day, and I love seeing New York women and how they look when they are on the go and survive the jungle-like atmosphere that is the Big Apple. Her footwear is perfectly suited for someone who is always active, always busy, always on the move in the streets of Manhattan.
She had on a pair of trail running shoes. Light trail running shoe type. I love looking at a pair of women's shoes in which the footwear height only goes up to her ankles. Also about those shoes: the low-profile, breathable mesh uppers of her running shoe keeps her feet feeling light and dry. The pair of shoes she wore that day weighed less than a pound. That's not an exaggeration, either. When she let hold them at some point during the shoot, they truly felt weightless. Amazing how shoes that light can take care of a woman who has her build, frame, or physique.
So I saw her walking along and thought to myself this was going to be a hit, for sure. I told myself she was going to be my last shot to get someone on what was a very slow day for me at the park.
I finally walked up to her. I made a comment about her shoes and then asked her if I could massage her feet for a few minutes. I don't know what compelled me to say that, but there something about this woman, something about her shoes that made me speak from my heart. She felt from the sincerity of my voice and calmness in my demeanor that I meant no harm to her and that her feet would be in good hands if she were to let me rub her feet. Before anything happened, she asked why I wanted to give her foot a massage, saying that that was such a random thing to ask someone. But you could tell from the way someone reacts, from the facial expressions to the tonality of her voice, if she's willing to give you the green light. Something compelled me to say what I said, and I knew from her reaction that she was willing to have an open mind and explore something different and spontaneous all at the same time.
When asked why I wanted to give her a foot massage, I said because she looked like she deserved one. It's been a long day, she looked like she deserved one, her feet will be rewarded and that they would thank you for giving them a well-deserved break, I told her.
"Wow! I mean, sure. I don't even know who you are, but it feels like ... even though I don't know, it's like I just trust you. I don't know if that makes sense."
It made perfect sense.
"I was just going to make my way home to see my husband, but yeah ... you can massage my feet, I guess. A bit unusual, but that's real nice of you." That's when I noticed the wedding band on her finger. Awesome that a married woman would be so open to this.
When we got to our spot, I told her that since her shoes brought us together, I wanted to take pictures of her feet. "Go ahead, be my guest," she replied. That gave her time to finish up on her reading while I took pictures of her.
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ANY NEW YORKER WOULD RELATE TO THIS ... Towards the end of the shoot (and when she finished up on her reading), we started talking about New York stuff - you know, things a local person would know about when it comes to anything and everything about the city. Anyone who lives in NYC would know what I'm talking about when it comes to things that makes New York "New York". Things such as bumping into someone on the street and not take the time to say "sorry." She gets angry of waiting in line to swipe at the subway turnstile behind someone who doesn't know how to swipe. She has survived a blackout or two. She heard an announcement in the subway that sounded about as intelligible as Charlie Brown's teacher and somehow completely understood it, and she doesn't remember the last time she drove a car. This woman is a New Yorker through and through, and I love her for that. Love her. Music to my ears.
Sharing those short and amusing stories about real-life New York incidents felt like home cooking to me.
And yes, I gave her the foot massage she deserved. Believe me, she has strong feet.
Not sure how I missed this one, but this one is an incredible, yet humorous story. I love the way you approached her and flat out basically said hey, can I massage your feet? I wouldn't be surprised if her toes curled inside of her trail runners right then and there.
I think though that because that is such an off the wall and random first thing to say to someone, that is precisely why one might be compelled to say yes. Granted, depending on how it's done. If able to be done with sincerity and a sense of harmlessness, their first reaction would probably be to laugh and ask why you want to do that (exactly as this gal did). Your response was perfect, as it made it seem for her that the reason you wanted to massage them was all because of her and that she looked like she deserved one, making her feel special, and not like you were just some guy who simply wanted to touch her.
The fact that she is married and yet so quickly, willingly, and excitedly agreed to let a total stranger massage her feet, is also quite interesting and somewhat exciting as well. The notion that her husband was back at home while simultaneously, unbeknownst to him, she was out at Central Park, eagerly sliding the trail runners off of her tired feet to have the soles and toes of her bare size 9.5's massaged and fondled by a random guy with a foot fetish, and enjoying it.
Well played.
If it were me, as opposed to the traditional feet-in-lap approach, I probably would have done something different and had her stay either in this position for the massage, and sat down behind her so that way you could essentially get a bird's eye view of her soles with them facing up at your face and you looking straight down at them as you massaged them:
Or, this one. So that way as I think I've brought up and mentioned before, you could lay down on your stomach right in front of her soles, and basically have them right in your face as you massage them:
Or, perhaps both.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
BareSoles84 ...
That was a pretty good shoot to salvage what was going to be an Ofer for me that day. I love the shape of her feet, the size of it, the type of footwear she wore that day, and there's something about her overall shape and size that tells me that she's a pretty strong person in her own right. The veins that appear on her feet tells the story of someone who is not at all lazy of putting her feet in motion through extended periods of walking around and through her exercising routine.
When she first brought up her husband, I thought she was going to find a way to say no to all of this, and I would've really left the park empty handed that day. But it was really cool and kind of hot that she put everything to the side just to have that moment with me, just two strangers sharing their time together in their own bubble, knowing that we would likely never see each other again. It's just one of those things, a little mini "fling", as I would love to think of it.
The husband was probably checking his watch from time to time wondering when she'll be back home. She talked very little about him, but when she did, it was she never anything about him that would've painted him in a negative light.
I don't know what compelled me to offer her a massage as a way of starting the conversation. I suppose it was her footwear; a woman wouldn't wear something like that unless she had a pretty good idea that she was planning to take at least 12,700 steps that day.
And not bad ideas for poses a woman can stay still in while she's given a massage to her feet. But I get too distracted thinking of something else - such as when I'm doing that to someone in the park, I would end up with her feet right to my face and closer to my nose. Can you blame me?
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
From the Land of the Rising Sun, we have a nice lady from a place called Kitakyushu, Japan, a city in southern part of the country with a population of just under a million people. No visit to New York is complete without every taking a visit to Central Park, so that was what she found herself doing on that day.
I saw her as she was about to settle in on a certain spot, and figured that would be a fantastic time to approach her since that told me that she wasn't planning on going anywhere else anytime soon. Her English was okay at best, which was fine by me because her accent would truly accentuate the fact that she was not from around here as she tried to put together her sentences in English as best she could. There's something about that that makes you want to learn a lot more of where the other person is from because the accent in which they speak in takes your mind to that place, makes you wonder what makes that other country an ideal place to visit one day.
She is a student studying towards her degree in dental hygiene. So if you're in Japan and need some work done on your teeth, she'll be the first person you see coming in and cleaning your teeth, before the second person (the actual dentist) performs the fillings for cavities and does the work to repair your teeth. She majored in nueroscience in her first year of studies before making the switch to dental hygiene. She's also considering going to dental school to become a dentist after she's done with all of that. She is someone who's going to have her schedule full quite some time into the future because all of this is going to take serious dedication, commitment, creativity, perseverance to excel in becoming the consummate professional in those fields.
On the day of the shoot, however, the last thing she wants to think about is anything that has to do with a classroom; she just wants to take the time to finally give herself (and her feet) a break from all the walking tourist usually do when they visit a place as big as New York. She didn't mind at all having me take as many photos of her feet as I wanted. She became very comfortable with the whole idea, allowing me to spend about an hour with her taking a ton of photos of her. She even did some stretching exercise in the middle of the whole thing on her own, without me ever suggesting it. She was that in tuned and that comfortable with the whole shoot, that she remained to be her true, natural self throughout the entire conversation.
That was a nice way to spend a late-afternoon on a Saturday. She was very nice to talk to for a very pleasant stranger who can easily become anyone's friend.
This gal has some really nice soles, and the fact that she's studying dental hygiene stuck out to me being that I'm quite meticulous and regimented when it comes to mine. So that was nice to read.
Looking forward to your next offering(s).
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: Nice to see you posting again, National.
Thanks. It's nice to be seen.
It was a great thing I ran into this woman because she served as a nice reminder about how important it is to take care of your teeth. The advice is a lot easier to follow if the woman saying this also has her feet out right in front of you, completely comfortable with you taking many pictures of them from different angles.
It's nice to be reminded every once in a while of the simple steps anyone can take to maintain the overall health of your teeth. Instead of brushing your teeth less than 2 minutes, brush your teeth for at least 2 minutes, 2-to-3 times a day to make your teeth whiter; Stop using medium, hard, or firm toothbrushes. They make your teeth yellow in the long run because they rub off the perfect white enamel on your teeth. Miura Kazumi suggests using a soft toothbrush instead.
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: Looking forward to your next offering(s).
I think you'll like the last woman I plan on showing this week - a very lovely 19 year-old.
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Check for me on the first part of those two pieces of advice from Miura Kazumi. The second is something I wasn't aware of, but will now consider. I’m surprised that she didn’t also mention the importance of flossing. Or perhaps she did. Haha.
I look forward to seeing this 19 year-old that you speak of in that case.
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Nice! She could clean my teeth with her toes! Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
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The average shoot for me would go for about an hour. The average. In other words, they go for more than an hour half the time. This shoot, however, was one of those rare ones that went about fifteen minutes. It was one of those things where if you blinked, you missed it. Yes, the other half of my shoots doesn't last an hour long, but not as short as fifteen minutes, but here we are with this shoot. I suppose something is better than nothing, and I give her credit for being nice enough to take part in the shoot, showing me her bare feet, even if it was for just for a little bit.
I don't remember anything about this woman, other than me taking a liking to what she wore on her feet and me being unable to wait seeing the texture to what her feet looked like as soon as her feet became free.
In the second shoot, we have someone who is involved in law enforcement as an actual, real-life Highway Patrol officer. Whereas local police are confined to cities, a state trooper such as herself has authority spreading across the whole state. I'm not going to say which state she's state trooper for, other than to say it's not New York.
This woman is the definition of what a hero is. She ensures that drivers are following state vehicular laws and regulations. This officer here - who is one of the more down to earth people I have ever me - directs traffic, issue citations, arrest criminals, assist injured motorists involved in accidents and helps local law enforcement agencies.
She promotes safety, responds to civil disorders, prevents disturbances and riots, relays evidence to detectives and preparing testimony for court appearances. She also documents evidence, conducts interviews, and takes appropriate photographs of crime scenes for ongoing criminal investigations. At the scene of accidents, she is required to administer first aid, call for emergency equipment and operate the equipment once it arrives.
As a state trooper, she must also issue traffic citations and tickets, and use her judgment when issuing an alcohol Breathalyzer test for potential drunk drivers. Because she often deals with individuals who are traveling at high speeds, it's important for her to anticipate any type of situation. While our brave lady here may encounter a family speeding in a minivan, she could experience a far more dangerous situation.
Her family also has a long lineage of members who have served- and still serve in the military, including her older brother who currently serves, and her father who is now retired. She is thinking about joining the Army, but she has yet to convince herself that that's the next step she wants to take. She loves what she does for a living, and she could not have picked a better profession for herself than to serve and protect the people of her state. She told me that doing what she does has always been in her blood and that she wouldn't trade that in for anything else in the world, and she has her family, especially her father to thank for that. She is very close to him and she has always been the type of person who has made him proud for being his lovely daughter and for putting her life on the line whenever she puts on her uniform.
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Ms. McKinney was on vacation when I spotted her taking a break in Central Park. It was starting to get a little late and I started to have thoughts of leaving and calling it a day. But I spotted her from a distance, sitting on the rock and jotting down some notes in her notepad, it seemed. I could tell immediately from the way she spoke to me that I was going to have the opportunity to see another woman's feet in the actual condition it was currently in, without any preparation to doll it up. Just her feet in that exact moment, on the spot, as-is. As a side note, up to this point in the entire thread, this woman had the sweatiest feet I've come across in.
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She should be proud of herself for going out there, patrolling the highways, putting her life on the line for the chance that other people can have their lives saved. She has told me some stories about what it's like out there for her - the good, the bad, and the ugly - and she still embraces every moment of it, and she still wants to be out there because she needs to, and because she wants to.
I also tip my hat off to her family for their past and present service serving the U.S. military. I have nothing but the utmost respect for all of them. This woman, and the rest of her family are the heroes for being the great people that they are.
She had some parting words for me. "If I can ask you to do just one thing for me, please learn The Constitution, get informed, and vote properly."
A huge hat tip to Trooper McKinney for serving. That was one of the more refreshing stories I've read for any of the women you've shared.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: Check for me on the first part of those two pieces of advice from Miura Kazumi. The second is something I wasn't aware of, but will now consider. I’m surprised that she didn’t also mention the importance of flossing. Or perhaps she did. Haha.
The same here. After I heard the advice on using a soft brush, it was one of those things where you wished you can start your life over to undo that mistake. It's as if everything you know about keeping your teeth healthy is wrong.
You can't be a specialist in teeth without mentioning flossing, right? She did mention about flossing at least once a day to keep your teeth white.
I'll get to your comment about the State Trooper at another time.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Nice! She could clean my teeth with her toes!
If you ever had a fear of visiting the dentist, having her clean your teeth with her toes will cure you of those fears for good.
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy:
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I enjoyed doing this shoot. She's from Italy, visiting New York on what was her first-ever trip outside of Europe. If there's one girl I'm showing this week who I would say is never up to no good, she would be that girl. Her sneakers were an interesting choice, and I wasn't sure why. They weren't what anyone could classify as sexy, cute, or pretty, but it was something that caught my attention. If there's anything you can say about her pair of ASCICS (which stands for anima sana in corpore sano, Latin for "Healthy soul in a healthy body."), you can say that they serve a purpose and they get the job done.
Even though this shoot went for an hour and eighteen minutes, there's not much I remember about this woman other than to say that she seems like a very nice person. Truly genuinely nice people are probably rarity to find because nice people aren't transactional and it is not a tit for tat world for them. This woman gives for the sake of giving, knowing it will never be returned the same, but take heart that the world is a better place because of the giving.
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It's interesting to not that she's the only person I've photographed who removed her sneakers without untying the laces. Her feet are not bad at all, and she became more relaxed after she removed her socks and became more settled in to her surroundings. She was relatively quiet throughout most of the shoot, from what I can remember, which was something I didn't mind at all because I love the quietness during the shoot, as it gives me the time to realize just how beautiful something serene can be. With her bare feet in front of me, with her feeling very comfortable with herself and in front of me, I can do my thing while she can have her peace and quiet at the same time.
Her toes and the soles of her feet: no complains here. There's something about a woman sleeping I find so beautiful. It felt as if she was mine to adore while her eyes were shut.
I don't have much to say about this woman, other than her soles somewhat remind me of Heroine Spiritess's.
Somewhat.
Similar in size too, since 8.5 is pretty much on par with a 9.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Molto bello!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC If you ask anyone who is close to her to give you a list of words they would use to describe this Kendall, the words such as dear, well-liked, cute, loved, and are going to be ranked high on such a list.
People who know her regard her with deep affection; she is popular with many people; she is someone a man can feel a deep romantic attachment to, and someone who makes her parents very proud because Kendall is a lady's lady.
From head to her toes, she is attractive in a pretty or an endearing form of fashion, winning. Winning, meaning pleasant or prepossessing. She is someone whose feet look just as beautiful as the rest of her is. This is the stuff dreams are made of and mine were about to come true when I laid my eyes on her for the very first time.
So pretty, she was - sitting on a bench, reading a book. The setup was perfect for me because of how innocent she looked and the scene around us was peaceful. I got a better look at her toes as I walked closer towards her and was quite impressed with how incredibly seductive they looked and how well looked-after she kept them. There was no way I was not going to talk to her!
I got her attention, she looked up from the book she was reading, and told her I noticed her from over there, complimented how beautiful she looked and asked if she minded me sitting next to her for a few minutes because she looked like the type of person I would like to get know a little bit. I could tell from her reaction that she seemed very open to the idea of me sitting right beside her. That comment of me telling her she's beautiful made her lose her focus on what she was reading, and for the right reasons that make a woman feel very special inside; I could tell.
She's nineteen years old and lives on Fifth Avenue, a walking distance from where these photos were taken. For anyone unfamiliar, Manhattan's Fifth Avenue promises an abundance of culture and art, with museums, consulates, and significant homes lining the streets. Along with the recognition and respect, with as much admiration as Fifth Avenue, it simply falls into its own rarefied category, with no other to compare. Aside from the obvious - its proximity to Central Park; some of the city's most revered homes line this magnificent stretch. One of the many features, along this path, lies the sacred and world renowned Museum Mile, which includes the city's most frequently visited cultural institutions; beginning with The Met, The Neue, The Guggenheim, Cooper Hewitt, The Jewish Museum, The Museum of the City of NY, El Museo del Barrio; enough to keep anyone occupied in both mind and spirit, for a calendar year!
Kendall lives the good life, with the upbringing and lifestyle where members of her family can get whatever they want. Our young lady here doesn't take things for granted, though. She enjoys her life and has her sights and future set on making the most of what she has and making it even better for herself. Her father instills in her the lessons of being a responsible person, on how to properly manage her money and finances, etc.
Her father grew up dirt poor with a family that was living below the poverty line in an apartment that can be described as decrepit, if I had to sum it up in one word. As successful as he is now, he knows that all of that could be gone one day, which is why he stays successful at his career. The reason Kendall doesn't take things for granted is because she knows the struggles her father went through growing up and doesn't want her life to disappear in front of her eyes, and she is that driven to make life itself the most rewarding gift that it could give you by working hard towards her goals, enjoying and reaping the benefits of what being a winner in life is all about.
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A POSITIVE OUTLOOK, FOLLOWED BY SUCCESS
Truly commendable for this nineteen year-old to be that mature way beyond her years. She's giving herself a head start by reading the book she had with her that day. It's called The Happiness Advantage, a book that can turn out to be the most important one she will ever read in her life. (With the second link, I'm not asking anyone to listen to the entire thing right now. It's only there for anyone who's interested in it, and you can listen to it at your own pace, whenever you want to.)
Our young lady Kendall said, "This is probably the most impactful book I've ever read. It's not a book that just tells you to think positive thoughts and your world changes. It's a description of why mindset is so important in dictating your future rather than a byproduct of other outcomes. It teaches you how begin to develop your own happiness - not that I've never had happiness, by the way - and it gives you additional resources to help you in your journey." She said it was worth the time and effort to read, even if you don't want to try out any of the ideas on your own.
As someone who is mature for her age, she interacts with adults in an adult manner. She understands that nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad as it seems. She can receive compliments or criticism without letting it ruin or sway her into a distorted view of herself. She is secure in her identity. Kendall has found that the more she matures, the more grateful she is, for both big and little things. "People my age presume they deserve everything good that happens to them," she said. She was trying to say that she sees the big picture and realizes how good she has it, compared to most of the world's population. Lastly, Kendall doesn't presume she has all the answers. The wiser she gets, the more she realizes she needs more wisdom. She's not ashamed of seeking counsel from adults or from other sources because only the wise seek wisdom.
Her feet are simply beautiful. It was one of those times where I almost lost my breath when I approached her in the beginning and saw what seemed to be something that was too good to be true. Her sandals that dressed her feet, accentuated her feet and gave it prestige. When a sight of a lovely pair of well-manicured toes and well-shaped soles are right in front of you, and those feet belong to a women as beautiful and knowledgeable, a sight like that which makes you smile and trigger those good vibes, that's the ideal setting for me.
Great story, National! I love the depth of background you weave in. Well done.
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
You weren't kidding that I would indeed like the 19 year old that you were going to post at the conclusion of the week. Kendall is a pretty gal and I really like her soles. I also really like the story of her father as well, living the American Dream. It just shows that as much as some people want to condemn those who are successful or that were born into wealth, the fact remains is that someone at some point worked their tail off for that success. Her father being a testament to that. Very nice girl and an excellent story to accompany it.
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Not to take away from Kendall's moment, but I wanted to mention this also while it's still fresh in mind. I was going through the archives in both National and Natural Park, and I want to add an addendum to this post that I made a few months back:
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: In between gallery posts, I thought I would share my list of all time favorite photoshoots that you've ever done from National and Natural Parks combined, with a brief description what I particularly like about each girl. Granted there's many other gals I liked and whose galleries I visit from time to time in each thread, but these are just the gals whose galleries I made it a point to save to my personal collection so that way I could go to them at a moment's notice as a quick "go to", if you get my drift.
In no particular order:
ASHLEY MILES (Natural Park) - Cute girl with a sweet personality. I really liked the hue of her soles and the fact that she had been walking around the city all day in athletic sneakers prior to your encounter. I also like how she made it a point to tell you that, in hopes that you got the hint that her feet might not smell too pleasant. As if it were a riddle.
CALLIE SKY (Natural Park) - Hot gal that I would venture to classify as being a babe. I loved her sky blue striped shirt, and how it matched her sky blue striped Adidas sneakers. I really liked her soles and their color as well, and how you described her as being a very outgoing girly-girl. Unfortunate though that you didn't get to spend more time with her.
SPECS APPEAL (National Park) - She has a very quiet cuteness about her. Certainly not a babe in the same realm as Callie Sky, but definitely someone I'd consider as being the "hot nerdy girl". I love the fact that she had on Sperrys with just her bare feet, as those shoes did fit her style. Even though she was studious and seemed reserved, there was something about her personality that also seemed like she had a little playful side if it was brought out of her. Perhaps it was the way she responded to you smelling her Sperrys, which seemed very coy and playful. As I've mentioned before, I still maintain the conviction that she probably would have been down for an on the spot foot worship session and likely would have viewed it as a bit of innocuous, devious fun, based on the way she was cool with and responded to you smelling her Sperrys. A brief change of pace from perhaps an otherwise monotonous lifestyle.
SPRING FOX (National Park) - Arguably my favorite shoot that you've ever done. Very pretty gal with beautiful size 9 soles and gorgeous, pronounced toe stems. Love the black high top Nike sneakers that she was wearing as well. Love her outgoing personality also. Another one who I'm almost certain would have probably been down for an extemporaneous foot worship session.
THE COOL CHIC (Natural Park) - Cute gal with nicely shaped size 8.5 feet. I really like her skin tone and the fact that she is absolutely cool with the notion of guys liking female feet, and whatever idiosyncrasy that comes along with that.
WAVERLY PLACE (National Park) - To be candid, I just can't see the Selena Gomez resemblance. Perhaps it's the glasses that's throwing it off for me, I'm not sure, but I just don't see it. However, that's not to say she's not cute in her own right though. Not someone I would personally notice right away, but after taking a second and a third glance, realizing that she actually is pretty cute. I really liked her white sneakers and the fact that part of them appeared to be made out of some sort of snakeskin-esque material, which I found unique. I like her easy going, open minded personality that indicated that she is down for whatever, if you're into it. I also liked the shape of her feet and her soles as well.
There is one gal that I can't BELIEVE I forgot the first time.....
VITAMIN V (National Park) and her size 9 stinkers. The way that encounter played out couldn't have been any more perfect. You saw her the day prior as she was just leaving and thought that she was a missed opportunity, and then the very next day, she pops up out of nowhere asking if the open seat at the table you're sitting at is available and serves up her feet on a silver platter by announcing that she's going to prop them up on the chair right in front of you. Then, watches in amazement and disbelief as you take it upon yourself to take off her sneakers to publicly unveil her bare size 9 soles for all to see and get down right in front of them to start snapping pictures of them, knowing full well that she was presenting you a pair of stinky feet in your face on that hot day and that you were relishing the sight and smell of them, while going along with the entire charade as she just smiled to herself and worked on her laptop as you did your thing with her bare feet.
It's humorous to just think that when she was sauntering up to politely ask this stranger if the open seat at the table he is sitting at was available, she had utterly no idea that he has a major foot fetish and has had her feet in his crosshairs since the day before, and that in about 2 minutes, the smelly soles and toes of her bare size 9 feet were going to be in his face, feeding his fetish and letting him get high off of their odor.
Another gallery that's a keeper for me as well. Or what remains of it, I should say.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by sftfan: Nice!
That's a pretty simple way of summing it up. I don't know how anyone in here would disagree with you. It's great to know Kendall had that kind of effect on you.
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: A huge hat tip to Trooper McKinney for serving. That was one of the more refreshing stories I've read for any of the women you've shared.
That was certainly a story of how great you feel when you support a group of people (in this case, Trooper McKinney and her family) who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors. A true patriot.
That's one reason I love going out there and doing what I do: each woman has a different story to tell, and I don't know what each story is about until I get them to talk about themselves and share the aspects that makes each woman her own woman. With this particular woman, I was glad I met her. She is lives quite a life that separates itself from the others I've presented here.
And playing over what she told me after the shoot was over was a simple message that meant so much at the same time. I haven't had any woman I've photographed say that to me before, nor since.
It was especially nice taking photos of a woman involved in law enforcement.
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy:
I know. There are times where I have to roll my tongue back in my mouth after I drool like that in front of them.
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: You weren't kidding that I would indeed like the 19 year old that you were going to post at the conclusion of the week. Kendall is a pretty gal and I really like her soles. I also really like the story of her father as well, living the American Dream. It just shows that as much as some people want to condemn those who are successful or that were born into wealth, the fact remains is that someone at some point worked their tail off for that success. Her father being a testament to that. Very nice girl and an excellent story to accompany it.
That's right what you said in regards to her father working as hard as he had throughout his adult life. I mean what good is it being on the top of the mountain if you don't get to look down on everyone else? Those who condemn people with that kind of success would love to trade places with his money, special rights, advantages, and immunity that has been granted and been made available to guys like him.
Her father has done an excellent job raising Kendall. She is on track of thanking him in spades leading a very happy and successful life of her own. The sound of her voice and the way she speaks has the makings of someone who will be interviewing people for a job working for her while at the same time having the sense that she will be a fantastic woman to work for, the type of place you'll love to work for everyday. But this is the Kendall who's learning how to take the baby steps to get there.
The Future is Kendall.
P.S. I wish I can relive that shoot with Vitamin V. That was some flashback you gave me. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Great story, National! I love the depth of background you weave in. Well done.
Thanks for the appreciation. The story behind Kendall Ash was one of the greatest pieces I've ever put together.
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: That was certainly a story of how great you feel when you support a group of people (in this case, Trooper McKinney and her family) who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors. A true patriot.
That's one reason I love going out there and doing what I do: each woman has a different story to tell, and I don't know what each story is about until I get them to talk about themselves and share the aspects that makes each woman her own woman. With this particular woman, I was glad I met her. She is lives quite a life that separates itself from the others I've presented here.
And playing over what she told me after the shoot was over was a simple message that meant so much at the same time. I haven't had any woman I've photographed say that to me before, nor since.
It was especially nice taking photos of a woman involved in law enforcement.
Yeah, her parting request to you really struck a chord with me as well by just reading it. A very profound request, because it is a document that is only as good as much as the people truly believe in it. If too many people stop believing in it, it will truly be a sad day.
quote:Originally posted by National: That's right what you said in regards to her father working as hard as he had throughout his adult life. I mean what good is it being on the top of the mountain if you don't get to look down on everyone else? Those who condemn people with that kind of success would love to trade places with his money, special rights, advantages, and immunity that has been granted and been made available to guys like him.
Her father has done an excellent job raising Kendall. She is on track of thanking him in spades leading a very happy and successful life of her own. The sound of her voice and the way she speaks has the makings of someone who will be interviewing people for a job working for her while at the same time having the sense that she will be a fantastic woman to work for, the type of place you'll love to work for everyday. But this is the Kendall who's learning how to take the baby steps to get there.
The Future is Kendall.
P.S. I wish I can relive that shoot with Vitamin V. That was some flashback you gave me. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Couldn't agree more with what you said regarding Kendall and her father. Most of it stems from sheer jealously as you mentioned, and wanting to have all of what her father has without having to put in the work for it the way her father did, merely because they exist and are therefore, "entitled" to it.
Speaking of Vitamin V when it comes to reliving shoots, going back to your very beginnings, another young woman whose gallery I recently saved to the exclusive personal collection and can't believe I never noticed the first time and during subsequent views (and I've pretty much been through your entire catalogue for both parks several times), is LAUREN POLO: http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/l7af35s6kerrhbx4s1bma87nmz8r0l3m
Man do those feet look as if they were made specifically to give foot jobs, and boy do they look like they could work a d like nobody's business. Although I'm actually not big into foot jobs to be honest, so I'll settle with simply smelling and licking them. Haha. Her soles and toes looked really smooth and a little slippery from being moist, so they looked like they were prime for smelling as well. The extremely long, slender shape of her size 9.5 feet are some of the best I've seen. Having missed her gallery all this time, my eyes almost sprang out of my head when I laid eyes on her feet. Some of the IYF sole shots you took with her are simply spectacular, to the point where you'd expect the smell of feet would be radiating from your screen.
Feet aside though, I really like how she does look like she could be and is dressed like she just came straight from a modeling shoot for Ralph Lauren or Polo, or like she just walked straight off of one of their billboards. Very aptly given name for her. I also noticed her Sperrys underneath her chair, so she gets additional points for that also. Can add her to the list of gals you've shot over the years whose feet have been clad in Sperrys. They complement her preppy style of dress quite well.
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It's interesting, doing what I do, in that when you get these women to agree to pose for you for an impromtu photoshoot, you don't know what you're going to get exactly when you get these women to remove their shoes for you because it's not as if the women are going into a shoot they already know is going to happen from the moment they wake up that morning, making sure their feet are totally clean and scent free, or clean and the scent of raspberry lotion that had been applied on their feet just moments before the shoot.
This was someone who's feet were in the type of condition many guys would love to see them in if they wanted the shoes removed right there on the spot, reveal them for the eyes to see as they truly are, as-is, in their natural state. You can tell that was especially the case for this lady because of the impressions left on the tops of her feet by her casual low top shoes.
I think it was the glasses and the nerdy look that drew me to her in the first place. Glasses are always cute. Granted, not every nerd wears glasses, but the ones who do ... well, it's never a bad thing. Something about wearing low tops like the ones she wore that day that makes me think that the women wearing them are the ones who have done the most walking in them, more than any other footwear women were wearing that same day. I wanted to know how the feet of someone who looked like her looked like.
She wasn't too shy about showing me her feet, except for the worry she had about me not liking them only because she has walked in them all day; since she wears that particular shoe often, she knows the condition her feet would be in once she takes them off, and thought I was going to be put off by that. That had my mind excited, running in many different directions as to what she could've been talking about. As soon as someone expresses a bit of concern in that way, there is no way I'm going to let the woman go. She ultimately decided to go along with it when she saw that was perfectly willing to accept her just as the way she was, without holding any judgement on her whatsoever. That won her over.
The look and shape of her soles won me over. The sight of them, the texture and moist from them, straight from those shoes of hers, made my heart rate pump faster at first before slowing down when I had the comfort of knowing that she was going to stay with me for a while as she let me touch them and move them around however I liked. Nerdy girl, nice soles.
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: You weren't kidding that I would indeed like the 19 year old that you were going to post at the conclusion of the week. Kendall is a pretty gal and I really like her soles. I also really like the story of her father as well, living the American Dream. It just shows that as much as some people want to condemn those who are successful or that were born into wealth, the fact remains is that someone at some point worked their tail off for that success. Her father being a testament to that. Very nice girl and an excellent story to accompany it.
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Not to take away from Kendall's moment, but I wanted to mention this also while it's still fresh in mind. I was going through the archives in both National and Natural Park, and I want to add an addendum to this post that I made a few months back:
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: In between gallery posts, I thought I would share my list of all time favorite photoshoots that you've ever done from National and Natural Parks combined, with a brief description what I particularly like about each girl. Granted there's many other gals I liked and whose galleries I visit from time to time in each thread, but these are just the gals whose galleries I made it a point to save to my personal collection so that way I could go to them at a moment's notice as a quick "go to", if you get my drift.
In no particular order:
ASHLEY MILES (Natural Park) - Cute girl with a sweet personality. I really liked the hue of her soles and the fact that she had been walking around the city all day in athletic sneakers prior to your encounter. I also like how she made it a point to tell you that, in hopes that you got the hint that her feet might not smell too pleasant. As if it were a riddle.
CALLIE SKY (Natural Park) - Hot gal that I would venture to classify as being a babe. I loved her sky blue striped shirt, and how it matched her sky blue striped Adidas sneakers. I really liked her soles and their color as well, and how you described her as being a very outgoing girly-girl. Unfortunate though that you didn't get to spend more time with her.
SPECS APPEAL (National Park) - She has a very quiet cuteness about her. Certainly not a babe in the same realm as Callie Sky, but definitely someone I'd consider as being the "hot nerdy girl". I love the fact that she had on Sperrys with just her bare feet, as those shoes did fit her style. Even though she was studious and seemed reserved, there was something about her personality that also seemed like she had a little playful side if it was brought out of her. Perhaps it was the way she responded to you smelling her Sperrys, which seemed very coy and playful. As I've mentioned before, I still maintain the conviction that she probably would have been down for an on the spot foot worship session and likely would have viewed it as a bit of innocuous, devious fun, based on the way she was cool with and responded to you smelling her Sperrys. A brief change of pace from perhaps an otherwise monotonous lifestyle.
SPRING FOX (National Park) - Arguably my favorite shoot that you've ever done. Very pretty gal with beautiful size 9 soles and gorgeous, pronounced toe stems. Love the black high top Nike sneakers that she was wearing as well. Love her outgoing personality also. Another one who I'm almost certain would have probably been down for an extemporaneous foot worship session.
THE COOL CHIC (Natural Park) - Cute gal with nicely shaped size 8.5 feet. I really like her skin tone and the fact that she is absolutely cool with the notion of guys liking female feet, and whatever idiosyncrasy that comes along with that.
WAVERLY PLACE (National Park) - To be candid, I just can't see the Selena Gomez resemblance. Perhaps it's the glasses that's throwing it off for me, I'm not sure, but I just don't see it. However, that's not to say she's not cute in her own right though. Not someone I would personally notice right away, but after taking a second and a third glance, realizing that she actually is pretty cute. I really liked her white sneakers and the fact that part of them appeared to be made out of some sort of snakeskin-esque material, which I found unique. I like her easy going, open minded personality that indicated that she is down for whatever, if you're into it. I also liked the shape of her feet and her soles as well.
There is one gal that I can't BELIEVE I forgot the first time.....
VITAMIN V (National Park) and her size 9 stinkers. The way that encounter played out couldn't have been any more perfect. You saw her the day prior as she was just leaving and thought that she was a missed opportunity, and then the very next day, she pops up out of nowhere asking if the open seat at the table you're sitting at is available and serves up her feet on a silver platter by announcing that she's going to prop them up on the chair right in front of you. Then, watches in amazement and disbelief as you take it upon yourself to take off her sneakers to publicly unveil her bare size 9 soles for all to see and get down right in front of them to start snapping pictures of them, knowing full well that she was presenting you a pair of stinky feet in your face on that hot day and that you were relishing the sight and smell of them, while going along with the entire charade as she just smiled to herself and worked on her laptop as you did your thing with her bare feet.
It's humorous to just think that when she was sauntering up to politely ask this stranger if the open seat at the table he is sitting at was available, she had utterly no idea that he has a major foot fetish and has had her feet in his crosshairs since the day before, and that in about 2 minutes, the smelly soles and toes of her bare size 9 feet were going to be in his face, feeding his fetish and letting him get high off of their odor.
Another gallery that's a keeper for me as well. Or what remains of it, I should say.
I miss those times where the picture sets were taken on chairs instead of the current grass setup. That Vitamin V set in particular is an anthem to all perfectly shaped feet ladies. Thanks for the flashback BareSoles84.
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Great find with Femke, National. I have a soft spot for cute nerdy girls, as I'm sure you're privy of by my fondness for Specs Appeal, so Femke hits that spot as well. Not quite up there on Specs Appeal's level for me, but she still is quite suitable.
I miss those times where the picture sets were taken on chairs instead of the current grass setup. That Vitamin V set in particular is an anthem to all perfectly shaped feet ladies. Thanks for the flashback BareSoles84.
Haha. No problem.
When I compiled my personal list of National's greatest hits of photo sets that I made it a point to save, I can't believe I forgot her.
And yeah, if I HAD to choose between the two, I would concur that I prefer the National Park style more myself. Though it's National's adventures so of course, he's free to conduct them however he sees fit to suit him and his preferred style and tastes best. I still have no issues (well I suppose my only quibble would be to see a bit more side by side sole shots while the gal is still sitting upright) with his Natural Park style and am obviously a fan and find the images quite resplendent, but I do prefer the feet up on the chair style as well if forced to choose between the two.
National and RBS are two of my favorite posters here though. There's just something about foot fetishism in the Big Apple that I find captivating.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
It's nice getting nostalgic about my old work. But I prefer this setup over the old one. So much so, that I don't see myself doing another photoshoot at the other place ever again.
Towards the end of my stint at Bryant Park, I began losing interest in doing shoots there. I was losing interest and I was losing some of my passion into taking photos at that place, and I was getting close to ending my journey of taking photos of women's feet, and in turn stop contributing original content to you guys.
On the first day I visited Central Park to do this, I did not wake up that morning with the plan to go there; it was a last-second decision I made to see what that place was going to offer me since it just so happened that I was walking by the park.
After my first shoot there, I knew at that moment that I found myself a permanent spot for me to continue my adventure. If it wasn't for Central Park, this thread would not exist and my old thread would be nothing but a memory from the past.
Losing interest, losing my passion for doing for taking photos of women's feet is something that in theory doesn't make sense. But that was becoming my reality and I did not like the feeling of that, especially knowing that I was very close from doing retiring from doing all of this for good. It's ideal to retire on your own terms, but I was getting so bored with Bryant Park and becoming dispassionate about taking photos, that it didn't seem like I was going to retire on my terms. It's hard to believe, but I was no longer interested in staying in the first park. And I still have no interest in going back there, even if it was just for old times sake.
I do make references about Bryant Park from time to time, but it is a topic I try to stay away from as much as I can with the exception being when I make comparisons here and there between the women of now and the women of once upon a time if I see there's a comparison to be made. Other than that, I try to avoid talking about the other place and keep my focus on my current project showcasing women of Central Park.
If anything, I plan on making a post giving a retrospective of the work I've done in the past at some point during the off-season when I'm on my annual winter hiatus. I feel as if that would be the most appropriate time to talk about the past because it won't get in the way of the women I'm posting in this thread while the 2018 season is still active.
To sum up, I appreciate that you guys enjoy my old work. It was a great experience in my life. But I never had this much fun doing the shoots in Central Park. Never. And I cannot imagine a point in time where I would ever go back to Bryant Park to do another shoot because that place was that close to killing my passion for doing this, almost making me lose interest in providing my work that puts a smile on everyone's face while keeping a smile on mine at the same time.
I still go to Bryant Park during days when it's warm outside during the work week with a co-worker. The desire for me to do another shoot there never comes back, even when my co-worker is not there. I don't get that itch to do another shoot there, even if I'm already there with my camera with me.
I can do more with these women in Central Park than I can do in my old spot. The adventures, the experiences, and the women I've gotten to know personally - and in other cases, intimately - from Central Park are much better than I time in the other park. I am happier now in Central Park than I ever was back in my original stomping ground.
Thank you for understanding, both BareSoles84 and HighArchesPT, and anyone else who's reading this for that matter. With the announcement of the retrospective special I plan on putting together sometime during the winter, that will give you guys something to look forward to. In the meantime, though, I hope you guys still enjoy what I have to offer and that your unwavering support will still be there.
I will be here all week with more photos to show. Natural Park is the Museum without Walls.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
It's not often I come across someone who's older than I am to pose for me. I don't know the age of this woman, but my guess is she's in her 40s. I do remember doing this shoot, but I don't remember much about her other than she's French. As I was deciding which photos I wanted to use to upload into this gallerie, I realized the shoot was better than I thought it was; during the time of the shoot, I didn't think too much of it because I wasn't able to get myself into a recurrent or rhythmical pattern of approaching this as a shoot that I could make better than I thought it was going to be somehow. But looking back on this now, I'd say the shoot wasn't that bad after all.
Lovely! Thanks!
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Perfect time to sneak a whiff ...
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: Great find with Femke, National. I have a soft spot for cute nerdy girls, as I'm sure you're privy of by my fondness for Specs Appeal, so Femke hits that spot as well. Not quite up there on Specs Appeal's level for me, but she still is quite suitable.
For some reason I wasn't expecting you to post a comment on Femke, but I'm happy you did. And I still remember how you hold Specs Appeal in high regard. I like how the former was actually studying for something while I was taking photos of her feet, while the latter shows displays her legs to compliment her feet. Her soles are quite shapely, and there's something about that on a girl nerdy girl that's quite nice. Thanks for commenting on Femke.
quote:Originally posted by BareSoles84: National and RBS are two of my favorite posters here though. There's just something about foot fetishism in the Big Apple that I find captivating.
Thank you. Even though I already know that I'm one of your favorite posters in here, it's still pretty neat seeing you post that for everyone to read. Even though we're about 3,000 miles apart, I consider you as someone who's a friend to me.
Hope to see you later this week when I post some more photos, and thank you once again.
-National
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I really like this girl. Of all the shoots I'm showing this week, this was the shortest one, at thirty-six minutes long. Even still, I enjoyed the shoot quite a bit, even though I wish it would've lasted longer than that.
Going into the shoot, I knew I didn't have a lot of time to work with because there was a concert she was going to attend. She was perfectly fine with me taking photos of her feet, as long as I wasn't going to take up more than enough time for her to miss meeting up with her friends to attend this thing - a Nine Inch Nails concert. She loves industrial rock and NIN in particular because there is nothing basic about them and they are usually extremely detailed, she went on to tell me. She loves their music videos because they are not for the faint of heart, and she loves how the unusualness of what's going on in their music videos matches with their mastermind lyrics.
Beth is an art student in where her area of specialties include ceramics, creative writing, and painting. She takes her studies to heart, and in this particular afternoon she took her passion with her to Central Park to paint a scenery she thought was special to her. This was not some homework assignment for her, but rather something to do because her love for the art craft never leaves her. It is something she feels she can best express herself, through painting, her escape.
There she was, painting. The scene was so quiet. I was walking by, I stopped when I saw her from a distance, and just observed from afar, being attentive to what my eyes saw. I wanted to learn more about her, get closer to her, her feminine touch.
I love shoots in where the woman gives me the reign to do what I want in the shoot when there is an unspoken rule for me to respect her time by not interrupting her too much while she's in the middle of doing her thing, such as painting in this case. I love how she was able to understand how I wanted to present her without saying too much so as to ruin her concentration. She let me snap away and was perfectly fine with my presence, with the camera so close to her feet, with my hands touching her feet as often as I wanted, moving them around. She felt just fine throughout the whole thing.
This woman as the type of feet I look for when I go to the park: big feet, long toes, with soles that have the shape and look that I will not kick out of bed, the type of feet I can easily lose my heart to. It's moments like those that make my visits to Central Park all the more worthwhile.
And of all the women I have taken photos of, this one had **the** sweatiest feet of them all! Her feet literally continued to produce more sweat as the shoot went along. Pretty amazing how Beth's feet were able to do that well after her shoes and socks came off during the period of time in which they would stop sweating from not having been trapped in her socks and sneakers for as long as they were. In fact, you can see the sweat extend beyond or above the surface of the skin to her feet in some of these photos. They were so sweaty, that my fingers would lose grip of her feet when they slipped off her feet when I tried to move them around. I have not had anything like that happen to me in a shoot before or since. So the answer to the question of who had the sweatiest feet of all the women I shot, the answer is this woman. The woman in second place in that department (Trooper McKinney) is not close behind.
Thank you very much, Beth, for the cool chick and being kind enough to me and having a laid back attitude to this whole approach, and seeing how foot fetishism is okay.
NATURAL CLASSIC Meet Fiona, a student who is an English major from Duke University. Yes, that Duke University. That place is one of the most prestigious, most highly rated private institution in the country. If it's not in the top five, then it's certainly in the top ten of the most prominent universities in the United States.
Duke Medicine combines research, clinical care, and education from multiple sites throughout the region. Coupled with the med school, Duke's Biomedical Engineering department has been consistently ranked as one of the top 3 programs in the nation. Duke libraries constitute one of the nation's top 10 private research library systems. The Fuqua School of Business also draws students from around the world and is an internationally recognized brand.
Nowadays, Duke is most well-known for their college basketball team, first and foremost (particularly under Coach K's leadership), and the lacrosse team, as both are perennial contenders for NCAA titles. In addition, Duke has also won national championships in men's soccer (1986), women's tennis (2009), and women's golf (six National Championships, most recently in 2014).
Fiona attends attends that university as an English major while also attending undergraduate courses in education where she explores complex social, psychological, economic, historical, political, and cultural issues that impact schools and school children. As an English major, Fiona studies literature written in the English language (especially novels, short stories, and poetry [although she struck me as someone who can do without the poetry]). She also studies English composition, including writing essays, and short stories; the study of grammar, usage, and style; and English sociolinguistics, and the history of the English language. This is someone who has a lot on her plate.
This shoot did not take place on the campus of Duke, although it has made me wonder how successful I would be if I had taken my talents to Durham, North Carolina. This shoot took place in the world-famous Central Park, of course. Now as to what exactly brought Fiona to New York City, I don't seem to remember. Probably vacation, and to see for herself what New York City was all about.
I saw her from a distance - a long distance - and knew immediately she was the woman I was looking for who would satisfy my conception of what is suitable for my style of photography. I knew she would be my ideal of someone who seems to be a great example of it. What is it? I don't know how to put it into words because my definition is subjective and lacks clearly defined parameters, even if I attempt to categorize an observable view when I see her. But I saw her, and I knew it when I saw it. Her natural, ordinary, averagely remarkable female look is my best attempt to sum up that aspects that drew me to her.
I saw her from a distance in front of me, as she was walking along through the park to nowhere in particular. I was hoping she would stop somewhere to make it easier for me to catch up to her. But after a minute of this, I lost sight of her. I remember not feeling good about having missed her, so I tried to brush that off and look for someone else to photograph. But after another few minutes have gone by, I spotted her again. This time she was sitting on a bench, eating an apple and looking at scene around her. The park was practically a ghost town that day because of the threat of rain the forecast predicted, so she was looking only at the trees and grass. And I could tell from her body language that she was tired of walking around while carrying a backpack that her back couldn't take anymore, being that it wasn't light.
She looked over to me when she noticed my presence and said "Hi" to me. Even though it wasn't the type of greeting that would make you think that a woman is falling in love with you, I did reply knowing she had given some thought to whom she said hi to and that I was of interest to her. Her greeting was one of those informal ones that tells you that she's a nice person, friendly and polite.
Me: "Hey, wassup?" Fiona: "Not much, I guess - just taking a break, you know? I've been walking around a lot, so I'm taking a break with my apple and water." Me: "Oh." Fiona: "You know, this is my first time in Central Park - such an amazing place," she finally said after a few seconds of silence. Me: In a joking manner ,"So you lived in this city your entire life and you're visiting this place for the first time?!"
It was a good thing she sensed my lighthearted humor in that question, which gave her a smile on her face. It felt nice seeing her do that. After about 45 seconds of small talk, I finally sat beside her and continued the conversation with her, which she certainly didn't mind. That small part when she said about that being the first time she was visiting Central Park was her way looking to keep the conversation going, and that same sentence was also enough information I was going to use to make her feel like a welcomed guest to New York and to find out more about what makes her her.
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A student is not going to attend a place like Duke and not take her studies seriously. Fiona is the type of student who is so overzealous that she motivates her professors. And if I was exaggerating with what I just said there, then I wasn't exaggerating by much. Her GPA is just under 4.0 after three years of academic excellence in Duke. Simply astounding!
She wants to make her parents very proud of her. Her father is the hardest working man she's ever known and one of his dedications in life is to provide for Fiona. One way he made sure of that was to put enough money away to be able to afford to support her by the time the Duke acceptance letter came in through the mail.
CAREER ASPIRATIONS AFTER GRADUATING FROM DUKE Fiona mentioned something about becoming a criminal investigator - interview witnesses, write reports of witness testimony, conduct conflict of interest checks, and communicating with attorneys and law enforcement officers. Her father is a criminal defense layer, so in that sense Fiona is not that different from her father in their actions or behaviors.
I wanted to give her a foot massage after the shoot was over to help put her at ease and to reward her for her time and generosity, something she really enjoyed and greatly appreciated, saying she never thought that getting a foot massage from someone else can feel that good. She was not one of those girls who had to think about letting me take pictures of her feet before saying yes; she was down for it. Pretty cool attitude to have for a woman who people typically would have to make more of an effort to get to know her better.
In terms of her gallerie, the number of images in Fiona's set is the most I've showcased this year since the one with Wanderlust earlier this season.
Great stuff! Thanks.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Great stuff! Thanks.
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy:
I thank you guys for really liking what you saw from the last two women.
Question for the two of you (or anyone else who's interested in answering, for that matter): When it comes to Beth Swansess and/or Fiona of Duke, what is it about her/them that you particularly like?
- National
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
For Beth, tops and bottoms (soles and toes) were both cute...love when that happens. For Fiona, well, first the name, second the intellect and third, you got to rub her feet! Bonus!
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: Fiona: "Hi." Me: "Hey, wassup?" Fiona: "Not much, I guess - just taking a break, you know? I've been walking around a lot, so I'm taking a break with my apple and water." Me: "Oh." Fiona: "You know, this is my first time in Central Park - such an amazing place," she finally said after a few seconds of silence. Me: In a joking manner ,"So you lived in this city your entire life and you're visiting this place for the first time?!"
That small part when she said about that being the first time she was visiting Central Park was her way looking to keep the conversation going, and that same sentence was also enough information I was going to use to make her feel like a welcomed guest to New York and to find out more about what makes her her.
This dialogue made me literally laugh out loud a bit, because I can relate to how terse it started out.
Generally, social constructs dictate that males are the ones that court females; therefore, they are the ones that are typically expected to approach, start, and provide topics for discourse. Sometimes, I feel that this unspoken expectation consequently tends to occasionally render some females not always being the best conversationalists, or being slightly socially inept for lack of a better term, being that they're not expected to be the ones to have to possess the social skills required to make cold approaches.
So when one does make first contact, I tend to sometimes like to turn the tables and push her to have to be the one to come up with something to say, taking the approach that being since you're the one that reached out to me, I presumed that meant you had something interesting that you wanted to say to me. To do that, I tend to do the same thing that you did where you sort of briefly leave them at an awkward moment after their opening statement where it forces them to have to come up with a topic for discussion on their own if they want to continue talking to you, by simply responding with something like "oh" (as you did), or "that's cool." If they don't come up with just that one thing to keep the conversation going, that tells me they probably weren't all that interested in talking to you to begin with. Most times they will, but with the hope that you'll jump in and sort of take over for them.
quote:Originally posted by National: Even though I aleady know that I'm one of your favorite posters in here, it's still pretty neat seeing you post that for everyone to read. Even though we're about 3,000 miles apart, I consider you as someone who's a friend to me.
Hope to see you later this week when I post some more photos, and thank you once again.
-National
Thanks for the kind words. The sentiment is mutual.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: For Beth, tops and bottoms (soles and toes) were both cute...love when that happens. For Fiona, well, first the name, second the intellect and third, you got to rub her feet! Bonus!
You're not kidding about Beth's toes and soles being cute. Personally speaking, her toes and feet are ideal for my preference. For Fiona, just from the way she spoke, I could sense the aspiration and outlook of a young professional woman in making. That was the first time I've met anyone who attends Duke University, and I was fortunate enough to have met such a person under these circumstances. She didn't mind killing a lot of time for me (this shoot went on for 63 minutes), giving both Fiona and myself plenty of time to become each other's open book, knowing whatever is there to be known about the life of the other person. She's not an easy person to get to know, so I'm grateful that she gave me the time and space to know what makes Fiona the remarkable student she is and the remarkable person she's poised to become in her future career and personal endeavors.
Speaking to woman you just met who attends Duke makes you want to pay closer attention to what she has to say. It certainly helps to pay attention to what she's saying when she has willingly agreed to take her shoes off and strip her ankle socks for you to display her feet in its natural state.
I had to massage them. It was bliss for me to rub them and it was bliss for her to have been the recipient of the soft and deep massage.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
@ BareSoles84 ... That's right. The same holds true for animals in that the male has to be the one who makes the pitch and it's up to the females if she wants to accept his approach and accept his advances. It's no different than with us humans. They will certainly respect him more if he puts himself on the line and risk being rejected in front of others than some guy who she's interested in not take the initiative and approach her to start a conversation. They rather be some guy who makes something happen than to be with someone who waits for something to happen.
The moment of pause in between was a bit uncomfortable, but that made her say something she felt I would find more interesting or less boring than her saying that she was on her break. The woman from Duke didn't want me to think of her as a boring person, so she finally said something that could take the conversation in any direction it wanted to, and it made things a lot easier for us thereafter when I retook the lead.
- National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I took one look at her. There was no way I was going to let this woman walk past me and let this woman walk out of my sight. It's amazing with the women you can meet in Central Park, women who aren't doing anything in particular either sitting on the grass somewhere or just walking along some path. I had to walk up to her, I had to talk to her. I had to know what this woman was all about.
Stopping a gorgeous woman in a public place is no different than stopping someone if you were lost and needed directions. The only difference is that instead of looking for directions, you're just looking to have a friendly chat (which just might lead to taking pictures of her feet a minute or two later, if you're lucky). When you see a woman you want to talk to, you should approach immediately. Women can spot hesitation like bloodhounds, so to maximize projecting confidence, you need to approach right away.
In this case, we were walking towards one another and I put myself directly in her path, about ten feet in front of her so as not to startle her, and to stop her momentum. I faced her and looked her right in the eye, making it clear I'm looking to get her attention. I raised my hand slightly in front of me, putting this sort of barrier between myself and the woman, easing the tension. And I stopped her with a simple "Excuse me" to get the conversation started.
I had no reason to believe the photoshoot wasn't going to happen, so I started talking to her as if I knew all along she was going to remove her G by Guess sneakers for me. The long blonde hair and her ripped blue denim jeans, especially the jeans, grabbed my attention. The black jacket she wore went with the rest of her outfit perfectly.
She laughed a little bit when she heard I wanted to take pictures of her feet, but she decided to go along with it because she saw no harm in it. When asked why her and why her feet, the answer was simple: I thought she looked very nice, and she looked like someone who has very cute feet - I like both, so why not? She said, "I like how you said that. You seem sure of yourself." After thinking about it for not too long, the curiosity of how this shoot could go got the best of her and said, "Ok - of course."
Such a great feeling you get when they say yes. You breathe a sigh of relief and you're excited at the same time because you're about to have some fun.
I like the shot from the middle sample image you see just above, showing the Ford Escape Hybrid used by the NYPD driving by the scene of the shoot and the officer sticking his head and doing a double take on what the heck was going on. It was one of those perfectly timed photos, and I got a kick out of it as I found that amusing.
Overall, though, this was a very fun shoot. The woman got a kick out of it and she got the idea of why certain guys like feet and found nothing wrong with it. She takes instructions very well and was a delight to have spent the afternoon with, and she was probably the most fun to talk to of all the women I've shown this week.
She lives a few blocks from the park and was on her way home when I stopped her. In the end, she thanked me for stopping her because it made her afternoon more eventful.
.....and I took one look at this woman and summarily clicked on her gallery link before reading the synopsis of what she's all about. I usually do it vice versa.
Awesome find with her though. From literally head to toe, she's a winner. Her long blonde slightly curly hair, her face, her unpainted toenails, her soles, and those jeans. Man oh man those jeans. I've seriously never seen jeans as ripped as hers, that show off so much leg. Those jeans are just begging for a comment to be made about them. Her overall style is just awesome. With her looks and style and seeing her bare foot like that, that alone makes the compass want to point north. I can't imagine what it'd be like if you had her bare soles in your face, either smelling or licking them.
I like how simple you keep it when conversing with a lot of these females, this one no exception. I refer specifically to your response when she asked why her and why her feet. As opposed to giving a long winded, verbose response, just keep it simple: I'm looking to take pictures of feet, I thought you looked nice, and looked like someone who would have nice feet. Doesn't get any more honest and simple as that.
Like the old adage says: "Keep it simple, Stupid." (KISS)
As a humorous side note, it would have been hilarious if the officer that drove by and slowed down to get a better look, had a foot fetish. Unlikely of course, but still humorous to muse about. "Woah, hot chick with shoes off and bare feet! Slow down! Slow down!" Ha.
I may come up with more to add on her as I take her photos in more and pair that with her personality, but that's all that comes to mind at the moment.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
She’s a cutie! Did she say what she does for a living? It must be pretty expensive living that close to CP.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
BareSoles84 ...
I don't know if I've ever seen you react the way you just did with Ruslana. She's one of those women when you look at her and see nothing wrong with it. She knows how to dress and she's got the look that can pull it off. Her legs showing through those ripped jeans tells us that she keeps herself in fantastic shape and that she no doubt looks great in the nude. She completely understood why there is an appeal to men when it comes to how they view female feet, feeling completely comfortable in her own skin to be able to go through with the impromtu photoshoot.
When I answer their questions about why them and why feet, I don't language them to death about it because the longer my explanation, the more scientific I make it sound. Science is not something these women don't go to the park to get a lecture on. In a situation like that, less is more.
It would be something if that cop had a foot fetish but didn't want to tell his partner driving the Ford about it. Either that, or he thought to himself, Now I've seen everything.
Oh YEAH ... Speaking of cops, there was this one time when a cop car did stop by our shoot to get a better look as to what was going on. I haven't told that story yet, but when the time comes for me to get around to showing that shoot, I'll tell you guys all about how that went down in the future.
@ Icarus ... Not really, only that she works at the corporate headquarters of a distinguished, highly honored fashion brand. She told me which brand it was, but didn't go into the specifics about what exactly her duties were, but that was fine with me. She lives with a roommate.
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Yeah, those jeans of hers are key for me. They alone speak volumes to me about her as a person.
They're distracting because your eyes can't help but leer at her legs given the amount of skin her jeans allow to be visible. Consequently, you're almost distracted into imaging how good she undoubtedly looks naked, instead instead of being focused solely on her feet. She is obviously very comfortable in her skin and showing it off; at least her legs, and I'm guessing probably views her legs as being one of her assets. And rightfully so.
Her jacket sort of tells an opposite story from her overly ripped jeans. Her jacket has a classy vibe, while her jeans are extremely hip, racy, and provocative. Despite the dichotomy, they are somehow a perfect match. The mixture indicates to me that she is a gal who knows how to carry herself, yet at the same time, isn't afraid to be a little bold and daring, and perhaps do something on a whim as a lark. To wear jeans like that, one has to be pretty daring. So I'm not surprised that she's completely unfazed by the concept of males having a penchant for female feet and thinks it's innocuous, which to me is a plus because it makes it easier to imagine smelling her feet, since she'd most likely be down with it and probably find it both funny and a different kind of fun. Same went for gals like Spring Fox, Waverly Place, and The Cool Chic.
It's funny, because when I read Icarus's question, what you answered is exactly what I imagined her to be. While having class (as evidenced by her jacket) she doesn't necessarily strike me as being an "elitist" where she'd live lavishly (as evidenced by her hipster, risqué style via her jeans). Not poor by any means, but not feeling the need to have the best of everything. Classy, but not overly neat and proper.
And her living with a roommate is precisely what I would have guessed also. Doesn't seem like one who'd be married nor interested in being so at the moment, but doesn't seem like one who would live on her own, either. With a friend/roommate would have been my guess.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
A tourist from Stuttgart, Germany was spotted sitting on a bench in Central Park. I could tell she was exhausted from having walked in those canvas shoes for what seemed like seven hours. Oftentimes my mind would let itself run wild into imaging how her feet looks in canvas shoes, the condition and texture of their feet, and how worn those shoes are by inspecting the insoles. It was as if someone answered her prayers when she said yes to removing her pair of shoes for me - just in time for when she wanted to rest her feet. Since she wanted to lie down somewhere anyway to let her feet out, and since I was willing to accept her feet exactly as they are, as is in their natural and true state, then why not do it and spend our time talking about whatever comes to mind?
The insides of her shoes tells the story that she has worn them for quite some time, to the point that her feet has left an impressionable mark of them. I always find this fascinating because I find myself being hypnotized when staring into the souls of her shoes longer than I may realize. It makes you believe that you know the person more than anything she might tell you about herself.
I like her soles; lots of character.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Meet a woman who advocates and works to protect the air, water, animals, plants, and other natural resources from pollution or its effects.
This woman was sitting on a rock and there was no hesitation on my part. I just approached her without thinking too much about it, regardless of how many people may have seen me walk up to her or how many people overheard the things I said to get her to take those boots off for me, a perfect stranger to her, in less than a minute.
Her feet is the result of what happens when people walk in the sun for long periods of time. In her doing so, that resulted in tan line on her feet. When wearing other shoes, she sometimes worries that the tan lines may be visible and it can look unattractive. That explained why she opted to wear work boots, in part because she thought it would go well with everything else she had on, and partly because she is trying to think of ways of trying to get rid of the tan lines on her feet. What was funny was that on the first day she decided to wear those boots, was also the day I came up to her and wanting to see her feet. The timing of all of this made her laugh a bit, but she decided to go for it because she appreciated that someone would pay attention and take the time to notice something different about her that could be the source of interest to someone with unique tastes.
She's in her final year of studies in NYU as a student majoring in environmental studies. She could end up working from home most of the time or traveling around the world on an annual basis. She could be doing desk work, field work, or some combination thereof. Her focus could be mathematical, physical, or written. Regardless of how she chooses to start her career once she completes her tenure at NYU, one thing is for certain: she is going to be a problem solver.
She is ready to do more research on environmental and health problems to determine their causes and come up with solutions. She will investigate issues such as mysterious deformations in frogs, unexplained cancer occurrences in a neighborhood. She can conduct research to identify the causes of these types of problems, and how to minimize or eliminate them. She could also conduct theoretical research that increases our understanding of how the natural world works. In doing so, she will be in a position to make recommendations and develop strategies for managing environmental problems.
Overall, this was a very nice shoot for me. It's nice to have someone be accommodating to what you want to do to achieve what you want to put together in a shoot. I always love a woman who has big feet and long toes, which made for a great view for me to watch during the entire time we spent together. Not a bad way to put an end to my day.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: I like her soles; lots of character.
Just curious. When you say "lots of character", what does that mean? I see that word being used from time to time when someone describes a pair of someone's feet, but the people saying it never go into some details as to what they mean by it.
So what was it about Elise Uthman's soles that give them lots of character?
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On a side note addressed to anyone reading this: the photoshoots I plan on showing next month will be part of the annual Season Finale issue. The photos I show in December is without question my favorite part of the year because the Season Finale issue is to this Women of Central Park thread what the SuperBowl is to the NFL. It is the issue when the stars have been perfectly aligned and it always just so happens to come at a time when some of my best work will be showcased for that presentation. Some of the greatest/favorite shoots I've shown have come in the month of December.
That is the time and place where everything concludes before I go on my traditional winter-long hiatus.
I hope you plan to visit the Park in this thread when the time comes for the most introspective exhibition into these women's souls and into their lives.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the photos so far this week - and I plan to show some more as the week goes along. Don't venture too far off because it's only a matter of time before I'm back with more photos to show before the week is out.
-National
Posted by FEETFIRST2014 (Member # 48173) on :
I love your work and all the dedication, time and effort you put forth to get us these amazing girls feet. I'm from NY, I know your haunts in the park and you're picking great ones!! My only question is do you specifically seek girls who have dirty feet? I know you're project is called "natural" but natural surely does not mean dirty...just curious.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: [QUOTE]Originally posted by Icarus: [qb] I like her soles; lots of character.
Just curious. When you say "lots of character", what does that mean? I see that word being used from time to time when someone describes a pair of someone's feet, but the people saying it never go into some details as to what they mean by it.
So what was it about Elise Uthman's soles that give them lots of character?
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A very interesting question...in this case, I found her soles (liked her toes too) to be multidimensional, a complex canvas, if you will. Differing shades of color, cleanliness, “pillow-ness” and wrinkles. I liked the shape, as well.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: A very interesting question...in this case, I found her soles (liked her toes too) to be multidimensional, a complex canvas, if you will. Differing shades of color, cleanliness, “pillow-ness” and wrinkles. I liked the shape, as well.
Makes a lot of sense, and thanks for providing some context into what you meant by "character". What this does is make people go back to her gallery and look at the photos of her in a different way to see if they can see what they couldn't see the first time around.
quote:Originally posted by FEETFIRST2014: I love your work and all the dedication, time and effort you put forth to get us these amazing girls feet. I'm from NY, I know your haunts in the park and you're picking great ones!! My only question is do you specifically seek girls who have dirty feet? I know you're project is called "natural" but natural surely does not mean dirty...just curious.
First off, thank you. I am really glad my work and contributions to the foot fetish platform is was what you were looking for, and I really like it too. It's the best hobby I have, which allows me to meet different kinds of women who are cool enough to let me photograph their feet. I share my adventures and the thoughts about these women and I share my success stories with guys such as yourself. To read that you enjoy what I do means very much to me, and I thank you once more.
To answer your question, I don't make an effort to seek out only women who look as if they have dirty feet. If they happen to have dirty feet, I'm okay with that; if they don't, I'm just as fine with that as well. The women who have my interest in one way or another will get approached about modeling her feet for me, whether she's young, middle aged, tall, short, big feet, small feet, clean feet or dirty feet ... does not matter to me, which leads me to answer something else you said. The word Natural in this context is a combination of the fact that these are taken in Central Park as opposed to places like a library or in a photography studio or at a playground somewhere. Natural refers to the natural elements of the scenery Central Park gives, being that it's like a forest in the heart of New York. The word Natural in this thread also refers to the fact that the women feet are in their natural state at the time they were approached, as is, in their natural condition after having been walking in their shoes for hours during the day and afternoon, impromtu style, the natural flavor. If the natural state of their feet are not dirty, I'm taking photos of them; if they're naturally sweaty, I'll take photos of those as well. Natural in this context also means that every woman you see in this thread is the real girl next door.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This was one of those short shoots for me, about twenty minutes long.
It was one of those slow days. Just like with anything else in life, such as going through your day at work or in school, doing what I do - going out and looking for pretty random strangers (who also happen to be pretty) and convince them to remove their shoes and socks off for you for feet pictures in a pretty rapid fashion - there are going to be some days that'll be slower than others. This was one of those days. It felt slow and nothing much was going on. It was going to be another half hour before I was going to call it a day with nothing to show for it. Not too long after I had mentally clocked out from the Park, there was a woman I spotted who gave me interest and inspiration to clock right back in.
She was walking north as I was walking south. I could tell from her posture and from the way she walked that she was on her way home from an exhausting day at work and she needed to walk through Central Park first to kill time, to relax her mind and to escape the fast paced life that is New York City, even if it's for a little while. The walk was slow but she was enjoying the view and appreciating the quietness as well, away from the late-afternoon/early-evening rush hour commute.
Yes, she was on her way home from work, she told me at some point just before the shoot started. That is something she does every time from work, for the same reasons I suspected before I approached her, described in the paragraph right before this one. On that particular day, she was on her way to make a stop at the supermarket before going home, so I knew I wasn't going to have a lot of time with her for the shoot. She wanted to prepare a meal of tomato spinach shrimp pasta for diner. A healthy, delicious meal for a busy weeknight, I must say.
YOUR NAME IS YOUR DESTINY Colleen is the quintessential fit for what a modern day working class professional woman is. She works as the co-general manager of a store that sells a wide assortment of professional quality cookware, kitchen electrics, and cooking utensils, as well as, casually elegant furniture, lighting, and decorative accessories. She's responsible for recruiting, interviewing, and selecting qualified candidates to help achieve current and future business goals; ensure store standards are met and maintained, i.e., visuals, cleanliness, signage, safety, etc.; manage store operating procedures, such as inventory levels and cash control to minimize store losses; and Colleen is there to ensure that her store meets or exceeds sales.
So here we have Colleen working in a managerial position at a consumer retail company that sells kitchenware - which is kind of funny when you think about it because her last name is Galley. It reminds me of the saying that your name is your destiny.
Let's talk about her feet. I'm not usually someone who prefers toes over soles, but the tops of her feet looked exceptional, first-rate. I always think that black polish should deliver a brief moment, a sudden feeling of emotional excitement, and Colleen's feet was not an exception to that rule because they were nothing less than sensational to me. It was that feeling you get when the music stops and a frisson of excitement runs through the crowd. Her feet, being the color of milk or fresh snow, possessed the contrast and tension with the black polish and her black ballet flats. A bit erotic, yet very simple.
Speaking of flats, the pair Colleen wore that day was something she ordered online. When she saw that pair, that was exactly what she envisioned. So much so that she jumped on it. At first she was nervous about ordering the right size online, since ballet flats tend to run big on her. "I am a 'true' size 7 1/2 but can wear 7 depending on fit." Those flats are wonderful and perfect for her feet, I feel; it's a great neutral flat to wear with everything. I think she had to wear them a couple of times to break them in, but now those shoes are perfectly stylish and very comfortable for her; "I wear them like, all day long and I spend most days on my feet. This is my go-to, comfortable, every-day flat."
All day on her feet? Music to my ears. I'm happy those flats support her feet, and I'm glad I was able to find someone who was kind enough to take a few minutes out of her time to show me her feet.
NATURAL CLASSIC Here we have a young woman - a tourist of only nineteen years of age - from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I first spoke to her in English, assuming she was a native New Yorker. I also assumed she spoke English because she was sporting a New England Patriots drawstring bag on her back. I thought she was a Tom Brady fan who happened to live in New York and never in Boston for some reason. I figured we might talk just a little bit about how good the Patriots are doing without getting into the X's and O's of how the game is played, being that she's a hot girl and not some male buddy of your who you can rattle stats of all these players off the top of your head with.
I was heading north. She appeared about a hundred feet in front of me coming in from the east before heading north herself. She had that step in her walk that said she was very happy to be there, she was looking for fun but wasn't sure where to find it.
The park was more crowded than usual that day, so it was incredible that I was able to spot her from the sea of people. Even though she was so far ahead of me when I spotted her, I knew right away she was going to make for a fantastic shoot with me and my heart started to race a bit as I began walking a bit faster just to catch up to her. It's a great feeling you get when you walk past hundreds of women through the park, bypassing them for whatever reason, only to spot someone who stands out to you more than the other women did. Something inside you screams out that she is it, that this is the shoot that'll make your visit to the Park well worth it. It's a rush you get that compels you to draw yourself closer to her. That's what I had with her.
I could tell immediately that English was not a language spoke from the kind-of confused look on her face. It was also a look saying that she wished she knew how to speak the language because this good looking guy was talking to her and she didn't know what to say back to advance the conversation into something more fun. She didn't want to embarrass herself in front of me. When a hot girl is more careful about not embarrassing herself in front of you instead of it being the other way around, then she's in the palm of your hands. But the look of not being able to understand what I was saying suddenly turned to relief when she found out that I could speak Spanish as well. From there, the conversation we had with each other was spoken entirely in Spanish.
Being that she lives in Argentina, the only football she knows is soccer. The Patriots backpack belongs to her little brother and it was something she gabbed at the last minute without his permission, out of love. She had no idea who Tom Brady was, by the way.
I don't like how women look wearing Timberland boots, but I was willing to overlook that in this particular case. I don't know what made her go with that as her footwear of choice that day, but okay. She is someone who appears confident, gives off a positive attitude, and exudes an attractive charisma. She is optimistic in nature, is friendly, talkative with others, and sees the bright side of life. She is able to laugh raucously at jokes and has a big sense of humor in terms of cracking jokes. A woman who is always ready for fun and laughter and is often the instigator of these things.
So far, Ruslana Ivanovna has been a tough act to follow for me. That's all I have to say at that moment.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
If you love women with big feet and long toes as much as I do, then I present someone who matches the qualifications you're looking for. I must say that I don't remember another shoot where I paid so much attention to the woman's toes during the shoot because I prefer the soles of the women's feet. But I feel in love with her beautiful long toes that I almost forgot to focus on her soles.
I knew immediately I wanted to talk to her. I liked the boots she had on and was very curious to see what kind of feet lied within the confines of those boots, what kind of feet were restrained or forbidden from seeing the light of day. A woman who wears footwear that looks like those must be leading a pretty interesting life, I thought. I wanted to know what her story was. I learned a lot about her.
Her name is Hannah. Her parents are the hardest working people she knows, and in their own ways, they taught her to push the boundaries of both femininity and the socially accepted places for women in the workplace. Her childhood experiences rooted in her values she has tried to take with her wherever she goes.
As she got older, Hannah taught herself how to work on cars, and last year, she befriended some technicians who let her work on her car in their shop. One day while working on her car, one of the administrators overheard her talking about needing a third job, one more to make ends meet beyond her current jobs working at Barnes and Noble and another job selling produce, cheese, and bread at an outdoor market in Union Square. He offered to interview her for a serving job at the bar he managed in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn (a very nice area and a very cool place to live or hang out, an overall place I cannot vouch for enough).
Hannah thought it was a good idea; she could work after school at the bar, the outdoor market weekend mornings and her work study job in between those and school. But it soon became clear that she wasn't able to balance everything. When it came down to it, Hannah chose working at the bar because she knew she would be taught a skill she could take with her wherever she went, and therefore she would always be able to find work.
In the beginning she made many mistakes, but it was exciting for her to be in a new place and to learn so much about the world behind the bar. It triggered her intellectual curiosity, and she began learning how to claim her space and use her skills to teach patrons the different tastes and textures that exist in what they were drinking.
One time a male bartender she worked with suggested they (meaning management) should get her behind the bar more. A pretty server/bartender will help with tips, he said. He kept on saying that male-female duos make more money because people don't want just male bartenders (myself included). It's hard for men to find those jobs, but women can find them much easier.
She heard several of her friends in the bartending network talk about that exact predicament. Perhaps this is because talking to your bartender can be a form of therapy, and women are considered "more easily trusted," she figured. Upon hearing that, I then told her it is most likely the case that men are regarded as bartenders first and sometimes conversation partners second, whereas women are treated as tools for flirtation first, then as bartenders second. When she heard that, Hannah looked at me and then tilted her head to the side with an expression suggesting that she knew that, but at the same time she didn't. After a few seconds of thought, and right after she had that moment of revelation, I guess you can say, she told me, "I don't know who you are, but I like you already." "I know," I said, which brought a smile to her face.
A male bartender friend said to her that she was a hotties who could get a job anywhere. That was a reference to a recent discussion they had about her finding a new job, as if it was her looks that would determine her eligibility. He's not wrong, I told her, because the privilege of being "good looking" would open up opportunities for her that others wouldn't receive. But to her, it felt as if she was being told that her skill level wasn't as important as her level of attractiveness. I could tell. "A part of my job is to pay attention to those that I'm serving - but I receive a different type of attention from customers than the one I give," she told me.
Bartending can be scary for Hannah sometimes, especially when she has hostile customers or feels threatened. She can't leave her bar; she's stuck there if someone is rude to her or if someone disrespects her. There is a mentality and an expectation that as a female bartender, she has to be strong and have thick skin, because there are times when people treat her without respect. But, at the same time, in order to make money, she also has to be sweet and flirtatious, attractive and smart, attentive and be a good conversationalist, but not too much of any of those things, otherwise her patrons assume she is just trying to be tipped well.
This is where she is caught between a rock and a hard place. For example, Hannah not going to flirt with someone and pretend she's interested in them, get them drunk and make sure they tip her well. To her, it isn't about straining people of their last dollars and cheating them out of a good time. Rather, she wants people to have a good time, enjoy their drinks and the atmosphere of the place they've escaped into momentarily.
There have been some nights where she has been called beautiful or gorgeous more times than she's heard "thank you." Interactions with patrons tend to go beyond compliments and into a space that requires the careful ability to say "no" when asked on a date, or whether she'd go home with them. She can't say no without consequence, whether it be through tips or through anger.
Hannah only touched on a few parts of being behind the bar, but they have been the most memorable. She had this conversation with me because she wanted to galvanize conversation about the bar industry that so many women are entering, and she hoped to bring to the forefront the perspective of a female bartender. Ultimately, Hannah's experience bartending has shown her that the industry can be a fantasy space - a place where many emotions come together, and she's often caught in the middle.
Of the last three, I prefer Christina’s feet...
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Nat: your mailbox is full. I resized the pic. to 640 x 480. If that is still too large, then let me know.
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THE INTRODUCTION The world is full of fantastic women and you don't have to look at Hollywood movies or high-end porn films to find them. They are at the mall, walking down the street, at your local grocery store and almost anywhere else you can think of. We have all thought about what it would be like to ask these ladies to come pose their our cameras, and to do so without paying them. I have actually gone out and done it.
Central Park has many, many millions of female visitors every year, and it is the most visited city park in the United States. I'm an amateur foot photographer who lives in New York City and I take photographs of women in Central Park; I approach women I've never met before and talk them into removing their shoes for me so I can take pictures of their bare feet for an impromptu photo shoot right then and there, prompted by the occasion rather than being planned in advance. In that sense, you get their feet as-is in their most natural state; had these women known they were going to take part in a foot fetish shoot when they woke up that morning, they would've had the time to prepare their feet seven times over before heading over for the shoot. Here, however, there was no time for these women to prepare - just showing their feet for what they are under normal conditions.
These are your real, true amateur everyday girls next door who could be someone who lives in your apartment complex or neighborhood, or someone who works in the same building as you do. She's the girl you grew up playing hide and seek with, the girl you rode your bike to see, the girls who went to church with you, the girl you went on a blind date with, and/or the girl you named a star after.
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This week will mark the final round of photos I will present to you guys for the year. This is the 2018 Season Finale in which I will upload photos of different women throughout the course of the week, along with stories attached to them to gives these photos and women a more personal attachment to them, to make everything come to life. They all have stories that makes each of them uniquely them, and I will share their stories with all of you.
In every year at this time, the season finale is the issue in which I go out of my way to make sure that it is the most comprehensive effort to put forth the best showcase of any month of the year. You will all enjoy the same experience again.
I will see you guys later today.
-National
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NATURAL CLASSIC I was at a deli during lunch hour and noticed this woman who looked absolutely adorable. She looked at me and smiled. I kept it cool and continued walking to the buffet to pick out what I was going to eat. By the way, when you make eye contact like that and she smiles, usually it means she's interested in you and she likes what she sees. So about a couple of hours later, and in another part of town, I saw the same woman a second time (this time in the Apple store in SoHo) and felt as if there was a slight flight with the eyes. Now why I didn't walk up to her and say anything to her at that point? It was one of those things in which I wished I had acted seconds sooner because by the time I made the decision to talk to her and ask for her number, she got lost in the crowd. I was a bit disappointed that I wasn't able to catch up to her in time, but then I didn't think too much of it as time went on.
Now fast forward to almost three hours later and the clouds have replaced the sun in the sky. Now I'm in Central Park, making my rounds. As I was walking through the park, I swear I could not believe my eyes and I could not believe my fortune, almost to the point where my heart felt as if it was stuck in my throat, beating a little faster.
There came a time when I found myself heading towards one of the many small bridges in Central Park and - wouldn't you know? - I saw her once again! What would you make of that situation if that were you? She was leaning forwards against the rail, looking down onto the people walking underneath the bridge and also taking her time looking up and around to observe the beauty Central Park has to offer.
My heart was beating faster because I was not going to be given an excuse as to why I couldn't walk up to her and start a simple conversation. My heart was beating fast because I had to come up with something to say without making it seem like I was following her around town or making her feel as if she was being watched.
I'm now walking on the bridge and my mind was still drawing a blank as to what to say to her. It was now or never and I had to settle for the first words that came my mind and out of my mouth. As I got closer, she noticed my presence out of the corner of her eye and looked at me. We were the only two people on the bridge and I was going to make magic happen somehow and make this feel like a fairy tale for her. My heart was also racing because I already knew in my heart that I liked this woman. Liked her in the way a man knows he wants to make a woman his girlfriend, someone who he can introduce his family to during the holiday season. I felt that way about this woman, and that was a special feeling for me. In the end, she had those same feelings of magic in her stomach and she felt like a special lady.
I was thinking back to the other time I saw this woman throughout the day, and I couldn't help but think that there was an intricate phenomenon somewhere in the universe that had arranged a meeting between the two of us, and that we were going to find each other attractive and that there was going to be an instant spark between us. The rest was up to me.
So she saw me and couldn't believe what she saw! She couldn't help but smile and laugh to herself about the whole thing, "Are you following me? It's like everywhere I go - my God!" She put her hands over her mouth at the astonishment of what was happening. She didn't know what else to say so I had to carry the conversation for the two of us and that was my chance to make great on the real first impression she will have of me. I walked to within three feet of her to make this feel a bit special and innocently intimate, in our own quiet world. I said, "You know, this is the second or third time I've run into you. Now obviously the universe is trying to tell us something because there must be a reason why we keep bumping into each other and I don't look at that as being an accident. So what's your name? Tell me about yourself." That was it. That was all I needed to say and I felt the rest of it was going to be just fine. I love hearing the sound of her voice.
Nancy Vale, one of the loveliest women I have ever met. One thing that makes her lovely is the way she speaks. She never swears. For Nancy to use colorful language is to skate on thin ice. She never knows if her words will offend her company, so she skips it all together. She thinks before she speaks; she always takes a moment to reflect on her words than to realize too late that her foot is in her mouth. She speaks softly, never raises her voice to shout at someone because she knows she can get her point across just as effectively using her calm and soothing demeanor.
Nancy doesn't speak negatively about anyone. People love to talk, and they love to talk about other people talking. She can't be a gossip without being gossiped about; she finds it better to take the high road and skip it all together. To round it all off, she says please and thank you. It's an act so simple, yet so often neglected by many women. Nancy Vale is not a rude person! It takes two seconds to express her gratitude and it makes people glad they offered.
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It wasn't until I saw her in Central Park that I really payed attention to what she wore on her feet. Something about those shoes made me know I was going to be in for a great shoot because I don't remember ever seeing anyone wear something that looked quite fashionable or up to date in style or influence. I've have never taken photos of someone who wore those particular brand of shoes, nor have I come across any pair of women's shoes that "in vogue" since. Golden pointed toe loafers. If there's anyone who I've met in all my time doing this who I can say that her footwear matches everything else about her, if Nancy Vale is not at the top of my list in that category, then she shares first place with The Heroine Spiritess.
Her feet themselves (talking about Nancy now) are something that lives up to everything that makes Nancy the woman of beauty that she is. Her ankle socks were a bit moist as well, harvesting the sweet juice from whatever little sweat came from her pretty feet. Her golden loafers had the smell of the material they were made of or the glue that was used to make the shoes. That rubbery, leathery smell. That new shoe smell.
Towards the end of the shoot, I knew there was something special there. So did she. It was at that time I told her point blank and straight from my heart, "I think you're absolutely stunning. The more I sit here and listening to you talk, the more you convince me what a great girl you are. I would love for us to get together sometime and I would love to take you out somewhere. Somewhere other than Central Park. When are you free?"
She thought I'd never asked and blushed when I asked her out, just like the other times during the shoot when she blushed about something I told her.
It was fantastic. You meet someone, there's an attraction there, and it marks the beginning of something special. This is especially the case when you meet someone in the way I met Nancy. I enjoy every moment with her, and I want to be there to hold her hand and shield her from any trouble that comes her way.
SPECIAL NOTE AND A REMINDER The park is open to the public, so don't be a stranger and feel free to stop in and say hi. If you see someone you like, please let me know and let others see the appreciation as well.
I'll be here all week to celebrate the season finale of the 2018 season of this thread. When this week is over, I will go on my winter hiatus, meaning you will not see any new photos from me for the next few months. That means this is our chance to help me go all out here and close out this year on a very positive and memorable note.
Thank you all for your appreciation, and I hope everyone in here is enjoying their holidays. I really do.
-National
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YEAR IN REVIEW Ten shoots of 2018 that stood out to me. That's not to say I didn't like other shoots, but in giving out a list of ten shoots I particularly enjoyed are the ones listed below. This list is ranked in no particular order.
FIONA OF DUKE Intelligent, well educated, and someone who you would be proud to have as a daughter. It takes a while to get to know her, but she can make it up to you later in the conversation with a very mature dialogue between the two of you. She doesn't think too much about her feet, but she certainly appreciated my honesty when I expressed my interest in wanting to see her feet. She took a mental note of how courteous and respectful I was to her during the entire time, and decided to pay me back in spades to sticking with me throughout much of that afternoon by letting me take as many photos as I wanted of her feet and by continuing the personal, yet professional sounding conversation we shared with each other. This woman is going places. High places.
WOMAN OF STEEL Remarkable and strong. A woman of great physical endurance who can be depended upon to perform a given task tirelessly. Not long before this shoot happened, she went on a date with a guy she met on Plenty of Fish. She knew before that date was over that she didn't want to see him again because he to her something along the lines of, "the reason I picked you was because of your feet." One of the photos in her profile just so happened to show her feet, so he used that as his impetus to why he wanted to date her, making her feel as if everything else about her was of no importance to him. That creeped her out and that was the end of that. It was pretty neat of her to take the time to do this for me, considering the experience she had on that date.
THE QUIET DREAM One of the most serene settings for a photoshoot I've ever been involved in. And she was one of the most quiet women I've ever photographed. I love a shoot in which the model doesn't say a whole lot to me while she gives me the freedom, the leeway to get the vision I desired, the poses I wanted, with no time limit attached to it. Her hair, her style of fashion, her demeanor, her feet, they all hit the spot for me in some way or form. That was a day I would love to relive because she was that wonderful to me.
KENDALL ASH A lady. Probably the highest form of respect one can attribute to a female of class. Kendall is a gentle yet strong. She is incorruptible and pure as the driven snow. She always uses refined language, is an articulate speaker, considerate of others, and she stands up for herself with dignity ... Her feet are dear and quite beautiful, the stuff my dreams are made of ... Kendall is a darling.
THE HEROINE SPIRITESS Her moccasins - her defining feature of her attire that day. If a Disney animation of a Native American woman came to life, this woman is who you'll get. Not only that, she has the personality that will not let little girls down, as they will look up to her as a role model ... on the day of the shoot, it was colder than it had any right being that day, and I admire her for sticking in there for as long as she did, while remaining as comfortable as she was as if it were warm that day. Her feet, admirable.
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THE GOOD WIFE A happily married woman in her 40s. Well kept together from head to toe. The shoot with her reminded me why I love meeting women in Central Park, why I love having a foot fetish, why the air is fresher and why the mood becomes more relaxed in Central Park. The interaction between the older woman such as herself and a young man such as yours truly, made for a very nice dynamic of chemistry. We played into that fantasy with one another for a little bit there. I never wanted that moment to end.
BEAUTY FIT Another married woman. This was a very nice way to spend an early evening in the City of New York, with a woman who is totally open to your fetish. I take photos of her feet while she reads from her eBook. Nothing more joyful and peaceful than that. She's a candidate for someone who has the strongest feet I've ever photographed.
RUSLANA IVANOVNA Very cute feet on a very hot woman. She knows what to wear and how to accessorize her clothing to make her stand out while being casual about it at the same time. This was one of those shoots that caught fire with people. You can only imagine how it felt for me being there live and in person, with the best front row seat in the house.
WANDERLUST She is (arguably) the coolest chick I've ever met in all of my time doing this, and that includes the times I've spent in Bryant Park. Even if she's not my Number 1 in the Coolest Chick category, one thing I'm absolutely certain on is that she's never going to be bumped off that list. Never. And that's some pretty elite company she's in - the company of being one of only two or three other women who I can think off off the top of my head as those who I will never remove from that list.
One of my favorite shoots of all time. If she placed her feet on my lap, I will not be able to imagine a situation in which I will remove them from my lap, unless I have to get up to use the restroom.
THE BEAUTIFUL FINNISH How fitting it is to wrap up this list with a beautiful finish. Only in Central Park where I will meet a woman who's in the middle of doing some art work of herself masturbating while a guy she's never met before is taking photos of her feet and have people look at them as if they're the most unconventional couple. That perfectly described how this shoot went for the two of us. A young girl who absolutely gets, and absolutely understands, why someone like me would be interested in her feet. If more women were like her, everyone will be happier.
-National
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Remember, I'll be here all week, celebrating the season finale of 2018. It's a pretty special treat to go down memory lane and taking a look back on some of the more memorable sets of the year.
I'll have more shoots to show this week, including one in which the woman is a feminist. Yes, a feminist. One would think that someone like her being asked to pose for a foot fetish shoot might offend her. I don't know, maybe one would not think that. Regardless, was she offended initially? When the time comes to showcase her story, you will see how that all went down. Something to look forward to for later in the week.
-National
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Nancy Vale: Sweet story, sweet looking girl...love her soles, could love her feet all day! (Will have to return for the rest!)
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Thank you so much for being an amazing woman. What I like about you is that you're very easy to talk to. What made me approach you was that you seemed like a girl who's real, not fake. Even if you weren't all giggly and upbeat, I would've been just as fine with that. At no time were you ever inauthentically perky because you were genuinely yourself, which is a quality that would make any guy want to make you his.
I love a woman who isn't so done up. I don't know why women try so hard with all of that make up. You look wonderful without it, which made you more approachable to me because of that.
If you were literally always laughing and smiling, that would've come off as fake to me. Instead, you had a happy demeanor about yourself, but didn't have a smile permanently attached to your face. That made you more genuine, an actual real woman a man can grow to relate and become attached to.
Thank you for being a woman who actually tries something before deciding whether it's good or bad, such as deciding to let me take pictures of your feet right out of your socks, which came right from your boots. Thanks for becoming so comfortable around me and during the shoot because we allowed the time, space, and chemistry to escape what was happening in the real world of New York City and into a world where it was us against everyone else, and us enjoying one another's company.
I thought your feet were spectacular, I thought you were just wonderful, and the whole experience made me glad to be lucky to be someone who lives in New York City where Central Park exists for us to have the quiet time we shared.
Yours Most Sincerely, The Guy Who Took Your Photos
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NATURAL CLASSIC See, the thing about Kathryn is that despite being a responsible and resourceful young woman, she knows when to put a stop to her activities. She doesn't go overboard with helping friends, covering for colleagues, getting drunk at offices parties, embarrassing you in front of your family... You get the gist. Everything is done in moderation, and that's because Kathryn is a responsible lady.
... In a relationship, she usually doesn't make demands from you, especially unreasonable ones because she knows you're your own person and she doesn't really have much of a right into making you do something you don't want to do. The very few times she does demand something from you, she makes sure she thanks your efforts - either verbally, or by returning the favor.
... If you're going to keep Kathryn as an afterthought, as someone you can call at the last moment to hang out with because all your friends ditched you, think again. She'll put up with this behavior, once, twice or even three times (if she really loves you). But there won't be a fourth time. From that moment on, she will accept dates and invitations only if you inform her beforehand, because she has a life too, you know. She is never going to be at your beck and call. Of course, the dynamics change when you two get more comfortable with each other, but that's another story.
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I can of only two other shoots I've ever had that were just as long as this one. From the moment the first shot was taken until the last photo I took, this shoot with Kathryn lasted for three hours! Probably half of that time was spent with the two of us getting to know one another, massaging her feet, and getting cozy with one another ... lying on our backs as we were chatting, hugging, holding hands, sleeping, looking at each other, flirting ...
This shoot took place on a Friday afternoon. After I left work, I went right to the park. I spotted Kathryn about an hour and a half in. It seemed as if she was smiling to herself about something and really enjoying her relaxation. I could tell immediately that she was going to be one of the most fun women I have ever had a conversation with from the way she responded to me, my presence, to her positive reactions to the beginning stages of the conversation when a man wants to get to know a woman he's interested in. Talking to regular everyday girls on a daily basis is so much fun.
Kathryn is a cool chick. You never know who you're going to meet at the park and you never know what can happen when you do. She went to visit Central Park not knowing she was going meet a guy there. I walked up to her, paid attention to her, paid her some compliments here and there, and it all made her feel good inside. That kind of company was exactly what she needed to put an end to her day on Friday and to the start of the weekend with a more positive outlook on life.
[ December 19, 2018, 06:05 PM: Message edited by: National ]
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NATURAL CLASSIC This woman is, by far, the tallest woman I've shown in this entire thread, and she has one of the biggest feet I've come across in all of my foot hunting adventures.
It is rare that a woman I shoot is taller than I am. Off the top of my head, I cannot think of any woman I've shown thus far who is taller than I am. The two who have come closest from being taller than I me were Industria and Virtuous Hope.
This woman stands 6'3'' tall (190.5 cm). I was in the Park the day before and I wasn't able to find anyone who was willing to pose her feet for me. I left the park with nothing to show for my visit that day, and I left with the sense of determination that I was going to find a willing lady who will not mind taking her time out of the day to have a shoot with me. I don't remember ever leaving the park one day with a determination that driven to make up for it the day after. When I saw her, I knew she was the answer I had been looking for in quite some time. For one thing, she was taller than I was, and there's a special place in my heart for tall women. Secondly, I looked down at her feet and noticed just how big they were.
We were walking in opposite directions. We were about twenty feet apart and there were other people walking or jogging between us. Even so, I was able to get a good look at her feet as she walked by and remembered thinking how seldom it was to come across a sight like the one I observed. The feeling you get of going after a girl you really want to talk to was the same feeling I had when I saw her. It's the feeling a Hall of Fame-bound pitcher gets when he gets on the mound for a Game 7, with the thought of his team losing that game never crossing his mind. It was a special moment for me when I saw her, and I did not want to let the opportunity of seeing her feet so close to my face and in front of the camera slip away from me.
WOMEN WITH BIG FEET ARE MOVE AROUND GRACEFULLY. AN ACT SO BEAUTIFUL THAT GOES UNDETECTED She was walking slowly, and I could tell she was in no rush to get anywhere. She didn't seem too sure where she was going to walk, but she kept walking anyway. She wasn't sure where she wanted to go, but it looked and felt as if her feet were doing the thinking for her. Her feet had a brain of its own, it seemed, and wherever her feet wanted to take her, she was going to be okay with that.
Her feet walking flat on the soft surface made of gravel was casual, yet graceful. I love hearing the sound that her feet made with each step she took, and it looked as if the combination of her feet and sandals, along with the gravel, were a perfect match for one another. It was beautiful the way I saw it.
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TIME TO APPROACH HER AND SEE WHERE IT GOES When a woman is walking somewhere, she's not thinking about meeting a guy. So we need to slide in under the radar rather than try to disrupt her completely. The way I got around that was to approach her by walking next to her, and start a conversation side by side. Not only is this less intrusive and threatening (because you're not directly in front of her, attempting to stop her), but the body language makes her feel as if she's talking with someone she already knows, not a complete stranger.
I had to look up at her to talk to her. She was on her way to visit her brother at his place, but she had plenty of time to kill. She decided to use that time to walk through Central Park. I like it when women look down at their feet and then look back at me when they hear I want to take photos of them. That's what she did when she looked at her feet for three seconds. I don't know, I like it when women do that for some reason.
She wanted to know I wanted to take pictures of her. "So, you're going to take pictures of my feet, and you're going to do [God knows what] to them," she said. She continues, "I don't know anyone who has a foot fetish, so it's not likely he's going to come across pictures of my feet. Even if he did ... well, I don't know. I guess I'll deal with it at the time. And just to be clear, you do like feet, right?" She was talking in a serious tone and trying to weigh her options. She struck me as one of those no-nonsense type of women, and at the same time she wanted to make sure she was in good hands.
I responded, "If you get the truth now, there'll be no surprises later. I like feet. Everyone likes something different, and this is no different."
She said, after thinking about it for a few seconds seconds, "Ok, I understand now. I really appreciate the honesty. From the looks of it, you've had many other women who went along with this, so it can't be that bad. Even though you have a liking to feet the way you do is something I've been never to understand completely, probably because my feet are too big and I think guys tend to prefer women with smaller feet. You know what? I'll do this with you. Why not?" When asked why she wanted to do this, she said she respected the way I expressed my honesty without being too brash or blunt about it, and because I didn't look like the type of guy who would take her behind a rock somewhere and kill her.
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SOMETHING ABOUT HER THAT MAKES ME LIKE HER MORE. WHAT IS ABOUT? This woman works in a film crew set. She has the skills and talents to make sure the set runs smoothly, and that the story being told on film is being communicated effectively and efficiently. When she started doing this years ago, her task included setting up tables and chairs, charging and distributing walkie-talkies, locking up the set when filming started, grabbing coffee and food, anticipating the higher-ups' needs, completing errands, arriving first and leaving last, cleaning up at the end of the day, and paperwork. From there, she moved on to other departments or up to higher-level jobs.
Someone who is generally easygoing and carefree, an easygoing woman who takes things as they come are not personality descriptions I would use to describe her. That's not to say she's difficult to deal with all the time, but at the same time she's not a person who doesn't plan much and accepts what happens without becoming worried. She's not the type of person who lives for today and spends like they're no tomorrow. She enjoys her life while being smart about not being naive and always seeing the good in every situation. She's also a gentle woman.
She likes reading obituaries because it is a form of ritual, acknowledging the end of someone's life, even if she never knew them, she said. She explained that it's a respect due to a person who has passed, but it's still a mini-biography. They tend to be nonpolitical, which she appreciates. She cannot handle sneaky editorializing right when she wakes up, because she's too sensitive. "I want a story like 'He died, and here's what he did.' It's usually stuff like 'The guy who developed the eye test chart died.' It's an acknowledgement that your time is limited. You don't have forever. And that's the sweetness of it."
WHY I LOVE HER FEET, AND HOW THAT IS A PART OF WHAT MAKES HER THE WOMAN SHE IS I love her feet, and that's something I want to spend some more time talking about some more. Her height, weight, and head-to-body ratio are well proportioned, yet there's one thing that always gets a shock-horror reaction from friends and sometimes even shoe retailers ... the size of her feet. She's had female colleagues who have looked at her feet in horror, saying how awful it must be for her to have such huge feet. She's not sure why people would even think that is ok to say!
At one point she asked me if her foot size was abnormal? But she went on to answer her own question before I had a chance to say anything, "Because I feel like if it was, the size wouldn't exist. But it does."
Women with small feet have epitomized femininity across various cultures. We all know that in traditional China, foot binding was a popular method used to break women's feet into a smaller form that was deemed more desirable. Achieving this incapacitated their movement, but gave them marriageable status which, ironically, improved their social mobility. Although the practice has died out, its legacy continues to resonate today. Cinderella's feet were the only ones to fit into the glass slippers. Despite lesser gender boundaries for social functions and privileges, shoe size remains a symbol of the physical characteristics associated with gender differences.
The repetition of this imagery normalizes an association of shoes with successful, sexy and strong women, and marginalizes women whose shoes never fit. So much ideology is tied up within footwear for women that if a woman enters a store and is told her size does not exist, she is also being denied her female identity.
When cultural ideologies pressure women into believing they do not physically fit into the norms reinforced by retailers, they feel they must violently alter themselves to have a social standing. Growing up, she never looked forward to shoe shopping because her feet were large for her age and there were never any children's or teenage shoes that would fit her. Thankfully for this woman, she doesn't wear footwear that is too small for her feet since the beginning of her adulthood, refusing to torture herself to fit into the ideal mould dictated by society. And good for her!
I lover her feet - every last inch of it. It's something she's no longer ashamed of. She's not ashamed of her height, she's not ashamed of her weight. She's got many things going for her. She doesn't wear her emotions on her sleeve, but she told me towards the end of the shoot that a part of her heart sang with joy when I had the courage and decency to compliment her from out of nowhere about her "more the merrier" feet.
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NATURAL CLASSIC She is a medical doctor, a physician who has gone to university and has an undergraduate university degree. After that, she went on to four years of medical school training, after which she did her specialty training in dermatology, which was a five-year specialty training. So quite a lot of schooling went into becoming a dermatologist, really the only true skin expert in the skin, the hair, and the nails. She is trained to do medical dermatology, which would include things such as skin cancers, skin infections, rashes, and conditions such as acne, rosacea, or psoriasis. As well, she's trained in surgical dermatology, laser dermatology, and cosmetic dermatology. So the breadth of training she underwent was quite extensive, which allows her to really provide the best and optimal care for your skin, hair, and nails.
She is a loving aunt to a two year-old nephew who keeps her very busy when she's not at work. She spends a lot of time doing the usual things with her nephew boys his age like to do, such as going to the park, going to the zoo, and playing with trucks, trains and planes as much as possible. On the weekends, she usually spends her time with family and friends, spending a lot of time catching up with people, enjoying the sights and sounds of the City of New York.
One of her biggest challenges as a dermatologist is compliance because nobody likes to use creams very much, particularly men, she said. Cindy talked about how men don't have the basic understanding of how important it is to take care of their skin, or how to persist with their treatments to get the results they really want. And it can be something as simple as a daily moisturizer that can make a world of difference between having to continually use a topical steroid cream, which has long-term side effects for the skin versus being able to keep an eczema or dermatitis clear for long periods of time.
It is such a satisfying job for her to be able to help such a range of patients - because even though they are not necessarily sick, the difference she makes to their lives is sometimes quite phenomenal.
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Cindy Lauren is 43 years of age and goes a fantastic job of being as health conscious as she is. With her permission, I recorded the conversation with my smartphone because I thought the things she said were quite insightful, and so that I can introduce it into this story here. I did my best to get this down from what I was able to decipher from the audio recording of the conversation.
Cindy is one of those people who doesn't use soap. "We are married to this idea that we need to cloak ourselves in this, you know, flowery fragrancy surfactant every night. People are wed to the idea that this is somehow cleaning their skin, they feel clean when they do this. It's a falsehood completely." She went on to explain that the sensation and the feeling of being clean is all a reflection of how the products are formulated to trick you into believing they're doing something. The minty scent, for example, does not really kill bacteria. Cindy said if you just rinse off and get out of the shower, you're not going to stink. Soap merely does nothing but disrupt the skin barrier, and frequently (by virtue of all the additives) they are incredibly irritating and potential sources of allergens. That's why for her, she has abandoned the use of body soaps several years ago.
"I don't have a skin infection, I don't have you know, cellulitis or outbreaks of impetigo all over my body. I am fine without this unnecessary cleaning. Detergents are designed to disrupt the skin barrier so that they can take the dirt particles with them."
There are, however, instances and circumstances in which soap is helpful, Lauren was quick to inform. "Body washes and soaps with particular active ingredients are helpful for particular skin conditions, skin concerns." She said if you have acne on your back, for example, using a 2% salicylic acid body wash in the shower to those targeted areas can be very helpful at controlling breakouts. Likewise, using a benzoyl peroxide containing body wash to those areas can be very helpful. She knows these active ingredients are not available in other countries, so she's not entirely sure what an equivalent would be. Lauren almost forgot to mention about another exception for when you should use soap. It's during the summertime if you're wearing bug- or insect repellent spray.
National: You mean to tell me you don't use soap on your privates parts? You know, such as your intimate private parts? Cindy: I don't, and I don't recommend that you do, either. If I use it, it can lead to vulvitis. For you, it can cause dryness or irritation. Just water does the job just fine. N: Do you use shampoo? If so, could it be said that you're using soap in a way? CL: You can. But I don't use it as often as many women do. Besides, it's only going down my back and I'm not scrubbing it with a sponge or something. And for the record, I don't use conditioner.
N: Don't tell me you don't use deodorant. CL: "I do. But listen to what I'm about to say: you want to apply deodorant at night before you go to bed, not in the morning, not while you're actively sweating. You use it at night to clean dry skin. The deodorant molecules have to trickle down into your sweat gland and plug them up. Afterwards, your brain sends a signal that your brain detects this and decides to stop producing so much sweat.
If you apply deodorant first thing in the morning, A) fifty percent of it wipes off on your black blazer and you've got deodorant stains, and B) you start sweating as you walk around, even if you don't notice that you're sweating and there is some perspiration there and it's washing off the deodorant. So it's rendering basically useless because it can't do its thing while you're actively producing sweat. Sweat production is lowest at nighttime and that's the best time to use deodorant.
If it stings, burns, or if it's incredibly irritating, you don't have to actually leave the deodorant on. If you put it on and it doesn't sting while you're sleeping, when you wake up in the morning, take a damp cloth and wipe it off because by that time it has trickled down into the sweat gland.
Another thing is while deodorant is sold to be used under the armpit, you can get your partner put it on her feet, if she have sweaty feet. If your wife or girlfriend has a sweaty feet problem, you can advise her to put deodorant on the bottoms of her feet and cover them with socks at night, if she can tolerate sleeping that way. This is effective because it drives the deodorant molecules down into the sweat duct, and then she can just wash her feet off in the morning."
As a side note, she also said soap can be used to wash the feet, if that makes things more simple.
Cindy said there's an antiperspirant which are generally aluminum zirconium salts or aluminum chloride hexahydrate salts which have actual ingredients that can trickle down into the sweat and plug them up. The brand of deodorant she uses is the Dove clinical protection. "Unfortunately, it has fragrance in it - most deodorants do. If you are allergic to fragrance, deodorants containing fragrance can be even more irritating to you. Sometimes the irritation can be so unbearable, it can lead to discoloration under the armpits. So ideally, you would want to choose an antiperspirant that is free of fragrance."
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I've come across some doctors in Central Park who were willing to pose for me. There's a different feeling of feeling rewarded in a way when a some kind of medical professional says yes to letting you see her feet, tough them, move them around and such. Feels like I've accomplished a lot and I feel like I've learned something so much more valuable than I did before walking up to them.
Cindy is incredible nice, incredibly professional, and very beautiful as well. Nice feet, incredibly intelligent, and I have nothing but praise and respect for this woman for the many lives she has made better.
[ December 19, 2018, 05:39 PM: Message edited by: National ]
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The National Gallery Hall of Fame of Women is a shrine commemorating the names of outstanding women who were among the most memorable individuals I've ever met and the photoshoots worth remembering for how enjoyable, meaningful and truly special they were to me. This ceremony will serve as place of celebration, promoting, and of preserving the history of the memories I've had throughout my journey as an amateur whose specialty is showcasing their feet and providing mini biographies, documenting these real women and their lives.
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THE INDUCTEE Dalhous was only eighteen years old when I met her. She was born in Helsinki, Finland into a wealthy and smart middle-class home. Her father was a manufacturer. Her mother kept herself entertained by making fashion accessories, especially hats, for her friends. Years later, here she was, happily agreeing to have this shoot with me. I fell in love with this angelic-faced eighteen-year-old who was going to become the Official Symbol, the Official Covergirl of everything that embodies what you love in a woman.
Destiny placed her in the exact spot where dream and reality meet. Her beauty and personality are unquestionable, but she possesses something more, something indefinable which attracts worshipers in an age deprived of gods.
Dalhous is all about graciousness and innocence. I was enchanted by her voice, with that very distinctive pronunciation, as well as her eyes and the extraordinary high spirits she held in her cheek. I had a sudden intuition about her that day, and her being the sole inductee into the first class of the Hall of Fame has proved me right!
I would like to express my affectionate regard for Dalhous and thank her for her precious and much appreciated collaboration for doing the shoot with me.
-National
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NATURAL CLASSIC There is a certain appeal to women like Red Panda. They are different. They might be quirky, but they also bring a certain set of traits to the table you wouldn't be able to find elsewhere. Over the years in the annual season finale issues, I have introduced women such as (pictured right below, from left to right) The Little Mousy Girl, Peppermint White, and Rebecca Ainsley. All of them have something in common with Red Panda that I can't say about the other women in the December issues: these are nerdy girls.
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During her years in elementary school through her years in high school, Red Panda was that girl who sat on the first bench in your class and wore glasses. And she was the one who was on the edge of her seat when a teacher asked the class a question. That was her in a nutshell.
She got teased by other women that her look was unflattering. I felt bad for her upon hearing that, upon learning she faced criticism like that throughout the years. She did her best to ignore them, but after a while she bought into their taunts and felt lonely. To her, it never occurred to them that not all women could afford to look the way they wanted them to, because how was she worse than the girl with the ring through her nose or the black disk in her ear? Or the tattoo on her forehead? Let Panda be who she wants to be. I mean, its only clothes!
There's something about her look I was really drawn to, which explained why I walked up to her. We were walking towards each other and I don't think she noticed my presence. When I spoke out to her, she reacted as if I snapped her back to reality from whichever world her mind wandered into. I could tell she was mentally unwinding from being exhausted from whatever work she had to do that day, and walking through Central Park was going to be her way to rescue herself from going to bed that night and thinking things won't get any easier. She wasn't frowning or anything. Instead she had a neutral expression on her face when I saw her, but I could tell that talking to someone was something she needed just make her day better.
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She's Red Panda, and she's an eighteen year-old college freshman. She lives with another woman in a dorm on campus, and those two do not get along with each other. By walking through the park, she was avoiding and delaying the inevitable of getting into another argument/shouting match with her roommate. Life can be cruel sometimes, and she's going through another phase of what that means the hard way.
At first she was very hesitant about wanting to do this shoot. I could actually hear her thoughts from reading her face as she was trying to make up her mind. I could hear the thoughts that wondered if it was a good idea to do this. There have been times when the women I approach start having second thoughts about doing this before ultimately deciding to go along with it. Red Panda was one of those women who was on the fence about this before she wound up saying yes. So yes, that approach was pretty awkward and I really tried to push the interaction and keep her talking. Even if the approach is awkward, it's okay because you can still close the deal and get her to remove her shoes for you for a foot fetish shoot.
WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THIS Her biggest reason for not wanting to do this is that her father has a foot fetish. Yes, her father! It was one of those things that struck me as funny but was inappropriate to laugh, but I laughed anyway. She didn't want to take the risk of her father coming across her photos one day on the internet because he's going to be looking for photos of women's feet anyway and may very well come across pictures of his own daughter.
The reason she decided to go for it anyway? She said I look like someone who could give her advice on something she's having trouble with.
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Panda was very quiet during the first twenty five minutes of the shoot. However, I was able to warm up to her enough to the point where she got used to my company and was talking non-stop for the last thirty five minutes of the shoot, saying, "I don't know - I just got comfortable around you. It feels like I can talk to you about anything, and you are a great listener, too."
She was very talkative in the last half of the shoot, and she's a very sweet kid.
IF SHE'S YOUR KIND OF GIRL ... Of all the random things Red Panda might obsess over (long algebraic equations, health care, and shows on the Disney Channel), her personal appearance is never at the forefront of that list. And that's good for you because you won't be required to wait too long for her to get ready before you got out to spend the day together. And when she says she'll be ready in five minutes, she means five minutes.
One of the (many) wonderful things about Red Panda is that she's not high-maintenance. I mean, you could probably buy her a box set of one of her favorite television shows or a gift certificate to the mall - and you won't hear a complaint out of her for months.
Material things won't really spark the interest of her. And you probably won't realize how much of a blessing this is for you until next Christmas, if you're shopping for her at Brookstone - relaxing in a massage chair - instead of blowing a few paychecks at the Chanel boutique.
Thankfully, you'll never have to worry about any of your own weird habits because she'll always be there for you to compensate with a few of her own. Realistically, you find these quirky passions sexy because they're what sets her apart from every other girl out there walking around the streets. Her quirkiness is sexy because it's irreplaceable. You might be dating a sexy woman with blonde hair and blue eyes. But if she left you today, you'd probably be able to find another sexy blonde with blue eyes. It might just take some time. But if it falls apart with Panda, I think it'll be harder to find a girl whose eyes light up at the prospect of watching several episodes of Jessica Jones at home and delivery pizza.
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There are still more photos to show before the season is over. I still have not shown the shoot with the feminist I mentioned briefly earlier in the week. Be on the lookout for that one.
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
I am still here, my friend. Just thought I'd let you know. I've been following, but haven't seen a woman yet in your latest offerings that has really spoken to me in the way that Ruslana Ivanovna did for instance, where I've really had anything to say.
Although if I had to select one that was my favorite, I would have to go with The Ideal Woman. I'm not sure why though. Maybe it's her size 12.5 feet, maybe the texture of her soles, I'm not sure. Sometimes it takes me looking once, twice, maybe even three times or more at a gallery before the woman in it really starts speaking to me and I'm able to pinpoint precisely what I like about that woman.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
National, if you were trying to make us love Kathryn Stills, it worked for me! Love her soles...want to snuggle them!
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The Ideal Woman: Count me in the small feet lovers group, however, a sexy foot can be any size as long as it’s shapely. I don’t like big, flat paddle feet with no arches or interesting soles. I see why you like her feet, her soles are very shapely with a lot of curves and such. I would really like to spend time with them too. Great narrative, as well, thanks!
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
So, I’ve always wondered (but would never ask, because I never want to stop) what a doctor would say about a foot fetishists lust for worshiping feet. Did you have this conversation with Dr. CL, or with any other of the Docs you’ve interviewed? Cause I’d hit her feet, too!
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
How funny, that Red Panda’s father has foot fetish. Weird, too, (but probably healthy) that she knows about it! She seems sweet.
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Oh, and after you've shown your last gallery for the year, I'll at some point compile my list of your shoots this year that stood out to me as well. I know for sure at least two of the ones you had on yours will be on mine as well. I'd have to go back through the year and make sure I correctly get the other eight, so that way nothing is missed.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
@ Icarus ... Nancy Vale is one of those women who I can separate apart from the other women as someone who is on a different level of compatibility with me. Incredible how all of the circumstances were able to work in conjuncture with one another to orchestrate a meeting between myself and Nancy. Life can work in funny ways sometimes.
With Kathryn Stills, happy to know that you found something about her that you like. Kathryn's story made you feel some sort of attachment to her, and you're not wrong for thinking that the intent of the story was to make someone really like her.
With The Ideal Woman, there was something about hearing her story that struck some sort of emotional chord with me that compelled me to tell the story in the way it was told.
@BareSoless84 ... That list I put together earlier in the week did take into account the women I added this week. Personally speaking, I would take Nancy Vale's gallery (the first woman I showed this week) and bump someone off from the original. I would probably say the same thing about The Ideal Woman.
Going back to Nancy Vale for a second, I'm speaking for myself when I say that I cannot see how I can make an all-time Top Ten Central Park list without putting her in there somehow.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: How funny, that Red Panda’s father has foot fetish. Weird, too, (but probably healthy) that she knows about it! She seems sweet.
Unbelievable, I know.
It was one of those things she wished she had never found out about. She found out about it a year or two before this shoot happened. By accident. She wanted to use his laptop to study for some homework assignment. Either her father forgot to delete the history in his browser or he didn't do a good enough job of covering his tracks when he tried to delete them at some point before she used it.
She saw the names of some of the porn sites he was looking through. There were the usual ones such as shakethesnake.com, suckmycrank.com, blahblahblah.com, in addition to a bunch of foot fetish stuff on the internet all at one time.
"There was something about ... footart, like .com or something?" in a form of a question, as if she was expecting me to automatically know what she was talking about. And maybe I did. So I said, "I guess so - sounds like he was having a good time."
She also came across photos of women's feet in his folder when she wanted to save something.
She's a sweet kid. She thought it was a bit weird that he would be into something like feet and she tried to finish up her homework a lot sooner than she planned to to get away from it all.
She never said anything to him about it because he would feel as if his privacy was invaded, and because he was always a very caring person and father to her.
That's all I can say right now because I'm at a loss for words to even know how to sum this up.
-National
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NATURAL CLASSIC In all of my time foot hunting, this woman marked the first in which I've encountered someone who identified herself as a feminist. That's not to say that other women I've photographed were not feminists. Perhaps there were others. If so, they kept it to themselves. The woman we're about to meet is a different case.
I knew she was a feminist because she told me so before the shoot even started. I thought was going to get lectured on topics pertaining to equal rights or gender discrimination from this nineteen year-old.
She goes a local university where she attends courses in women's studies and discuss various issues while examining social and cultural constructs of gender.
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What I found funny going into the shoot was that the day before I met her, I went up to another woman and said I wanted to take pictures of her feet. She said no because, "men like you disgust me." So now twenty four hours later, I walk up to this woman and the first thing she tells me is that she's a feminist. At first I thought she was either going to say things along the line of the other woman from twenty four hours earlier or that she was going to say things during the shoot I didn't agree with, or that I was going to get into some contentious argument with her, or that she was going to make me mad because she was going to be unreasonable, which would've made me unreasonable, and that we would snap at each other.
Unlike the other girl I "disgusted," this actual supporter of women's rights welcomed me with open arms and never spoke in a combative tone whatsoever. She was so excited about the opportunity to be in this shoot, that she spoke to me as if I was a famous person she's always wanted to meet, with so many topics to talk about in a way that made me believe I was a person whom she has known for a long time, with whom she's had a bond of mutual affection, either platonic or exclusively sexual - I wasn't sure which.
The reason she took this opportunity for the impromptu fetish shoot was because she's an amateur photographer herself who loves to photograph other women as a way to promote the movement of accepting and appreciating all women body types in the belief that all women should have a positive body image and be accepting of their own bodies in addition to their own. She went for this shoot because she liked my approach on making the focus about feet as a different way to find something about women's bodies that makes them as magnificent as they are. She told me that if my mission in Central Park was to spread female image positivity by way of their feet, as a way to point out something different about women to like and love, then she's all for it.
She said, "There's nothing wrong with having a foot fetish, as long as you're not creepy about it. And you're not a creep. Trust me, as a feminist I know what a creep feels like, and you seem to be an honest and respectable man. You should be so proud of yourself."
I was truly touched when she said that. After having met her for a few minutes, I was so thankful that she described my work to the extent in which she praised it because but she definitely had the right idea. I told her before the shoot started that I wasn't going to believe in everything she believed in when it came to the topic of feminism. That was o.k. with her, provided that our differences was discussed in a way civilized people speak and, "as long as you're not a misogynist."
ME: Oh, believe me - I don't hate women. In fact, I can't fit enough of them into my bed at once." FEMINIST: (Laughing [!] while not meaning to laugh) Wow - and you're funny, too! That's a good one. I think I'm gonna like this shoot already."
She asked what it was I wanted her to do. I told her to be her natural self and everything else would take care of itself. That's what I look for in my models.
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WHAT'S BEHIND HER STAGE NAME She's of Greek decent. She can read and speak some Greek, but not enough to be able to carry a conversation. This shoot happened four days before she was set to make her first-ever trip to Greece to see family members she has never met before.
WORDS THAT COME TO MIND WHEN I DESCRIBE HER FEET Soft ... slightly damp, with moisture diffused through the air ... sensitive, easily stimulated or excited by the slightest of touch of my hands ... beautifully shod ... young and unfettered, her feet felt free for the first time that day, unashamed, free to be themselves, raw and true in their truest form, shape, texture, smell and taste ... equal and progressive ... Her feet, unwilling to acknowledge any regret for your feelings ... Her feet conveys a sense of strength, just as this unapologetic feminist, for example, is proud to stand by her beliefs.
THE NOVEL SHE WAS READING American Psycho. She finds it hilarious, repulsive, boring, seductive, and sadistic all at the same time. Sadistic meaning sadism toward herself. She loves how the story shoves her face into her own appetites, "forcing me to see how much I'll swallow just to get off." Something about the way she said that made the two of us hot.
While we talked about positive self-image, even though it was a topic she was passionate about, she wanted to talk about something else. It's hard not to change the conversation once you get to know the real woman in these photos, who has visions of becoming a multidisciplinary artist/photographer whose practice will be influenced by "sexual femininity." She loves to photograph herself nude in her bedroom, and she even went as far as to actually show me some of those photos from her smartphone. That took a few minutes away from the shoot, and it was a few minutes I'm glad I took. This feminist who I just met had enough generosity of spirit to be this courteous, kind and pleasant enough to share with me some of the more private and intimate moments of self sexual admiration and delicacy that she has when she's all alone behind closed doors.
She wanted me to move next to her so she could show me those photos without having to extend her arm to show them. She whispered something with each photo she showed and it really felt as if she was letting me in on a juicy secret. To her, those photos were about having an organic form - the female body - in the middle of the hard, lonely symmetry of her bedroom. To her, the photos was about the concept of loneliness being something that can be enjoyable and pleasurable.
It was worth it, and for her the message is evident. "There's an accepted idea that women who are free to express their bodies - whether they're strippers, nude models or porn stars - are broken, put-upon. That's sad and disappointing," she said. "It doesn't have to be like that. My portraits - call them selfies if you want, I don't care - have changed my self-image over time since I started doing this." Seeing beautiful photos of herself has bolstered her. It makes her feel better. "If girls want to take gorgeous photos of themselves, or if boys want to, or if you want to take pictures of me and of my feet, for example, who the fuck cares?"
She is confident, she is happy with herself and her own abilities. She appreciates who she is as an individual, embraces her femininity and is proud to be a woman.
It's usually very packed in Central Park on Saturdays. On the Saturday this shoot took place, however, it almost seemed like a deserted town with few or no remaining inhabitants. The weather forecast called for rain that day, which made people reluctant to show up to the place.
I was having no luck finding a woman to pose for me when I started feeling the first few raindrops falling from the sky. I sat on a bench, contemplating if I should leave or thinking about how much longer I should stay there. Then I saw Her, the woman whose face bares close resemblance to the woman in that painting.
She walked past me. Someone that beautiful could not go unnoticed and I wanted to walk up to her and tell her straight out that I wanted to take pictures of her and her pretty feet. Just like that, after having never seen her before. The look of innocence in her face, in the way she walked, the way she looked told me that I should treat this woman with loving care.
VOUS VENEZ SOUVENT ICI? She is French, and her name is Bibi St. Ives. Yes, that is her name. That was the first and only time I've actually met someone with that first name, and I think I did a double take when she said it to me because even though Bibi is a name I only hear on TV, hearing her use her French accent to say it made it sound as if angels do exist, because pronouncing it in English does not do her or her name justice.
She asked, "You want photos of my feet, no?" "Oui," I replied.
She smiled because she was flattered as she said, "Mais mes pieds ne sont pas prêts pour cela. But my feet are not ready for this." She smiled, she was flattered, and I also had the sense she was a bit embarrassed by her accent when she spoke in English. I found it (the accent and her blushing by the way she sounded when she spoke to me) adorable. She's generally quite shy when it comes to speaking. It was possible she was more ashamed, because she is a proud woman. She was afraid to make mistakes around me at first. It was my job to put her at ease and to make her feel welcomed. And that's what I did. She was very grateful for that, and I could tell that meant so much to her.
Bibi St. Ives is very soft to the touch. But when the angelic singing stops and the allure wears off, will you love what's inside? I did. It is about her sweetness, soft spoken charm, refined manners, gentle ways and poetic presence. A man naturally feels attracted towards such a lady. Her soothing presence is a blissful comfort to hardened nerves and tired senses in every way.
NOTRE TEMPS PAISIBLE SOUS LA PLUIE This was the only shoot I did in which it was raining somewhat from start to finish. It was very, very, very, light rain. You can use the word mist to describe it. I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to get everything I wanted from the shoot because I thought the clouds were going to open up and rain real hard on us at any given moment. She didn't have an umbrella with her, so I was prepared to help cover her with my umbrella in the event that I needed to.
IL SUFFIT D'OBSERVER During a special shoot like this one, there was no reason for me to be running my mouth with a woman that precious, because all I wanted to do was just open my eyes and enjoy what was happening ... I was being blessed with a gift at that moment. It was best if I said nothing and let it all happen naturally.
Looking at the inside of her ballet flats, her bare soles, some of my senses realized why she felt her feet weren't ready for the shoot. When she realized that I was just fine with the natural state her feet were in, she became more comfortable with herself and the very light mist falling from the sky as the shoot went on for quite some time into the afternoon.
As a benevolent celestial, she must've sent a message to the skies above to hold off the rain for another 75 minutes (which was how long this shoot took). It wasn't until I got home when the falling mist turned into a thunderstorm. Good thing I got everything I wanted in time to make my Saturday worth the visit to the Park.
"Je n'essaye jamais de provoquer un scandale. Je suis simplement la personne que je veux être. Naturel, le vrai moi, véridique."
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: So, I’ve always wondered (but would never ask, because I never want to stop) what a doctor would say about a foot fetishists lust for worshiping feet. Did you have this conversation with Dr. CL, or with any other of the Docs you’ve interviewed? Cause I’d hit her feet, too!
Yes, there was one who shared her viewpoints. I guess you missed that one for some reason. Here it is: Click Here
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SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL To all the women featured this week, from Nancy Vale to Bibi St. Ives. The addition of the first-ever Hall of Fame induction ceremony in which we saw the enshrinement of Dalhous, who is the beginning and end of all pleasures on Earth, and the Most Beautiful Woman Who Ever Lived, as far as I'm concerned. I think it was only fitting that no one else shares the same spotlight as her in the same Hall of Fame class.
This was what I felt was the best week of the year in this thread when you take everything into account, on balance and on average. So much work went into putting this whole week together and I'm glad everything came out the way it did.
I will go on my annual winter hiatus, and I won't post any new pictures of anyone until the new season begins in Spring of 2019 (or Autumn 2019 for those who live below the equator). I already have photos saved up for what's to come next year, so there will be new things to look forward to in the times ahead. Until then, take care and thank you all very much.
- The End
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
"Je n'essaye jamais de provoquer un scandale. Je suis simplement la personne que je veux être. Naturel, le vrai moi, véridique."
"I'm never trying to provoke a scandal, I'm just the person I want to be, natural, true, truthful."
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Two excellent exposes. I found Greek Mythology to be compelling. You meet so many interesting people and relate such compelling stories. I don’t know your occupation, but it should be a journalist, because you have a gift for story telling. I noticed looking at these last two women, I felt they had similar looking feet. Looking at the galleries, side-by-side, I felt they were interesting similarities. I don’t think I have had that feeling from sequential posts, before.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
quote:Originally posted by National: I realized I forgot to answer this question:
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: So, I’ve always wondered (but would never ask, because I never want to stop) what a doctor would say about a foot fetishists lust for worshiping feet. Did you have this conversation with Dr. CL, or with any other of the Docs you’ve interviewed? Cause I’d hit her feet, too!
Yes, there was one who shared her viewpoints. I guess you missed that one for some reason. Here it is: Click Here
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SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL The End
Special thanks to you! For all your hard work and the special places you are able to take us. You really bring out the best in the admiration of beautiful souls, and their soles! . I greatly appreciate you contributions.
I do remember the post you referenced, having now re-read it. She was very afirmational regarding our fetish. Although, I have never felt particularly insecure about it, as it is just part of who I am, for as long as I can remember. But I know you feel the same way. So, I’m preaching to the choir.
Wishing you, and everyone else reading this, a Merry Christmas and a happy, and prosperous New Year! Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy: "Je n'essaye jamais de provoquer un scandale. Je suis simplement la personne que je veux être. Naturel, le vrai moi, véridique."
"I'm never trying to provoke a scandal, I'm just the person I want to be, natural, true, truthful."
It's "Natural, the real me, truthful." But we're splitting hairs here, so it's all one in the same anyway. That was a quote from Bibi, by the way. She understood the concept of what I'm trying to look for out of the women I shoot, and she was able to fit that vision I want perfectly.
Thanks for being supportive of my work. I hope we meet up one day for a few drinks.
Happy Holidays!
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: I noticed looking at these last two women, I felt they had similar looking feet. Looking at the galleries, side-by-side, I felt they were interesting similarities. I don’t think I have had that feeling from sequential posts, before.
This quote was in reference to the previous two women I showed, in case anyone is keeping score.
I wonder if anyone else feels the same about those two having similar feet to one another. Personally, I don't see the similarities, certainly not in their soles, although both of their soles have shapes to them that no one is going to complain about, ever.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: You meet so many interesting people and relate such compelling stories. I don’t know your occupation, but it should be a journalist, because you have a gift for story telling.
Thanks for the compliment.
Each woman has a story to tell. It's not enough to just show photos of everyday women - I feel as if I owe it to them to try and bring them even more to life by telling people what they're about, what makes each woman her own self worth to try and make them more relatable to anyone who wants to find something about them to be interested in.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: I found Greek Mythology to be compelling.
How so?
Posted by BareSoles84 (Member # 45910) on :
Ok, so here's my list of favorites for 2018 that stood out the most to me. It won't necessarily be a top 5, top 10, or top 15; just simply all of the ones that stood out the most to me in sequential order from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and a brief description as to why.
THE GOOD WIFE - First off, her Sperrys. Sperrys are a favorite of mine for gals to wear, so anyone that has them on will probably get at least a second look from me. I also like the quiet sound they made that you described when you slid them off of her feet for her, and I really like the texture of her soles. You could tell they had a soft, moist look to them from being inside of her Sperrys with bare feet. It's also really cool that she went along with this, despite her being married. She's also a good looking gal; doesn't look "old" where I would call her "mature", but she's not necessarily young either. However, still young enough though to have some fun with a random stranger and allow him to indulge in his foot fetish with her and sort of keep it their little secret.
PAOLA SAAVEDRA - I had a really difficult time finding a particular image I liked with her, that I'd sort of consider the "flagship" image of the set, and still do. However, I think she is cute, and I actually think the tops of her feet are more appealing than her soles. Her toenails are unpainted, but are still really nice looking. I also like how she has the anklet on her right ankle. Some of the images you took of her were also quite provocative and enticing.
WANDERLUST - Her moccasins, which are another favorite type of footwear of mine for a gal to wear along with Sperrys, and she's a Spring Fox clone. Enough said.
THE HEROINE SPIRITESS - As I stated verbatim in my description of her after you posted her set in June: cute face, pretty smile, nice skin tone, and a pair of bare size 9s roasting inside moccasins. I'm in.
BEAUTY FIT - Seriously, how unusual is it to walk up to a complete stranger and ask "Can I massage your feet for a little bit?" And have her say "Sure. I don't even know who you are, but yeah...you can massage my feet." And have her be married. "A bit unusual" indeed according to Beauty Fit, but "Go ahead, be my guest" was her reply. I really like how she had on trail runners and had them on with bare feet, and I love the shape of her feet and the texture of her soles, and that they are a size 9.5. The fact that she is married and yet so quickly, willingly, and excitedly agreed to let a total stranger massage her bare feet while her husband was back at home and unbeknownst to him, she was out at Central Park, sliding the trail runners off of her tired size 9.5s to have the soles and toes of her bare feet massaged and fondled by a random guy with a foot fetish, and enjoying every minute of it, is hot to me. Whenever I massage a gal's feet, I like to gently tickle her soles a bit during the massage to be playful by using a little technique where you just lighty drag/brush your fingertips up and down her soles briefly without actually wiggling your fingers, so that way it kind of tests their sensitivity. If it were me giving Beauty Fit the foot massage, I personally would have done this exact same thing with hers. Especially with her feet being so strong, it would have been fun to see how sensitive and vulnerable they are. Hopefully, she wouldn't have minded.
TROOPER MCKINNEY - She's mostly on the list for me because she gets a huge hat tip for serving. The conversation you had with her was one of the more refreshing stories I've read for any of the women you've shared, and I really like the advice she imparted on you when you guys parted. I do like her meaty size 9 soles as well.
RUSLANA IVANOVNA - She's flat out hot. Her blonde hair, her cute face, those ripped jeans, those soft soles, those natural well kept toenails, that body, those legs, etc, etc. And the fact that she is totally cool with the notion of guys having a penchant for female feet, makes her arguably the best of the year for me.
THE IDEAL WOMAN - I like her tan skin, her big size 12.5 feet, and the texture of her soles. I mostly like the approach she took to the whole thing, which was pretty much so let me get this straight: you like feet, you like big feet, and you want to take pictures of mine? Sure, go for it.
I believe that wraps it up. There are others that I liked as well, but I think these are the ones that stood out to me the most. Thanks for sharing all of these women this year, and I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I look forward to seeing what you share come next Spring.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Getting to know a nerdy girl doesn't differ much from getting to know a regular girl. She wants the same things. She wants to find someone nice, who she can spend time with, bonding on a deeper level. So, just become the best version of yourself and find the nerdy girl of your dreams, because women like her can be found in many places.
She is an extrovert and an introvert. This woman is someone with different levels of social skills and a guy would do well to know this before you assume anything about her.
I bumped Charline as I was walking along, looking for someone to take photos of. She was one of those women who came from out of nowhere and not someone who I spotted from a distance. I had to come up with something to say right there on the fly, something to say without any preparation and without thinking too much about how it should be done, to catch her attention.
She was walking as she was reading her book. That's Charline for you! Glad I was able to catch her as she was going for a walk while her attention was absorbed by her book because that fits her characteristic nicely. She walks nearly an hour each way to and from work out of cheapness embellished with principle: walking is free, it's exercise, she's engaging with her world, and it forces her to commune with her thoughts.
She has excellent vision, so she knew she was a good candidate for reading while walking. She made it sound like it was a lot easier than than it actually looks. She never collided with anything, although she did have a near miss with me.
Doing this makes her go through entire books like she's never done before. While Charline has come to accept that even if she gives up sleeping, she won't have time to read every book she wants to before she dies, reading while walking to and from work means that she will essentially add a twenty-fifth and a twenty-sixth hour to her day. She would beat the system. What system? The march of time, I suppose.
One day Charline fell while walking on the ice, but she wasn't reading: she slipped while walking her niece to school, landed on her ass, and smacked the back of her head on the sidewalk. The back of my head was in pain just from hearing her detail the story to me, trying to imagine/not imagine what that feeling must've been like for her in that moment. But there was a sigh of relief when she told me that her threat of concussion evaporated. But a few days later she realized her left wrist was hurting -- a casualty of her fall, she concluded. In the days that followed, Charline tried to hold her book exclusively in her dominant right hand instead of switching off, as she usually did. But her right hand would get tired, so now and then she reverted to holding the book in her left hand, which still hurt. It finally dawned on her that the fall hadn't caused her wrist to ache: it was the weight of her books. She went with lighter book during the time she nursed her wrist injury. She's now back to carrying heavier books while walking if she so chooses.
"That must be a good book," I said when I first saw her. That startled her for a second, but I was glad I got her attention when she stopped walking. I wanted to pinch her cheek because I thought it was cute watching her push her glasses back up to her nose by its bridge using two fingers to get a better look at me.
"Me?" she asked, which was her way of wanting to know if it was indeed her who I was talking to.
"What are you reading? It looks like a good book. Perhaps you can recommend a good book for me to read, preferably a murder mystery."
A French accent came through. She said, "Very flattered, Monsieur. I don't know if I'm good at recommending, but maybe if you like science fantasy like me? But I'm French. Pouvez-vous parler français?"
I said no. "That's okay. You don't have to only know French to know of a great book to read. Is that book about science?"
At first she was self conscious about having photos of her feet taken because she had holes in the upper part of her walking shoes. The toe box is not roomy enough for her toes, and her toenails may have pressed up on to the inside of the mesh. In time, the pressure and movement of her nails have worn the mesh away.
That's the sign of someone who has really relied on those shoes for support. More specifically, Charline must've walked a total 350 to 500 miles during the lifespan of those shoes in order for the holes to appear!
She is a sweetheart. Pretty cool for someone to allow herself to feel more comfortable with herself as the shoot went along. Nice natural toenails and soft soles on this cute nerdy girl.
CHARLINE LeCLAIRE -- Click Here SIZE 7 (U.S./Canada), 37.5 (EUR), 4.5 (U.K.)
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Two different women.
The first one decided to stop into Central Park at the end of her evening commute home from work. The day was still too nice to just walk to the house right away. She wanted to stay in the park for a bit and enjoy reading a book in the nice breeze.
I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to approach her because there were some children playing around her. If those kids didn't belong to her, then I was going to walk up to her and look for someone else. But those kids weren't hers, as it turned out - she's just a single woman living her life in New York.
An interesting choice of book she found herself addicted to. After reading this book she realized so many people don't know what they don't know, including herself! She have made a few chances so far from what the book has recommended to avoid as many potential dangers to her optimal health. She loves this book because it's easy read, not too technical because everything is explained in a layman's term, and provides easy suggestions that doesn't require very extreme disruptions in her lifestyle. She learned some interesting facts about science and some dangers that the technological advancements brought to the homes of many people. She's beginning to educate her loved ones on how to keep their homes healthier ... one practice at a time. I'm very happy to own this book because I will use it as a reference guide for safety and health at home. It was recommended to her by someone in her family who has made a full recovery after suffering a stroke.
This was a short shoot, so I don't remember too much of what we talked about. However, I do remember her enjoying the few minutes we had chatting or conversing aimlessly or casually, without any serious topic of conversation. Felt great doing that with the woman who feels comfortable enough letting you take pictures of her feet out in the open like that, as if this was something people normally do on a regular basis.
With the other lady, I remember doing this shoot, but I don't remember anything else about her, which is strange to me considering that this shoot was not a quick one. I don't know how something like that can happen because that's more than enough time to have gathered some insight about who she is and what makes her different from the other women I've photographed, personality wise. My mind is drawing a blank on her.
If there is anything I can recall, it's the fact that I stopped her because I remember looking down at her feet and loving the size of them. Someone with feet as big as hers couldn't not have long toes, which is one of my favorite traits when describing what kind of feet I like most. Her toes were indeed long, and I made certain to take my time with that shoot. Nice soles as well. I really like the look of her feet.
THE OTHER WOMAN I SAW - Click Here SIZE 12 (U.S./Canada), 44 (EUR), 9.5 (U.K.)
Posted by rush417 (Member # 45492) on :
National!!! So good to see you back.
Someday I’m going to make the time to read every one of your posts in chronological order, I feel like you are telling us an epic story with these women. You not only capture their soles, but also what makes them tick... their desires, their likes/dislikes, their day-to-day minutia. Makes it that much hotter.
Brair’s black flats: wow!!! Those look like they smelled really nice. I don’t know how you control yourself sometimes... haha. Thank you for capturing the lovey shoes of these women as well as their feet!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
The iconic, timeless Converse All Star sneaker. Perfect in its simplicity for a little more than a hundred years. The insoles offer some cushion each and every step. The are versatile, fashionable, and they keep looking better every time you wear them. The shoes matches her outfit perfectly.
Eloise wasn't a big fan of Converse growing up because they were uncomfortable. She was very hesitant to get another pair of those shoes but decided to give them another try because she liked how they looked on other people. She bought the shoe and felt the insides, sensing some type of cushion in the bottom of the shoe, which is amazing for her because her little sister loves to run and play, especially in Central Park when they have free time together. She really adores her little sister.
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Talking to girls in general is hard enough, let alone trying to start up a conversation with a girl who is quiet by nature. There are a number of things to keep in mind when striking up a conversation with a quiet girl such as Eloise. Being courteous and asking about her interests go a long way when speaking with a her.
Be polite. Common courtesy and politeness will appeal to her more reserved nature. Give her a chance to respond to you and actually listen to her. Do not take superficial responses as non-interest. Being shy can make talking to others difficult at first.
To get her to open up to you, find something you both like to do, such as read, watch movies, listen to music, or take part in outdoor activities. Try to find some topic for which she can and will contribute to the conversation with genuine interest.
Drop the theatrics because Eloise does not like to be in the spotlight. Howling like a dog or giving a "cat call" will probably embarrass and offend her. Respect her personal space and surroundings. Keep your volume and gestures down to a normal, calm level. Avoid rude or coarse language.
Be honest and caring in your conversation and responses. Lying or exaggerating to try to get her to open up or like you will ultimately backfire in the end. Trust will probably be very important to her.
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I saw her walking along. Something about seeing a lady take a walk in her Converse makes me want them to take those off right there on sight. And she wasn't wearing any socks in there, which made it even more interesting for my curiosity in what her feet might've been like. How she dressed made and how she carried herself as someone who is a nice embodiment of how a proper lady should be by being reserved, being respectful, and not someone who gets into shouting matches or otherwise makes a fool of herself in the streets was what made me walk to her. I knew I was going to like this woman.
She was both shy and flattered. And she also felt special about being asked to pictures of her and her feet. She said it kind of felt as if I was asking her out on a date in a indirectly direct way and that she was going to give this a try. I was truly impressed that she made an observation like that because when you think about it, she's not wrong. I liked how she was able to kind of get the hint that I found her interesting enough to want to get to know her better under the conditions I had set up. She was a little nervous about her feet not passing "the test" and how I would find less interest in her if they "failed." I assured her she had nothing to worry about because I know a good woman when you see one, you just know.
"Wow, ok! Take me with you?" She said that as if to say she wanted to do it, but wanted to know if that was the part where I take her somewhere.
And we had the shoot. All of this before we knew each other's name.
Eloise lives in Yorkville, a very relaxing and calm area within the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and that place is one of the more affluent neighborhoods in the city.
She's on the path to starting a career in Public Relations. When she finally becomes a professional in the PR field, her job will that of someone who helps a business or individual cultivate a positive reputation with the public through various unpaid or earned communications, including traditional media, social media, and in-person engagements. There may also come a time when she's going to be called upon to help clients defend their reputation during a crisis that threatens their credibility. Eloise will be well trained to become adept at handling a wide variety of both good and bad circumstances, and must address these events so the public and client can maintain a beneficial relationship. She will also play a role in advising management on the best policy decisions or actions to take, and conducting programs, such as fundraising or networking events, to help the public understand the organization's goals.
Interesting career choice for her to go after.
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I don't know if this had happened before, but she was the first girl I shot who took her shoes off without untying her laces. When she put them back on after the shoot, that was when she undid her knots before putting the Converse back on her feet and tying them real tight.
From where the shoot took place to where she lives, it's a pretty long walk. Her Converse was going to get her there, and her feet would have a great support system in her shoes to help make that walk as enjoyable as possible.
I wanted to continue the conversation we had, so I decided to walk her around the park for a bit before ultimately walking her out of the park. She's a lovely lady, so I didn't see why not. Eloise didn't mind it either. She enjoyed the walk very much so.
I love making connections like these with women in Central Park.
ELOISE POE -- Click Here SIZE 9.5 (U.S./Canada), 41 (EUR), 7 (U.K.)
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by rush417: National!!! So good to see you back.
Someday I’m going to make the time to read every one of your posts in chronological order, I feel like you are telling us an epic story with these women. You not only capture their soles, but also what makes them tick... their desires, their likes/dislikes, their day-to-day minutia. Makes it that much hotter.
Brair’s black flats: wow!!! Those look like they smelled really nice. I don’t know how you control yourself sometimes... haha. Thank you for capturing the lovey shoes of these women as well as their feet!
Each woman has a different story to tell, and I want to tell their stories. It makes the reader feel as if he can relate to her in some way and to be able to have some emotional bond with her. The stories give their photos meaning and it brings them more to life. The stories make you want to look at their photos even longer. These women are wonderful people. More wonderful even, when you consider that they took some time out of their day to let a complete stranger photograph their feet.
How I control myself? My best answer would be making the subjects feel comfortable. This means not being a creep. There's a balance between making a woman feel appreciative and making her feel exposed.
I'm concentrating on things other than my throbbing biological urges. More to the point, photographers who do these types of shoots tend not to have a starvation mentality on sensual or erotic themes. When you're starved for something, it's always on your mind. A person who is starving for food would find it impossible to believe that a chef could work in a steakhouse without wanting to eat everything. A person starving for feet, for example, would find it impossible to believe a photographer could see women's feet just a few feet or inches from his face without wanting to bury his face in her soles and his nose between her toes.
That's not to say I don't get aroused. But there are some lines you don't cross.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
In today's society of Twitter, Instagram or any reality show that involves dancing or "stars," it's a rarity to find a girl who chooses literature over reality television.
And I'm not just talking about a woman on a kindle. I'm talking about a girl with stacks of hardbacks, first editions and stolen library books. The kind whose room is filled with Faulkner, Hemingway and Chaucer. The woman who defines loneliness as a life without books.
There's going to come a time when you decide what type of person you're truly attracted to, what you really want in a partner.
Like men who hone in on a woman with big breasts or blonde locks, finding those qualities essential and part of their ideal criteria in a wife, you should begin to look at women's hobbies and interests as personality insights. Any man who enjoys the company of a woman who's well read will explain to you certain qualities that come with a woman of literature that aren't necessarily found in everyone else.
She didn't have to go to an Ivy league school or enjoy the perks of an elite boarding school to understand the weight of a good book because she's drawn to them. She's a woman with idols far beyond Angelina Jolie. She has a thirst for knowledge, guidance and wisdom that can't be quenched. She finds comfort between the pages and along the spine. She's a woman of a rare breed. She'd rather stay in on a Friday night than go to the club. She's the girl who doesn't need to be around a lot of people to feel among others. She finds meaning in small things, never needing grand gestures or big surprises. She finds beauty in the details, and notices the small wonders in life.
This is not to knock women who don't read, but rather to highlight the characteristics that make up a certain woman who likes a good book. It's a different type of person, a different kind of woman.
I'm not trying to say that women who don't read don't possess any of these qualities because we all know they do. Of course, there are also the women who choose both, and that's okay too -- you can be sexy and smart. However, I'm talking about the kind of woman who chooses a Hemingway over "50 Shades Of Grey."
These women don't need diamonds and shopping sprees. They won't need the newest clothes or cars. These women understand what's important in life and what are superficial distractions. Also, they don't need to play games with you when they're have a library full of characters. They use their imaginations all day, so they like to keep it real when they're with people.
The great part in all of this is that she'll probably encourage you to pick up a book yourself, so you can reap all the benefits reading has to bring. Plus, reading next to each other in bed is so much better than playing silly game in your phone.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Nice to have you back, National. I was thinking, and I probably have asked you before, do the women you photograph ever ask what you do with the photos? I wonder what they would think of your expose’s.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Nice to have you back, National. I was thinking, and I probably have asked you before, do the women you photograph ever ask what you do with the photos? I wonder what they would think of your expose’s.
Yes. There was one time when I wanted to tell a woman what I intended to do with the photos, but she didn't want to hear it. There were a few times during that same shoot when I wanted to tell her where the photos were going so that she would get a better grasp of what was going on, but she kept stopping me short of actually telling her. That told me she knew what was up and didn't want to hear me to do into details about it.
Other than that, the women enjoy the experience of being a part of a spontaneous shoot and they don't mind taking it for what it is. It's only feet. They don't get that unpleasant feeling of fear or unease by my approach and the shoot itself, so to them it's all good in the 'hood.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This is Sofie May. She lives in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Melbourne is a hip, dynamic metropolis, with an exciting city center, inner-city neighborhoods that are full of unique character, and green parks and mountain ranges where you can enjoy Australian nature. The city is known for its many laneways, its cultural diversity, excellent dining options for all budgets, and amazing street art. It's also known for being the coffee capital of the world, and for being regularly voted as the world's most livable city!
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I remember going up to her when I saw that she stopped herself in the middle of her walking. I do not remember if she stopped to look into her camera to review the photos she took earlier in the day, whether she wanted to get a water from the fountain, or if she needed to have the laces of her right shoe.
I was going to ask where she was from, but her accent gave it away. If there are three words I can use to describe her, it will be warm, funny, and feisty.
She wanted to know why I wanted to take photos of her feet. "Do you life feet or something? Do not tell me you have a foot fetish." I said, "Okay, I won't tell you." I made sure the inflection in my voice suggested to that that I'm having fun with her question and that I'm not taking it too seriously. I was being playful with her and that I was making this seem like a game she never played before but a game could be interested in at the same time.
Then there was a silent pause between us that took up our space. It was just the two of us standing there, looking at each other. I could not tell you if there were five people who just happen to walk by us or fifty of them. I placed that pause there on purpose as a way to accentuate the element of why we found ourselves staring at each other in the first place. It was a pause at the end of the phrase used to build up suspense.
Amazingly, it worked. It finally dawned on her, "I see, so you do like feet!"
Me still playing games with her, "That's all you had to say. See - wasn't that easy?"
Actually, it wasn't amazing that it worked because when you do this so many times that it can be done with your eyes closed, you predict what'll happen next before it happens. I'm a psychic like that. Needless to say, Sophie went along with it. She said, "Liking feet is a bit unusual to me, but it's not unheard of. You know what? Why not? I'm ready. Just so you, I've been all over Manhattan today, walking around. Is that all right with you?"
"You're asking me if I'm okay with that? I'm the one who asked you if you wanted to do this ... remember?"
"Yeah, that's right. I forgot."
"And don't forget to take off your shoes when I tell you to, okay?"
"I'm ready to take them off for you, whenever you say it."
Fun fact: this is the first time in this thread's history that I'm showing two shoots in a row featuring different women who were wearing the same type of shoes. I don't know why, but for some reason her feet looked better than I thought they would be, and I was pleasantly surprised. Women wearing black on their toenails can be a hit or miss for me, but the black went real well on her. It matched the hair, went well against the contrast of her white skin, and it went well with her personality.
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Sofie was staying in a hostel during her visit, and that night she was going to move her stuff from one hostel in Manhattan Valley to another one in Long Island City (a 50-minute trip by Subway). I don't remember how this came about exactly, but we set the plan in motion to where I was going to help carry her luggage from one location to the other after the shoot was over. I also made plans that after she drops her stuff off at the new hostel, that we would go back into Manhattan to enjoy a bit of the nightlife with each other. She loved the idea and signed off on that.
I waited for Sofie outside of the second hostel. For a long time. When she came out, I could see why it took so long. She had taken a shower and changed into something better. It was another casual outfit, but man she was dressed to go out! Black shirt that was the perfect fit for her figure, tight grey jeans, different shoes, and her hair was straighter than show she had it at the time of the shoot. A transformation and she looked real nice.
Back in Manhattan, we found ourselves in Times Square (by that time it was close to 11:00 P.M.). She wanted to do a little shopping at the H&M store.
"Shopping?!," I asked.
"Oh please, pretty please ..." with her fingers crossed.
I said something to the effect of no. She kept saying please, and at one point I actually thought she was going to get on her knees to plea with me to go inside with her. I said no once again.
In a half joking matter I said, "Don't make that face." Sofie May felt I was bit too strict or authoritative and may not have felt like she could say what she wanted or express her displeasure, and so she resorted to pouting. She didn't have to say what she wanted to say next, but I felt it. Not only did I feel it, but I could see it in her face that she respected me a lot more when I stood my ground. I took her by the hand and took her to the Hard Rock Cafe right across the street. She respected that, too. I'm not going shopping, are you kidding me? Shopping.
Dinner was delicious, by the way. The atmosphere in there was loud, alive and rockin ', as you could imagine. After that was over, Sophie became angry about something. I forgot what it was about. It could've been something I did or said, or she was mad about something else entirely. We were away from all the tables in the restaurant but not that close to the exit. We were somewhere in the middle. Anyway, whatever Sofie was mad about, she made sure she was going to let me have it.
Every reality show has a scene like this where the woman gets so upset that she curses up a storm. And in that scene of the episode, you hear the bleep censor sound replacing the profanity words. That's what it felt like to me, only this time I was the one being watched instead me watching it all unfold on T.V. It was also different because she wasn't throwing things across the room like how they do it in reality T.V.
None of this affected me because I was getting to kick out it. I think it was because of how none of its complaints got to that I found it hot in some weird twist. Yes, there were some people looking at us, which this scene complete. Because what's the point of all that shouting if not one's looking, right? So there you go. The only reason Sofie's voice level of anger was barely heard by ninety-nine percent of the restaurant was because of the music in there was so goddamn loud that it canceled out her voice. I think they were playing Guns N' Roses when all this went down.
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At no point did I think the date was a disaster. At no point did I ever think I lost her.
After she was done airing her grievances about whatever it was that set her off, I asked if she was done with her temper tantrum. Wow! That disarmed her and she came to a realization that everything was going to be just fine after all. Sofie had nothing to say, but her facial expression to my question told me that he was not proud of herself for what just happened. But I forgave her. After all, she's human, I'm human, and people have moments like these.
I point these out to show that even though I had a sense of amusement or enjoyment of her pouting like a six year-old and getting some form of pleasure from listening to every fifth word she said during that tirade of hers, I had a great time. She looked fanTASTIC that night, and at the end of the day she's really one of the more level headed and funniest women I've ever met in all of my times doing this kind of thing.
In the end, what she needed a kiss on the lips. In a firm but calm tone, I told her not to do anything like that ever again, she said ok and that she was sorry. Gave her another kiss on the lips, took her by the hand, and we left the restaurant together, into the rest of the night of New York City ...
SOFIE MAY -- Click Here SIZE 7.5 (U.S.), 38 (EUR), 5 (U.K.), 6 (AUSTRALIA)
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Have you ever worshipped some of the feet ? Keep up your great work! Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Great shoot, and what may be the most unusual story I’ve ever heard from you!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
@Lars ... Absolutely. When it happens, those moments are of breathtaking, stomach-crunching intensity.
@Icarus ... I know, that was pretty wild. I walked into the park that night thinking I was going to get some photos from some lady and then go home. Part of what makes what I do so great is that I can never be too certain about where the interaction is going to lead to. I walked into the park that afternoon not knowing that the night was going to go the way it did with a woman I had just met.
All in all, I adore this woman. She's one of the most fun women I've been around.
As if that night wasn't eventful enough, we went out again the following night, to look for more trouble, I guess you can say. I say "looking for trouble" meaning the type of fun that's crazy. And there was yet another night during her visit in New York where she texted saying she got lost, and so I had to go to where she was and wound up going for drinks.
Those nights were wild, outrageous, spontaneous, unexpected, and authentically fun!
I absolutely adore this woman.
-National
Posted by MetaFootMan420 (Member # 47778) on :
Sorry to comment so late but its great to see the legend himself back! I love the stories and your memory and eye for detail is quite impressive friend. Great work, very inspiring! Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
To My Readers:
Welcome to Natural Park's Central Park thread, and welcome as we mark and observe the beginning of something different. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am using this platform to officially usher in a brand new era in this popular and prominent thread. This is a celebration of what my contributions to this community were, what my work represents and how it's changing.
My work launched in the summer of 2013 under the National Park banner in which I showed images of women I approached in Bryant Park, one of the busiest public spaces in the world. That was around the time in which the Boston Marathon bombing and the Cleveland kidnapping captivated the world. People also eagerly awaited the verdicts from the controversial George Zimmerman and Jodi Arias trials. Lance Armstrong admitted to taking banned substances and blood doping. Former National Security Administration contractor, Edward Snowden, claimed to have stolen tens of thousands of confidential and classified documents from the NSA's internal computer system. Candy Crush became the most popular game on Facebook. In a case of false identification, Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o learned a hard lesson that year when he revealed that the woman he met online and fell in love with didn't actually exist. People took endless "selfies" for Instagram, and the word "selfie" even became Oxford dictionary's "Word of the Year." Also added to dictionaries was the word "twerk."
From the Bryant Park days and through the current incarnation of my adventures in Central Park, this place became a platform for me to express myself with total freedom, the place where foot fetishism was never taboo for the women who took part in the shoots, and where life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were to be enjoyed by all.
A lot has changed since then. Much that was taboo then is mainstream now. How can The Women of Central Park thread keep going forward and making a difference in 2019? By continuing to evolve.
Consider this a new beginning - and a work in progress. In the months to come in the age of this new era, you will be introduced to women with stories that may be controversial, and stories that stretch and redefine tired and sexist definitions of beauty, arousal and eroticism. The Women of Central Park moving forward will be committed to the democratization of pleasure, which means the women you'll meet are steadfastly open minded.
The new era represents my entire new vision of how I see these women, and the women's vision of the world, a place for everybody and every body to experience delight, surprise and joy.
With that vision in mind, I'm keeping what works - what's truly in my DNA, my photography and presentation style - and building from there. I'll continue to introduce new voices throughout our pages, in front of the camera and behind it.
Granted, you may not notice any drastic changes with the photosets of women I will show this week. But the reason I rank these photos as part of this new era is because it was around that time in which I sensed I was in the stages of reforming, reshaping, refashioning, remodeling, redesigning, and redefining how I do things during the shoot. What you will see in the months to come would not have happened had it not been for the shoots I will show this week. Again, you may not see the changes this week, but they will become more noticeable starting next month.
This is the place where you will see the natural feet, as is, from real girls next door. This era will be amateur foot fetish photography ... reimagined.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Inner Essence Phase that went from December 2017 through the end of December 2018 in this thread is over. In its place will be a new distinct period of history in the Women of Central Park thread. In its place is something that will be called ...
The Natural Evolution Era
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Her name is Aoibhinn Kitty. At first glance it doesn't look like it, but her first name is pronounced "even." The last name is something I played around with. It stems from the fact that the pronunciation of her last name is kitty, even though it's not spelled k-i-t-t-y. So it's "Even Kitty." The name is Irish. She's visiting from Ireland (or "oil'lin" as they say it). Southern Ireland, to be exact.
Cork, Ireland, is a liberal, youthful and cosmopolitan place that was badly hit by economic recession but is now busily reinventing itself with spruced-up streets, revitalized stretches of waterfront, and - seemingly - an artisan coffee bar on every corner. There's a bit of a hipster scene, but the best of the city is still happily traditional - snug pubs with live-music sessions, restaurants dishing up top-quality local produce, and a genuinely proud welcome from the locals should you ever decide to visit that place.
The compact city centre is set on an island in the River Lee, surrounded by waterways and packed with grand Georgian avenues, cramped 17th-century alleys, modern masterpieces such as the opera house, and narrow streets crammed with pubs, shops, cafes and restaurants, fed by arguably the best foodie scene in the country.
I love her accent. But for some weird reason, the people in that part of southern Ireland speak a few octaves higher than rest of the country! It's a little bit forlorn and a little bit melodic. And every now and again "boy" is thrown in for the craic. For example, "Fair play to ya, boy!" was what Kitty told me at the end of the shoot when I showed her the photos from the shoot. Fair play, an Irish slang meaning a job well done. She has relatives in West Cork where the accent there is a bit thicker and faster.
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This shoot went 31 minutes. She was in Central Park because she was killing some time before meeting up with some guy. However, she was cool enough to go along with this shot for me. I wondered if her feet smelled of Irish Spring within what she wore on her feet. I really did. They were a bit sweaty after coming out from the inside of her Western ankle boots. But she didn't mind that at all, "They're a bit sweaty, but here 'ya go," she said as she removed them. She decided to go sockless in those boots that day.
How she presented herself: the sunglasses, the ripped tank tops (which did a nice job of covering her bra real well), her sexy shorts, the accessories around her wrists and neck, her cowgirl boots, tells you she is one cool chick. She is on my personal list of the most personal, affable, amiable, good-humored women I've met in all of my time doing this. A list that includes the likes of Rebecca Ainsley, Wanderlust, Ashley Miles, women like those. Unlike the ones I just mentioned, I didn't classify this shoot as a classic, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it because she looks awesome and she is awesome.
She loves to watch rugby and soccer at the pub with her friends. And she loves watching Conor McGregor do his thing in the octagon. Why didn't see that one coming? (Can you sense the sarcasm?)
The issue on effeminacy came up during the conversation. Her idea of a sexual partner is not a man who is not manly in appearance or manner, a man who has (or shows) characteristics regarded as typical of a woman. She says there's quite a bit of that going around, women going out with men like those, and that's not her thing. She's not opposed to letting you hang out with the boys for some drinks or going to a sporting event, for example. Aoibhinn Kitty is always there when you need her or even when you don't. She is down to fight for you even if she gets beat up!
She'll try anything. She always thinks positively, even if you want to choke her.
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She never thought a guy would talk her into removing her shoes from her feet and just let him take pictures of them. "I would think that if a guy walked up to me and wanted to take pictures of my feet just because he wanted to, yeah?, I would tell him, 'Oh, eff off, will 'ya?!' But you don't strike me as a person that'll make me react like that. So you're a pretty cool lad, lad!" I couldn't help but smile to myself because her accent made it feel as if I was in Ireland for a second.
I love this woman, and I loved this shoot. I wish I had spend more time with her, but I'm happy with what I was able to get in the short time we spent together.
AOIBHINN KITTY -- Click Here SIZE 7 (U.S./Canada), 37.5 (EUR), 4.5 (U.K.)
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by MetaFootMan420: Sorry to comment so late but its great to see the legend himself back! I love the stories and your memory and eye for detail is quite impressive friend. Great work, very inspiring!
Thank you so much. There's much more for you to enjoy in the months to come. You're always welcome to leave a comment in here.
Posted by MetaFootMan420 (Member # 47778) on :
Yes! Excited for this Natural Evolution Era. Respect your vision. Would love to hear Kitty’s voice. Those shorts are so sexy, very beautiful woman with a great body. Always liked women in boots, very nice poses man well done Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Nice! I’ll bet Ms. Kitty’s feet smelled sexy...
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I met this very nice lady in her 40s one Sunday afternoon. She was walking along, and it seemed as if she wasn't going anywhere in particular. She was just enjoying the sights and scenes around the park, a quiet respite from the rest of the city.
I don't know - I just knew that a shoot with her was going to be just as quiet and relaxing for the two of us. I was curious about her for some reason. I went up to her and we started to talk to each other.
We had informal, polite conversations about unimportant or controversial matters, which made her feel a sense of being safe around me, I felt. I could tell from the way she spoke that she was never the type of women who went to dance clubs or would do anything so stupid that would get her into a lot of trouble with her job had she posted a photo of said stupid thing on Facebook. She struck me more as a woman who could be found at some book store, watching an independent film by herself at some cinema, or strolling through a park on a quiet Sunday afternoon.
This was another instance in which I was able to convince the same woman to do a second shoot with me.
I bumped into the same lady in Central Park six or seven weeks later. We recognized each other, said hi to one another, and started talking again, the type of conversation you have with someone you haven't seen or heard from in a while, you know what I mean? We were so happy to have run into each other and she seemed to be in a very good mood that day, which was very nice to see.
We walked around the park for a bit, we sat on a rock and watched as the sun was beginning to set. I said something about wanting to take more pictures of her because I thought she looked nice and liked how her outfit looked on her. She has a quiet way of taking a compliment. I could tell she repeated the phrase to herself silently and then though to herself, 'There's a man in this world who thinks I look nice today.' She appreciated me noticing something she made some effort on before saying thank you to me.
"You can also take pictures of my feet if you want to," she said.
"I was going to do just that," I told her in response.
Maggie hesitates to speak before she's spoken to, even though a million thoughts run through her mind every minute. She's always thinking. Always observing.
She doesn't let many people into her life, so when she finds someone worth taking a chance on, she puts all her energy into making them happy. She knows how rare it is to find another soul she connects to, and doesn't want to let them slip away. Maggie Sue is selective about who gets a place in her life, which is why I'm humbled to know that I'm one of those people she has chosen to be one of her close friends. The fact that Maggie girl considers me a good friend of hers, letting her guard down in front of me after having met her in the way I have, then I know she thinks her words through. That she means every syllable. That her message is important and I should listen closely.
Maggie and I have kept in touch with each other every once in a while since the second shoot, and we're good friends. I wasn't expecting for that to happen going into the first shoot, but her company is nice to be around, so I'm glad to have gotten know the woman as the very nice and very quiet person she is.
MAGGIE SUE -- The First Shoot, The Second Shoot SIZE 8.5 (U.S./Canada), 39 (EUR), 6 (U.K.)
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Nice! I’ll bet Ms. Kitty’s feet smelled sexy...
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quote:Originally posted by MetaFootMan420: Yes! Excited for this Natural Evolution Era. Respect your vision. Would love to hear Kitty’s voice. Those shorts are so sexy, very beautiful woman with a great body. Always liked women in boots, very nice poses man well done
Oh man, I can't wait for this new era to really take effect! The photos this week will be used to set up for what's to come with the photos I'll show next month. It'll be a showcase of my vision ... reimagined. I would love to talk more about this now, but I can't. I'll discuss that more in great length starting next month after the Natural Evolution style will speak for itself.
Kitty's voice sounds better than an actual cat's meow meow, and the hypnotic tone from the accent and voice inspired me to have a few drinks afterwards, just to be in a celebratory mood.
Her shorts are indeed sexy. And I believe she's the only woman I photographed who wore cowgirl boots.
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In the days ahead, I will show a woman I ran into who had dirty feet. So if you're into that, then she's your girl. The story associated with her should be quite informative. Another girl will have big feet and long toes, and yet another girl will be featured in a shoot that was better than I remember it being. The original plan was for me to put her on first this week, but I changed my mind and decided to save her for later in the week. A real nice one she is.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This woman is right on the verge of becoming a journalist in [a newspaper organization], and it was purely by accident. Unlike others who seek out journalism as a career, she wanted to be a creative writer. She envisioned herself writing books of fiction and entertaining the masses. Her parents talked her into going to college and earning a degree in journalism. They told her she should have "something" to fall back on, in case she couldn't make a living writing fiction. Four years and a ton of rejections later, she realized her parents were right. Fortunately, her degree in journalism is going to help her support herself so she doesn't have to go back home after college.
She had no idea what a journalist did until she got her first job at a local paper when she was still in school. She was hired as a stringer and had to report on meetings. It was boring, but it paid for extras. Someone said she was a journalist and she realized she was actually working in a field for which she was studying.
As she begins her career as a journalist, she anticipates on making mistakes, breaking the rules a few times, but also learning lessons from each rule she breaks. She's excited about betting paid paid for her writing as a journalist, in which time she will become a good journalist, she feels. While her assignments are not going to be exotic and she'a a long way from winning a Pulitzer prize, she is going to make a decent living doing something she really enjoys.
She has to report on all sides of a story, not just take one side, even if it appears that one side is right or wrong. She gets all sides of the story, prints it and then lets the reader decide, based upon the article. Her job is to not make up the readers' mind for them. However, she did have the time to give us her opinions on some issues.
HER TAKE ON NATIONAL BOARDERS She thinks boarders make sense and that open boarders would be a catastrophe. "The moment you admit that you want boarders, then you need a real information system that tracks everyone who comes across the those boarders, because you don't want to let in jihadis or people carrying Ebola from a trip abroad." She talked about how we need to know where people have been and why they were there and who they are, down to whether they have their vaccinations. "And all of this, in principle, is coercive: It's backed up by guns. There's somebody standing there with a gun who is not going to let you jump the turnstile at passport control. Now on the left, nobody wants to hear this. They basically say, 'You are a racist asshole if you want to keep anyone out.'" She thinks if that is your view on questions on boarder security, we're probably guaranteed four more years of Trump, because at least half of our society has run out of patience with that.
#MeToo She said it makes women to feel they're not alone and it is warning for those men who treat women as a thing. She hopes this movement will bring awareness among the women about their self respect and also generate fear among the men who think women are nothing.
SECOND CHANCES FROM RACIAL CONTROVERSY "Such a person can then say in the aftermath of making a comment that was deemed racist, 'No, that's not what I meant. It's horrible. The racism, the KKK - I disavow all of that.' Even with a hostage-style apology, that person might still be doomed," which she thinks is wrong. She thinks in principle you should be able to come back from anything as long as you can show the path you took that has made you a different person. People who were murderers or neo-Nazis, she said, can talk about how they're different now, and that becomes valuable in deprogramming other people.
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A great thing about looking for women in the park is that you never know when you're going to spot someone who looks like the right fit for your style and vision. Sometimes it might take me two hours, other times will take me less than five minutes. This was one of those moments in which I spotted such a subject very quickly. Literally within seconds of walking into the park, to be exact.
As soon as I walked in the park, there she was. She was walking towards exiting the park, but something changed her mind and she decided to stay in the park. Maybe she didn't intend to leave at that moment; when she saw that the path she walked on was becoming an exit, she thought 'oops!', and walked the other way.
I caught up to her and got her attention. There were a bunch of people walking around us, since we were standing in the middle of the walkway. It was a Friday afternoon, so it was crowded where we stood. She said yes almost immediately to having pictures of her taken, but she needed to use the restroom first. So we talked to each other, getting to know one another as I guided her to the nearest restroom. After our stop in the restroom, we got around to doing the shoot.
It had never crossed my mind that the soles of her feet would be as dirty as they were. She warned me of this right when removed her sandals. I guess the shoes being black in color, combined with the sweat, made her soles look the way they did. She was a little embarrassed about it and was apologetic to me about the state they were in. I'm not typically into dirty soles, but I was willing to give her a pass because it gave me a chance to work with something different for a change. It's also part of the reason why I love doing this, because these are your real everyday women, and it's best to get a sense for what their feet are like in real-life conditions, in its truest form, as-is.
She told me the name of the newspaper she's going to work for, her passion for always wanting to become involved in journalism (and there was a part where she joked about writing a column on foot fetishism, perhaps noting this experience she had with me), and she talked about her love of house music, or electronic music, however you want to call it.
She loves house music. So much so, that she does not listen to any other type of music. And I'm serious about that (because she convinced me how serious she was about that). I mean she knows who Selena Gomez and Ariana Grande are. But if she heard their songs play on the radio, she will literally have no idea who's singing it unless the host of the show says who that was. She knows of Justin Beiber, but she doesn't know any of his songs.
House is all she listens to. I listen to house, too. When she heard that, this soon-to-be-real-life-journalist's eyes lit up and started talking like someone who was at a party, and not someone who's serious about reporting what bill is about to pass through Congress. Not that I'm complaining. In fact, I liked the change.
Not a bad shoot, I thought. Another cool chick I met in the park. Another open minded woman.
THE WOMAN JOURNALIST -- Click Here SIZE 9.5 (U.S./Canada), 41 (EUR), 7 (U.K.)
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NATURAL CLASSIC I love women with big feet and long toes. Adelina Lucia (pronounced loosha) certainly had both, in addition to the fact that she was also a tall woman at 6'2''. For some reason I wasn't able to get the clue that this woman had big feet, but when she took off her flats to expose her feet to me for the shoot, you can imagine my delight when it became apparent to me that they were as lovely as they were big. I was in heaven, especially seeing how long this woman's toes were, a personal favorite trait of mine. Her toes were nicely pedicured, making the whole scene merrier and carefree.
Adelina is born, raised, and still lives in New York City and she doesn't live that far from where I live. She laughed at the idea of wanting to have pictures of herself taken, but in the way that showed she was all in good spirit and willing to go along with it. The reason she decided to do this? "Because why not?" she asked.
She's always been happy with the size and shape of her feet, as they make her more proud to be as uniquely herself as she can be, even though she doesn't get complimented on them. The fact I wanted to take photos of them was cause for a celebration for her.
This shoot went for an hour and twenty-six minutes and she enjoyed every moment of it. She was fantastic enough to allow me to take that much time to get the results I wanted, and the shoot could not have been more relaxing for the two of us.
When I was curious to know what she did for a living, she said, "You'll never guess." She asked to name a place where I wouldn't expect to see a woman working in. My answer was the fire department. Adelina laughed. "That was a very good guess, but no. I'm an auto mechanic."
"Yeah, right!" I said. "And my birthday is on the thirty-second day of the thirteenth month."
She laughed out loud to that! Besides, she knew based on the way I responded to her, it wan't meant to demean her credentials as a woman working in that field. She knew that when I said yeah right, I was expressing sarcastic disbelief to what she just said.
She's an auto mechanic, "and a damn well good one!" she added.
Lucia performs maintenance, diagnostic testing, repairs, and inspections of small trucks and cars. She works on engines, drive belts, transmissions, and electronic systems such as steering, brakes, and accident-avoidance systems.
Historically, women have been rare in the auto repair industry. Much of this has been due to the physical constraints of the job, that often involve lifting heavy machinery. Also, because this is a career path that oftentimes is learned through apprenticing family members or family friends, in general men have had a better grasp of the knowledge of cars because they were more commonly taught this information.
With more women in the field now than ever before, and more interested in the field, truly the sky is the limit. Learning how to repair cars no longer has to be done through passed-on knowledge from a family member because there is formal training, including some places that specialize in training women.
ADELINA LUCIA -- Click Here SIZE 9 (U.S./Canada), 40 (EUR), 6.5 (U.K.)
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC We have a 19-year-old woman from Fargo, North Dakota. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard that from her. I was immediately fascinated. It's probably one of the more well known places in the United States to do nothing, yet these people have a way of finding plenty of things to do to keep life moving and enjoying it to their fullest.
Though I never saw the movie Fargo, I saw an independent film about Fargo called The Treasure Hunter, I believe. It was about a Japanese woman who saw the movie Fargo. Thinking everything she saw in that movie was real, she plans a trip to Fargo in hopes that the satchel full of money is still buried by the highway. In any event, I was very happy to have found someone from that state l to join me for this shoot.
North Dakota is a place where the farms are many and the people are few. This woman has living the simple life down to an art. She's a student at North Dakota State University where she's a nursing major. She wants to work with sick, injured, handicapped, and elderly people in hospitals, doctor's offices, or a schools or a nursing facilities. She wants to not only help meet patients' physical needs but their emotional needs as well.
She enjoys the Minnesota Vikings and lawn mower racing. North Dakota has one of the largest religious populations of any state. The heavy influence of religion can be regularly seen in the North Dakotan culture. And that culture has rubbed off on her because she is a True Believer. She is in some way connected to the farming or ranching industry or lifestyle. North Dakota is the in third place of the least populous state category. The largest town only has around 110,000 people while the smallest town has 5. In that latter town you can get sick of your neighbors, but probably not her. While she still enjoys the basic Midwestern dishes, she also enjoys dishes from Norway and Germany with dishes like kuchen, fleischkuekle, krumkaka, lefse, raspeball, and lutefisk being relatively common choices for her to enjoy, being that North Dakota is made up of a huge Scandinavian population.
From what she tells me, Fargo has a very low unemployment rate and crime rate. The city is focused on culture and the arts. Most people you'll find there are kind and wouldn't mind helping someone out if their car got stuck in the snow. Speaking of which, they get a decent amount of snow and some fairly cold temperatures in the winter. It's in an agricultural state that also produces lots of oil. Not everyone enjoys the cold but she does, though it's mainly from the wind whipping across the flat tundra.
It's hard to really appreciate the beauty of the towns shutting down around 7 p.m. to watch an endless sunset spread across the night sky until you see it, she told me. "But once you do, it's easy to understand why I'm proud to call North Dakota my home. I love it there. I just do."
This was one of those shoots that was better than I remember it being. The battery of my camera was dying on me, and I wasn't able to get a full grasp of what I was able to enjoy in the small amount of time I spent with this North Dakotan. I could only imagine what I was able to do on a full powered battery.
She wondered if taking pictures of women's feet was something that only happens in places like New York and L.A. because she thinks something like that would never happen anywhere in North Dakota. That concept would be almost unheard of over there, she said. She was curious in doing something out of the ordinary, so she accepted the shoot.
She wanted to see what New York was about. New York is simply too fast, too loud, and too much of everything else for her. She enjoys the rush of the city, but not enough to want to ever live there. She prefers the more simple life. I wish more women were like her.
ALWAYS DAKOTA -- Click Here Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Coming soon will be Nikki Brianna. Nikki will be a star for the Natural Evolution Era. This woman is the reason why this new era is going to take over and why this represents my work and my vision ... reimagined.
What you saw this week was me trying to find a new voice to express my work, though I wasn't quite there at the moment. I sensed I was getting close to finding a new trait, a new signature that refines and redefines my vision. I found it when I saw Nikki walking though Central Park one Sunday evening and approached her right there on the spot, being that I only had a few seconds to work with to get her attention.
Why am I calling this the Natural Evolution Era? I dropped subtle clues here and there throughout the last week without making them seem like clues, if that makes sense. These will help lay the foundation of what's to come. But to answer the question, the shoot with Nikki will give you the answer.
In the beginning, it was a typical shoot of mine, the one with Nikki. But just about everything it did, it did well. It was well coordinated, exciting, and it brought a new lease on life in my enjoyment of going up to random strangers and getting them to remove their shoes for me.
More on Nikki when I present the official unveiling next month.
-National
[ October 07, 2019, 09:51 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by tootsylover (Member # 4584) on :
wooow she is amazing ♥♥♥ ... and I bet her feet smell awesome after walking around NYC all day in those dirty Converses ... holy smokes Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Presenting the woman who is the reason why I am ushering in The Natural Evolution Era. Nikki Brianna (her first and middle names, respectively) represents the start of a new period in this thread, a moment in time when important changes or new things happen, or to cause important changes to start happening. The thing was: I was not able to realize the shift in the new direction my style was going to phase into in advance of the shoot, before it even happened. I always know how the shoot is going to begin. What makes these shoots fantastic is not knowing how the shoot is going to end because when the flow gets going, it allows my creative vision to think of innovative shots, seen from a different angle or perspective. Nikki Brianna made me realize that when it comes to shooting random strangers, the real amateur girl next door, these women who I had just met to do an impromtu shoot, there was another dimension of creativity that I could tap into. I had no way of knowing how the shoot was going to end going into it, but it was a great way to end my day in Central Park.
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This happened on a Sunday evening. I started to daydream about certain things as it was almost that time for me to go back home. I was walking south, not really paying attention to what was going around me. All of a sudden, this woman appears, walking north. Sometimes I spot someone from a distance, giving me all the time to think of what to say to her by the time I reach her. Other times, a woman would appear from out of nowhere, it seems. In those cases, you have no time to prepare, and you have to go on instincts and go with the first words that come to mind, unprepared. This happened with Wanderlust, Georgina, and I think Tsarevna as well. There were other women who magically appeared before my eyes in spots where they were not just a few seconds before, but those four women (including Nikki Brianna) immediately come to mind. She appeared quite suddenly, I almost let that one walk by me, out of my sight forever.
She was on her phone texting someone (some guy in high school senior class who likes her, but she doesn't like him "like that," as she put it) as she was walking when I blurted out, "You!" To my amazement, she actually stopped and looked up at me. A bit startled she was, but she said Oh Hi, How are you?! as if she was so happy to see me for the first time in a long time, even though that was the first time we've met one another in out lives. She was about to give me a hug but she didn't want to get ahead of herself. Something about the way she greeted me made me feel like a star. At that point, I knew that was my interaction to lose, meaning I was winning by so much, the only way I would lose at that point was if I defeated myself. At that point, I knew I could say no wrong to that girl and she would still participate in the shoot.
I told her I thought she looked great, something about how I was interested in her, and that I wanted to take pictures of her feet. "Cooooooooooooooool!" The excitement in her voice when she said that sounded like what you would expect a girl in high school would react if she was told she could play hooky whenever she wanted and still not have her grades negatively affected.
As that was going on, a couple of kids playing tag were running around us while their family was not too far from all of this, blasting music and playing volleyball. The kids giggling made Nikki smile and laugh a bit, which made it more unlikely she was going to reject me. So the kids will be officially credited with the assist, if I were to look at this as a sport.
"So yeah, I will move your feet around and touch them however I want." "Oh, you mean like me feet feet?" "Yeah." "Cooooooooooooooool!" "I'm so glad I wore these (meaning the Converse) today. They're, like, sooo dependable, you know? So you picked me to take my shoes off for you?" She asked, hoping I would say yes. "Yeah. I don't see the harm in that. Do You?" "Cool! Like, okay. Where do we go?" "Right over there."
So with that, the shoot got started while the kids and their family were having good family fun behind the rock where this shoot took place.
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Nikki is an eighteen year-old sweet girl. Something that age made the air more pure to breathe, more to make you inhale and exhale their air more deeply. Mediate perhaps. Something about that age that makes it not yet mixed or adulterated with any other substance or material. Eighteen. Yes.
You can't go wrong with Converse. The particular pair wore that day: she has been wearing it every day for the last four months - and I mean every day! Every day. Even when it's pouring outside and she has to walk home from school without and umbrella, soaked, she told me, until it starts to make that squeaky noise as she walks during the rain. By the way, that's every day without socks!
The back dots you see on the side of her left and right foots? That's the result of wearing those shoes every single day for four months without socks.
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Even after having said all of that, after having reserved a spot for her National Gallerie Hall of Fame of Women, and after highlighting the significance of why this new era is becoming the new blueprint for this thread, I still would not put her in my Top Ten All-Time List in terms of my personal favorite shoots. However, if Nikki ends up in anyone else's Top Ten, you will not get an argument from me.
Nikki doesn't know this, but she is responsible for saving this thread. There was a time in which I was looking to change something about the way I shoot these ladies, which wound up with me going through the motions in some of the other shoots before this one. I was looking for something new and I didn't know it was going to wind up the way it did with Brianna. The style of shoot was what inspired me to embark on a different mindset and approach when it comes to doing this. It is for that reason alone, this major shift in a new direction that started with Nikki Brianna, is the reason why she is a future Hall of Famer. NIKKI BRIANNA -- Click Here
[ September 25, 2019, 10:15 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by tootsylover:
wooow she is amazing ♥♥♥ ... and I bet her feet smell awesome after walking around NYC all day in those dirty Converses ... holy smokes
Posted by MetaFootMan420 (Member # 47778) on :
Wow! You must have a great personality and respect for these women and your craft for them to open up so much to you and take such intimate pics. Of course everyone woman is different which adds to the allure and excitement and I love it. Much respect man you are doing great things Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
@MetaFootMan420 ... Thank you so much. The women must be willing to participate both physically and emotionally, so there's a tremendous amount of trust these women place in me, without which there would be no images.
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As a side note ...
It's that time of the year, folks! It's that time of the year. Summer 2019 has arrived!
Girls in the streets walking by in their new short shorts and mini skirts, turning heads. Feet in the grass at Central Park, the nice summer breeze, feeling great. Cold beverages on ice, kids are running around in Central Park, having a good time and play fighting with their dads. Barbecues. Convertibles with the top down with the Beach Boys playing or whatever other music they want on the radio. Family vacations at Disney World where they are taking pictures with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Jiminy Cricket and the rest of the goon squad. Carnivals, cotton candy, funnel cakes, beautiful nights in your air conditioned home with a nice cold glass of wine.
Summer is here, and there's a lot to be excited about. So how does this thread ring in the summer? By eliciting the same type of excitement, the same type of enthusiasm. These wonderful women, out and about, enjoying their times outside at some rooftop party, in the park, or where ever else they happen to be. I'm here with women you will not see modeling their feet for anyone else on the planet, with stories and photographs you can't wait to sink your teeth into. And the Number 1 destination in all of North America is Central Park.
How does Natural Park ring in the Summer? You just saw it with Nikki Brianna. Taking photos of women who are willing to do this for free has never felt this fantastic before. Enjoy, as more women are one the horizon, ready to be showcased!
-National
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Great shoot!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
The next two shoots would've been presented better to the audience had it not been for something that happened to the memory card that stored these photos.
I was going through the photos in my camera one night. I was going through photos from a shoot, deciding which ones to delete, the ones I knew would not make the cut. I meant to press a button that would delete a particular photo. Instead, I accidentally pressed a button that was designed to delete all photos from the memory card instead of that one photo I wanted to get rid of. A few seconds later, I realized what I had done and turned off the camera, hoping that only a few photos were deleted and that the card wouldn't be messed up. Well, the card became corrupted as a result of turning off the camera while it was in the process of deleting all of the photos from the memory card. I could no longer make use of the card, all the photos couldn't be restored. I could not believe it! I was upset with myself, thinking all hope was lost.
When I woke up the following morning, I knew I needed to visit someone who could help me. I wondered if he could recover photos that have been deleted from the memory card. He said that as long as I didn't take any other picture with that card after the other photos have been deleted, then there was a chance he could recover the photos for me. Otherwise, just forget about it, he told me. Luckily for me, I hadn't.
It took him a few days (because he had other things to do in his life), but even though he wasn't able to recover all of the photos I took while using that particular card, he was able to recover a lot of them, nonetheless. Something is better than nothing, and I was very grateful for what he had done for me.
The only reason I wasn't more upset with myself and punching holes through the wall in my bedroom was because I had just started using that card and there were only three shoots in there (the two you're about to see in just a moment, and the one I'm going to post this Saturday). Had this deletion thing happened with the memory card I used before this one, that had many more shoots with an endless amount of photos, I would've thought about closing the thread down. But since it happened with the one I had just started using, I knew the thread was going to survive with the loss of three photoshoots.
Because I didn't get all of my photos back, the photos of the women's feet in their footwear were not among those recovered. That's with two of the three shoots in question, which bummed me out a bit. I tried to make the best with what I had left, so here they are: Even though I couldn't have all the photos retrieved for this shoot, I don't remember this one being long to begin with. It was relatively short. I would've loved to have had more time with this woman because she has one of the best looking feet I have ever seen. If I had twenty more minutes with her, I would've done enough to have made this shoot a classic, but I knew going in I wasn't going to have a lot of time, so something is better than nothing, and seeing her immaculate soles and truly magnificent looking toenails was certainly a sight I was glad to enjoy, even though the shoot didn't last long.
Her choice of footwear on that day were interesting because it's not a pair I would expect to see on a woman. But she made it work, as it certainly went with her hairstyle, giving off the vibe that she's sort of a rocker-type chick.
This woman has the type of feet I would never kick out of bed, the type of feet I can easily lose my heart to. I cannot think of many other women I've shot whose feet I think look better than hers.
I cannot get enough of women with big feet, and this woman certainly had them.
I saw her walking when she came to a split in the walking path going in two different directions. She stopped there momentarily to decide which one she was going to take. She decided to go left, which was the direction I was coming from. Just when we were to walk past each other, I stopped her.
Before I go any further, I just wanted to say that as she walked closer to me, I naturally looked down at her feet. When I saw just how big they were, my heart started to beat faster because my dream of having a woman with big feet to pose her feet for me were about to come true.
It's a dream come true for me whenever I take photographs of feet as big as hers because the length of their toes and the magnificent size to the totality of their feet when starting straight at their soles that close to where you are gives the admirer so much more to observe and appreciate about their feet.
This woman neither likes nor dislikes her feet, only to say that she appreciates that they can get her from one place to another. And I like how some dirt is visible on the soles of her feet, giving it that real life look.
INGRID -- Click Here SIZE 12.5 (U.S. - Canada), 44.5 (EUR), 10 (U.K.)
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Aimee Young's voice reminds me of a sample from The Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" (the link to that song will be below this story). Not only is her voice capable of replacing or changing places with the voice sample from the song without not too many people noticing the difference, but the subject matter the woman spoke of in the song sounds like something Aimee would talk about, sounds like something she would say. I bring this up because it makes it interesting for the viewer to imagine how she sounds like while observing the photos.
It's not only the words that strike at my heart when Aimee speaks, but her voice. Her voice can be described as something that can grab one's complete attention as if by magic. There is passion in her memory, the likes of which cannot be faked. It is the voice of a dreamer.
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Fitting how I made reference to that song because it rained earlier in the day and it remained cloudy the rest of the time on the day of this shoot, making the air calmly cooler than usual for that time of year in New York.
She was sitting on a bench, reading a book when I saw her. I don't remember the name of it, but it was some hardcover version of a novel and it looked as if she was somewhere in the middle of what was probably a 375-page masterpiece. A woman reading a long printed story on a bench in a park is something men love to see. To see that on a very young lady was lovely, quite simply.
It was beautiful seeing this nineteen year-old read a novel because I could see how it was clearing her mind, calming her nerves, and probably feeling as if she's one of the characters in the book herself. It was a unique turn-on for me knowing the book was enhancing her intellectual stamina, improving her knowledge and expanding her vocabulary.
I love approaching women who are already seated because they make things easier in a lot of ways - you're effectively already prescreening them for having time to meet someone new and being in a more relaxed mode to do so. Unless they're meeting someone there (a friend or a boyfriend), or waiting for him to come back from the restroom, you stand a fairly reasonable chance at having these approaches go nicely when you look good and you execute on them properly.
Just mind your effort levels relative to hers, and don't go investing a lot more into her before she's even noticed you yet, and you'll be just fine at getting "in" with some of those girls who weren't immediately sold on you but needed a little convincing. I should know because I had many shoots start out that way.
My approach was quite simple: - I was walking along. - I spotted a girl I wanted to meet. - I didn't let her see me looking. - I walked almost past her, completely naturally, looking straight ahead. - Then, "suddenly", I noticed her. - I stopped - realizing I've just seen something beautiful - then turn, looking surprised and amazed. - I start talking to her still in a somewhat stunned "Wow-I-can't-believe-it" way (not super dramatic, but noticeable). - I talked a bit excitedly with her for a moment or two while everything was going well, I sat down and got into deeper conversation when I sensed she wasn't on-guard against my approach.
Saying hi to her snapped her out of her spell she was under from reading the book and she looked up at me. I complimented her clothes and then saying she has a really cool style. She was a little surprised, but flattered before thanking me. We gave each other our names and then I gestured to a spot next to her on the bench.
"May I?" I asked. "Sure, absolutely."
So I sat down beside her and we got into a little discussion about the book she was reading, and so on and so forth - I got into a little playful banter with her, went into deep diving, you get the idea. The little conversation on the bench was going well, indeed. She closed her book and sat it beside herself because we were on roll at this point.
I knew this was my girl. I felt very bold and introduced her to the idea of me taking pictures of her feet. Her sneaker-boots looked awesome on her, I told her, in addition to wanting to see her feet, wanting to take some photos of her.
"I see. I like how you speak and how you think. You want to see my feet? Do you like feet, like as a fetish or something?" Looking into her eyes felt great. I think she felt it too and wasn't quite sure what to do with herself at the moment. The type of eyes, Aimee does, that gives you the comfort in knowing that at the end of the day ... she would always be there to listen to you. "Yes I do."
Aimee nodded as if I had asked for an insurance quote.
That nod told me she was willing to listen with a complete open mind and understanding of where I was coming from. If it were you instead of me talking to this woman, you would be able to tell from the way she nodded that you're now a free man with the weights being lifted off your shoulders. And with a woman you just met for the first time, going from talking about books to talking about her feet in a matter of minutes, that's a relief.
This young lady seemed even more interested in me and in the conversation after I admitted to my foot fetish. She asked questions about it, completely letting curiosity get the best of her. "Come with me, I'll tell you more about it," I told her, or something along those lines. She said okay, which was pleasant and gratifying to hear. Hearing a woman say o.k. to the shoot never gets old because it feels fantastic every single time it happens to me. With Aimee, it was especially special.
This shoot is a true Natural Classic. So much so, that you will have to go out of your way to tell me why this is not an early candidate for Photoshoot of the Year in this thread. Personally speaking, her feet are not in my Top Ten, which is not to say they're ugly. But her overall look, the overall presentation of this shoot, the chemistry Aimee and I had shared with one another, I don't see how this doesn't belong in my personal Top Ten. Will Aimee Young stay in my Top Ten remains to be seen. But as of this moment, this shoot is going into my list where she joins the ranks of Dalhous, Industria, Nancy Vale, Ashley Miles, women like those.
Let's say you had a choice of giving this shoot either a thumbs up or a thumbs down. We're not talking about if her feet are the greatest you've ever seen. We're talking about the overall presentation of the shoot. If you're one of those people who gives this shoot a thumbs down, then I don't know what you were expecting and I don't know what you were looking for - but you and I cannot be friends. I'm only half-joking when I say that, but I don't see how anyone can say this shoot is anything other than good.
A woman who was very much into the shoot. I don't know how it happened, but this shoot became what it was before we knew it. There came an undefined moment in the shoot in which we could no longer pretend we were only being friendly with one another. There was a lot of sexual tension between us during the shoot with some indirect and fun ways to let each other know that was chemistry between us and that the tension was unavoidable. We both felt it. There was less talking in the second half of the shoot and more of just staring at each other, our eyes telling each other what we're thinking without the words doing the spelling it out for us. But the consummation was postponed. This shoot was what led up to it.
What a special shoot this turned out to be. The chemistry was there and the two of us were truly in sync with each other to make this an experience for me that was memorable, and an adventure for her that was very fun for her. Aimee Young, ladies and gentlemen, is a woman, a personified force who became the source of inspiration for the creative presentation that awaits for you in this gallerie. Along with Nikki Brianna, Amiee Young sparked the sudden brilliant, creative, and timely idea for the transition into the Natural Evolution Era. With Nikki, the seeds were already planted that my ideas may need to go into a new direction. With Aimee, that idea became official, and that was the moment, cemented into my decision, that a natural development, a natural shift from one phase to another was going to take its course. That explains why the name of this new era has the name that it does.
AIMEE YOUNG -- Click Here SIZE 7 (U.S. - Canada), 37.5 (EUR), 4.5 (U.K.)
[ September 25, 2019, 10:28 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by HighArchesPT (Member # 45164) on :
Does the "new era" thing means that now you also take pictures of the girls panties?
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
@HighArchesPT ... Not necessarily, although that's always a nice to see as well. The general rule of thumb in the Natural Evolution Era is to go beyond the usual or normal limits by doing something new. To expand on, exceed, or test the limits of the established norm or standard that had already been set with my kind of style.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Men can fall in love with the women they see in photos, whether they are hardened porn models one can find in other places on the internet or the fresh-faced amateurs one can find in one of many places, such as this thread. They do fall in love, when the women are allowed to show their faces.
Why do many people think the way to invest a woman with artistic integrity is to cut her head off? The people who took the photos will tell you they love and respect women, but I can't be the only one who sees a headless woman as more of an object than a complete woman with her legs spread. To me, the headless shots make these poor women look more like boulders or sand dunes instead of human beings. I've heard explanations that these headless bodies maintain mystery or modesty, but I still feel cheated. The photographer, after all, got to see everything. Then he, or she, keeps all that for themselves and gives us nothing but headless shots? I don't know about that.
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My personal style is less about photography technique, and more about me; me personality and me life story.
And we humans change all the time - therefore your style will also change with you. When I think back at times and phases as an amateur photographer, I cringe sometimes. Yes, I did have a personal style back then - but it's not the same as the one I have now. I have changed, and my style has changed with me.
It was a process getting to know myself again and developing my new personal style. You guys will enjoy the new era, and then suddenly one day, I will feel a need to change it or tweak it - because by that time, I would've changed. It's normal. It's part of the growth process.
Change is constant. Change is life. We are constantly evolving, and life is always moving in a new direction. And that's why what I do is very exciting. I will really get to express myself and be extremely creative. This new style will be the evidence of my personal development. It's just a fantastic feeling!
When it comes to developing a personal style, what matters most is finding out who you are, what you like and dislike and what you want to do with the time you can devote to the new process.
The Natural Evolution Era resumes tonight.
-National
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
I liked Aimee’s feet. And she was cute.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This is the third and final shoot that had photos which couldn't be recovered from the memory card. Otherwise, this gallery would've had at least ten more photos added to it, showing her feet in her shoes.
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I met Cassie one Friday evening, about twenty minutes after I was done shooting pictures of another woman's feet. I don't know what it was, but she had that walk of somebody who was on her way home even though she wasn't heading towards the exit. She seemed upbeat about whatever was in her mind at the moment and wanted to walk through Central Park on her way home as a way to make herself feel extra nice about herself and her life.
Cassie is eighteen, and she was on her way home, just like I thought she was. She had the smile and mannerisms of a sweet kid who likes to look at everything though rose-colored glasses. She's always hopeful and confident about the future even though she's aware of the unpleasant and evil things in this world, and I'll get to that in a moment.
She was one of the more harmless women I've met in all my times doing this, along with Demure Madame, Sacred Heart, Nancy Vale, and whoever else I can't think of at this moment for whatever reason. It felt to me as if Cassie was more than happy to help me out to the point where she wanted to look up to me as her life coach. I didn't know what kind of guidance she needed, but you feel star struck when you're standing next to an idol who's famous, like an Anthony Robbins. I got the impression that that's how she felt about me this was a woman who could've done whatever I said and not question it because I'm her "life coach".
Sometimes we feel like we're living our lives according to someone else's rules or wishes. We have goals, but they're not what we really want. Because of that, we lack a clear vision. We're so confused, being pushed and pulled in every direction, that we're unable to create that clear vision for what we want out of life. That was Cassie in a nutshell. But I suppose that's pretty normal and common for eighteen year-old girls like Cassie, being that by the time she'll have a much better understand of what she wants out of life by the time she's twenty-five.
So I tried to offer a helping hand, giving her advice to help her cut through all the noise and to assure her that things would even itself out through the ups and downs of her life. It wasn't the easiest thing for her to understand, especially when she tried to see it from a perspective that I've been looking at it from for years or decades even. None of this is to suggest that things are terribly wrong with her life, because she doesn't want to trade her life for anyone else's. Highly successful people hire coaches to help them succeed, and Cassie was not someone whose life was turning for the worse by any stretch of the imagination. She just needed advice to reassure herself of a few things, that's all.
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Early in the shoot, she asked if I believed in God. I don't know about other guys who shoot photos of random women's feet, but I might be the only one who runs into the type of women who loves to talk about God. It's one thing to believe in him. Then there are others who kind of make it their mission to spread the gospel to anyone who's talking to them about something else that has nothing to do with religion. Seventh Creed, Virtuous Hope, and one or two others I can't think of at the moment were those type of women. And now we have Cassie added to that list of women who will try to find ways of turning the conversation to God. With the other ladies, I was willing to talk about religion with them, even though I don't believe such a thing exists. But for whatever reason with Cassie, I didn't feel like having that type of conversation with her. Not because I felt uncomfortable having that conversation. I guess it was more because she's a nice kid and I didn't want to make her feel as if I was coming down on her and her beliefs too harsh, which in turn would make her shut down and contribute next to nothing in the conversation. So I tried to end that conversational thread quickly by mumbling something noncommittal, hoping she would get the hint that I wasn't in the mood for that discussion. It wasn't until after that happened when I realized her rubber wristband said something about God.
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THE LIFE ADVICE I GAVE HER What you're about to read is the cleaner, more polished up version of the advice I gave her without revealing the more specific, personal, or sensitive topics or details about Cassie's life in particular. I'm going to use this cleaned up version as more of a broad appeal to the audience at large, especially those who are between the ages of 18-22.
In essence, I told Cassie that considering she's eighteen years old, she still has the opportunity to continue going to school or to continue her education, then she should do that. Because if you don't do that as you get into your adult life, things will become increasingly hard for you because you start to get the appeal of money and then having to step back from that to go to school. That won't be too appealing because you will put yourself in a situation where you have more bills to pay than what you can afford to pay, which might be one problem of many. Then comes that time comes when you'll start to get that taste of what it's like to be intimate with someone of the opposite sex. As a result, you start focusing on that and everything else that comes along with that. So stay in school if you can.
Another piece of advice. Understand that as you get older, you will trust and learn to like fewer and fewer people, which is just fine. Shrinking your inner social circle is just fine if you feel that that is what is best for you. In addition, if you want something, go for it. Don't live your life full of regrets because it's better to try and fail than to not have tried at all. It was Micheal Jordan who once said, "I failed over and over again and that is why I succeed." Sometimes the best life lesson you can learn is through your failures. Sometimes repeatedly. Eventually when you get to the mountain top, you can sit there and think about the things that happened before and how you've learned from them and have become a better person.
Again, don't live your life with regrets and say that you could've would've should've changed things because you can't. Instead, choose to take a positive perspective on it, learn from it, and try to make the best out of that situation and make sure you don't repeat those same mistakes because then you fit into that bucket of insanity.
There's some much more I could give, but those are just a few right now.
The shoot needed to end because Cassie's parents were expecting her to be home. They gave the responsibility to walk her dog every night at a certain time, and it was getting pretty close to that time.
One more thing before I wrap this up. I saw her again a couple of months later, jogging. She said something during the shoot about wanting to lose some weight. When I saw her jogging, she was sweating profusely and she was one the verge of falling face first onto the ground from running out of breath and having her legs give out on her. It was one of those things that struck me as funny but it was inappropriate to laugh. In any event, all the hard work was paying off because all that jogging has made her lose weight. About ten pounds would be my guess.
I wanted to say hi to her but she didn't notice me, probably because she was too worried about getting to the nearest water fountain before passing out from the heat and humidity that day, and from the look of drain of her physical and mental resources on her face. That was the last time I saw her.
I'm so proud of her. I'm sure she's doing just fine right now.
[ September 25, 2019, 10:40 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by MetaFootMan420 (Member # 47778) on :
Love the new stuff and appreciate your philosophy or where your coming from. Reminds me of Bruce Lee. Feet kune do It is interesting to see these women open up a more sensual side which probably comes from your expertise over time creating a safe space for them to do so. Very hot stuff my friend. Glad you were able to salvage most of your work. Love V Alto and Ingrid’s feet, really enjoy big feet and long toes myself though I can like all shapes and sizes especially if I’m really attracted to the woman more holistically. I actually really like the tops of Aimee Young’s feet too and the faces she makes. Great stuff man Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
@MetaFootMan420 ... Thanks for understanding and appreciating the new direction my style is going into. I liked what I was doing before. However, there came a time when I realized there was something missing, and I didn't quite know what that was. I liked what I was doing, but I felt as if I could've done more and some of the shoots left me wanting more. With some of the shoots, I was "left" in a state of dissatisfaction - I wanted more after I have gotten all that the shoots had to give. The shoots weren't horrible, but I felt as if I could've done more. The shoots with 'Always Dakota', and 'Aoibhinn Kitty' come to mind. On the bright side, what I did get from them was still pleasant. Going into this new phase is like wanting or needed a stronger dose of something just to achieve the same high.
Nikki Brianna is probably responsible for keeping this thread going. I knew I needed to switch up a few things. The shoot with Nikki was the answer I never saw coming. The shoot with Nikki was the moment in which I had an epiphany. That was my Issac Newton moment.
Without that shoot, the photos I showed last month may have been the final ones in this thread before I called it a day. May have been because it's hard to say that with 100 percent certainty one way or the other, but I will say that Nikki's shoot provided what was needed to give this thread an extra life.
That was a great post from you, MetaFootMan. I appreciate that you're well aware of what's going on here and the message I'm trying to deliver. You have an interesting way of looking at things, which helps add more layers to the women's personalities just from looking at their photos.
I love the faces Aimee made as well. They hit you right at the core, and you can't help but love her for it.
-National
[ June 30, 2019, 04:06 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Great advice you gave CASSIE BLESSINGS. Cute feet, too.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
Võ Anh came to the United States as an exchange student when she was 17 years old. Until then, she had never been outside Vietnam.
She moved to New York City with her parents and is in pursuit of getting her business degree. It was really difficult because Võ didn't speak any English - but at the same time, it was an adventure, so she loved it. She's still learning many life lessons and she's getting stronger mentally. Still, she doesn't think she could do it now, so she wants to say "good job" to her younger self.
People ask her, "What do you want to do ten years from now? What do you want to be?" She doesn't know. Võ Anh doesn't make life plans. She lives each moment as it comes. What's meant to happen will happen, she figures. Maybe she doesn't know why now, but she will later. Võ thinks positive thoughts; she constantly says, "This is going to be good." She says it's all about your brain. "It's all about how you think."
She used to be hard on herself - a result of comparing herself to other people. "There are many women in New York who are so gorgeous, I thought I had to be like them," she confessed to me. And there was a time when she felt like she was trying to be somebody else. She now knows there's freedom in being in your natural state, saying "That's why everyone should be allowed to speak their mind and express themselves without fear. Being comfortable in my own skin means I'm loving myself and embracing who I am."
"The technology we have access to now makes it easy to share our ideas, and good ones are being shared a lot faster. It's amazing to see so many people from all over the world speaking up for what they believe in and making a huge impact on issues that have existed for probably every generation before ours." Võ Ahn is thankful she lives in a time and place when people can express themselves freely, saying "We have a long way to go to make things right in this world. It all takes time."
ON GROWING UP When Võ Anh was growing up, her parents were always busy, so she never really saw much of them. She learned to be self-sufficient at a young age. She doesn't expect anyone to do things for her. She just wants to be herself - that's the goal.
ON CRAVINGS Lately she's been eating raw. She love Japanese food, and Mexican too. Burritos, tacos, ceviche - she eat Mexican food every day.
ON GOALS Her life is here now. She doesn't want to go back to Vietnam. Where she's from, "is just a lot of trees and nothing much happening." But she still love nature! New York City is her current and future home. She wants a dog and a big yard surrounded by trees. "I want to have apple trees and a garden. That's my complete life."
ON FINDING IT She appreciates art, and she has a lot of respect for artists. According to herself, she's not a very good painter or sculptor. "You just need something, one thing you love, something you're good at. Every one of us can find it."
ON EARTHLY POSSESSIONS Võ Ahn doesn't own expensive things. She's get scared she's going to lose them.
ON ICONS When she thinks about what's sexy, she envisions Marilyn Monroe - that classic ideal. "That's the kind of sexiness I don't have, and that's perfectly fine. I'm content with being myself. The best compliment is being told you're not trying too hard."
ON ATTRACTION She likes guys who are straightforward, smart and kind to others. For her, sexy is not only how you look but how much you're connected to your true self.
VÕ ANH -- Click Here SIZE 6.5 (U.S. - Canada), 37 (EUR), 4 (U.K.)
[ September 11, 2019, 10:56 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Covered my bases, cute, Asian and small feet! Thanks!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This was one of those situations in where a man approaches a woman, only to find out she doesn't speak the same language he does. In this case for me, I don't know what it was exactly that made me curious about her when I first saw her walking around in the park. Maybe it was because she looked single to me. While there is no specific trait that can confirm a person's status, I thought there was something about that blue outfit she wore with the tiny white polka dots that gave me the vibe that she was unspoken for. I thought she looked very nice and I wanted to know more of what she was about.
Right away, I knew she had no idea what I was saying. She doesn't speak English and I don't speak Russian, so this was going to a bit difficult for the two of us. Other than the words hi, no, or Russia, this woman knew no English whatsoever. And I mean no English. A part of me thought that many parts of my verbal communication would be "lost in translation", as the two of us were not fluent in each other's languages. However, I also know that language is not a barrier to communicate what you desire.
So much of communication is nonverbal, so I had to depend on that - the body language and tone of voice - to explain to her what I wanted. At first she thought I wanted her to take a photo of me standing somewhere just by the way she motioned her hands, her way of asking me if that was what I wanted from her. When I shook my head, she kind of laughed and smiled. At that point, she really wanted to know what it was I was trying to tell her.
In a situation where the subject doesn't speak English, it's really important to show her a mood board (visual images that show the style of posing and general mood or vibe I'm looking for). It's a useful way to get the message across without words. It was then when she started to add the pieces together and figured out I wanted to take photos of her feet, mostly about her looking natural and the eyes giving the right emotion. You don't have to speak the same language to be on the same page creatively.
It was a challenge, but also something enjoyable to discover with this person. We had to invent our own ways of communication, which was a refreshing change from having a shoot with someone who speaks the same language because it enhanced the overall communication, and with time, we developed our own way of speaking.
If you find a way to ask, and she finds a way to agree, you'll find a way to make it work. And that's exactly how this shoot turned out to be.
SERENDIPITOUS LOVE -- Click Here SIZE 10 (U.S. - Canada), 42 (EUR), 7.5 (U.K.)
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This woman is an attorney at a law firm that serves individuals, businesses and organizations throughout the New York City metro area. She helps her clients navigate nearly every legal aspect of life, including family law and matrimonial agreements, divorce and child custody matters, and adoptions. She also represents victims or perpetrators of domestic violence in civil protection order proceedings and defend clients accused of domestic violence in criminal proceedings. Adoption and guardianship, juvenile delinquency, and child abuse and neglect are also her areas of specialty.
No two days are alike for her. She does a variety of things such as binding financial agreements, settlement conferences, a lot of attempting to settle matters in deciding what's best (or most feasible) for the family, a lot of mediations, round table negotiations. She also does a lot of appearances in court, ranging from attending a conciliation conference to running an interim on final hearings with counsel by her side. So her business is client driven, depending on what comes her way on that particular day.
She told me that family law is all about feelings. Her clients are often at one of the worst stages of their lives because they have just broken up with their partners or their lives are falling apart in some other way and they all of a sudden need to deal with their finances and what's going to happen with their kids, so it's an emotionally heightened area of law for her to work in. Her clients are often crying and/or upset, so it becomes difficult to deal with that as a lawyer not only dealing with companies and their assets, but she's dealing with real people and their lives.
She talked about the importance of being able to separate her feelings from her clients so she can remain objective in times of emotional turmoil for her clients. When asked what is something a lot of people would not know about being a family lawyer, she said it requires her not only to be a lawyer, but also in a way to have a high level of emotional intelligence and almost step into the role of a counselor. "So most people probably don't know the level of reliance a client will place on me or any other family lawyer, and it is quite difficult to remain objective and ensure that I'm really assisting in the capacity only as a lawyer and not as a social worker, and to really separate my emotions from those of my clients because that's the best way I assist my clients by being able to remain objective."
This was not a quick shoot, so it was pretty amazing how she didn't go into much detail about her personal life, as most of our conversation was based around her work life, my work life, and pretty much anything else that had nothing to do with what she does away from her office, such as her own family life, her friends, or what she likes to do for fun when she isn't working, other than to say that she's never had anyone who wanted to pay attention to her feet before, and being that I was the first person (and a complete stranger at that) who asked if I can look at her feet and take pictures of them made her say yes because it's "different" and it made her feel flattered. She didn't delve into her personal life, all the while being a friendly person by her calm demeanor and letting me take as much time as I needed for this shoot, being very helpful to me.
SANDRA ATTORNEY -- Click Here SIZE 11 (U.S. - Canada), 43.5 (EUR0), 9 (U.K.)
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This visitor from Chile reminds me of an ex girlfriend I had based on the way she looks, although that ex of mine was not Chilean nor anywhere else from South America. It wasn't until I was done organizing this gallerie that I realized the resemblance. I don't know why I wasn't able to catch on to that during the shoot. I don't remember the size of this woman's feet, but my ex's were smaller than hers.
This woman does not speak English. However, I can speak Spanish, and we were able to get along just fine for the shoot knowing there wasn't going to be any guesswork on her part because the conversation can flow smoothly. The I Love NY t-shirt was the reason I stopped her more than anything else.
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Before this woman, I have never met anyone who has been in an earthquake before. But she has. She talked about how the noise was overwhelming, to the point that it confused her entirely. She had no idea where the noise was coming from and she was disoriented. For the most part, instincts and adrenaline kicked in. "Don't worry about whether you'll do the right thing when a quake hits," she said in Spanish, "because, providing you've done a few earthquake drills, your body will kick into gear before you brain does." While the shaking was terrifying for her, the actual fear did not start until the ordeal is over. "While it's shaking, you don't have time to be afraid - you think with instinct, not with emotion. The emotion does come though, especially when you can't contact your family. I don't know if this is the same for everyone, but for me, the fear for your friends and family was far more traumatizing than the actual earthquake." There were other things we talked about, but that was something which stuck out to me.
This wasn't a long shoot, but it was very nice talking to her in the time we did have together.
ISADORA GARCIA -- Click Here Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
The creative path I get into follows the inspiration and creativity I get from music, believe it or not. I listen to how a solo artist, a band, or a DJ has evolved in his style over the course of the years, and become taken aback to how they they were able to conjure up the creativity to put together new sounds or twists to their music.
That inspires me to look for something different to change the ways my work is presented. It makes me kind of, in my own brain, filter it into figuring out ways to add elements to my work that twists the narrative a bit. With the shoot I had with Nikki Brianna was what started this new evolution, and it carried over into the quintessential masterpiece I had with Aimee Young.
Particularly with Aimee, we were going with whatever the tension and emotions were telling us in which we said to ourselves, What in the world - how the hell - how did we just come up with that?
Since the early days of me doing this, I tried to look for ways to incorporate different aspects into my work because it keeps things interesting for me as someone who is having all the fun in the world out there, meeting new women completely randomly, and having them take their shoes and socks for me right there on the spot, where the conditions of their feet are always guaranteed fresh.
I am in a fantastic place personally. Life is short, and I'm completely happy now that we're in the Natural Evolution Era. People are feeling it, and I can't wait to see how people react to the sets I have plans on showing in the times to come. Trying new things and keeping it "Natural Park", you know what I mean?
So I'm excited about this. And then I'm done.
The Natural Evolution continues later this week.
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Nice updates, Nat.. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATIONAL LIFESTYLE - ADVICE A common test I get when I approach these women is, "Do you do this the whole time?" or "How many girls have you stopped today?"
Let's take "Do you do this the whole time" as the thing. It's a test to see if I'm a player, but also to see if I'm going to shrink back into my shell. If you tell them you never do this and you act defensive, your goose is cooked, for a lack of a better term, because you're acting defensive and she's going to understand that you really don't get it, that you don't understand that the more action you get from girls, the more girls will want you. Inherently, you blow yourself out with your own sort of showing how you lack the understandings of male-to-female dynamics.
If a girl asks if I do this a lot or if I approach lots of girls in Central Park or whatever, I respond - with the emphasis on how I'm saying it - is, "What, me? Never." I'm not saying it in a serious tone. It's said more in a sarcastic way, as if to imply the opposite of it actually means. So now she's thinking, This guy's being an asshole. So, yes, I'm denying it ... but I'm denying it in a cheeky, playful-like tone as if to say, "You know I'm a bit of a scumbag," sort of routine. So it's communicating that feeling. Remember: girls focus on communicating feelings and vibes, and NOT on logical information like us men do. So again, it's, "What, me? Never." I say it with a cheeky grin and maybe I look her up and down and she may think I'm an asshole, which is fine. Why? Because she's then going to think, Yeah, you do this the whole time but I'm not going to hold it against you. You can think about that on a day-to-day context as well, not just for going foot hunting in the park.
Something else that has happened to me from time to time during the shoots is the women want to know if I go on lots of dates or they accuse me of being a player. Again, I'm denying it, but I'm denying it by saying it in a way which is communicating, You know that I am, so let's have fun with it.
What also happens from time to time during the shoot is she asks how many dates I've been on this week. I'll say, "I don't know what you're talking about. I'm basically a monk coming back from the monastery, seven years in Tibet." Again, I look her up and down or maybe I get caught looking at her chest and feet, or lean in a bit and then lean back. So the vibe is cocky-player guy who is basically getting his dick sucked left and right.
So I say go with an almost logical answer that also communicates the vibe of, You know what's happening here 'cause you know I'm a player, sort of thing.
When you say you don't do this often, you're not being defensive. Instead you're communicating, "Me? Never," as if to say, You know I do, but I don't give a fuck because I'm owing it. I'm owning the fact that I know what the gambit is. So it's not what you say, it's how you say it. Are you delivering this in a playful, fun, captivating way? I'm telling you because she's mapping out how you are coming across by the sound of your voice, your congruency, how you're owning your words, and your general playfulness.
If you're saying the best lines in the world in a tone that's too serious, with no emotion, or feeling nervous, it doesn't matter what you say, it doesn't matter if it was designed by Brad Pitt, you're still not going to communicate to her what you want to be communicating.
This is about delivering the information via the tone of your voice and the sub-communication of what you're saying because those are vastly important.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATIONAL LIFESTYLE - STYLE
Sunglasses accounts for a portion of my success with the lades. You want to wear frames. When you wear frames, it structures your face and it's an added accessory that levels up your style without putting a lot of effort, and that's a double win! Also, they're in trend for the summer season. More importantly, they protect you from the sun's rays and they'll protect you from any fine lines or wrinkles around your eyes.
Many of the snap judgments we form about people come from looking them in the eyes; if you shade yours, you're instantly a more intriguing presence. The eyes are a tremendous source of information - and vulnerability - for you. Eye contact helps us form judgments about someone's intelligence, confidence, and sincerity, and sunglasses keep us literally in the dark about forming those perceptions about a person. And it works both ways, because the wearer of the frames feels more inscrutable, too. People who wear sunglasses act more selfishly than those wearing eyeglasses, which, one can argue, suggests that shades delude us into feeling more anonymous, or unknown.
On top of that, frames give you that mysterious vibe to women because they are going to want to know what's behind the view and they want to know more about the guy. It's colloquial wisdom that an air of mystery increases sexual desire. Think of the common "the thrill is gone" complaint that accompanies the long-term relationship, for one. And women who are uncertain of a man's feelings toward them end up becoming more attraction to those men. It's essentially the plot of many romantic-comedy movies women love to watch: They're drawn to the people they can't quite figure out. When you wear frames, they give you that mysterious, almost bad-boy aesthetics you want, which is another win and why you'll look extra hot.
quote:Originally posted by National: I am in a fantastic place personally. Life is short, and I'm completely happy now that we're in the Natural Evolution Era. People are feeling it, and I can't wait to see how people react to the sets I have plans on showing in the times to come. Trying new things and keeping it "Natural Park", you know what I mean?
So I'm excited about this. And then I'm done.
The Natural Evolution continues later this week.
National, so glad to hear of your content and happy state of mind. I like to hear of people in a great place in their life, especially people that are generous, creative and inspiring, which you are. And I appreciate you.
Me, I never seem to be completely content with my life, even though most people looking in on my life would shake their head and think, “what more could he want?” I have a pretty good life, by any objective measure. Still, I fear that I will never be truly, wholly content. Not looking for sympathy, here, just expressing a little envy. I am a little envious of your confidence and success in Central Park, but mostly I am appreciative!
Peace out!
PS. Isadora, no show size? I’m guessing 7.5?
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
@Icarus ...
Thanks for taking the time to put that comment in your post. And I'm also thankful to hear that I'm a source of inspiration for you. What is it about my work that gives you a positive influence? Comments like the one you left make me slow down a bit and reflect on the impact I'm having on many individuals, and it makes me go back and relive the shoots I have stored in my memory, and I realize just how fast time can fly sometimes, even though I've met so many wonderful women in the process.
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Real quick here on being content. I want you to remember that you can't ever go back and undo that action of the past. On a similar note, you cannot go into future and make the things happen now. The only place where you can act from is the present.
If you have to make your past good and the future better, you have to focus and work on your present. The principle itself is self-fulfilling. If you make your present better and have a look back, then you will see a better past. Also, if you live your present well, the well lived present will set the layout or background for a better future anyway.
This may not fit your situation in all aspects, but that's just my general take as someone who's throwing darts at a wall just to see what sticks.
I don't want to delve in this too much because that's a personal matter for you.
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Thanks for your appreciation. As you know, I do this as a public service. It feels great to share all of this with people.
I don't remember Isadora's shoe size, unfortunately.
*Addressed to everyone* It should be known that this will be my final week in posting photos before I go on my summer hiatus. Enjoy the rest of the photos I have in store for everyone before the week is over. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
At 6'2'' tall (188 cm), and weighing 194 lbs (88 kg), Niene Doornveld (first name pronounced knee•neh) is tall, healthy, competitive, athletic, and strong. She does competitive swimming, plays volleyball (the indoor version on the gym floor) and enjoys spending hours at a time going on hiking trails.
One time she rented a bike for about 6 hours and had a wonderful afternoon on one of her hiking missions, stopping near the lighthouse for hot chocolate and to warm up her toes. It was hovering near 5 degrees (Fahrenheit) during her stay. While riding the bike kept her warm, knowing she had a couple of options to stop - even on a quiet winter day - made all the difference. On another hiking stint, this time on a summer day, the walk seemed a little bit more confusing to her and she ended up doing a much longer hike than expected. She had to take off her boots and socks to rest her feet a couple of times during that particular adventure. A real lover of nature, she is.
This is a woman who strives on living a healthy lifestyle. She gets outside more, eats better, drinks less, and tries to maintain the version of herself she's been striving for been searching for since her adolescent years.
Neine began doing short hikes every now and then, and she was hooked before she knew it. She started obsessing over hiking (and still does!), searching for places online, reading hiking books, and soon enough she was hiking every so often.
She adds fitness to the equation. Not necessarily just because of fitness, hiking, or eating healthy, but because the combination of all those things together have created something inside of her she had been lacking: confidence. That means to actually set reachable goals for herself, to stand up to herself in order to work hard for what she wants.
Never did she imagined that she could quiet the negative self talk in her head when she started getting into hiking, but it's only a whisper now. Finding her confidence, finding a love for herself, she can't help but see all these small steps she's taking have turned into leaps.
Ms. Doornveld bought a new mountain bike recently and learned that "women's bikes" basically are not for women like her. She ended up buying a men's large - and when she talked to the bike guy on the phone (before he saw her), he warned her that a men's large would definitely be too big for her. It turned out that particular men's bike was a perfect match for her.
In another episode (this time in Germany), Neine hiked on a trail, going 1600 ft in elevation in just under a mile, climbing in some sections with her hands, and leaning into the side of the hill as to not slip down the side. Her legs were burning, her calves tightening; and her mind kept wanting her to give up, but she kept looking a few feet ahead. She took breaks when she needed, took slow controlled steps, and tried not to look back. When she finally made it to the top, she couldn't help but laugh because she was standing atop a rocky ridge, with a 360 degree view of a river, and with 300-500 foot drops all around her. But she wasn't scared anymore. She pushed herself and she came out thriving! She worked hard for that hike, for herself, and now she takes that same approach to the rest of her life.
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LET'S GET PHYSICAL, PHYSICAL There's another side to Doornveld I thought you'd be interested in. It certainly caught my interest.
She loves to wrestle. I know this because she told me during the last quarter of the shoot. By 'wrestle' I don't mean in the ring or on a mat in a gym, as I thought it was originally because she's athletic in other facets of her life. Instead, she was talking about when she's being intimate with a man.
She waited to see if I thought that was weird. I reminded her that we were having this shoot, the she knew I liked her feet, and that I wouldn't have approached her and said "Hi" if I thought you she didn't interest me. She nodded. I went on to say that she should feel embarrassed to admit something about herself that makes her the person she is. Because if she was kind enough to let me see her feet, then I would love to hear what it was she was into. She took a deep breath. I could tell the weight has been lifted off her shoulders because she could express herself without being judged negatively.
With her daily activities of going to the gym, riding her big and heavy bicycle through the terrains, sports, and voyage she undertakes when she goes hiking, those physical activities makes her want to let it all out in an intimate physical way. Her drive to stay competitive is that strong. I had to put the camera down so I could pay closer attention to her and to assist her in building this newfound tension. Besides, I was just about to wrap up the shoot, so I had gotten everything I needed from her from the shoot.
She loves not knowing what could happen next, and giving the man the choice to make it rough, or to be gentle and intimate. A definite turn-on for her. And this is a woman who thinks of herself as a submission specialist (my words, not hers, as I'm paraphrashing that last part for her). Granted, she may want to win some of the times as to mix things up. So she isn't necessarily looking to win every match, if that's what you want to call it, but she definitely won't go down without a fight, "It's hard to be able to completely keep me down, though." So if you can evade her holds by moving faster or with greater agility, she'll respect you. Sometimes she loves to instigate, just to provoke you.
"So, how many days are you in New York before you go back home?" I asked.
She laughed because she got the hint that I was trying to set up this match before she got on that plane. In any event, we knew time was of the essence. So nudged me on the shoulder, a body language cue that she likes me. Her shoulder push was meant to be playful, but she got a little carried away with the force of it. But hey, she looked hot, she's strong, and her feet looked amazing to me, so I let it slide. I don't know, but I loved how she got handsy like that with me...
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The color of her toenail polish looked cute, it shows me cares enough to take special care of them. And her soles are simply fantastic! Add that to the fact that I prefer women with bigger feet, and I was at a place with her that only dreams are made of. Feet that look like my ideal is a reason why I love doing this. If you have a foot fetish, finding feet that match your ideal description makes this hobby all the more worthwhile.
Her feet have done a lot for her, and they're still in fantastic shape! I don't think I have ever seen anyone whose soles looked so clean before.
She would be flattered if you called her an Amazon because, "it's a much better description of who I am - very competitive, physical, and very aggressive; tall and strong - than 'beautiful.'"
[ July 26, 2019, 11:20 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATIONAL LIFESTYLE - DRINKS
Ingredients: - Vodka - Lime - Brown Sugar - Ice
This drink is called the Caiprioska, a traditional Brazilian cocktail. First, slice off both ends of the lime. Cut the lime into eighths, and put those four slices into the glass. Then pour in two teaspoons of brown sugar on top of the lime.
Now it's time to grind the lime and the brown sugar together. The reason you're muddling it is to give you the bright, fresh lime flavor that will come from the peel of the lime when you muddle it in. They will combine forces that will take the place of simple syrup.
You really want to make sure you get all of that juice as you're muddling it. However, don't go too crazy, because if you kill the peel, the drink is going to taste very bitter. Yes, you can muddle it hard, but don't really work your muscles to their fullest capabilities.
When you're done with the muddling, you're going to add the ice (crushed or cubed, depending on your preference), and then you're going to pour in two ounces (or 60 ml) of vodka over the ice.
Finally, you're going to take a spoon, stir the drink, and there you have it.
Drink it along with the ladies, taste it with them, and experience the flavor for yourself.
-National
[ July 26, 2019, 11:59 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC
Anna Softinova is comfortable with being uncomfortable. She finds some satisfaction in it. The only child of artist parents, she's all buoyant energy and unapologetic candor. In her spare time, Anna satisfies herself with quiet pursuits, such as investing her time in creative writing. For years, writing was all she did, and she wasn't sure if she was living to write or writing to live. Anna didn't know if it was a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy and she was doing things just so she could write about them.
She has a habit of finding something new every week. She wanted to start a tie-dyed business because her friend Bianca gave her a tie-dyeing kit, and Anna started to get ideas about wanting to make a million of those. She wanted to be a day trader, and then she wanted to go back to school and become a psychologist. If she keeps it up at that rate, she'll probably become a lawyer in her next life.
Anna is a genuine advocate for animals. She rescues kittens and has been a vegan for as long as she can remember. Just don't grill her on her diet. "A lot of times people ask, 'What do you eat, lettuce? Bunny food?' Then I end up defending myself for something I believe in. So I don't ever tell anybody." The way to her heart? Directness and open body language. If you want to keep up with her, an audacious spirit is a prerequisite.
DON'T PLAY IT COOL At the end of the day, she doesn't have time for games. "When the other person feels they have to put in so much work for your attention, they don't feel like they're worth it. That makes me sad." The same goes for friendship, she advises. Show someone you like, love and care for them. And always text back!
HER ULTIMATE GOAL She loves cats. She has one herself, and her dream job is to have her own sanctuary for cats where they would live their lives out there or get adopted, and everything would be donation-based.
HER TAKE ON FEMINISM She thinks many woman say they're feminists only because it's a cool thing to say and not necessarily because they actually are feminists "for real". She wants to know why they can't they just say that they support women in power; that they support women who are comfortable with themselves and their bodies? Anna says it's not just about women, and that it's about people instead. She wonders why those women feel it's necessary to separate themselves?
HER IRRATIONAL FEAR Anna gets nervous about what you might say when you wake up from anesthesia. "What if I say something really fucked up or things I mean deep down inside?" She gets nervous at the idea of her subconscious being set loose.
HER FEET ARE OKAY, THANKS Anna wonders why men make it a big deal to tell their girlfriends about their foot fetish? "The bigger deal you make of something, the bigger deal it becomes and the harder it is to explain why you feel a certain way. Just say, 'Hey, I have a foot fetish.'" She said that no matter how you say it, you will be communicating the same thing.
However, she does advise that confessing to this right when you're about to have sex is probably not the best time to bring it up. She want you to give her time to think it through and to have this talk when you know that she's comfortable and able to leave the area if she's not. "Hopefully she's not that judgmental, but it's good to be prepared."
She was one of those women who I could not let out of my site as soon as I saw her. I would've felt like the biggest loser if I had not said anything to her. I would've rather been rejected by her than to not say anything at all, because at least then that would've told me that it was never meant to be.
She was visiting New York from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her outfit was one of the more casual ones I've ever seen a woman wear for a shoot of mine. Even with that casual style, this turned out to be one of the best shoots I've ever had in my life. Someone who's already in my Top Ten is going to get replaced by this one.
The sole of her left foot was a bit dirty, but that was the result of walking in those flip flops. This shoot was definitely worth the time, worth the effort, and worth the value of enjoyment I had from this.
Imagine being as close to the soles of Anna's soles. I was that close to them, and that seemed all natural to her, as if this was an everyday occurrence, and she was relaxed throughout the whole thing. In fact, I would say that my shoot with Anna Softinova was one of the quietest ones I've ever had. I mean, she talked from time to time, but she was not as talkative as the average woman I come across for these shoots. And that's not a bad thing for me because I love to have my peace when I'm doing a shoot. She had a lot of time on her hands and was one of the most fully cooperative subjects I've ever had, without any question.
Something funny. The jersey soccer jersey Anna Softinova wore says Eurofoot89. I don't know why or how, but I did not notice that being there until we were entered the final quarter of the shoot, about an hour and forty-five minutes in. I really don't know how I did not spot that. I asked her about it, and I forgot what she said. But whatever her answer was, it sounded like she didn't know what it meant herself, if I recall correctly. I love it anyway, because she's European, nice shapely soles to her feet, and she was probably born in 1989 for all I know.
I love everything about this shoot, and I love everything about her name: how it sounds - so feminine. Another true masterpiece. The Russian Beauty, Golden Locks.
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NATURAL CLASSIC Hold on. Before I begin telling this story, let me take a sip of this drink here. I won't tell you a sip of what. I'll let you guess. Is it water? Or is it something a little ... stronger than water? The world may never know.
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This was just before lunchtime on a Sunday. She was on her way home from a morning walk through the park when I spotted her. I had to speed walk a little bit just so I could get to her at the point where the path she was walking and the one I was walking on finally met. I wanted to get her attention head-on. At first she couldn't believe her ears because this is not something a woman is asked to do when a random guy approaches her, wanting to take pictures of her feet, but she wasn't put off by what I said. She seemed very chilled about it, like a cool girlfriend would when being told about this for the first time. Wouldn't it be nice if you told some girl about your feelings or regards of fondness to feet without her telling you that she has to think about it? It would be very nice, actually, and this woman is one of the good ones.
Some point during the shoot, she said I looked like someone a lot girls would want to be around and that she loved my sunglasses, citing those as her reasons for saying yes. So there you have it! And this goes back to what I talked about earlier this week about sunglasses being a great item for you to wear. Whatever a woman's reasons are for saying yes to this, are good enough reasons for me. I liked her reason. She was very succinct about it, which drew us closer to each other. There was a little spark there, and that was her way of saying that she felt it.
This woman reminds me of someone I once knew, but I can't quite put my finger on who. When I say someone I once knew, in this case I don't mean someone I went out with. I was trying to figure if she was someone who went to the same school I did, if she's someone who lived (or lives) in the same neighborhood as I, or if we have (or had) the same friend in common in real life. In other words, nothing to do with Facebook.
Women, being the curious people they are, love to pry for personal details that's in the romantic universe. This woman here was no exception, which I appreciated because she was engaged in the conversation. When I told her about this (about being her reminding me of some other girl I knew), she said, "Maybe I'm that girl you have some unfinished emotional business. No, just kidding!" Just kidding, she said. Okay, so I took that joke. But she and I knew there was a hidden meaning within what she just told me. Perhaps she wanted to be the next girl who finds herself having some "unfinished emotional business" with. I think so. She thought so.
"Do I remind you of an ex?" she asked. "Probably." Like I said, she didn't remind me of an ex. The reason I answered her question like that was to get her to think, to give us more room to play around with each other a bit.
She asked, "So this woman I remind you of: is it good or is it bad?" "I don't know, it just ... is." She didn't know what to make of that. But it got her to think. I have presented myself to her as a bit of a challenge. She wanted to know more about me but she couldn't figure out how. She loved it.
After thinking about for a few seconds, she said, "Well, I hope it's good because I'm really enjoying this so much. Like, thank you, so much! So much better than going home and doing nothing on a Sunday. Anyway, if I remind you of someone, let it come to you. Don't resist it. If it's a pleasant memory - and I hope it is because I enjoy talking to you - then smile and carry on." She found the whole thing interesting in knowing she had a doppelganger. I told her she had nice taste in music (referring to her shirt) and illustrated that with an anecdote.
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The reason behind her name is because she smelled like strawberries. Sweet, but not too sweet. Some girls use too much of whatever, and becomes overpowering; I liked her smell because it was soft. She put a small whisk of fragrance on her neck and arms, and was really nice that way.
This woman had an air of easy unconcern or indifference throughout the entire shoot, and it was quite relaxing for the two of us. She let me move her around any which way I wanted, and she had no objections to any of it. A chilled person, as I mentioned earlier.
I don't know how this happened, but, amazingly, I did not take pictures of her toes. Well, technically, there are a few photos of her in which her toes appear, but there are no shots that would've left no doubt to anyone that I was clearly aiming only for her toes. I didn't realize this until I a few days ago when I was putting this gallerie together.
After the shoot was over, I asked what she was doing afterwards. She said, "nothing." She asked me the same question. And I gave her the same answer.
"You wanna get out of here?" I asked. She nodded.
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Not much of a story here, unfortunately.
I don't mind women with tattoos. However, there's something about a tattoo around the ankle like the one this woman has that leaves me scratching my head. I'm not sure way many women have a tattoo like that - I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean. If anyone knows, please let me know. Aren't they better off wearing an actual bracelet around the ankle? I liked the rest of her, though. I always enjoy the sight of a woman wearing TOMS shoes, as they make me even more curious to see how her feet look when they come out of those shoes. I thought her soles looked wonderful.
Her name is Idea (pronounced ee-deh-ah) and she is of Italian decent. This was a quick shoot as she was on her way to meet up with her boyfriend. She's from Long Island, so she doesn't get to see him as often as she would like being that he lives in the city. Any chance she gets to see him, she takes the opportunity to do so.
Hearing her talk reminded me that she is from Long Island because of her accent. For those not familiar, when you hear someone speak in that accent, the o's sound more like a "awe" or "ough", and an "er" sound more like an "ah". So instead of coffee, you'll hear "coughee (or cawfee)", "chawclate". The word number is heard as "numbah". You'll hear things such as, "I'm a native Noo Yawka," or "Wha'cu tawkin' about - awe you kiddin' me?" things like that, and that's how she sounds like. So this woman is from - tapping into her accent now - Lawn Guyland, like I mentioned before. I told her about how I picked up on her accent, and she thinks people are making this up because she doesn't hear it, saying: "I speak like a naumal (meaning normal) person." Yes, I'm having too much fun with the accent, but it's all out of love, and she understood that during our interaction together.
Her favorite show of all time is The Jersey Shore. She also liked the show Made In Staten Island before that got pulled off. She loves going to Jones Beach, Coney Island, house parties, and spending time with her boyfriend.
It was just a fun little conversation we had - nothing deep or serious. She was generous enough to spare a few minutes of her time, and I was perfectly fine with that.
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I don't remember how I was able to convince this woman to take her shoes off for me because I didn't remember having this shoot at first. But there she was, removing her shoes for me. She wore no socks.
I still don't remember how the approach went, but I as able to regain everything else from my lost memories of this shoot. I even remember telling her to let her hair down, to allow herself to behave much more freely than usual and to enjoy herself.
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I have a thing for tall(er) woman, and this woman stood 6 ft or 6'1''. Her shaded grey white-in tennis shoes was a great blend with the rest of her outfit, casual, relaxed and unconcerned. Women with big feet and long toes are my thing, and this woman had them. Being the only person that day to have been able to see her feet, for as close as she had them to me, for as long as she had them exposed for my eyes to see, was an great feeling to have as I thought about that fact. She was on her feet all day, and she was certainly more than happy to give them a rest for me.
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She's a veterinarian at a veterinary hospital here in New York City and she treats dogs and cats. On a daily basis, she sees pets that are either sick or injured and she's trying to help them back to normal. She also sees well animals and she's trying to keep them well, so she'll see them for routine tests to make sure they don't have problems.
She needs to have patience because the animals don't understand why she has to look in their ears, listen to them, take blood samples, or something quite different. She'll see them for routine vaccinations to make sure they don't have problems. It's also important for her to have pretty good people skills because for every animal that comes in, there will also be an owner.
As an animal doctor, what she does pretty much turns into a juggling act because she could be seeing a new patient every 30 minutes. She can have days that are just go, go, go, where she doesn't even sit down or get to eat lunch. There are other days where she has some openings when she can sit down and rest.
Karen has to be able to think on her feet, and be great multi-tasker. I mentioned about having good people skills or a great communicator is paramount to her job. That can also be a double edged sword for her because that's where the stress can also come in. Some clients can be very emotional (understandably), and that can be when their emotions can be directed at her in a very hostile manner, or in a manner of blame if things don't turn out the way everyone wants it. Kind of closely associated with that would be the finances.
She has to deal directly with costs of everything. It's Karen's impression that in other health fields, there's someone else between the bill and the patient, and in veterinary medicine, it's her with everything. She hates dealing with money, but that's what she has to do.
A large part of what she does is also delivering very bad news, end-of-life discussions, terminal illnesses. But at the same time, after they go through with the euthanasia, Karen has to be able to turn around, put a smile on her face again, and then go meet a new client and a new puppy and start all over again.
The nest part of her day is getting to meet three or four new puppies and kitties and form a bond with them.
Karen decided to become a veterinarian because she never she never had a dog when she was growing up; she had a cat. It was because she never had a dog that she wanted to have the opportunity to pet them when they visit her office and to make sure that she treats them with special care, to make sure everything will be okay. Another reason she wanted to do this was because animal cruelty is a very sensitive topic for her, and wants to feel like she can have a say in the issue to make sure she is directly responsible for helping these animals get back on track after the traumatic experiences they've gone through in their times of being tortured and mistreated.
If you are a lover of cats and dogs, she could make space for you to be a part of her life. She's looking for a man who has soft spot for cats, dogs, and rabbits too.
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I gave her this name because of her hair color, the color of one sock being different than the other, the way the gift she had beside her was wrapped (it was my impression she was going to give it someone and not the possibility that someone gave it to her), and the impression I got from her that she was one of those people who does not pay much attention to what is happening around them or that their head is filled with unrealistic expectations, fantasies and daydreams. If it's not that, and she does know what's going on around her, then she doesn't care because she's in her own element.
I think she was spending the afternoon in the park rehearsing her lines for an up-coming play, a stage presentation.
The shoot was pretty short, and I was appreciative of how well kept her toenails were.
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This might've been on a Wednesday afternoon and it was a bit chilly that day.
She was kind of hidden from view and I almost missed her. It seemed like she was sitting there for a long time, at a spot where she didn't want to be seen. Being that I'm a great explorer in Central Park, she was discovered, found unexpectedly in a course of a search. It was after classes were over and she wanted to kill some time in the park instead of going straight home where she lives with her parents.
I don't know this for a fact, but I suspect her ancestry has a lineage that takes her family back to the south eastern portion of Europe where you'll find the countries such as Serbia, Albania, or a Sarajevo in Bosnia. It didn't occur to me to ask her, and it wasn't until I started to organize this gallerie that it hit me that that may have been the case. The reason for me believing that is because she reminds me of my former classmate's sister whose family or ethnic descent is from that part of the world. They look practically identical when I compare one to the other.
She has long black hair that looks like it doesn't want to get its act together, even though she brushes it every day. I like that about her. Her eyes are special. I don't remember another time in which the woman I shot had blue eyes, especially as blue as the sky or ocean. Beautiful, yet simple, asking for advice, begging for attention. When you look deep into them, no matter how saddened you're with this reality, a sudden feeling of calmness takes over you. The aloofness, the feeling of being caged goes away at the speed of the light. You're at a loss for words. Your bad days gets replaced with purity. I wasn't having a bad day, but looking at them up close and in person, the mood became much calmer for me, and I was able to slow down with the shoot, and the scene became so quiet. I love shoot that are so quiet.
Her eyebrows, her prominent feature. Meticulous, thick and still-dark. Ferocious huge. Nicest and luxurious.
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The Addidas on her feet, she bought them because they reminded her of her soccer days when she was younger. For a long time she thought about buying them, but finally gave in because she really missed the comfort of the shoe and the nostalgia it brought. She heard they ran large these days, so she bought them a half size smaller than she usually would and they fit well. They are comfortable and go with pretty much everything she wears. They started molding to her feet after only a couple of wears, which she loved, telling me how that makes it feel like they were made for her. She loves how they look, and the more she wears them the more comfortable they become.
I like how looked at me when she took them off, especially considering that I never told her to look at the camera as she was doing so. She just did that on her own. And I never had anyone be so proud of their age when they tell me how old they are like this woman did. "I'm nineteen!," she said with great joy and enthusiasm.
This was one of those shoots I wished could've gone longer, but I knew going into it that she was running a bit late in meeting up with some friends for dinner at some restaurant not too far from Central Park, which helped explain why she was walking a bit fast to begin with. We walked towards each other and I knew I needed to act fast if I wanted to get her attention. One look at her and I knew instantly that I wanted her to pose for me. And I appreciate her for extending her lateness for just a bit longer to do this impromptu shoot with me. She wanted to use this moment to give her friends something to talk about about over dinner, she told me.
This is a woman who combs and brushes her hair everyday and the hair always cooperates with her. That's what I like about her. There are not enough "o's" in the work smooth to describe how silky smooth and silky her skin is.
Her name is Jessica, but she wishes it was Heather, which is funny to think about because considering how hot she is, the first four letter to that name is spelled heat. So what I'll do here - which is something I like to do, and something I've done every once in a while - is I'll use two first names as a full name to introduce someone.
NATURAL CLASSIC It was getting close to that time for me to leave the park and call it a day. Just when I was beginning to think that I wasn't going to find anyone to pose for me, I came across someone who looked like my kind of girl. She was sitting on top of a rock reading something from her tablet and her boots and socks were already off. I thought it was pretty cool for her to do that on her own, being that she felt that was the thing to do to make herself feel like she's at a home away from home. I made the climb to get to the top of this rock just to get a closer/better look at her face before I decided if it was a good idea to start talking to her. She looked up at me before I could say anything and she looked adorable, inspiring great affection. It looked as if she wanted to help me even though she didn't know why it was that I walked up beside her. She probably thought I was lost and felt a bit concerned about me. That was what I was able to read from her eyes. I'll never forgot that look, and that won me over.
"I noticed you weren't wearing your boots. Can I take pictures of your feet?" "Um ... okay. I've had anyone come up to me and just ask a question like that. Why? Are feet something you like?"
That's when I sat down and got close to her. "They must be - otherwise I wouldn't ask. You like them well enough to want to remove them from your boots, and I like them well enough to want to take some photos. I like how your toes look. Not a lot of women can pull off the natural look without the polish, and yours are exceptional."
"Exceptional? I don't think I've ever had a man use that word to describe me. You've already won me over and I'm sold! Sure, my feet are all yours. Are you, like, a relationship expert or something?" "Probably. There may be copies of my book in Barnes & Noble. How did this go from asking to take pictures of your pretty feet to you asking me if I invented relationships in less than a minute?" I wasn't being all too serious when I spoke, with the inflection in my tone of voice that I'm being playful with her. All in an effort to put her at ease, which didn't take much effort.
She blushed, though, when she heard me say "pretty feet" do describe hers. She was looking for words as she answered, "I don't know. I would think that asking a woman who don't know to see her feet and take pictures of them would be ... daunting, I guess. But you said to me as if it was nothing. You made it sound like I was in your novel or something, which felt flattering, I must admit. A man who knows what he wants (in reference to her and her feet) and is not ashamed of it, to put it in a nutshell. That's why I asked."
"Your shirt. It says 'Awesome,'" I pointed out, changing the topic. "I'm just a girl who feels awesome today. I just love how that feels. I know I'm awesome. Even if my day is shitty, I'll be awesome in the end."
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Her name is Betsy. Born and raised in New York City and has never lived anywhere else in her life. She has an emanation surrounding her body that is an essential part of what makes her uniquely herself. It certainly felt that she truly believed she was awesome because she knew how to push my buttons and to attract me artfully, adroitly by arousing hope or desire. I felt it and it was strong. And I loved it! She enjoyed it just as much because I was able to pique her interest in my from the very beginning, which made her evening a lot more interesting all of a sudden.
At the same time, even though she knew how to offer pleasure, she can just as easily lower her guard and become all giggly and smiles like a little girl who's happy about something. You can see her showing her confidence in some of these photos, and you will see her smiling and blushing in others because the butterflies in her stomach made her feel tingly inside. That smile in that photo was the first time she felt that good in that day. Simple adorable. Those two different emotions - the assertive pleasure and the feeling, the showing of happiness - make it not seem like she's the same woman, but she is that dynamically wonderful.
Those poses towards the end. She was no longer interested in whatever she was reading and she gave me her undivided attention. She was someone who easily allowed me to massage her feet. She allowed me to press them against my face. If anyone in here believes in heaven, then you must have an idea of what that was like for me. And just to fuck with her, I tried to tickle her in the ribs area. She kept laughing just at the threat of being tickled there. I loved seeing how she goes to being all childish-like after luring me with that demeanor of sex appeal like she was going to rule a kingdom.
OTHER THINGS THAT MAKE BETSY AWESOME
- She'll like the same shows as you do. Even if that means watching professional wrestling or UFC with you at a bar on a Saturday night as your date. She doesn't need to know who the performance fighters are by name, but she'll like it enough to make you like it (and her) even more. I should know.
- She likes to tell you stories in a funny or sarcastic way without boring you to death with a million details. - She loves baking cupcakes like the cute 'lil girl she is! - She's not just "some pretty girl," but a "REAL PERSON." She isn't both!
HER FEET ARE JUST ... It's feet that look like hers that made me glad I went to the park on a given day. When I imagine going to Central Park, I imagine coming across feet that in which I that will give me something to think about and something to remember by for a long time to come. A pair of feet that makes me think it'll hard to top Betsy's kind - and I've found that in Betsy. Her toes and soles of her feet are simply amazing to me!
Her feet are healthy, free from scars and deformity. The bones, tendons, and veins are visible through the skin, and they ripple and articulate as her feet moves. The toes are long, straight, and slender. Her toenails are the shapes of tiny television screens. They are large in relation to the size of the toes, centrally and symmetrically straight. Her soles are amazing as well, fitting my definition of why I have a foot fetish in the first place. I love the shape to them.
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A young woman from San Diego, California. She was in New York to visit a good friend who moved to New York almost a year prior. She was walking through the park and I had to catch up to her to get her attention. She had no qualms about letting me take photos of her feet. All of this was handled in a way as she said yes to me asking her to go to the library with me. It was all good with her.
She was glad she had washed her socks with Tide in the washing machine a week or so before, wearing them for the first time since that wash. She said without actually saying it that she would not have gone through with the shoot had they (meaning the socks) had not gone through the washing machine. Her socks looked cleaner than any other pair I've seen a woman remove from her feet, so I guess she was right all along. And she removed them without any struggling, suggesting that her feet were not sweaty.
I don't remember much about what we talked about, but I got the sense that she's someone who has a lot of people who think the world of her: as someone who is pretty chill, pretty level headed, someone who doesn't go looking for trouble, someone who you could have a pretty decent afternoon with while being outside on a typical beautiful day in San Diego.
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NATURAL CLASSIC I associate this shoot with the smell of autumn more than any other shoot I've had in that season. This was one of those spring in autumn days where the day's temperature was warmer than it had any business being. That really brought out the pure smell of the autumn season and why people enjoy it so much. It can be described as pleasant harvest type. Perhaps it was a cloud of pumpkin spice wafting through the breeze. It was the dying leaves "exhaling" all sorts of gases that gave off the smell of pine. It was rich and it was one of the more pleasant walks I've ever taking through the park.
I say that as if I was taking a long walk, but it wasn't that long after I arrived to the park when I spotted this woman walking by. She was probably lost in the moment of how the trees, grass, and leaves smelled of the beautiful reminder that autumn was in full swing. It was forty degrees Fahrenheit the day before and it was going to be just above 60 on the day this shoot took place. That change in climate was what brought me to the park. Otherwise, I would've stayed in my house that morning and I would've never met the lady we're about to see.
I remember the sound of leaves crunching underneath her boots as we were walking towards the spot where we had the shoot. Her feet are pillow-y soft. They were moist as soon as her socks were removed, setting her soles and toes free. I felt the concentration of water vapor that was present in the air in the immediate surroundings of her feet. The moisture, ... the moisture, making her feet so soft. Those boots were made for the cold to keep her feet warm.
This was just after 11:00 on a Saturday morning. The sight of her soles, and knowing they belonged to this wonderful person made my day a lot more splendid.
Her name is Allison Dawson. She lives with her fiancé, is 27 years old and she's a women and children float nurse and a sexual assault forensic examiner at a hospital in Houston, Texas.
She clocks in at 7:30 in the morning. On a given morning, when she's on labor and delivery, she'll get to work about twenty minutes early, gets a set of scrubs, gets changed, then she picks a patient. At 7:30, they do a change of shift sign out. The residents, anesthesia team, nurses, they go over every patient who's on board that morning and go though what part of the labor or postpartum phase they're in, if they're recovering or if they're a labor patient who's going to the OR (operating room).
Dawson starts the day by checking her orders to see what's going on with the patient. If that person is due for medications in the morning, she does that. Her team will go to the bedside and talk about the patients in front of them (going over their age, histories, allergies, etc.).
Some shifts are going to be "OK" for her where she gets a nice break, sits down and converse with colleagues, making new friends at work. Other days she's just so busy that she doesn't have time to sit down for two seconds. In that case, she'll pack her carrots, grapes, throw grapes in her mouth and she runs back to her patient.
Her shifts starts at 7:30 a.m. and ends at 8 p.m. Sometimes if the unit is short, she could be one of those people who'll offer to stay later. The maximum amount she can work in a day is sixteen hours, which would mean that the shift ends at 11 p.m. Allison works thirteen shifts a month, three to four shifts per week. And she has to do three weekend shifts for good measure.
It wasn't that long ago that Allison got promoted staff nurse to senior staff, which was a rewarding moment for her because she was being recognized for the hard work and dedication she put in to her job (and it also doesn't hurt that her promotion meant she got a bump in her hourly rate).
Allison went straight from high school to undergrad, she went to Texas Tech University. She has - if memory serves correct - her bachelor's of science in nursing. She's getting her masters right now. "I want to say my masters degree costs me about ... many thousands of dollars. The loans are real, and that's something no one really prepares you for. But nursing is such a great job. There are loan reimbursement programs. Jobs that help people go back to school." The hospital she works in has helped her fund a lot of her master's degree.
She tells me that the most rewarding part of her job is patients, creating rapport with them, especially in her area of labor and delivery because it gives her a sense that she's fostering a family. Even in unfortunate circumstances when it's not such a positive experience. Families who are losing children are terrifying for her. So Allison and her team do whatever is necessary to help get things back on the right track and make things right for the families involved.
The most humbling moments happen when she's having a bad day at work. When she gets back home from those type of days, she opens her nursing box that she stores in her closet. She has letters from patients, copies of sonograms. She goes through those things to remind herself that she was such a critical part of their lives and how much they appreciated her assistance. It's quite touching for her.
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NATURAL CLASSIC I had a lot of fun with this shoot. She has a style in which her hairstyle, her outfit tells you she's pretty kick-ass woman, pretty cool, and can be open to an idea of doing something crazy and fun in a spur of the moment. Getting to know this woman, I was able to find out that she was indeed all of those things that ran through my mind when forming my first impressions of her. Also, she has a soft demeanor of gentle-fine femininity inside her that comes out when she speaks. Sometimes I felt as if I wanted to be that person who wanted to guard her so that her softness of female coziness stayed intact. When I judged her by her outward appearance, I thought I was going to be in for a crazy ride. It was crazy in its innocent-fun kind of way. When I had the moment in my favor to have actually gotten to know her, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that she is one of the more gentle women I've met in all of my times in Central Park.
Kindness goes a long way these days because more and more people are just out there for themselves and wouldn't hesitate to hurt you for personal gain, so the truly kind people really leave an impression and are appreciated. Such as the case with this lady. She knows it's important not to be so kind that people take advantage of her, which has happen to her more times than she would like to remember. Many people see kindness as a way to exploit her so she just has to know when to tell them not to mistake her kindness for weakness. When you think about it, that only makes her kindness more admirable, valuable and necessary.
At the core of her inner being, she knows who she is as a person - what makes her (thoughts, ideas, dreams, goals, how she identifies, what groups she sees herself most like, family group, friends, appearance) unique and then having the confidence to be that person no matter who she interacts with or what challenges she faces.
Whatever her ambitions or who she is, treating others well and having faith in herself are good starts. The rest is figuring out the path that is for her. And she's having a good time in her journey through life.
She is Russian and has lived in NYC for a little over a year. Her English is not quite there, but I understood more than enough of what her life story is to be able to have a pretty nice conversation with her. I love that. It made the two of us want to know each other a little more. A gentle voice, too, she has.
For her to walk in those shoes for as long as she had that day must've grown a bit tiresome for her, I figured. When I introduced myself to her and told her I wanted to take photos of her feet, she was more than welcomed to because her feet "were getting tired" in her shoes. I was not surprised to hear that and yet I was happy to hear that. When you do this for as long as I have, you become a psychic like that.
What was awesome about the soles of her feet was the presence of a little bit of dirt that got acquainted to them, along with the places they called home, being stuck in between her toes. All of the result emanating from the sweat her feet produced being trapped in those shoes for hours at a time without her socks. She rarely paints her toenails and she was glad she didn't that day because, "it's better for you (meaning me) to see me like how I really am, and not something I'm almost ever not." Verbatim. Something about how she said it and worded it sounded unusually beautiful. I wanted her to give me a hug and she did.
The shoot itself was wonderful. She loved how the sun felt on her skin. She must've known her feet were going to be as dirty as they were. Yet, she didn't mind her feet being in that condition when it was presented to all real, raw, genuine and as-is. She knew I was comfortable with myself and she responded to me in kind by showing me her real self, unfiltered.
It was so much fun massaging her feet and smelling them about midway through the shoot. Removing the lovely dirty with my thumb as I was working away at the softness of her feet felt pretty nice. She said pretty much nothing during the massage and just enjoyed the moment, out in public and broad daylight. She became more relaxed for the remainder of the shoot and she took a liking to me a bit. With her openness to let me smell her feet, that put me in a world away from earth and I took a liking to her as well.
At the end, she fell asleep when she lied town. She covered her face with her coat so as not to let the sun burn her face. What was adorable was when she told me not to leave her there as she's sleeping and to stay with her. So I stayed with her and watched her sleep and lied down next to her on the rock. She didn't want to be alone and I was more than happy to keep her company.
[ October 27, 2019, 07:29 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
"It was so much fun massaging her feet and smelling them ... With her openness to let me smell her feet" ...
[ November 28, 2019, 04:26 PM: Message edited by: aka.footjoyboy ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Only in the Natural Evolution Era will you get to see a photo shoot that takes place when it's dark outside. I sometimes wondered what it would be like approaching a woman in Central Park when it's dark. I've had a woman say no to me precisely because it was getting dark. And I understood why she felt that way. In Central Park, it becomes deserted after the sun sets and some spots are more well lit than others. The Natural Evolution Era is about trying new things I haven't done before.
There have been women who accepted the idea of having their photos taken, even when it's very dark outside.
Marie-Christine Brunelle is her name. A French woman. We communicated real well together and she became very comfortable with me and how the shoot was going when we sensed we were finally in groove with one another. It was a cozy shoot that also made me also realize how my artistic vision can have new elements to my shoots when the moon is cooling down on both the subject and myself. I behave differently, I see things differently, the women become very relaxed, protected and they feel a wave of confidence coming out from within that may not have been there before I walked up to them.
Walking through the streets of New York City can be a hike in and of itself. Combine that with spending a couple of hours in Central Park like she has before finding herself in an impromtu shoot, and her shoes are living up to its use. She was wearing some type of hiking shoes from a brand I've never of before. Yet, they were very light weight. Her backpack was some weight to it and she had to carry whatever was in there with her all day during physical effort. She wore those shoes because they get lighter and lighter to ensure freedom of movement. She certainly didn't mind to give her feet its long-awaited rest they deserved. The cool breeze from the night sky that swept by her bare exposed feet helped put her at ease.
Just to sidetrack for a bit, our lady friend here works at a baker/coffee shop where she's from. Halfway through her day, she's on her lunch break (or breakfast break since it's only 9:30 in the morning when that typically happens for her). What she has for breakfast is (separate, but all on the same plate) avocado toast, scrambled eggs, some veggies, zucchini bread, and vanilla mint tea as her drink. Not too much goes on, but it's an easy-fun job for her.
From the time we spent together, it was pretty easy to tell that Marie is very easy to be with. You can talk to her easily, and she's very friendly. She always thinks about other people when she does something or talks to someone. She likes giving things to people. Marie-Christine is good fun. But perhaps sometimes she can get annoying when she feels it's called for because, "sometimes I need to be serious." Understandable. It was a great thing I was able to catch her when she was in her one of her more usual good moods, because whatever the opposite of annoying is, Marie-Christine was that during our time together for this shoot.
Marie-Christine's feet felt pretty nice and I thought they were pretty cute. She talked about the floral design on her tank top for a minute or so. I wasn't sure why since I didn't say anything that would get her to go into details about it. Probably to get me to see her in a positive light. She's a small woman and it was very easy to please her, and she enjoyed that feeling. She let me play with her hair. She found joy and acceptance in that.
This shoot went for an hour and ten minutes. Considering it was also very quiet in the park at that time, it made that part feel as if we were the only two people in the park. It was nice, just me and her.
MARIE-CHRISTINE BRUNELLE -- Click Here SIZE 6 (U.S. - Canada), 36 (EUR), 3.5 (U.K.)
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Sweet!
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Nice!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
^^^ Thanks. I love that shot as well. It was hard to see what was in front of me when it was as dark as at that time. It was fantastic that it came out the way it did.
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy: It was so much fun massaging her feet and smelling them ... With her openness to let me smell her feet ...
Yeah, pretty much.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Sweet!
That's a good word to sum up the type of lady she is. You took the word right out my mouth.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
She's probably not going to be doing body shots at the local sports bar on a Friday night. If she is out partying, it's over a micro-brewed pale ale in the quiet corner of a hole-in-the-wall watering hole in her neighborhood or somewhere else in Manhattan. Other good places to spot Chloe: libraries, bookstores, used bookstores, any other place with books you can think of, craft stores, sitting in the park ... reading a book, or in her living room, watching Netflix again.
In short, Chloe is a brainiac. She's going to know a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff. If women like her sparks an interest in you, you're going to need to study up -- none of that sitting at the coffee shop with an unread copy of some book in your hand, trying to impress someone. She will check to make sure that the spine on the book is cracked and cracked good. She'll likely also ask you to compare two similar books. If you have to resort to Cliff's Notes, do it surreptitiously. "It's like getting a butt implant - I will know you're faking it," Chloe told me. Perhaps she didn't mean that quite literally, but I knew what she meant.
On this day in the Park, however, she was there to pursue her hobby of photography. It's funny to think about just how much she's into reading books because made a decision not too long before to no longer work at some little book store after working there for almost a year and a half.
Chloe wanted me to know a common trait she has with other people who works/ed at that store. And that was she did judge you about pretty much everything, "but I got paid to keep those judgements deep down inside so you would never know. By the way, if you're buying erotica, just be proud of it; don't attempt to hide it between two classics and think that they won't notice it when you bring it up to the counter." Something like that happened to her. All she wanted to do was grab the person gently by the hand and tell him that there was tons of that stuff on the internet for free.
When someone demanded that she go to the back to check if they had a copy of a book, even though that person was told by both her and the computer system that they don't have it, she went to the back and checked Facebook on the phone for three minutes or made a cup of tea. Also, Chloe did not care if you just sat there and read the book for free, saying, "as long as the person wan't an asshole, I didn't care at all. If the person was an asshole, I would convince that person to leave the store by playing the same song on repeat for ages or vacuuming really close to them."
She misses working in the little book store with all her heart. Even though what she described to me what some of her pet peeves were about working in a book store (while also kind of laughing about it as she was looking back on those moments), she counts herself so lucky that she was able to spend so many hours sharing the absolute joy that is books with so many people.
Chloe wanted to do something different but related to what she did before, so she put applications out there and got hired at a publishing company where she currently works. Chloe sounded peaceful throughout the shoot. This whole shoot was peaceful for the two of us. She spoke very calmly throughout the interaction, she enjoyed the quietness of the park, the weather that day, and her salted caramel mocha.
I've never stopped a woman who wore shoes designed by Paul Green until I met Chloe. I liked how his name at the bottom of her shoes was starting to disappear, essentially camouflaging into the rest of the design of the shoe's sole. I like to see the signs of wear and mileage on a lovely lady's shoes like this. It has the look and the element of real life to it that makes a simple and intelligent woman like her relatable to a guy like myself. She's one of the few women I can remember who took her shoes off without having to untie its laces.
She was a bit hesitant at first to participate in this shoot for me. Look, some women won't say yes right away. In those cases, I have to push my pitch just little more to convince them. Just a little bit. And that's how it happened with Chloe. By the end of the whole thing, she felt happy about helping me out.
She's a student at Columbia University in New York City where she attends courses in creative writing. So everything about her life revolves around books. So nice of her to give me a few minutes of her time to give her feet a rest and air a little bit. The thing between the plastic protective cover on her iPhone and the phone itself is something no New Yorker can live without: a MetroCard.
CHLOE LAWSON -- Click Here SIZE 10.5 (U.S. - Canada), 43 (EUR), 8 (U.K.)
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
She looked like a nice lady. Her coat was another thing that caught my attention - so I approached her. I thought she was Canadian based on the word "Canada" printed on the front of that coat. The name of that country caught my attention along with just how red it was, almost as if it was glowing to me, even though it wasn't actually glowing. Her wedge sneakers were awesome as well, as it was a perfect match to her coat in terms of the color and how polished they looked. Aside from my sweetheart, Nancy Vale, the sneakers this woman had on that day may have been the cleanest, most well cared-for pair of footwear I have ever come across in all of my time doing this.
I brought this up with her and she kind of laughed to herself and to my observation and told me she makes it a regular habit of washing her sneakers. She doesn't see the point in people neglecting their shoes by not taking care of them "often" by washing them. She feels that if your sneakers are dirty, then the person's feet may not have the best hygiene and she doesn't want that to happen to her at anytime ever. The thought of that disgusts her. She never wears the same pair of socks more than once unless they go through the washing machine.
I had to smell them for myself. I must say that they smelled like they have never been worn by anyone before. I found that to be remarkable. It was at that moment when it occurred to me that she may be the type of person who always wants things to be very orderly and neat. In her bedroom, everything is put away at all times.
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You can tell from what she had around her neck that it was cold that day. The weather was forecast to be mild that day but it never warmed up. Going into the shoot, I was certain her bare feet was not going to be able to put up with the cold and that it was going to be short shoot as a result. I don't know how she was able to put up with the cold for as long as she did, but she did. All the while, relaxing under whatever little heat the sun provided to her.
She's not Canadian as her coat would have anyone believe. Instead she's from Colorado. Her brother in-law, who's Canadian, gave it her as a gift.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This is going to be a short week in the park as I need to give myself more time to prepare the photos I plan on showing next month. In the meantime, I'm going to leave you guys with a little bit of something this week because it's better than not showing anything at all.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I was reminded a little bit of Shelby Stone when I was about to begin to take photos of this woman's feet because both women had work boots on. In Shelby's case, I can understand why she wears them, being that she works on the field or on some wide industrial floor that are not exempted from the safety policies, regardless (or especially) of her role on the site. With this woman here, she doesn't work in a job like Shelby. She wears work boots on days when she plans to do a whole lot of walking around. She also wears them because, "It lowers my productivity and makes the whole day feels like it's going on forever." She likes knowing she can go anywhere in the city and feel like she's prepared in case of an emergency. I didn't know what kind of emergency she was waiting to happen, but okay - I went with that. She was trying to be funny about that part because I sensed the sarcasm in her voice. The boots felt quite stiff for her in the beginning until she was able to break them in.
Her name is Dana. Overall, she spends most of her days with a smile on her face and I got the sense throughout the entire shoot that she's the type of person who knows how not to allow something to annoy or upset her, to know how to navigate through a difficult situation without much effort. The overall impression I got from her was that she's the type of who's very happy to be alive and that she would not trade it in for anyone else's. Dana endeavors not to let the more challenging events she encounters blow her off course. Instead, she focuses on getting through the those patches with forethought, patience, courage and sometimes a modicum of humor.
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Dana works in a culinary arts program in Denmark where she teaches people how to begin - and to be successful with - their careers in the world of professional cooking. With numerous possibilities for those people, there is a wide range of jobs within the food and produce industry, and she helps those people prepare themselves for what will lie ahead in their careers to either work in Denmark or abroad - both as a trainee and after they finish their educations.
She loves cooking and doesn't see it as a chore. For as long as she can remember, even when she was child, Dana loved to help cook dinner, or pancakes in the morning on the weekend. She loves cooking because she gets to experiment with many different types of food means that she knows how she like her food cooked, and often she enjoys the meals she cooks more than she will enjoy a meal at a restaurant, "It's pretty disappointing to spend a lot of money on a meal only to get it and think how much better I could have done making it myself."
She talked about how cooking is a creative challenge, something that takes both artistry and practicality. Cooking doesn't make her feel abused, annoyed or frustrated. An advice she has for anyone who knows how to cook is to save new or complicated recipes for the weekend. That gives you the opportunity to try new things without running out of time.
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I love how the veins are rippling through the tendons of Dana's feet when you look in the direction of her toes, making themselves quite visible. It makes you look at them longer (or differently), giving you the license and permission to analyze them and form speculation about what type of person she is. I found myself doing that quite a bit in between each shot.
Her stage name is spelled that way because even though her first name is Dana, the "Dane" is a play on words to tie in to the fact that she's from Denmark. The "Baker" part is not her last name; instead I used it as another word for someone who cooks and because when you put it all together, it sounds like a real name. So there you go.
DANE-A BAKER -- Click Here SHOE SIZE 10 (U.S. - CANADA), 40 (EUR), 8 (U.K.)
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy:
Which one(s)? Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC This is one of those shoots with women as pretty as this one is that makes me so glad I have a foot fetish. It makes me feel like I've struck gold when the niceness of her feet matches just how nice everything else about that women is. It's something that makes you so glad that the woman you picked has feet that lives up to the hope of how you would love them to look like: so sweet and quite lovely.
It felt like magic seeing her for the first time. It's amazing what you can find when taking an afternoon stroll through the park. The way she carried herself suggested that there was a sense of class about her being how she showed stylish excellence and her demeanor as she took her time walking around: she's not the type who acts up, has a meltdown or makes a nuisance of herself in public, embarrassing herself and those she's with. She's well reserved, well mannered and respectful.
She's a nineteen years old girl who brings with her a feeling of pleasure or happiness that comes from good fortune or a sense of well-being. There wasn't a whole lot of talking during the shoot, which I always appreciate, but she seemed always thankful for spending a part of the afternoon with me whenever she did speak on a particular topic. She seems mature for her age and I think she thinks of herself in the same way. She doesn't like making long-term plans as she has a more of a "live the moment" kind of mentality. Of course she has major future plans that she'd like to accomplish - get a good job with good pay, buy a house, help her parents out, get married and have kids, get to live to see her grandchildren, traveling to East Asia. So that's an aspect of herself that sets her slightly apart from my peers. I mean she can definitely goof around, laugh and joke with her friends, but she has her priorities straight and she sticks to them. If she sticks to that game plan, she's going to find opportunities open up for her.
The shoes on her were an interesting part of her outfit. Some pair of shoes stand out to me more than others, and the ones she wore particularly stood out to me. For some reason, they blend into the idea that she is everything I said about her. It takes the right person to wear something like that and pull it off, and it fit her nicely. They kind of take you back to a moment in time that people like to romanticize of how life was more simple back then. Probably the 1940s when I think of those shoes.
When asked where she got those shoes, she said her mother. When I heard that, I thought she was trying to say that her mother bought it for her. She then clarified what she meant by that by saying, "No (as if to say, no,silly!), these shoes are my mother's."
"And the socks, your mother's as well?" I was half joking, but she knew that. "No, the socks are mine." "O.k., just checking."
Nice to know that both mother and daughter share the same shoe size. Nice to know that her mother is dear to her heart at all times. A personal and emotional bond with someone very important in her life, and that's something I appreciate in a good woman. And it was very nice to see how she looked when she wrapped herself in her cashmere blanket when things got a little chilly for her during the shoot. It gave her an extra layer of comfort of being just fine with me taking photos of her feet while she stayed there, cozying up. After she enveloped herself in the protective and comforting way in that blanket, I helped matters by rubbing her shoulders in the a man would after he helps a pretty girl out of the swimming pool followed by a little towel embrace. I made sure her feet stayed comfortable as well by rubbing her feet to help her stayed melted.
One of the nicest looking soles I've photographed. After the shoot, she said she wasn't doing anything, so I invited her to a cafe not too far from the park and we had hot cocoa together. She was delighted to be asked and she went along with me.
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Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
"Which one(s)? "
For the previous three.
For the last girl.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
As we are just hours away from the closing ceremonies that is the Season Finale, I can say that this is a dream come true for me personally, and for fans all over the world. The Season Finale is my favorite time of the year, a presentation I have worked harder than any other time of the year to put together, an effort I am very proud of.
I remember when I first began contributing photos of women's feet to this forum back in the summer of 2012, I had no intention of producing this type of original content for as long as I have. Originally, I thought I was going to do this for four four month, until the end of 2012, before I thought about giving it up. At the time it, I was curious to see what it was like going up to different women and getting them to pose for me. I was going to do that for a few months just to say that I did it. I had no idea, nor the drive, that my brand of entertainment would live on long enough many more years later, and that I have solidified myself as a legendary contributor to a community such as this one. To this very day, I cannot believe that I have walked up to more to the most random number of women and asked if I could take photos of their feet right there on the spot, all absolutely for free, in the state of New York than anyone else.
What my content has become since the beginning is a hybrid, a concept of Entertainment for All with a Foot Fetish. There is nothing like this in the world today for someone who enjoys what it feels like to have this fetish, the greatest fetish in history of sexual gratification. The Season Finale is exciting, unique, exhilarating.
Many of you, perhaps, have been to the pyramids. Some of you may have heard the mating calls of the Antarctic seals. Some of you have been to the Grand Canyon. Some of you may have taken a thrill ride at an amusement park. I truly hope you guys will enjoy the thrill ride you're about to take part in as you will see how the Season Finale will unfold throughout the week before Central Park comes to a close for the year. Thank you.
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The fact that these women are real amateur girls next door will only increase the interest of who these people are. Everyone with a foot fetish has watched a woman walking down the street, or standing in line at a sandwich shop, with your imagination taking control of your senses as to how her feet look like, the actual real-time, real life conditions they're in along with any levels of moisture or scent emanating from their feet. Many of can only imagine what their feet are like at any given moment. I have the answers to those curiosities because I actually went up to these ladies, who were just going about their day, and asked if I could see their feet. In public. You guys will see the results of my journey as we go through the week.
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What I ask you guys to do is to help me out and contribute in the comments section below to help keep the flow of the conversation going as soon as I start showing these photos that are coming up in a few hours as of this message is posted. All of you are going to have an opinion about these women, even if your reaction to them is a bit lukewarm. Let the world know what you make of their personalities, of their feet, of the overall presentation. If you really like someone, please let me know why ... you may very well have a question or a comment about these women, even about something I say. You many have a question for me that has something to do with something I say this week that you want me to clarify on. Please help me out. Because the more you put into this, the more we'll get out of this.
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Are you ready, world? From the place that has the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Empire State Building, we gather here tonight as we celebrate ... the Season Finale of the Women of Central Park.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC You're walking through the park one afternoon and then - BOOM! - there she is, the type of woman who's so beautiful that you're eyes cannot believe what it's seeing. The same thing happened to me when I laid my eyes on this woman. It was one of those things where you're walking down the street and the woman's beauty interrupted whatever it was that was going through your mind just seconds before. For example, you're walking on the street, minding your own business, thinking to yourself, I think I'm gonna order Italian tonight ... OH MY GOD!. Something like that happened to me; that oh my God part was the moment I noticed her.
Where ever she was heading to, she was taking her time getting there. I stopped in my tracks for a moment, thinking to myself how I was going to approach this one because what she was wearing was going to necessitate a different kind of shoot. I reminded myself that this was the Natural Evolution Era, which meant it was time to try something different and that I was going to have to figure out along the way how to put this showcase together that would make her unlike the other women I've photographed. When you see a woman who looks like her, don't let her just walk away. I had to approach her. I had to.
This shoot was short, but it was enjoyable. A nineteen year old girl strait from Russia. Amazing! What's interesting about that was that if I were told to make a list of up to ten countries of where I thought she was from, Russia would not have been one of them. Being Asian is largely a matter of self-identification on the basis of language and culture. Even though she's from the Asian part of Russia, she never classified or identified herself as ethnically Asian. When asked if she was born in another Asian country before making her move to Russia, she said no. And she doesn't have any family members who live(d) anywhere else but Russia. So with that, I made peace with myself with what she said, and I just let it be.
Note: The picture above, the one where she's licking her lips. I did the same thing to my lips at the same time she did hers as she was removing that sock.
This was very simple: I told her I like women's feet and that I wanted to take pictures of her's. She said yes with the same calm demeanor as the one I used when I asked her, adding, "You don't look like someone who would do or say something crazy to me. So yes." She was happy to show her feet to me even as her calm demeanor about it was still intact.
Other women have taken my shoots for fun and they just go with whatever flow the chemistry calls for. This woman, however, had a different approach or direction about it. When I gave her directions on what to do, she would take those instructions and posed as if she was a model in a photography studio, which wasn't quite what I asked for (not that I was complaining), and I was taken a bit off guard by it for a moment (because that's not my style), but I went along with it, seeing that that was her way of helping me make the shoot look very good.
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This shoot was the first of its kind in that the woman wore pantyhose. I was trying to peer through the fabric of the hose to see if I could bit by bit get a better idea of how her soles would look like if they were exposed without anything covering it. I got enough from my imagination to think that her soles are just fine and in immaculate condition, just like her toes are. She's the type of woman who loves to make sure that everything about herself is perfect, to make sure that her body is completely free from faults or defects. She never told me that, but that was the impression I got from her throughout the shoot. And I don't take any points away from her for that; I'm not here to knock her hustle to look as good as she can. Besides, if I were to make a list of ten women I shot who I feel would never (and I mean never) cause a scene in public, never embarrassing her man in front of his friends or family, I may not be able to think of too many other women aside from her.
I don't know anything else about her. There wasn't a whole lot of talking between us, which was fine because that gave me the time to enjoy the peace and quiet as I was taking in the wonderful view of the woman's feet in front of me. As long as the woman understands what I want from her during the shoot, and is able to help me put together a solid shoot, then I am forever grateful for that. I like this woman.
MIRA VADIMOVNA -- Click Here Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Women with big feet are a dream come true for me. I love them like you wouldn't believe. A shoot with a woman like that makes me slow the shoot down to where I can really focus on the feet; it's a shoot I try to blink my eyes less often just so my photographic memory truly takes in the sight of her big feet right next me.
We walked towards one another and I couldn't help but notice how tall she was, which immediately made me look down at her feet. Seeing the size of her shoes as she walked made my heart skip a beat. Not literally speaking, but you know what I mean. I was excited, feeling the blood race up to my head, it felt. I've come across big feet before, but not quite like hers. I could not (could not) let this one go. I knew I was going to get her to say yes, no matter how absurd my approach sounded; I was that determined. This woman you're about to see holds two records at the same time: for being the tallest woman I've photographed and for having the biggest feet I've photographed, replacing The Ideal Woman (someone whose photos I posted almost a year ago to the day [during that year's Season Finale]) in both categories.
She was all too happy and allowed me to photograph her feet. She's from Kiev, Ukraine. She is everybody's friend, both comfortable and a pleasure to be around, and you can't say that about too many people without it sounding phony. She loves to play basketball. In fact, she's played it for many years, throughout high school and college. She was given more minutes to play as she got older to the point where she became a regular starter on the team.
She played center for her team, which explains it all given how tall she is. For those who don't follow basketball or know the rules to the game, someone who plays that position is almost always the tallest player on the team. Her primary trait is to block shots, and get rebounds. Of course other skills and attributes are very important as well when playing that position, but, as many coaches are fond of saying, "you can't teach height". The center will play closest to the basket and be playing against the other team's tallest player.
She was her team's best shot blocker, which helped keep smaller players from the other team from getting close to the basket to take easy shots. If the center keeps blocking their shots (like she was able to do), they will stay away and try more difficult shots at a farther distance from the basket. When she proved she can score from close to the basket, she was often double teamed. In that situation, her job was to find a teammate who was open so that she could shoot for the basket. Throughout her years playing in college, she lead her team in points, rebounds and blocks.
She outgrew her tricycle within a shot period of time. She wasn't able to go on kiddie rides at the amusement park. That purple jacket she loved when she was growing up eventually wound up three inches above her wrist. No one wanted to give her piggyback rides. And many of the footwear she wanted didn't come in her size.
Being clever about it, I said, "If I were to measure my face to your feet, which one will win?" "My feet, of course," she said. She found the question lightheartedly humorous/entertaining without really thinking anything of it. "Oh yeah? Let me see." "Really?" "Now I'm curious. I want to see how much bigger your feet are compared to my face." "I mean, what if someone walks by?" Notice how she didn't say no. "We'll just tell them you were trying to wipe the dirt off my face."
She had a perplexed look on her face. At the same time I could tell she wanted to laugh even though she wasn't sure what to laugh about.
I filled in the blanks for her, "Sounds silly, but just go with. Not everything has to make sense when you want to have some fun."
And so she did it. I could not believe she actually did it. She placed one of her foot on my face. And then the other one. Then both at one time before kissing each foot once. I kept them on my face "just a tad bit too long" because I wanted to reward myself for being alive. I'm the type of person who's convinced he's never going to die. But during those moments, I was ready to die a very happy man.This woman was laid back enough to sacrifice realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment. She never placed her feet on someone's face before she did it to me because they have been the subject of mock or ridicule from people. I also love how the insoles of her showed shows signs that that day wasn't the first few times she'd worn them and that they had some mileage in them.
You will see my shadow in the next-to-last image in the gallerie, which gives the illusion that as tall as she is, there is someone taller than who can make her look small by comparison. It almost looks scary, making it seem like someone is going to attack her.
The first name I gave her are from parts from her first and last names morphed into one new one. Pronounced Velalana.
We shared a few laughs. I love her smile and she's just a wonderful girl. She hopes to find a boyfriend who son't be put off by her height, meaning she doesn't mind if you are not as tall as she is. Her openness to try something like this made her day. What a pleasure it was to have the chance to see her feet right up close and personal, all the while being thankful that I have the greatest fetish ever.
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A LITTLE HISTORY LESSON Central Park was built between 1857 and 1860. It was the first urban park in America, for many years the largest, and one of the handsomest examples of 19th-century romantic landscape architecture.
The first proposals for a park came from highminded and idealistic men, but the project was taken up by New York's politicians in 1851 when the healthful and civilizing mission of a public park became weeded to the practical notion that it would be a good investment. The park would trigger off growth in property values in the sparsely-settled region far above 42nd Street.
Frederick Law Olmsted, co-designer with Calvert Vaux of the winning design, was appointed Superintendent of the park in 1857. He accepted no kickbacks from the Park workforce, and kept local politicians at arm's length. In an age of rampant corruption and blatant stock market fraud, New Yorkers were awestruck at public works of this scale being constructed with integrity. It restored faith that the city could function for the public betterment.
New York in 1850 was divided by class, religion and race, as well as politics. The respectable classes feared rowdiness and violence in the streets. Olmsted saw the Park as a way to educate the tenement-dwellers, and to enhance the sense of community connecting rich and poor, Irish immigrant and Episcopalian Yankee. A nattily-uniformed police force, and a widely publicized set of regulations governing behavior in the park, were successful in maintaining order. There were 7,839,373 visits to the Park in 1866, but only 110 arrests were made.
The Park is no longer quite the terrain designed and constructed by Olmsted. The roadways, specialized play areas and games-fields affords little of what Olmsted hoped visitors would experience: the unfolding of vistas, the contemplative delights of varied landscapes and perspectives.
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NATURAL CLASSIC I saw this woman walking through the park. She had the look of someone who was enjoying the scenery around her, the look of someone who was really glad to be there. Nurturing a love of nature and enjoying the outdoors by herself. She walked in front of me, heading east as I was heading south. I slowed down because I had that feeling come to me all of a sudden that she would make a great subject for me to write about and photograph.
During this shoot with her, it made me think about how heartfelt, emotional or intense it can be when taking photos of someone. I really like this shoot and I'm proud of this shoot. Looking through this gallerie can give you great knowledge or insight to what another person's life is like in their own eyes and through their own experiences, even if her lifestyle, her distinctive and typical style, form, or character doesn't necessarily fit your mold.
Why do I love doing this? I was compelled to answer that question when I took the time to take pictures of her. I do this because it's a way for you to see what I see. I tell these stories for you to see what she sees. It emotes expression. It captures a moment that can later be cherished. In a broad way it will convey how I perceive a vision of her through how she perceives the vision of her life.
I'm glad to have a vision that embraces women with different personalities and still be able to share fun, silly, or meaningful conversations with them, and she allowed me to slow down from the fast pace life of New York City to be able to appreciate each other's company.
When I spoke to her in the beginning, she had an idea of what I was saying but not fully. She's from Madrid, Spain, so English to her was something she could comprehend somewhat, but not enough to carry a twenty-minute conversation. The good news for her was that I can speak Spanish, which gave her a sense of relief because things can be made much easier for her. So the entirety of our conversation was in Spanish.
We walked through the park for about ten minutes, getting to know one another, before we found a spot to do our shoot. That's pretty cool, and it happens with me from time to time: I walk up to a random girl, ask if I can take photos of her feet, she says yes, and then we walk through the park for ten to fifteen minutes while having a normal conversation a couple would have on a typical first date.
It's amazing the phenomenon: shoes having a special effect of matching the woman's outfit and her personality to a tee. I'll get to that later. Right before she removes her shoes, she suddenly remembered that she had a tattoo on each foot. She wanted to know if that would discourage me from doing the shoot. And how thoughtful of her: I don't remember a time before or since when a woman asked if tattoos on feet were allowed in my shoots; they just take their shoes off and we're off to the races. But with this woman, it sounded as if she was ready to apologize to me if the tattoos on her feet would disgust or offend me. She was starting to speak in an apologetic tone, trying to excuse an offense or failure, but I told her that if she was proud enough to get tattoos anywhere on her body, then I was ready to accept her acceptance of herself. That meant something to her and she gave me a nice hug.
She took off her shoes, me not knowing what to expect when it came to what her tattoos were going to look like. Well, I guess I was expecting some abstract art or some word on it. In fact, she even went as far as to make me guess what the tattoos would be "for a million dollars," she joked. Trying to be silly with her (so as to lighten the mood some more), I guessed Judy Jetson and Rosie (the robot). She laughed but was almost astonished, basically saying in Spanish that those were much better guesses than she thought I would give because I had the right idea but was still a ways off.
She peeled off her black socks and revealed two characters from the Super Mario franchise: the mushroom and that flower thing. It made her laugh hearing to how I referred to them before she corrected me to what their names were. I thought I should let you guys know (as I also explained to the woman in this shoot) that I am completely video game illiterate. But she loves the retro stuff and she's very nostalgic about that. So much so, she still has the Atari 2600, the Nintendo set, the Super Nintendo system, and a Sega Genesis. Just like anyone else, I grew up with those things, but this woman may as well start a mini museum with how she collects and keeps these things. She has all of those consoles in her bedroom with "at least 650 games." In addition, she has an NES mini, a RetroN 5 and one or two other consoles that I can't remember the names to.
For me, any video gaming I did ended ... in nineteen ninety two. I did not play another video game beyond the Super Nintendo; I never had an N64, never had a PlayStation, an Xbox, never had any of that stuff (that she still has), nor did I want to. So I'm not the right person to discuss modern video games because all of that stuff is to difficult or strange for me to understand. So when it comes to modern video games, with how they're structured, played, with what the newest and best games are, I am far behind the times. So the tattoos on her feet was her way of paying homage to what started her video gamimg obsession. Putting tattoos of them on her breasts would be disrespectful to them, she feels; putting them on her feet instead made neutral sense to her.
She has other tattoos because, she told me, it involves voluntarily subjecting herself to a painful procedure. Plus, she says, the payoff is often euphoric - seeing the finished tattoo for the first time makes her overwhelmed with joy.
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The words on her shirt is Spanish for World Order. I suppose the Peace sign right below the words, designed in a barbed wire was meant to mean that they (meaning her and people like her) would make the sacrifice of going through war if it meant that absolute peace could be achieved at the end of all the bloodshed and tears. When I told her about my interpretation of that symbol, she said that that was certainly a good way of look at it. It made sense, considering that the shirt represents one of her favorite bands, and it also gives you an idea of what this woman is about.
I had some time to listen her kind of music as I was putting this very gallerie together. I must say that you need a lot of patience to understand why the musicians in that band are impatient. That kind of music is not an easy thing to listen to (which is something I'm sure she'll take as a compliment). Their songs are all in Spanish, so I was able to understand the message that group is trying to send out. This Orden Mundial (World Oder) band plays what can be described as unadulterated distorted hardcore punk. The words "unadulterated" and "distorted" are the key words here. Their guitar sound is unhinged with an insane tone over a relentless drums/bass and a vocalist who manages to get his point across firmly. Their message is clearly anti-authoritarian with most lyrics questioning dogma and painting a bleak picture of our lives. Urgent music for urgent times, which is music to her ears.
Because of the music she's influenced by, she is the type of individual who believes that some covert (but influential) organizations are responsible for circumstances or events, going on to claim that some powerful group is either secretly running the world, or on the verge of gaining such control (implying that if they do, the end is near). She's convinced there is a secret society working behind the scenes for world domination or some other nefarious purpose, that there's an emergence of a one world totalitarian government. The thought of that makes her rolls her eyes in disbelief and she won't rest until that threat disappears. She went into what some of her theories were while doing an excellent job of stopping herself just short of going on a tangent. Hearing her talk about it almost sounded as if I was listening to someone talk plainly about what they plan to do for Christmas. She sounded level headed the whole time.
Her shoes have that look of matching the personality of herself nicely. Combine with how she dressed on the day of the shoot, I really like the casual look. It also has the style of someone who's ready for some little anarchy. If she was the leader of a hardcore punk band where they play bruised music, that's how someone like that would dress, along with those shoes.
Her feet looked a lot better than I thought it would, as that's always a good thing when I'm pleasantly surprised like that. I'm usually not a fan of tattoos on feet, but I'm going to make an exception here because those tats made shooting her feet more fun. Her toes were well cared for and her soles are really to die for. There are certain women who I shot who had the type of feet (soles in particular) I can easily lose my heart to and never kick out of bed. This woman had feet just like those.
After she talked about how she thought the world is corrupt, I massaged her feet just to take the load off of her. And it worked. I brought myself closer to her feet so I could get a more spectacular closeup of them as I massaged them. And she had no qualms about it. It's a pretty simple act to do, but it's always feels amazing each time it's done. It felt amazing to her, the massage did. She was less talkative and way relaxed totally. She said something along the line of how the massage can sometimes remind her that the world can be a very nice place, too. Pure and genuine feet like hers so close to your face during a massage. I even went as far as to sneak my nose between her toes three or four times. For her it was like, whatever. The idea of that sounds good idea for anyone. I can tell you first hand that it was.
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ANOTHER LOOK BACK AT THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL PARK
The map is a facsimile of a survey showing the land incorporated into Central Park, made in 1856. The tract of land, running two and a half miles north from 59th Street, between Fifth and Eighth Avenues, was rocky, very swampy and pestiferous.
New Yorkers delighted in the varied entertainments offered by Central Park. In summer, there were outdoor music concerts. In winter, there was skating, illustrated in a Currier & Ives' lithograph (first photo below), although such an easy elegance was not always attained (second photo below). There was always the option of simply watching the "fashionable turn-outs in Central Park" (illustrated by Currier & Ives in 1869, third photo below). "Fast women" - prostitutes with thin waists and pretty faces, sporting the finest fashion and expensive jewelry - were to be seen (last photo below), but for decades the park was viewed as a triumph of social order and competent management.
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It began with One woman (Dalhous). Now it has grown to include some more influential women, women who are icons, legends, whose lives have left an impression on us through their stories and photos. These are women who defined their time ... and redefined the future of this establishment. These fantastic ladies will earn their spot in history, to be immortalized in the pantheon, and to inspire all that will follow.
The most glamorous event on the Natural Park calendar has arrived once again. Welcome to the most esteemed night of the year, as we honor the women who have graced the pages of this thread. Tonight, those women will take their rightful place in history. Welcome to the 2019 class of the National Gallerie Hall of Fame of Women.
THE NATIONAL FASHIONISTA THE HEADLINE INDUCTEE
This was one of those encounters that happened away from Central Park. I met her in the train. She sat next to me and asked for directions. What started out as something as simple as that wound up with her walking with me to Central Park about forty-five minutes later. She was so nice about the time she gave because there was somewhere she wanted be. She had the right attitude for what a woman with proper manners and class would have: stylish, respectable, and lovely. One of the overarching traits about her that really stuck out to me was that she always used refined language. She doesn't swear or use crude expressions. Profanity to her makes her less lady-like. She uses non-profane expressions instead, which helps her becoming more specific, more expressive, and more interesting with what shes does say in place of those dirty words.
The Fashionista is particularly attentive to the needs of the elderly and remembers that nobody is beneath her notice. She is always polite and does not say anything hurtful or offensive to other people. If she has to confront someone or put them in their place, she will speak the truth as she sees it, but in moderate language and without recourse to shouting. No one has ever caught her loudly smacking her gum, cursing, or rolling her eyes. A consummate professional.
One of the straps on her shoe that she uses to fasten to her foot broke. It may have been coming off the seams as we made our way to the park. But at sometime during the shoot, she broke it off to find a new method of molding that shoe so that her foot would slip off as she walked. She loved the extended foot massage I gave her after the shoot.
An eventful afternoon that was. I thought that shoot was fitting to begin the Central Park journeys and the story that was involved with it: meeting her in the train, me making one or two work-related stops along the way, she a came along for the ride in all of that. Those are my earliest Central Park moments and I was convinced that that was going to be a new permanent home for my adventures.
STACEY DATESEY
Stacey was a 26-year-old hostess at a restaurant when these photos were shot. She would greet customers as they enter the restaurant, take their reservations or would put them on a waiting list, gave them menus and showed them to their seat. She also handled phone calls and customer queries about the restaurant and menu, and assisted various restaurant staff whenever it was necessary. Stacey was also single.
I spotted her lying on stomach on the lawn as she was listening to whatever music it was in her headphones, minding her own business - something right out of the playbook on picturesque situations on where to meet women. I figured, Beautiful sunny day on a Sunday afternoon. Why not? When I approached her and sat down next to her, she changed her position to match mine and sat on the grass as well. And we started talking to each other.
She wanted the status of that came with being in a relationship and not be the odd one out of her group of friends who had boyfriends or fiances of their own. "Why does dating have to be so hard?" she asked. "Ugh!" I don't know why, but I get a kick out of hearing a woman giving that sound of disappointment, that sound that lets you know they're not happy with their dating lives. After she made that sound, she extended her arms out a bit so she could catch herself falling backwards onto the grass. She was intentionally overdoing it in her theatrics, but it was funny watch. She looked up into the sky, "The trails and tribulations of dating life in New York." It sounded like she wanted to write a book about it, maybe sign copies of it at a Barnes&Noble one day. My condolences went out to her. For a moment there I felt like I was watch an episode of Sex and the City and that I was somehow featured in it.
You woman cannot be a hostess of a restaurant if she isn't upbeat, outgoing, and positive. Three words I would use to describe Stacey are upbeat, outgoing, and positive. So what gives, she wondered?
She talked about the date she went on the night before. From how she described it, she wasn't holing out any hope that he was boyfriend material and, in fact, wished he had walked in on the shoot. "If the guy from my date walked by and saw what we were doing, he would be, like, so ... jealous!" Her most famous quote. She was having more fun with me - a guy with a foot fetish who came in from out of nowhere - than she had with some guy the night before.
Her ankle boots were an updated look to the fashion style women had in the early 1900s. I'm glad she wore everything on that day to go with those boots because everything matched well together and it. She's the type who won't mind hoping in a plane or driving away on an impromtu road trip with you. She'll paint you for fun (even though she doesn't know how to paint) or write about you (that she does know how to do) and your memory will end up living forever.
That was one of the more easy and laid back shoots I had. The settings, the comfortable weather, and the nice girl I met in Stacey made for what was nice afternoon in Central Park.
THE COOL CHIC
She was a nice reminder to why I love New York and she was also the reason why I became convinced that going to Central Park was the right move for me to make. The shoot with her was what made my decision official to move away- and to move from Bryant Park. The Cool Chic was a big hit for me and a big hit in this thread during the beginning stages.
She's one of those women who makes you think that women with glasses should not look as sexy as she does. That makes her sex appeal change the dynamics of how men interact with her. Now you know she is near-sighted or far-sighted. Now you're thinking she probably reads a lot. What books must she be reading? She probably watches a lot of TV or movies. What could be her genre? Is she studying to be a psychologist? You see how her wearing glasses changes the conversation? You already know something about her at the very first glance. There is a chain reaction of thoughts in your mind. You're already attracted to her.
A sticking point that made people like her was that she's a dog lover. That's not me saying that other women I shot don't love dogs, but Cool Chic was the only girl who talked about just how much she loves them. Whether she rescues them or buys them, no one can deny that she has a growing heart for them. She shares her food in bed with a dog. Sharing with you won't bother her, even if you don't have those sad puppy eyes. Her pet has also stolen her shoes and reduced them to shreds, and she still loves him. So you know we will be more forgiving if you mess something up ... the small mistakes at least.
She's into classical music and the art scene. Well rounded and well refined.
MAKEUP PRINCIPLE
It was a great thing I caught this woman with just enough time on my side to get all the photos I wanted from her before it started to rain. The small raindrops was what stopped the shoot and we both got out of there before the clouds really opened up. I went straight home, and it wasn't until then that it started to pour heavily. I breathed a sigh of relief for having the time to spend taking photos of a woman who had spectacular feet that no man in his right or his left mind would turn down. Soft and dainty her feet were, just like rest of her that looked soft and dainty. Clearly one of my favorite shoots.
IMMUNE SOAP
Part of the beauty in doing what I do is meeting a woman who is different from the others. I love having to adapt to a different personality and be able to piece together a fair story about what make her her own self worth. These women are different from one another, yet they share the same idea under the same umbrella that letting me take photos of their feet is not such a bad idea after all.
Immune Soap was a very reserved in that she did a good job of keeping her thoughts to herself. I'm certain she had friends, but I don't if she had too many because she could've been seen as someone who was hard to figure out. She's probably more lively in her interactions with people today, but it didn't seem like that back at that time. One thing I can't say about her is that she's not the shy type. What I can say about her is that she is more motivated to make something useful out of her life than a lot of other women her age. However hard she needed to study to pass an exam, she will make certain that that test is passed. What I can't say about her is that she a quitter. I don't think she's susceptible to physical pain. She's immune to being held back. I would've loved to to spend more time with her, but she needed to get home.
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FLOWER MOOD
She was one of the more open-minded and free-spirited creature I have ever had the fortune to meet. She is the type who is bound to make some kind of mark, even if she only slightly touches you. She has her own set of ideas and they all advocate love and peace. She rejects all conventions and societal rules and she doesn't support strict rules of any kind. Flower believes in open-mindedness, human rights and freedom. She is always ready to help and she will do more for others than she ever would for herself. She is her own leader and she doesn't mind being an outsider. She is comfortable with who she is. All of this makes her someone to admire.
She is the ultimate peacemaker and she would love nothing more than for all wars to end. She can't stand violence of any sort and considers it completely unnecessary. Flower Mood is genuine and positive. She keeps her distance when she feels negative energy within someone. If she chose you, know that she sees something within you. She didn't mind that I wanted to sit next to her feet and take photos of them because, "You are full of positive energy." A smile is her weapon of choice and there is no chance she remains unnoticed. The good vibes she sends only attract more goodness, so she is the kind of person you want to spend your time with, as she radiates positivity around you, too.
Music moves her inside and out. She feels the music. Lyrics are not just words, they all have a deeper meaning. She told me that her dancing resembles magic or some kind of out of body experience. Woodstock Music Festival is still affecting American and world trends to this day and it serves as an inspiration for her as well. She will drag you to so many concerts and festivals that you probably never even knew existed but they will be something you only can experience with her.
She is one of those rare bohemian girls who has the hots for a smart brain. For her, there is nothing sexier in a man than his intelligence. She is smart herself and she likes to be with somebody who is her equal. She likes deep and philosophical discussions. Even if you don't seem to see eye to eye about certain things, she finds these kinds of conversations stimulating.
She supports all sexual orientations and advocates people's freedom to choose for themselves. Having a great sex life is important to Flower Mood but that doesn't mean she will jump into bed with just anybody. She has to have a deep intellectual, spiritual and emotional connection in order to be that intimate with somebody.
She is like nobody I've ever met before. Everything about her is something new and unseen.Flower Mood is one of the most simple girls I have ever met but at the same time, the most extraordinary creature I have ever met.
SEVENTH CREED
It was the coldest day I can remember taking photos of someone's feet. I could not believe I was in the park that day, and I was that close from going back home. Then I saw her sitting on the grass. She was very polite about it when she gave me the green light to go ahead with the shoot.
She's very religious and loves to study up on anything that talks about how Jesus is her true lord and savior, telling me that, "He's one cool duuuude." She took the time to talk about him as I took my time taking feet pictures.
If there's anything else you should know about Seventh Creed is that superficial trends, like fashion or the latest buzz word, doesn't really impact her, let alone make her feel like she has to follow suit. As to how she looks, appearances are all about portraying individual traits, rather than any concern with being society's version of perfect. She takes pride in her appearance but understands that, ultimately, it's not her best asset. She knows she doesn't have to wear a full face of makeup on every date to get the guy she wants. In fact, because she embraces her looks and respects her own sense of style, she's often the one looking like a natural, in the midst of carbon-copy, 'high maintenance' women.
It's easy for her to accept people as they are. On that topic, she said, "When you judge others, especially in a way that makes it seem like you're better than them, it stems from something within yourself you don't like." It doesn't really make you feel good, either. It's just that, for a moment, she can excuse her own perceived flaws because someone else apparently has them too.
I don't know how she was able to withstand the cold throughout the entirety of the shoot. Any other girl would quit after ten minutes (except for Immune Soap), but she took the punishing cold like a champ.
DOTTIE PINK
She's one of the easiest women I could joke around with. A great way to spend a late morning/early afternoon is to share laughs with a lady who is tanning outdoors and who doesn't mind it when you wind up playing around with her feet.
If I had to think about a group of women I shot who could be classified as those who don't take themselves or life seriously, Dottie Pink will be the first who comes to mind. She sees life as beautiful, amazing, short, and that we only get one. Just because she doesn't take her life overly seriously does not mean she's without motivation or ambition. It doesn't mean she doesn't care about things. Because of that, she lives a happy life. Dottie makes a concerted effort every day to see the positive things in her life, appreciates them, and be happy and grateful for the people she has in her life. She is someone who takes the time to be silly and enjoying the small things.
It felt as if I was being cooked alive under the soon during the shoot with Dottie. But I was able to cool off when she allowed me to play with her feet towards the end.
INVINCIBLE WOMAN
If she was able to climb to the top of that steep rock by herself, in those shoes, while being 35 weeks pregnant, instead of taking it easy by sitting on one the millions of benches in Central Park, then she's invincible. Bullets ricocheting off of her, blades breaking and cars flipping over against this lady. Withstanding fire, ice, acid, punches, kicks, shark bites too ... all while she's pregnant. Things a normal person would get injured; but with Invincible Women will be just fine. Then she goes home after a hard day's work and she's tired, exhausted. That's okay - because she would be back at again the following day. If there's one thing that made her vulnerable, it was the foot massage I gave her afterwards.
VIVIEN NICELY
Vivien had very cute feet. It never seemed out of the ordinary for her that I would take pictures of her feet as she was studying for a course she was attending in university. She was very fun to work with and she had the style and attitude that played well into the vision and story quite well - a story about herself that tells that she is serious about making the best of herself in life, that she is so much fun to be around, and that any type of person will naturally be drawn to her and easily find that there are many things he or she has in common with her. Vivien is so nicely that even if there aren't too many things that are of common interest between the two of you, you will still like her immensely and she'l like and praise you about that as well.
Her hair was short, her feet were on the smaller side, but the love she has for the people closest to her and the passion she has towards whatever focus she wants to accomplish in life shows that she has a big heart. She had the cutest Toms shoes and one of the cutest feet I've seen. She is the quintessential woman to want to spend a Saturday afternoon with, whether that'll be shopping at the market to buy thing so she can assist you when it comes time to cook in your kitchen, watch a baseball game at the stadium or hanging out with your friends.
Another word that can be used to describe her: warrior. She has a fighting spirit and a winner's mentality. Vivien was the first woman in the Natural Park thread to be recognized by someone. When asked if he was certain it was her, he was one hundred percent certain. She takes boxing lessons. The story goes that Vivien was in the ring to compete in an amateur boxing match (I think it was in New Jersey) against his (ex)girlfriend. She - the ex girlfriend - got knocked out in the fight. When he said knocked out, he meant that Vivien knocked her out. Nicely hopped into the ring with a one-two, one-two, shot to the chin and knocked her out like ten shots of vodka and gin. I can only imagine how the bell at ringside sounded the second that happened.
That's Vivien for you, Nicely done. She is someone I will never forget.
SPECIAL KAYE
She keeps herself in fantastic shape and has a well-planned detail notebook on how she intends to maintain her healthy diet and the exercise routines she plans to endure through. All of that made me think her favorite cereal is Special K. She gets that name because her name is actually Kaye.
It was amazing that the shoot turned out to be pretty good considering that I wasn't supposed to be there at that time. I was supposed to be in a train, heading downtown, to hand over some very important paperwork (work related stuff) and it had to be there by a certain time. I was not going to get there by that certain time and I was willing to take whatever heat I was going to get for that; Kaye looked too good to pass up on. Even though I knew I was going to be late for that thing, I also knew I couldn't stay there too long because there'a a difference between getting into some trouble and getting fired. This was rushed because of that. She wasn't being rushed, but I had to operate a little faster than what I normally did, and that ruined my experience of this shoot ... and none of it was through no fault of her own. Even though I did not have the time I wanted (or needed) to execute the shoot more to my liking, it was still good enough for me to label it a Natural Classic.
In terms of overall appearance, if I never saw her feet, she would still be pretty hot. But considering that I was as close to her feet as I was, I will say that they were fantastic. They were long, lean, with a perfect tone of natural suntanned skin. I was unprepared for what I saw when she removed off her shoes. Perfection is a difficult concept and it's something you can't prove rationally or convince someone else of, nevertheless, as far as I'm concerned, the feet that Kaye had were absolute perfection. When I saw them bare, their curves and contours, their long elegant toes, their nails lacquered in blue (not my favorite choice for women to use for toenail polish, but that's beside the point), when I witnessed the intricacies of some bones, some veins, and her skin, I knew they were the feet I've been looking for my entire life.
ALLURE ICONICA
If a woman can take care of her feet, that means she can take care of everything else as well. In a nutshell, that describes who Allure Iconica is. This woman had the quality of being powerfully and mysteriously gorgeous and fascinating. Her feet - regarded as a representative symbol of why female feet can be beautiful ... and why her feet in particular are worthy of veneration. Her feet had the aura of magnificence to them that I had my breath taken away from me; I was rendered speechless (!) and I hoped I wasn't drooling. The passion she has towards a goal she has set her eyes on - maintaining her looks, keeping her feet looking as immaculate as they are, or even owning a business, inspires other women. That's exactly what makes Allure, an Iconica.
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LEGEND GIRL INDUCTEES The National Gallerie Hall of Fame of Women is introducing a new category called the "Legend Girl" wing. Inductees in this category are from the days I spent in Bryant Park, dating back to before I made the move to Central Park.
THE FOREIGN DENIM
The shoot with The Foreign Denim was the first one I posted that became very popular. I remember enjoying this shoot just as much as the people were who viewed the gallerie. That was a pretty neat way to spend a Saturday afternoon, doing a shoot of her. I forgot what country she's from. Even though she didn't speak or understand English all too well, she knew only that I wanted her to take pictures of her feet. She was flattered with the request and went for it. That shoot would may not go over too well if I had shown it today for the very first time, considering how the photos looked and the way the photos didn't look that organized. But that shoot was what made a connection with people - the first one they raved about. It's funny looking back on it all, but times were different back at that time.
SERIAL MANIAC
She was ... quite the character. That connotation can be positive or negative, but never neutral. She was not the typical woman I usually came across and neither was she politically correct. She was the type of woman who would say and do things people not not expect, but not in ways that made them uncomfortable. That's why I gave her the name Serial Maniac, as a complimentary way to say that she was weird in a likable way. She said things during the shoot that made me shake my heads in befuddlement, smiling while I do it. Other people may describe her as being quite the character as an insult for the same reasons I explained for what makes her who she is. It depends on how the person views her, but I like women are Looney Tunes in that they are crazy in a humorous way. Talking with her was the most strange or unusual conversation I've had, especially so as to cause interest or amusement.
CITY GIRL
The longest she could stand playing dress-up growing up was fifteen minutes. And if she wears makeup, it's usually a mess. She wouldn't even know where to start with exfoliating, toning, moisturizing, and all that other stuff. That's just not a part of her life. She instead does what she feels is right, regardless of what others say or think. She follows her own conscious instead of the crowd.
There was a thirst in me that wanted to know how her feet looked and the naturally pure state they were in when I saw that they were absorbed in her dirty shoes. The organic molecules on her feet that was withheld within those shoes. I wanted to know. Such is part of the beauty of having a foot fetish and she was at the right place at the right time for me to enjoy my fetish. She got to spend some time with me and say whatever was on her mind, which was a good release for her because we learned things about each other.
She's just a regular girl. A simple, ordinary woman that men can see themselves relating to. If you're the type who loves to go to fancy restaurants, then she's not for you. She would be perfectly happy if your idea of a date with her was to invite her to eat at a fast food restaurant after a night of bowling than if you take her to the finest restaurant in town after seeing a Broadway musical.
A pretty cool chick in a pretty nice day in a park. And she was totally down with me having a foot fetish and taking pictures of her feet that came straight from her shoes with no socks in between. That's what I call quality time.
ALOE VERA
I could not believe what I saw when I saw just how spectacular Aloe's soles looked. She had the look, from head to the bottoms of her feet, of someone who seemed impossible to imagine could ever exist. She was the reality that proved to be better than fiction, the true form of complete beauty that superseded what anyone's figment of imagination could ever conjure. Her feet were truly amazing, her feet were truly moist, and Aloe Vera herself was an incredible woman to look at, and an even more incredible person to talk to, making the conversation all the more worthwhile as she talked about know what her interests and aspirations were.
The shoot I had with her was probably the first time I felt I had the shoot of my life. If I had to put together an All-Time All-Star team, I would put her in that lineup.
THE BARBIE A girl from Norway with nice hair, nice face, nice feet. I couldn't help but to think of the Barbie doll with how beautiful she looked, resembling her in some way.
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CHERRY COKE
Cherry Coke has one of the sexiest feet I've seen. I don't remember this shoot lasting too long, but it was very nice nonetheless. Cherry Coke is given all the credit for being the inspiration for shooting pictures of women's toes in the way that I do - having the women kind of point their feet towards each other. Up to that point in my journey of taking photos of totally random women't feet, I did not take any photos of women's toes. Or if I did, 1) one would have to search high and low to find them, and 2) that shoot with Cherry Coke was the very first time when I saw the value in including toe shots into a shoot, which was something that never happened if I had taken pictures of other women's toes before Cherry. Cherry Coke gets credit for making me realize that I should incorporate the toes into the shoots more often and to take them more seriously.
I never told her how to pose her toes - just that she puts her feet flat on the chair. How she posed them the way she did was her own call. It was that moment that gave me the sudden brilliant, creative idea to shoot their toes with their feet positioned like that. Whenever you see shots of women's toes, it all goes back - all of it - to Cherry Coke. I think of her every time I have a woman pose like that. Every time. I do it as an honor to her and as a way to commemorate the loyalty I have in keeping her memory alive. That pose will forever be known as the Cherry pose in recognition of her.
I gave her the name Cherry Coke because the toenail polish application was well done combined with the fact that whatever lotion she used to apply to her feet before she left the house that morning made her feet smell like cherry. I put those two together and looked at her. It wasn't until I did that when I thought to myself that she looks like someone who would be on a 1950s poster of Cherry Coke. I know that flavor wasn't in soft drinks back that far, but if they were, she is how its poster girl would look like.
SLEEVESKIN
She was one of a kind. I spent enough time with her during the shoot to get the photos I wanted, although I wish I had spent more time with her. I wish I can run into her again to do another shoot because there is a lot I would love to learn about this woman. A pretty neat stat: I would make more references to her than any other woman I've shot during conversations with other women in their shoots. That's how much I liked Sleeveskin, and it truly speaks to just just how much of a fun and fantastic person she is that she would leave that kind of impression on me.
Sleeveskin is the type of person who takes the time to learn about other cultures, loves that there are many different cultures other than her own. She thinks about the positives of different cultures and how surrounding herself with diverse groups of people can enrich her life. She didn't know very much about geography or history but by mingling and mixing with people from other backgrounds, she was given the opportunity to possibly learn about the geography, the religious beliefs and customs of different countries.
Everyone has a story. Everyone has issues, struggles, and happy times in life. Being a tattoo enthusiast like she is, she just chooses to wear them proudly on her skin! There was something about her tattoos that made me want to be around her even more. The tattoos have personal meanings to the her. She is expressing herself in some ways through her ink. She has an idea of who she is and what she wants to present to the world, even if it means literally having it on her sleeve! She is proud of her tattoos. People evolve and change. Tastes can change, beliefs can change. For every milestone or strong conviction her life, she finds is a reason to get a tattoo. I would be honored if she got a tattoo about something that would give her a memory about this shoot. In fact, I'm willing to wager money that of all women I shot who had at least one tattoo, Sleeveskin would be the only one who would add such a tattoo to her body, as a token to remember me.
I think she was on her way to the gym when I spotted her. We had to wrap up the shoot because she didn't want to be any more late than she already was to get her workout session in.
My favorite quote from her: (When asked why she decided to let me take photos of her feet) "It was such a random request, that I HAD to say yes!" She was, without any doubt in my mind, one of the coolest women I've ever met during my entire journey.
THE FOURTEENTH WONDER
If you were to extend the list of Wonders of the World, you will find this woman listed at Number Fourteen. She is the Park's most spectacular natural wonders, as she is the most remarkable woman I've ever photographed. The number fourteen also represents the number of qualities one must have to be as extraordinary as she is. Those qualities and values are: Commitment, Courage, Discipline, Friendship, Heart, Ingenuity, Karma, Knowledge, Leadership, Luck, Perseverance, Strength, Teamwork, Trust. Those are the fourteen words I use describe her, words I would use to associate her, those are the words she breathes, sweats, and bleeds by.
Fourteenth Wonder was a certified CrossFit competitor at the time I took photos of her. She would travel across the country to compete in these extraordinary athletic events to push her opponents and herself to the limit. The CrossFit Games is an annual worldwide competition that consists of a series of workouts designed to determine the "Fittest on Earth." What's unique about CrossFit competitions, and what makes them quite challenging to prepare for, is the combination of disciplines (such as Olympic-style weightlifting, gymnastics, and endurance sports) into what's often referred to in the CrossFit world as the "unknown and unknowable." In other words, when she's training for the Games, she (nor anyone else) doesn't know exactly what it is she's preparing for; she just knows that she's going to be competing over several days in a series of events that could include an open water swim, heavy weights, pull-ups, or any combination of those elements.
She could do (at minimum in all these exercise routines) twenty pull-ups, ten strict pull-ups, three bar muscle-ups, handstandwalk for twenty feet, front squat 150 lbs, bench press 200 lbs, and deadlift about three times her body weight, among other feats of superhuman display of strength. How many men reading this can do any of those things?
She was visiting New York to attend several events that pertained to CrossFit and decided to have herself a rest in front of the New York Public Library. For someone who can exert and withstand great force or pressure, for someone who has the force to move heavy weights, this woman had quite the soft feet when my hands molded them as I gave them a well-needed massage. I was pleasantly surprised.
She is the strongest, most formidable woman I've photographed. She is the ... the Fourteenth Wonder of the World.
MARRY FAITH
Indisputably one of the best photo shoots I've ever had in my entire life. Without any question. I would've died a happy man if that turned out to be the final shoot I ever did. And Marry Faith is an even more wonderful human being. If I ever have a daughter, and I wanted her to take some life advice, on how to conduct yourself like a lady, on how to live a more serene lifestyle, on how to stay out of trouble and not make so many terrible choices so many young women do, and how not to find herself in a compromising position ... if I had to pick one woman - and *only* one woman - who I want my daughter to take life advice from, it would be Marry Faith. I don't believe I've said that about any other women I've photographed, which is saying a lot when you consider that Dalhous is my One and Only.
It was not too long after breakfast time on a Sunday morning in Bryant Park. There were not too many people around(the park started to fill up as the shoot progressed). The lawn there is as long as a football field. I was at one end of the lawn and she was seated at the other, seen with clarity as if this was meant to be. She was sitting on one chair with the soles of her feet resting on a neighboring chair. My heart was beating too fast, pumping too fast, and I felt it in my throat. I was excited that a view that glorious was presented to me.
She had all the time in the world to let me take as many photos as I wanted. If I wanted to extend the shoot for another hour, she would've let me. It was one of the most relaxing shoots I've ever experienced.
Marry Faith is always positive, calm, and confident in herself. She would not try to bring you down. Marry Faith - happy with their achievements, though she continued to strive for bigger and better objectives. She is proud of who she is, even if it means accepting some ridicule. She shows respect to people with an open heart; she doesn't take anyone for granted and she has a knack for showing people that she has gratitude. She's a role model and not just a "teacher." She's constantly learning, challenging herself to get out of her comfort zone and surrounds herself with people smarter than she is. All in all, she is one of those people who possess the qualities we would like to have, and she is one of those ladies who can affect people in a way that makes them want to be better people.
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And that concludes the ceremonies for this year's Hall of Fame celebration. Thank you all so much, and I hope you people truly enjoyed reliving the moments that has made what I've done for you guys very special.
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An outstanding retrospective, National, particularly Marry Faith.
I'll never get over Colored Leash. Her feet were _gorgeous._ So was she.
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The good old Bryant Park times
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NATIONAL LIFESTYLE - DRINKS
WHITE RUSSIAN The White Russian is a riff (or change) from the Black Russian. This drink originally came about several decades ago, but was made famous by the movie The Big Lebowski starring Jeff Bridges. If you watch closely, he drinks about nine of these throughout the whole movie.
2 oz./60 ml voda 1 oz./30 ml Kahlúa 2 oz./60 ml of cream (half and half or heavy whipped cream, depending on your preference)
You can build this drink right into a rocks glass. Pour the vodka and Kahlúa into the glass before filling the cup with ice. By the way, there are plenty of other coffee liqueurs out there, so it doesn't have to be Kahlua. That's the most common one you're going to see, though. So stir for ten to twenty seconds to bring the liquids down to room temperature and to help add some dilution to the drink. Shake the cream for ten to twenty seconds before slowly pouring it on top of the drink, giving the it a layer where the cream sits on top of the drink.
HOT TODDY Toddies have been hailed as a cure-for-what-ails you for hundreds of years. This drink essentially comprises a spirit, hot water, sometimes citrus or spices, and a sweetener (often honey, or maple syrup in Canada). I don't think a hot toddy should be reserved as only a cold or cough remedy (though many people swear by it for that purpose). Made well, it is a delicious cup of comfort to be enjoyed all winter long. And the hot toddy is being seen more often, in different iterations, on upscale cocktail menus.
Most versions I found varied only slightly between a combination of whiskey or brandy, honey, lemon juice, and hot water. Some versions contained herbal tea, but I prefer to keep my toddy pure and simple. Tasters preferred toddies made with brandy (though bourbon and Tennessee whiskey also worked).
Be sure to measure the water after boiling it, since even in the short amount of time it takes to boil, you will lose some to evaporation. In addition to the lemon slice, garnish your toddy with a cinnamon stick.
1.5 ounces bourbon or rye whiskey (or any dark spirit, including aged rum or cognac) 1/2 ounces honey or maple syrup 1/2 ounces freshly squeezed lemon juice 4 to 5 ounces boiling water Garnish slice of lemon and cinnamon stick
Using (bar)spoon, stir all ingredients together in warmed mug until combined and honey has dissolved. Garnish with lemon slice and cinnamon stick and serve.
BLACK APPLE OLD-FASHIONED For most drinkers of a certain age, Jägermeister is the unofficial source of many bad decisions. But here it acts as the base of a nice-warming drink that combines the herbal notes of the liqueur with apple brandy for a decidedly adult way to fortify oneself after a day out in the cold.
1.5 ounces Jägermeister 1 ounce apple brandy 2 dashes apple bitters Garnish orange twist
Combine the Jägermeister, brandy, and bitters in an ice-chilled rocks glass. Garnish with an orange twist.
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... Hold on, let me get a drink here. I have a drink here with four ice cubes in it that'll water down my drink if I'm not careful.
*takes a sip*
Mmm. My goodness! I have to celebrate. I told you guys that this is the season finale of this thread. I'm not just celebrating today; I'm celebrating all week long. Every night is going to be a party this week. I've worked my ass off to organize the things being posted this week. So as a reward, it's going to be a party, especially when I'm with you guys. C'mon, you gotta have some fun! This is my release. And it is your release as well, with a combination of great women, compelling photos, stories with meaning, a drink in your hand. Not that's entertainment!
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YEAR IN REVIEW This year was a time when I started to turn a corner (in particular the second half of the year). I began to change the ingredients at play, starting to change how I presented my work. This was the change that ushered in The Natural Evolution Era. The beginning of 2019 was a different product than what it has turned into at the end of the year - quite the change that no other single year has seen from start to finish.
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Ten shoots of 2019 that stood out to me. That's not to say I didn't like other shoots, but in giving out a list of ten shoots I particularly enjoyed are the ones listed below. The women are listed in the order in which they appeared. The names match the photos from left to right, from top row to bottom row. *Just for the record, this list does not take into account the women I'm showing this week.*
SOFIE MAY I went out with her multiple times while she was visiting New York from Australia. It was certainly an emotional roller coaster ride. What started out as me visiting the park like any other typical day, ended up being a night that will hard for me to forget about. Sometimes the memorable moments are those that were never planned out in advanced, and anywhere we went or did was an ultimate thrill ride.
NIKKI BRIANNA Nikki could very well be the woman I owe this entire thread to. The only other woman I can say that about is Dalhous. Without that shoot with Nikki at the time it happened, this may not be an active thread today.
AIMEE YOUNG Probably the Shoot of the Year for myself and for the people who are avid followers of my work. The people let their voices be heard because they also knew that that was one of those shoots that looked and felt special. She meant something to people based on the reactions she got. Aimee Young means so much to me, that I'm thinking about naming an award after her.
NIENE DOORNVELD A big, healthy woman who loves the outdoors also to play rough. Spending my time with her away from the park made me reflect on how lucky I am to be that person who is behind this thread, how grateful it has been for me ever since I made the move to Central Park. She reminded me in a very good way of why life is about adventure and fun that can be found at the spur of an unexpected moment.
ANNA SOFTINOVA One beautiful woman. I loved her feet so much. One of my five longest shoots I've ever had (this one went 2:22:00) and this was one of the best shoots I've ever had in my life. It's not a question of if this shoot belongs in my own Top Ten; the question is where in my Top Ten does it belong. I can never get tired of repeating her name.
GEMMASWEETS I couldn't help but think I knew her from somewhere. I asked her about it. She didn't seem to think so. It was that piece of conversation that opened up the flow of the shoot and the conversation I had with her. While other people were having brunch in Central Park on that late Sunday morning/early afternoon, I was also having a good time here with Gemma.
DR. KAREN DESSAUER I'm not sure why, but I thought fans of my work would view her as just another face in the crowd. However, she caught on fire with the audience and has gotten over organically with the visitors of Central Park. The genuine nature of her personality, her love and compassion for pets, taking care of them when they're sick was the selling point that tapped into the compassion the readers have for the well being of animals as well. Karen Dessauer is the 2019 National Inspirational Woman of the Year.
BETSY AWESOME A huge hit that burst onto the scene, turning Betsy into an Awesome sensation. What started out as me saying hello to her, turned into a fun relationship between the two of us. She checked off all the boxes (and I mean all the boxes) of what someone would look for when wanting to walk up to a random girl and ask if you can take photos of her feet. Not including her in this list would make would defeat the purpose of this list.
ALLISON DAWSON A great woman through and through. She's a registered nurse at a hospital in Houston, Texas. Doing what she does for a living, she would have to attend to patients at the time of diagnosis and during the recuperation or recovery phases. Allison would be responsible for explaining reports to patients, administer medicine, conduct medical tests, and interpret test results. She is constantly on her feet, stretching, bending, and standing. Therefore, nursing can be a strenuous job for her. Beautiful cute toes, very beautiful soles that were soft and moist to the touch.
DAUGHTER'S LOVE Someone who would make for a nice partner to go Christmas shopping with and share a hot cocoa with as the two of you keep each other warm in a cozy apartment during the holiday season. An interesting story with her shoes is that those were her mother's. She had her mom's permission to use them and they fit the daughter like a charm. She pulled off the look quite fashionably.
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Central Park in the Dark is an orchestra composed in 1906 by Charles Ives. You can find the song on YouTube if you're interested in listening to it. The next few shoots I'm going to show sparked a bit of inspiration in my to approach women for photo shoots in the dark.
In the music composition, we find Ives as a young man in a light-hearted contemplative mood, observing the goings-on of the Park while sitting on a bench by one of its ponds. This sort of immersed, nature-inspired reflection was just one of the ways in which Ives' transcendentalism -- the set of ideas, attitudes, and questions -- reared its head.
The very existence of Central Park in the Dark can be traced back to Ives' Transcendentalist ideals: following his graduation in 1898 from Yale, it was with the belief in the holiness of hard work and self-reliance that Ives moved to New York and began working for The Mutual Life Insurance Company in New York City. This decision was further bolstered by his realization that since there was no money to be made in his brand of experimental music, it would be best to concentrate on business without having to sacrifice his voice as a composer for the sake of money. While New York offered Ives an ideal environment in which to focus on his rise up through the insurance industry, it was an artificial setting which undoubtedly left the Nature-loving Ives feeling stifled.
Central Park is, for many, the deep inhale which makes the breathlessness of its surrounding madness possible. It is precisely due the starkness of that contrast experienced in the Park (and especially the park "in the dark") which allows for such dramatic and profound interactions with Nature, rivaling for some those encountered in more famously "natural" environments. Even with the earth and air being "monopolized" as they were with the sounds of "the combustion engine and the radio," Central Park is today still the place where people go to experience that which the City does and can not offer.
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I want to give a lot of praise to the ladies who allowed me (a complete stranger to them at the time of the approach), to take the type of photos that are intended for a mature audience. We had a lot of fun and it really opened up our creativity in those collaborations. In the dark, I my creativity was up against a wall and I needed to figure out a way to push into new boundaries that shooting during the daytime would not offer. The challenges of shooting in complete darkness gave the impression that both myself and the women were in the middle of nowhere with a compass that didn't work. Very quiet with people practically nowhere to be seen. These are the settings that fit nicely into the characteristics that makes the Natural Evolution Era as special as it is.
It's the dark that makes people think differently. It's the darkness in Central Park that made myself and the women behave differently. I would like to welcome everyone ... to Central Park in the Dark.
The viewing of those galleries begins tonight. Hope you're here with a drink by your side.
-National
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Central Park in the Dark
This was one of those days in the park that was real slow for me. It was looking like it would be one of those days where I was going to leave the park having achieved nothing as a result of the few hours I've spent there, and it was starting to get dark outside. This is an example of how when you think nothing interesting is going to happen, something else can happen at any moment that could change your fortune.
I spotted her walking from seventy feet away, perhaps. At first I wasn't too inspired to approach her. Part of it was because considering it was getting late, I had mentally clocked out, so the energy or enthusiasm to say hi to her wasn't quite there. But I decided to move closer to her to get a better look at her face anyway. It was a little different: different in that I don't know how to explain it or why she gave me a reason to see things that way.
Her shoes made her look like she had just landed on Earth from the moon. And she walked around the park as if she was surveying this planet, to investigate her experience or to record the features of Central Park so as to construct a plan or description of it for her friends back away from Earth. And I mean that in the most complimentary way possible as to enhance her appearance because her mannerisms made her look ... unique and adorable, I suppose, although I'm not sure adorable is the word I'm looking for to describe her. I will say that, if anything, getting a sense of the type of woman she was, seeing how she looked - her face, hairstyle, outfit, shoes - everything about her was "right" or appropriate for that particular woman, her purpose, and situation ... precisely because it was starting to get dark. I saw all of this as the opportunity to take this challenge on and make the best of it. To showcase her in the elements where she was going to look her best, be her most self: when the moon is out.
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She was hesitant at first, which was not an unusual reaction to such a random request. This was probably one of the worse approached I ever did that still resulted in her saying yes. With this one, I almost blew it, probably because I was a bit tired or exhausted and she sensed it in my delivery. And I saw it on her face, her hesitance to choose between yes and no. It was a great thing I paid attention to that, corrected myself and made my pitch to her again, and sounded a little better that time. She was still on the fence, which meant I needed to push it just a bit more because I sensed that it was well within my reach that she was going to say yes. It was one of those things where I knew she wanted to say yes ... she was just looking for a good reason to say yes.
"The moon is about to come out. It's a perfect match." "Okay."
And that was that. I told her the moon would serve a purpose for the shoot, and that one line was what she sold her on it.
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing we'll call Ametrine. Born, raised, and still resides in Moscow, Russia. Her favorite movies are The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolution. She loves how, in those Matrix movies, there's the unreality of being in a place that is at the same time specific and vague about the time it is in. She likes that there are cellphones and dial up phones about. She loves the technology being sketchy and how the "reality" is off. She thinks the movies were well paced, acted, and how the stories were told in superb fashion. She appreciated how those three Matrix movies delivered on so many promises, and how it is an entertaining watch even after multiple viewings.
She also talked about how she loves to seek knowledge of the future or the unkown by supernatural means. That was not how she said it, but that was the point she was trying to get across. That may explain the tattoo she has on her right forearm. She reads up on material on how to use power gained from the assistance of the spirits. She loves learning and understanding all the nuance that comes with all of that. When asked if she likes to put evil spells on people, She found that question amusing before answering no. That tattoo she has made me think about how she slayed dragons with old passages from black magic manuscripts she found in a cabinet ... written in Arabic.
She's into industrial metal and dark trance type of music. I mean, everything about the conversation I had with her, and learning about who she was made for a perfect setting for a photo shoot of this caliber in the darkness of Central Park. Had this shoot taken place at two in the afternoon, there would be kids running all over the place, adults sitting on the grass and sharing meals in the open air, the place being packed overall. At the time when this shoot took place, it was dead. Dead silent. The flashes from the camera would be the only thing that would stand out to anyone who happened to walk by. Ametrine was completely comfortable in the elements, comfortable with me having a foot fetish, totally fine me being there.
Here we have this lady whose feet were made of dough. They were easy to mold, compress or to fold; Not hard in your hands when you hold.
Her feet has a pleasing quality involving a subtle effect rather than sharp definition. They were smooth and agreeable to touch. They were sweaty as well when the shoes came off of them. And they make for great comfort when you bury your face into the soles of her feet. Her hands were beautiful. The colors she painted them fit her personality: I can't see how anyone else I photographed paint her nails the way Ametrine did and be able to pull it off just as effectively with the same meaning.
She looks like the type of person who can play the role of an underground dark super hero, living in a post-apocalyptic city, trying to lead a normal life while eluding capture by government agents. Either that, or a role of a mystic character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot.
This is what happens when you think nothing interesting is going to happen: something or someone can show up from out of nowhere, changing the complexion of what will happen next.
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Central Park in the Dark
NATURAL CLASSIC Another woman who I thought had fantastic looking soles. Startlingly impressive. Something that keeps me going is to find a pair of soles that I consider and emphasize to be my ideal take on what very good soles look like. Finding a pair like that makes my breathe a sigh of relief and makes me feel as if my mission is done. I also appreciated the fact that her toenails were painted red. They were done with the greatest care and they made her feet look as if they tasted very sweet with the combination of a matched pair of red socks and red low top canvas shoes. The icing on the cake was that those feet belonged to a woman who looks as great as she does.
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I spotted her as I was walking on the jogging track of the (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) Reservoir, a popular place of interest in Central Park that's often visited by tourists. On that day, that place wasn't anywhere near as packed with as many people as there would've been because of the threat of thunderstorms. Walking there that afternoon felt like a ghost town almost, but there we were. She was leaning on the steel fence that surrounds the water and looking at the turtles and Canadian geese close by, making themselves comfortable on the water close by to where she stood. She looked nice the way she watched them. The scene was quiet and she was in a peaceful frame of mind.
It feels great when a hot girl has no objections to the idea of letting me, a complete stranger to her, take photos of her feet, without any time of preparations beforehand. Women like her are incredibly easy to talk to. We talked with other for a while as we walked through the park before we reached a spot to do the shoot.
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This was one of those shoots that if someone came up to me after the shoot was over and told me that I could not do any more shoots, it would catch me by surprise, of course, but at the same time I would be at peace with myself because a shoot like that one would not be a bad way for me to ride off into the sunset. That's exactly how I felt after the shoot was over.
Towards the end of it, there was a little bit of sensual roleplaying going on that could be described as somewhat taboo. She was acting out the part of a character that was part of her alternate personality. She was enjoying it quite a bit, detaching herself from the outside world and devoting herself to me, which made me get into it quite a bit as well. I loved this in part because neither of us had any idea the shoot would turn out the way it did by the time it became dark and we both could see the moon trying to glow through the clouds were beginning to break apart.
Finding the hidden part of herself required finding her other true self, one with a different personality. Going with the flow of the situation (in what was, by that time of the shoot, an alternate reality), and going into the unknown as to what would happen next, she represented herself by virtue of oblique similarities, in terms of psychology, behavior, speech, and thoughts, in a way that was used to convey her own thoughts. This was something that just happened. No words were spoken between us during the final moments of the shoot. We were like two lovers who let our body languages do the talking for us, and we did a wonderful job communicating with each other without the use of words.
In the dark, when there's no one around, and it was just myself and the subject of the shoot. The noise the camera flash makes became more pronounced. When talking about noise, I'm talking about the audible kind. The kind that makes a popping sound when fired. Every time she heard that sound during the final moments of the shoot, she felt more needed and she reacted as if she was being sensually touched while trying to hold in any sounds of pleasure from leaving her lips. This was a form of self pleasure for her and she was at a loss for answers for how to get out of it if she ever wanted to.
I touched her face very softly. She lovingly held my hand that was touching her face. I loved closer to her. I tilted her chin upwards so that our lips would be formally introduced to one another. And that's how the shoot ended.
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Central Park in the Dark
NATURAL CLASSIC It was starting to get late one Monday evening and I was starting to think I wasn't going to find someone to shoot in time. I saw this woman walking towards me as she was pulling a suitcase on wheels. She looked as if her mind was on focused on getting home because she paid no attention to what was going on in front of her. She walked right past me and she didn't even notice my presence. At first, I didn't have too much interest in stopping her because the jacket she had on did nothing for me. Neither did her flip flops. Those are things she would wear if she were to run down to the delicatessen real quick to get a half gallon of milk. I wasn't too inspired. Then I told myself, It's getting late, but let's see what happens here. And I was glad I went ahead to see what was the story behind this woman. What started out as something I had low expectations for, turned out to be an episode that will be one of the more memorable ones for me.
I really thought going into this that this would be one of the more boring shoots I will ever have. I thought nothing would come of it no matter what I did to trigger her attraction switch. If you're out there doing this and think to yourself, She doesn't look like the type of girl would say yes to this ..., WRONG! You don't know what can happen because you don't know the situation just by looking at someone. I caught myself thinking like that before whipping myself back into focus.
I walked back to catch up to her to say hi. She stopped walking and gave me her full attention. I told her that I just saw her just walk pass me and that I was going to get straight to the point: I wanted to take pictures of her feet. She nodded slowly, awaiting whatever came next. I forgot what I said afterwards, but whatever that was, it prompted her to ask, "Is this, like, for a fetish you have or something?" She asked as if she was cautious of asking me that question, almost as if she was unsure of the situation.
I said, "I mean, it's just feet. So why not?" She said, "Aha," as if to say, I think I'm starting to understand, though I can't figure you out completely. Finally she said, "I suppose, I guess. Okay."
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She's originally from Des Moines, Iowa, but now resides in New York. I guess what kept me in the shoot long enough to turn it into a classic was the conversations we had, and the fact that she looked better without her coat on. She was indeed heading home and had her suitcase on wheels with her to help move some of her stuff from one place to another that she was moving into. She moved away from Iowa primarily because of family drama she could no longer deal with. She had enough of all of that and decided to move as far as far away from the situation as she could, as far east as she could without jumping into the Atlantic Ocean.
Now life is better and clearer for her - it's something she is thankful of having. She is a settled, more happy woman now because she was able to free herself from all of that. I was so glad to hear how she was able to rise above the turmoil and be much more content with who she is in her own skin. I told her about my life story and we were able to have this conversation for as long as we did. It was amazing how much about herself we were able to open up to one another even though we were complete strangers. We connected and felt as if we were suppose to have known each other for a long time. To her, talking to me and spending time with me was deeply therapeutic to her.
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Her favorite movie of all time is Secretary. She provided the gateway of going deep into that new topic of conversation. She said that since I was out in the open about what you liked, she felt like she owed me one and started to tell me the things she liked. And it stems from that movie. She loves the concept of the movie and its message: that there is good pain, pain she said tells you, "This hurts like hell, but something good's going to come of it!" She talked about how pleasurable pain tells your body what resources it needs to heal, tells you how far you can run or how much you should carry. She talked about how pleasurable pain brings resolution. She expressed how, in a relationship, that kind of physical pain happens when someone's weakness (particularly hers) gets down and dirty with the other person's partner's weakness. She went into detail about how physical pain means sacrifice and compromise, rationalizing that if love - and the making of it - is the ultimate creative act, then, like all creative acts, it will require several drafts, each one a small death to self in favor of the other. All of this got my attention, no doubt. And she knew that that got my attention, which made her invest in the conversation more. Then she got a little more personal.
She said something about being able to pay all her own bills and how there was no one looking after her in any sense. "But in bed I want to be looked after." Later on she said, "I don't want to make the decisions, I don't want the responsibility. After spending the day at work, I want to be in the bedroom and I want to surrender, knowing that if I do as I'm told, I'll get looked after - I'll be given what I want. I wouldn't be at all satisfied with someone dominating me, telling me to do things and then not making me come. I'm sure you understand, right?"
I understood all to well what she was trying to say: she needed a man to prove to her that he can dominate her and is worthy of her submission. Before long, she was opening her legs for me on demand, getting the much-needed course of therapy she wasn't going to get in some doctor's office. She said, while she held that pose, "I feel comfortable right now." I kept on talking as if I didn't hear her before she repeated herself again.
While all of this was going on, there were a few men who were watching the shoot from a distance, trying to blend in behind the trees. Being that it was dark, it was hard to see where they here hiding exactly, but they were there. I saw one nudging his elbow to the guy next to him as if to say, Get a load of that! They were curious, probably wondering how all of this (meaning the shoot) came about.
The shoot, in a way, turned into a version of how her sexual fantasy fetish wanted to come to life. The amazing thing about it was that all of this was unplanned. All of that came about in quite the unexpected way because she did not walk into Central Park with any ability to judge correctly what was going to happen to her before she walked out of the park. There was no man in her life at that point who made her want to look forward to seeing him as soon as she got home, a man who she could give herself completely to. What started as the two of us walking by each other in Central Park (with her not even noticing I was there, and me having very little interest in her when she did walk past me) turned into a scenario where she changed her behavior to assume the position, in a sense, to consciously act out an adapted role of a woman who has lost grasp of the situation and throwing caution into my wind.
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We talked to each other some more, for about a half hour after the shoot was over, in complete darkness in Central Park. We talked about anything any everything, ranging anywhere from the meaning of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence to fetishism and sexual behaviors.
A unique connection was form between us. Quite the connection, in fact, that we found ourselves bare hugging each other. We weren't standing up giving each other the hug. Instead, we remained seated next to each other on the rock when we applied the bare hug to each other. Our hands were locked around each other, holding one person's chest tightly to the other. It was a painful embrace as much pressure was exerted onto the other one's sternum, almost as if we were trying to hurt each other's back bones and muscles. This was like love for us. Love via pain.
Without telling her what to do, I moved her even closer to me. She wrapped her legs around my waist, we kissed each other into the night, and I removed the straps from her shoulders, her bare breasts, as lovely as they were, exposed to me, inviting me to do as I pleased to them. She was dry humping me, both in the sitting position and while I was lied down. And she was a good kisser. She did most of the rubbing and thrusting, providing enough friction to get us both off. It was an addiction we started for each other. An addiction neither of us wanted to fix.
Just when I thought things were going to escalate in the park, she stopped.
I asked, "What happened?" Being both a little embarrassed and proud of what we did, she said, "Those cops are watching us." "You're kidding, right?"
She shook her head and whispered to me that I take a look behind me. I looked. And there they were, about 100 feet away, pointing the flashlight at us from their patrol car. I don't know how long they were watching us and I wasn't sure if they were waiting for her to give me oral sex or for me to do something terrible to her. She rested her face on my chest so as not to be seen by the police. She put the straps back on her shoulders, started to get our stuff together as if to leave that spot, and the cops drove off.
She looked at her watch and it reminded her that she needed to be home. I offered to walk with her. She accepted. And that was the beginning of a relationship where sexual desperation for one another played a prominent role in our well being.
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As a way to enhance the experience, here's a song to listen to that always reminds me of her. The lyrics paint a fantastically accurate depiction of what I think about when I think about her, and it serves as a way to give your mind a highlight reel as to what our relationship was like. No other song describes it better than this one.
quote:Originally posted by sftfan: An outstanding retrospective, National, particularly Marry Faith.
I'll never get over Colored Leash. Her feet were _gorgeous._ So was she.
quote:Originally posted by HighArchesPT: The good old Bryant Park times
Sorry that it took this long for me to finally give a reply. I wanted to do it a lot sooner, but I couldn't find the time to do so.
Thank you, sftfan. Thanks for taking the time of walking through the museum and acknowledging just how much of a nice touch the Hall of Fame is in honoring the past so that they can live on forever. When I wrote the pieces together for these ladies, I realized just how much more depth I was adding to their likeness from their original stories when they were first posted. It felt great expressing those extra elements to their stories as a way to wrap pretty little bows over them.
The one with Marry Faith was truly one of the best and most genuine pieces I've ever written about someone. So much so, that it played a big part in my decision to put her on last in the Hall of Fame ceremonies, to give it a storybook ending to a hart-warming celebration.
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To HighArchesPT ...
The Hall of Fame is an exhibition, a compilation showing the development of my work over a period of time. It's a place for sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past. So it made all the sense in the world to include those women and relieve some of the memories I had over there.
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Cool
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Great (Bloody Mary) story. Left me wondering how/why the relationship ended.
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WHAT I LEARNED FROM THE WOMEN OF CENTRAL PARK
I am going to share some of the wisdom I accrued over the years of conversations with my female subjects.
I started doing this with no serious intent of keeping this going for as long as it went. I wanted to show the photos of maybe a couple of dozen women before stopping. But I kept on going. In doing so, I started having a great time shooting these ladies beyond just seeing what their feet looked like. Conversing with them during the shoots has led to some of the more interesting and fascinating conversations I will carry with me forever. That aspect alone has made what I shared from my public park journeys the place that has become as resonating as anything this community has ever known.
Over the years, I would meet these ladies for lunch, dark bars, beer gardens, tiny apartments, coffee shops long after the shoots were over and we became a source of great company for each other. This was all fun work that came with a little bit of learning along the way.
I viewed these women as slightly younger versions of myself. We faced the same culture, the tumult of the sexual revolution, and we were making it up as we went along. They were willing to put themselves in front of the world without shame. And they taught me a lot.
I learned to listen. (Try it sometime.) For many of these young women, I was the first man - perhaps even the first person - to be deeply curious about them, who wanted to know who they were, what they thought. Who asked sincere questions, who was able to relate to them. I found that when your subject gets the sense that you're digging deeper into her mind that would add depth to the conversations, she begins to believe that what she says counts. (It works on men too.)
I learned that beauty could be a curse. The world reacts to you whether or not you are ready. The same wave of hormones that turns girls into women turns some boys into assholes. More than one guy had said to a girl I photographed that she was a nobody or that she was truly worthless. I had a few women tell me that they posed for me to help validate to themselves that they are not those things those people said to them.
I learned what women looked for in a man - or at least one woman in particular. She wanted King Kong, the black-and-white one, the one who climbed the Empire State Building looking for Fay Wray, pulling out the screaming woman through the window before being tossed to her death because she wasn't "the One." In other words, her message to her suitors was: Know what you want and accept no substitutes.
I learned the full depth of love, of courage, of loss. One woman I photographed had just returned from a heartbreaking journey. Her brother had died and she'd gone to retrieve his body. That story didn't make it into the final cut when it came time to post her photos, but it changed my heart.
I learned how to approach beautiful women. After one of the shoots was over, I told the girl that I thought she was adorable and that if she ever needed to talk to someone, that I would be available. She called me that weekend. We went out, had lots of fun and she became attached to me. The lesson was clear: Let the woman make the first move.
A few women who rejected me told me that what I was doing was reducing women to mere sex objects, that I wanted to present them as being all the same. Meanwhile, Greek Mythology (the feminist who I showed in last year's Season Finale) had a different take on the matter and knew that my job was to discover the individual, to celebrate the person. This thread lets the women of Central Park tell their own stories, in their own voices, using me as a medium. Some spoke in a shy whisper, others with a defiant audacity.
One girl I shot had brought me to her apartment, where she kept a stash of a certain controlled substance she thought would make her more articulate. But she had locked herself out of her place. I helped her take out a screen and opened the window, and I watched her crawl through the opening, blue-jeaned ass in the air. By the way, that visual was not an attempt to wed the furtive, the criminal and the forbidden with the image of the girl next door in order to heighten the sexual. All that was was me telling you that she had just misplaced her keys.
The Women of Central Park had given me an uncommon education, and I had graduated.
-National
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Join me tomorrow night, as I will unveil what will officially be the final shoot of the decade. Thank you all so much.
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At thirty nine minutes long, this is the shortest shoot I've ever had in Central Park that was classified as a Classic in this thread. It felt more like twenty nine minutes to me.
This happened early one Saturday evening just before six o'clock. A beautiful girl wearing a dress walks in front of me, enjoying the peace and quiet away from normal city life. She looked very happy. Whatever was on her mind kept her smiling to herself. I wasn't sure if I wanted to have a shoot with her only because taking photos of a woman wearing a dress was something I almost never did as I'm a complete stranger to them and may not be sure as to what angles I'm trying to shoot for when holding the camera. So I was presented with a question to myself, asking how would I go about shooting a girl wearing something like that? That was something I was going to have to learn on the fly. I had decided to go ahead and take photos of that woman because she was too cute to pass up on.
So you just seen that hot girl in the park. How do you talk to her? You want to run around directly in front of her. You're directly in front of her, face to face. You tell her you're being socially calibrated that people don't usually do this. You tell her she looks hot, which is a direct compliment meant to get her full attention on you and snap her out of whatever it was she was thinking about before you stopped her. You want your speech to be slow and you want your eye contact to be strong. And you want to be smiling. And that's how you stop a girl.
I ran around directly in front of her, startling her for a second before I said "Hey, I know this a bit forward ... I saw you strutting past, your hail flailing, and I thought you looked hot. So I was like, I'm not gonna let her get away without at least saying hello." She said hi as she giggled.
I love it when I tell them that I want to take pictures of their feet and then they look down at their shoes, then look back up to me. "My feet?" she asked. "Usually I think they're nice, but they're not quite ready this time. You're making me blush, oh my God."
I've never had that kind of reaction before, but it felt good. So I asked her, "Blush? What-d-ye-mean 'blush?' Wait, is this a confession?"
"No," she lied. "It's just that, I don't know. I'm nervous." "That means you're excited." "Yeah, I know, but you're making me blush." Then, almost on impulse, she changed her mind and decided she was going to go for the shoot, reminding me that her feet were "not ready."
She suddenly remembered something: "Oh, how long is this gonna take?" "How much time do you have?" I asked. "Not a lot. I have to get to work in about a half hour."
Usually, I won't let that bother me even though the typical shoot for me goes for longer than that. But in this case, it did bother me a bit because I was starting to like this woman. I wanted more time. So I told her to forget about the shoot, that it was nice meeting her, but I was going to have to look for someone else. She seemed a bit sadden by news and said okay.
Twenty seconds after we went our separate ways, I told myself to get a hold of itself and to go back to her to try to make things right with her. It was not too late to do so. I wanted to make this magical for us, and she seemed to be pretty down for wanting to go on a magic ride with me, whatever that entailed.
I walked back to her. She looked back at me, saw that I was making my way back towards her and she stopped walking (being that she wanted to give me time to catch up to her), started to fix her hair, all the while pretending not to see me. But I saw it. I decided to cut her some slack by pretending not to see her pretending not to see me. I knew all of this because when I caught up to her again, she said, "Oh ... oh HI!" still combing through her hair with her fingers. It wasn't a good acting job on her part, but I gave her an A for being so cute and playful about the whole thing. Finally I said, "Okay, let's go."
Selena is an eighteen year-old Hispanic woman, half Dominican and half Mexican. She's also eighteen years old. Selena is the typical fun, outgoing, very pretty teenage girl in New York City. She goes to the mall; goes shopping (in the case there isn't a mall nearby); hangs out with friends; she's on her smartphone 10+ hours a day for Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, texting and FaceTiming friends. She listens to music and gossips, watches Netflix and YouTube, sleeps, and eats whatever is lying around. In addition, she daydreams about guys 'n stuff, she sometimes likes to T Y P E L I K E T H I S F O R N O R E A S O N, and goes to the food court with her friends and decide who gets to pay for almost thirty minutes.
We found ourselves talking about what attracts men to women. She was curious as to how a guy's mind work when it comes to attraction.
ME: Are you looking to have sex with someone in particular? SELENA: (A bit embarrassed about being asked that question, but kind of chuckled anyway) No, not really. Well, I'm just looking for, just respect, I guess. ME: Well, you're not going to get respect by ignoring somebody. You want someone like me to put his hands all over you. SELENA: Oh, yeah, yeah ... um, (she's blushing again after having heard that I wanted to put my hands on her) well, I mean my motto is, kind of like, you know ... ME: The way to get respect is to stand up for yourself and not let anyone walk all over you. SELENA: Yeah, I'm kinda like the nice girl who always gets dumped. ME: Oh boy! SELENA: I know. I'm only eighteen. Like, I just turned eighteen (and that's how I found out her age). ME: That's okay. And you want guys to respect you? Have sex with you or what? SELENA: Both. I want a guy to respect me and have fun with me. But that's not the only thing that, you know, that's ... ME: I understand. Look, most guys won't have fun with you unless they have sex with you. You understand that, right? After a guy has had sex with you, he starts to pay closer attention to what you have to say and he decides if he wants to continue seeing you. That's how a lot of guys are. Are you okay with that? SELENA: You know, when you came up to me, I thought you were going to ask for my number or something. I was excited because this was all just happening so fast. ME: Don't worry, I'll get to that.
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I set the tone real nicely for her. I asked Selena to do certain poses, and she was able to see no harm in what I was looking for in this shoot; she was able to make herself right at home with me. I made her very comfortable around me, and she was more fitting to fit in with the needs and desires of the shoot better than most of the other women in the history of ALL random shootings of girls right off the street (or in this case, the park) in public.
Towards the end of the shoot (and you'll see this in the gallerie), I had her stand up so I could take more photos of risque poses. She looked around to see if anyone was looking in our direction. Then she whispered to me ... actually, almost mouthing the words to me, I could tell from how she said it that she wanted to do it, but was afraid of getting into trouble or being seen by anyone, if that person wasn't going to do anything about it.
So for the first time I had to borrow a line from our newly-inducted Hall of Famer Stacey Datesey, "Don't worry. If someone walks in on us, that person would be, like, ... so jealous." Her eyes moved from left to right, almost as if she was asking herself, Should I do it? Should I do it? She took the dare and posed in the way I wanted to.
So we were out there on a nice day and she became inspired by our surroundings among the trees, grass, blue skies and lots of laughs. This shoot was everything it needed to be: it was short, sweet, and right to the point. An eighteen year-old ... so nice.
I should also mention real quick that towards the end of the shoot, she let me kiss her feet and lick between her toes. She kept giggling and would try to remove her feet from my mouth whenever she felt my tongue. But she never removed it completely from my hand because it felt nice to her at the same time, especially being that that was the first time anyone had done that to her. So I would do it a few more times, and she would giggle a bit before settling in and enjoying it. Her soles on my face, my nose between her toes, trying to keep her moans down, her long, low sounds expressing sexual pleasure, her "oh my God's." Then she snapped out of it before I got too ahead of myself, reminding herself that she needed to get to work soon. It tasted salty, just how I like it.
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She gave me her number. I was throwing out some general ideas of where I wanted to take her out or what kind of fun activities I wanted to do with her for our date. She couldn't been happier about being in that moment and sharing it with me.
She said, "I'm so glad you said hi to me." "Come here," I told her. "I've got something to show you." "What, you're gonna kiss me?" That was exactly what I had in mind. "Let's find out ..."
I walked her out of the park, and off she went to work.
[ December 23, 2019, 10:36 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
"Her soles on my face, my nose between her toes ... It tasted salty, just how I like it."
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy: Great (Bloody Mary) story.
That was fuckin' insane, right?!
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy: Left me wondering how/why the relationship ended.
I wouldn't be so sure about that ...
It's one of those things that doesn't require monogamy (although that wasn't always the case) and is mostly centered on sex being the thing that keeps our addiction for one another going. If that's bad for my health, then I don't want to be cured.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you, firstly, to the wonderful ladies of Central Park who have graciously allowed me to take photos of their fresh, natural, ripe feet straight from their socks and shoes at a moments notice. The women who were understanding enough enough to see the greater good in collaborating with me to put together the masterpieces that were a part of my vision, part of the creative process. I thank them for going along with me into a new, exposing their feet in their truest forms and sharing your life stories with me, for the fun and in-depth conversations. Thanks to the women who I showed this week, espcially, since we were celebrating them as well. I love each and every one of you, all for different reasons and the same reasons at the same time.
Thank you to the 2019 class that was just inducted into the National Gallerie Hall of Fame of Women. Thank you ladies for being the reasons why everyone loves this thread. And for being the reasons why people took such a liking to you guys. Acknowledging the past helps accept the present and future with open arms, making the Natural Park concept an idea that makes people appreciate the appeal of the real girl next door.
I thank the supporters of my work for finding new reasons to appreciate the galleries put on display. You guys got more than what you bargained for this week, from incredible women with incredible and fun biographies attached to each of them. I enjoy putting forth the content I provide to everyone.
And, lastly, thank you to winter for inspiring me to fortify myself against you. This is for you, too.
The End.
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
"Thank you, firstly, to the wonderful ladies of Central Park who have graciously allowed me to take photos of their fresh, natural, ripe feet straight from their socks and shoes at a moments notice." ...
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A NOTE TO EVERYONE
This is the 2020 Season Premiere. Originally, I wait until late-April before I reemerge from my winter hiatus to present you guys with new original material from the Women of Central Park. Given the circumstances of the times we're now living in, I felt the need to come back a month sooner to address the issue at hand. You didn't think I was going to stay silent and not give my take on what's been going on, did you? Health-wise, I've been doing just fine ... or at least I haven't shown any symptoms of the bug. As someone who lives in NYC, the epicenter of this pandemic in the United States, and someone who's out in the streets a lot more often than I would like to be, I've been able to swim through a river of filth and still come out on the end of it all clean. Granted, that could all change at any moment, but so far ... not a sniffle, a sneeze or a cough. I hope you guys are doing as fine as can be, given the circumstances. I hope you guys stay tough through this, knowing that the light at the end of the tunnel will get here eventually.
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The pandemic has swirled out of control over the last 30 days and we are really in uncharted waters. This is a little different than anything we've gone through in our lifetimes, whether it's everyday life, the business world, politics, etc. We have a set of circumstances right now unlike anything we've ever dealt with before, including the terror attacks on 9/11. With 9/11, there was a shock to what had just happened to us. There was a coming together of community that was unlike anything we've ever experienced in the United States and we started to rebuild almost immediately. The coronavirus, however, is different.
We've basically watched as our way of life has been put to a stop to everything we do, one by one. We are in a state of almost suspended animation. The economy is going to feel the negative effects of this for months and months because no one is flying, no one is going to work, no one is eating at restaurants. At any given moment a building can get shut down, a person can get quarantined so that that person doesn't spread it. That's not to say that you are going to get sick if you're young or healthy, but you still can be a carrier and infect someone who's not going to react to this as well.
Step by step, we've had each part of our lives frozen:
"Oh well, at least we have this." Well, now you don't have that. "Well, the kids have to go to school." Guess what, they're not going to school. "Well, we can go watch a sporting event." No, there is no sporting event to go to. Sorry. "Well, we can fly here." No, you can't fly to that country. "Well, we can take advantage of this by doing that." Sorry, that's been shut down.
With 9/11, there was a sense of community because there were people were helping each other. And things got back to a sense of normalcy eleven days later in the United States (especially NYC) with that classic baseball game between the Mets and the Braves in Shea Stadium. That's when we that things were going to be okay. But with the coronavirus, we don't have that here. We don't know if the multi-billion dollars sports leagues will be back in two weeks, four weeks, eight weeks, or sixteen weeks. We don't know. And that goes for any other businesses as well. We don't know if the school year is going to be over for these kids. They have to be taught through video conferencing for the rest of the year, perhaps.
For those of you who still call it a hoax, smarten up. C'mon now ... I think we've seen that it's not a hoax. Nobody has taken it this far if it's a hoax. You don't want to see tragedy hitting your own family or someone you love who is elderly before you find out what is real and what is not real. So take it seriously. Now I'm *not* telling you to stop living because I would never tell you to do that. I'm not saying you shouldn't go out or that you can't stop by at your frequency shops you frequent so that those people can stay in business. Please, do all of that. And if those businesses want to be courteous to the people who still want to use them, make sure your workers are healthy if they're touching stuff because you don't want infected workers coming to work.
Whatever part of the world you live in, you've been touched. If you rely on public transportation to get around, you've been touched. Heck, if you're the president of said transit system, you've been touched. If you have a little morning coffee business, you've been touched. If you own an NBA team, you've been touched. If you are a vendor at a baseball stadium, you've been touched. I can go down the line, but you get my point.
Our way of life has been completely interrupted. It's going to take a long time to come back from this. People smarter than I am in these issues told me that it will take three times as long as we are out to come back. For example, if our world is shut down for a month, it will take three months for life to get back to normal. If we're shut down for two month, it will take six months to get back to 100 percent normal, etc.
If you know someone who's elderly where you live, and you have a few minutes to spare, make sure they're okay. Check in on them because they're scared right now. They are worried because they're hearing all of this stuff about how it's going to affect them because of their age and their compromised immune systems. For them, it's a very dangerous situation. In the meantime, go for a walk in your neighborhood to get some fresh air. Read a book. Understand that the internet still works and that there's still access to Netflix or any other service like that that's out there.
Let's hope that as the weather gets warmer, that this virus is going to burn off. And hopefully, by the time winter returns, a drug company will come up with some kind of an answer as they work diligently to do that.
I have more to say about this in the coming days, but I'll leave it here for now.
-National
[ March 29, 2020, 09:58 PM: Message edited by: National ]
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**What a month it has been for all of us. Where ever you are from around the world, all of our lives are changing by the hour. Many of us are home in isolation, not allowed to leave the house. So now more than ever we need foot fetish presentation our community to help see us through this in what has become a very surreal time in our lives.
Throughout the Spring 2020 edition of the Women of Central Park, I will show photos of random women who I approached ... women who I've never met before who were very cool and kind enough to let me take photos of their feet, meaning immediately after they've been told that I wanted to see their feet. Awesome ladies who didn't mind killing some time with me, all in the name of fun. Enjoy!**
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Her name is Door Godeke. Last same pronounced how-deh-geh (rhymes with how to get). She came to New York simply because it was on her "to do" list for quite some time. She is from Amsterdam and she stands about 6'2'' tall (188 cm). When you do this for as long as I have, you have a much better sense as to which women are open to having photos of their feet taken by a complete stranger just by looking at her for no more than three seconds. I saw her and knew immediately that she was it.
Door was going to walk in one direction, but changed her mind at the last moment to start walking in the opposite direction, now walking towards me as I was walking towards her. I told her to stop. She actually stopped. Looking back on that, it amuses me to think that line actually worked; she could've easily ignored me and continue to walk past. But she stopped walking and had that look on her face that told me that she was more than willing to help me out with whatever it was I needed. Little did she know that I wanted her to help me out by way of showing me precisely how her feet looked out in the open, right out of her fresh socks and shoes.
"Oh, I thought you were going to ask for directions," she told me. "Yeah, directions to your feet," I responded. "Has anyone taken photos of your feet before?" That made Door laugh a little, "I can't say that has ever happened to me before, so no." "So what are you waiting for? Let's go!" She shrugged her shoulders, "Okay."
I love it when they say okay. It's so simple and straight to the point.
I never heard of the brand of shoes she wore that day, but she was glad they came in handy for her because, "I walked in these for about almost five kilometers today. I don't know how much that is in miles, but you'll know what I mean. They support my weight and I love how they look." I guess I caught her at a good time for her to rest a bit. And I was greatly appreciative of her for letting me see the soles of her feet in their natural pure condition. It was a comforting sight for me to see.
Our friend Door Godeke likes to go for some street art hunting at through the streets of Amsterdam. She likes to look at graffiti, the bikes decoration, tiny public libraries, and other small items. She just keep her eyes open for these things. She loves to bar hop for the great drinks and vibrant atmosphere those places provide. Then there's Vondelpark where she loves to spend her free time. In the summer there is an open-air theater called “Openlichttheater” (Open light theater). She's there for the shows and other special events. And she also loves to ride her bike and get lost in the Zuid-Kennemerland National Park.
A great person to be around, she is. Even with the afternoon getting a bit chilly towards the end, spending the time with her was just what the doctor ordered.
DOOR GODEKE -- Click Here SHOE SIZE - 10 (U.S. - Canada), 40 (EUR), 7 (U.K.)
Natural Park - The Women of Central Park, Spring 2020 Posted by Lars (Member # 1461) on :
Hey National.
Stay safe in this crazy time.
Best from Denmark.
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As great as it is to see your work, again, it’s even better to know you’re OK! Stay safe my friend! Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
MMMMMM, yummy!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Central Park in the Dark
Here's another woman I met. I'm pretty certain these photos were shot on a Monday.
It was getting dark outside and I was about to call it a night. I saw this woman sitting there, minding her own business. It was a pretty cool night and I thought it would be pretty cool thing to say hi to her and ask if I could take pictures of her. She was in the middle of doing homework. However, she didn't mind my presence and was quite agreeable to allow me to take pictures of her feet within seconds of meeting her.
Aridina is originally from Florida, but has lived in New York for quite some time now, and is a student attending classes at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in pursuit of a career in the world of performing arts (theatre and music theatre). Making this move gives her the chance to prepare for the financial demands of a four-year university when she transfers. How nice.
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Not before or since this woman have I heard anyone who's had a more infectious laugh than she has. Aridina has this cute and enthusiastic laugh that always gets other people to laugh along with her. It seemed as if everything I said made her laugh out loud. Also, what would happen with me on multiple occasions, she would start to laugh about something I didn't think was funny, but eventually I would up laughing too because of how good the laughs sounded.
On weekends, she likes to watch an embarrassingly sad movie. The kind of movie she knows will make her cry or the kind she'd actually be embarrassed to watch with other people because it's just so bad, yet somehow be her guilty pleasure. She also uses that time to binge watch Netflix because, "what else are solo weekends for? Not much. A date with my couch, a cup of coffee and a blanket is all I need."
I don't know how she was able to read the papers from her homework assignment when one considers that it was dark outside and that there weren't any lights close by. Eventually I was able to take her mind off of that stuff and concentrate more on the interpersonal dynamics between us during the shoot.
I like how these photos came out. These night shoots are so much fun to have in part because the feet becomes more of the focus. I like how the soles of her feet looked and they had something of a silky texture to it - smooth, shiny, like silk. Now when you approach random ladies, you're never quite sure if their toenails are going to be painted if her footwear doesn't reveal her toes. Either painted toenails or not doesn't really matter to me. Hers were chipping. When you approach randoms, that's part of the gamble you have to take, and I can't fault her. "If I had known you were going to see my feet, I would've had the time to better prepare them ...," she told me.
I understand, but that's okay. We had a nice conversation after the shoot was over. In the dark. But that was okay with her.
ARIDINA - Click Here SIZE 9 (U.S. - Canada), 39 (EUR), 6 (U.K.)
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy: MMMMMM, yummy!
I know ... they type to satisfy your appetite.
quote:Originally posted by Lars: Hey National.
Stay safe in this crazy time.
Best from Denmark.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: As great as it is to see your work, again, it’s even better to know you’re OK! Stay safe my friend!
Thanks for your support. I'm fine and my health has not given up on me. Yesterday morning, I saw the Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort right outside my bedroom window minutes before docking at Pier 90, just three blocks from where I live. You had to have been there to see it for yourself to realize just how much that meant to people. It was quite a sight to behold. I had to see it up close, and so I did later in the day. I'm hopeful that this will mark the beginning of the end of the virus wreaking havoc the way it has.
In this March that has been different than any other March you will ever experience in your life, where you are in a place that none of us ever thought we'd ever be in, just realize that we're one day closer to getting back. When that day is? None of us even has a clue yet. First, we have to get to a point where the numbers have to go down. It is until that time when we can start thinking about putting one foot in front of the other.
-National
[ March 31, 2020, 12:53 PM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Every day we see news stories reporting violence in our country. We see video recordings from people who were there, we see reporters on the scene. But who we don't see are the first responders who have put their lives on the line to protect our cities. Those people deal with the events as they happen to ensure safety and provide medical attention. I have personally photographed these type of women who decided to take some time out of their very busy daily routines to let me spend some time with them, to understand what it's like to be there in the most critical moments of someone's life. Here is a quick 'thank you' to the women who are on the front lines for all of their hard work and bravery.
TROOPER McKINNEY (First Photo, each row) Thank you for putting your life on the line in order to save those around you. Each day you wake up and put on your badge, you know there is a chance you may not get home to take it off that night. You enforce rules, ensure safety, and get labeled with a bad reputation just because you want to make the world a safer place. You run toward the things most other people run away from, and you deserve to know that your hard work and bravery does not go unnoticed.
ALLISON DAWSON, ENA MARIS THRON (Second and Third photos from each row, respectively) To Allison (who's a registered nurse) and Ena (who drives an ambulance), you are the difference between life and death. You ladies are the calm voices in the midst of chaos that says "everything is going to be okay." You see the most terrifying accidents that are too extreme for those who are easily made to feel sick, faint, or disgusted, especially by unpleasant images, such as the sight of blood. Seeing those up close leaves you with nightmares for weeks, and yet you girls continue on. You ladies have made a difference in so many lives, and your bravery, skill, and passion is seen in the lives you've saved.
*As a bit of a side note, the photos of Ena Thron were taken a block or two north of the East Meadow (a popular spot for sunbathers and families). The East Meadow has now been converted into an emergency field hospital to treat COVID-19 patients. Across the street on Fifth Avenue sits one of Mount Sinai's several medical campuses within the city.*
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As my way of wrapping up Women's History Month - and commemorating, encouraging, and observing the celebration of the vital role these ladies have played, thank you for going to work with the goal to save a life. With the world we live in today, in the wake of this global pandemic to put a stop to the spread of COVID-19, it is incredible what you women go through to get to the bottom of solving problems. You are all amazing human beings.
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NATURAL CLASSIC I remember doing this shoot. The thing is I don't remember too much about her story.
Helen Helgesen is from Norway, and I thought it would be a nice change to do something a little different by taking photos of an older woman. It wasn't difficult at all to get her to do this, and I thought her feet (particularly the bottoms of her feet) looked quite nice. That's not to say I didn't like her toes, because I did. I'm a soles guy, so I'm going to be more partial to those. I also liked her footwear, which was another thing that caught my attention about her.
This was a very long shoot almost two hours (an hour and forty-four minutes, to be exact) and I really enjoyed every moment of it. She enjoyed it, as it made her feel appreciative. There is really nothing terrible I can say about her; there was nothing she did or said that rubbed me the wrong way. I don't remember how well her English was, but our communication with each other made the shoot very easy to navigate through.
I gave Helen a ten-minute foot massage afterwards and her feet didn't feel neither hard or soft.
In the end, a very enjoyable shoot, and it was a delight to have seen her feet, to be able to pose them the ways I wanted them to be posed. I was impressed.
HELEN HELGESEN - Click Here SIZE 7 (U.S. - CANADA), 37 (EUR), 4 (U.K.)
Natural Park - The Women of Central Park, Spring 2020 Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Here we have a tourist from the U.K. I saw her leaving the park and something told me to see if she would be interested in this type of shoot with me. She was walking pretty fast on the way out the park so I had to do a little bit of running to catch up to her.
I thought her boots were pretty cool, and I could not help but think that she spent a long time walking in those. There are fourteen sets of eyes that keep the laces of her boots tight, but she opens them with a zipper on the side of each boot. The boots weighs almost 4.5 lbs, so walking in them means walking with a purpose. Those boots run true to size, or just little bit big if a woman's feet is in between sizes like her's are.
The boots turned out to be softer than she thought they would be. Really bouncy sole and she felt no need of breaking them in. She wore it for the first time for a twelve-hour shift at work and her feet were perfectly fine. She always wears them with socks as the embroidered roses are scratchy on the inside. And I liked that she has that "regular girl" look.
She feels neutral about her feet; she doesn't love them, but she doesn't hate them either. She liked them well enough to want to put a tattoo on her foot, and she liked them well enough to apply polish to her toenails. She's okay with guys with foot fetishes and can totally understand why guys find them attractive enough to sexually arouse them, which made it easy for her to decide to spend some time out of the afternoon with me.
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There was a group of four or five nine-year-old girls playing around us. For the most part, they kept to themselves. At other times, at least one of them would keep looking back at the shoot to see what was going on. Eventually, curiosity got the best of them and the group walked up to us to get a better understanding to what was going on.
None of them said a word and they just looked at us before looking back at each other before looking back at us. They were waiting for us to say something and we were waiting for them to say something. So there we were, not saying anything to each other. So I figured if I resumed with the shoot, that'll compel one of them to say something, which was exactly what happened.
"What are you doing? Like, what's going on?" the one who stood closest to me asked. "I'm taking pictures of her feet, as you can see." I said. The same little girl replied with, "I see. But why? Is there something about it that makes it interesting to you?"
She's a smart little lady, I thought to myself. The woman who I was shooting pictures of thought so as well because she started to laugh when she heard it. The question for me was, how was I supposed to answer this, while bearing in mind I was talking to a group of children and not adults.
I had to be quick witted with her, so I said, "Interesting to me? You can say that. If girls don't have pretty feet, then what's the point?" That moment was priceless for them because they looked at each other with the looks on their faces that said, this guy's good, and he has a point, girls.
Another one asked, "Are you guys, like, friends or something?" "It's funny you asked. We just met, actually." That other nine year-old girl seemed perplexed. I could tell she wanted to say something upon hearing that, but her mind couldn't help her formulate the words.
Then the girls I shot said in her English accent, "He wanted to see my feet. I said ok, and here we are. It's just feet, right? That's how I look at it."
So she and I talked with the girls for a few minutes, making small conversations about other things before they went back to resume their normal playing activities. They were in the backround of many photos, so those they didn't make the final cut in the gallery. The ones that did make the cut with them in it where the ones that either had their backs facing the camera so their faces wouldn't be seen or that there was something in the photo that obscured their faces.
After the little girls left, my subject turned to me and said, "I liked how you handled them. So funny (meaning the interaction I had with them), but I thought the whole thing was cute." Below is her name and her shoe size.
Natural Park - The Women of Central Park, Spring 2020 Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
I like her feet and attitude. Like her boots, too. Great story!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATIONAL LIFESTYLE - ADVICE
Someone asked me in a private message if the women I showed over the last few days were someone who I approached during the outbreak pandemic, with that virus that's showing no mercy on people. He said that if that's the case, then shame on me for not showing regard to their well being by putting them at risk for becoming extremely ill. I answered him, and I'm going to give an extended version of that answer to all of you guys to kind of clear the air with what's going on.
Were the photos I showed - and continue to plan to show for the Spring 2020 edition - taking during the pandemic? The short answer is of course not; these photos were taken before the pandemic. The long answer starts with a question that will be a piece of advice for anyone who does what I do, or someone who has serious interest in doing what I do, or someone who's just curious as to what's going on, even though he has no intention of doing what I do.
Question: Should guys be out approaching women during this crisis?
Answer: You shouldn't be doing that because if you walk up to a girl, then there's a risk that she'll visit her family, especially a relative who's elderly, and then infect that person with the virus. So I recommend not running up to strangers. It applies, also, to approaching strangers in the supermarket, let's say. Even if some outlets in the media may be blowing things out of proportion, there are many people who are still dying from this everyday, so it's not to be taken lightly.
So that's what I've been doing - not walking up to any woman in Central Park during this time of uncertainty. I cannot recommend with a clear conscious, particularly for anyone who does what I do (or is considering doing what I do) to be walking up to complete strangers and asking to take photos of their feet. Besides, not a lot of women are out there in the park or streets anyway.
No matter how smooth you think your game is, you will get strange responses from the ladies. I've gotten a strange response or two from women back at a time when life was normal. But can you imagine what their reactions to me would be if I walked up to them right now as we're in the middle of this outbreak ("hey, can I see your feet? I would like to take some picture.")? Since there's practically no one else in the park, there's going to be no one else around to witness you talking to her and she may think you're trying to rob her or give her the infection. So none of this approach stuff is worth it at this point in time. Besides, you don't know if she has the 'rona.
My journey through Central Park is going to be off in April, and I imagine that May may not be a good time to start visiting the park as well to snap some photos. I'm hoping things would get (relatively) back to normal by June, so that's how I'm looking at it right now. So my plans for June are still relevant for any woman who doesn't mind having me take pictures of her feet at the very moment I ask her to see them.
So again, I advise against running up to random women out in public because it's coming from a selfish place as you are putting them at risk, particularly when those women go to visit their grandparents or other people, passing that on to them, the same thing they got from you. You run the huge risk of adding fuel to the fire by increasing the spike of those who get infected. By going up to them during this time, you are taking the choice out of their hands if you approach them and initiate the conversation, probably getting yourself infected as a result.
So for now I'm staying away and keeping to myself. I must be respectful of their decisions, even though it's the last thing I want to do, meaning not meeting new girls. But by not going up to them, it's the most essential, mature, and most empathetic thing to do in the current climate we're in. There are people who aren't convinced fully of how this disease is transmitted, so it's not a good idea at all to try and start a conversation with anyone.
Yes, it has been a lull for me so far when it comes to approaching and taken photos of women. But when this dies down, I'm going to be right back out there. And the women are going to be out there as well because they're all cramped up in their tiny apartments and they can't wait to get back outside on a regular basis to enjoy the weather, to enjoy life again.
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Speaking of approaching these women, let's talk more about that -- this time within the confines of when life was good before all of this virus stuff began to happen, and in the future when this situation gets under control and we are allowed to get back outside to enjoy life once again.
How many approaches should guys be aiming for if they decide to go out there and approach these women out in the park?
Some days, if the stars are aligned, two out of three women I approach would say yes. Then there are other times when I would approach five to ten women and get absolutely smoked by all of them.
I can understand why guys would be a bit scared to approach women to take pictures of their feet. This makes sense and getting shot down definitely sucks. The only way to overcome that is to work hard at getting success, which will reinforce everything you’re reading here.
I find that the best way to get practice and confidence is to encourage yourself to approach at least twenty women a week. If you can do that, you will get plenty of experience and practice. This will only translate to more success in the field and a larger skill set for you to practice with. You may also find some success within those twenty women and that success will spawn more attempts.
Another important part of that number is that it will force you to deal with some rejection. Again, this is something you should expect and something that you shouldn’t be scared of. Don’t worry if some of these women say no, as long as you keep pushing towards that twenty, things will fall into place. Some of my successful approaches below (keep in mind that there were some rejections in between those shoots):
A REINCARNATION OF YOURSELF AS PART OF THIS ADVICE COLUMN On to another topic now that people are basically locked in their places until it is deemed more safe to get outside more often. There is this general feeling amongst people that since no one is going to be working, they are going to go about their lives a bit lazier than they usually are. I'm here to tell you that that is completely the wrong attitude to have. You need to focus on the mission that you're going to return from this stronger, more clever, more grounded, learning a new language (perhaps), and then hitting the ground running when life gets back to being normal. Now we have the time to focus on things we didn't have time to focus on before, meaning that we should emerge on the other side of this being a better version of ourselves than what we were at the beginning of 2020.
You want to treat this almost as a prison sentence with the end goal being that upon your release you're going to be bigger, better, faster, stronger, more intelligent. You'll get to be all of those things by making the most of this free time you now have in your hands.
You also may want to plan out your life. If you're at a job you don't actually like, if you want to be travelling more, if you want to take up a new skill, then these are all things you should be planning. Even if it's just sitting down once every five days with a pen and paper for an hour, no distractions whatsoever, and just jot down notes of the kind of changes you want to implement in your life and how you plan to put those thoughts into action. This could very well be a good time to clarify the next couple of years of your life, a plan of attack once you immediately begin to work hard and successfully at those new activities.
I'm going to post some resources beneath for general self development.
Natural Park - The Women of Central Park, Spring 2020
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
There will be more women to show as we carry this Spring 2020 exhibition into the new week. So keep your eyes open for this thread in the next coming days as we continue to appreciate generous nature of these women as we see their feet coming out of their shoes.
So let me know what you're up to and how you're keeping yourself busy during this crazy time we are ALL experiencing.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I like that I'm able to meet a woman who is different from the others I've taken pictures of. While some share similar interests or conveys personality traits that can be traced back to someone else I met, each woman still has a different story to tell. It's just like when you enter a bookstore and you see all these different books and magazines; the title of each book is different than any other in the store, meaning that you learn something new or gain a unique perspective on things from one book while learning something completely different from a different book from another section in the bookstore. When it comes to the Women of Central Park, no two stories are the same because no two women are completely the same in every sense of the word.
Now that she's at that stage in her life, Judith has more confidence and a better self-image of herself. She doesn't worry as much about what other people are thinking and she doesn't feel a need to always prove herself. She is satisfied with her accomplishments in life so far. She has her health, her family and a great job. Life is good for her.
"Getting to where I am right now took time and maturity," Judith told me as she looked back through the perspective lens on her journey through life. "Find something you love to do or have a passion for. Invest your time in learning and growing within that hobby and then expand even more into the good of the world. Enjoy time with family and close friends. Enjoy time alone too!"
Part of getting there was being at peace about who she is, how she looks, and making the most of how she spends her time being as meaningful as they can be. She gave introspective points of view as she reflected on her character and behavior and what makes life worth living to its fullest. She meditates to gain inner mental strength and peace.
One way Judith found outer acceptance and inner peace was by joining a naturist community. Exposing it all, and seeing others expose it all, has given her a profound outlook in learning body acceptance. Stripping away the facade the "culture" creates with clothing was therapeutic for her. In her home, she is very comfortable walking around naked all day. She sleeps completely naked; in the spring and summer months, she does away with the coverings.
"Being in the nude is like we have found understanding and freedom. When you shed the protection of clothing and ego, you become a much more open, actualized and understanding person. Physical freedom is normally accompanied by psychological freedom. When you asked if you could take pictures of my feet, I was happy to say yes because a part of me was allowed to be free, even if it's just for a little bit. My feet away from these shoes will do."
While it felt strange being nude outside with others at first, it eventually become the norm for her. In fact, she's found that nudity in general has become less arousing to her.
Her shoes became another topic of conversation, as I found those to be interesting. The shoes peak to how active she is to keep her body as fit as possible. Throughout the years, she has been an active (recreational) rock climber. In fact, that's something she still does at her age. She said, "I can actually climb quite well without ever being able to do a pull up!"
Judith is a member of a local fitness club here in New York that includes an indoor climbing gym. For her, indoor climbing is less intimidating than climbing outdoors, but generally she prefers being outdoors for the good views and fresh air. When asked about the risks involved in rock climbing, she acknowledges them but then added that life is not about eliminating risks, "As the old saying goes; a ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are made for."
She wasn't going to do any climbing that day, but she felt they would come in handy spending an entire afternoon in Central Park. She always wears socks in those shoes to help her feet get a better grip on things. One time during a climbing excursion, her feet became so sweaty that they were sliding just enough to start rubbing her feet raw. When she put on her socks, the problem went away and she felt much more comfortable in them. She wore socks on the day I met her, showing that she still takes that lesson to heart.
All in all, it was a nice shoot, and I think her feet look great. They definitely show signs of someone who is quite active on them when you consider the physical activities she partakes in. I love how the veins ripple and articulate throughout the tops of her feet. I really do like seeing that. Her hands shows the same signs as well. I wouldn't kick her soles out of bed, either. And I don't remember ever taking photos of a woman who wore a toe ring before this woman, so that was pretty nice to see.
She's one of the more easy-going conversationalists I've met, and she's quite the amazing person.
Natural Park - The Women of Central Park, Spring 2020
*For anyone interested in rock climbing, and would like to get a great handle on your dexterity while doing the climb, visit the site that's behind the makes and models of the shoe brand Judith wore*: Scarpa.com
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A couple of shoots that didn't make the cut for one reason or another. They've been sitting around for I don't know how long, so I guess it's now time to show them to you guys. I have a bunch of these lying around somewhere, but for now I'll show these two in quick spurts.
The first woman featured in this gallery (the one wearing red) works for the New York City Department of Education as a third grade teacher. The funny part about that was she used to teach at the elementary school I went to. The two of could not believe what we just found out about each other that it produced a moment of laughter at ourselves. At first she didn't believe that I was a student at that school; I then asked her why, out of all the schools in the city, would I pick that particular one as my first one that popped into my head if I never attended a class there in the first place? That was a good question, and she knew it. She admitted defeat right before she took her off her ankle boots to show me her feet. She teaches at another school now, but that was a pretty cool way to start a conversation.
The usual day for her consists of providing instruction in a variety of subjects including math, social studies, reading, and science. She is sensitive to cultural, racial, socioeconomic, and religious differences among her students and understands how such diversity influences their learning. The class she teaches has a large number of students in the classroom, so she definitely has her hands full. She assigns homework, create lesson plans, prepare exams, and evaluate the students. She, like most elementary school instructors, is based out of one classroom and works with the same group of students daily. And she must also communicate well with the parents of her students, especially regarding any potential social or behavioral concerns she may have. You know, those parent teacher conferences where the teachers talk crap about you to your parents while you're not there. She's an expert at those, she playfully admits to, though it's out of love and for the good of the kids. She has to deal with unruly behavior and disrespect from the children, but she never gives up on them and they end up thanking her by the end of the school year.
Having that talk with her reminded me of what it was like for me being a kid. It made me imagine what it would've been like being in an elementary school at a time when a teacher was cool enough to take her shoes off, unbeknownst to her that I had a thing for feet, making school the last place I would dread going to. That never happened to me, but I kind of get the change to live vicariously through that fantasy by having shoot with women who teach kids at a school.
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Both shoots were very short; the one with the third grade teacher I just talked about and especially this next lady (the one with the sunglasses). It was so short, I almost remember not having this shoot. I don't remember how or why this shoot ended after just two or three minutes. The only thing my memory was able to remember about her was that she's from Helsinki, Finland. I also remember thinking that upon hearing that she's Finnish, that I was hoping to be in for pretty nice shoot because every girl I shot who came from that place turned out to be a classic. I really, really loved her soles. They were the type that made me think that walking around through Central Park was worth the exercise.
I don't remember how it ended, but I must've been disappointed. Well, you can't get what you want every time, and that applied here for me.
Natural Park - The Women of Central Park - Spring 2020
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NATIONAL LIFESTYLE - DRINKS
Alcoholic beverage sales jumped 55% compared to the same time a year ago. Online growth rates for alcohol are growing faster than in-store sales. Online sales were up 243% compared to the same period a year ago.
Given what has been going on lately, I don't blame you guys at all. To continue the tradition here, I will give you guys a helping hand to create some fine drinks to help easy the mood and to take your mind off of the chaos of our current climate, and perhaps get your mind and focus into something that's much more settling to you.
BOURBON OLD FASHIONED
- 2 oz./60 ml bourbon - 1 cube or 1/2 tsp. sugar - 1 tsp. water - a few dashes of bitters
Pour the sugar, bitters, and water into an old-fashioned glass and muddle with a spoon. Add the bourbon and stir. Add ice and a express the orange peel over the drink and drop that into the cup.
THE REVOLVER Reminds me of the girl I showed who I named "Revolver". In any event, this drink was created by San Francisco bartender Joe Santer, partly in response to the arrival on the market of Bulleit bourbon. The theatrical employment of a flamed orange twist made it a much-ordered drink for a time.
- 2 oz./60 ml bourbon - 1/2 oz./15 ml coffee liqueur - 2-4 dashes orange bitters
Combine all the ingredients in a mixing glass filled with ice and stir until chilled, about 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with a flamed orange twist.
To do a flamed orange twist, cut a piece of orange peel about the size of a half dollar. Light a match and use it to warm the skin side of the peel. Holding the match a few inches above the drink, quickly squeeze the peel in the direction of the match. The oil from the peel will briefly erupt into flame, showering its essence over the drink's surface. Then place that orange peel on top of the drink.
RYE & DRY This is a casual yet delicious drink that's a perfect last-minute recipe for when you have unexpected guests, or for warm lazy evenings on the terrace with friends. The savory, earthy flavors of the rye whiskey work perfectly with the ginger ale, while the fragrant citrus from the lemon garnish brings a hint of sharpness to round it off.
It only needs three ingredients, and involves not much more than combining them in a glass, so it couldn’t be easier to make. You don't need any tools or special techniques, just a bar spoon (or latte spoon), an old-fashioned glass and some ice.
- 2 1/2 oz./75 ml ginger ale - 1 1/2 oz./45 ml rye whiskey - lemon peel for garnish
Fill a rocks glass with ice cubes. Add the rye whiskey and ginger ale to the glass. Twist the lemon peel just above the drink so that the oils from the peel can add itself on top of that. Drop the peel into the drink and enjoy.
*REMEMBER: Drink Responsibly.*
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A competitive woman who loves sports. So much so, that she plays one herself. She plays hockey for an all-female team in Austria, if I remember correctly. If I got the name of her country wrong, then she's going to have to forgive me. This was her first time in United States and she came to New York with her team, although none of her teammates were with her when I saw her strolling through the park one Saturday evening. There was a threat of thunderstorm looming, so I knew I didn't have much time on my side if I had hoped to take photos of another female.
This was a pretty quick shoot, so my memory of this encounter is a bit sketchy. Her passion is hockey, and she feels at home on the ice. Women's hockey is physical without having full contact. They wear full face masks. I guess it's because woman's hockey isn't very lucrative and many of these woman probably don't want to get their faces destroyed. It could also be that woman are more easily concussed and don't recover as quickly as men, but that's just me speculating. She's not even tall, so it was hard for me to imagine her skating on the rink, competing in a sport like that.
As (deceptively) tough as this woman is, there is one thing she is really afraid of, something she wants no part of, and it's something she's trying to overcome. She has a fear of heights. She probably has a fear of being on a high floor as much as simply climbing a ladder. When I went to climb up the rock to set the scene of the shoot, that was when I found out about her fear of heights.
I asked what was wrong; from the look on her face, I thought she thought I was going to do something terrible to her once we got up there. She had her hand placed above her chest and her eyes were stayed opened as if she anticipated something to jump out from the TV to scare her. The cat got her tongue.
She looked around to see if anyone was close enough to hear what she was about to tell me (there wasn't). Then she told me a little bit about her how heights have impacted her life. Even the thought of crossing a bridge triggers anxiety in her. She doesn't know how this all started being that she never fell from a high place. However, she feels dizzy or like she's going to fall or lose her balance when she looks up at a high place or down from a height.
I wanted to do whatever I could to help ease her fear of high places, however little that help might've been; that could turn out to be the first small step towards helping her live a life without having to live in fear. I tried to get the idea in her psyche that perceiving something as being taller than it actually is can reduce her risk for dangerous falls, increasing the likelihood that she'll live to thus do it again.
I extended my hand out to her. She held it. I gave her hand a squeeze as my way of letting her know that she could trust me and that nothing terrible was going to happen to her on my watch. She squeezed my hand back.
We proceeded up with caution. I felt her sense of panic when she perceived that we were much higher off the ground than what we actually were. Her instincts kicked in when I sensed she wanted to search for something to cling to and find because she was unable to trust your own sense of balance. She felt like descending immediately, crawling on all fours, kneeling or otherwise lowering her body. I had to reassure her that I wasn't going to let anything bad happen to her. She believed me and stood upright while still maintaining a very tight grip on my hand. All she needed were baby steps. We weren't too high off the ground before we finally settled on a spot.
We got the shoot started. I liked her feet very much. They were very moist and and felt very good when I got my hands around them for a quick massage, which was a way to help calm whatever she felt from being - from her vantage point, mind you - 580 feet off the ground when it was actually more like eight.
Without knowing it, she was talking about a variety of topics with me as if we were trying to catch up on each other's lives, completely forgetting that we were talking about how her fears just moments before.
She said that even though she would not have tried climbing up that rock on her own, the foot massage made her so wonderful, that she kind of realized just how high off the ground she actually wasn't, and that made her feel a little about herself and her confidence. She said that I made her day and that even though we just met one another, she had a sense of knowing that she could trust me with her life. I couldn't tell how serious she was when she said that, but I knew she was at least somewhat serious because she got a bit emotional about it. Considering what she has to contend with on a daily basis, hearing that straight from her humbled me and that made my day.
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The story behind the name I gave her explains her drive, motivation, and determination to keep moving forward. You don't compete in an organized hockey league without being deterred by danger or pain. She is given this name because of her bravery to face her fear of heights head-on, even if it was just for a short amount of time. It was a small step forwards, but it was better than taking a step backwards. She is given this name because just like that bird, she symbolizes joy, protection and simplicity. If someone were to start a new team that's built around her, it would be called The Courageous Sparrows. Team work and hard work are what make sparrows productive, and she has the heart of one.
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Call me rude, or crude, but this is where I move in for a sniff ...
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I've evolved so much through the years and changed my style and presentation in different ways time and time again that it appears to be entirely new, comparing thing to where I was in the very beginning to where I am now.
Question: How much of that is something that I consider ahead of time of how I'm going to change myself, or is it more of a reflection of where I am as an amateur foot photographer that just comes out that I'm in a different place personally?
Answer: It's interesting to me. As an analogy, people would say, "Emimen should go back to his old style," or, "Robert Plant, why don't you go back to Zeppelin?" Those are just two examples from two artists who do completely different types of music, two artists from completely different generations. For me, I just don't want to. I'm not that guy anymore. It makes people disappointed. And I understand where both guys are coming from because I'm the same way. I enjoy coming up with these things and pushing myself constantly trying to reinvent and reestablish myself and keep doing this. Bryant Park was a lot of fun, but that was a long time ago, it was a completely different incarnation of who I am now. I also think that when you're talking about these "greatest hits," it's important to create new ones, or at least try.
I think those days were amazing for a moment in time, but I couldn't be that guy anymore. Saying it would feel like, Okay, I'm just going through the motions. I don't want to do that. Part of the reason I'm enjoying doing what I do now more than ever, even after all these years of being in this "business," is because I'm not afraid to purge my past.
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This is The Women of Central Park, and I plan on showing you another woman who I got to spend time with and took photos of. Keep it right here as the Natural Evolution Era lives on.
-National
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Central Park In the Dark
NATURAL CLASSIC In the midst of all that's going on, it's a great thing I have my heath. Hopefully all of you have your heath as well. Stay safe, please. Just be patient, we'll get through this and things will get back to normal ... eventually. We just have to ride this out and flatten the curve. How ironic that we want to flatten curves and usually we don't want to do that with our women ... but I digress.
In any event, I want you guys to be safe. And that is this woman's motto whenever she's done spending time with someone. She says," be well and stay safe." She means that and that's why she says it. So I preface everything I say with that, with that quotation of hers.
Originally, I planned on showing these photos later in the year. But considering the woman I'm about to show and the story that lays out some aspects of her life, I figured that now would be more important than ever to show these photos and to tell her story for everyone here. Doing this at any other time after this (since I may not be back in here until the summer) may be a bit out of place or that the message of the story may not get the attention of people as much. So instead of holding this off until later in the year like I originally wanted to, I decided to have her skip in front of many other women in line to get her this spot.
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Years before I met this woman, she did some work as a heath educator. Her main goals were to eradicate diseases, prevent further spread of diseases and discover how the disease has formed. Her main role was to be the mediator between people who were interested in healthcare and companies that provided healthcare. Her job was to inform the public of healthcare plans, acts and establishments. She facilitated databases, conferences and educational programs and presentations. She visited schools and work places in an attempt to help the community understand the healthcare procedures. She informed the public of not only diseases, but informed them of different ways that the healthcare system could help or hurt the community.
She now works in a lab somewhere that's comprised almost entirely of physicians and Ph.D. microbiologists, behavioral scientists, veterinarians, chemists, biochemists, ... virtually any kind of discipline. She's very useful in her team as people heavily rely on her know-hows as a very, very skilled and talented mathematician and statistician. She deals with all aspects of infectious diseases, from discovery to implementation and evaluation of prevention, and she has the of expertise in order to do those.
"If, for example, there is an outbreak of some disease going on at a given moment, everybody stops what they're doing and works on that outbreak. What makes my position unique is that I have to be able to pay attention to what goes on in the field." Outbreak investigations provide her with real live things to work on, and then after the outbreak is over she does the research on that thing until the next outbreak comes. "I was born for this, and I'll be ready whenever an emergency happens."
She went on to say, "It is during an outbreak that we come together and unite. This is what many of the scientists are working for, to help people and make a huge difference during a crisis. There is no shortage of volunteers when something like this happens and people work around the clock to help, even if it's not their area of expertise, they just want to be part of it."
These photos were taken well before the coronavirus outbreak. At the time she when said all of that, I didn't think much of it. Looking back on it now, I can't help but feel that she's some kind of medical clairvoyant given what's going on now. Of all the women I've met throughout the years and taking photos of their feet, I think of her more than anyone else now that we're living in a time of our lives in which our way of living has been put on hold indefinitely.
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I don't remember too much about how the approach happened other than to say that she was walking south and that I had to walk a little fast myself to catch up to her. I also remember thinking that she would make for an interesting person to know more about. She's tall (6'1''/185 cm) and wore those Converse Chuck Taylor low top sneakers, so she was 2-for-2 in my eyes.
She has the look of someone who is overly intellectual and introverted. I was right in thinking that she's academically gifted. I turned out to be half-right, however, with the introverted aspect; she is moderately comfortable with groups and social interactions, but also relishes time alone, away from a crowd. In simpler words, her behavior changes according to the situation she's in. In the face of authority or in the presence of strangers, she's more reserved. However, in the presence of family or close friends, she's more lively.
"Overall, if a man likes science, not the TV science, but real, hypothesis and results science, then I would love to go out with him," she confessed. "A man who accepts me and all my quirky, ... nerdy ways, I guess you can say. Math and science. And ice cream, too." She did a bit of daydreaming as she spoke those last two sentences.
Men usually make the assumption that she's studiously boring. In the conversation we had during the shoot, she felt at ease with me from the very beginning, and talking to her was a breath of fresh air because there was always something to talk about and the conversation never had a dull moment. If I made a list of words I would use to describe this woman, the word boring would be so far down that list, I don't think I would ever get to it. There are men who enjoy a woman's company if she can carry a conversation and have a silly sense of humor. She does a nice job balancing and showcasing those two traits.
Someone who's intelligent can make the conversation go to places you didn't think it could go to. In addition to being an scientific elitist who can memorize a lot of data, she encompasses the ability to listen, to learn, to be part of a conversation in a variety of topics you're passionate about, and most important of all, the ability to be curious. It's easy for me to see how someone can appreciate a woman with a great mind. I mean, when you think about it, that's where she keeps her dirtiest fantasies, but I won't get into that in this story ...
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One of my favorite parts during the shoot was early on, right as she was about to take off her Converse. She was going to do it but then she stopped herself. She remembered something all of a sudden. She apologized to me in advance if her feet were a bit smelly. Now curious, I asked what she thought they smelled like.
She said, "I don't know."
"I'll tell you what," I said, "there's only one way to find out. And since I'm a scientist too (which she understood was meant to be a lighthearted joke and not to be taken seriously), let's find out together. The camera is ready and so am I. So, untie your laces and remove your socks if you're wearing any." I didn't know how I was able to make that make sense, but I did. True to form, she followed my instructions as I snapped away with the shutter. Now she was kind of excited to remove her feet from her shoes and that was my sign that she felt safe with me, that I gained even more of her trust.
I then told her stick her foot straight out so I could hold it. She gave me her left one. Then on instinct, I smelled her foot, inhaled it with my nose roaming in between her toes to see what the results of the "experimentation" was. By the way, even thought she kind of expected that I would that, the move still caught her by surprise. As I started to smell her other foot, she would look around to see if anyone saw what was going on between us. Probably some joggers and bicyclists, but I wasn't paying attention to any of them. I suppose that since no one stopped by to get a closer look at what was going on, me smelling her feet seemed a bit odd but perfectly normal in her mind at the same time. She let me smell and and rub her feet for a bit longer than I thought she would, which was pretty nice and quite generous of her. Talk about a girl who's smart and who is completely okay with my fetish.
So after asking me for a second or third time how they smelled like, I finally gave her the findings: "Well, they smelled like the pair of feet that I would expect the typical girl with glasses who reads lots of books does."
She's curious, "What does that mean? Is that bad or is that good? I mean, is it about the pheromones or a lack thereof, like the secretion of chemical components?" I could tell she would be embarrassed if she disappointed me.
I answered, "It just is." Yes, that was a vague answer, but she accepted it even though she wasn't quite sure of what to make of that. But she stayed with me for the shoot and she took a liking to me. I really enjoyed her curiosity in wanting to know if the results influenced my sexual behavior negatively or positively.
In the middle of the shoot, as she was talking about her love to match and science, she told me that she could spell my name out in a calculator. I told her if she could do that, then I would be able to figure out the square root of any number in ten seconds or less. She didn't believe me, and rightly so because who the hell could? After she said she didn't believe that, I then said, "okay then, let's start with your number." I took out my phone from my pocket and handed that over to her.
Sometimes I say thing I, myself, can't believe. She was so taken aback by what I just said that she was compelled to leave her number in my phone for how I was able to tie that in with her love of match and out of a newfound level of respect she had for me. She even put in her name after that and saved all of that information for me so that I didn't have to. It said, "Bridgette." Then we went right back to doing the shoot.
And Bridgette, being the cool nerdy chic that she is, let me partake in some more foot smelling and even a little foot worship play after the shoot was over. All of a sudden, science became my favorite subject.
She plays a role in protecting Americans from environmental and occupational disasters. She helps protect Americans from infectious disease at home and abroad. Now she is needed more than ever to help put a stop to this global pandemic as she continues to put herself in the line of fire. Saving peoples lives isn't always about spur-of-the-moment heroics -- though sometimes it is.
In this world, far away from the Forbes 500, there is a group of people working endlessly in closed quarters on things that have tremendous impacts on humanity and our whole planet in general. I am honored to say that Dr. Bridgette Holland is one of those people.
When most people think of saving the world, they think of Superman. But here, we have a scientist who has the determination and track record to discover eleventh-hour miracle weapons to save countless lives as a result of hard work and tireless labor. She is a real-life hero who continues to save the world with much better, more inspiring stories.
Fast forward now to the present time, and we are still talking to each other. She's been giving me great pieces of information to keep me in front of this bug outbreak so that I don't get caught with it. She sent me a message recently which was a great piece of inspiration that all will be right in this world once again. It's a message I'm going to share with all of you:
"We really need to stay strong and adhere to the guidelines that are in place to help us get back to a place where we don't have to worry about this anymore. These guidelines of washing your hands and social distancing are the things that will make jobs like mine easier to get a handle on. Granted, this is not an ideal way to live your life, especially knowing that many people are going to suffer from this, and this is going to be hard on the economy. But this is the United States of America where some of the most amazing things have been accomplished. And trust me when I say that we will persevere and we are going to put a stop to this."
Before our very eyes, we have here a hero who personifies that definition in every sense of the word. A hero who walks among us. She isn't exactly the most successful person, nor is she ridiculously rich and living a lovely life. But the work she does has a tremendous impact on humanity. And in the end, her work puts her in the history books, forever.
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*NOTE: When I call her "Doctor," I don't mean that in the sense that she's a medical doctor, like the ones who take care of you when you're sick. Her title refers to the level of specialization and education she has achieved in her field of study.* Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Thanks to all of the people in here as I had a great time putting this all together for you. Let us hope things calm down sooner rather than later so we could all make the transition of returning back to living our lives uninterrupted. So remember, stay at home and let us work at getting this thing under control together.
Let me know what you think of the Bridgette Holland shoot (or any other shoot I posted this month), for example, through comments or questions you may have. Also, speaking of which ... It is important, as you already know, to stay safe and to keep your health intact. Following advice from scientists like Bridgette can help you navigate through these uncharted waters and come out of this relatively unscathed health-wise. For the latest news, information and updates on the matter, you can visit any one of these sites:
I will be back here to post photos of more women as part of the Summer 2020 editon of the Women of Central Park. Until then, keep the positive vibes going, look after each other, and remember: Central Park for life.
-National
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Andorra is a co-principality on the boarder of France and Spain, which means Andorra is ruled by not one, but two princes. Weirder still is that the princes are bishop of Urgell, in Spain, and the president of France, neither of whom live in that country, and neither princehood is inherited through the usual method of Royal lineage, and is instead given by virtue of holding the other office. It's a bit awkward that an otherwise Republican France, with all their liberté, égalité, et fraternité, has a head of state who is technically a prince or princess.
A principality is a monarchy, like a kingdom, but instead of a king, it is ruled by a Prince, which in this case is a title unrelated to being the child of a king, meaning principalities have their own line of succession. Rulers of principalities are referred to as sovereign princes to distinguish them from non-reigning child princes. Kings would expend a lot of effort ensuring that they were the only king in their lands, and in order to be independent, sovereign princes would accept a lesser title to keep the more powerful rulers happy.
The remaining principalities in Europe are Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Andorra, which, unlike the others, has one Prince who is selected by the people of a second country, and the other a member of the clergy of a third country, who is ultimately appointed by the Pope who is the head of state by a fourth country, which, by the way, is also a title he holds by virtue of his other title.
Andorra today has an elected government that runs the country and is seen as a sovereign country by the UN and has its own Foreign Relations. The co-princes do have some power outlined in the Andorran constitution such as appointing judges, but many of the day-to-day responsibilities are carried out by their official representatives in Andorra.
The official language of Andorra is Catalan, reflecting the historic ethnicity of the local population. Spanish is almost as widespread as Catalan. The next two most spoken languages are Portuguese and French. Most local people can speak at least one foreign language in addition to their native Catalan. English is not widely spoken in many areas of that country. Even though her English wasn't bad, it was more natural for the two of us to speak in Spanish to one another during the shoot.
She has a degree in Engineering Science, and works (mostly from home) as a programmer. She's not going to force you to watch romantic movies, especially since she doesn't like them much anyway, and even if she did like them, she still wouldn't get me to watch them, I told her. But she would really love a movie date watching suspense movies. She has her own methods to remember dates and events that might surprise you, and she'll make sure you don't forget either. "I'm a confident woman. Confidence is in my personality, but not so much about my looks," she said in Spanish, before adding, "therefore I won't make your life hell if I catch you looking at another woman." She said that in a way that was meant for me to know that that should've been taken with a grain of salt and that she was only half joking when she said it. Pretty lighthearted when you think about it.
She agreed to do the shoot because it's not something men would typically look at they way they would look at other parts of a woman's body, generally speaking, and that fact alone piqued her interest to see where this was going to go. "It's a good thing my toenails are painted because otherwise I would've said no," she said.
It wasn't a bad shoot and she was good company to have around. Every once in a while, curiosity gets the best of me and I wind up approaching a woman just like her because they have a certain type of characteristic I can vibe with.
Natural Park - The Women of Central Park, Summer 2020 Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
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I was walking around the park one final time before I was going to call it a day. My route was about to come to a finish when I spotted this lady sitting on a rock, reading a book. She already had her shoes off so there was no need to convince her to take them off for me. She doesn't visit the park as often as many of the other women who I've taken photos of, but she likes making the most of her visits whenever she finds the time to do so.
One thing both she and I share in common is that we're Dominican, so there were many things for us to talk about right away since both of our upbringing and family lives were similar to one another. This woman is outgoing, friendly, and fun which makes it easier to develop a friendship with her. Just like with any Dominican woman, she is active, and dancing is an important part of her life. She really loves a man who enjoys getting down on the dance floor with her.
The family is the basic and most valued unit in Dominican society. Our friend here thus considers her family as her top priority. She'll love and respect her man. However, do not take advantage and bully her by her obedience, she'll leave you faster than you think. She'll expect you to be dominant and lead the way. Not walk right over her. Being with a Dominican woman can be quite a daunting task considering they are associated with drama. I can't say that that's the case with her, however, because she's pleasant.
She already done with school as she has a degree in the arts category, and is very driving to make the most of her artistic career. She's worked very hard to get to where she is in life, and her friends and family cannot be any more proud of her achievements, and in turn that means so much to her. Someone like her is someone you can be very proud of.
The name she'll go by in this thread is in reference to her tattoo of the hummingbird, which sums up very nicely to the kind of person she is. They are seen as healers and bringers of love, good luck, and joy. The hummingbird generally symbolizes joy and playfulness, as well as adaptability, and that's probably the most precise way to describe this woman.
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Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, Summer 2020 Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
MMMMMMM! I'd bet Hummingbirds pretty soles smelled nice coming out of those shoes. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
It was a very peaceful evening in the Park and it kind of felt like time stood still because it I wasn't in any rush to find someone. When I spotted Lindsay sitting there, I had the impression that she, too, was in no rush for anything to happen and just let the time pass her by. I don't remember seeing anyone be more relaxed at the time I met them than Lindsay. The whole scene was felt quiet, which made my time with her enjoyable.
She was staring off into the distance, looking at the trees, daydreaming about that or something else. She was sitting there, and that was going to be a great spot for the shoot to take place. I got straight to the point with her and asked if I could take pictures of her feet. She was there to kill some time before she met up with her cousin, but she didn't mind my presence and didn't object to the idea of wanting to show her feet to me. At no time did she ask me what the photos were for and seemed to quietly enjoy what was happening to her all of a sudden and just went along with it.
Lindsay is a shy woman, but she's no introverted. Shyness is for women and that's what I liked about her. It made her lovely in my eyes. And she knew that I knew that she was got shy with me at some points, which made her shy again, and that trait was the best jewelry she had on her. Lindsay's eyes speak a lot but her lips won't. Shy women like Lindsay have a type of voice that talkative women don't. I'm not sure how to explain how to explain it, but it's weird how that happens. That made me want to listen to her voice more because I found myself waiting to hear for whatever else she was going to say.
It can be the case that if a woman is not contributing much to the conversation, then it's because she's not interested in you. With Lindsay, however, it felt different. With Lindsay, she wasn't saying much in the conversation because she didn't know what to say. Either that or she was worried about saying the wrong thing. She found herself overthinking things or over analyzing the situation. She probably thought about asking me what I did for a living, but then said to herself, "Oh, that's not a really cool thing to ask. What else can I say?" That may have stopped her from having a free-flowing conversation with me, so she let me to more of the talking and leading the way and she felt comfortable with that and that helped her open up to me little by little. Talking to her made me realize that she's a relief from the drama queens I've dealt with in the past.
She's one of those women who uses her feet and not her hands to take her shoes off. You can tell from the way the bottoms and the insides of her shoes look that she has worn them quite often for quite some time. And that's something I've always found fascination to look at. I took a closer look at them and she didn't seemed fazed that I had them in my hands and giving them a close observation because I would think that a woman with shoes in that condition would be a bit embarrassed that someone would want to look at them the way I looked at hers. And I loved how the marking around her ankles suggested that a pair of socks were tightly held to her feet just moments before. She talked about how she relies on that particular pair because she likes having the casual look and that they don't her feet feel hurt when she walks in them all day.
It was a quiet shoot and it was over when it was almost time for cousin to show up. She invited Lindsay to see it because it would give her something to do, go outside to get some fresh air instead of staying home on what was a pleasant evening to be outside.
Natural Park - The Women of Central Park, Summer 2020 Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
And that will do it for the first half of the Summer 2020 issue. Please make another visit to the park real soon as we stroll though the second half of the Summer installment. The second half should be more active than the first half as I feature shoots I really, really enjoyed. These shoots remind me just how much fun it is to do what I do as a hobby. It really is. It's an unbelievable feeling each time a woman takes the moment out of her time to show me her bare her soles to me, to let me see her toes and to let me move them around as I please. It's precisely like living a dream - real women taking off their shoes for you. Living a dream like this is one of the best ways to cool off while the weather is as great as it is for this time of year. Doing these shoots is a form therapy for me. You guys live vicariously through me and I hope I'm doing a good job for you.
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Before I go, some pointers for you guys who are planning or hoping to have a great weekend: 1, put on a rubber; 2, call an Uber; 3, send her the morning-after text. If you happen to be getting hot and heavy with a woman this weekend, or if you're going to be at a place where there's going to be a lot of drinking going on, or at some place not close enough to your home, then follow the guidelines.
Me? I have plans on having more fun this summer than anyone is allowed to have and you guys should approach that the same way as well.
Summer is here. Make it memorable for yourself.
-National
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NATURAL CLASSIC Many times it'll take me a few minutes after arriving at the park to mentally prepare myself to do some approaches, to calm myself and then to hype myself for what could lie ahead. That way when I do spot someone who would make for a great subject, I would be ready to go. Kind of like warming up in the gym before you start to do the real heavy lifting. Other times, I would spot someone almost immediately after arriving, and something about that lady compels me to go up to her, without hesitation, with no time to think about what to say exactly and no time to think about how she may react to any of it. This was one of those times.
Within the first few seconds of walking into the Park, I spotted this very nice girl sitting on a bench. She was just looking around and smiling to herself it seemed, enjoying the sights and sounds around her. There was something about her that drew closer to her. The fact that she wore knee-high socks had something to do with it. I think it's because it shows off and brings attention to the shape of a woman's calves. It also brought more attention to her knees, which is something I've never noticed myself paying attention to when I first lay eyes on a woman. I liked her face, I liked show she dressed, her entire demeanor was very soft. The urge was there to talk to her and I wanted to make her feel good with my presence and give her that rush women get when a man walks up to her and strikes up a conversation with her. The whole thing felt very nice and she was appreciative of it.
The topic of her socks made its way into the conversation and she looked down at them and smiled to herself (and in essence, smiling at them) as if she was proud of them. It reminding herself why she liked them and probably how she was glad she made the choice of putting them on that day now that some guy noticed them and liked them enough to say something about it. I told her I wanted to take pictures of her feet, but not before I take some photos of her socks, to which she said, "Ok! So, what should I do? I mean, I never had anyone take pictures of my socks and feet before, so I'm not sure what to do."
As I was taking the first few photos she said in reference to her socks, "I love them, and that makes me ... me, I guess. I have a few pairs of knee high socks that are just plain grey, and I have another pair that's black but then they have these grey stripes on top like this ..." demonstrating the pattern of the stripes with her finger, wanting me to imagine how they would look like had she worn them in place of the socks she had on that day. She continued, "I also have another one just the ones I have on now but with different colors. I like socks."
This went on for a few minutes and I could sense there were some people walking by us as they were either entering or exiting the park, trying to figure out the purpose behind the photos, and she got a kick out that, all the while being comfortable enough around me to just be herself and to just go along with it. But for the most part, we seemed invisible to a lot of people, which she found kind of was funny (meaning unusual). She knew that New York was going to be different compared to where she's from, but the fact that so many other people paid no mind to what was going on was a sobering reminder to her that New York was indeed quite different.
After that was done, we talked with each other on the bench for a few minutes, the usual stuff a man and a woman talk about when they are trying to get to know one another. It was very nice. Then we walked around the park for a bit.
Her name is Daisy. She's from Arizona and she was in New York to visit some friends, her little vacation. The tattoo she has across her chest signifies her love of living in Arizona, the dry mountains, the nature, the wildlife. She prefers living somewhere where there's a forest or a desert nearby.
Daisy graduated from Arizona State University and has a degree in Wildlife Biology, which means she has intimate knowledge of many biological processes, as well as anatomy and ecological systems. As part of what she does for a living, she observes and study the behaviors of animals. She frequently observes the features of certain wildlife and determines the creatures' role in specific ecosystems and/or how they interact with human beings. In addition, she will often perform various experiments to either increase her knowledge about a certain species or see how humans influence the ecosystem in question.
She enjoys spending time outdoors and traveling. At work, she spends the majority of her time working in the field, observing animals in their natural habitats. Daisy doesn't work in a lab or an office, but if she does find herself in an office, it's for a very small amount of time, which is fine for her because she's not an "office type of girl," as she puts it, because she's an adventurer who likes to work in a variety of environments outdoors.
She cited physical exhaustion and loneliness as the top job hazards. She's required to spend time in remote areas without modern conveniences and work long hours for observational purposes. Some kinds of work require her to have limited contact with other people, possibly straining relationships and personal emotions, "Which sucks," she said, "because I don't have a man in my life who I can go to when I'm exhausted at the end of the day. Like, the emotional and physical connection is not there for me." There was a little bit of silence between us right after she said that. My heart went out to her. I took that moment to put my arm around her and she was warmly receptive to it. It was late afternoon so the view of the sun setting while she rested her head on my shoulder was pretty amazing to her.
Then the shoot started.
Before she took her socks off, Daisy told me about how they (meaning her superiors at her job) conducted some outdoor experiment where they put some blood on her sock. I forgot how she explained the blood part, whether it was her own blood or some kind of fake blood. The blood sample was about the size of a quarter and it was placed at the bottom of her sock, right below the ball of her foot. She was told to not remove her socks to see what the dog would do. A dog would then come by to see if he could detect where the blood was. The dog picked up on the scent and started smelling her socks to let everyone know that he found it.
The rest of the group found that experiment amusing because the dog kept sniffing her feet (with the socks still on). She found it amusing as well because the longer it kept sniffing away the more she wondered if the dog ignored the blood (since it already passed the test) and starting to pay exclusive attention to the scent of her feet just for the heck of it.
Oh, about the socks in question? I'm glad you asked. You see, they conducted that experiment on the very same one she wore on the day of this shoot!
She pointed out where the blood was and I was able to see it, though it wasn't that visible; even the washing machine couldn't get rid of all of it. So I used the let-me-see-if-my-sense-of-smell-is-as-strong-as-that-dog's-and-see-if-I-could-pick-up-the-scent-of-blood excuse to inhale the smell of her socks. To that she said, while teasing and joking about it, "You're just using that as an excuse to inhale my socks or something. You're pretty slick, but I won't hold it against you."
I don't know how, but her socks were able to clear up my sinuses, and I didn't have sinus. The same was true when Daisy allowed me to smell and kiss gently her naturally scented feet later on ... so sweet and feminine.
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I love the moment when the woman removes her socks to reveal that her feet look pretty good to me. There's nothing to complain about with her soles and her toes were well kept and I love how the nails look without the polish, the little things that makes me appreciate feminine feet evermore.
If I made a list of women I've gotten along with best, there's no question Daisy is on that list. Getting along doesn't necessarily mean someone who I have the most things in common with because there were other women who I didn't see myself getting along with even though we had many things in common. The difference with her, like I said, is that we gelled, we got along, she went along with the conversation and there was a level of respect she had for me, even if I said something she didn't necessarily agree with or vice versa.
She has a good sense of humor as well, kind of a bubbly personality. A sense of humor not in the sense that she can make others laugh (although she looks cute when she tries to be funny), but more in the sense that she always finds humor in things other people do or say. Daisy found humor in my stories, which made her funny to me.
As we wrapped up the shoot, I could tell from the look on her face as she was putting her shoes back on that she was disappointed it was coming to an end (and you'll be able to see that in the photos of this shoot); she really enjoyed the time she spent with me. She said it sucked that we lived in different states so far apart from one another. My heart went out to her again because she thought that we were going to say our goodbyes for good. I told her that since there's not much that can be done about that, that we should spend more time together for however long she was going to stay in New York.
"We'll rob a bank together and I'll probably hop a turnstile or two in the subway along the way," I reassured her. "You're such a rebel - I LOVE it!!!"
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, Summer 2020
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Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Great story about "Sunflower".
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC I really enjoyed doing this shoot. I really, really did. This was one of those shoots where I felt like I accomplished whatever it was I wanted to accomplish. I left the park that day thinking that may have been one of the better shoots I've ever done, and those occurrences don't happen very often. Other shoots in which I felt that way were the ones with Anna Softinova, Selena, Dalhous, Aimee Young. There are certainly others who fall into that category as well, but those are the ones who came off the top of my head. Those are the shoots that made me feel like there was nothing else I could've done to make them better because they were that good. With this shoot, I felt complete.
This was around 2:00 on a Saturday afternoon. It was cloudy that day, high-70s, and it felt very, very nice to be outside. I'm walking along and I spotted her from a distance, sitting down somewhere, listening to music on her headphones. She stood up, gathered her stuff, and started to walk towards an exit on Fifth Avenue, close to where I stood. The only thing that stood in the way between herself and the exit was me, and so I needed to stop her before she left the park.
A PIECE OF ADVICE I'm going to sidetrack from the story here for just a moment to say that whether a girl is walking fast, slow, if she's doing her homework in the park, whether she has her headphones in, it's all completely irrelevant. What is relevant is that you need to snap her out of it. If a girl is walking along, especially is she's wearing her headphones (like this one was, which is why I'm talking about this), you'll need to get right in front of her, stop her, and your point is to snap her attention onto you. It doesn't matter what she's currently doing. There were times when I would stop girls who were on their phones. Remember, you're the man, and it's your job to be interruptive if you want to get her attention by initiating the conversation. You're breaking into her reality, you're showing her what you've got and she'll either take it or leave it.
Think about everyday life. Do you ever see that girl who looks good, dresses nice, walking along your roads who just broke up with her boyfriend, wanting to be cold approached? Maybe once in a million. Generally speaking, though, hot girls are always found doing something such as listening to headphones, too busy looking into their smartphones, reading a magazine, and some of them look as if they don't want to be bothered. As a man, you're going to have to accept it as part of the cold approach process.
So you stop her, you use your hands to motion that you want her to take her headphones off (and she will, like this one did), and you say, "Hey, I know this is random, but I had to say you look very good." If she's on her phone, same thing.
The point here is to approach them if you're interested in them. If they don't give you the time of day, you can hold your head up high and know that you did your [however many number of] approaches. This is about you. This is about solidifying your own thing, getting comfortable with approaching these women and not so much with what happens to them because you are the only constant in this equation. If you have an issue with approaching women wearing their headphones or earbuds, then go out and approach those women until it no longer becomes an issue for you.
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She's nineteen years old and was heading home (a five-minute walk from where we stood) when I stopped her. She lives with her parents and had plans of helping her mom prepare late lunch/early dinner for the family. But she didn't have to be there at that moment (meaning the time I stopped her), which meant she was happy to kill some time with me.
She has the type of voice that tells you that hanging out with her is going to be very fun and that you can get away with saying or doing a lot of things, which would make you even cooler in her eyes, which in turn will make her cooler in your eyes. She's one of those women who you can talk about anything to and she won't hold it against you. She was an open book with me, easy to know what she was thinking and feeling, easy to understand.
Her life was full of ups and downs, and living a roller coaster ride through her teen years has made her a woman with a much more positive outlook in life. She loves dancing. In fact, she takes dace courses and competes in dance competitions with her team throughout the country. Being able to master the forms of dancing salsa, hip-hop, and techno has made her become a brand new person in life where the people closest to her are very proud of her.
The tank top she had on is one of her favorite things to wear because it highlights and paints an accurate description of who she is and who she aspires to be. The message on it really spoke to her and she needed to buy it. Read what it says on her shirt and you'll get the sense of what this woman is about and how that attitude set the tone and the mood for the rest of the shoot. When asked what it's like to be a girl, she pointed to her tank top and then added, "Being a girl is complicated, is about being strong, it's sexy, fun. It's also magical." So that's the reason why she's given that name. The font to her name (at the end of the story) matches the one on her shirt, which I thought would go hand in hand.
Girl listens to Metallica (which was playing in her headphones when I stopped her in the beginning of this story), Slipknot, Beyonce, Emimen, and some techno. I can name others musical acts, but you get the idea. She loves heavy metal because it's "intense, engaging, and challenging."
She became more comfortable as the shoot went along and it seemed as if we were the only two people in the entire park because we really were in our own little world. At one time, we didn't say a whole lot to each other because Girl went along with the flow quite naturally and she really knew what I wanted from her in the shoot, going by my non verbal directions and reading my mind. It was one of the nicest escapes from reality I've ever had in all of my time doing this, and for Girl she felt like I was her everything, being recognized and appreciated, quelling her past pains behind her, and she felt like my company was a piece of the puzzle she needed to remind herself that life isn't to be taken for granted.
She was one of those women I would try anything with without being afraid of crossing her comfort zone. At one point, Girl even allowed me to press my face deep within her soles when she had them up in the air. She would flex them forwards and backwards to apply different amounts of pressure on my face to enhance the experience. She didn't care about the results as long as I was happy. Girl knew she was mine and she wanted to give me the magic that other women didn't or couldn't give. This shoot was her much-needed medicine. We were in our own sea of tranquility. It was quite an experience, let me tell you. Almost surreal. The longer it went, the longer we wanted it to go, the more we yearned for each other's company. This shoot felt so good. So good, that if I continue on talking about how good it was, we would be here all day.
The shoot ended when Girl asked for the time and couldn't believe how time flew by so fast. She snapped back to reality, looked at her phone and showed me the texts her mom sent her, asking when she'll be home to prepare the food with her. We exchanged numbers because we wanted to see more of each other and we went our separate ways. I went straight home afterwards.
The Girl and I were in the park a week or two later, the same area where I met her, actually. We're sitting down and talking to each other. At one point, she wasn't paying attention to everything I said and I could tell she was distracted by something; half of her attention was on me and the other half was one something else. I could tell from her eye movements. I turned around to see what the Girl was looking at and there was her mother standing there, waiting for her. I could tell it was her mom just by the way the whole scene felt and looked. The Girl I was with had a smile on her face because she was so happy to see her mom. The mom was happy to see her daughter talking to a man and was curious to know who I was.
The nineteen year-old introduced me to her and then lied about how she met me. I wasn't upset that she lied to her mom about what we did the first time we met each other, don't get me wrong. I was just taken aback of how convincing she sounded when she told her that lie and how it seemed like she made it up on the fly. I forgot what the lie was, but she made me look like a million dollars. It was cool that Girl was able to keep our little secret from her mother and I went along with it. I mean, it wasn't a lie so big that I had to change my identity, but a small enough lie that it seemed unimportant and a lie I was able to work with on the fly.
So the mom asked me a few questions and I passed the mom test with flying colors. I looked back at her daughter and I could tell from the look she gave me that she liked me even more for passing the mom test and making a great first impression on her. It was almost as if I sensed the weight being lifted off of her shoulders for her. The Girl made me look good when she introduced me to her mom, and my conversation with her mother made Girl look very good.
She went home with her mom and within minutes after we went our separate ways for the day, she texted me saying that her mom was real impressed with me, thought I was handsome and liked me a lot. No, not in that way. But, you know, liked me in the mom way that showed that she signed off on me, a sign of approval. I won both of them over at the same time. Girl loves me, and I love Girl.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, Summer 2020 Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy: Great story about "Sunflower".
She's unbelievable. Great things can happen when you meet a stranger. What started out as her sitting on the bench who wasn't sure what she was going to do next turned into a great time for her that she didn't think was going to happen when she got up from her bed that morning. I can't say enough good things about her, although I will try whenever I'm given the opportunity.
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The world is full of wonderful women and you don't have to look at Hollywood movies or high-end porn films to find them. They are at the mall, walking down the street, at your local supermarket and almost anywhere else you can think of. We have all thought about what it would be like to ask these women if they can take their shoes off and model their feet for us, but in Central Park one guy has actually gone and done it.
Welcome to the Women of Central Park. I'm a guy who loves amateur chicks and is not shy about asking them to pose their feet for me for an impromtu photoshoot just for the heck of it and without pay. What you will see here are pictures from an amateur foot photographer who dabbles in this field out of interest rather than as a profession.
Natural Park lives up to its name because it really does have amateur girls who I approached in a park and they didn't mind showing their feet in their true and natural state, in their pure form and texture that taps in to all of our five senses - just how we prefer them. If that's your thing, you'll really appreciate the content here. I love what I do, and you can see and feel that I'm dedicated to this based on the stories about each girl and photoshoot.
Real, amateur, normal looking girls. You will not see the white curtains blowing in the wind behind the model, as she tries to look sexy. What you will see, though, are non-professionals modeling their bare feet in their real and truest conditions! Would you like to know how the feet of that female co-worker looks like? Or your classmate? Or that girl you saw in the train the other day? If so, this is the place for you!
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The second half of the Summer 2020 issue began on Sunday night with the photoshoot of Daisy Joy (or Sunflower, as those two names can be used interchangeably). It continued last night with a woman I named Girl. I am going to show other shoots I really enjoyed doing throughout the week. It was challenging but also very fun when it came to deciding the order in which I was going to show these shoots because I could've closed out the week with any one of them. So now with the lineup set, let's enjoy ourselves!
-National
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
"At one point, Girl even allowed me to press my face deep within her soles when she had them up in the air. She would flex them forwards and backwards to apply different amounts of pressure on my face to enhance the experience."
Love those canvas shoes too. They can build quite a smell.
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NATIONAL ADVICE When you do this type of thing, cold approaching these women, you are going to get a lot more nos than yeses. It's part of the game. Something I've been thinking about that's resonated with me is how the top guys separate themselves from the other guys who cannot really handle the amount of rejections they get, and therefore are not able to put in the volume of approaches they probably need to be successful at this and get consistent results.
A few things at play here: from my own perspective, I'm accepting of the fact that I am going to get more nos than yeses through the reference experience I've had. I know that any given day I'll go out and get nos from several women, but at the end of the day I'm playing to win. If I go out and get shut down seven times, but I get a yes from a decent looking girl who I'm attracted to, then that for me is a win.
Many guys are too scared because they think the woman's rejection is going to scar them. They're not putting all of their efforts and killin' it. Instead, they're tiptoeing around eggshells, not putting themselves fully on the line as an ego protection mechanism.
The best way to think about this and the best way to leverage it, is to think about why you're there. When I'm at the park, I want women to show me their feet. And if anything more comes out of it, then great. If I get rejected seven or eight times in one day, none of that will matter if I'm able to find one who is not like the other girls and tags along with me.
If a girl says no to me, it's not a big deal. For other guys, if they haven't solidified that reference experience, they're not sure of their convictions, they don't have lots of things going on in their lives that they enjoy, if they don't have the backbone developed through by cold approaching and also having an interesting life, enjoying your life and being passionate about yourself, they are going to take some girl saying no to them as blowing their worlds apart.
Any girl who tells me she's not going to take her shoes off for me or if she thinks my request is too odd for her, it won't faze me at all.
One of the sticking points guys have when they want to do this or guys who are just starting out, is lack of conviction. If you look back as an old man reminiscing fond memories that that was - and still is - your wife now, you're thinking back at the scenario of when you first saw her, and you knew she was the one for you, do you think for a second that you would hesitate in terms of going after her, and do you think for a second that it wouldn't be with complete conviction?
Imagine you're the lion. The lion doesn't give a fuck about anything that's looking at it because he's focused on that gazelle. He's blocked out everything else around him and he's going for what he thinks is his. You have to treat the approach the same way. When you go in, it has to be with conviction because the gazelle is the prey. Why? Because it's worth it. It is worth it for your own sense of satisfaction and it is worth it in terms of giving her enough respect to give her 100 percent of your conviction to the approach.
That's how you do it: everything on the line, full conviction, you're the lion stalking through the savanna. You see these tasty gazelles everywhere and you're going in with everything you've got in hopes of getting that prey. You're going to get that girl, you're going to stop that girl and whatever happens, that is yours and she's the one. Following that advice got me these results ...
*These are some of the women who appeared in past Summer Issues*
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
@National, Great outlook! That’s why you’re a legend!
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quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy: "At one point, Girl even allowed me to press my face deep within her soles when she had them up in the air. She would flex them forwards and backwards to apply different amounts of pressure on my face to enhance the experience."
Love those canvas shoes too. They can build quite a smell.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATIONAL LIFESTYLE- DRINKS
The weather is warm and sunny, everyone is happy to be outside. Summer is prime drinking season and I think the best way to celebrate the sunniest time of the year is with some phenomenal cocktails. Happy hour lasts all season long thanks to these summer drink recipes.
GIMLET The story goes that the gimlet was created in the mid-nineteenth century to encourage sailors to consume their rations of scurvy-preventing lime juice. The name is possibly a reference to Thomas Desmond Gimlette , a navel medical officer who served during that era. This drink went on to become a country-club favorite thanks to its just-off-the-court refreshing side.
Add all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Add the ice and shake well until chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass or (as I prefer) over ice into an old fashion glass.
GIN & DAISY As with many of the classics, there are actually two genres of Gin Daisy, with a historical dividing line somewhere around the turn of the twentieth century. The basic daisy formula, as designed in the 1870s, is more or less a sour kicked up with a few dashes of orange liqueur. Later, the daisy got a makeover: the gin ratio was knocked down, simple syrup was added for texture, and grenadine was swapped in for the orange liqueur. Both renditions are simple, quaffable drinks that deserve more play. Follow this recipe for the true old-school version, or try her fruitier sister, below.
Old-School Version: 2 ounces gin 3/4 ounce orange liqueur 3/4 ounce lemon juice Soda water, to top. GARNISH - lemon wheel
Add gin, orange liqueur, and lemon juice (meaning juice from an actual lemon) to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until chilled. Double strain over ice into a rocks glass and top up with soda water. Garnish with a lemon wheel.
To make the newer version of the Gin Daisy, add 1 1/2 ounces of gin, 1/2 ounce lemon juice, 1/4 ounce grenadine, and 1/4 ounce of simple syrup to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until chilled. Double strain over ice into a rocks glass and top with soda water. Garnish with an orange slice.
GIN AND TONIC Gin was claimed by many to have been invented in the 16th century in Holland and was originally prescribed as a medical treatment. It gradually made its way to the UK, where, due in part to its low cost, it became the drink of choice. By 1750 over 11 million gallons were being consumed by Londoners annually. Eventually, a series of laws curbed the spirit's ubiquity, and by the mid-19th century gin came to be considered a gentleman's drink.
In 1857 the British Crown took over the governance of India, and more Brits began to make their way to the Indian subcontinent and other warm-weather climes. However, early immigrants struggled with the ravages of malaria in the tropical climate (not to mention scurvy during the long sea journeys). The serendipitous cure was to ward off both of those illnesses was the gin and tonic.
Back in the day, tonic water was infused heavily with quinine, an extract from the South American cinchona tree. Cinchona bark was first brought to Europe in the 1640s when it was shown to cure and prevent malaria. Tonic water thus became an essential part of Britain's colonialism, though its taste in those days was bitter and harsh. Brits soon found that the addition of gin, sugar, ice, and citrus was the perfect way to temper the bitterness and make the cure palatable. And as a bonus, the inclusion of limes prevented scurvy.
These days tonic water is much tastier, with smaller doses of quinine and more sweetening agents, but the gin and tonic is no less popular. Though we may quibble over the finer details (how much ice to use, lemon versus lime versus cucumber, proper ratios), we can all agree: the gin and tonic really does cure all ills. Except hangovers, that is.
2 ounces gin 4 ounces tonic water GARNISH - three lime wedges
Add gin to a highball glass filled with ice. Squeeze in a lime wedge to taste. Then add tonic water and stir to combine. Garnish with three lime wedges.
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Join me again tomorrow night when I pick up from where I left off by showing pictures of more women you may know in real life. You can prepare a drink for yourself and enjoy the reading and viewing material with the women being presented this week. Nice girls, nice drinks, it's summer ... doesn't get more pleasant than that.
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Love a vodka gimlet! Can you buy the simple syrup or do you make it?
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Central Park in the Dark
NATURAL CLASSIC She looks like she enjoys life, enjoys herself, and is happy with who she is. Will being around her be a positive experience? You know a good woman when you see one, and when I first laid my eyes on Erica, I could immediately sense that she was the type of woman matched my requirements on my checklist I highlighted just seconds before. It also didn't hurt that she looked like that type of woman. Her face, her body type, the length of hair, her style of clothing, her outlook in life, her attitude. That is what I felt with Erica.
She was heading west and I was heading east when we crossed paths. She's not a particularly religious person, but her voice sounded almost spiritual, as if it can guide you to a place where you will be healed. The type of voice that's perceived in the heavens once it's heard, a work of magic that somehow signifies truth. There's only one other girl whose photos I took who has the voice can be described the same way: Dove Ethereal
Erica runs a soap shop in the city where they create an array of sensual soaps and body products, as well as a collection of candles that are made to appeal to the needs of the everyday modern individual. The products are handmade with natural ingredients that's combined with essential oils, natural minerals and salts, as well as some of the finest aromas. These are the types of soaps and other essential products for your body that would give a person some relaxation through the use calming aroma therapy. The way Erica described it made it sound a bit (unintentionally) erotic and it got to me a little bit, I must admit.
She's been in the soapmaking business for years and knows how to make soap from scratch, churning out batches and such. But now that she runs a soap store, very, very little of her time is spent soapmaking/producing, including time spent ordering supplies, dealing with GMP (Good manufacturing practice) paperwork, and packaging product. This frees up the rest of her time to manage her business and sell the handmade soaps.
When it comes to relationships and love, she knows that while acknowledging what she wants in a man is good for her to help make choices, it's more important to ask herself if she's the type of woman a man wants to be with? Even more important than that, is she becoming the type of woman she wants you to be with.
She accepts that a man is the initiator and the leader. She doesn't need to worry about seeking him out, or asking him to grab a coffee. She knows she needs a guy who can step up to the plate and pursue her because she is worth pursuing. Erica is way more appreciative when a man asks her out. "A man who never makes me play games to figure out what he's thinking, a man who's upfront, honest and takes charge, I love that - love that - in a man."
Just like with any romantic relationship, she know there will come a time when she's arguing uncompromisingly with her man about decisions. And sometimes, she want to take control when it's something she really cares about. But striving to be the best woman for her man she can be, she feels she need to learn how to trust him, even when she doesn't necessarily agree with him. "Even if I think it's the wrong decision, I hope we'll be able to simply learn from it. Otherwise, my trying to take control of everything only disrupts the ideal plan for our relationship. We think limitations restrict us when instead, they often free us."
At first she wasn't sure if she wanted to model for me because she didn't think her feet were "ready enough" to be presented nicely for me, as she put it. She was one of those women who was on the fence as to whether she'll let me take photos of her feet. She thought about it for a second, but I had to a better job of talking her into it. When you sense that someone is on the fence, you need to push it just a little bit more.
So I said, "Is there more to you than meets the eye? Who are you? What makes you unique? What do you look for in a man? Good things happen when strangers meet, so let's use this time to know each other a bit. You can either take it or leave it." Something within her changed and I sensed it. It was like I unlocked something and she admired me for stating my intentions and laying it on the line like that.
Erica: "I like that. Respect." I told her to follow me, and she did.
Her feet? I love them. Her soles are one of the best I've ever seen, without question. We (meaning myself and whoever is reading this on this forum) have different takes on what a perfect set of soles look like. But when I imagine a woman with the soles of my dreams, Erica's fits that description right down to the final detail, and they are the set of soles a man like myself has been looking for his entire life. Erica, from head to the bottoms of her feet is as close to an ideal woman for me as I can ever imagine. Life truly can be beautiful. That is a woman right there!
I believe Erica is the first woman I shot who wore Keds shoes. She bought her teacup flats in DSW. She loves how the style of the shoes "spoke to her feminine senses," as she put it, and how they make her feel pretty. She loves how she can wear them with pretty much anything and still look comfortable, presentable and ladylike.She relies on them quite a bit because the signs are there that she has relied on them quite a bit. The fact that she wore them without socks was another thing that got me interested because it meant that her beautiful feet had a natural flavor. She loves them so much that she thought it was adorable how I looked as I held each one in my hand, looking them over, "like you're shopping for things at an antique shop," as said as an analogy.
We didn't go anywhere after the shoot was over, so we decided to stay on the rock and talked to each other well into the night after the shoot was over, sitting close together and next to each other, holding hands.
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quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Love a vodka gimlet! Can you buy the simple syrup or do you make it?
Both.
They sell them at some liquor stores. I wasn't able to find them in the first few liquor stores I visited, but they had them at one location, and I wasn't even looking for one when I found it. But I had to buy a couple of those. They sell simple syrup at Target, too. I don't know if they have them at all Targets, but they certainly sold them at the one across the street from Macy's in NYC. I like the ones they sell much better because the liquid is thicker and a bit sweeter.
Making it in your home should be simple enough. Simple syrup is just equal parts of water and sugar. The homemade version can be kept for up to a month in the fridge. Here's what you can do to make your own:
1/2 cup of sugar 1/2 cup of water
It doesn't have to be those exact measurement, but you get the idea - equal parts of both ingredients. Pour in the sugar, and then grab the hot water from the stove and pour it on top of the sugar. The water doesn't have to be boiling, but just hot enough to dissolve the sugar. Stir it around until the water looks as clear as it can be and the hot water will dissolve the sugar. Let it cool down before you use it.
-National
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NATURAL CLASSIC This was arguably the hottest day I've ever been at the park. Not only that, but the humidity was quite oppressive. It was uncomfortable. The weather forecast called for thunderstorms in the afternoon and I knew I didn't have that much time left.
I was walking along when I spotted Margot. I've never met a Margot before before this one and I want her to turn out to be the only Margot I will ever meet. That's how much I like her. It was one of those moments when you see someone and your heart starts beating faster. My heart rate was normal just seconds before, and now was racing. I saw just how gorgeous she looked on this hot day and I knew I wanted her to be my woman.
So I was walking along. When I saw Margot, she wasn't going anywhere because she was looking through her backpack for something or trying to organize the contents in there to make room for something she wanted to put away, I don't remember which. I stopped dead in my tracks because I was a bit nervous and excited at the same time. I had to give myself a timeout to regroup and figure out how I wanted this approach to go down, and I had less then ten seconds to come up with an answer.
It was very crowded, the spot where I went up to her. Bunch of people walking back and forth with their children. I knew I needed to approach her or else I was never going to forgive myself if I hadn't. Margot was going to have a chance encounter with a complete stranger that was going to make her day.
I approached her with the plan of building up chemistry right away with a bit of a sexual tone in hopes that she instantly feels the vibe. This is me creating a sexual vibe with Margot very quickly and we'll talk about this afterwards.
"Excuse me, I know this is very forward, but I noticed you from over there with your long hair in a pony tail, denim overalls, and I thought you looked horrible. No, I'm joking - you look really hot." "Thank you." "So I thought I would at least say hello. I'm not gonna do that thing on social media where I swipe right on your profile and instead create a more direct approach and speak to you in real life." "And for that, I'll give you a hundred points." "I see you're all dolled up today, so what's happening? Where are we going? Why don't we go for some drinks?" "I could go for some, actually," she said half jokingly, "It's quite hot today so I'd figure I take a stroll through Central Park, see what's going on and a great way to kill some time." "So you're doing that thing of just strutting out confidently and having no idea where you're going." "Yeah, that's a good way of putting it."
Then there was a 30 to 45-second bit where we talked loosely about what we did the night before and how I was still a bit hungover.
"So are you from around here?" she asked. "Can you tell by the accent? I'm from Russia." "That can't be - you're joking again." She knew I was joking about that, and had the sense of humor to know I was only playing around. She continued, "What about me? Can you tell where I'm from?" "Your accent sounds like a woman who couldn't be more happy being Australian." "Yes, Brisbane!"
I made a flattering comment about Australian women having great legs, while making it obvious to her that I was looking her up and down without making it look and sound perverted. I could tell she thanked me without saying thanks because she developed a red tinge in her face from embarrassment and romantic stimulation. She tried to hide her excitement by changing the topic. So we talked some more about a little bit of this and that.
"Do you get guys commenting on your great legs?" "No, not like that," she said, all giddy. "I mean you look fantastic, so what else am I supposed to do? By the way, I like your shoes. In fact, I wanna take pictures of your feet." "You mean with and without my shoes on? Why feet? Just for that reason - the fact that no one has asked to take pictures of them before - is reason enough to do this."
So from the initial open, I've gone in verbally quite hard. The way I lead the conversation was meant to spike things up sexually, referring to her legs quite often. Margot enjoyed it because I was being genuine, I told her what I actually saw and how that made me feel. So I verbally escalated things and I was touching her a little bit, so that's a bit of physical escalation. In other words, I was incidentally touching her and moving in closer to her when the moment felt right. With the non-verbals: when she spoke, I looked down at her lips, back up to her eyes, and I gave her that sort of look that said, "when I take you home, your clothes are going to fly off." And what made this more worthwhile was that she felt that. So when you combine all those things, it's rocket fuel in terms of leveraging the dynamic of the actual conversation to a really sexual vibe.
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Sometimes I walk around the park with the girl for a little bit (about ten minutes) before we finally settle in on a spot to do the shoot. I don't know, it just feels good doing that, and that's what I did with Margot.
From where Margot was born, raised, and currently still lives, Brisbane must be one of the best cities in the world to live in. It is the sunshine capital of Australia as they enjoy 250 days of being in the sun each year and the disposition of the people is captured seamlessly in the architecture and infrastructure of the city. The city streets and riverside are lined with alfresco dining, there are myriads of glass paneled buildings, river walks ... all designed to keep them in touch with the near 'endless summer' that permeates their lives there.
The city's relaxed vibe with people of multicultural background and incredibly friendly nature will not leave any stone unturned in having a good social life. Brisbane is a very affordable city to live in as there are plenty of things which you can do on your budget. Margot, for example, explores plenty of beaches, lots of music and many different cultural attractions such as the French Film Festival, Spanish Film Festival, the India Day Fair, Queensland Italian Week, Buddha Birthday Festival, and whatever else they have going on. It is really one of the more chilled and laid back places on Earth.
She loves to go surfing and she loves to go hiking along the trails in Noosa National Park. And, "I can spend the afternoon watching a rugby game with you," she told me. Those traits, especially the last one, are great ones for a woman like her to have.
It was hot during the shoot and it was a good thing she had a bottle of water with her to keep her going. She kept offering to share the bottle with me but I kept declining until I thought the better of it and decided that sharing the same water bottle with her wasn't a bad idea after all. I would look at the sky from time to time because I was counting on the fact that the clouds would come in and cover the sun. It finally arrived, and it was right on schedule. The clouds were going to be a much-needed relief to block the heat, and that's exactly what happened.
The mood certainly changed when the clouds came in and that's when she decided to let go of her hair to really get herself settled in. And that had the same effect on me because when she did that to her hair, she looked even better to me, and that got me more settled into the shoot. It wasn't humid anymore and the winds started to become a little noticeable, telling us it was going to rain not too long afterwards.
With her hair now free, I wanted to take some photos of her standing up, and Margot simply looked amazing. She was sweating a bit from the heat and she allowed me to wipe some of it from her forehead and her cheeks.She then said "hi" to me, almost in a whisper. We were close enough to each other that I was able to pick up on the humidity from her breath after she said it. It smelled of nothing - just like the water we shared from that bottle, neutral and natural. That made me stare into her eyes a bit longer and play a little bit with her hair, us standing together there in silence.
It seemed like the heat and humidity from when the sun was out to make her feel one way, and when it became more tolerable - when the clouds cooled things down - it made her feel another way and I liked it. She reintroducing herself to me when she said hi. Or perhaps the heat made her forgot that we made our introductions to each other at the beginning. Either way, it was the sort of greeting that made me know she was telegraphing interest.
The way she looked overall and the way she looked at me during those moments ... I don't know, there was something there, that male-female chemistry, that attraction that draws two people closer in a way that words cannot put a finger on.
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I think I want to point out before I forget, back in the beginning of the shoot when she when she first removed her socks, she smelled her own socks, made that expression on her face that said, "hmm, ok" before putting them to the side. I don't remember ever seeing a woman do that during any of my shoots, and it seemed like she did it while forgetting that I was there. I asked her what that was about, and she said it was a habit of hers. I had to smell them for myself to see if I agreed with her own assessment of her socks. And she let me. It wasn't bad. It smelled a bit moisty but nothing else, as if she had just washed them with an unscented laundry detergent.
When the shoot was over, we exchanged contact information and that was that.
"So look, how long are you in New York for?" "'Till next Friday." "Well look, let's go for a drink before you go back. Come for a drink with a nice American guy. I'll take you for a classic gin and tonic in the rain." "Wow, that'll be amazing!"
So I lead the way, she was very responsive, it was her natural reaction to my masculine, old-school approach. I sent her a message to see if she wanted to hang out. She must've thought, "You know, I haven't met any American guys ... so why not give this man a shot? Why not go out with him for a gin and tonic?" And because she decided to meet me because of the fact she lives in Brisbane, then she was going to have a great time with me in New York.
Margot was not going to date me long-term because we don't live in the same country. Guys, always think that if a girl you meet in your home city is traveling, you get her number and she's not permanently there, just think that if she does meet you, then it's absolutely game on.
WHAT'S IN A NAME? Her first name is really Margot. Her last name I've given her is not her real last name. So what's the reason behind why I choose that name as her last name? Because her voice reminded me of an Australian TV host and producer. So if you need to attach a voice to Margot, and if you want to imagine what it would be like to hang out with this woman, this interview of the Australian TV host will serve as a great reference. The link is right below.
I would be remiss if I don't make mention of the accessories she wore around her wrists. Great sense of style, as each one makes her think of different things. It makes her look like someone who has many interesting stories to tell - and she does. There's one in particular that stood out to me. It has a little message on it, and what it said can be used to summarize who Margot is and what her ideas are in life that make her an amazing woman, adventurous and passionate. In fact, there will never be another woman named Margot in this thread and in my eyes. Such a beautiful and lovely lady.
Natural Park - The Women of Central Park, Summer 2020 Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC I saw Kelly walk past me and I had it in my mind that she was it for my vision for what I look for in a good shoot. I've been asked once before, "How do you know which girl to shoot?" I've even had some women ask me what it was that made me pick them, like Kelly did. It's an unsolvable math formula in that it's something that can't be put into words exactly. I just trust my gut, trust my instincts.
I turned around and followed her. I caught up to her and simply asked if I could take pictures of her feet. If I knew it was that easy to get girls to say yes to this, I would've started doing this long before I did.
She's another Australian girl. I don't know what it is with the women from Down Under, but if there's anyone in here who lives there, then you guys have got it made! I've enjoyed every shoot I had with an Aussie girl. Kelly here is from Sydney. Upon hearing that, I told her, "When I think of Sydney, I think of spending my days surfing and eating avocado toast and my nights sampling the exotic multicultural cuisine of the city."
Kelly couldn't believe it. In her Australian accent, "You are so right. Are you a best-selling author for romantic novels?"
That question was rhetorical, but I answered it anyway. "Probably. Why?" "I don't know," she said. "Something like that would be my dream date with a guy. I love rom-coms and romantic novels so you'll have to excuse me." That was ten minutes before the shoot began and already there was attraction built. I can listen to women speak in her Australian accent all day long and I would never get tired of it.
KELLY'S FOOTWEAR She wore Birkenstocks that day. Right before the shoot began, she told me how she wished she wore another pair of shoes now that I wanted to take pictures of her feet. She explained that if she's not expecting to meet a guy on a particular day, or something along the lines of not really expecting for any random guy who she may find attractive to approach her during the daytime, she would not have worn the Birkenstocks.
She said, "I don't want you to think poorly of me because of what I have on my feet at the moment." I wasn't sure what she was trying to say, so I asked her, "What's wrong with how you decided to dress your feet today?" "They have a reputation of being lesbian shoes, that only lesbians wear them."
That was the first time that day that I heard someone say something funny because it wasn't until she said that that I started to think that there may have been some truth to that when you consider how those shoes look. I mean I may have heard that stereotype before, and if so I never given it much thought. So here we have Kelly who thought I would think less of her because of her footwear.
"Are you a lesbian?" I asked. "No," as she shook her head. The way she said it and the look on her face when she said it looked and sounded like she was a child who apologized for having been caught with her hand in the cookie jar, feeling embarrassed and promising that that would never happen again.
"So if you're not a lesbian, then why would wear them?" "They're just incredibly comfortable when I walk in them."
That moment gave her the opportunity to re-qualify herself to me, giving her the need to fill in the void I created. I'm now much more comfortable to hang with because that awkwardness gave her the space to have to reengage me, to say something she felt would redeem herself in my eyes.
Something else you can do to make the conversations interesting is to change the subject often. A lot of guys get caught up in talking about a singular topic jut to keep the conversation going. What ends up happening is that the conversation stagnates and it becomes boring to her. It may not be boring to you because you're talking to a woman in her mid 20s who who you have the hots for. But with women, you have to change it up and keep it fresh. So when Kelly and I talked about places we like to go for fun, I abruptly changed the subject and asked her if she was a natural blonde (which she is). After that, I told her that I like it when girls wear high heels during sex. Doing this to a woman keeps her on her toes and keeps her interested. If you're predictable, she'll lose interest. Changing the subject often gives her the aura of unpredictability, and guess what: Kelly absolutely loved it!
You also want to say something playful, something flirty, something that kept it interesting, especially if you feel the conversation is in danger of falling flat. So we were in the middle of talking about I don't remember what when I said, ...
"You've been here a month and you haven't kissed a man in New York? That's very strange." "Why?" "Because I thought you had a wonderful smile and thought you would've met a lovely American from New York, taken him back to your place and done bad things already."
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RELIVING FOND MEMORIES I love Kelly's long toes. I love the shape of her soles. I'm in favor of women who have big feet, and seeing them up close and personal within moments of meeting her was just fantastic because it made the shoot so much more for me to enjoy. When I see feet that look like hers, I make sure I get the most of it as I possibly can. And I love how she has feelings of nostalgia of things from the 1990s (particularly the shirt she wore), and that's why some of the images you'll see here reflect that time in history.
There are some blurriness and color manipulation to bring back memories from those who grew up in the that decade like Kelly did. With the blurs, they are more obvious in some photos more than others. Not every photos is like that, but a number of them are and you're going to have to look for them. She brought back the memories from the nineties more than anyone else I've photographed.
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THANKS TO ALL
And that will do it for the Summer edition of The Women of Central Park. Hope you guy enjoyed the women who were featured and that these photos will get you through the summer. The Women of Central Park presents real life girls who show their feet in real-life conditions. These women are reminders of what's out there and to serve as inspirations to go out there and check out the girls you see in the streets, at a beach, or at a park.
I know some of you liked some of these women I showed. If you have comments or questions, then feel free to chime in. What do you think of The '90s Kelly, or Margot Bruland, or Sunflower, or Girl, just to name some?These girls who took the time out of their time to pose for me are wonderful people, and I really owe them a lot of thanks for being the coolest women in the world to show their feet, to allow themselves to have their stories told.
In the meantime, enjoy your drinks, enjoy yourself and enjoy the women.
-National
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I saw her sitting on a bench when I decided to sit next to her to strike up a conversation. Come to think of it, when I first saw her, I don't remember if she was reading a book or eating a waffle ice cream sundae. My memory of that moment is playing games with me because I imagined her doing either one and the fact I can't remember exactly what she did is bother me. Nevertheless, there she was.
She was visiting New York on vacation from Hungary, where she's from. I was curious more than anything to see what her feet looked like. Something about her sneakers said that she planned on doing a lot of walking that day and they looked pretty comfortable for a woman to walk in. After seeing her socks come off, I must say that her feet weren't bad.
This shoot was not as long as I remembered it being, but she was very nice to me during the shoot.
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I like her feet!
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She washes all of her socks when she does her laundry before she puts them on again.
This is a woman who would love to write a novel that revolves around the paranormal, supernatural, unexplained occurrences that the world of black magic encompasses. She daydreams about that topic, which gets her creative juices flowing, compelling her to write her thoughts down on a notebook. She ideals herself as someone who can use someone's nefarious powers against them so that the forces of good can prevail. She may turn herself into that type of character should she ever decide to publish a novel.
She said, "Magic comes from a force within. Magical energies radiate throughout the entire world. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean all beings are able to utilize these magical energies. For better or worse, life has changed drastically as a result of all these magical energies and the limits are far from discovered. More and more research is being put into discovering what the limits of magic are and what the most efficient ways of using magic are."
She never specified which group of people were doing the research, but she made it sound like it was a group of biologists at a lab doing the study by the straightforward nature in which she explained it all.
Just to sidetrack for a moment, here's the information on the book she was reading, for anyone who's interested: The High Lord
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During the middle of the shoot, When asked why I wanted her to take pictures of her feet, I said something about how women's feet can hold magical powers to entice men into wanting to get closer to them, and that since feet are typically not looked at in the same way as breasts and asses, there must be something unique about feet that only a select type of men can understand, making feet magical. Yes, I used the theme of magic to make feet sound phenomenal to her, and she appreciated how I was able to play off of her love for magic to explain the shoot.
She then asked in a kind of flirty way, "Do you think that my feet are magical?"
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I saw her do a balance beam act on the cobble stones that separate the grass from the road where joggers and bicyclists take over. She walked pretty fast with her arms stretched out to form a wingspan as she tried to keep her balance but she kept falling off. I don't know what was going through her mind that compelled her to do that, but I admired her perseverance to keep trying even though she kept falling off.
She's the type who feels in her natural element when it's dark outside. When I say dark, I mean the type of dark that makes a house haunted and the type of dark where people get lost in. Her favorite type of music is metalcore and thrash metal and one of her favorite bands is Eths. If you want to talk about torture, war, racism, prison, she'll listen to you all day. She finds pleasure in pain and uses pain as her strength, and has an affinity for eating many types of food, except for pasta.
I love her non-smile smile, as if she wants to smile but for whatever reason can't. I appreciate one girl I take photos of being different from the other one, and this one doesn't show her teeth when she smiles, even though her teeth her normal. Very little upward curl in the corner of her mouth. And trust me, even then she was still happy.
Her socks were sticky, but she knew the effects of that weren't going to bother me when her feet were aired out. She almost never paints her toenails, and if she were to do it, it would be painted black. But she prefers to keep her feet as they were when she was born, she tried to say.
Other things that make her happy are reading books, taking cold showers, unusual sex, making sure her cat is well taken care of and well fed, and watching little children giggle and play in the park.
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Natural Park - The Women of Central Park, Autumn 2020 Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
She's from Columbus, Ohio, and is into rap music. Her favorite movie is Straight Outta Compton. She's the type of girl who is "one of the guys."
There are not that many women whose feet I've come across that were as dirty as this woman's. One other woman comes to mind, but I can't think of any other off the top of my head. She wished she had worn something different on her feet on the day of this shoot because she knew how the soles of her feet would look in front of me. But she went along with it anyway because she knew it wasn't going to bother me so much. Besides, even though I'm not a huge fan of the dirty feet look, I would go along with shooting a woman with dirty feet because it's something I almost never come across in all of my time doing this, and I'd figure that someone in here would appreciate this more than I might.
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An interesting trio! By far my favorite would be the Seer. Her soles are magical! Great line you hit her with, too. Great work, thanks.
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She's from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I was able to catch up to her when she stopped walking. She was looking around the park, deciding if she was wanted to continue to walk south or to make the turn and explore east. She only had a little time to spare, but she was willing to pose for feet for me nonetheless. When it became evident that she knew little to no English, it only made sense that the rest of the conversation was spoken in Spanish.
Somewhere in the conversation, she thanked me for not referring to her as a Latina, making assumptions that Argentine women love to dance to reggaeton or salsa (I mean, they do dance to that music, but it's not as popular down there as it is in other Spanish speaking countries) because she gets asked about those genres of music often when she travels outside of South America. While Argentina is part of Latin America, Argentines consider themselves more "European," and this woman is no exception.
She told me a story of a time she met some guy who visited Argentina from the U.S. She invited him back to her place and she wanted him to be there at eleven. He's thought this was in the bag, thinking it was a foregone conclusion that they were going to have sex that night. I didn't blame him 'cause I thought the same thing. But he was in for a surprise and that was when I was taught a lesson about Argentine customs, as I was not too familiar with what they were: everything starts late in Argentina. Just because she plans a (very) late outing, doesn't mean she's looking for a booty-call. So that guy spent the night socializing with a bunch of her friends at some get-together at her place, which was the last thing he expected to do. She, like other Argentines, are a very sociable bunch, so prepare for lots of socializing, boludo!
I wondered if she would adapt to the American custom and meet up with me late in the night for "lots of fun?" She was flattered, but politely rejected the offer. I guess you can't win 'em all ...
Natural Park - The Women of Central Park, Autumn 2020 Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Central Park in the Dark
I was able to convince this woman to take her shoes off for me. It was getting towards sunset and I was glad to have been able to bump into her when I did because it was getting close to that time when I was going to call it a day.
I've met a number of women from Australia, and you can add her to that list. She's the only one, though, from western Australia, whereas all of the others where from the east coast of that country. I think she told me where in western Australia she's from, but I forgot the name of the town or city she calls home. I bring this up because she had the most distinct accent of anyone who spoke English that I've ever heard. With other Aussies, their accent are noticeable and it's a lot of fun listening to them speak because it makes them look cuter in my eyes. With this woman, her accent was so unusual to me, that I couldn't believe how I was hearing her speak, and I'm being very complimentary to her when I say that.
It was almost as if that accent originated from a country that is not known to anyone. Either that, or it was the type of voice you would hear from a creature in a cartoon series designed to appeal to toddlers. In fact, I don't think kids would listen to her if it wasn't for how cool and cute her unique accent is. She's clearly speaks English, but I had to squint sometimes so I could decipher what she said because sometimes it was difficult for me to make out what she was saying exactly. Again, I mean all of this in the most positive light as I could because it's an accent I've never heard spoken before, and it's something I would love to listen to all day because it is a joy to engage in a conversation with her.
She possess a handful of odd talents. These include absentmindedly drawing doe-eyed sketches of animals, accurately diagnosing her friends with medical conditions. But if there's one thing she knows she not, it's flirting. Talking to strangers (or near strangers) is bad enough for her without all the added pressure of maintaining a certain ... she-doesn't-know-what throughout.
She loves to think. She likes to be with people who think, especially those who have plenty of thought provoking conversations. She would like to find a man who can appeal to her intellect by displaying his, but respect and cultivate her intellect in the process.
She's studying to become a palaeontologist. If you want to discuss dinosaurs, she's your woman. She gets excited at the thought of unearthing a fossil that hasn't been seen for millions of years; she loves learning about prehistoric life.
Her research involves studying dinosaurs to better understand how they lived their lives. To do this she studies specimens in museum collections, goes out to try to find new specimens and study the rocks in which the specimens are found. Then there's a lot of data analysis that takes place when she gets back home from the fieldwork or museum collection visit.
As a future palaeontologists, she spends her time studying all fossilized past life. That can include everything from corals, shellfish, and mammals. It's not just animals either, she also studies ancient plants. She uses the information that's been uncovered to not only to learn about the lives of the animals, but to understand what the Earth was like in the past.
Her Nike's make her feel light on her feet and I loved the fact that she decided to wear no-show socks to slip inside her sneakers. The appearance that it looks like she's not wearing any socks when in fact she was got to my weak spot. Even better was how her sneakers was so tightly worn on her feet that the impression the socks left on her feet was quite the sight to see! Socks worn so tight around her feet that the imprints left on them made me think that some blood circulation was cut off at her ankles. The soles of her feet were very soft to the touch and squeeze.
It started to turn dark outside and the photos of her feet looked fantastic against night backround. A woman as innocent as she is to be able to pass the night test shows that any element in the outdoors is a natural fit for her.
Natural Park - The Women of Central Park, Autumn 2020 Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This post marks the 1,000th time this thread has been bumped. Thank you guys very much for letting me display my work and being so supportive of what I do. I'm so glad that a woman like the one you're about to meet is going to be a part of this milestone because she is quite the lovely lady.
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This cute nineteen year-old blonde was spotted sitting on a small rock that was small enough to accommodate for only one person to take a break. I just happened to look to my left and was able to single her out through the many people who were walking and jogging in front of her. A cute girl just sitting there, looking around and seeming like she was happy to be in the park that day, smile on her face 'n all. The perfect shot and the perfect setup that one would see in the movies. So what's a man to do? I walked up to her by cutting through the crowd.
She enjoyed my presence as I stood in front of her and talking. Guys get nervous when talking to a new cutie they just met, struggling to come up with things to talk about and being tongue tied. I love it when it happens the other way around. I could tell she was getting nervous and excited at the same time she was smiling the entire time, although she was at a loss for words in the hopes that she wouldn't say something that came off as awkward to me. She also kept playing with her hair while we were talking and while I was being flirtatious with her, twisting her hair around her finger or combing her hand through it, and I don't think she knew she was doing it.
I don't know what it is, but I find myself running into more gorgeous Aussies. Perhaps I should move to Australia and apply my craft over there. "I'm from the land Down Under," she said so proudly, her cute accent coming through in spades. I mean, who doesn't love a foreign accent?
I call this woman Lively. She's lively because she's full of life and enthusiasm. Very cheerful and sweet. Lively goes with the flow. She takes each moment as it comes and appreciates life more than she criticizes it. She makes friends and respects them. She and her friends keep each other happy with their silly jokes. She has fun, makes mistakes, explores and keep grinning.
Lively was here with her mother and younger sister. They decided to walk through the park separately before meeting back with each other at a certain spot (the area where I approached her) at a certain time. Lively either got back to their meetup spot too early or the mother and sister were going to show up late, I don't remember which.
I turned my attention to her feet and simply told her that I wanted to take pictures of them. She said okay and off we went. It was as simple as that. I love it when they say okay, especially when they say it with full of pep and high spirits like Lively did before adding, "Don't worry about my mum and little sister - they can wait." Cool chick, willing to spend time with a brand new guy she finds attractive while he takes pictures of her feet while her family waits somewhere.
As we walked through the park for a little bit, I showed Lively photos of The 90's Kelly (whose photos I posted back on June 27, 2020, as part of the Summer Issue) and asked if she knew her (being that they're both from Sydney). She knows a Kelly but not that one. Shucks. I mean, I wasn't expecting Lively to know Kelly, but it would've been awesome if they did know each other!
ME: So what do you look for in a guy, and you're not allowed to say looks? In other words, what do you like personality-wise? LIVELY: Somebody who can actually hold a conversation, funny, quite laid-back, isn't arrogant ... ME: Well, I guess I better walk away then.
She started to laugh.
ME: Someone who's not arrogant. I don't know. I mean there is a fine line. LIVELY: So you're saying you're arrogant? ME: Well I think you need to be confident. There's a blurred line between those two traits. LIVELY: Definitely. It's great that you're confident and I sensed that about you and I like it. But arrogance is different because arrogance is rude.
Then we talked about how shy guys tend to be around women and how women tend to meet guys through dating apps or in nightclubs and bars. Then I asked if if she ever gets guys coming up to her the way I did. She said no. Then I asked her what she thought of me approaching her.
LIVELY: Well, I was quite taken aback by it because I'm not used to it. ME: In a good way or in a bad way? LIVELY: In a good way, definitely.
At the end, she started receiving texts from her mom, wondering where she was. In a joking manner, I told her to reply to that text by saying that she was getting accosted by a stranger in Central Park, which made Lively laugh a bit. We finished the shoot and I walked her back to the place where this story began (an eight-minute walk). That's where I met her mother and sister.
The sister was very impressed at the sight of the two of us approaching them, seeing me standing tall and Lively to my right, beaming. She (meaning the sister) said, "WOW!" The mother seemed very happy for Lively was well and wasn't sure what to make of any of this. Lively introduced me to them and I led the conversation from that point on. I told them something along the lines of that I thought Lively looked very nice and wanted to take her through a walk in the park for a little bit, which was true. The mom loved me, the sister thought I was funny, and the five-minute conversation we had was very nice. And then I asked for the mother's permission to take her out on a date (which was something Lively and I discussed on our walk back after the shoot was over). I told her what kind of date I wanted to go on, saying that Lively is a sweet lady that a true gentleman like myself would like to get to know better.
Her sister's heart melted, saying, "Aww, that's so sweeeet! Say yes, mum - I like him already." Lively looked at her mom with her eyes widening a bit, with the look on her face that said, please, please say yes. The mother said that considering that both of her daughter's liked me, the fact that I was attentive enough to bring Lively back to them all in one piece, and the fact that I spoke like a poet, I had her blessing.
"Thy bright beaming eyes, and thy gay golden hair, Provoke a sensation too killing to bear ..."
Natural Park - The Women of Central Park, Autumn 2020 Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
In reference to The Magical Seer:
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Her soles are magical! Great line you hit her with, too.
I know, right? Sometime I say things I, myself, can't believe.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Two sweet Aussies, four sweet soles, and a date! Dude your a legend!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Two sweet Aussies, four sweet soles, and a date! Dude your a legend!
Central Park is such a fantastic place to meet women. Lively and her family are awesome people and I'm glad to have meet all of them and to have had the opportunity to show Lively herself a fantastic time in New York City. A sweet, fun and wonderful lady through and through.
There's something about women from Australia that brings about some memorable moments. For example ...
Memories.
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Bump to this great thread
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INTRODUCTION Central Park is a magnificent place to be. It is the most visited urban park in the United States and it is the most filmed location in the world. Just like with many other things associated with Central Park, this thread (that celebrates the women who visit Central Park) puts smiles on people's faces. That is what I always try to do in this thread, as it is my "job description".
Visiting Central Park should be on everyone's bucket list because you cannot say you visited New York City without visiting the Park. Those who have, come in from all over the city, the United States, and from many foreign countries to enjoy the leisure and festivities that takes place out in the open.
For more than 160 years, Central Park has been the centerpiece of New York City, with more than 21 million women visiting each year. In The Women of Central Park, I will take readers through America's most popular and celebrated park, where natural and manmade features are interwoven into a spectacular work of art. Combining incredible stories with fantastic photographs, the Women of Central Park will be your guide to let you in on what it's like to meet women who go there.
Central Park is a living museum of superb Victorian decorative arts and landscape design. What you will see throughout the week are more women who could've easily been picked up at the mall, grocery store, Starbucks, or any other public place. You don't need to turn on the TV or fire up your broadband internet to find hot chicks because they're all over the place. I find the everyday amateur girls all around me just about irresistible, and I am not the least bit timid in approaching them about getting their feet naked for photos.
The Women of Central Park is a great example of natural amateur content in the foot fetish category. Get ready for the grandeur, get ready for the excitement. At the end of the week, when you leave Central Park, I guarantee you, just like I did during and after these shoots, you will have a smile on your face.
Thank you very much.
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One of the more gorgeous women I've ever photographed is about to be presented before you. It was one of those moments where I could not believe my eyes as to what I was seeing. As I've said several times throughout the pages of this thread: if you're out there doing this, and you see someone who looks that good, you have got to approach her because women like her do not come along that often.
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She was looking at the ducks swimming on the lake, probably wishing she had one or two of them as pets, raising them on a piece of land that has a lot of acres.
The initial conversation upon the approach was something I deemed to be a throwaway awful conversation which then leads into an impromtu shoot. Looking back on it, I can't help but to revel in the shitness of the thing because what I thought was going to lead to nothing lead to something.
ME: "Excuse me. Do you speak English?" SVETLANA: "A little." ME: "I don't usually do this, but I had to say you look nice."
She was trying to think of what to say but the words couldn't quite come out of her mouth as she was blushing from having a comment like that catch her off guard.
ME: "And now you're going to tell me you're waiting for a Tinder date or something like that."
She didn't know what I was trying to say so I had to make things easier for her.
ME: "I saw you and I thought you looked very nice." HER: "Thank so much - you too." ME: "Yeah?" HER: "Yeah, very good." ME: "Where are you from?" HER: "Ukraine. Kyiv"
From there, we were talking about this and that. Nothing special, each of us trying to get a grasp of what the other person was trying to say. Basically, she was in New York studying English. Not bad, considering that her English (as little as she knew about it) was better than my Ukrainian. Later in the introduction phase ...
HER:: "When I'm drunk, I speak more." ME:: "When you're drunk you speak more? So let's get you a drink. We need to get you a drink right away! So what are you doing this evening?" HER:: "I go to skydiving with my friends." ME:: "Skydiving? I don't know this." HER:: "It's near here I think." ME:: "In Manhattan?" HER: "Yes." ME: "Skydiving? Really? I never heard this." HER: "Me too, it's near from here."
Perhaps she meant to say something else in place of skydiving. She had to. Now of course I know what skydiving is, but skydiving in the middle of New York City? She was thinking of something else, and I was hoping she would find the words to correct herself but that never happened.
You see, what guys forget sometimes is that the approach doesn't have to be perfect. Just the act of going up to the girl and speaking to the girl you find attractive is something she'll respect you for.
Her English wasn't great, my vibe was shit, and it was a bit of a car crash conversation because the interaction was not flowing smoothly due to our language barriers and I really thought this wasn't going to go anywhere. As someone who was starting to learn English, she had a hard time understanding what I was talking about for the most part. She could maybe follow one out of five words. Therefore, I had to speak in fewer words, in more simplistic terms to maintain the dialogue.
This was probably the worse approach I did that still resulted in a shoot. When I told her I wanted to take pictures of her feet, I wasn't expecting her to say yes because of the difficulties imposed by the language barrier we faced, and I was a bit concerned that a part of her felt helpless in the situation. She probably figured that modeling her feet for me could make things easier for her because posing for photos is something anyone can do. She was willing to give it a try because it was just feet.
According to circumstance, she was only in the U.S. for a little bit of time and she probably thought I looked all right in my suit and she was willing to go for it. Again, don't try to predict the outcome, just take the action and go with what you can do.
ME:: "So what did you think when I said hello? Were you surprised?" SVETLANA:: "Of course. Why did you say hello?" ME:: "What do you think?" SVETLANTA:: "It's not normal." ME: "In Ukraine? So if a guy says hello to you - imagine we're in Kyiv - I see you eating strawberries, and I think you look nice, it's normal for me to say hello."
She shook her head. When I asked why not,
SVETLANA: "I don't know. I don't know why." ME:: "I'm actually quite friendly because perhaps I love learning about different parts of the world, therefore I have to be open minded. But if I see you and I think you look quite nice, so I say hello. Again, why do you think this is strange?" SVETLANA:: "Because I was scared." ME:: "Why, because you thought I was going to steal your purse?" SVETLANA:: "No, no, no. I was thinking ... I don't know what I was thinking. Maybe I think you not be from here." ME:: "Say again?" SVETLANA: "Because you don't from ... here?" When I asked her to repeat herself, she answered me in a form of a question because my question made her feel insecure about her English. Basically she was trying to say that she thought I wasn't from New York and that I was from another country, maybe Curacao.
ME: "So you found it strange that I spoke to you and then you didn't know what I wanted?" SVETLANA: "No, I know." ME: "You did know! So you're not that switched off." SVETLANA: "I thinky I know. You want be my friend, yah. Am I right?" ME: (After a pause) "I suppose if friends want to roll around together naked in bed, then yes I want to be your friend."
She shook her head with a smirk on her face that said, You're good. Sneaky, but good
The fact that I didn't appear to her as someone who spoke English was quite interesting. In that exchange, I tried to figure out if she knew what I wanted, meaning if she knew that I wanted to get better acquainted with her in a physical sense. She thought I wanted to be friends. Instead of playing into her frame, I used a line that I've used on other women before, the friends get naked in bed line. The way I said it implied that even if she didn't really understand, being that her English wasn't massively on point, then she would get the tone of what I'm saying. She tried to put me in the friendzone and I was able to get myself out of that hold by using that line.
SVETLANA: "My feet? I like, right? But don't know if you like it. I hope you like."
She wasn't sure if her feet were going to be liked. Then I saw her feet after it came out of her sneakers. Now I don't know about the rest of you, but I like. It was amazing to see a woman with the kind of feet that lives up to the rest of how she looks. Her ankle socks were nicely wrapped around her ankles and her soles were quite a sight to behold and they were somewhat moist. I was fascinated with the sole design of her Reebok's. I've never seen anything quite like it.
As the shoot went on, we sensed that there was a mutual attraction for one another and it was going to be up to me to decide how this was going to move forward. Aside from the fact that we found each other physically attractive, I had to catch the situation up to speed on the verbal escalation. Oftentimes, guys will not express verbally at any stage that they find the woman attractive and there are different reasons for that. Because English was not her first language, the easy way forward was to use some sort of guide of teaching each other - in this case, Ukrainian, her teaching me, and the other way around, English - words and phrases to verbally escalate the attraction.
ME: "You have to teach me some Ukrainian." SVETLANA: "Oh, of course! Let's go. You're teacher teaching English, and I teacher teaching Ukrainian, ok." She was excited. ME: "How do you say 'You have sexy eyes' in Ukrainian?" SVETLANA: "У вас сексуальні очі." (pronounced U vas sekswual'ni ochi.) ME: "Sekswual?" SVETLANA: "Uhu." (Ukranian for uh-huh, spelled Угу)
Something about hearing her say it in her own language held my complete attention as though by magic. Her facial expressions, her hand gestures, all of it suggested that things were heading in the right direction.
SVETLANA: "Мої ноги такі приємні та м'які. Сподіваюся, вони вам подобаються." (pronounced as Moyi nohy taki pryyemni ta m''yaki. Spodivayusya, vony vam podobayut'sya.)
That last quote right there, I'm not sure if that's what she said verbatim, but I'm going to guess that's what she said based on how she translated it to me, which you'll see in a moment. It had something to do with her feet because she touched them and moved them around playfully seductively as she said it.
SVETLANA: "They nice, hm ..., soft, too, yes? And, hm ... I hope you like."
With that, I took each foot and kissed each one a few times with a lick at the end as my way of responding to that. I don't think she expected me to do that, but she let me do it. Guess what? She liked. Moving on from that, later on in the shoot, I escalated a bit harder. And the fact that she was complying and willing to answer to this stuff meant I that could keep pushing it.
ME: "Have you ever kissed a girl?" SVETLANA: "Yeah, of course." ME: "For fun or for pleasure?" She didn't know what I asked so I had to reframe the question. "For something serious or for something you liked?" SVETLANA: "For normal." ME: "You like girls?" SVETLANA: "Yes." ME:: "Have you ever slept with a girl?" SVETLANA: "Yeah, of course!" ME: Laughing amusedly, "Whatchu mean 'of course'? Is it normal in Ukraine?" SVETLANA: "No, it's normal for me." ME: "Are you bisexual?" She froze because she couldn't understand what I said. "Do you like guys and girls?" SVETLANA: "Ah yes. But only boyfriends I had."
So again, that was later in the shoot, by which time I had built a level of rapport with her. She's letting me touch her hair, her shoulders, her legs and feet, so we were getting the sense that it was game on from both sides and she was more than happy to talk about those sort of topics.
The shoot came to an end when she reminded me that she had to meet up with her friends. We exchanged contact information with the anticipation that were were going to see each other again soon afterwards. She showed up for the date where we had a drink. That's a drink without the 's' for me and a drink without the 's' for her. After I was done tasting my wine and she was done tasting hers, we went somewhere else to continue the date and we had a blast.
Natural Park - The Women of Central Park, Winter, 20201
[ December 21, 2020, 12:55 AM: Message edited by: National ]
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This is going to be a packed week here in this thread. I have so much to show with so much to say throughout the course of this week. So much information to take in as I cram all of it in such a short amount of time.
This is my favorite time of the year posting photos and the stories that accompanies these women. One of my favorite things to do when I organize is to determine which order I'm going to show these women in. Perfecting the order in which I sequence these shoots. Who goes first, second, third, etc., and in which days of the week I'm going to show them. That's challenging and fun at the same time. I decided to go with Svetlana to kick things off, which was a hard decision for me to make because she could've easily gone on last to close out this thread for the season. The reason I didn't is because I saved that spot for someone else.
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The Winter 2021 issue of The Women of Central Park thread will be the last one on display before I disappear for quite some time. So I want everyone in here to enjoy what we have here for the rest of the week and enjoy it as best you can.
If you enjoy the shoot with Svetlana and enjoy the other galleries I have in store for this week, then do me a favor and feel free to stop in here and leave a comment showing your appreciation.
Thanks.
Posted by Icarus 2.0 (Member # 53231) on :
Svetlana, perfect! I am jealous. Well done!
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
There was nothing about this woman that made me think that she wasn't going to be open to the idea of a foot shoot. Her hair was dyed, she had glitter underneath her eyes and she was walking around the park barefoot. She was walking on a soft surface made of crushed gravel when we passed each other. Whatever was on her mind, I could tell she was having a very good day from the expression on her face, as if she knew a secret and couldn't wait to tell the exciting news to the first person who asked her about it. This was the first time I approached someone who was walking around park without her shoes and socks on, so I wanted to see where that was going to lead.
Getting her to say yes was like asking a child if she wanted candy because of how fast she responded to that request and because she was enthusiastic about the opportunity to share this experience with me. So we walked around for a bit just so I could see her move around the park in her bare feet some more. The bottoms of her feet were not as dirty as I thought they would be. In fact, they looked less dirty than other women I shot who did wear something on their feet.
She was a lot of fun to talk to. She has the charm of communication and people enjoy what she has to say as the topics of conversation with her typically involves things that are not that serious. It was very easy to get her to laugh and she must've thought I was the coolest guy she met that day, agreeing with practically everything I told her.
She likes to play tourist in NYC even though she lives in NYC, planning a night to do the kinds of things she would only do if her cousin Lauren were in town. She eats that famous dish! She walks across that famous bridge! She gets her steps in seeing all the sights! She likes to sing karaoke because she has a lot of fun than belting out her favorite songs with her friends! She also likes to have some laughs at a comedy show, "These shows are usually pretty cheap, and the giggles are guaranteed. Talent can be hit-or-miss, but that's just part of the fun."
Oh, we're not done yet! This nineteen year-old plans on faking bachelorette parties. "Like, I'm gonna grab a bunch of penis paraphernalia and a fake veil from the sex shop, and hit up a few bars like I'm at a bachelorette party. If I'm not dressed up as the (fake) bride-to-be, then I'll work on getting my group free drinks," she said quite enthusiastically, counting down the days in which that'll happen.
She is someone who's always looking for ways to have fun in the shortest amount of time possible and I don't know how her friends manage to keep up with her. It was one of the most fun I've ever had talking to someone during a shoot, which was one of the big takeaways I had from spending some time with her.
During the beginning, we were looking for ways to transition the conversations into areas of mutual interest. We had to try a few topics before we found something we had in common. From there, everything else became so easy and incredibly fun. She was having so much fun in part because she gravitated towards me, thinking I was just like her in terms of sharing similar attitudes and values. What's more, she doesn't close herself off from certain ideas and associate only with like-minded people - she doesn't bully people into seeing her point of view. She is open to hearing your ideas, instead of forcing you to adopt hers.
The shoot made her feel so good about herself and she was so glad that I made her day. She let her little flirty side come through in this shoot as her way of thanking me of noticing her and it showed in some of these photos.
The shoot had to wrap up because she had to be home. This time, she was going to walk with her sneakers on.
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I appreciate the time this women took out of her day to participate in this shoot for me. She looked like someone who was comfortable in the clothes she wore and I felt she would be comfortable in showing me her feet. She was all for it, especially since it gave her a reason to sit down and enjoy the sight of the sun setting behind the buildings along Central Park West.
It wasn't until in the middle of the shoot when I realized just how much her pants were slit on the sides. I didn't pay too much attention to it in the beginning when I approached her because they were swishy and wide-legged. She enjoyed how the air felt breezing alongside her exposed legs, keeping her already relaxed state relaxed even longer.
It made her feel so good about being herself, that some guy would take photos of her like that without feeling embarrassed. She was free to be herself around me and she enjoyed the shoot and the "celebration of her body" as she put it. She was happy to have shared her positivity with me and left the shoot feeling better about herself.
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Central Park in the Dark
NATURAL CLASSIC An introduction here to a woman I think a lot of you will enjoy.
Meet Sara. She's lived in Santiago, Chile for all of her life until recently when she moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. She's a yoga instructor and wanted to know what New York City was like and how this place was really larger than life itself.
She was sitting on the grass, reading a book by a tree. Another woman who didn't know how to speak English. But since I know Spanish, communication was not going to be an issue, and she breathed a sigh of relief knowing that she wasn't going to spend her time talking to me in a language she didn't know.
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Although it's often overlooked by younger travelers due to a relatively higher cost of living than other Latin American countries, and due to the fact that it's generally not considered as "fun" or "welcoming" as places such as Colombia, Costa Rica or Mexico, Chile has a lot of things going for it.
It's one of the wealthiest and safest countries in South America. Not to mention, Chile is also incredibly geographically diverse. You can go snowboarding one day, and be in the world's driest desert the next. It's got mountains, coastlines and the famous and mysterious Easter Island. For big city life, you can hit Santiago. Nightlife there rivals any major city in Latin America. Or, if you're more of a low-key artist type, you can go to Valparaiso for some bohemian living.
With Sara, you can talk to her about topics that extend beyond what's the newest movies that came out. Furthermore, she likes to have fun. Affectionate, but not clingy. Smart, but not a know-it-all. Fun, but not crazy. For many guys, that's an A+ in the personality department.
She loves living in Brazil now that she doesn't live in Chile. Brazil is her paradise! "My favorite thing about Brazil is not really tangible. It's more of a feeling. It's the feeling of things being laid back. Not easy, but laid back and casual. It's in the mountains and beaches and in the relaxed way the people interact with each other on the street. I love the feeling of always being, somewhat, on vacation," Sara said in Spanish.
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What stuck out to me was just how glossy her legs were. They were so shiny that you would be able to see the reflection of your face on them! I didn't ask her about this, but the design on Sara's tank top shows the core in her belief system that yoga and meditation is the answer to freeing one own's mind, the spiritual awakening. Makes every bit of sense considering that she teaches yoga.
Enjoy Sara's company. She is here to unite, and for us view this unison in different ways – the unison of body, mind and spirit, uniting all the aspects of yourself, uniting with a spiritual force. If this doesn't connect with you know, then give it some time.
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MMMMMM.....Svetlana has excellent soles; pretty girl!
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At this time of year, we gather at this sacred location where tomorrow never comes. A quiet place with a majestic Hall. A temple that is growing in size and stature, a temple that solidifies everything. Here, the warm glow of bygone days are collected and safeguarded for all time. Unforgettable memories, relived; the women who were from another place in time, cherished. Whenever the present turns its eyes to the Past, the most coveted treasures are the women idealized for their courage, outstanding achievements, or notable qualities. Icons of our prized pastime whose presence in and out of Central Park have the power to change us forever.
These ladies have a combination of qualities that nicely exalts the eyes and minds. It is here that you will find the pride that makes going back in time a wonderful journey to embark on. Our stories lies within the Hall where the ladies have their stories and likeness immortalized.
But even the past is an ever-changing place because once a year those who have been inducted before welcome new ones to these hallowed halls as we select these girls who I met the park ... to become Women of All Time.
INDUSTRIA -- THE HEADLINE INDUCTEE
Industria (pronounced in-DEUCE-tria) is an exemplary model and is an excellent example of other women to follow. Speaking for myself, I cannot think of too many other women who I would give an A or an A+ to in these four categories: Great Body, Truly Fantastic Feet, Academically Gifted, and How Great the Shoot Was. Another Hall of Famer who I would classify in the same league as Industria would be Special Kaye. Makeup Principal would be another one, now that I think about it. With Speical Kaye, I didn't get the chance to enjoy doing the shoot as much as I wanted to because I had no business being in the park at the time those photos were shot (I needed to be downtown for work-related stuff).
When it came to how well read she was, Industria was leaps and bounds ahead of anyone I have ever shot photos of. For being the first woman who I shot who I graded that high in all four of those categories, makes her the first Quadruple Crown winner, and being able to have the looks, the smarts, and the understanding and flexibility to be able to incorporate that all in one classical shoot, makes this woman an all-time great in every sense of the word.
The story of how I met this woman is the stuff that great stories are made of. You really need to go back to her profile to read the in-depth version of it, but the short of it is that I didn't meet her at Central Park. Much like with fellow Hall of Famer The National Fashionista, I met her in the train. The version with Industria was hot in that I could've been one of those guys who wound up in the Hot Dudes Reading instagram page, if I was only reading a book in the subway. But I wasn't, so to her I was just a Hot Dude in the Subway. I caught her with her phone pointed at me, I walked up to her and basically told her that I thought she was hot too.
We wound up in Central Park later that day and had one of the best shoots I've ever had. Industria was simply amazing on top of being a scholar, an erudite with profound knowledge of whatever your specialty or expertise is. Her English etiquette compels her to not say a word that she doesn't know how to spell. I could envision Industria being a regular visitor of the Library of Alexandria before it was burned to the ground, learning about the shapes of the sacred geometry they used to draw.
She is the only woman whose feet as big as hers that are also one of the softest pair I've ever massaged, which surprised me in a good way because they didn't look soft to me at first. It was almost as if her feet didn't have any bones in them - that's how delicate they were! Her feet are gorgeous bare, secretly soft, obviously well shapen, agile, strong, one of the best I've ever seen.
When it comes to how I look at her with fond memories, Industria is in the category with Dalhous as a woman who defines the essence of this entire thread, which is a compliment that I will only give to a very select few women I've ever met in my entire time doing this. Industria is one of those women who is in a class of her own. She is truly one of the first women I think about whenever I look back at some of my greatest moments I've lived through in all of my time doing this, a statement etched in stone because she was that influential to the building foundation that makes The Women of Central Park the place it has grown to become.
As one of the pioneering superstars, she pretty much solidified why making the move to Central Park was the best decisions I've ever made. And pioneers are always to be held with the highest regard. I cannot think of a better person to lead a class of new members entering this class of the National Gallerie Hall of Fame of Women.
DEMURE MADAME
The encounter with this lady was memorable. It was a bit cold on the day of the shoot and she gets credit for being able to have her bare feet withstand the cold for as long as she did.
I thought she was very cute, and had a very calm demeanor about her about that told me that she would be very accepting to me taking photos of her. As the shoot went on, she was more reserved, modest and shy than what her outward appearance lead me to believe. And I'm describing that in a way that I like and find very appealing. She's sweet and modest.
She was reading a book as part of an assignment to learn how to speak French. She read through the pages of that book without any sign that she was contemplating on giving up learning a new language, kind of as if reading and speaking French was becoming second nature to her.
Her father was there and he couldn't have been nicer about the whole idea of someone taking pictures of his daughter's feet. Before I approached Demure, I knew she was with someone because she kept looking to her left to speak to whoever it was, but I couldn't see who or where that person was. I assumed it was her younger sibling and mother because these photos were shot by a playground (which was to her left, not included in the photos).
When she told me that she was with her father, a part of me though he was going to be overly protective of her and start asking me a whole bunch of questions in an accusatory form. Instead, he was all smiles because he had never seen a shoot with this nature happening so sudden. And because it was with his daughter, he gave his stamp of approval and told us to go on and to pretend he wasn't there. He's a real good guy. He is also a man who should be very proud of himself for having raised a daughter who is quiet, respectful of her elders, polite. If any man wants to talks about a girl being a daughter he never had, Demure Madame should be that girl.
As a side note, another thing that helped her argument for being a Hall of Famer is the fact that at the time of her induction, Demure's photos have been the most circulated ones across the internet of all the women I've shot. I mean I've seen photos of other women I photographed appeared in other places on the net, but Demure Madam's are the most spread across.
Truly nice, she is. That was a relatively short shoot, but Demure is a Madame who has truly stood the test of time, and that is the impact a Hall of Famer leaves on everyone.
NEVZANA
She's not a woman who says many things, which made for a pleasant shoot to have. When we align our hearts and minds to the Divine we are lovely to look at and lovely to be with. When our hearts are like infants trusting and trusted. When we allow ourselves to be like innocents, that's what it's like to be with Nevzana.
CHRISTIE BRITNEY
This was the only shoot that happened that day. The weather report called for a lot rain to start around lunchtime and I got to the park early that Saturday morning in the hopes that I would get something under the belt before then.
One of the cutest girls I've taken photos of. She thought it made sense that I wanted to take pictures of her feet since she thought she had cute feet herself. It was a perfect set up with the nice girl, nice feet already relaxed, on the grass, reading a book. The stuff that parks are made of.
NYCe
Pronounced nice. I wasn't sure what name I was going to give her, and I struggled for quite a bit to think of a name I was going to like, the type of name that I would look back on years later and say that I like how the sound of it fits her. I didn't like it (the NYCEe name) at the time I posted it, but I went with it because the deadline of her posting the photos was approaching and I came up with NYCe at the last second, basically. But the name grew on me after a while and I'm glad that was the name that wound up going to her.
This shoot went on longer than I thought it would, which was all good for me. She was on her way to a museum across town and had decided to walk there rather than to take public transportation, which would've saved her forty five minutes. A very nice looking girl killing time on a Saturday morning. Walking though Central Park. To me it made all the sense in the world to talk to her.
NYCe was one of those women who's feet you'd hope would look wonderful upon removing her shoes. Her feet, once unwrapped, turned out to be a work of nature-made majestic masterpiece because they took my breath away!
I was so glad I was able to come across something that beautiful at the time I did because it was set to rain very hard in the early- to mid afternoon. Breath-taking soles, long toes: the sight of her feet that close to me truly satisfied the appetite, and they were another example of excellence in validating why loving feet is the best fetish to have, which explains why it's pronounced nice: her feet were so nice that I didn't know what else to call her.
LAWN TENNIS
An incredibly driven, hard working woman. Someone who has worked very hard from her days as a young adult, achieving the level of professional success that paid off in spades from burning though the pages of text books at NYU, a woman who is both connected to and skilled in sports. Tennis in particular.
If one were to find her in a Barnes & Noble, she would most likely be found in the Law section or Business section. She is a sponge when it comes to absorbing the advice given in those books. Books along the lines of Quantum Marketing and Mentor to Millions. She had a book just like those alongside with her when the shoot took place.
She was open to the idea of having pictures of her feet taken but wasn't sure if I was going to like them because they were, "probably the worst feet in Manhattan," she said as she laughed. But overall she had a good attitude about it.
A lot of her focus was on her phone. She was getting text updates from several people about a guy she knew. She wouldn't go as far as to call him a friend, but it was a guy she knew nonetheless. He could've been her neighbor or an associate, ... I don't remember exactly. But she was concerned enough for his well being because something terrible had happened to him earlier that day and I think she was there to have witnessed it. She waited for replies to her texts about his condition with baited breath.
When we talked about things that had nothing to do with that text thread, she came across as one of those women who would make people appreciate being in the company of someone who can add great substance to a conversation and someone you would love to have on your debate team. She has interesting things to say and listens to what you have to say, is not overly opinionated and doesn't get offended easily or gets defensive at the drop of a hat. The conversation flows well and you can lose track of time talking with her. And if there are silences, they don't feel awkward, and no dialogue seems forced.
Since these photos were taken before she before she became pregnant for the first time, and I've even seen her play tennis in one of the courts in Central Park while her pregnancy was showing. The fierce and intensity were there, along with the joy that she was to become a mom. After certain sets were done and she had a few seconds to catch her breath.
She's not a pro at tennis, but she knows enough about the sport and plays the sport enough times to make other people, regardless of gender, either look foolish or can hang in there until the very end in her most competitive matches. I've seen her play it once or twice after she gave birth and she knew how to put on a show! But that time on the court while she was pregnant was something incredible to watch.
After that shoot, I've seen/bumped into this woman at the park more times than any other woman I've shot - probably a dozen times! One such time was when she was rollerblading, which was how I found out she got pregnant. She stopped on her tracks to talk to me for a few minutes, giving each other updates on each other's lives. Other conversations I had with her did not cover any functional topics or any transactions that needed to be addressed. In essence, we would have polite conversations about unimportant things. There was this one time, however, where the conversation was more carefully worked out, detailed and thorough, more so than the one we had during our shoot, although the one during the shoot was substantive as well. But the other conversation I just referenced was a combination of personal and professional without being intimate. A high level of respect. In the other times I've seen her in the park, she was with her family so I didn't interfere with that.
She has since worked as a legal consultant or legal assistant at some law firms and is now one of the higher ups at a company that designs and commercializes in therapeutic medicines.
It was during that period of time (going back to the shoot now) when I was still feeling my way around Central Park, getting accustomed to the new climate and conditions there after having spent so much time in Bryant Park. I remember feeling during the shoot and after the shoot that Central Park was really the right place for me. I remember feeling after the shoot that there was so much more to Central Park than I thought there was going to be and that there was so much more I can do in Central Park when it came to everything, including expanding my photographic creativity. There was something about that shoot that, when I left the park that day, made me feel so happy inside.
She is one of the best people I've ever met.
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LEGEND GIRL INDUCTEES The National Gallerie Hall of Fame of Women has a separate category called the "Legend Girl" wing. Inductees in this category are from the days I spent in Bryant Park, dating back to the days before I made the move to Central Park. This shows recognition to the ladies who were stars of an era that really put my work and contributions on the map. Without these women, The Women of Central Park would not be what it is today.
COSMIC GIRL
Another woman with a pair of feet I can easily lose my heart to. Women with nice long toes are a weakness of mine, and her toes were formed to perfection. Her soles, magnificent. And that's probably the first time I've used the word magnificent to describe someone's feet!
Cosmic genuinely loves the company of other women. She has a million girlfriends and lives for her ladies' nights and annual girls' trips. As a matter of fact, it wouldn't surprise me if they are all toasting her 75th birthday aboard an Alaskan cruise.
She still does slumber parties. And yes, she still banters about guys, celeb crushes, and fashion the way she did in junior high, popcorn in hand, facemask on, and some chick flick playing in the background.
This photoshoot took place during my lunch break from work. It's women who look like her with feet like hers that make a lunch break worth its while. She's from Belarus and was in New York on vacation. She's well taken care of from head to toe and I was certainly glad to have run into her when I did because the rest of the day seemed have been so much better after that encounter.
The shoot I had with Jewel Spider is the shortest I've ever had and the woman had impeccable feet. If I had spent more time with her, I truly believe this would've gone down as one of the best shoots I've ever done, including the ones I've done in Central Park. With women who's feet I feel would make a man never cheat on her (assuming she never cheats on him, of course), I try to get more creative to get the best shots I could get because feet like hers are a gem to find.
I wish I had spotter her sooner than I did because she had been sitting there for a while, I believe, and because her husband was just minutes away from arriving at the location where the shoot took place. She didn't want him to see what was going on, but she was nice enough to let me get a few shots in.
I wanted to get shots of her toes because they were one of the best kept unpolished toes of any woman with unpolished toes I've ever met. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get to those, along with her footwear (ankle-high black leather brogue boots), because it was going to be a matter of seconds before her husband showed up. And he did. But not before I left in the nick of time.
If there was one - and mean *one* - shoot that I can go back and do all over again, it would be with Jewel Spider. There are a number of shoots I wish I can do over again, but none more than this one because Jewel Spider would've been one of the most memorable women in all of my Bryant Park days. Without any question.
Not much was discussed between us because of how short lived the shoot was, but from the very little bit of the conversation we did have, it was safe for me to venture the guess that she is an intelligently sound woman. Her goal was/is to help young women with life's problems with a little humor while still giving informative advice. She believes that by adding some humor to the advice, it will make the advice easier to follow. With more serious issues, her advice would be more serious in nature.
She talked for a few seconds about barriers faced by gifted girls and women who are Native American, African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American. But like I said before, I would've gone more into details about what makes Jewel Spider the woman she is, but it was all cut short.
She sounded like someone who can be easy to talk to and she would share laughs with you on a variety of topics, perfectly and comfortably capable of shooting the breeze with you. Those were the impressions I was able to gather from her personality.
The name Jewel Spider stems from ... I don't know. I don't know why I gave her that name. I just remembered the way she looked, the glasses, her intelligence and just came up with that name because it sounded good to me, fitting her character very well.
She revels in horror stories and usually appreciates the beauty of blood, and the power a woman finds in revenge. Sick Senses loves to read those types of stories because she likes to be scared, she likes to see situations that are horrible, but know that she's safe. It's the same reason people can't help but to look at a car accident ... it's not that she wishes someone to be hurt or dead, it's just that it's fascinating to her. Death is not something she has experienced and if she has, she doesn't remember it, so, it attracts her in a way.
This was one of my favorite shoots in Bryant Park. That shoot took place on a Friday afternoon and I remember calling it a day and going home afterwards. It was one of those shoots that fulfilled a lot of my needs. So much so, that I felt I had no reason to look for anyone else to take photos of that day. It was one of those things where I wanted to quit while I was ahead because with feet that looked so well and were as well kept as hers, it would've been difficult to top those of Sick Senses.
She was one of the best dressed with the best feet women I've come across.
LENS CRAFT
This was a funny shoot. Getting her to model for me was easy. The conversation was going well and I the fact that I liked her feet so much helped make the shoot a more enjoyable experience for me. In the middle of the shoot, a guy who I befriended in Bryant Park (who also had a foot fetish) walked by and saw what I was doing. He sat next to me and it was the three of us talking, him sitting next to me and having a great view of her soles. The shoot came to an end when her fiancé's parents walked in on us.
THE HOTTIE
Why I gave her this name is self evident. Giving her any other name was not going to do her justice. If you bought this woman a drink, you would be jealous of the glass!
At the time I took photos of her, I wasn't thinking about having a Hall of Fame in the future. But now that there is one, there's no way I cannot put her in here! I could not believe what I saw when I saw her and I had to approach her. Long hair, long legs, big feet. She didn't like her own feet and wished they were smaller, but saw no issue with letting me take of photos of her.
Anyone not friends with The Hottie is missing out an what an amazing person she is. Imagine someone with high spirits, someone who is lively, animated, fun to be around, and someone who is effusive, vivacious, and enthusiastic about life. A woman who appears confident, gives off a very positive attitude, and exudes an attractive charisma. The key word being charisma because that's probably the first time I've used that word to describe a Hall of Famer. Anyone who knows her will describe her as someone who typically sees the bright side of life.
A defining trait of The Hottie other than her huge feet is the sound of her voice. What she says and how she says them would make anyone think that she's innocent and someone who's not in tune with what's going on in the world. They may initially think she's someone who has a complete lack of common sense combined with her innocence, leading those to think that she has only the vaguest idea of what is happening. To give you an idea of what I mean, here is a clip of a woman from an American television sitcom that aired during the 1990s. Not only does The Hottie kind of look like the Karen Foster character, but more accurately The Hottie sounds just like Ms. Foster.
I can imagine Hottie having the same issues as Karen Foster has that may very well be a typical Friday or Saturday night for her. The look, the voice, the mannerisms, the subject matter when comparing those two are very similar as I can imagine. But as silly as The Hottie sounds, she is very intelligent. Perhaps she acts like she isn't just to fit in socially. After I got to know her, I found out she was closer to being a genius.
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Fast forward a few years later, Hottie was approached by another gentleman in another state for a foot photoshoot, making her the first and only woman I shot who got involved in an impromptu photoshoot with another total stranger who randomly approached her. The photographer didn't recognize her as The Hottie at first, although he suspected that I shot photos of her when she told him about the shoot she had with "a guy from New York," as she put it, a shoot that happened under the same circumstances. It wasn't until another few years later when his suspicions were confirmed that it was indeed I who shot photos of her.
Her photos were floating around the internet when he came across the photos I took of her. He recognized the face, but couldn't quite place her until it hit him like a ton of bricks that he took photos of her as well! This other photographer showed me a photo of her and it was in fact The Hottie. Everything about her was the same (except for what she wore, of course!). Her appearance did not change and her personality was still there. The other photographer was astonished at how accurate I was in describing her when I originally posted her pictures because she was exactly the same way with him. Life has a funny way of working sometimes, and the chances of this happening to another woman being in two impromtu foot fetish shoots, two strangers, much less in two states is next to zero percent.
Hot, very smart, sweet and enthusiastic all at one time.
THE DOG LADY
I've photographed so many women. Very, very few of them had pets with them during the shoots. Very, very few of them I've photographed twice. Not only is the Dog Lady the first woman I've photographed who had her pet with her, not only is the Dog Lady the first woman I've photographed twice, she is also in a category that no other woman can place herself in: she bares the distinction of being the only woman who I've taken photos of in both Bryant Park and Central Park. That one paragraphs encompasses a lot and should be enough to explain why she's in the Hall of Fame.
This woman was a fixture in Bryant Park. The fact that she was an established presence for a long time in that park, the fact that many people seemed to know who she was as they would stop by and talk to her and pet her dog, was what made me very curious about her. What helped was the fact that she also had big feet.
During my days in Bryant Park, I would see her all the time. But we never spoke to each other. I don't remember ever seeing how her toes looked like whenever I happened to walk by her, but it never crossed my mind that I would be disappointed if I ever got to see them in passing because there was no way they could've been!
I would take photos of other women, but I always had The Dog Lady somewhere in the back of my mind because the more I walked by her, the more she wore footwear that didn't shoe her toes, the more I wanted to see her feet. We always want what we can't have, and for a long time I thought I would never get the chance to see her feet. She was always walking her dog, playing with her dog, she would be talking to other people about herself and her dog, or whatever other excuse I gave myself for not finding the time to know if she would actually go along with such a shoot.
On one particular morning, I saw her in the Park. By then, it was the 237th time I'd seen her. I wasn't taking photos of anyone and if my memory serves me right, it looked as if she was in a hurry to leave the park. For me, it was now or never. I was finally able to get her attention and that was the first time we would speak to each other. She took a rain check on the offer because she was in a rush to get somewhere. However, she was very much open to my suggestion of a foot shoot at another time. I believed her.
It was probably weeks later before I was able to run into her again. I came up to her, she remembered me and was excited to do the shoot and she had all the time in the world to let me devote my attention to her feet as they were in its natural condition.
The moment of truth came and it was an unveiling I've been waiting for for a long time. Her big feet and long toes lived up to my expectations and I was extremely glad and grateful that I was able to see it up close and personal, and that she had one of the most laid back attitudes about it all. After that shoot took place, I began seeing less and less of her in Bryant Park. But I was so glad that I was able to get to her, to see her feet just inches from me that I thought nothing of it.
About a year later, I ran into her again, this time in Central Park. I could not believe it because Bryant Park was her favorite place to be. She told me that after that shoot, she was starting to like Bryant Park less and less. What did it for her was that the park security would keep giving her a hard time about letting her dog run around on the lawn. Her conversations with them became more contentious and she had enough of them. She brought her dog with her to Central Park and she became a much happier person there because her dog had all the space to run and play around, and she was stress free from having no one giving her a hard time about how she should enjoy her free time.
That second shoot was the last time I saw her. I don't know what she's up to now, but I hope she's doing well for herself. I wasn't going to feel right about myself had I never shot photos of her feet. But because I have (twice!), I was able to sleep peacefully into the nights knowing that her spectacular feet are forever imprinted in my memory.
CUPKATE
If I ever release a list of my Top 20 favorite names I've ever given someone, CupKate would find its way in there. She is cute, adorable, precious, and prettier. I've used the words cute and adorable to describe someone. But I've never used the words precious and prettier to describe someone until now. Time stood still as I had the shoot with her because of how pleasant she was.
She was something out of a dream.
AMBER BORZORTA There are photoshoots that stand out more than others. This one never got talked about the throughout the times after it was originally posted in the ways some of the other women have. Part of it was on me for not bringing it to people's attention. It wasn't until someone brought an interesting fact about this woman to my attention months or years later that brought on an entire new meaning that made this shoot what it was into something more than what it was. I cannot think of a better occasion than this one to make this reintroduction of this woman a more meaningful and lasting one. This induction represents the one time in all of my years doing this that I approached a TV star and asked to take photos of her feet.
The National Gallerie Hall of Fame of Women inducts actress, business woman, model, and television personality star - Amber Borzotra.
Amber has been involved in numerous acting and modeling gigs over the years, and the show that has put her on the map was the reality television series Big Brother during its sixteenth season. She was among the favorites to win it all that season before ultimately getting voted out when most of the storylines funneled through her. I've never seen an episode of Big Brother in my life, so my guess is that when it became clearer and clearer to the other houseguests that she was becoming too much of a threat to win, that's when they decided to gang up on her and eliminate her from the competition. She has since used her likeness and likability to make the most of the opportunities that were offered to her to guide her through a path that lead to more fame in the spotlight.
It was believed that Amber was going to participate as one of the contestants in the twenty-second season of Big Brother before ultimately deciding that she was going to compete in a reality competition series on MTV called The Challenge: Double Agents, which was filmed in a remote location and contestants must participate in physically demanding challenges, although they compete as pairs (a man and a woman), and the outcome of the competitions determines which pair of players is eliminated. That show is set to premiere right around the time of Amber's induction into the 2020 class of the Hall of Fame.
Now going back to the time I took photos of Amber Borzorta's feet. At the time I met her, I had no idea that she was who she was. This shoot went only for about ten minutes and we didn't say a whole lot to each other, so I wasn't able to get much of a feel as to the type of person she was. She was busy looking into her phone and I didn't feel like interrupting whatever it was she was reading and/or watching. But from the little I was able to glean from her, from the very little bit that we were able to speak to each other, she was able to give off bursts of positive energy, and if I were to extend the time I had with her and get her to talk a bit more, Amber would've been way up there on my list among the most likable women I've had the pleasure of taking photos of and having the time to talk to her to see what she was about.
When I asked if I could take pictures of her feet, she was excited and flattered at the same time and her reaction was very upbeat. Cheerful and someone with a relaxed attitude. We walked around the park for a bit looking for a good spot to get it started.
Borzorta seemed like the type of woman who would take things as they come. She is incredibly optimistic and high on life. Usually peppy and makes the best out of every situation. Fun to be around and can brighten anyone's day. Those were the characteristic traits I was able to gather from Amber from the small amount of time we talked to each other.
I would go as far as to say that on the night I took photos of her, she gave off the vibes that was so at ease, that anything that could've gone wrong to mess up her day, couldn't. I couldn't believe it myself - that's how cool she was. When I told her that I was done, she was perfectly fine with it, although she also would have the time and the patience for me if I stayed there for another while to take more pictures and ask her some questions. Maybe then she would've made it known to me that she was a star on TV.
My camera was acting up and I couldn't get into the flow of things because of that, so I had to end it. I left the park immediately afterwards thinking that she seemed like a pretty cool chick, but I didn't think much else of it. With the shoot being as short as it was, she probably didn't think much of it either after it was over. I can't help but speculate that had I known who she really was, the shoot would've looked different.
I gave Amber the name Jellybean because the colors of her toenail polish reminded me of that. I think we were talking about her toes for a bit, but I forgot what she said about her own feet. These photos were taken either just before that season of Big Brother or during it while they were being aired on CBS, well after the episodes were already taped.
I pride myself in being the amateur foot photographer who takes photos of women who are just your regular everyday types. But I'm perfectly willing to make an exception here and make room for a TV star to have her rightful place among the class of elites in the National Gallerie Hall of Fame of Women.
Photos and paintings of Central Park during the 1800s. Women in the 1800s wore dresses with long, full skirts that reached the ground, but the exact style of the dress shifted throughout the century.
Footwear was pretty simple for women back during that time, tending towards flat-heeled black lace-up boots that reached to their mid-calves. In the latter half of the century, though, shoes with pointed and rounded toes started to come into fashion as well. They never went out without long stockings on, wearing thin, light pairs that reached at least to their knees, made of solid fabric like cotton or wool. Women often went for pairs with pretty embroidery or interesting patterns.
I sometimes imagine what it would've been like for me had I been alive during that century, going to Central Park and doing what I do today back then. I'm not sure just how different their reactions would be compared to how things are in this day and age. If those women showed more than ankle, they would be shunned. Either that, or if they showed me ankle, that would her sending me choosing signals where it would be up to me to make my move on her. Besides, I don't know if women were allowed to take their shoes off and let their feet relax out in the open when they were in a park in the 1800s?
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In the first photo, you have The Dairy. That structure was about fifty yards north of where the photoshoot with Hall of Famer Nevzana took place. In fact, if you go back and look at the third photo as part of her thumbnail package in her Hall of Fame presentation, you can see some of The Dairy to the right.
The final photo is of The Mall, where I approached Dalhous, the sole inductee in the inaugural Hall of Fame class. The location, the weather, the woman, the introduction ... all splendid. She is my One and Only.
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NATIONAL LIFESTYLE - ADVICE I would have a route if I'm walking through the southern half of the park, and another set route if I'm walking through the northern half. I aim to walk one of those routes in a certain amount of time depending on the interactions I have. If I don't see any girls I like, I'll probably walk the distance. If I do see someone I like, I'll obviously stop and talk to her to see how it goes. If it's productive, I'll keep going with it. The reason I walk a route - and something I would recommend to beginners especially - is because by setting a route, you take the pressure off of yourself.
Imagine that it's your urban playground, your piece of land, and any girl who's in it, it's fair game. You're the hunter. Just remember that some days will work better than others. But if you keep at this consistently, you will get results. That's something you're going to have to accept as a man. As a man it is your role to hunt because women are not going to do it for you. So the quicker you man up and enjoy that process, the easier it becomes.
The other thing to bear in mind is that in terms of the mindset I have when I enter the park is that in order to whip my mind into shape, I have to throw myself into the deep end when I see a girl I like. I know from reference experience after one or two approaches is that it's going to socially warm me up and things start to fall into place.
The other thing is don't treat it too seriously. Remember, it's a game. So I'm always just having a bit of a joke with that concept because it makes the sting less painful when you get rejected. And the other thing about rejections is that a lot of guys think, "I can't do this, going up to random girls like that," because they cannot handle the "amount of rejections" they are going to receive. The way I get through this is twofold:
- My frame is really strong. I've had a lot of reference experience of having a lot of girls say no to me. But I've also had a lot of reference experience from a lot of girls saying yes to me, and so I realize that this is part of the process.
- I see myself in a good light. I value myself highly. If a girl says no to me, it doesn't really matter to me and it doesn't dent my ego. I know I have a lot to offer and I like myself.
The other thing is I'm out there to see these women's feet. Everything else falls by the wayside. For me it's about getting through the nos and finding a girl who's going to show me the goods. If, throughout the course of one day, I get five or six nos and one yes, then in my mind it's worth it. Everything I do is geared towards the bigger picture because I'm there to have fun. I'm not there for validation from them because I don't care whether they like me. I'm there because I want to take pictures of them and get to see what these women are all about.
When you start doing this, well done for taking that brave first step. One of the hardest things is reconciling how you actually feel, accepting the fact that you're out there to meet women. Set your number of approaches and try to get them done. Let me tell you something: inherently, cold approach is hard because you will get more nos than yeses. It's going to sting the heck out of you and it'll actually end up breaking you down. You need to have the mindset that these women are going to show their feet to you.
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I can understand why guys would be a bit scared to approach women to take pictures of their feet. This makes sense and getting shot down definitely sucks. The only way to overcome that is to work hard at getting success, which will reinforce everything you're reading here.
I find that the best way to get practice and confidence is to encourage yourself to approach at least twenty women a week. If you can do that, you will get plenty of experience and practice. This will only translate to more success in the field and a larger skill set for you to practice with. You may also find some success within those twenty women and that success will spawn more attempts.
Another important part of that number is that it will force you to deal with some rejection. Again, this is something you should expect and something that you shouldn't be scared of. Don't worry if some say no, as long as you keep pushing towards that twenty, things will fall into place.
If it weren't for the rejections, I would not have met these fantastic women. The rejections from other women were blessings in disguise. I thank them because I was able to go on and find other women to have what was to become some of the best shoots I had in my life!
*These are women who appeared in past Season Finale Issues.*
(from left to right, top row to bottom row) - Greek Mythology - Dalhous - Mira Vadimovna - Nancy Vale - Selena
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NATIONAL LIFESTYLE - DRINKS With the holidays looking a lot more mellow during the pandemic, chilling at home may mean a quick visit to a local bar favorite to get some booze to go, and many around town have seasonal options worth checking out. The first two are right for this time of year, while the third drink is not a holiday-themed drink. However, it's still pretty good to taste it.
WHITE CHRISTMAS
*This drink is served in an old fashion glass and you can have it straight or on the rocks.*
1 oz. Vodka 1 oz. Amaretto Liqueur (Disaronno) 1 oz. Heavy Cream Garnish: nutmeg
or ...
1/2 oz. Creme De Banana 1/2 oz. White Creme De Cocoa 1 oz. Bourbon 1 oz. Heavy Cream Dash of cinnamon
- Put ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice - Shake vigorously - Strain into rocks glass - Add your garnish on top
PEPPERMINT PUNCH You can take some candy cane and crush them in a bag or have it shred to pieces in a blender. Spread the crush pieces a small plate. You can do this one of two ways: you can wet the rim of the glass and dip it into there and coat it that way. I don't like it that way because it always seems to fall off and make a mess. Or you can do what I do and set the crushed candy cane to the side and add it to the top of the drink later.
You're going to need a blender to prepare this drink.
Two scoops of vanilla ice cream. 2 oz. Eggnog 1 1/2 oz. Peppermint Schnapps 1/2 oz. Cherry Syrup Some ice
Give all of that a good blend and then pour it into the glass. Add some whipped cream on top of that and then sprinkle the crushed candy cane over the whipped cream. To finish off, you're going to add the candy cane.
RUSTY NAIL This is surprisingly sweet and easygoing. Even if you don't like scotch or Drambuie much, the combination of the two may actually work for you. Bartenders have enjoyed experimenting with different spirits to replace the whisky. If you want to mix things up, try swapping the whisky for tequila, mescal or even gin. The richness and depth of flavor that comes from the Drambuie means that there is little need for any mixers or syrups in your cocktail.
The Rusty Nail is made with 100% liquor, save for a healthy serving of ice cubes, making it a drink to be savored slowly. It is perfect as an aperitif, helping to cleanse the palate after dinner and bring an evening to a close.
This serves in an old-fashioned glass on the rocks or neat, but this is usually served with ice. This drink is normally a 2:1 ratio, so for the sake of this demonstration, ...
2 oz. Scotch Whiskey 1 oz. Drambuie
Stir gently and enjoy.
Drink Responsibly.
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We're now going to enter the second-half of the 2020 Season Finale issue. There will be more photoshoots to show before the week is over and there's going to be so much to view over a short stretch of time. To get yourselves prepared, you should (if haven't done so already) pull up a chair, roll up a fatty, get some popcorn, get some booze, or whatever the heck it is you're going to need to get yourself through this because you're going to need it. And you'll be glad you did.
In the meantime, I hope everyone has enjoyed what they've seen so far - Svetlana (three photoshoots ago) is becoming a huge hit. For the people who like her, what was it about her and the story that you liked? Seeing the photos is one thing, so you can imagine what it was like for me being there in person. All types of wonderful, I can tell you.
The National Gallery Hall of Fame of Women ceremony celebrating the Class of 2020 (earlier in this page of the thread). The greats from the past, including a TV star, were enshrined and forever immortalized. For those who missed it live, you can catch the replay of it in the previous page. See who they are and you can find out why they are in the Hall of Fame.
See you guys soon for more women for your entertainment.
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NATURAL CLASSIC
Central Park in the Dark
Sitting on a bench just inside the park was a woman who caught my attention, my curiosity. I was walking towards the exit of the park because I was going to call it a night. I don't remember if I had a shoot earlier in the evening that was rather uneventful or if I wasn't able to find anyone at all, but I remember thinking, as I was just minutes away from leaving the park, that it was just one of those days that wasn't in the cards for me, hoping that the day after would be much better.
I saw her walk in the park and sat on the bench that was right by the entrance. I could tell from her body language that she was a bit exhausted and perhaps a bit hungry. I'm not quite sure how to explain why I thought she looked hungry other than to say that she sat on the bench not knowing that she needed to sit down or that she was so glad to have found a place to sit that she didn't know was there before.
It was starting to get dark, but she took that moment to take a break from herself to enjoy a snack she got from her backpack.
So I spoke to her for a few minutes. She was on her way to her boyfriend's place before deciding to take a break from walking, but she had the time to kill to take part in the shoot with me.
I suppose her dreadlocks had something to do with why I decided to talk to her. Some women who wear dreadlocks are Hippies, punk or simply regular everyday people who want to express themselves through their hairstyle. I asked why would a woman such as herself - who had long, straight hair - want her hair to get matted into dreadlocks? Some people feel that dreadlocks on white girls constitute cultural appropriation or appreciation. It all depends on your views.
"It's not just a Black thing or a Caribbean thing or a Jamaican thing or even Rastafarian thing," she told me. It goes a lot deeper than most people know. Some people wear their hair locked for religious reason, while others look at dreadlocks as simply a fashion statement like she did, "I always loved the way they looked and wanted them for about five years and hated brushing my hair. Then, when I went traveling, I decided to finally get them made to keep my hair neat and low maintenance."
This was one of those shoots that turned out better than expected. She was willing to stay throughout the course of the entire shoot and she was willing to go along with the ideas I had in place to make the shoot tell as good of a story as it possibly could, and I thought the soles of her feet were simply amazing to look at. If I were looking for a pair of soles that fit my expectations of what a perfect set of soles should look like, then hers are in the conversation, pretty close to the top. For some reason, I was not expecting the soles of her feet to look as well as they did.
Combined with the sky turning dark, the darkness was able to highlight the vibe we had, just how well her feet can look under unique circumstances of having the flash of the camera go off in the pitch blackness. It was able to get her mind away from reality and into a different realm with me, going with whatever the flow was.
Natural Park - Women of Central Park, NYC, Winter 2021
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NATURAL CLASSIC It had been about twenty minutes since I had arrived at the park. I was looking forward to the moment of taking photos of some woman's feet when all of a sudden I bumped into someone who I recognized. I couldn't believe it (!) - it was Sara the yoga instructor girl who I met some time before. She was excited to me and we started talking about nothing in particular, exchanging pleasantries and such before the conversation turned to feet.
She found it amusing that I was still doing this "sort of thing", me asking women if I could take pictures of their feet in Central Park. She had fun doing the shoot with me before and it made her think more about her feet since. She was on her way to go somewhere but could afford to spend some more time with me to do another shoot with her if I was interested. She enjoyed the vibe we had last time and figured that another shoot will help expand on our ideas and creativity for the vision we wanted to express, getting out to as many people as we could.
She was excited and serious about it, and I thought she was probably one of the coolest, most flexible women I've met in my journeys through the park. A woman like Sara hoping and trying to convince me to take pictures of her? She made my day a lot easier and I told that what she proposed was a great idea! We found an area that had comparative coolness that blocked the direct sunlight as it was a particularly hot that afternoon.
When asked what her general experiences of- or thoughts about foot fetishism in general, she said she was cool with it as long as the man treats her like a person and not as a fetish delivery system, saying in Spanish, "If I get lots of foot rubs out of the deal, then by all means. If my boyfriend has a foot fetish and I love him very much, I don't see what the harm in that is. We can do things for each other!"
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THE TYPE OF ATTENTION NATURAL EVOLUTION ATTRACTS There came a time during the shoot when a suspicious looking guy kept lurking around the area where these photos were shot. I remember seeing a figure walk across the general area of where Sara and I were, but that was out of the corner of my eye so I wasn't able to see how he looked like. But Sara had a better look at him. At first I thought nothing of whoever that guy was because I thought he kept walking along. But when I sensed that Sara was feeling more and more uneasy or uncomfortable about being there, that's when I suspected it had something to do with that guy. And it was. There was no one else around, so she couldn't have been talking about someone else.
Apparently he saw what type of shoot we were doing and when he saw the poses Sara did, he decided to get a good view of the shoot without wanting to be seen, so he hid somewhere in the bushes to conceal himself from view or discovery. Sara pointed that out to me and she didn't want another photo taken of her until something could be done about the situation. She was visibly upset about this and expressed her frustrations without swearing.
So I walked out towards the center of the open field on the grass where I stood there, waiting for what Sara and I thought would be a physical confrontation between myself and whoever that other guy was. Sara hid somewhere because she was scared.
At first I couldn't spot where the guy hid exactly and wondered if he was actually hiding somewhere. But Sara motioned with her hands that he was, in fact, somewhere in there. There could not have been a more mute place in Central Park than the one I stood in the middle of at that moment. After a minute of waiting for someone to reappear from the bushes, he finally reappeared from the bushes. He walked right past me (though he wasn't close to me) and walked away from the scene. I had to turn around, stand and kind of observe the area for another thirty seconds just to make sure he was indeed gone. He looked totally embarrassed to have been exposed, I guess you can say.
With that, Sara emerged from the bushes or tree with a very nice smile on her face. "Amiiiigo!," she said as She walked right up to me. And kissed me right on the lips. Nothing hot and heavy, but it was one of those types married couples give each other before they go their separate ways on their way to work if that makes sense. But she liked it from the way she smiled after the kiss.
We went back to what we were doing before we were interrupted and she was no longer worried with how she posed for me. She saw me differently than how she did when the shoot started. Some hyper attraction instinct within her switched on and she started to like me a lot more.
Another example of not knowing exactly who you're going to meet in the park and how her story brings her to life in ways that are different than the next girl.
Their stories can move us and affect us in unique ways. Through the pages of The Women of Central Park, my job is to look for ways to get their messages across to leave an impression on you. With the woman you're about to meet, her story is unique and eye-opening. It may seep deep within us and toy with your feelings. Whether it's empathy, sadness, joy or motivation, her story can light up any of your emotions. It can make you see things from a new perspective and gives you the reason you need to believe in yourself. Other women I've shown have done it, and the woman in this story does it.
This is why I love meeting new women in Central Park. Every one of them holds a story that is interesting and often untold. As much as one woman has in common with another, they are still different in many respects.
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She was already sitting on the rock as I approached her. It seemed as if she was thinking about something complex, going off into a different dimension. She had a neutral expression on her face and it made me believe that time stood still. Whatever was going on in her life, she needed the space and quietness of Central Park to get her mind away from it all. I thought she needed somebody to talk to, someone who was emotionally unattached to her situation and just hear her out. A great escape. Luckily, I came in at just about the right time to be her company. Taking pictures of her feet was going to be a great escape for me, so each one of us was there to serve the other one's need.
Interesting was the fact that her ankle boots were already unzipped by the time I got to her. She apologized for that (I don't know why she did as I felt she had no need to make an excuse for why she unzipped them) and said that she only did it because she had "one of the longest days of her life" and that her feet were killing her.
In a more touching and serious note, she is an unassuming hero. When someone who doesn't know her looks at her, and they were given a list of words they would use to describe her, the word 'hero' may not come up. But listening to her story, a term you can place towards the top of the list that puts into perspective as to the type of person she is 'life saver.'
She is a lifeline telephone crisis supporter at a suicide prevention hotline where she listens to lonely individuals who are scared, unsupported, and dealing with life stresses or mental health challenges. Often, these callers are considering ending their lives. It's up to this woman to connect with them and offer support.
Her voice could be the one a desperate caller hears when he or she picks up the phone to call in. And in the two years she has been at that job, she has helped scores of callers to rethink their decisions and to consider getting help.
Doing this kind of work is extremely rewarding for her. "I like to think that I make some kind of impact on folks, even if it is just putting the thought out there that life doesn't have to end," she says. "But there are times when things can get extremely frustrating and that's why I'm here (in Central Park). Some callers tell me, they tried in the past to kill themselves and that very little was done afterward in terms of follow-up therapy or a caller will say they've tried therapy and it didn't work. When I explain that sometimes it can take a while to find the right therapist, they say they just don't have the money."
People who call into the crisis center are asked if they'd like to receive a follow-up call a few days out to check in and see how they are doing but the person making the follow-up call would likely be different from the original volunteer.
As she has gained confidence and experience on the job, she has learned to assess whether callers are in imminent danger of hurting themselves. Sometimes she would ask a caller, "Are you safe right this minute? I can send help to you right now."
Having empathy is crucial and it's imperative that she quickly establishes a relationship with the caller. "You need to really hear what the person is saying so you can identify the feelings behind the words," she said. "People want their feelings to be taken seriously."
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There are times the conversations I have with these women revolve around sex and relationships and we found ourselves talking about those. About ten minutes into that topic, she was curious to know if going to Central Park and doing what I do was my way of meeting women? I get this question from time to time. Before I could answer that question, she said, "I'm glad you're making friends in Central Park, talking to new girls every time ... you know, find a new girl to look at, like her feet. It's pretty fun for you, I would think. I mean, like for me, I'm literally always horny as fuck. I don't know - maybe I have some kind of porn addiction because every time I hear the word "porn" or "masturbate," or anything like that, I get horny and then I want to, you know, get off."
She said that in a way that sounded like she was a play-by-play announcer for a golf tournament. She probably figured that since I have a foot fetish and since I was honest enough to bring that to her attention in the way that I did it, that it would be okay for her to talk about her sexual tastes candidly with me. She continued, "Someone who isn't vanilla with their appearance isn't going to be vanilla in bed." In reference to a tattoo that I'll talk about in just a minute, she said, "A beautiful piece of art should be seen, not hidden away, and having sex is the perfect opportunity to get naked and show it all off."
A good tattoo design takes a lot of time and effort to come up with, and if she thought it up herself, she's likely to think of a lot of cool things to try out in the bedroom, too. She has a tattoo design that's only visible if she removes her shirt. She came up with the artwork herself and her cousin was the one who inked it on her body. Yes, her cousin!
The tattoo(s) show that this woman a greater risk-taker, a calculated one. The woman you're about to meet doesn't regret her choices and is never going to get any ink work on her body removed. So if you were tp sleep with her, you can be sure she's making a decision she believes won't haunt her for the rest of her life, and she probably feels the same way about her former sexual encounters, too. She loves to take risks and change her appearance, but her love is just as constant as any non-tatted woman's.
The tattoo in question gives her reason to be optimistic that great fortunes are around the corner for her and it gives her the illusion of having magical properties. It also means she's into taking the type of drugs that alters her awareness of her surroundings as well as her own thoughts and feelings, causing sensations and images that seem real even though they are not. Drugs extracted from mushrooms. She uses them for social or recreational purposes, including to have fun, deal with stress, have spiritual experiences, or just to feel different.
She really enjoyed herself throughout the time we had together because found pleasure in helping me express myself through the photographs, which allowed her to express herself to me in a way that made her feel so free, to be herself finally, devoid of moral judgement.
Her thoughts on men who like feet, "It doesn't gross me out or anything and I think it's a pretty tame fetish. I don't think my feet are particularly or spectacularly ... sexy, I guess you would say, but I don't think they're ugly either. They're good enough to make a guy think I'm a cool chick or something."
She does what she does in her line of work because she had serious bouts of depression before and was victimized in school from other students taunting and harassing her. The way she sees it, it was a blessing in disguise for her because now she sees herself as serving a greater good (while also being very humble about it), trying to save lives by talking them out of doing something drastic or to make them see the positive side of things if the situation is not life threatening.
MY ADVICE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING WITH DEPRESSION Life doesn't stay the same forever. Sometimes things change. Cures for diseases are found. New doctors figure out the problems that the old doctors didn't understand. Life gets better. Who knows, maybe you win the lottery or you inherit money. Suddenly things get better in the world: the status of your job is no longer in jeopardy, for example, and your job is saved after all when you consider the type of year 2020 has been.
Things we get all stressed out about: let me say that things don't always stay bad. Many times things get bad sometimes, then good, then bad again, then good again. So what I tell people is I couldn't kill myself because I'm *that* stubborn! I want to know when it's going to get good and how good it's going to get, and I would hate to think I missed it.
For those who are sick mentally or physically, you might be one doctor away from being cured. Maybe you're just with the wrong doctor. Even if you think you're with a good doctor, you can always get a second opinion. You can always see another specialist. There might be people out there who know more than the people who are treating you today.
You come first, and that has to be the building block to everything else. It has to be the building block to your life and you have to say no to anything that hurts you.
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That piece of advice was practically the same speech I gave to our friend here, as something she can use to help others in dire need. What I said must've had an effect on her because she started to cry. That was the first time a woman cried during my shoot and I had to take a few moments to stop what I was doing to comfort her. That was deep and the sounds of birds chirping helped soothe the moment. I had a sense that I may have saved her life with what I said. She had flashbacks of when she was bullied as a teenager and is thankful that she was able to make it through all of that to where she now advises others on how to find that light at the end of the tunnel.
IN CLOSING ... People often don't get the mental health services they need because they don't know where to start. Talk to your primary care doctor or another health professional about mental health problems. Ask them to connect you with the right mental health services.
If you do not have a health professional who is able to assist you, use these resources to find help for yourself, your friends, your family, or your students:
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES - 911 If the situation is potentially life-threatening, get immediate emergency assistance by calling 911, available 24 hours a day.
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A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO ALL OF YOU Mery Christmas to all of you who celebrate this holiday. Even if you don't celebrate Kwanza, or Hanukkah, or Festivus, or whatever it is you celebrate, my best to you and Happy Holidays. And thank you to everyone who has taken part and made yourselves at home with The Women of Central Park thread for the Season Finale, Winter 2021 issue. It has been a lot of fun to do with the organization of the galleries, the stories, the Hall of Fame presentation, and presenting all of that to you. And as always, if you haven't enjoyed it, then HUMBUG on you!!! Because I have enjoyed it and I think plenty of people have enjoyed it as well.
I'm going to use this as a moment to thank all of you because 2020 for a lot of people (mostly everyone) has been a year full of challenges, pitfalls and struggles, and it has certainly not been any different with the women you see through the pages of this thread. I feel fortunate to have my job still and have that going well and still be able to come in here and bring joy to as many people as I can by showing original content.
There are people whose lives have been dramatically changed for the negative. My heart really goes out to them. Even though times are tough, they can absolutely get better. Sometimes it sucks and sometimes you will get tested and admittedly life is not fair. Life always finds a way to test the best people the most, and perhaps that's why they get tested the most because they are the best, being able to be the best equipped to deal with it and handle it. If that person takes the right approach and the right mindset, you can become that much better on the other side for having gone through that experience.
Throughout the course of 2020, I have taken my time to put together a great showing of women who were the most generous people a man can get to know, and you guys have been able to get a sense of who these women were and what made them the people they were, a great experience that feels as if you're connecting with them somewhat. In doing all of that, I appreciate the fact that there's even one person out there, let a lone a few thousand, who care or give a damn about the contributions I make in this forum. It's an awesome and also a humbling experience at the same time to know that people really like what I do here.
It's amazing that life has put me in a position where I can interact with all these different women and how they're quite willing to show me their feet, get to know them a bit, and become good friends or lovers with a number of them. Also amazing that I'm put in a position to share the photos and their mini biographies with you guys. Amazing that I'm able to interact with people from different parts of the world. With all of the negative that comes with the internet, this thread is a testament to what the positives are of going on the internet. I sincerely hope for you guys, especially in the year of 2020, that I have been able to be some sort of positive distraction. I hope this thread has brought you some entertainment or at least some meaningful killing of time at a time when you probably really needed it. I hope so. Because I can certainly say for me, it has brought me a sense of fulfillment. Even if things in your personal life aren't the best, or are not where you want them to be, that doesn't have to be the be all end all. It doesn't have to define you as a person. There are things you can do to pursue your happiness. And I can say that for myself, I feel more fulfilled as a person, more satisfied, happier with who I am and where I am with my life, and that is in no small part to being able to come out here and do this, and you guys are certainly a big contributing factor in that. So again, sincerely, deeply, from the bottom of my heart, I thank each and every single one of you, whether you enjoyed every single shoot I post, some of them, or none of them.
As we go into the next year and as I turn forty in March, I realized that I've been doing this for almost a decade now between the Bryant Park days and the Central Park moments. It's nice to be have been able to do some reminiscing and reliving (something I almost never do) some of the great times I've had throughout those years, all the women I've been able to convince to show me their feet in sixty seconds or less. My life has been tied to this for such a long time in one way or another and a lot of good things have happened in my life because of this.
You can certainly feel free to share your stories in the comments below about how long you've been a fan of my work, where you're from, what you enjoy about my work. I don't want to necessarily hear about stories of, "Hey, National, I used to follow your work when I was in high school and now I'm married with a kid." Yeah, thanks for reminding me how much time as gone since I started doing this. Yes, I'm only half joking when I say that so don't take too seriously. "Hey, I used to watch you when I started college. I'm 30 now. Is that old guy still doing it?" Yeah, I'm still doing it! If I hear that from you, it's going to make me chuckle a bit because it would feel like I've been a part of your childhood and that I was someone who was important enough to you that you took time out of your day when you were that young and invested it in me.
Sometimes it feels like I haven't paid the respect I feel that you've guys earned and sometimes I feel like I haven't given you the full value that I should have for the dedication you've shown to me. And I will try to make some things better before I call it a career. In the meantime, thanks for your time, thanks for your support.
Enjoy the rest of your Holidays.
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This is the trip down memory lane for the year 2020. It has been quite a year for this thread, with the Spring Issue probably being the most influential edition I've ever done, representing the time in which all of this madness started to happen around the world. The Summer Issue was all kinds of fun, which showcased what was arguably the best back-to-back-to-back photoshoots (which just so happen to be the ones that wrapped up that edition). This thread kept the year afloat and provided hope that everyone was going to be okay.
Representing far-flung locales from Arizona to Australia, this year's Women of Central Park are as diverse as they are radiant. In this post, you'll be introduced to someone who ventures into the wildlife and another one who plays hockey on a European women's hockey team. The quotes correspond to the photos of the women in the order in which they appeared throughout the year and in the order in which they appear in the pictures from left to right, top row to bottom row.
ARIDINA "I'm all natural - my eyelashes, hair, boobs. I love my lips as well. I love to laugh, and if I develop smile lines because of that, I'll be okay with them. They will have great memories in them - I won't do anything to change them."
THE COURAGEOUS SPARROW "I've had to deal with a lot of shit in my life. I know a lot of people idolize other individuals, but you have to be able to be alone with yourself."
LINDSAY GIRLFRIEND "I never really felt connected to the word sexy. I think it's a bit vulgar. I get that Lindsay is supposed to be some 'sexy girl,' but it's not about me feeling sexy; it's just me feeling comfortable."
SUNFLOWER "I'm pretty open. I like to try new things. I'm not one of those people who are like, 'I'm just going to sit in my square life."
MARGOT BRULAND "I want to make sure I don't look back with major regrets. Sometimes you get so caught up in the mundane everyday things, you forget to slow down. Life is short. You have to relax and enjoy it."
THE 90s KELLY "Take it off! I've always felt comfortable with no clothes on. It's freeing. It's liberating and, most of all, it's who you are in your natural state, so why not?"
LIVELY "People sense when you're open and truthful. Stay true to yourself, treat people the way you want to be treated and wake up grateful everyday."
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SaraYOGA
I met up with my Chilean friend Sara again. Unlike the last two times, this one was planned out a few days in advance because she wanted me to take pictures of her mastering yoga so she could then use the photos to help promote her class on the internet and on brochures and booklets. We've gotten to know each other very well in the time she spent in New York and I thought it was pretty cool of her to want me to see her do an actual yoga session, in an outdoor environment somewhere in Central Park.
This session lasted an hour and I had a good time taking the photos and seeing how she moves around without taking directions from me. There wasn't a whole lot of talking going on during this shoot/yoga session, and any talking she did do are things that I'm going to quote from her in this post. Other than that, she didn't want to be interrupted and she wasn't going to take many pauses to tell me how to shoot the photos. Each of us was focuses on doing what was supposed to be done and she liked very much how the photos came out.
SOME QUOTES FROM SARA DURING THE YOGA SESSION "My body begins and ends at my feet. My feet carry me. They are my connection to the Earth and they take me where I need to go. My feet deserve a lot of credit ... My feet play a major role in my health and deserve daily praise and attention, especially considering the load they have to carry ... Energetically speaking, there is a lot going on in the feet. There are countless meridians, nerve endings and energy points that begin and end in the feet and are connected to the entire body."
Sara went on to talk about how the energetic points in the feet are considered to mirror the body and mind and how stimulating those points stimulates the energy flow in the corresponding body/mind areas, "It's also my connection to the Earth and they are very sensitive and open to energetic vibrations. If I walk barefoot and touch the bare earth, my feet actually absorb the Earths electrons; that's how sensitive they are."
"Once I've become well acquainted with how I use my feet," Sara said, "I become more friendly with them. I massage them sometimes, especially between the toes. I would train them, outside of the constraints of my shoes. And I do foot exercises in which I stimulate and stretch the joints and muscles ... As someone who lives, breathes, and teaches yoga, I can tell you that I walk with consciousness and intention. I feel what my feet are telling me."
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NATIONAL Q and A I always wanted to do something like this, and I'd figure that the Season Finale would be the most fitting occasion to do this segment.
I'm going to give an interview to myself to give you guys a better idea of how I go about doing what it is I do. These are questions I always thought were going to come my way but for some reason it never has. I had to know that when I started showing my work that people were going to ask me some very good questions. Some questions I was expected to be asked never came forward and I thought they would after all this time I've been contributing to this forum.
These questions were either never thrown my way ... or if those questions were asked before, then you'll probably say to yourself, "National, I'm pretty sure you touched on this topic before." You know what? Yes I did, and there is nothing wrong with touching on a topic again because it is important to give everyone a reminder as to where I stand a certain issue or to rekindle a fond memory of something that happened long ago.
HOW DID THIS ALL BEGIN FOR YOU, MEANING YOUR EARLIEST MEMORIES OF HAVING A FOOT FETISH AND THE CONCEPT OF GOING UP TO COMPLETE STRANGERS AND TAKING PHOTOS OF THEIR FEET?
The foot fetish began as far back as I can remember, all the way back to the days where I was probably an infant crawling on the floor. I remember crawling on the floor and being aroused by the sight of some woman's feet, usually while they had their legs crossed. They would have casual conversations and I remember associating their casualness with how relaxed they were, looking at their feet during those moments and probably thinking that women always feel so nice about themselves when they have their legs crossed (with one leg neatly over the other). Being on the floor and crawling, their feet were the first things I saw before I was able to look up and see their faces.
Between the ages of six through thirteen, I had completely forgotten that I had a thing for women's feet. It had nothing to do with me trying my best to undo the memories of liking feet. For some inexplicable reason, it wasn't a part of who I was anymore.
One day when I was fourteen, I found myself looking at the Playboy channel and they had a show on every Friday nights where women would do artistic poses in the nude (sometimes by themselves, other time with other women) in a studio that was completely white. So white, you couldn't tell where the floor ended and the wall began. I couldn't help but look down at their feet the entire time. I didn't know why my focus kept zooming in on their feet and I couldn't understand why that was. Then it all came to me one day when I remembered liking feet way back when. The childhood memories came back to me all at one time and that made me feel better about myself that I had felt that way before about how women's feet can be a fantastic way of looking at women, finding something new and great to like about them.
As far as taking photos go, it started in 2011, although I don't remember if it was in the spring or summer of that year in which this all began. I was taking photos of women's feet without their knowledge, believe it or not. I would use my phone to take the photos. I would sit at a chair next to the woman who had her feet already out of her shoes and rested on a chair right in front of her. This was in Bryant Park. I would secretly take shot after shot after shot of their feet. This went on for quite a while, several months, I believe.
One day in the spring of 2012, a security guard who I was friendly with at Bryant Park came up to me and told me that there had been complaints about me taking photos of women's feet in the way that I did. He gave me the heads up that if another complaint came in about me that they would have to ban me from the park. He said that I either had to become more discreet if I wanted to take candid photos of women's feet or I would just have to go up to the women and ask for their permissions to take their photos because then I would not get into any trouble if I had the women's full consent and complete cooperation in the whole matter.
I did not go to the park for another month because I couldn't see myself asking women for their permissions to take pictures of their feet out in the open like that where everyone sitting nearby or people walking by can see the whole thing.
When I finally decided to go back to the park, I began doing both taking secret shots of the feet of some women and asking for the permission of others to see which one worked out better for me. After seeing that the first four women I asked said yes, that's when I began to seriously consider abandoning the sneaky stuff and going for feet in the direct way, with their full participation and having their feet in exactly the way I wanted them with their poses.
I have that security guard to thank because had he not had that conversation with me, this thread would've never existed in the first place and I would not have gone on to have the amount of fun I had taking photos of all these women, having fun with them during the shoot, and in several cases after the shoot.
WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE WOMAN YOU'VE TAKEN PHOTOS OF? Dalhous. She is the only woman I can write a novel about because someone as who is of the heavens or sky, she is the only woman who I would think and speak about in poetic romanticisms, stimulating the emotions rather than communicating experience truthfully. Scandinavian, creamy skin tone, perfect feet, nubile, sweet, a breath of purified golden air. The weather and temperature that day were perfect and that shoot marked the only time when I was convinced that I was not on Earth. And this is coming from a person who's not religious. That was the first time in which I began to wonder if angels had names or if they just had pretty faces.
THE WEIRDEST OR MOST UNUSUAL REACTION I'VE GOTTEN FROM A WOMAN IN ALL OF MY TIME OF DOING THIS KIND OF STUFF?? I guess it was that one time while I was in Bryant Park. A woman was sitting on her chair. Her feet were up on the chair so that anyone walking by can see her delicious soles just relaxing there. After I made my pitch to her, she started yelling at me about I-don't-know-what because it didn't sound as if English was her first language. She was loud enough so that some of the people around us started to turn their heads in our direction to see what was going on. I just walked away with a smile on my face because I found the whole thing amusing.
There was another incident in which a woman who was on the phone with someone laughed to my face. Another one where someone called me a pig. But the episode of the woman yelling at me is probably at the top of the list.
IF THERE'S ONE WOMAN WHOSE FEET YOU WOULD LOVE TO TAKE PHOTOS OF, WHO WOULD THAT BE? Alexandra Daddario. I love how her face looks, those big eyes, long hair. She's a bit quirky, but I have a soft spot for women whose personality can be described as attractively unusual. To an extremely conventional person, anything even slightly unconventional might be perceived as quirky, and thus negative. For others, a quirk is interesting or even endearing. It is certainly something that attracts attention, especially mine.
She has one of the more amazing bodies I've ever seen. She's got the freshest breast-es and her feet are too good to be true.
IN ALL OF YOUR TIME DOING THIS, HAVE YOU EVER GOTTEN INTO TROUBLE WITH THE PARK SECURITY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT? Other than that one time the security guard approached me at Bryant Park (during the period in which I took sneaky photos without the women's knowledge or permission), there hasn't been any such incident that involved them ever since I started asking for their permission to do this.
Come to think of it, there was that one time I came close to being confronted by the cops, and I've talked about this too at the time, during the shoot I had with 'Bloody Mary' (whose photos I posted last December). Both Mary and I thought that was cool. Anyone who enjoyed that shoot and had a great time reading that story would remember what happened there.
Another time I would've or could've gotten into trouble was with the shoot I had with Selena (whose photos I also posted last December). But I've never gotten into trouble trouble where I was issued a ticket, banned or anything else like that. Not from SVU, the FBI, CSI, E-I-E-I-O or any one of those law enforcement agencies.
HAVE YOU EVER CAUGHT THE SMELL OF THESE WOMEN'S FEET FROM A FEW FEET AWAY? Absolutely! Each time it has happened, it's a scent that is slightly different than another woman. Each scent is just as different as anyone's fingerprint is. That's the unique aspect of going out there and meeting real women and getting them to remove their shoes and socks in the exact time that you wonder how they might smell at that given moment. Percentage-wise, though, the number of incidences in which that happened is lower than you think.
And while we're on the topic, the reason I don't like talking about that topic in general is because there are people reading these stories about the ladies and looking at their photos who are not into that kind of thing and it's disheartening to those people to come across a detail like that. The other reason is because by talking about it too much or mentioning it too often will make it more about that and less about the women. I don't want the aspect of the smell to be the bit of the story they're going to remember.
I may allude to it from time to time just to get a kick out of some people but it's not a regular occurrence at all. Now if others want to talk about it amongst themselves, I'll be fine with that. But it's not something I, myself, would like to talk about in the forums.
I used to mention it more often in my stories back in the day, but since my move to Central Park, I made the decision to not talk about it. And if I never mention it in any of my stories going forward, I would be fine with that, and this is coming from someone who likes the smell from women's feet.
HOW DO YOU KNOW WHICH GIRLS TO PICK How I select these women is not easy thing for me to explain. Sometimes the women would ask me why I picked them. They ask out of curiosity. The simple answer is they seemed like good subjects who needed to be captured on camera. When I come across someone I want to photograph, that's when I get that feeling in my gut that she would make for a pretty nice story to tell people. People are fascinating and I like to find out what makes one woman who I've shot different from the one before her. The best way to know what I'm talking about and the best way to get that rush is to go out there and experience it yourself when you go out foot hunting.
If they think that this is unusual (getting asked if I could take pictures of their feet), they still go along with it because I don't give off that perception that I think it's strange; they'd figure it's just feet we're talking about. If they sense that you also think it's strange, then they will find it even stranger and they will want nothing to do with you.
DO YOU EVER RECYLE PHOTOS THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN RELEASED? There have been times when I would do a shoot and wind up not liking the whole shoot, but I would like four or five of the shots from said shoot. So I might recycle them and use them in something later. I found myself doing that sometimes.
DESCRIBE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIS STYLE. HOW DID THAT DEVELOP AND HOW DID IT ARRIVE TO THE STYLE YOU USE NOW? It's basically having the women pretend that there's no camera there. When people act on screen or on stage, they cannot acknowledge the cameras around them or the audience in front of them. It's a performance convention in which an invisible, imagined wall separates the women from the people viewing the photos. While the audience can see through this "wall", the convention assumes, the women in my shoot acts as if they cannot. Once in a while someone would break the fourth wall by looking directly into the camera, but for the most part the women are told to pretend to be unaware of the fact that they're subjects of observation in a work.
When I started doing this, I didn't go into my first-ever shoot with that idea in mind; it was just an idea I came up with - literally - seconds before I snapped the first shot in my first shoot. The reason I wanted the shoot to go in that direction stemmed from the fact that I used to take sneak shots of women during my days before I started to ask for their permission to be on camera. I thought it would be a cool idea to mix the concepts of having their permission to take their photos while making it look like the photos were taken informally, without the subject's knowledge.
A Hall of Famer who I named Cherry Coke (inducted in the Class of 2019 last December) gave my work an extra life without knowing it, as she gets the credit for why I have women pose their toes the way I do, a pose I call the Cherry Coke pose.
Some aspects to my style has changed over time. However, this happens with almost every music artist who is popular. With my favorite music artist or band, every one of their albums had a different sound or feel. It seems that artists do this on purpose. They are always trying to better their music than how it was before. Artists sounds change over time, and whenever a new album from that artist or band is released, I let the sound and feel of the album inspire me to change my photographic style. The thing is, I won't know how to change it; I just go with the flow with some woman and she will do or say something that'll let me naturally evolve into the new style.
WHICH TYPE OF FEET DO YOU PREFER TO SEE FROM WOMEN? Women who are a size 9 or bigger, with long toes. The toenails should look like small TV screens instead of claws. She can't be flat footed and her soles must be shapely. Someone like Hall of Famer Special Kaye may have the best looking feet I've ever seen. If you want to know what I'm talking about, look no further than her.
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National, thanks for this expose’ , and for all of the content you have provided us over the many years I have been following you, and especially after this past year. I greatly appreciate you. I hope you have very happy and prosperous 2021!
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It's important at a time like this to come together to mark the heroism and imagination of a woman who seeks to help others and change the world. Because of her hard work and dedication to her craft, she was one of many people in her field who have made a difference this year.
This has been a challenging year around the world – the scourge of COVID-19 and the massive economic disruption it has caused. More than ever, we have all been awestruck by the many faces of courage in the toughest of times. With this tribute, we look to recognize the extraordinary efforts of one of those heroes. She was introduced to everyone earlier this year in the Spring 2020 Issue and was, without any doubt, the woman who stood out most with her story, her backround, her intellectual textbook savviness. She was someone who made gave us some hope during a course of time in our lives that we'll never forget.
The National Woman of 2020 goes to ... Dr. Bridgette Holland.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park - Winter 2021 Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Straight from Moscow, Russia, I present to you someone who is one of the hottest women I've taken photos of in all of my time in Central Park. Her name is Christina Denisovna (pronounced Deniseofna). I mean, seriously, just look at the pictures of her and tell me she's not one of the most, if not, arguably, the most beautiful women in this thread in all of 2020. And if you seriously told me that she wasn't, then I would have to challenge and question your sanity!
I saw this woman walk by me and deciding that I wanted to take photos of her was so obvious to be the appropriate thing to do, that it required no contemplation to decide on. None! If I had not said anything to her by making an introduction, and just let her walk out of my sight, then I was prepared to go home right then and there and be hard on myself for letting such a good thing pass me by.
All it took was seeing her once and my breath was taken away. This woman stands 6'1 and she's only eighteen years old! I was glad she gave me all the time I needed to shoot as many photos as I wanted with her because I didn't think she was going to give me that kind of time, and she was one of the most fun shoots I had.
Very early in the shoot I asked her what places she loves to visit in New York City. The answer she gave me was an all-time classic, something I will never forget. And here I thought she was going to mention places like Central Park, this place or that place. You know, something generic. Instead, she said, without giving it a second thought, "The Financial District." I don't know if it was the fact that she was bold enough to give that as an answer or the way she said it that made it so classic. She delivered that line in a way that made it known that she was so proud of herself for listing that as her favorite place in New York. At the same time, she gave that answer in a way that she wanted me to be proud of her for wanting to be seen in that section of Manhattan.
The Financial District is the most historically rich neighborhood in New York City. You'll find traces of George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, the country's first fine dining restaurant, and a 300-year-old tavern. But I don't think that's what she's talking about when she talks about the Financial District. Anyone who knows about the Financial District can take one look at her and know why she loves that area. It's because while you're in the Financial District, you're sure to see white-collar workers in this office-dense area, which is also filled with fantastic bars and restaurants for power brokers, pleasure-seekers, and everyone in between. I think the key words here are power brokers (over six feet tall). That, and because it features the largest shopping complex in the city. That's why she loves it.
Now a lot of us would probably say, "Oh my GOD! She wants a guy who's over six feet that makes six figures. That's outrageous!" Guess what, fellas - when you look like THAT, AND you're eighteen, you get to make those demands, gentlemen. A woman like her can get away with making those demands. On the other side of the coin, if you are a guy and you're fit, your financial house is in order, and you know how to handle women, then guess what ... one of your requirements for women is going to be this: "you will have to look at least like this woman."
Christina is not concerned about asking for the right to equal educational and work opportunities as well as progressive reform. She doesn't want to change or disrupt the old patterns of social order. No! While she may take on many characteristics of today's modern woman, Christina Denisovna does so without involving herself in politics and thus does not appear to contemporaries to be usurping traditionally masculine roles as the "American woman" deems to do, paraphrasing what she said. She therefore manages to stay within the boundaries of feminine roles without too much transgression.
A man who is the type of guy she wants (should) know that she doesn't love him love him. Even if he marries her and gives her the moon and the stars, deep down he knows that the reason she's married to him is because he has money. But guess what? He is good with that.
What is very difficult for people to understand - these days anyway - is that men who are financially well-off, as well as attractive women, know that persons of the opposite sex pursue them because of these things. Wealthy men know that hot girls sleep with them because they are rich. Young hot girls know that wealthy men pursue them because they are young and sexually attractive. Because they know and reconcile their minds to accept this reality, a 45 year-old rich guy never sits in his study and thinks to himself, Gee, I wonder she'll leave me if I were to lose my fortune? Not only does he know that the answer will be yes, he will not blame her. On the other side of that coin, she will never sit alone and ask, If I were overweight and unattractive, would he have still pursued me? If I were to gain weight, would he still be with me? Would he still let me ride with him on his yacht and travel with him? Would he replace me with a younger, thinner version of myself? She knows also that the answer is yes. But this doesn't bother either one of them because they both know and understand each other's motivations.
The guy probably knows that she's not going to love him like that. But he will be okay with that because she will give him access to her body, which has 18-35 years less mileage on it (depending on the age difference between the two). Rich men will trade their wealth and resources for young hot women all the time, and it never bothers them to do it. Even if a part of him knows that she doesn't really love him, he will be willing to make the trade off.
Listen, we can all sit here and moan and groan until the end of time, but she's entitled to make those demands. Water seeks it's own level. I have no problem whatsoever that she's a gold digger, I mean, someone with high financial standards. I'm proud of her, actually, and I hope she's in a private jet somewhere being flown to someplace in Italy on a first date.
She values her own feet very highly. She believes that women's feet should be kept as clean as possible for as long as possible throughout the day. She even quoted something she remembered reading as a little girl. Something about the nicer a woman's feet look, the closer they are going to be to a man's face. The moral of the story? "I make sure to keep my feet looking and smelling nice," she said with a smile.
I've got to give it to her. Although they didn't smell like flowers, they smelled like absolutely nothing. And I mean absolutely nothing! I know his because I took her up on it. She wasn't going to say something like that and then have me not see if they're as good as advertised.
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Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Winter 2021 Posted by sftfan (Member # 1959) on :
Outstanding work. Thanks for another season and looking forward to more Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
It was four years ago this month that Yvette Svensson adopted Thor. She wasn't ready to adopt a dog. She went to an adoption event at a PetSmart or Petco. She went with her friend Tiffany. She didn't know why she was there other than to help out. She certainly had no intention of adopting a dog.
There was this little white dog. She couldn't tell what it was exactly. It certainly wasn't a purebred and he certainly wasn't a puppy. It looked a little scroungy. Tiffany got on the floor and played with him and the dog was very friendly. Yvette got on the floor and played with him. "Tiffany wanted to adopt him, but she already had twenty eight dogs. I'm just kidding - she already had three dogs. I grew up with Tiffany since we were little kids. Tiffany is like a sister to my family and me."
Yvette held the dog and she said to the lady who was one of the people in charge of the event that she wanted to know a little bit about the dog. "She said, 'We had him over a month and no one is really looking at him that much." When Yvette asked where did the dog come from, the lady said they didn't much about the dog's owner except that the owner dropped him off at one of the kill shelters (which disgusted[!] Yvette). They sent a rescue van over to rescue seven dogs and he was one of them. "Can you imagine, he's about two years old, the owner drops him off, he (meaning the dog) doesn't know what's going on. For four and a half weeks he's being driven in a truck. He's in a cage going to this place and that place, and this poor thing has no idea what in the world is going on."
Yvette leaves the adoption event. Before she does, she gave the lady enough money so the dog could have a new hairdo in hopes that someone can adopt the dog eventually. And they did indeed wash the dog. And she kept thinking about that dog. She couldn't understand why nobody would want the dog with all the stuff he had to put up with. So she kept thinking about him. One day. The next day.
On the third day, Yvette makes a call and spoke to the same lady who she met at the adoption convention. She asked if that dog was adopted. It wasn't. "I'll take that dog," Yvette told her. "She said, 'Wow, what a lucky dog.' I said, 'No no no, what a lucky me.'"
Svensson went back to the vet where he had been, they gave him his shots and everything before he needed to go, got him, and brought him to her home. "At first, the dog wasn't sure what to make of things. But when I put him down, he was running around the house like he owned the place. That night, I bought a bed for him and put it next to my bed. I put him in the little dog bed and he jumped on my bed. And he snuggled up right next to me."
She spent the next day or so trying to come up with a name for the dog. The place where she got the dog from just gave him the name Rosco and she didn't much like that name. "He was seventeen pounds, too thin. And no dog of mine is getting too thin." She tried a bunch of names before she went with Thor.
This was one of those moment in which I was the recipient of good fortune, either accidentally or unintentionally, simply due to my location and/or timing. Some women stand more than others and she presented the golden opportunity to have an amazing shoot while getting to know someone who has the personality and heart made of gold.
She was lying on her back on a bench, completely exhausted from the day. When I got close to her, I saw that she had her eyes closed. She couldn't have been sleeping because seconds before I saw her walk to that bench just seconds before. I got her attention and she opened her eyes. She didn't seemed bothered that I didn't give her a chance to have a few moments to herself. I already had my mind made up that I was going to make her the subject of my next shoot and I wasn't going to waste my time looking for someone else because no other woman in Central Park was going to matter.
She spoke to me. She had one of the most gentle voices I've ever heard.
"Being in the modeling industry has been hard, but it has turned out to be one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. I was 15 when I was scouted by a local agency at the summer fair in Stockholm. Modeling had never, not for a moment, crossed my mind. Honestly, I thought they were making a mistake. At first I resisted, but after they scouted me two more times, I decided to give it a try."
Then there came a time when she decided that perhaps modeling in front of the camera was not going to be her thing. When asked what lead to that decision, she said that being naturally skinny, she didn't feel the pressures many felt to keep their body within the thin acceptable spectrum, so that wasn't her problem. When she turned eighteen, she got burned out from trying to keep up with the commitments that models have to keep in order to remain in the business, like traveling, especially considering that she didn't actually get paid very much. "($250) a day sounds better than your average person who stack shelves at the supermarket. But the truth is that these bookings aren't all that regular at all. In fact they're sometimes only once, maybe twice a week and over the hours spent organizing, emailing, referencing, location scouting, all of that. It often works out below minimum wage."
Yvette also talked about how bending her bones into bizarre contortions and holding them for more than a few minutes took its toll on her muscles the following day, no matter how much she warmed up before. Cold locations where shoots were often very long hours long crippled her bones! Once the heat left her body - there was no getting it back and no amount of hot drinks and blankets loosened up her shoulders, neck and back just in time for the next day.
But now she's back at it, involved in another aspect of the modeling and fashion industry. Yvette attended classes in the university studying the business of fashion and has earned herself a degree in Fashion Business Management. She now works as a merchandising manager at a high-end retail store. Every season, designers show their latest creations, looks that eventually make it from runways to websites and stores all over the world. It's her job to choose the best of these looks and trends, mixing and matching colors, sizes, and silhouettes to give customers what they want at a price they're willing to pay. It's a challenging career that combines creative skills and analytical thinking. She visits showrooms and attend galas and she really enjoy what she does.
After the shoot was over, she felt comfortable where was and was in no mood to go anywhere. So we stayed there for another half hour and talked. It felt real nice getting to know each other a bit. The essence of being in the presence of pure female fragrance is intoxicating.
ON BOUNDARIES "I simultaneously try to keep my personal life private while sharing as much as I can with people on Instagram. Having followers is something that I am adjusting to. I want to include more than beautiful pictures while maintaining at least some of my privacy."
ON SIMPLE PLEASURES "I'm about to sound like such a grandma, but I really just love a good book. And I love to draw. Or I'll sit on the couch, hang out with my dog and watch some HGTV and be completely happy. Problem is, when people ask you what your idea of fun is and you say, 'Watching HGTV,' they're like, 'All right ... I'm good.'"
ON COMFORT FOOD "My favorite food is a classic pepperoni pizza, my all-time favorite. I'll order a whole pizza and I can finish the whole thing if I'm feeling it."
ON GAMING "I'm really into video games, which people find hard to believe. I had a little brother growing up, and we'd always play Xbox together and I just destroy him. It's funny: When I play online, everybody thinks I'm a guy because I have a generic username. Nobody ever finds out. That's the cool part of it - in the online gaming community nobody assumes you're a girl."
ON ANIMALS "I love orcas, and I am really passionate about getting them out of SeaWorld. I watch the documentary Blackfish I don't even know how many times - I think more than 16. I feel strongly about these animals."
ON THE GREAT OUTDOORS "I don't know about what it is being outside and sweating, but I feel sexiest when I've just finished a really tough hike. There's no more empowering feeling than when I have accomplished something that's really hard on my body. Makes me feel really good about myself."
ON FOOT FETISHISM "Not grossed out by it at all. It's not something I'm personally into. But I mean, hey, if rubbing my feet is what helps set the mood right, then who am I to say no?"
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Winter 2021 Posted by Lars (Member # 1461) on :
Love your work, so great to see the girls of NYC. I live in Denmark but will return on holiday,when Covid 19 is over. I have attended many foot worship parties in New York. Ever been to one ? Happy new year and keep up the great work. Best from Copenhagen,Denmark.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
@Lars ...
I've been to those parties before. It's possible we passed by each other at an event and not even know it.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus 2.0: National, thanks for this expose’ , and for all of the content you have provided us over the many years I have been following you, and especially after this past year. I greatly appreciate you. I hope you have very happy and prosperous 2021!
Thanks for being a huge fan of my work and keeping up with everything that happens here. You've been nothing but a great guy in here and your support always helps me. So thanks once again.
quote:Originally posted by sftfan: Outstanding work. Thanks for another season and looking forward to more
Great to see you again. It was an amazing season, one of my favorites, actually.
--
With that, I'm going to call it a season. Yvette Svensson was the last woman I had in store for the Winter 2021 issue and a wonderful closing to what has otherwise been a year for the ages out there in the world and not in a good way.
At the start of this issue I said that you better enjoy what you see here throughout the course of the week because it's going to be "quite some time" before I come back in here with new updates. I have decided that the Winter 2021 Issue will be the final publication for time being because I'm going to take a break from posting new stories and photos for the entire year of 2021.
I need to take a break from this forum because the amount of time it take for me to put these issues together - from putting together the stories, figuring out which photos I'm going to use from each shoot, how to organize each gallery, how to present the thumbnails when I incorporate them into the stories - takes up so much time that it has burned me out, especially this issue when I had to work so much harder to put that one together than any other issue I've ever put out. It is not as easy as I make it look, and I'm going to take a break from this forum for all of next year.
The next time I'm going to update this thread with new photos will come out in Spring 2022.
Thanks to all of you who enjoy my work. Enjoy.
The End.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
National, you will be greatly missed. You have been so generous to this community, giving so much content for free. Not looking for renumeration or praise, just giving selflessly.
I thank you.
I see why you ended this run with Yvette. Not only is she very pretty, but I know you are a fan of larger feet, and she has some of prettiest 12.5 feet that I have seen!
Best of luck in the New Year!
Until we meet again...
Posted by sftfan (Member # 1959) on :
Thanks again and we'll see you in 2022.
All the best Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: National, you will be greatly missed. You have been so generous to this community, giving so much content for free. Not looking for renumeration or praise, just giving selflessly.
As you know, I do this as a public service, providing original content that people would greatly appreciate rather than to make a profit. Incredible that I've been doing this for as long as I have, having this this type of positive impact on the forum. Simply amazing.[/qb][/QUOTE]
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: I thank you.
I see why you ended this run with Yvette. Not only is she very pretty, but I know you are a fan of larger feet, and she has some of prettiest 12.5 feet that I have seen!
Best of luck in the New Year!
Until we meet again...
I chose to put Yvette on last because her beauty, the story of her adopting the dog. It just so happened that such a woman wears a 12.5 size show, meaning that although I prefer women with big feet, even if Yvette was a size 7, I still would've put her on last. The dog story was what put it over the top for me. A genuine warm story about a woman who has the heart of gold.
quote:Originally posted by sftfan: Thanks again and we'll see you in 2022.
All the best
Thank you very much. Posted by xxblackstarxx1 (Member # 53770) on :
Apologies for bumping an old thread but does anyone have some of Nationals old stuff saved? Particularly his first 20 pages from this topic and b side pictures. The imagebam is missing some images and im trying to preserve this artwork.
Posted by Foot Freak 200 (Member # 25822) on :
realizing that its 2022 finally
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Spring has arrived and we are feeling more and more inspired by this beautiful weather as we leave the office on our lunch breaks or go for a nice stroll through the park on a Sunday afternoon.
Women are everywhere, guys ... you just have to open your eyes! This is always about positioning, meaning you need to frequent and put yourself at a place which will determine how good a return you get on your time. Central Park is where I choose to spend my time. And let me tell you: the performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of my time spent there shows that my time was not wasted.
Parks are good places for approaching and meeting women. The environment is safe and relaxing. The girls are not really in a rush to get to work or school and there is no competition, since pretty much no guy would dare to come up to girls in a park.
The other good thing about trying to meet girls in parks is that there is no stigma associated with parks. Unlike meeting women in bars and clubs, any one of them would be proud to tell her friends that she met a guy at a park. It sounds romantic and otherwise "right". This is the reason the girls' guards in parks are usually lower than in other public places during the day.
I prefer to meet women in Central Park than any bar or nightclub.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I spotted Song An (in Chinese, the "o" in her name is pronounced like a "u") practicing or rehearsing her part for an opera performance. She wasn't singing loud enough for the entire area to hear her; only soft enough that only someone standing close to her can listen to her. She would move her hand and arm in a soft flowing motion to help balance the pitch of her voice as she held her book in the other hand.
I interrupted her session. She wasn't bothered by it, seeing that she allowed me to spend some time with her: her practicing her voice exercise while I took pictures of her feet.
She talked about how singing opera is much harder to master than any other type music. She told me how opera is to singing what ballet is to dancing. She wasn't trying to say that singing opera is the "best," but that it certainly is the most rare because it takes a special kind of talent to sing leading roles with opera companies and because the training is incredibly difficult to master even for some of the most talented singers.
You can tell from the insides of her shoes that she wears them often, and without socks. I could imaging them being uncomfortable to wear, which explained why she was relieved to take them off to give her feet a break.
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Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Spring 2022
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This lady is a fine arts professor at a university in Germany, teaching students how to make work that is purely created to be aesthetically pleasing -- the type of work that requires great skills and accomplishments to produce. Rembrandt is her favorite painter because he possessed an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises, someone who favored an uncompromising realism.
Nora Danneberg (the first 'e' in her last name is not silent, since we're pronouncing it in German) is an artist herself. She is passionate about art, about learning about new techniques, materials, processes, and creating. She creates art regardless of the fact that she teaches it and is unabashedly passionate about helping her students become artists. She cares about each student as a creative individual and wants to impart the passion that drives her into the hearts of those she seeks to inspire.
Nora talked about how she understands the complexity of the creative mind, the sensitivity of individuals taking the risk to express themselves, and are willing to create safe, freeing environments where students are invited to find their own unique creative voice. At the end she added, "And for that reason, ... sure, I will gladly help you as you are free to take all the feet pictures you like."
She couldn't wait to go back to the university back in Germany to tell her students about this experience. I love the soles of this woman's feet. Looks healthy and shapely. I also love how red it looks in the padded portion of her soles between the toes and the arch and on her heels, leaving her arches white.
I also experimented taking pictures of her hands and found myself getting aroused my how long her fingers were and how well cared-for her fingernails were.
This was like meditation for the two of us as our minds drifted away from what was going on in the outside world as it became just the two of us. It was artistic expression for us both.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Spring 2022
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
It's been a while. "Right at the end of 2020" a while. At that time, I felt like a needed a break from here because I knew I wasn't going to have the time or the patience to update the thread throughout 2021.
I make it look easy, but it's hard work putting all of this together in the way that I do. Putting together stories of eight or so women, organizing their galleries (back at a time when Imagebam allowed me to tailor make how I wanted those galleries to look [before it changed its format into something I disdain]), figuring out which photos to keep and which others to leave out ... for the Winter 2021 Edition, for example, it took me almost every singe day of the two months leading up to that week I posted the photos to put all of that together. The same went for the Autum, Summer, and Spring editions. I needed the break.
I'm glad to have had the rest and the time away. The most important thing for me and for you to know, though, is that it's time for me to bring life back in here again. It's time for me to do what I do.
What does that mean and look like? Just like the format I started to adopt in 2019, I believe, this thread will be updated quarterly: for the next two weeks for the Spring Issue, two weeks for the Summer Issue, two weeks for the Autumn Edition, and one week for the Winter Edition (whereas the first three issues will have the shoots more spread out throughout the two weeks, I cram the same amount of content in the one week for Winter so that you get a whole lot of content in such a short period of time.)
I'm trying to get myself back into a rhythm and a flow of trying to remember how I did everything in here before I went on my hiatus, and in doing so taking charge of my life and take charge of this forum once again!
The time has come for me to come back here again, uploading original content. You want it, and I want it, too. It's time to bring my flavor back like only I can.
Are you excited? Are you pumped?
YOU SHOULD BE PUMPED!
-National
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Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
Glad to see you back here. I love Prof. Nora Danneberg's soles! Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
We have someone from London, England, visiting New York to attend a friend's wedding. It was her first day in New York when I met Cora.
We walked past each other before I decided to walk up to her to say hi. We struck up a nice little conversation before I got around to letting her know that I wanted to take pictures of her feet. Something about women who wear Converse that makes me want to approach them more than women who wear something different on their feet. Since she got off that plane, she hasn't had the time to rest a lot by the time I got to her. It was from the airport, to unpacking her stuff at a hostel and then leaving that hostel to take a walk through the park. I don't think she knew at the time where she was going or what she was going to do when she got there. In other words, she was probably looking to kill some time before the moments leading up to her friend's wedding.
We got around to what she did for a living or what her goals and aspirations were. She said, "I'm going to be the type of person no one thinks they need until they need one." She's a law school student working her way towards becoming a criminal defense attorney.
As a criminal defense attorney, she'll research the facts, investigate the case against her clients, and try to negotiate deals with her adversary (the prosecutor). These deals might include reduced bail, reduced charges, and reduced sentences.
She'll also examine witnesses, help formulate a plea, analyze the prosecutor's case, assess the potential sentences (and the likelihood of a particular judge awarding such a sentence), review search and seizure procedures, question witnesses, and gather evidence. Cora can also advise on potential immigration consequences or other consequences of a plea, conviction, or criminal record.
In addition, Cora will be able to provide more personal services by giving the defendant a reality check as to the possible outcomes and by helping the defendant to deal with the frustrations and fears resulting from being thrown into the criminal justice system.
It's a common American attitude that we have a soft spot for British accents. Cora Booth didn't realize that her accent would have a positive effect on Americans. They will get big smiles, more attraction from the opposite sex, and often be thought of as polite, cultured, charming, and educated. She replied with, "It's kind of funny you said that because I was just thinking that you are one of the more well spoken Americans I've ever met. Listening to you makes me feel that there's so much from that I can learn. I like that about you."
Towards the end of the shoot, the conversation had become notably loose and relaxed, loosey goosey, having a more devil-may-care feel to it. And that's how we were with each other as well. We sounded playfully and slightly drunk while being quiet about it without actually being drunk, if that makes any sense. It felt really good.
It was dark when we left the park together and I walked her back to her hostel arm in arm as a romantic gesture.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Spring 2022
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This woman is the main event of Week 1.
She was sitting on the bench reading the Bible. The book caught my attention along with visuals of her being perhaps the best looking woman I ever saw reading a collection of religious texts and scriptures. I went up to her and asked if I could take pictures of her feet. It was that simple. And with that she said yes. She complimented me on being polite about how I approached her and being an open book like the Bible and being fully transparent with her with the fact that I wanted to see her feet in a way that didn't make her feel like I was associated with the devil. She didn't say that verbatim, but that was the message she tried to get across. Everything she says is done so in a soft spoken manner.
She was reading about Ezekiel at the time I went up to her. I'm not a religious person but I was respectful enough to let her talk about him and his influence on the future development of Israel's religion being, at least for several centuries, greater than that of any of the other prophets. All of that as I was taking pictures of her removing her shoes, peeling off her socks and gracing me with everything that is the spirituality of her feet.
It is her choice to stay untouched until marriage. Deciding to wait until marriage is the easy part for her. The idea of having sex with just one person, her spouse, feels beautiful and freeing to her. In today's culture, it's not the norm. Constantly defending that decision -- since her teens, to the men she dated and to curious friends and classmates -- is much harder.
She's convinced that she's the last virgin on Earth. For her, not dating someone and not being engaged didn't just mean being single; it could also be really lonely. With no sense of when that loneliness is going to end. Having said that, she's still impressed with her fortitude of those she dated and didn't sleep with. She told me that her patience is going to pay off.
The Bible is pretty much the only book she reads and H&M is pretty much the only store she goes to to buy clothes.
Her feet were moist and soft when I touched them as soon as they came out of the socks. She likes her feet the way they are because it's part of her body and is thankful for that the Lord for giving her the feet that can take her from one place to another. She was glad I liked them too.
SPIRITUALITY OF SOLE -- Click Here SIZE -- 8 (U.S.), 39 (EUR), 6 (U.K.)
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Spring 2022
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Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
I admire both her feet and her spirituality.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
We're starting off Week 2 of the Spring 2022 Issue of the Women of Central Park with a woman who has that "everyday normal girl" look that I find appealing.
She is an advocate for natural beauty as she doesn't wear a lot of makeup every day and most of the time wear jeans and a tee. "Most of the time if my hair looks cute and my clothes look decent and I am wearing my favorite accessory (a smile) people can not help but think that I'm a beautiful and decent person to be around."
She goes with what feels most naturally to her. She is Holly Collins and she's the shy type. I think she uses that to her advantage and becomes a good listener one can talk with. Being shy, Collins often hesitate before trying something new and often prefers watching others before joining in on a group activity. She likes to make people laugh without being a comedian about it, if that makes any sense.
I love her freckles. It's a silly thing to get excited over but I love how they brighten when she smiles and blushes. That made her cheeks turn red when I told her that.
I noticed she had an English accent and wondered if she was a tourist. People who are away from home, who are unfamiliar with the local ground rules are more likely to give themselves over to the unexpected. It could be because they are more adventurous and sexually sophisticated, or it could be because they're just more naive. In her case, it's the latter. And by naive, it's meant as a compliment here in that she's natural and unaffected; innocent.
When she's back at home, a spot this 19 year-old frequents is Cecil Court, which is a 17th-century alley lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops. Holly's a book lover and that place is paradise for her. She has first-edition books and rare children's literature.
She thinks her feet are just okay and nothing spectacular, but she thought they were okay enough to allow me to photograph them.
The entire experience was pretty nice and we had a friendly, courteous, and at times flirtatious conversation. She felt wanted and appreciated. She was really liked how I was able to make her be herself.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Spring 2022
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
DID YOU KNOW?
In all the years I've done this, it's incredible to think that now is the first time that such a thing happened: what just happened marked the first time I've showcased two women in which the shoe make and model, the shoe size, and the city in which they live in are all identical.
Cora Booth and Holly Collins
Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
Holly has very lovely soles! Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
It's not often I take photos of some girl who has dirty feet. Come to think of it, I don't remember if there was another time in which I shot photos of some lady whose feet were as visibly dirty as this woman's was. There are those who appreciate the sight of a woman with dirty soles and so this is for them.
Perhaps someone who's into that stuff can explain what the appeal to this actually is. I guess it's because seeing women's feet that look like hers is an indication that she's been walking around for quite some time. Science is the activity through which we attempt to explain what we do not understand through experimentation and observation. During science's quest for answers, we encounter mysteries that remain unexplained. That could surmise the appeal of her feet in the condition that they were in.
I just remembered now that there was someone I stopped to take photos of because she was walking around the park barefoot; I don't remember the dirt on her feet being as dark as this woman, who was walking around in her flip flops.
The beauty of taking photos of random girls on the spot is that you will get what comes with them, whether it's dirty, clean or smelly. I love that because it highlights the real-life conditions from the feet of the simple girl living ordinary life.
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Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Spring 2022
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Love 'em! Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
I love her filthy soles! Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL DRINKS
INTO DARKNESS (Not Shown in the Photo)
This one is light, but packs a surprising punch.
- 1.5 OZ. Rye Whiskey - 4 OZ. Root Beer - 3 Dashes of Absinthe - 1 Lemon Wedge, For Garnish
Glassware: Collins Glass
Add the whiskey, root beer, and absinthe to the Collins glass filled with ice, stir until chilled, and garnish with the lemon wedge.
BOILERMAKER This straightforward whiskey and beer concoction, wherein the whiskey is dropped into the beer, found favor in the 1800s among factory workers -- possibly those who fabricated the boilers of locomotive engines, hence the name. After coming off long, exhausting shifts, they understandably wanted a strong end to their day. That's a nice origin story, and it may be the advent of the glass-in-a-glass combination. But it's likely that people have been combining liquor and beer in some fashion ever since the two drinks entered ready circulation.
There's no rule saying which type of beer you should choose when making a Boilermaker, and clearly this isn't an elaborate, thoughtful cocktail. So, the standard advice applies: Choose whatever you like to drink. However, certain liquors do pair better with certain beers. A classic bourbon or rye whiskey works well with a light lager, while bold Irish whiskeys enjoy the extra flavor of an IPA. Whiskey in general is the classic choice when drinking Boilermakers, but many bars serve a lineup of different beer-and-shot pairings. Don't sleep on tequila dropped into a Mexican lager, or herbal, bitter amari (or malty genever) served with a crisp pilsner. Your options are plentiful and worth exploring.
Those options extend to drinking process itself, as there are multiple ways to down a Boilermaker. Typically, you fill a pint glass halfway with beer, drop a shot straight into the glass, and then slam the contents in one go. It's a fun way to consume a drink, especially if you're with a lively group of like-minded friends. But you can also dump the liquor into the beer, keeping the shot glass out of your pint. Or serve the beer and shot separately, shooting the liquor and then chasing it with the beer. Each method results in you quickly consuming both drinks, so it's a matter of personal preference. Order a Boilermaker at your local dive, and the barkeep is almost certainly going to serve the two drinks separately. It's then on you to choose your own adventure.
Of course, you can also just pour a beer and a shot and drink them side-by-side, at your leisure, no dropping or chugging required. That's not a Boilermaker, but it is an undeniably fine way to go.
- 1 Shot of Whiskey - 1 Pint of Beer
NEW YORK SOUR
- 2 OZ. Bourbon - 1/2 OZ. Simple Syrup - 1 OZ. Fresh Lemon Juice - 1 OZ. Fruity Red Wine (Like a Zinfandel) - 1 Strip of Lemon Zest, For Garnish
Place the Bourbon, syrup, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker, fill it two-thirds of the way with ice, and shake for about 10-12 seconds ... Strain into a rocks glass filled with ice and float the wine on top by pouring it over the back of a spoon ... Pinch lemon peel over the cocktail, and run around the rim of the glass; add peel to glass as a garnish.
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NATURAL NOSTALGIA I was going through some memory cards because I needed to find more photos to post for the Spring 2022 Issue of the Natural Park thread. As I was doing so, I kept coming across shoots I've posted before in this thread. But then I stumbled upon some photos I shot many years ago during my Bryant Park days that never saw the light of day. What probably happened was that I was in such a rush to move away from my National Park/Byrant Park days and transitioning into my Natural Park/Central Park thread, that I intentionally bypassed some of those Bryant Park shoots. I have long since forgotten about them until recently, as I was talking about earlier.
These photos were shot nine years ago and I sometimes wonder how they look like today compared to almost a decade ago, and I wonder what these women are up to and how much their priorities have changed since those photos were taken.
To give you an idea of how long ago 2013 was, that was the year Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o learned a hard lesson when he revealed that the woman he met online and fell in love with didn't actually exist ... Taking "selfies" and posting them to social media was all the rage. So much so, that it was Oxford's Dictionary Word of the Year ... The verb binge-watch -- meaning to marathon episode after episode of a TV show rather than wait the traditional week for the next installment -- became mainstream ... It was also the year in which for the first time, Apple announced the launch two phones at one media event, iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c.
Looking back on these photos feels pretty nice in the sense that it's amazing to see how far I have come. If it weren't for these photos, the ones I post nowadays would never have happened. These women have laid the groundwork, paved the way for the Women of Central Park.
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STORY NUMBER 1 I love having the time of taking photos of women who are in the middle of reading something. She has a keen interest in books, and literature as a whole. When asked why she enjoyed that book written by Salman Rushdie, she said, "Because his wordplay is fantastic and the worlds he creates and populates are so unique and interesting that you want to keep on reading. He is a courageous author writing about things which people generally avoid. Also, the vividness of the characters of his stories are amazing. You may not agree upon what he writes, but his bravery and thought is commendable!"
I don't remember how the approach went, I don't remember how her voice sounded like. I do remember that when she answered her phone, she made no mention to her friend that she was in the middle of a foot fetish shoot. She was having a normal conversation instead and it was fun listening in on it.
Considering how big her feet were (being that I favor big feet over the smaller ones), considering her long toes, I must've been in heaven. In shoots like those, I try to close my eyes as infrequently as I can because I want the image of magnificent feet kept in my memory forever.
And let's talk about her open toe sandals for a moment. Love the look and the color of it. You can also see the that they bare imprints of Alana's feet. I find something like this exciting. There is considerable pleasure to be had in imagining her, speculating about her feet, her personality, her sexual preferences. I just find that fascinating.
She was laid back throughout the shoot. I let her read her book and she let me do my thing. A mutually beneficial collaboration.
ALANA -- Click Here SIZE -- 10.5 (U.S.), 41 (EUR), 8.5 (U.K.)
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STORY NUMBER 2 These photos were taken late one morning, almost noon. Another woman reading a book and she was minding her own business.
She's from the panhandle of Florida, and thus she is what you would consider a typical southerner considering that the folks and the traditions there are more conservative than in the southern part of Florida. The panhandle has more in common with Mobile, Alabama than it does Miami. There's an old saying in Florida that the more farther north you go, the more southern you get. She has the southern accent, is into Nascar racing, and she likes her tea sweet and cold.
I was loving how her feet looked and it was the right shape for me. She had one of my favorite looking toes. Looking back on these, I wished I had taken more photos of them.
I can describe her as someone who is generally relaxed and that she takes things as they come without overreacting. Relaxed and not easily annoyed, worried or upset. Relative to other people her age, she never came across as someone who was too concerned about her future. She is a wife, mother, and she was one of the nicest and easy-going person I've photographed.
An interesting moment happened in the middle of the shoot. She received a call from her daughter who was 19 at the time. She told her what she was up to, including the story that I was taking pictures of her feet. Her daughter wanted her to put her feet down and to get out of there. The mother assured her that it was just feet and that everything was going to be okay. The mother had a very chilled attitude about it all throughout that phone conversation and had a kick out of the interaction.
She's a pretty cool mom, I would say.
AMANDA MAY -- Click Here SIZE -- 9 (U.S.), 39-40 (EUR), 7 (U.K.)
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I love Alana's big soles! Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
We're going to close out the Spring Edition of this thread with two shoots that will co-main event the whole thing.
This shoot was short lived. Just when it was about to get real good, just as I was about to hit my stride, it ended abruptly. And it was because of that that I originally didn't want to show this because I felt it was too short for an update. I had this stored away for years now. I have talked myself into showing this, and here it is.
She was a high school student when these photos were taken. An 18-year-old who was weeks away from graduation was walking home from school via Central Park when I stopped her in the middle of her tracks. She may very well be the shortest girl I've ever taken photos of now that I think about it. She's very cute and has some of the cutest feet I've come across.
She was enjoying the sun and enjoyed that I enjoyed enjoying her cutest toes and soles with a closeup view. This was all new for her.
Her phone started to ring. She answered it. During the conversation, I couldn't tell who she was talking to or what they were talking about, but she was getting upset, huffing and puffing and getting annoyed, and it sounded as if she was going to to have to leave the park. The conversation lasted about a minute before she ended it by telling the other person, "Just when I was enjoying myself in Central Park, you called. Okay, I'll be right there."
When asked who that was, she said, "It's my brother. He's thirteen. He just got back home from school and he doesn't have his keys to get in, so I have to open it for him. Ugh! I'm sorry it had to end this way, but I hope to see you again. I hope you like my feet."
STORY NUMBER 2 You can tell by what she wore on her feet what the weather was like that day.
She's nineteen years old. In her situation, she feels she cannot relate to people her own age. I describe her as someone who has a strong spirit, meaning she can handle life's ups and downs much easier. She also approach living with passion and an inner fire, and live a very vibrant life.
She lives a life that is aligned with her values. She'll do this by first taking the time to identify what's truly important to her. She considers what she stand for and what she is willing to protect and fight for. She'll keep those values in mind when making all decisions, and make choices aligned with her values.
"I know that I'm not perfect and that no human being is a finished product. We have the capacity for great change, and indeed life will offer us many opportunities to do so. That's how I intend to live a life of peace and harmony."
She practices gratefulness. Instead of whining and complaining about what she doesn't have, she focuses on abundance. She realizes nothing lasts forever. She'll take the time to appreciate moments while they last, and she'll know that in some ways she's much luckier than others.
Going back to what I said about not relating to people her own age, "you literally have no idea who much I ache to be a part of an era where life was simpler, where people are more connected by life rather than technology. And this is the way I want to live my life, too." She can't seem to figure out the need to buy the latest smartphone when what she has is working perfectly.
Her life is driven by memories, books, spirituality, and creative energy. She's more inclined to appreciate simple things in life - and find contentment in things that give her life fulfillment and meaning. And she believes that a clutter-free home leads to a clutter-free mind.
The only music she listens to is classical- progressive and soft rock, new wave (which was a thing during the 70s and 80s), including acts such as Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, The Hassels, Elton John, and she may have mentioned the Talking Heads and Pink Floyd ... you know, musical acts along those lines. She listens to pretty much nothing else. I don't think she'll be able to point out Bad Bunny or Ariana Grande in a lineup. While what I just there was an exaggeration, I don't think I was exaggerating by much. I really don't.
This is not a list of musical talents you'd expect a nineteen year-old to rattle off in this day and age. The way she talked about them would lead one to believe that she could be their biographers or discographers because she knew the names of their albums, the years when certain of their songs and albums were released. She was able to recite the lyrics to some of the songs and explain what she thought those lyrics meant. When asked about someone like an Ariana Grande or a Miley Cyrus, she said, "I like you already, but don't make me throw up."
It was fun egging her on to talk about today's music. She was getting annoyed but she knew it was in the name of all fun and games. She knew I was irritating her in a playful way. She said, "That's part of the reason people my age typically don't relate to me or vice versa. When I suggest 'The Who' as a band they can listen to, they either have never heard of them or of they have heard of them, they think I must not be serious."
She's gone to several concerts of the people and bands she loves and she's probably the youngest person at these venues when she sees Billy Joel live, for example. Her father has gotten her into that kind of music. As she was growing up, her father would play those songs over the stereo speakers in the living room on the weekends and she was drawn in. The two became closer and grew a more loving bond together through music. Her father is her everything. When she goes to the concerts, she goes with him and she has the time of her life.
In a way, I have can sympathize and understand her because I'm the same way ... not when it comes to music, but with TV shows and movies, to which she said, "so the two of us are basically old people trapped in bodies that are a generation or two younger than that. That's a badge of honor for us."
Me: "Perhaps the two of us should go back in time and make the best of our time during those years." Her: "I don't know where you came from, but I wished I'd met you long before today. I'd love to go back in time with you. Take me back to the 60s, 70s, and 80s."
On the topic of feet, she thinks foot fetishists are pretty normal and very mild as far as fetishes go. She said to me wanting to take pictures of her feet because, "I respect you for the fact that you had no shame in telling me what you like in a woman. You never came across as someone who would not make me feel ashamed of anything and so I wanted to tag along with you. So yes to helping you embrace your feelings. Very commendable of you."
The idea behind the name I gave her is goes back to her love of her kind of music. If she were a musician, the stage name I would give her is ...
TRACIE IRIS -- Click Here SIZE -- 7 (U.S.), 37.5 (EUR), 5 (U.K.)
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She gets this name because she seems to have a wide selection someone can find in a clothing catalog where it features some of the biggest names in women's clothing and fashion.
I can't think of much of anything else that's interesting to say about this woman because I don't remember there being much to the conversation we had. She's one of those women who doesn't talk much. I mean we said some things to each other here and there, but there wasn't anything that stood out to me to make this story more interesting like I want it to be.
I don't mind the conversation during the shoot being more on the quiet side and she seemed like a sweetheart and someone who stays away from trouble.
I think most guys wouldn't mind having a woman in his life with feet like hers.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Summer 2022 Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
These photos were taken just after 11:00 on a Saturday morning.
A great way to start a Saturday, having some girl you never met before take her shoes off for you before lunchtime. I arrived to the park that morning not too long before I spotted her walking and there was no way I was going to let her out of my sight.
The only thing I remember about the approach was that it went pretty well because she didn't have a weird or harsh reaction to my request of taking photos of her feet. If she had, that's something I would've remembered. She has a sweet voice and was pretty fun to shoot.
Minutes into the shoot she asked if I had vodka on me. Yes, vodka! You know, to crank up the mood 'n stuff. That was not how she worded it, but based on how she reasoned it, that was why she wanted it. By the way, that wasn't the first time some girl I shot asked if I had vodka on me. I don't remember who she was. What I do remember, though, was what that woman and this woman who you're about to see have in common is that they're Russian. I don't know about you, but her asking if I had vodka on me when it wasn't noon yet made her hotter in my eyes. Her English was only okay and her cute accent was enjoyable to listen to.
I didn't have the shot of vodka on me in case you were keeping score, but I did tell her that there was a hotel bar close by that we would go to after the shoot where they served great Russian martinis. I suggested a hotel bar because she was over 18 but not quite 21. Hotel bars are less likely to ask for IDs and since she could pass for a 21 year-old, that would've been good enough for them. Just lovely if you ask me. Anyway, she was sold on the idea of having a drink with me after the shoot. I didn't eat breakfast that morning because I couldn't wait to get to the park, and I she didn't have breakfast either, meaning we would both drink on empty stomachs. Just lovely if you ask me.
She loves Marilyn Manson and enjoys dubstep. Yes, that lovely and innocent face you see in these photos, she loves Marilyn Manson. And when it comes to dubstep, she loves that so much, she even went as far as to demonstrate some of her dubstep dance moves for me. And look, she's a sweetheart 'n all and I love her to death because she's that much of a sweetheart ... but let me tell you this: if you have ever seen a pretty girl dance to that type of music before, you will agree that you do not need to see it twice.
For those who are not familiar with that kind of music, dubstep is techno that sounds like the sound of dial-up internet combined with the sound of a fax machine when it starts receiving. Pieces of metals melting and computers malfunctioning. You know, the type of music robots would enjoy.
This is someone who enjoys life and always finds a reason to smile or laugh with whatever she says or you say. Her smiles open up a heart faster than a key can open a door.
After the shoot we went to go to have that drink at the bar and enjoyed the rest of the day together.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Summer 2022 Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
That is a fabulous gallery of photos of Eudoxia, especially the sole shots! Thanks for the link. Posted by Icarus (Member # 46711) on :
Excellent photos, and thanks for explaining dubstep! Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
@ Jota Milagros ... Glad you enjoyed it. She was an absolute sweetheart throughout the entire time I spent with her.
@ Icarus ... Yeah, just go to YouTube and type in the word dubstep. Just click on any of the results that pop up and try to listen to it for five minutes. Not one minute (because you may not get the whole scope of what it sounds like), but five. You'll see what I'm talking about.
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Sometimes you need to have eyes like an eagle if you aspire to do what I do. There are times when I'm able to spot a potential willing participant from a long distance away and be able to feel and sense right at that moment that she is going to make for a nice shoot. Sometimes you approach someone and you just know she's going to say yes to having photos of herself taken. When you've done this as many times as I have, you develop that sense. That intuitive, instinctive feeling that allows you to make "lucky" guesses. And to hear her say yes to my request wasn't surprising to me at all, and yet it felt so nice to know that I was given the ok to look at her feet, take the kind of photos of them that I wanted to take, and "grading them" as she put it.
It took me two minutes to walk to her spot from where I first spotted her. She was enjoying her quiet time and I knew that I had to be quiet as well if she was going to concentrate on finishing her water painting. The area surrounding her was very quiet and it made us feel as if we were in our own bubble, observing the scenery of the park from above.
She loves to paint because it is limitless and there are no rules to creating art, saying, "It's essentially a universal language in the way music and dance is. Also, art allows you to express yourself in so many more ways than words can. It's less restrictive and I believe associations with color and shape are more innate within us."
She always feel as if can express anything with a paintbrush. Admittedly when she tries to portray the knot of emotions, memory and sensory stimulation onto an image, it evades her. It keeps her forever returning to a blank canvas or page, desperate to materialize the human part of her that's not spoken or organic. Art enriches every part of her life. Both creating her own and enjoying others.
I told her that I use photography to express myself and that I find beauty in what's beautiful and that's what drew me to her, to which she said, "You see, you get it."
We didn't talk too much during the shoot as I wanted her to concentrate on her painting. I didn't mind the quietness of the conversation because it allowed me to think about how to make the shoot look as great as I could make it look. A trust was established and she allowed me to take photos of her beautiful feet while she did what she had to do. I loved it.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Summer 2022 Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This woman here is studying to become an anthropologist but is taking a break from that as she was vacationing in New York from Germany.
Her work involves meeting people, hearing their stories, trying to make sense of how they live, and sharing their stories with other people as a way of suggesting that there are in fact other ways of living in the contemporary world that we might not expect to have encountered.
Growing up she never thought she would have any interest in studying and wanting to excel in the field of anthropology. So what bothered her was that so often what we find are assumptions that seemed often not to be grounded in a good understanding of what it is that motivates people. She went into anthropology to better understand human motivation, to better understand why it is that people are committed in doing the things they do, even if those things can sometimes produce rather difficult consequences either for themselves or for the larger world in which they live.
She talked about how we live in an era in which people conceived of our planetary condition as one that's dominated by human agency, by human activity, and by the destructiveness, in fact, of human industrial civilization. What she can do in the face of stories like that is to encourage people to stop and ask what alternatives are there, how else are people living, how else are people wrestling with these conundrums.
This woman had real sweaty feet. So sweaty in fact that they left her with visibly wet socks when she removed her sneakers. More sweat than what is typically associated with exercise. I don't remember seeing that from someone I shot before or since her.
It didn't strike me like she knew her feet were going to be sweaty upon shoe removal because she never gave me an advanced warning about it, nor did it seemed as if she knew what was going with her feet. And if she did, she was crossing her fingers in hopes that I wouldn't say anything about it. And with all of that being said, I don't think her feet were the sweatiest I've ever photographed!
Towards the end of the photo session, an Orthodox Jew interrupted the shoot. Probably in his mid-40s. He sat on a rock not too far from where we were and he was minding his own business, looking through his phone, texting or whatever else he was doing. After about ten minutes, he got curious about what we were doing and wanted to ask us some questions. He was curious, of course, because it's not everyday that you come across someone taking pictures of a woman's feet in a public place.
The conversation we had was unorthodox, if I had to sum it up in one word. I don't remember what we talked about, but it revolved around sexual things. It was funny (both in a comical and a weird way) as he was cracking some jokes just to be witty. His humor was delivered in a way that was a bit obnoxious to me but I decided had to go along with it and be witty as well and make sarcastic and impudent remarks to him myself. It was as if one was trying to outdo the other in the jokes department. The entire time the woman got a kick out of the interaction. She did none of the talking and just wanted to see if this was going to go off the rails.
Eventually we laughed it all off and he proceeded to show us a picture of a naked black girl he was supposedly talking to. I guess he was trying to arrange a meetup so he could start or continue their sex affair. And then he left. We continued the shoot as the woman and I talked about how strange that whole encounter was.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Summer 2022 Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This is a Hall of Fame and Museum operated by private interests (meaning me). It serves as the central point of the history of my amateur foot fetish photography catalog and relives the times that have past us by celebrating the women who have made my work what it has become today, timeless masterpieces that'll stand the test of time.
Due to the fact that I didn't post any photos last year, the 2021 Hall of Fame ceremony did not occur – as a result, the originally announced Class of 2021 will be inducted tonight. The Class of 2022 will be enshrined into the Hall of Fame during the season finale in December of this year.
Tonight, we proudly honor the women who participated in the greatest photoshoots I've ever done. We honor the women who have blazed the trail such as Dalhous, Marry Faith, Aloe Vera, Industria. Women who have laid the foundation such as Viven Nicely and CupKate. And we honor the women who have set the standards for the women of today.
Tonight we celebrate the Class of 2021, and welcome to the National Gallerie Hall of Fame of Women.
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AUDREY -- THE LEAD INDUCTEE
There was something about what she wore on the day of the shoot that a bit mussed, rumpled, or lived in. A woman who is not so perfectly put together seems to have more depth to her, as if there's something more important to her than how she appears to others. We put such a premium on women's perfection, the hair and teeth and skin, and for a French woman like Audrey, what's not perfect is really what she loves about it. Her hair is not perfectly straight. Her feet may have a bit of a scent to it. It's the nonchalance.
CELINE FOURNIER If she's not on my Top 10 list of the best looking feet I've ever photographed, then she's not far from it.
Celine (whose name is to be pronounced in French) is an architectural engineer. She applies science and technology to the real world by designing buildings that enhance our standard of living and improve our quality of life. She does this by combining building systems - structural, electrical, mechanical, lighting, acoustics and fire protection - into an integrated whole.
That shoot was a definition of spending a great Saturday afternoon at the Park. It was one of the longest shoots I've ever had and was so much fun to talk to and learn from.
I learned so much just from listening to her. I asked her questions and took the time to genuinely engage with her answers, getting to know her, learning from her experiences. Celine had stories to tell, and she was willing to share.
If you are a hockey fan, then she's your woman.
ROSIE HALLOWAY I met her on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is located on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
I was going to walk into the park in an entrance right beside the Museum when I spotted Rosie sitting on the steps in front of it. We talked for a bit and it was pretty cool that she was down for getting away from the Museum and and go for a walk with me through the Park.
Rosie's a nice English girl with some pretty good feet. The shoot was a work of art for me and it made her feel so good about being a female. She reminded me of why it's so much fun to shoot pictures of women's feet.
Central Park creates that environment where meaningful conversations with these complete strangers can flow easily, forming great connections. That's what Rosie and I had that day.
NOBLE PANTHERESS If you say to most women "you're beautiful", they'll tend to reply, "oh no, I'm not beautiful, you should see me on a bad day" or some such thing. This French woman will simply say "thank you".
She behaves and dresses in a more demure fashion. In terms of looks, she goes for the more "natural" at all cost, which means she uses very little to no make up.
Inner peace. She is content within herself and it showed. Her mind is not in conflict with the world around her. When she leaves, everyone starts drifting, it is like a moth to a flame, quite beautiful.
The Noble Pantheress just accepts life as it happens. She generally has no interest in idle conversations without substance. Keep in mind these are just a few traits I have observed as there are tons more I bet. All in all, she likes and entertains herself.
At size 11.5 (U.S.), her shoe size is one of the more beautiful and impressive sights I've ever beheld!
CJ BELLA She presents a sweeping showcase of female power and influence. Someone made a comment about her saying that she had a royal look about her. And I always felt the same way. Royal not in the sense of the English, but more in the sense of the Mediterranean region. Part of her ancestry can be traced to the middle of the earth and she bares the features and characteristics quite well in honor and style. CJ Bella is the modern version of what those goddesses were many centuries ago.
Bella is often beloved and greatly admired by her followers. Money, existence and teaching are but a few elements this divine being is associated with and most would describe her as reliable and heroic.
Although there are some known facts about about CJ, archaeological records reveal that she is highly regarded and educated and could read and write hieroglyphs. Using these skills, she will aide the king in his diplomatic work.
The photos I took of her discovered brilliantly photographic scenes depicting the journey CJ Bella had to make to appease the gods on her path to immortality. She represents the female aspect of the divine on Earth.
STEPHANIE SolBLOND She's a cocktail made of sweet vermouth, whiskey, and a dash of bitters.
Stephanie, a young woman who takes a leading role in all aspects of her life. She's a beautiful, single woman in who lives in the city and holds a corporate/executive office job. She's typically dating, hitting up fancy cocktail lounges, or having girl trips with her friends. She's the It Girl who keeps up on all of the latest celebrity gossip, style trends, and pop culture knowledge.
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THE LEGACY GIRLS This category for the Hall of Fame is called the "Legacy" wing. Inductees in this category are the from earliest era of my Bryant Park days.
THE SUNDAY ARTS After the I was done taking photos of her, she said the shoot was "liberating, unique, it became weirdly normal very, very quickly, and I feel proud knowing I was a part of an exhibition that showcases the beauty of feet. My feet."
She's one of the cutest women I've ever spoken to. She is humble and very attractive. She can strike very good thought provoking conversations and I loved spending time with her.
FRUITPUNCH For someone who didn't say much, she had one of the most positive attitudes about letting me take photos of her feet. I loved her reaction to my request, something that seemed to have me believe that she was going to say no, only for her to say yes. In other words, her answer was yes all along, but she was only kidding around when he put on an act like she was going to reject me. At least that's how I remembered it.
She seemed like the type who would be open to anything and I could remember her feet having a bit of a smell to it. It wasn't strong, but there was something there that only I would've been able to detect from a couple of feet away. Invigorating, I must say. The shape of her feet is the type I always find myself falling in love with. Simply beautiful.
LONDON TWENTY-TWELVE I wrote it down as twenty-twelve because that's how the broadcasters would say the year 2012 when the Summer Olympic games took place in that city that year instead of saying two-thousand (and) twelve. These photos were taken during the Summer Games that year and we talked about that for a little bit.
She's an English girl. One of the first things she said to me after I approached her was something along the lines of, "If a guy came up to me in London and asked if he could take pictures of my feet, I would've told him to fuck off!" Something about that because she was a tourist then it wasn't going to be as bad. I guess she figured that because she knew no one in New York, then no one she knew was going to walk by and see what was happening. It's similar to that rule women have in where it doesn't count as cheating if it happened in a different zip code.
Ten years ago that these photos were taken. I wonder what she's up to now? One of the first great pair of soles I've come across since I started doing this.
THE MORNING THRON Her life contains very little to no drama, and that's the way she likes it. Some people don't understand how she avoids it, but she knows exactly why she lives a drama-free life. She doesn't start drama by talking about people, and you doesn't condone it by freaking out over something someone said about her. She doesn't talk about petty issues, and prefers to reason through nasty emotions herself rather than vent about them. She likes to stay cool and objective, no matter what.
She's one of the most chill people I've photographed. She's up for just about anything and she's not very picky. To her, a simple evening can be just as great as an extravagant one. And no matter what happens, she could enjoy either one. She could hang out with you all day in the same spot, and as long as you're having awesome conversations, she'll be perfectly happy.
GRETA ILA I chose this name for her because, although it's not her real name, her real name is one of those old sounding names, just like the names Greta and Ila (pronounced eye-la). It's a vintage name only grandmothers have, which makes sense in this case being that she was named after her grandmother.
She was visiting the city from Connecticut to see her dentist father during his lunch break and catch up and talk about family stuff and other things that fathers and daughters talk about. She got to the park ahead of time and was reading a book to kill some time.
I'm very proud to say that Greta is now a trained mental health professional who helps people learn healthy ways to handle mental health challenges, helping people living with specific conditions such as depression or anxiety, or those who are going through a tough time in life, like grieving the loss of a loved one. A great phycologist indeed.
She told me at some point during the shoot that people in the park were staring at us. These photos were taken before she became a professional at being able to analyze people's behaviors, but she was putting what she had learned to the test. She was curious to know what conclusions they came up with when they were summing us up and judging our actions. She was amused at the results of her own thought experiment and took some pride in being in the center of something fun and interesting like the shoot. She never told me exactly what she was thinking as she thought it, but her attitude was whether they got a kick out of it, or if they thought critically of us, she felt good about herself either way. She would not have participated in the shoot if she thought it was all kinds of strange, so she said yes.
I left not too long before her father arrived.
BUMBLEBEE Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
I wish you would have posted a link back to when you featured these girls. Especially Celine. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC A woman in her 40's from Dublin, Ireland, and she's a manager of an eyewear store, which entails a mix of administrative and eye care tasks, such as hiring and training staff, managing inventory, processing insurance and billing, submitting work orders for eyeglasses and contact lenses, adjusting eyeglasses, and maintaining client records.
Rebecca's work environment is usually in a retail setting. She typically works regular business hours, although she may be required to work evenings or weekends to accommodate customers' schedules. As an optical manager, she may also travel to trade shows or to meet with representatives from optical manufacturers. Her job can be stressful at times, due to the need to meet sales goals and deadlines, but mostly she find the work to be enjoyable and rewarding.
Rebecca smiles here and there, but she hardly ever laughs. It's something she's hardly notices or pays any attention to, and we talked about it. you're such an open and friendly person, how come you don’t ever laugh?
She laughs to be polite, when the situation requires it. She laughs with her closest friends. Other than that, not really. It's not as if she doesn't get humor, because she does. It doesn't mean she's always sad, because she's not. And it isn't because she's a bore or a kill-joy, because she isn't. She said, "I just don't laugh that often. I don't know why, but I'm comfortable with it." Rebecca is an open and friendly person.
It's not too often I take photos of women who wear flats, which is weird because considering how much I love women who wear those on their feet, I should've taken photos of more women who wore them. But she was one of them and that motivated me to pick her as someone to model for me. Something about flats that make me think that women who wear them have good looking feet. When the feet started to peel away from her flats, I held my breath in anticipation for something great, and I absolutely loved her feet, and she had the kind of feet that reinforced my addiction to take pictures of women's feet.
You can tell from the insoles of her flats that that's pretty much her go-to footwear. The imprint and heat compression indicators inside her flats fascinated me, and that's part of the perk of taking photos of your normal everyday girl in real life conditions.
Rebecca here is a women who can be classified as smart and fairly well-read. She has high interests in intellectual things, a degree in business management and has read at least fifty books in her life. Someone who you'll enjoy having interesting conversations with, learning and expanding the mind.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Summer 2022 Posted by HighArchesPT (Member # 45164) on :
Her feet are nice
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Nice soles Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
Rebecca has very lovely soles! And I love the soiled insoles of her flats. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL ADVICE Do looks matter? Absolutely they matter. Don't let anyone fool you. Looks do matter. Do you have to be drop-dead gorgeous? Do you have to be, what they would say in the 80s, a hunk? No. For those who aspire to do what I do, going up to women and getting them to remove their shoes for you, (and perhaps catch a whiff of something fresh and ripe [if you're into that aspect of the fetish]), or just becoming more appealing to women in general if you don't have the time or interest to take all of these photos of random women's feet, then you can't go wrong with these suggestions if you're looking for an edge.
HAIRSTYLE Get a haircut. Go in and get faded. Get lined up, get your beard trimmed. Women don't like a real big beard. What they do like is a sexy beard, well maintained, like the way Thor has it these days. But if the beard goes down to your stomach, you're less attractive, I promise you that. By the way, you don't have to grow a beard to do this. You can be clean shaven just like I am. If you do have a beard, it can't be scraggly.
YOUR EYEWEAR Most face shapes fall into two categories: the angular ones and the more oval ones. If you want to make an improvement on your face, wear glasses that contrasts your face. If your face is on the angular side, wear frames that are more circular. They will fit your face better and will compliment the angularity of your face, therefore changing how you look, and not to mention ... you'll look like a badass. When you walk around with shades, you add a little bit of spice and a little bit of mystery to you. On the flipside, if your face is more circular, wear frames that more angular, more squared off. It'll compliment your circular shape and it'll end up making look better.
The point is find the shape of frames that's the opposite to your face shape so it can compliment it and therefore change how you look.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR TEETH Whiten your teeth. The most attractive people in the world have white smiles. A white smile makes others insinuate that you're healthier and more hygienic, that you have a hygienic oral routine. You need to try to get that smile as white as you can get it.
UNDERWEAR It's time to upgrade to some new drawers. Now that we're in the summer season, I suggest you update your underwear. Those things get old, they get dingy, they get faded. The last thing you want to do is when you're about to throw down with a woman, you take your pants off and she feels embarrassed for you and embarrassed for herself for being in the same room with you.
There have been a number of women who have told me during the shoots that men need to wear better underwear. Why else do you think women are at Victoria's Secrets all day? It's because they're trying to be sexy for you. So why not be sexy for them?
There's a brand I tried out recently, just in time for the beginning of summer. Again, at the beginning of every season, you upgrade your underwear selection. So this summer I'm trying out something new. It's a brand I never heard of before, I decided to take a swing at it and I'm glad I did. That brand is Nudus.
These are my kind of underwear. They're very sexy. She's going to look at you and think you've got a nice ass from doing all those squats, you've got those thighs and hamstrings in great conditions, your body is on point. She's on the bed watching you take your clothes off because she's sexually turned on and you've got that on - that underwear with your complete package. Try it out. You're looking at about $40 for a four pair.
If you want to stick to Old Faithful, though, you can't go wrong with Calvin Klein.
It's time to upgrade your drawers. Don't walk around with underwear that has bad smells or appearances to them. Change them every once in a while. You'll be doing yourself and these ladies a favor.
COLOGNE Go get a cologne. Not just any cologne, but a scent that is mass appealing such as Dior Savauge, Bleu De Chanel. You can go to a local discount store such as Ross, TJ Maxx, or Marshalls. Possibly Burlington. They have a ton of fragrances anywhere from ten- to twenty five dollars. You can pick up F Black by Ferragamo, which is about twenty dollars there. They have Banana Republic fragrances as well around twenty dollars. I do want it fresh smelling with a nice and citrus space because women like that.
If you go to Macy's, though, you're going to spend a little more money, so keep that in mind. If you don't want to spend that kind of money, go to a discounter and pick up something for around twenty dollars. You may even find a cologne from Liz Claiborne called Curve Black. I smelled it and it's decent. I didn't buy it because I have enough colognes so I don't need it.
SMILE Last thing is to smile. Smile when you're looking at women. Smirk a little bit. Tilt your head here and there as you talk to them. Don't look so serious. Don't look as if you haven't had a woman in such a long time. When you're talking to these women, just be cool. Just. Be. Cool. Smile, shoulders back, look happy. Life if good.
Is there more beyond the physical aspect? Yes. Do looks matter? They do. They do matter. She has to be attracted to you. If there's something about you that's not attractive, she will shut you down. You won't be able to get her to take her shoes off for you with your words if the looks aren't there. Some sort of look has to be attractive to her.
-National
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC I decided to go into the vault to find a shoot I did once upon a time and I came up with the shoot I did with Jasmine.
Over the course of history, we can find many movements, of uneven fortune, that challenged the established norms, that broke with the moral of their time, that offered a creative explosion and had revolutionary potential. Such movements form part of the slippery entity that is counterculture: whenever the powers that be manage to capture it, it has already mutated into another form. But it always keeps going further, mixing culture and life, challenging the boundaries of the idea of culture. She's someone who believes things outside of what society considers normal or typical.
That pretty much sums up the topic of conversation we had, her view points, and I think it goes pretty much hand in hand with how she dresses. A form of expression while being all the peaceful about it at the same time.
Something about Jasmine that I have not encountered in any woman I've taken photos of before or since. What feels comfortable in her own skin is a beauty standard that's not extreme as dying her teeth black like they did in Japan, or eating deathly arsenic for skin whitening. Instead, Jasmine is all about keeping it au naturel. That's her liberating natural beauty standard.
These photos shows her proudly showing her naturally red armpit hair. She has received both praise and criticism for this. For Jasmine, cultivating body hair is a way to protest the beauty and maintenance standards placed upon her by society. Indeed, even photographs in this shoot will use her to communicate this message.
She let me play with that hair by petting it and smelling it. It had that unique scent of "her," which is to say they hardly smelled like anything. She allowed me to smell her feet as well and the results were the same.
After the shoot was over, we spent the next hour talking about various things. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon in the park.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Summer 2022 Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC Two firsts when it comes to this shoot: taking photos of someone who's resting in her hammock, and taking photos of a Mormon woman.
I was walking along, looking for a bench to take a break for a few minutes. I saw a bench, but I also saw the hammock with the legs hanging off of the side of it. I walked closer to it because the face was hidden from view and so I wasn't sure if it was a man or a woman in it. When I got closer, it was clear that it was a woman. I wasn't close enough, though, to be able to tell if she was sleeping. It wasn't until I got two feet from her when I realized she was on the phone talking to someone. That took me by surprised and it also made her jump a bit because she seemed too distracted in her phone conversation to notice that anyone was approaching her. I was just about to apologize for interrupting her, but since she asked me what it that I wanted, I decided to stay with her and not walk away. I told her to hang up the phone, and she did.
"You want to take pictures of my feet? Okay," she said.
At first we weren't talking much in the shoot until I asked her what it was that she was reading. I could tell that she was hesitant to answer that question. When I asked her why that was, she said that I wouldn't understand it and maybe something about how I would judge her unfairly. I said, "Try me." She did. It was a book that discussed topics in Mormonism. It turned out to be the best conversation she had with anyone in days, she told me at the end of it all.
Sarah is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She believe that God is her father, that Christ is her Savior and Redeemer, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God who helped restore the gospel to earth. She is expected to obey some basic rules - attend church, pay tithing, obey the Word of Wisdom, etc.
Also, being a Mormon, Sarah intends to preserve her chastity and virtue until she's married. Premarital sex isn't the doorway to adulthood that makes you the type of person you want to become, she said. That is a "fallacy and discounts the value of all the other kinds of relationships in our lives - with family, friends, co-workers and romantic partners where sex is not involved." The church tends to align itself with a more traditional culture, in which men typically are seen as the deciders and women patiently wait to be asked, and Sarah is perfectly fine with that.
She strives to live authentically, with honesty and integrity, to love others and serve her fellow humans, contribute to society, follow the laws of the land wherever we is, take good care of our body. She strives on being humble and non judgemental. In the future, she wants to teach kids correct principles and values so they can all live happy lives. She respects Jesus Christ and the sacrifices He made for her.
WHAT DOES SHE AVOID Sarah don't drink alcohol, coffee, or tea. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I try to avoid caffeine, but am not super strict about it.
If she goes "out" - it isn't to a bar, saying, "I am generally uncomfortable at bars ... they are dark, noisy and full of people getting drunk. I haven't found them to be fun if you aren't drinking. And I don't like the smell of alcohol. I'm not judgmental about it (at least, I try not to be...), but I've found that people who drink don't like me not-drinking around them. So I think it is fair to say I don't feel welcome in bars either.
HOW SHE FEELS HER FAITH IS PERCIEVED She feels her faith is misunderstood, "Almost every media story about it gets it wrong. They focus too much on certain details that mean very little to me day-to-day, or fail to provide context to make things seems sensible/non-crazy."
"I bet we're less different than you'd expect. If we worked or went to school together, you might guess I'm Mormon because of the things I avoid ... but if you didn't pay attention, you might not even know. So I get bothered when people think Mormons are really weird or cultish ... We're not."
I asked her half-jokingly if she would be okay with being one of seven wives. She said no. Just herself and whichever guy she ends up marrying.
HER FEET Nice pink toenails. Her soles were a bit dirty, which I didn't mind at all. It humanizes her in a way. They were just a bit smelly as well since she had them in her Vans footwear without her socks, not providing enough air flow in them. To me, that's the right kind of feet smell. It makes the experience much more enjoyable to shoot photos.
That was my first time taking photos of feet in a hammock, which gave me something new to work with.
Hope you guys like her.
SARAH OF SYMMETRY -- Click Here SHOE SIZE -- SIZE -- 8 (U.S.), 39 (EUR), 6 (U.K.)
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Summer 2022 Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This introvert is not really a shy woman but she takes slightly more time to open up to others being that she prefers to analyze and then react to the situation. She generally doesn't bother mixing up with the general crowd as she prefers to deal with two or three people at a time at maximum so that she can focus completely.
Julina is the type of woman a man would easily introduce to his family. Depending on who you are, it may take a lot of effort from your side to rightly approach and start to get to know this her (as you are bound to get evaluated and analyzed on your behavior -- as is the case of what any other girl would do), but if you can befriend her, Julina can prove out to be the most promising and caring person you've ever known. She will be there, no matter what.
It was too bad this shoot was as short as it was because I really liked her feet.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Autumn 2022
Posted by HighArchesPT (Member # 45164) on :
Just came across Stephanie SolBlond mention above and went to google in order to dig out her photo set. She's so good
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
We have here another woman I've photographed in which the topic of religion took up most of our conversation. In every single case, this is a topic the woman I was photographing would bring up. Once they want to talk about God, there's no way out for me. I say this love, though.
Hannah explained how Christ was an example in her daily living begins to fulfill the plan of her Heavenly Father for her, and that by so doing she can be a powerful influence for good in today's world and meet the challenges of mortality. She knows such other women, and they have been a guiding light to her. She follows Christ in the very best sense of the word.
She is thankful for being a woman who chooses to follow God every day. She seeks to know Him more by reading His word and through prayer. She will serve God by being an example to other women and by serving her church and greater community. She also encourages others and is compassionate. Basically that means she will love others well. In all, she seeks to become more like Christ.
She had that look and style of someone who was out to do a specific task or chore, specifically a chore she didn't like to do or had to do. Nothing wrong with that. Besides, she was glad to take this break with me from her day.
The soles of her feet were a bit rough and were on the dry side. Some people are into that. Even though it's not what I prefer, I'm not completely opposed to it either. I can understand the appeal to that, and I had fun photographing her feet. Not knowing what's in store for you when you go out foot hunting is part of the fun, meeting these women as they are.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Autumn 2022
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by HighArchesPT: Just came across Stephanie SolBlond mention above and went to google in order to dig out her photo set. She's so good
Indeed she is good. Good looking feet from a good looking woman on a nice Sunday afternoon. Can't go wrong with that.
Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
Thank you so much for the gallery of Hannah Pruitt. It is full of fabulous sole shots! Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I don't remember where she's from other than to say that she's from an eastern European country. The shoot lasted a little longer than she thought it would, but she also enjoyed it more than she thought she would. During the times where she had her eyes closed or lying on the grass made her really relaxed and became more settled on the idea that having me take pictures of her feet felt just as normal as anything else.
FOUNDATIONS -- Click Here SHOE SIZE - 7 (U.S.), 37.5 (EUR), 5 (U.K.)
Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
The woman in the FOUNDATIONS gallery has truly magnificent soles. But, alas, I don't like her color of lipstick.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jota Milagros: The woman in the FOUNDATIONS gallery has truly magnificent soles. But, alas, I don't like her color of lipstick.
Her lipstick type is not what one would see often, which was one of the reasons I approached her. It went well with glasses and the color of her button-up shirt. I don't prefer that color, but it was different, so I'd figured, "Why not?"
Also, I gave her the name Foundations to make reference to her lipstick.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Her name is Emersyn Roth and she has good listening skills and can come up with creative solutions to problems. And she also knows the importance of communicating clearly. You see, she works with children who have difficulty speaking or understanding speech or who have problems with swallowing. She can asses, diagnose, and treat a variety of different communication disorders including stuttering, feeding, as well as voice disorders.
A typical day for her can include many things, so it's never the same schedule, but it always includes checking emails, some type of collaboration or meeting with other professionals or with families and clients, going out to a home to see a family, or out to a school. It can also include writing reports, or checking their system for data collection.
Emersyn here works for a not-for-profit organization that specializes in accurate assessment and diagnosis of children who have communication difficulties. She'll have to come up with evidence-based treatment and treatment options for the families she deals with.
She uses an iPad to motivate the kids she works with. As for toys, often just buying really fun, novel cause-effect toys which can really help with the kids mental development.
Her workplace environment is pretty flexible, which is a really nice benefit for doing what she does for a living. She can have a really busy day where she may have to be out to three different homes in a day, then out to a school and have a team meeting, all in the same day. And then maybe the next day would be dedicated to writing a report, making phone calls and checking her emails. Emersyn is able to set her schedule in a way that suits best for her.
I liked her headscarf, which added a cool style to her everyday look. That was the first thing I was able to notice about her when I spotted her from a distance as she was sitting on the grass. It felt like a slow day in Central Park that day because it seemed as if there weren't as many people in it as usual. I was starting to think that I wasn't going to find anyone and call it a night. But there was hope when I saw her.
In Central Park you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind. That was what can described as to how the whole scene was when I walked up to her. She was staring off into the distant trees. Perhaps she ponded if reincarnation was real or what was the meaning to life? She was probably having that type of conversation with herself - one of the most peaceful sights I've seen upon making an approach.
When I got her attention, she was very nice to me, Emersyn was. She was a minute or two away before leaving the park to go home and prepare herself some dinner. But since I was there, she was flexible to give herself a bit more time to stay in the park to allow me to take pictures of her feet.
With the combination of how she looked, I wondered how her feet were going to look and smell like when I saw that she had her Champion tennis shoes with her ankle socks tightly wrapped around her feet. When asked about those shoes, she said, "I wanted something that was casual and comfortable, pretty lightweight. I'm more of a casual and comfortable type and so I need something for my feet that fits my style."
Roth has pretty strong feet from the way they looked. I liked that. She's not the type to paint her toenails. Her feet did smell just a tiny bit, but that's what happens from doing a job where she's going to be on her feet most of the time. The scent wasn't strong enough to reach back to her, but it was just enough to get my attention for a little bit. But the shoot had to end just when I felt that things were going to get real good.
Fantastic morals and values, and not the type who would go out and start looking for trouble. She's a very nice lady.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Autumn 2022
Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy:
My thoughts exactly when I saw her feet bare.
Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
Photos 30 to 33 in this gallery are among the best close up sole shots that I've ever seen! Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
This shoot lasted about a half hour.
Tall woman with big feet. I prefer women with big feet and slender toes, and this woman had just what I was looking for. I saw her from a distance. She was walking south and I was heading north. I was too far to see how her toes looked, but she looked hot so I had to see what she was about. When I finally caught up to her and got close enough to see her feet, my heart was racing because this is the stuff my dreams are made of. Waking up every morning for moments like this makes this hobby of mine enriching.
She loves her own feet and how they look and so she was all too proud to take part in this shoot to she how ashamed of them she's not.
Our lady here loves how she her best friend pay the same amount of money for a pedicure but she has more surface area on her feet, so she's really are getting her money's worth. While everyone else scrambles for the size 7 and 8s, she can take a leisurely stroll down rows of bigger shoes. She likes knowing that she doesn't have to share her shoes with anyone, especially to someone whose feet she thinks are weirder than hers. Those tan sandals she wore that day? Louis Vuitton. So yeah, she loves her feet.
I couldn't take my eyes off of her soles. I liked how that area in the ball of feet were starting to look a bit yellow. Hot girls have their little imperfections, too, and I don't mind it. I try not to blink when I'm shooting photos of feet like hers, and the only time I did so was when I had to do a double take to make sure I was seeing was actually what my fantasy wanted to see. And it was beautiful.
THE EVER ONE -- Click Here SHOE SIZE -- 10 (U.S.), 40 (EUR), 7.5 (U.K.)
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Autumn 2022
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jota Milagros: Photos 30 to 33 in this gallery are among the best close up sole shots that I've ever seen!
I'm glad you feel that way because I didn't think people would like those sole shots enough. I say this because I always felt I could've done much better shooting photos of her soles. Personally speaking, as much as I love her soles, I don't think those are anywhere near the best soles shots I've done. I let myself down. If I had five more minutes with her, I've done more/better with the sole shots.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
We have Brynn Larsen from the Bay Area in San Francisco. She was in New York visiting a friend.
She wore Birkenstocks that day and it's been a while since I had taken photos of anyone wearing those. In fact, I can only remember one other lady who wore them and it was one of my favorite shoots I did. While I don't think they're not the sexiest sandals, they're also not the worst looking ones either. I have nothing against them at all. When I see a woman with nice feet wearing them, I'm too busy checking out their feet to notice the Birkenstocks. Larsen loves how they (her feet) feel in them, which is why she wears them many times, especially since "they're good for a breather on a nice day," she told me.
Brynn tried to imagine how this experience would've been if someone had asked her if he could take pictures of her feet in Golden Gate Park (which is San Francisco's large urban park). It would've been just as much fun, she'd figured.
She's the type of girl who would attend the barbecues eating the burgers, hot dogs and drinking her Miller High Life, playing lawn games such as cornhole and ladder toss. You may not always win if she was on your team, but the fun you would share with her would keep the mood great throughout the day. She loves her San Francisco Giants and would attend their games several times a year with friends.
She's a cool chick.
BRYNN LARSEN -- Click Here SHOE SIZE -- 9 (U.S.), 40 (EUR), 7 (U.K.)
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This young lady here, also from San Francisco, wants to pursue a career that gives her some purpose in life and to work towards something that is so much bigger than herself. She realizes that it's not going to be an easy career to get into, being a humanitarian. She also knows that if she wants to go into that field that the pay may not be that great. She could start out doing a couple of unpaid internships. She was also warned her that if she winds up going on to the field working, that she'll likely earn very little money in the first year until an organization is willing to see her as a professional in that field and pay her a better salary, but she seemed to be okay with that reality.
She joined a charity organization because it looked a lot like something fun! She was on a forum, and some young people were sharing pictures of a party they planned in a children hospital. Youth and kids were having a great time, dancing, laughing to a clown show, giving and receiving gifts ... It really looked like they were having a good time so she asked around and joined them. She just loved the fact that people could share happy moments with suffering people.
She's sensitive to the human suffering, she hates injustice, she wants to fight for human rights, but she wants do it with the smile while encouraging people around her to "join the fun", because she feels that helping others is fun, an experience that'll bring her joy and happiness.
She was glad that she got a pedicure the day before and that gave her the confidence she needed to do this shoot with me. She gets her pedicures to please herself. Sometimes to impress her friends, occasionally to impress other women, but mainly for herself. For some reason I thought her toenail polish would not look as good as they did here for the shoot. She thinks her feet are cute whenever that thought pops into her head, but she doesn't think much else about them. She figured, though, that if her feet were going to make me happy, then she's a giving person, feeling that it's natural for her to give to humanity.
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This shoot was the first time in a while in which I incorporated some of the Natural Evolution Era-style shots -- the type of poses that pushed the envelope a bit. That style of photography of mine was synonymous for that time in history. I've gotten away from that stuff, and the last time I remember posting photos like that left and right was during the Summer 2020 issue of this thread. Since then I've been transitioning away from that bit by bit, trying to look for a new style that'll usher in a new era to my style of photography. But I dipped back into that well for this shoot just to pay homage to it.
As a side note, throughout this year I've posted photos that showed that I've gotten away from that while trying to find something new to go with. Those photos (including the ones I've posted over the last few days) shows that I still wasn't able to find what that new style would differentiate that era to the new one. I will show the results of that new direction (which won't be as sexually charged, but you'll still like it) which may make its debut in December for this year's season finale.
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After the shoot was over, she surprised me with a huge hug. We ran out of things to say to each other and then she hugged me out of nowhere. It wasn't a casual hug that lasted two seconds, but a hug that was more intimate -- not in a sexual way, just a deep bond of acceptance of who she is. I don't know what compelled her to just hug me the way she did, but the hug was closer, tighter, and more prolonged. I guess I had a good impact on her. 100 percent human.
100% Human -- Click Here SHOE SIZE -- 8.5 (U.S.), 39.5 (EUR), 6.5 (U.K.)
Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
Looking at photo 27 in Brynn Larsen's gallery makes me wish to sooth her rough heel skin by licking it for a long time. Posted by HighArchesPT (Member # 45164) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jota Milagros: Looking at photo 27 in Brynn Larsen's gallery makes me wish to sooth her rough heel skin by licking it for a long time.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
We have Kit Kelly here to close out our Autumn Edition 2022 edition of this thread. As an administrative assistant for an accounting firm, she handles everything from answering questions via the phone to participating in some very important meetings. She has to be a very organized person because she is basically what is going to keep the office functioning at its best. Not only does Kelly answer the calls for her director, she also plans and attended every meeting to record the minutes, planned any out of town traveling, office training events, reports on their budget, reports on programs that could streamline their process and how they could implement them, lots of filing, supervised employees when the director was out, etc.
I loved her glasses and the condition of her shoes, as if they haven't been washed in a while. It made my mind run wild as to how her feet may have looked like and what type of condition they may be in. She was heading to see some of her friends for lunch, but she had some time to spend with me being that she was running a bit early anyway.
I really appreciate an intelligent woman. One who can converse on a wide variety of subjects. One who gets puns and other word play. One who isn't just smart, but possesses wisdom and common sense. She is curious about many things in life and desires answers. She's smart enough to know that you can have the look as well as the brains, or the sexual appeal as well as the brains. This is a woman you can have an amazing discussion with where the two of you can learn from each other. That was exactly the type of conversation I had with her throughout the shoot.
I love smart girl feet.
KIT KELLY -- Click Here SHOE SIZE -- 8.5 (U.S.), 39.5 (EUR), 6.5 (U.K.)
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THE INTRODUCTION Central Park is one of the best places to meet women in New York City. That's because it has all the usual daytime advantages while being large, attractive to a lot of people (which means it'll be easier for you to do multiple approaches), and most of the women you see won't be in a rush (they go there to relax, after all). Meeting women in Central Park is a unique experience because girls are often in a far more social mood than they would be in other venues, certainly on the street. This is why I love going there, and Central Park attracts women from all over the world. Starting a conversation with them is also very easy.
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This thread specializes in featuring your normal everyday girls. In here, you'll hear stories from the women I've approached that makes these photographs come more to life.
These women live lives that can be described as mundane, routine, natural, habitual, or normal, which makes them relatable. They eat two or three meals in a day. Their working time mostly involves a daily schedule, beginning in the morning. They are a part of the daily morning and evening rush hour experience, and the drive time being focused on by radio broadcasters and podcasts. Evening is often leisure time for these women. Beyond these broad similarities, lifestyles vary and the women I photographed spend their days differently.
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It's been real quiet around here for the last couple of months and I've been chomping at the bit to come back in here and show people what I have in store for the upcoming week. This thread is going to be the place to be for all of next week because the lineup I have is one the best we've seen in quite some time.
"Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got." -Robert Benchley
... And it's time to revisit this place and find out what it is that makes it that great of a place to be. Starting tomorrow, you'll need to pull up a chair, pour yourself a glass of booze, prepare a cocktail of sorts, or grab yourself whatever it is you'll need to get yourself through all of this because you're going to need it. And you'll be glad you did.
This is the 2022 Season Finale.
National
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VISOINAIR Visionair is many things, but at its core it's a vehicle for creativity. It's actually been funny to phase away from the Natural Evolution era of this thread and transition into a new era and not knowing how to describe it because there's not an easy way to describe it. It's an entity that celebrates creative freedom.
Since my childhood, I had a profound interest in female beauty. Not only was I interested in it, but I was also very nervous around women in my teenage years and early-20s, and so I couldn't get into contact with them. I could not find the courage to start a conversation with them.
To me, men and women are profoundly different. I think we are each other's opposites, and that makes working with women very interesting to me.
I love observing their motions, their habits, their way of moving and talking, observing their nuances. But I also love delving into a communication level to find out about their emotions, and I think that gives a deeper layer to my images, not purely based on their physical beauty.
I prefer taking photos in Central Park because this yields automatically in many images that turn out to be simply amazing. That place gives these images character, structure, emotions. Central Park expands my creativity. I want every shoot to be unique, and I strive for each shoot to be different from the previous one.
For me the atmosphere during the shoot is important. Only when the woman feels 100 percent at ease, she will be able to build up the trust she needs for posing her lovely nakedly essential feet for me. It's only then when you are able to make good images. I think the images in this new era has some kind of imperfection that is very pleasant to look at.
I have the impression that the photos in what will be called the Visionair Era will be appreciated by both men and women equally, and that pleases me a lot. I also don't feel as if the images will be seen as abusive or obscene, but it will appreciated in a way I meant it. And what I mean by that is this is all about the search for beauty and for a better understanding for what makes a foot fetish a fantastic thing to have.
-National
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NATURAL CLASSIC The Season Finale showcases the greatest collection of photographs being shown all year. With all the ladies I plan on showing this week, one of my favorite things to do in preparation for this event is figuring out the order in which I'm going to show these women. This is a practice I've implemented over the last few years. It's fun and challenging at the same time.
Think of this like a book. Writers order their chapters in a very specific way to illuminate narrative and thematic content, and in any good piece of literature, each section builds off the others so that there's a satisfying conclusion. A similar principle applies here. I have a certain idea I want to express to my audience with each update for the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, and listing the shoots out of order corrupts my purpose and the intent. All of these shoots are great pieces of work, and I have decided to start things off with a very special lady.
If I could give a highlight of this woman in one sentence, it would be that she is the one your mother would like. You don't usually introduce every girl you date to your parents -- just the one you think has marriage potential.
She has social decorum. When out with her friends, she asks about their lives. She would go out of her way to accommodate other people in the life of herself and her man, making them feel at ease, listening to them and adding in basic pleasantries. Perhaps the most nerve-wrecking part of a relationship she finds herself in is the moment she meets the guy's mother for the first time. She doesn't know if she'll be quick enough on her feet to handle the occasional barbs from her, but judging this woman's demeanor, the way she handled herself in the good amount of time we spent talking to each other, she'll do just fine because there's no way they'd ever find anything bad to say about her.
This was a very beautiful day. In Central Park there are some slopes that are steeper than a wheelchair ramp, and so I had to walk up one of those to catch up to her. She was open to listening what I had to say the second I extended my hand to make a handshake after introducing myself. She was taken aback (in that her breath was taken away) and flattered for being made to feel so nice and so she she shook my hand. I gave her my first and last name.
I'm going to jump a bit ahead in the story for just a second to say that later, at some point during the shoot, she told me that when I shook her hand, it was "just so different." It certainly left an impression on her when she said that and I was able to see it all over her face, in how her eyes changed, even how her tone of voice changed. Her body language shifted and she liked how that made her feel inside.
So going back to what I was about to say before I interrupted myself, at the beginning I walked up to her and introduced myself. But before I did, I extended my arm out to her. I wanted to shake her hand. I didn't want to shake it too firm, but I wasn't going to her a soft hand shake either. I also wasn't going to hold it for too long.
My first name, slight pause, then my last name. So I walked up to her,
ME: How are you? (Then I give her my full name) And you are? HER: Britta. ME: Britta? HER: Yes, Britta Döhna. It's my name.
By the way, in case anyone is wondering, her last name is pronounced as Dew-na.
After she gave me her name, I let go of her hand. From there, I went into the conversation. Doing this showed her that I was proud of my name when I said it with the right tone. I took a slight step back afterwards to give her a little bit of space. I didn't want to be too close to her because I had just introduced myself to her seconds before and the space allowed her to make a decision about me. As time went on in the conversation, though, I causally shifted my movements a bit where I was able to get in a little closer to her so that she can smell me and feel my energy. Flirtation most certainly, suggesting a playful sexual attraction to her. She blushed.
She didn't know I was going to ask to take photos of her feet, but when I finally got around to that, she was intrigued and also surprised to the point where she didn't know what to make of what I just requested from her.
BRITTA: I don't even know what to say to that. ME: How about, "You're right! You can take pictures of my feet."? BRITTA:: A few seconds of silence, not knowing how to make sense of what she just heard before she said, "Wow. Just wow! You're amazing. I don't even know what to say."
I told her to follow me. And she did. By doing so, that was her way of saying yes without saying the word.
When we got to our spot, she asked, "So, what do you want me to do?" She was eager to return the favor and put to put on a good impression for me. I told her how the shoot was going happen and she kept nodded her head. Fantastic.
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Britta Döhna is German, from Berlin. This was her final full day in New York before returning home.
She's a dental receptionist. She spends a great deal of time dealing directly with patients. Miss Döhna here is the one who speaks to patients over the phone to schedule appointments, review test results, discuss procedures, and many other things. She is also the first person patients talk to when they enter the office, the one to field any initial questions. It's also great that she has some skills with numbers, saying, "This is important because I'm generally the one that handles billing which means that I have to deal with numbers on a regular basis." At any given time, medical lingo is flying around the office and and she understands what is being said, and so Britta has a cursory knowledge of medical lingo and other technical information.
On a stressful day at the office, Britta does a two-minute breathing exercise that makes her feel much calmer and more focused. She has found that this has been a great solution for her because even on the busiest days, she can be mindful of her breath for a moment without interrupting her work.
She enjoys working as a dental receptionist because the job aligns with her strengths as an organizer and people person. Because she can empathize with how patients count on timely dentist visits to maintain their own schedules, when she book appointments, she makes sure she's organizing the day to be considerate of both the clients and the dentists.
HER FEET When she's home in Berlin, she jogs on the occasional basis and so the sneakers she had on were her jogging shoes. She wasn't jogging on the day of the shoot, but she knew she was going to go for a long walk.
She removed her sneakers and was immediately reminded that she had a hole in her sock, which was a bit of an embarrassing moment for her, fearing I was going to think less of her because of that. A beautiful woman with feeling a bit insecure about something cute like that one is endearing. Also, when she removed her socks, the materials from it left some lint on her soles and in between her toes. Her feet were sweaty and they were soft to the touch at that moment. Sweaty from doing all the walking she did, and you can tell that was the case by looking at her soles with her socks still on.
Her feet are what good feet look like. Perfectly manicured toenails, her feet are well formed, and they had fantastic arches to them.
BRITTA: "In theory? I have no problem with it. As far as fetishes go, it's pretty harmless and I would love to have my feet rubbed." She emphasized that it's important to make sure that the lady in the equation is actually engaged in the activity as well and not just being a living doll for you to play with.
At the end of all of this, she said, "You know how to make a woman feel so special. You made me feel special today. Thank you." I looked into her eyes and told her that I liked what I saw. She looked into mine and said the same thing. Afterwards, I took her to this very nice cafe where we had hot chocolate and some dessert.
ON HER FEET Nike - Pegasus 32 Type - Running Sneakers Weight - 9.90 oz. (281 gr.) Heel Drop - 10mm
That footwear is targeted for those neutral runners looking for a versatile, lightweight daily trainer capable of handling quick, speedy training sessions and higher mileage workouts in comfort. It delivers a low-profile yet highly responsive cushioning to her feet. Click to enlarge the images.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - 2022 Season Finale
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NATURAL CLASSIC This evening I present to you a religious woman. A woman who desires to please God with her life, has a relationship with God, loves God, and who's willing to spread the word about Him. By her own admission she's not perfect, but she is willing for God to help her grow in Him and be who He wants her to be. She said, "When you fall down or mess up, get right back up with God's help and keep going."
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This was on a nice Saturday afternoon, around 1:00. From out of the corner of my right eye, I saw this amazing lady walking west as I was heading north. She wore the type of outfit a woman would wear to the gym or run errands in. In her case, she did both.
She went to the supermarket before hitting the gym. She was heading home from the gym when I saw her. She had the walk of someone who knew she just killed it during her workout session and she was ready to take on the rest of her weekend. It looked good. I changed my direction and walked east to where I was going to meet up with her.
She took my compliment very well and felt completely unprepared for all of this at the same time. She apologized for looking like such a mess being that she just came from a workout session, which included lots of running and power walking on the treadmill. She was calming down from the exercising and was not thinking a man would take the lead and approach her in Central Park. I told her that if I approached her, then there must've been a good reason, a meaning behind all of this. Upon hearing me say that, her eyes lit up because it sounded spiritually uplifting to her. She placed her hand to her heart as a gesture of showing appreciation to what she just heard. Think of it as surprising her with a gift you knew she'd cherish and observed her wordlessly clutching her chest upon its receipt.
ME: "You feel a sense of calm and peacefulness, do you?" HER: "My Goodness, simply unbelievable! Who are you? Tell me. ME: "Who am I? I'm whoever you want me to be." HER: "You know, God has a reason for allowing things to happen, and maybe He has chosen you to make a blessing to me."
And that was how I found out she's a woman of faith. I didn't think she was going to take it there with me. But since she did, I felt that she was going to place everything in my hands. I saw the niceness in her and wanted to make a concerted effort to really make her day. A type of day that could only happen in Central Park.
When I finally got around to telling her that I wanted to "shine a spotlight on her feet" (that's how I remembered wording it to her) by taking photos of them, she was honored at the opportunity I presented her, but was undecided at first because she had just come from the gym and didn't feel her feet were ready enough to be the main focus of the shoot. I assured her that that wasn't going to be a problem, saying, "God is serves to love. He doesn't punish. He doesn't judge." I don't remember where I heard that, but I thought that was the perfect time to actually speak those words. Continuing, I said, "He doesn't have time for that, and to extend on that point, this man accepts you as you are." That convinced her that her feet as in its present state and condition was God's giving the o.k. for her to show them to me.
Her feeling was, "Jesus is nondiscriminatory. If you're going to love my feet, then I welcome it with open arms. With an open mind. Show me the way, sir."
Our lady here started us off with, "Come Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit. Lord, thank you for this time, for helping us to be present at this time, allowing us to be free from distractions, so that we may enter this time of connecting our souls as one, together." She went on to say a few more words in her prayer before ending with Amen.
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OUR LADY OF FAITH AND HEALING She is Catholic Life Coach. People are looking for guides as there is a lot of mistrust among their conventional authority figure, and so they're looking for guides, for something natural as its part of our anthropology. She knows that the concept of better isn't something one can find within ourselves. Instead, it is something we have to seek somebody else to give us that answer. And she thinks she is a big part of that renewal. She calls it the New Discipleship. As a Catholic coach, she is with people, abiding with them for a period of their lives and helping them ultimately to pass from her as the guide to Jesus. Her goal is to point them to the Ultimate Guide who has the answers so that no one is lead down a path that'll lead to a lot of suffering, despair and looking for love in all the wrong places. Her goal is to decrease those things so that He must increase. That's her goal and philosophy.
We talked about so many things -- a real treat of a conversation we had.
As an introvert, it can be hard for her to find a man in the first place and especially if he's a guy hoping to meet her, saying, "A lot of introverted men become a little passive with regards to women that they are interested in. They do not take the lead or initiate conversation. They expect the woman to make the first move. I prefer for the man make the first move - always!"
She is beautiful, and not in the sense that has to do with the photoshopped models on the covers of magazines or portrayed in the media. Besides, she acknowledged that she knows she's never going to measure up to that. When I say she's beautiful, I mean that she's beautiful internally. A graceful woman, which makes her beautiful and attractive.
HER FEET As far as her feet goes, I love them. Yes, and that's even though parts of the soles to her feet her were dry. The skin on her heels have peeled off a bit as they were a bit dehydrated, but so what. She spent her last few hours running errands and staying in the gym. Depending on the woman, that look can be quite hot. Besides, in her case, it's something that can be fixed in no time, which is why it never bothered me.
Having fun with her, though, I did tease her about that for a minute, asking her what she was going to do about it. Without missing a beat, she said, "Oh, simple: I'm gonna hop in the shower as soon as I get home, just use some liquid soap, that daily moisturizing lotion from Aveeno ... I don't know if you ever used that, but it's so amazing -- I love it! Oh, and perhaps I'll use a balm like the one I have from Honest."
In any case, I loved her feet. The imperfections on her soles made them beautiful in some unique way. Some beautiful things are impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished. I told her that, to which she said, "Mmmmm," as a way to show thought or reflection. To express agreement or pleasure. That got to her deep.
There was a time growing up when she was insecure about the size of her feet, but she has learned to embrace it and now sees nothing wrong with it, saying ...
HER: "I think the shape is more important than size." ME: There was a pause there for a few seconds before I said, "There's a joke I want to put in there, but I'll decide against it.
She lets out a nice and loud laughter.
When she was lying on her back, she allowed me to massage her feet for about fifteen minutes straight. What was also very cool about that part was her showing no hesitancy, apprehension or uneasiness about me placing my nose in between her toes from time to time as I was doing the massage. She didn't have to say a word and I could tell she was all for it and didn't mind it at all. She would look from time to time to see what I was doing, but she went right back to lying her head back down and closing her eyes. She would take some deep breaths, calming her mind and to think more clearly while focusing just how wonderful all of this was to her because she was truly enjoying it.
She could feel that I was really into it. At one point during the massage she said, "You know how some people are so mechanical and they just go through the motions? It feels like you understand me, that you're exploring me. Like you are really listening. I feel like you are here with me. It's the way a girl should be treated."
I knew. I just knew the massage sent tingling sensations throughout her body.
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Towards the end of the shoot, she received a call from the supermarket delivery guy telling her that he's there, right outside her apartment. She told him to leave the food there and that she was going to arrive in ten minutes or so. So we ended the shoot because she needed to get to her food.
This whole experience was like a new spiritual awakening for her. She seemed very intuitive and expressive when it came to her feelings and she was convinced that I was an angel. I know this because she inquired about it a few times, "the emotional fluency makes me want to know so much about you, like how do you do all of this and what makes you such a beautiful being?"
OUR LADY OF ORIGINS -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 10.5 (US), 42.5 (EUR), 8 (UK), 27.5cm, 10.82677in
ON HER FEET Nike - Air Zoom Pegasus 34 Type - Running Shoes Weight - 9 oz. (255 gr.) Heel Drop - 10mm
The nice and light contrast between the fresh air of the park and to her fresh feminine feet fragrance during the massage was ideal, and it seemed surreal and beyond belief. She had her eyes closed while soaking in the sun that wasn't too hot. It was total bliss for her and for me.
This has been her go-to running shoes for a couple of years. She loves the cushioning it provides her feet, and they've helped her improve her stride since she switched to these after her previous pair of running shoes made her feet uncomfortable. And she loves how there's enough toe room for her.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - 2022 Season Finale
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Looking at her dry heels in photo #31 makes me want to sooth them by licking them for a long time. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
America is place of great museums and every museum has spellbinding stories to tell. The National Hall of Fame Gallery of Women is no exception. Welcome to the 2022 Induction Ceremonies.
It's a whole experience when people come to visit this museum. You can say that it's a form of a pilgrimage. If you go through the list of names of women who've been inducted, you have gone back in time. The whole thing creates a state of mind that makes you appreciate that you're in a place where my photography journey began, where history resides. The National Hall of Fame Gallery of Women is an educational institution dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the historical development of my work and its impact on our culture by collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting its collections for the general audience as well as honoring those women who have given us the most lasting impressions in our minds.
The Hall of Fame's mission is to preserve the history of the women I've met and have gotten to know, honor excellence within their grace, and make a connection between the generations of people who enjoy my style of photography and overall presentation.
This really is the spiritual home of foot fetish photography that features the normal everyday women and I am the steward of this thread's history. This thread and this foot fetish forum have grown up together and people come to this museum to find their past.
DISTINCTIVE VELVET -- THE LEAD INDUCTEE
This induction marks the first time that someone from my Bryant Park days is going in as the headliner of a Hall of Fame class. Usually, that spot would go to someone who I took photos of in Central Park and a separate category would be dedicated to women who I met during my Bryant Park years. This year, an exception will be made because this lady is exceptional -- truly unlike just about anyone else I had a pleasure of meeting.
This may have been my first favorite shoot. I had enjoyed many other shoots before I met Distinctive Velvet, but this one stood out to be more than the others. In fact, if I had a favorite before her, I would not know or remember who that was: that was how much in first place she was over whoever was my second-favorite at the time.
The way she talked, how she used her words during a conversation would make anyone have to think very quick to out-clever her or to one-up her with some dry humor. If she senses she's being lied to, she will find a way to get you to confess without realizing that you came clean. An expert at delivering quick little funny remarks that often demonstrated a sharp, biting humor delivered in a playful manner. You can think of that conversation as me being the captain of a debate team verbal jousting against the captain of the other debate team, trying to see who can get the other to confess to something. It was all playful and flirty and in the end she admitted to me that she had met her match.
I made a promise to myself that if I were to remove her from my Number 1 spot, then what I would do is never remover her from my Top Ten list. I have taken photos of more women than what a calculator can keep up with, but Distinctive Velvet is one of the four women who will never leave my Top Ten list.
One of the best looking feet I've seen.
SHY COLOR
This happened while I was on the clock at work. I was set to meet someone on the other side of the park going from west to east (half a mile). The way traffic looked, taking the public bus would take me forever to get to my destination. I decided to walk though the park, thinking that by doing so would get me there in a shorter amount of time.
I was about two minutes away from making it to the exit of the park when someone caught my attention. Nothing like a cute girl reading or studying in Central Park. She looked too nice to pass up on and decided that talking to her would make this walk more pleasant. If a man ever wanted to approach a woman in a public park, that situation would've been ideal for you.
Loved her facial expressions throughout the shoot, as if she was amused as to what was happening to her, as if she couldn't believe it. I bet she couldn't wait to tell her girlfriends about this as it would make for a good story.
I always appreciate a nicely pedicured foot. Her soles were well cared-for. The type of feet that tells you that the upkeep and maintaining her feet are very important to her. Her feet look well enough to be ready to go for any situation. A pleasure to look at.
HEIDI ICE-SKIN
Ice skin is because of her pasty white skin. She's an incredibly cool girl who listens to a wide range of unknown music. Her toes were long like fingers and her soles were source of power that made female feet what they're supposed to be. Heidi must've challenged all of that geothermal energy into a personal hotness. And that sculpted face and glowing hair ... one is serene, the other is on fire.
SYLVIA
Beautiful work of art are the feet of Sylvia, who was 18 years old at the time the photos were taken. If you look at her feet, not one person would say that they are below average. Not one. Her feet are softly shod, a bit dirty but not smelly, small but natural, artistically ideal.
Sylvia was with someone who wore a dress that made her look as if she came from a 1950s sitcom. That girl (meaning the one with Sylvia) had an albino rat with her, crawling up her arm and walking across her shoulders. The rat looked like it stolen from a lab somewhere, but no. It was her pet. You were not going to be able to go anywhere with that and not get the attention of anyone with functioning eyes because everyone saw it. These women had to have come a good story about themselves and so I approached them.
Sylvia felt alienated from middle-class society, which she saw as dominated by materialism and repression. An advocate for non-violence and love. Public gatherings -- part music festivals, sometimes protests, often simply excuses for celebrations of life -- are an important parts of her life. She's involved in the the environmental movement. On each Earth Day, she feels it's her duty to educate listeners in the importance of environmental conservation.
Sylvia, and the other lady whose name I forget, are no longer friends. Their relationship had had come to an end over some disagreement or heated argument. Nevertheless, Sylvia continues to live, and live freely and happily.
LESICA
Quite simply the woman with the dirtiest feet I've ever taken photos of, and it's not even close. There was another woman I met who walked around the park barefoot and her feet looked clean. Lesica wore velcro flat sandals that day. A combination of not washing them and probably having done some barefoot walking herself in the park before we met each other were what made her feet as dirty as they were.
Personally speaking, feet that have been coated black from walking around all day doesn't do anything for me. A little dirt doesn't bother me, though, and dirt from wearing sandals and shoes with no socks on is an absolute turn-on for me. Perhaps to those who are turned on with dirty feet, it's a different kind art. The dirt is the paint and the soles are the canvases.
Why did I take photos of her if I'm not into feet that dirty? It was something different. Her feet being as dirty as they were did make me look at them more.
She had very bad cold that day, so that was her sick look on her face. So imagine how much more jovial she would've been if I had caught her on a day where she was feeling just fine.
She was warrior for bracing through the shoot because I can see anyone else turning me down because she wasn't feeling well. Lesica was a class act about the whole thing and she enjoyed the shoot every second of the way.
Even though that was a great way for me to enjoy my lunch break from work, the downside to that was that I became sick myself from having her cold pass on to me. Having a sore throat for a few days was no fun. The upside was being glad to have gotten to know that woman, which made for an incredible shoot I enjoyed. Lesica was a classic shoot for me.
LIVE WIRE!
I like to think of this her as a metahuman who's gentle and electrokinetic at the same time. State of mind, with no regret of being her own person. One who doesn't strive to be a clone of everyone else. A woman with her own mind set, not willing to change a belief because of anyone but herself.
She did not understand why anyone would have a foot fetish. It seemed a bit odd to her. But as the shoot went on, and she saw how I conducted myself throughout the shoot, combined with how considerate I was of her when I approached her, was when she started to realized that the reputation foot fetishists have is largely undeserved. It was unbelievable to her how she was able to be talked into doing the shoot, and how she was able to have her views and perceptions about the whole fetish aspect changed.
I showed her the photos after the shoot was over and she was amazed as to how incredible I made her look in a foot fetish shoot. She had an entirely new perspective on things and moment in her life had put a smile on her face.
MINÉ FASHION-SHADES
She looked fashionable and cool. The sunglasses, her hairstyle, her clothes, her footwear ... it was all working for her and I thought she would look great for a shoot.
What I remembered most about this shoot was the fact that our conversation turned into a therapy session of sorts for her. This has happened to me quite a few times when I shoot these women, and it was especially the case here with Miné. At first the conversation seemed pretty normal. In the middle of the shoot, I guess she felt comfortable enough to start telling me about a problem she was facing in her life. The reason she went to the park that afternoon was to clear her mind and think about what her next moves were going to be and she couldn't come up with an answer on her own. She needed my help.
What started out as a light conversation turned into a problem-solving session. She described her situation, and her feelings about it, and then I used what I knew to assist her in trying to resolve that problem so she could move closer to having the life she wished to have, all the while I kept shooting more photos of her, which in turn made her feel more free to discuss her issues with me, that this was going to be conversation about something serious without feeling trapped.
Something about me shooting the photos as we talked invited her to share what had been going on in her life during the few days that lead up to this impromtu shoot, what was on her mind, what was bothering her. Miné spoke openly with me. I listened and took mental notes. She was never criticized, interrupted or judged as she spoke. This was a special, unique conversation in which she could say exactly what she felt -- total honesty -- without worrying that she was going to hurt anyone's feelings or be penalized in any way. Anything she wanted -- or needed -- to say was OK.
This was a one-time conversation, a temporary source of support during what was a pivotal time in her life.
After the shoot was over, we continued talking for a bit. When she felt that she was in a much better state of mind and that her solutions had clarity to them, we went back to talking about fun things. She thanked me immensely for the help I had given her. She was never going to forget this moment.
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NATHALIE
Whenever I go to the park, I hope to find someone who has feet just like hers. Those shoots make my entire day and I have no reason to shoot anyone else for the rest of the day because I was given the time I needed to admire and truly appreciate what a marvel Nathalie's feet were. If her feet are not in my personal Top Ten list for the best looking feet I've ever photographed, then they're not far from it. Her toes, I couldn't ask more much better because they're not that many more sets of toes I feel look better than hers. As a matter of fact, something was wrong with my eyes during the shoot because I could not take them off her feet.
Nathalie is one of the most beautiful ladies I've met and the weather was perfect that day.
PEPPERMINT WHITE
In school she was just average; not too popular, not completely unpopular. She had a pretty close group of friends that more than made up for it.
Peppermint White is a nerdy girl enjoys spending time alone. Amazingly, she rarely ever feels lonely. As someone with a quiet personality, she finds comfort in minimal activities, including doing absolutely nothing. People feel that her introversion makes her an unexciting personality. However, Peppermint's idea of fun differs from the average woman I shot. She finds excitement in little things, and sometimes, this could happen in her mind. She tends to observe more than she acts, which might pass the impression that she rarely has fun, which isn't the case.
I made her feel very good about herself during the shoot. She enjoyed it, getting the attention from me, having conversations about meaningful and impactful things. It was all rewarding to her. She learned something about herself as a result of the photoshoot. She never told me what that was except to say that it was something "very positive."
THE ITALIAN WINE
An older Italian woman with amazing feet. I was very impressed.
KATHERINE KATE She is one of the four tallest women I've photographed. If I remember correctly, she was sitting on the grass when I first saw her and it wasn't until the shoot was over when I got to see how tall she truly was. She stood 6'3'' and had size twelve feet. Words describing her feet.
Mesmerizing. Powerful. Larger than life. Juicy. Riveting. Ample. Succulent. Full of content. Fucking Hot. Simply captivating.
As for the lady herself, Katherine is all of the above. Something I have wanted very much for a long time finally came to be with my time with Katherine Kate.
SUNKISS
This was a shoot that almost never happened. I was about to approach another woman who had some pretty nice feet. Right before I did, I caught Sunkiss out of the corner of my eye and I stopped what I was doing to assess the situation. I made up my mind and approached Sunkiss, and I'm glad I did because this was one of my favorite shoots I've ever done.
This is the type of shoot amateur foot photgraphers dream of: with a woman who's self assured, has sex appeal, sunbathing, the sun felt just right, on an early Saturday evening. The only thing I regretted about this shoot was not having sunscreen on me because with that woman ... plus the sun, I was under two hot things at the same time.
There was quite a bit of flirting between us during the shoot and fun. She told me towards the end of the shoot that she was going to tell her girlfriends that she "met a guy in Central Park" or something along those lines. That was her way of telling me that she was into me. Something about that felt so good for the two of us.
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THE LEGACY GIRLS This category for the Hall of Fame is called the "Legacy" wing. Inductees in this category are the from earliest era of my Bryant Park days.
THE FINNISHING CROSS
Very soft feet. A good listener. Her mind and thoughts differ from people around her. She doesn't like to argue or shout rather value her relation over those silly arguments. Loves to live in solitude and enjoys silence. She has the type of soles that are the shape of what I like to see from a woman's soles. One of those women who I think has toenails that look better naturally than with nail polish.
THE BOOKWORM
This lady loves to read. She'd rather spend Friday nights on the couch with a book than out at a party. She became a bookworm from the moment she first learn to read. She grew into her love of books and reading after encountering a particularly wonderful book (I forget which one it was).
Different types of books take different amounts of time for her to read. For example, she might burn through the latest novel to hit the shelves but spend much longer on a 19th-century tome. Likewise, she might read at a different pace if she's working her way through a non-fiction book on a topic she doesn't know much about compared to the amount of time she would spend on a graphic novel.
She allows herself time to enjoy the process of reading, and sometimes that means giving herself time to think and wonder about what she just read. To allow her mind to open, to reflect, to marvel.
I would say that her feet were quite smelly and she warned me about that just as she was about to remove her boots that came up almost to her knees. That foot scent coming from someone as intelligent as that woman is, it was quite invigorating.
ANASTASIA
The Russian Beauty. A very kind lady who is a huge hockey fan. Cute small feet. Loves to go out to exclusive night clubs and upscale lounges.
SPRING FOX
She was a reminder that seeing beautiful feet right in front of you feels fulfilling. When an wonderful woman possesses feet that holds that kind of shape, is healthy, and is what you've set out to find, this becomes a hobby unlike anything else. It seemed as if doing this shoot for me was completely fine for her being that she and a group of others conducted a survey that centered around different types of sexual activities. Her attitude was that it was completely normal for someone to have a foot fetish and that being a part of the shoot would be a fun thing to talk about with her friends when she returns to her home in Tennessee.
That photo in the middle I feel is one of the better ones I've taken in my entire time doing this.
NEIGHBORLY FAVOR
She's half-Chinese/half-White. She recognized me from somewhere but couldn't remember where she'd seem me before. That question kept eating at her during the shoot. I didn't recall ever seeing her from anywhere and so I thought nothing of it. Then it suddenly popped in her mind.
After asking me some questions, it was determined that we live in the same neighborhood. Just mere blocks from each other as a matter of fact. We talked about all of the good restaurants and other parts of the neighborhood that made the conversation easier to have.
At first she was leaning towards not wanting to do the shoot. She really stood there and thought for a few minutes about whether she should go through with it. I had to ease talk her into it as it was one of those moments for me where sales pitch skills were put to the test.
I was so glad she decided to go through with it because she had a nice conversation out of it and because I got to see a pair of feet that turned out to be a lot better than I had imagined it to be. I mean I knew they would look good, but her feet turned out to be better than that.
Feet that look like hers deserves to have a place in the National Gallery Hall of Fame of Women.
PediaNurse
A pediatrician from Sweden with feet so hot that my heart almost pumped its way through my chest, literally. I remembered walking when I saw her sitting down with her feet propped up on a neighboring chair, soles in plain view of the world, and I was the only one who saw them. It happened all of a sudden, seeing her soles beautifully on display the way they were. I stopped dead on my tracks and had to take a deep breath to calm my heart rate. There were a couple of times that stood out to me in which I was walking by, I come across a woman sitting down, soles prominently visible, and me having to take a minute to myself to get my heart to stop beating so fast because of the incredible view of her soles, and she was one of those two ladies.
I had to think very carefully to how I was going to present my words to her because I really did not want to screw this up. When she said yes, it was the relief I needed. A great shoot that focused on what great feet are supposed to look like.
WebMD
Extremely well read and passionate about the career she was pursuing in the medical field. Very introverted.
Do you remember that girl in elementary school who sat on the first row of seats in your class? The one who wore glasses? She was the one who was on the edge of her seat when a teacher asks the class a question. Remember? Yeah, that's her.
She is the quintessential geeky girl who's into geeky things. WebMD wear the title with pride, simply because she knows there's so few of them and she want to show other ladies like her that it's OK to be a pro with a brain.
Speaking of brains, she wanted to use hers to pick mine to because she wanted to know how it was I became attracted to feet in the first place. It was a pretty fun conversation as we talked about different things. Her feet showed that brainy women are a hidden gem.
-- And that concludes this year's class. Congratulations to these ladies! They are the Class of 2022, and they will through the minds of all in immortality. These women of yesterday are now the Women of Forever.
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NATURAL ADVICE
For people who want to know how it is I've become successful in getting so many women to remove their shoes and socks for me, I'm going to give you the playbook in what plays a part to my success. How you dress goes a long way. I need you to dress well when you go out and do this. You better look good when you approach these ladies because ...
IT MATTERS That's because so much of what you wear will change how these women hear what you have say. The Halo Effect is powerful. If you look sloppy, everything you say will be perceived through a negative light. An example would be a sharp dressed guy, nicely tailored suit, who gets out of his luxury car and the two of you go to get coffee somewhere. He tells you about the next greatest market shift that's happening in our economy. You'll be listening and paying attention.
Now let's suppose that it's some guy who hasn't had a job in many years, who has lived in his 1994 Civic in all that time. He gets out of his car and you guys are in a coffee shop. If he tells you about a great market opportunity, now it's a pyramid scheme. With the first guy, you're thinking he's about to give you some knowledge that could change the course of your life for the better. With the second guy, you think he's about to scam you.
The Halo Effect happens in every aspect of your life, and it definitely plays a part when you're out there meeting these women. The clothing you wear will affect how people perceive what you're saying and it'll determine whether they'll listen to you or mock you.
SHE WOULDN'T MIND BEING IN YOUR PRESENCE When you wear good clothing, you set the tone when you walk up to these women. It's pleasant to be around attractive people and you know that. When you like something, you want to be around that something. What I love about that is that you can affect that through every sense, especially through how you smell, which is why I love fragrances because it's the easiest way to change their perception of you. If you have a powerful fragrance, and you combine that with how you present yourself, women will want to put their hands on you.
IT'S A SIGN OF RESPECT It's a sign of respect for you (self-respect) because it shows that you care about yourself, and it's a sign of respect to her because it shows that you want to be there. Think of it this way: if a woman shows up to your date looking as if she hadn't showered in days, no makeup, her hair is not done, it's a sign of disrespect and you're not going to want to pay for a dinner and drink for someone who didn't put in the effort to show up. The same thing applies here when you walk up to these ladies because the amount of effort you put on to your appearance is a sign to her that you want to put respect on her name.
IT'S THE FASTEST WAY TO BEECOME ATTRACTIVE You can't change your genetics. I mean, sure, you can get plastic surgery, but that's expensive, it's painful and it'll take a long time for the healing process to complete. So the best thing to do to morph your appearance is your clothing. You can mold the perception of how you look depending on the fit of your clothing and it's the fastest way to become more attractive, which leads me to the next thing which is ...
IT AFFECTS HOW YOU THINK The exterior affects your interior. When the self-perception goes up, it ends up performing in the real world, which is insane, which is why you need to dress well when you do this. The way you dress is a direct correlation to your maturity level. For example ...
THROW OUT THE GRAPHIC TEE'S I'm not talking about the band tees and other nice ones. Instead, I'm talking about the goofy ones. I'm talking about the ones with the slogans you think are hilarious. I'm talking about the superhero tees you wore since you were in high school and you're still wearing to this day. Cut, them, out.
You just need basics. As a man, it's really not that difficult or expensive. You don't need to get designer clothes, expensive clothes, you don't need to be flamboyant. You don't even need to learn what colors are in season. Stick to solid basics such as whites, blacks, greys, blues that fit right and you're already winning.
LEARN TO MATCH COLORS PROPERLY Look, you can't walk around looking like a walking street light, and I know what you're going to say: "But, National, Adam Sandler does it." Yeah, he's also worth $400 million and he's funny, so that means you need every help you can get.
Listen, I'm not saying you need to be a fashionista and study the models who walk the runways at fashion shows because that's going to be a waste of time. You don't need to do all of that work. Just keep it neutral, which is what I alluded to in my last tip: you don't need to learn what colors are in season.
Your neutral color palette: your browns, your blues, your grays, your blacks, your whites. These are easy to mix and match. Even your olives.
Listen, I can go into my wardrobe, eyes closed, in a neutral color palette, grab four pieces, throw them on, and I know I'm going to look good. That's where you need to be. You need to understand that you cannot walk around mismatched. You look like your mommy dressed you. You look like you can't take care of yourself properly. Now you just read the last two sentences and are probably thinking to yourself that I'm being blatantly cruel to you, but that's not the case. I'm just playing the role of your big brother here and letting you guys know what it is. All I'm saying is learning how to appropriately place your clothing so it's seamless so that it works together really goes a long way.
STYLE IT RIGHT Styling clothes takes time. You need to understand your body proportions, your frame, what works, what doesn't work. Whatever gives you the most confidence, that's what you go with.
PEOPLE WILL JUDGE YOU BASED ON HOW YOU DRESS Too many of you guys live in la-la land, believing we live in an amazing unicorn world where everyone is nice and doesn't judge books by their covers. Well guess what? They judge books by their covers and that's just Human Nature. Human Nature has engineered us to make micro split-second decisions on people to determine whether they are a threat, if they're smart enough, etc. That's just for human survival and that's the reality of it. I think it's ridiculous people even try to remove that. It's ingrained in every single human. And so instead of trying to remove it from eight billion people, why not learn the game and play it right? Know that they're going to judge you in a split second, okay? So wear the right clothing.
Your clothing will determine your capacity level, your maturity level, your intellectual level, your romantic level, your attractiveness level, your sex appeal. Depending on the situation, you can wear the right clothing, which can determine how you excel in that occasion. Listen, you can walk into the supermarket with a good fit because you never know who you can bump into -- probably the love of your life, and I don't want you out there looking like a bum.
WOMEN WILL NOTICE Any woman worth talking to will notice. You want to be the leader of the pack? Look the part. You want to look like the man every guy wants to be, you can do that with the clothing. So many guys have put clothing to the back burner thinking, "Oh, that's just for girls -- I don't have to worry about that stuff." It's no wonder so many guys out there look like they're in middle school because they look like a bunch 14-year-olds as grown-ass men, not realizing they're shooting themselves in the foot. Nobody's looking up to them, women are not looking their way because they don't pay attention to how they dress.
WEAR RESPECTABLE SHOES Those flip-flops, those slides, especially without socks? That's embarrassing! If you're going to wear that at the beach, then that's one thing. In the real world, though, wear respectable shoes. Wear sneakers that are appropriate for the fit. Definitely get yourself a pair of leather shoes. Definitely get yourself a pair of boots. Don't just stick to sneakers ... wear the higher-end stuff for more serious events, and I promise you it will make a difference.
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NATIONAL Q + A
This is going to be the closest thing to an informal interview with me that you guys will ever see. I'm not going to write a book, and so this is about as good as it will probably ever get and I think you're going to enjoy the hell out of it.
This is a list of questions I think you guys always wanted to ask me, but for whatever reason you wound up not asking me. Some other questions in here may be the ones I was asked before and now I'm going to bring them up again just to refresh someone's memory.
I did this concept in December of 2020. I had fun with that and so I decided to bring it back for this year's Season Finale.
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HOW DID YOUR PERSONAL STYLE OF PHOTOGRAPHY BECOME YOUR CHOICE OF EXPRESSION? When I started doing this, I didn't think about developing a particular style. I wanted to take photos of their feet just for the sake of taking them with no particular direction of how to differentiate myself from other foot photographers. After a while, after I saw that I was becoming very successful with getting women to show their feet for me, that's when I started to slow down a bit and started thinking about other angles to shoot to keep my interest in this ongoing.
I guess it wasn't until I had my shoot with Hall of Famer Cherry Coke that I realized I can really tap into a unique perspective on how people can appreciate feet in the female form. Up until that time I rarely took any photos of women's toes because I'm a soles guy.
I asked her (Cherry Coke) to put her feet flat on the chair. What she did became a eureka moment for me because she posed her toes in a way I wasn't expecting her to pose them. She just posed her feet in the way she did because that was how it came to her naturally.
I immediately fell in love with that pose because I always found pictures of toes to be boring, and the way she posed her toes gave me a reason to take pictures of toes going forward. When Cherry Coke posed her toes pointing towards each other, I knew this was a pose I had to make synonymous with my work. To this day, I have not been able to pose women's toes as well and as artful as what Cherry did on her own. The Cherry Coke pose is what I like to call it.
So that's when it started to become very important to me to develop a style of my own, to take a step back and try to see the bigger picture.
Developing my own style established my identity in this game. That's when it became important for me to establish myself here and to really take the time to enjoy this. A shoot means discovering nuances of what drives a person to admire women's feet the way I do.
Without Cherry Coke, I don't think I would've done this for as long as I have. Why is she in the Hall of Fame? That's why, for everything I just said. She started what my personal style has evolved into.
IN YOUR OPINION, WHAT MAKES A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH? HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHEN SOMETHING YOU CREATE MEETS OR EXCEEDS YOUR EXPECTATIONS? To me, a good photograph is one that no other person with a camera -- whether alive, dead, or yet to be born -- could've possibly made. If another person with a camera could've easily made the same photograph, if that person were at the same time and place as the photographer, that photo will not be interesting to me.
When I see an image that blows my mind, it's one that truly reveals the perspective of the human behind the lens. That's something I strive to do with each shoot, and I know I have the kind of creativity to produce such images. I want to take photos that'll transport the viewer away from their reality for a brief moment in time. I want to create images that awards the viewers with incomparable experiences of seeing the world though my eyes.
HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY TO SOMEONE WHO'S NOT FAMILAR WITH IT? Women's feet are beautiful. Women are beautiful. They have something valuable to offer. We want them.
I tend to style the photos so that it looks as if the women are not acknowledging the presence of me or the camera. I think if she's looking at the camera in too many photos, it takes the attention away from everything else in the photo and makes the viewer not care to concentrate on other things that makes a photograph tell a story. There's nothing wrong with the woman looking directly into the camera, but I feel that too many photos like that in a shoot makes things too fabricated or too plastic (the scene not being natural). I want the look and feel of sensing what it would've been like to experience that moment of feel natural and unscripted.
WHICH PHOTOGRAPHERS WOULD YOU LIST AS INFLUENCERS OR INSPIRATIONS? I wish I could give off a list of names but I don't remember them. Photographers I get my inspiration from take photos of nature, architecture, and photographers who take photos that explore into sexual fetishes other than feet. I get my inspiration from looking through photos of Central Park that were taken in the 1800s.
Inspiration also comes from the music I listen to. When my favorite band comes out with a new album, I notice how some aspects of their music stays the same while other aspects change. When they come out with a new album, that's my reminder that it's time for me to incorporate something new, to change something up when it comes to how I take photos and how I present it to the readers in here. The inspiration comes in the form of wanting to do something new and not stay the same. In other words, if the viewer looks at photos taken recently and is not able to discern the difference(s) between those photos and the ones taken years ago, then his creativity is stuck.
Inspiration comes from seeing things from outside the foot fetish bubble in order to expand my vision or creativity, to see what they see and finding ways to incorporate those into my work while putting my own spin into it.
OF THE WOMEN YOU PHOTOGRAPHED, HAS THERE BEEN SOMEONE WHO HAS REALLY SURPRISED YOU? IN OTHER WORDS, WHO WAS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT YOU EXPECTED? Someone who comes to mind is Bloody Mary. What started out as something I thought would be one of those paint-by-numbers shoot, it wound up being one of the most memorable shoots I will ever have in my life. After the shoot was over, I asked myself, "That was fuckin' insane, right?" It was hot chemistry. It's the magic that happens when two strangers meet.
Another one who comes to mind is a lady who I have not shown yet. Completely different from what I expected to the point that she is in my Top Five list of the Greatest of All Time. Not Top Ten, but Top FIVE!
I won't go into more details so I'll leave it there for now. That was a shoot for the ages.
WHAT ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT BESIDES DOING WHAT YOU DO IN CENTRAL PARK? WHAT DO YOU DO IN YOUR FREE TIME? Exercise, playing backgammon, honing my arts and skills of preparing and serving mixed drinks. Time flies and I'll have a thousand-dollar liquor cabinet before I know it, impressing people when they come to visit me.
WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR MOST MEMORABLE SHOOT AND WHY? The shoot I referenced a few minutes ago. The one I have not shown yet. When it comes time for me to show it, I will explain in detail why that was my most memorable shoot. As for the ones I have shown, my most memorable shoot was Dalhous (pictured below). To this day, she is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life.
DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR VERY FIRST SHOOT? Yes. It was in Bryant Park on a Sunday night. I don't remember the month, though, but it was in 2012.
Before I started asking women for permission to take photos of their feet, I was one of those guys who would take candid pictures of their feet. I was friendly with a security guard who worked at the park. He came up to me one day and had a talk with me. He warned me about the kind of trouble I could get into if I'd continue going about my business in such manner. He went on to tell me that I either be more discreet about taking the candid photos (because apparently I wasn't as discreet as I thought I was because at least one complaint was made about me) or that I need to get the women's permission to do this. He basically said that by doing it that way (meaning the latter option), I could take all the photos I wanted and still not get in trouble.
About a month later (after not having gone to the park since that conversation with the security guard), I returned to the park and decided to give this asking-for-permission thing a try. I saw a Chinese lady in her 30s doing some paperwork. Her feet were already out of her shoes as she had her bare feet rested on the chair next to the one she sat on. She had glasses on and looked really busy and it didn't appear as though she was going to finish up anytime soon.
I could not figure out what to tell her. But I wanted to take photos of her feet so badly that I had to say something to her. I don't remember what words came out of my mouth, but she had no problem with it and allowed me to shoot away. After the shoot, she allowed me to rub and massage her feet for quite some time. There was hardly anyone around as it was getting dark.
Had it not been for the fact that she allowed me to touch her feet for as long as she had allowed me to touch her feet, I would not have developed the confidence I needed to convince myself that asking women for their permission to take photos of them is okay.
I started my "career" at this with the first four women I asked saying yes to me. It was so easy getting them to do this. The first time I was denied access to a woman's feet for photos, it was on my fifth approach. But by that time, I had developed enough confidence to realize the rejection didn't sting me and wasn't going to sting me moving forward. With my first rejection, it sucked because she was very cute. But at the same time, I was glad to get that experience out of the way because rejection was going to be inevitable and because it gave me a chance to learn something from it to improve myself for future interactions with women.
Where are the photos of my first shoot? I deleted them because ... I don't know why now that I think about it.
SPEAKING OF GETTING REJECTED BY WOMEN, HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THAT? I look at it as being similar to someone who's dependent on chemicals. Many substance users are chasing the original high, the feeling they had the first time they used the drug. In a similar way, I want to recreate the feeling of my first shoot. I view the women turning me down as getting myself closer to finding the women who wouldn't mind showing their feet to me and the high that comes with those instances. Therefore, in a sense, both the women being absolutely cool with the idea of participating in an impromtu shoot, and the women turning me down, reinforces my wanting to find more women to shoot. Every possible outcome from me doing this encourages more approaches.
HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU SPEND TAKING PHOTOS DURING THE SHOOTS? Forty minutes on average for my Central Park photos. Some shoots were longer than that while others were shorter. Some shoots I take around 125 photos while other shoots allowed me the time to take around 350 photos. The most number of photos I took during a shoot was just over 700 (seven hundred) with Anna Softinova while the shortest session I had was with Hall of Famer Jewel Spider, about twelve shots (both women shown just below, Jewel Spider with the glasses on the left, Anna Softinova with the blonde hair is pictured on the right). All the while taking photos of their feet for free. They saw the fun in it and thought Why not?
WE KNOW THAT EVERY PHOTOGRAPHER HAS GOOD SHOOTS AND BAD SHOOTS, BUT WHEN ARE YOU MOST SATISFIED WITH A SHOOT? When I'm given the time to explore new ideas ... when I'm given enough time with a woman to bend the rules a bit to allow my creativity to produce something different.
I'm satisfied with a shoot when I feel my photos stand out and are memorable. The images have to say something, and they have to be said as clearly and boldly as possible. I'm satisfied when a shoot has photos that show people something interesting in an interesting and/or memorable way.
I feel satisfied when I produce images that does not make people say, "I've seen that before, who cares?" Of course a common subject (in this case, women's feet) shown differently can be interesting, which is something I strive to do. But the trap someone can fall into is to try to imitate a style or a famous image they've seen before. Copies never excite or stand out unless they do something novel; you have to drill your own hole, which goes back to what I said about bending the rules a bit so that my creativity is given the leeway to produce something different. When I feel those criteria are met, that's when I'm satisfied.
HOW DO YOU DIRECT YOUR LADIES? WHAT DO YOU SAY? WHAT IS YOUR PROCESS IN GETTING WHAT YOU WANT FROM THE WOMEN WHO POSE FOR YOU? I take some time to engage in a conversation with them during the shoot that starts with some small talk: I ask questions about who they are, see if they have a sense of humor, and I show them what I would like for them to do and why they were chosen. A few compliments gets things off to a good start. I make them feel special; they all need validation.
This is like a dance. I lead, they follow. The woman who poses for me is my partner for the day. She is my canvas, the physical expression of my creativity.
DO YOU GET AROUSED DURING THE SHOOTS? It has happened numerous times but I can keep that under control. But some people may be surprised to learn that it doesn't happen as often as they think it does. If I were to give you the number of times I got aroused during a shoot in terms of percentage, you would not believe how low that number is. The vast majority of times, I don't get aroused.
I'm too busy paying attention to positioning and angles far too often to get turned on by the moment. When you have a starvation mentality about things such as women's feet -- that is, when you think of that thing as rare and exotic -- it can be hard to imagine seeing an attractive pair of naked feet in front of you without going a bit crazy. When women taking their shoes off for you is something that is a common part of your life, you can see it without losing your mind.
HAVE YOU EVER HAD SEX WITH ONE OF THE WOMEN YOU PHOTOGRAPHED? Absolutely.
HOW DO YOU GET THESE WOMEN TO REMOVE THEIR SHOES AND SOCKS FOR YOU? WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THESE WOMEN? Politely. That's the answer to the first question.
To answer the second question, there's this fallacy out there that there's this perfect pick-up line when it comes to doing this where you can just zoom right in, everything goes 100 percent right, you'll never have any problems, and you'll land the girl every time. It does not work like that. The more women you approach, the better you're going to get at this ... both because you're improving your game as you go along, and because you are coming into contact with more women who might like you.
First impressions are tied intimately to positive body language. Becoming cognizant of your gestures, expressions, and tone of voice (and making certain they're positive) will draw people to you. Using an enthusiastic tone, uncrossing your arms, maintaining eye contact, and leaning towards the person who's speaking are all forms of positive body language that high-EQ people use to draw others in. Positive body language can make all the difference in a conversation. It's true that how you say something can be more important than what you say.
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR WHEN YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR SOMEONE TO PHOTOGRAPH? It's really just about searching for someone, hoping that that someone might be awaiting me around the next corner, but I never quite know who that lady will be, and that's what I love about doing what I do in Central Park: the element of serendipity and surprise that I have little to no control over.
WHAT WAS THE FUNNIEST/STRANGEST/MOST UNUSUAL THING THAT HAPPENED DURING A SHOOT? I walked up to an Italian tourist. I asked if I could take photos of her feet and she said yes. We get to the spot where I wanted to take the photos. Three minutes in, her boyfriend shows up. She had some explaining to do. Those two were together the entire time but when I approached her, it just so happened to be at a moment when the boyfriend had already stepped away from her for whatever reason. Maybe he needed to use the restroom?
For a second there I thought he was going to get mad at me as well and was going to challenge me to a fight. But he was completely focused on his girlfriend and she had her head pointed downwards as if she was a child being scolded. The way the whole thing looked made me think that she probably forgot all about him or that she allowed me to take pictures of her not knowing that her man was going to have a problem with this. She never told me about a boyfriend and was completely indifferent about the idea of a foot shoot and so I thought nothing of it.
Thinking back on it now, considering how she reacted to me, her facial expression when her boyfriend walked in on us, and her body language after being caught suggested to me that she was completely bored with her life.
The went their way and I went my way, and that was the end of that.
ARE YOU REALLY THAT HANDSOME OF A GUY? YOU'RE SUCCESSFUL WITH WOMEN, WOMEN FIND YOU ATTRACTIVE AND SO THINGS ARE FAR EASIER FOR YOU. WHAT ABOUT US WHO WEREN'T BLESSESD WITH GOOD LOOKS, GOOD GENES AND ALL THIS OTHER STUFF? WHAT ABOUT US AVERAGE GUYS? While looks do play a part, what plays an integral role is my energy, my confidence, my self beliefs, my mindset. It's how I organize my life and my thoughts, it's my planning, it's my execution, it's everything.
I'm six feet tall. Women like tall, dark and handsome men. You hear that all the time from women. They're entitled to that opinion and it's true to some extent because a tall, dark and handsome man is very attractive. A tall, long-legged woman is beautiful to me. I love long legs and I love to see a tall woman walking by. And there's also beautiful, shorter women. Gorgeous shorter women. Beauty comes in different shapes and sizes to me. What's deeper than that is the energy from the woman. You can be a tall, dark, and a handsome douchebag walking by. She can be a tall, long-legged, well-dressed woman who's just despicable. That's the way of life, but to me I'm attracted to energy and behavior. So what I'm trying to tell you is that people have a misconception that I have it easy.
I like food. I like pizza, chicken, ribs, burgers, steaks, mashed potatoes and gravy, biscuits, Chinese food, KFC ... I like it all. But I know that if I eat too many of those things, being undisciplined about it with no balance in my life, and not incorporating nutritious foods, I'll be a blimp walking around the streets of New York and I won't be attractive. Worse than that, I'll be unhealthy.
I give myself a haircut every twelve days. I'm on top of my skincare. I'm on top of my smell-good. I'm always smelling good. I go to sleep smelling good and I wake up smelling good. I dress very well. My wardrobe is diverse: if I have to go to a black-tie event, I'll be ready. If I want to go to the batting cage, I'm ready. I can go to a mall, the park, anywhere. I can put on sneakers, I have dress shoes. I have invested in myself and I'm prepared to adjust to any environment and insert myself in any situation. That takes preparation, that takes vision, that takes confidence.
Do you know how much work a "good looking guy" goes through in order to get the results he gets? He exercises, his hair is well maintained. He pounds the water. He's not an alcoholic. I don't smoke because I don't want my outsides and insides to be negatively affected.
I plan for a long life. You want to live in the moment, but you also want to plan ahead. Defer gratification because it doesn't always have to be now. I'm learning patience every single day. If you rush into things, you're going to crash.
I could be fat, ugly, undisciplined, swollen in the face, have yellow teeth, no game or confidence, walking with my head down thinking women are terrible. I don't think women are terrible. All the women in my life are wonderful. I don't attract knuckleheads. Why? Because I'm conscious about my bullshit.
If you want to become that attractive guy, you've got to put in the work. It all starts in the your mind, then it goes to your heart, then it comes outwards so that people can feel and enjoy your presence. Focus on your energy and thoughts.
WHY DO YOU LIKE SMELLY FEET? IF SO, WHAT'S THE APPEAL THERE? I've given a much longer, much more detailed version of my answer to this question many years ago.
I'll give a much shorter version of the answer here. I am attracted to the idea of experiencing something that deviates from the image I have of women. Something that challenges that image. If I think of women as dainty, polite, clean, well mannered, and dignified, then the idea of her feet having a less-than-pleasant smell to them creates a significant discrepancy. On paper, feet that smells unattractive is off putting, repellent. This shatters my image of femininity and provides excitement for me. That's the long and short of it.
Personally speaking, if her feet smells strong enough that it'll clear the entire room, that's too much for me. I like it best when the smell can only be detected when my nose is placed between her toes. If it's a bit stronger than that to where I can smell it from three feet away, I wouldn't mind that either. To me, smelly feet tastes saltier and better.
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR? Death.
WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD, WHAT DID YOU WANTED TO BE GROWING UP? A train driver or a detective.
NAME A WOMAN. QUICK, YOU HAVE FIVE SECONDS! Christina Aguilera.
DO YOU LIKE THE NAME CHARLIE FOR A GIRL? Yeah, why not?
NAME A WORD THAT STARTS WITH THE LETTER Q? Queue.
WHEN YOU FLY IN A PLANE, DO YOU WEAR A NECK PILLOW? No.
LIST TWO PET PEEVES. People who always or misuse the word 'literally'. The word 'literally' literally means -- or can mean -- figuratively speaking, which is the literal opposite. After having just read the last sentence, which definition was I using? I was using the literal definition. But does that mean I was using the figurative definition? You see, it gets confusing! A person may not know which definition I was using, and that person would not know because I used the word in the same context, so there's nothing that separates the figurative definition to the definition that means 'actually representing', unless the context is over-exaggerated, which then begs the question: why don't you just say 'figuratively'? Now I just drove myself crazy talking about all of this! My other pet peeve is people who use "ums" and "uhs" when they speak: filler words, whether it's in between sentences or in the middle of a sentence.
DO YOU KNOW THE DEFINITION OF ATAXAPHOBIA? No. Is it a fear of doing your taxes?
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIE? Susan Slept Here.
AND FINALLY, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR DREAM COLLABORATION? Alexandra Daddario. Click Here
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NATURAL CLASSIC After I had the shoot with Our Lady of Origins (the last lady I showed), I went home to relax for a bit. I decided to return to the park that evening to see if I could manage to get someone else to pose for me.
Not even fifteen minutes after I enter the park, I saw this long-haired lady who had a crossbody fanny pack that matched the color of her buttoned-up shirt. Her black shorts and Converse brought my attention to her face again.
She walked past me, probably not paying attention to the fact I was even there. I didn't know what it was about her, but sensing from observing of her, I knew that her story was going to be different from any other woman I've photographed. Something told me she wasn't from this area.
Meet Siobhan. (If you're not sure how to pronounce that name, click here.) I've met many lovely women before, but never a Siobhan. It was a pleasure to meet her. I don't know about you, but to me that's a rare but beautiful name. Melodic to my ears.
Central Park has women from all over the world. This young lady is from Ireland and is a daughter to a father who's a farmer.
"How-ware-ya?" she asked with a little nice smile and accent, making the question sound that much more pleasant.
I told her I was doing just fine. She looked very nice to me and I thought I needed to let her know that. She liked the sound of that. When I brought the topic to feet and how I wanted to take pictures of them, she didn't think too hard about it before deciding to let me see how they looked like.
Being someone who grew up in the farm, her life is very different than a typical lady I meet. Siobhan is a very tough girl. She knows how to handle a half-grown calf across the yard. She wears steel capped boots because if a cow steps on her foot without steel caps, she would've been embarrassed to allow me to take photos of her feet. But because she's used to wearing those boots, she can kick anything with them. If she's not sure what's under that block of firewood, she kicks it over to see what it is.
She sees her father using the chainsaw, the block splitter, the angle grinder, driving a bobcat and other things a construction worker would do. Now Siobhan might decide these things look like a lot of work and that she can let someone else do them, but she will never believe that being female means she can't do them.
She watches movies, chat with friends, and grumbles about helping with the housework just like any other girl would, but hey ... that's life sometimes and you can't really hold that against her.
She painted a picture of what her life is like. "My typical day can be described in three words: fun, dangerous, hard work. (Okay, four words). It is the most difficult job you will ever love. Farmers are not in it for the money because there is usually enough to cover the bills of a modest lifestyle. It is the ability to live far from towns or cities. It is eating food you have raised. Rising early, taking the night shift of plowing or planting fields. It is sitting in your old truck talking to your neighbor whom you rarely see, only to learn his mother or father is ill."
Siobhan went on to talk about having pride when crops are good, worrying when prices are down, the stress that can occur when someone in the household goes to see their banker, the joy she gets from working with her parents, going on to say, "We put in twelve hours a day or more. We are mechanics, tire changers, veterinarians, care givers, risk takers, accountants, scientists, fertility specialists, doctors, nurses, teachers, neighbors, friends, and families."
She was in New York City because, "it's on everyone's list of things to do before they die." She talked about an experience she went through while she was in New York, something that never happened to her before. She told about the time(s) she would walk down the streets of New York City and the men would cat call her. I thought she was going to go on and say that that made her feel uncomfortable. Instead, she kind of liked it. The comments made towards her were things she considered to be more the tame side, which explained why she didn't feel disgusted by it all.
She doesn't think too much of her feet, saying, "they just get me from one place to another, so I don't quite get what the appeal is. But at the same time this is not harmful, so in that sense I'm in no position to judge."
Siobhan is a living and breathing force of purpose. She will fight a terrible battle and emerge successfully from it. "Trust me, this is not an easy job, because if it were easy then everyone would do it. Because it is very difficult, we do it, and we do it without complaint, because we are stewards of the land and good animal husbandry. We are feeding the world. What is your super power?"
SIOBHAN O'CASEY -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 8 (US), 39 (EUR), 6 (UK), 24.5cm, 9.646in
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I can describe her as someone who is lively and who behaves in an enthusiastic and cheerful way. She's spirited and energetic. And she acts a lot younger than what her age is. She lets go of her adult burdens and perceives life with childlike wonder. This woman is young at heart and rejects stereotypes about how older people are "supposed" to behave, and continues to engage in all the activities she enjoyed when she was young. She's been accused of "not acting her age." She reacts by doing what she pleases, and it pleases her to act young.
CRYSTAL SPIRITED -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 7 (US), 37.5 (EUR), 5 (UK), 24cm, 9.449in
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NATURAL CLASSIC She's from Russia, but lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She has a husband and an eight-year-old son. She was in New York for both business and leisure. The latter stems from how things are in her home life back in Atlanta.
Her marriage is, for all intents and purposes, pretty much over. The love they once had for each other is no longer there. She's at a point where she doesn't care what happens to their relationship anymore as she has no desire to get it fixed. And apparently, he doesn't either.
The marriage certificate is keeping the couple together pretty much, along with their son. Both she and her husband do not really have any attraction to each other at all (even though they did in the past). There is no love or affection between them that acts as the real glue to make their marriage solid. They sleep separately and do not really spend much time with each other anymore. They live separate lives under the same roof.
By the way, at no point did she ever emotional about it or appeared to be distraught over this. All indications are she's so glad to have practically nothing to do with the guy now. Yes, it was demoralizing for her at first. It ate away at her soul and it stripped her of her essence. But she doesn't care anymore because she feels free now. Her son she loves.
During the second half of the shoot, she became a lot more chatty. She became more comfortable around me. We connected in a fun way and it seemed as if we could talk about anything and everything. The conversation was playfully aggressive and spontaneous.
We spent an hour with each other after the shoot as we were walking around the park and we met up with each other the following night. At Bryant Park, actually. My old stomping ground. When she got out of her Uber, she ran down the half block, ran up the steps that lead into the park and gave my this huge, tight, and quite affectionate embrace. I didn't see that coming, but it felt very nice. Our time together had some surprises, it was a bit comedic with rapid, overlapping dialogue with one of us speaking before the other finishes.
Going back to the shoot. Towards the end, she asked what I wanted her to do next (in terms on how to pose her feet). "Get sexy for me," I said. She then tapped on her chin several times with her index finger, in deep thought, trying to conclude something or make an important decision. But she did so in a way that was meant to mock someone in deep thought -- one of those things where she wanted me to think she was thinking about it, but we both knew she was just having fun with it before she eventually said, "Okay, but only because I'm having so much fun with you."
I don't ask for much when I talk to these women, but they come through for me in spades.
We had to wrap up the shoot because not too far from where the photos were shot, there was a family having their picnic. The small children and their parents kept looking over at us. The look from the father's face said, if this is going where I think it's going, then you two better not get sexual here. He was right. We were starting to get a little carried away and out of decency for the children, we ended the shoot. But it was fun, though.
EXISTENCE -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 6 (US), 36.5 (EUR), 3.5 (UK), 23cm, 9.05in
ON HER FEET Nike - SB Check Solar Canvas Type - Skateboarding/Casual
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - 2022 Season Finale
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So much content. Ending 2022 in style. Thanks
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Great stuff, National! Looking forward to 2023.
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES The following are some photoshoots I either meant to show a long time ago but for some reason was not able to get back to them, or shoots I didn't think would make it to this thread for one reason or another. When is comes to the latter, the reasons for why a number of my shoots would be kept in the vault range from me not liking it: from my point of view I didn't consider them good enough to release, or these were shoots I was not able to decide on one way or another.
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This first shoot took place at a time before the release of the iPhone 5.
I don't have a story with one, unfortunately. I forgot what her backstory was. The only thing I can remember was that she was a tourist from Central America. She didn't know any English and so our entire conversation was in Spanish. I really like her feet. Not bad at all. Not bad at all.
These photos were taken during my Bryant Park days. Incredible how I still remember some of the details here, even though it's been about a decade ago when these photos were taken.
It was 10:30 on a Saturday morning. No one in the city has yet to have their lunch. In fact, they probably were about to start having their breakfast late that morning. Me? I was at the Bryant Park wasting no time looking for feet. Come to think of it, I don't think I ate breakfast that morning, so more than likely I was at the park on an empty stomach. Not that I'm complaining, though, because I was so anxious for feet.
I saw this woman doing some paper work by the lawn. She told me about her job of working behind the scenes in the theatre industry. She always wanted to be involved in theatre without being on stage. She prefers to be in the backround, doing jobs that are vital in keeping the show running smoothly and looking great. She took classes in Drama schools that taught her the ins and outs of backstage and technical work, and all of the work got her to where she was in her life at the time of the shoot.
A wardrobe supervisor was her role, in charge of the dressers and other wardrobe department staff, working with the costume designers and making sure the costumes are clean, in good repair and on the right actors and actresses at the right time in the production. There had been times when she had to cover the roles of costume designer, dresser and wardrobe person being that she worked in a small theatre.
Working in that space feels exciting to her. She talked about how live performances mean that no two shows are the same and how anything can happen. It feels intimate to her. It feels ritualistic. When she sees live theater, she's aware that she's participating in something people have been doing for thousands of years.
WHAT'S IN A NAME? I told her about how I give other women I photographed cool sounding pseudonyms when it comes time for me to finally post them. She liked the concept, trusting and appreciating that I won't use her real name under the photos of her.
HER: "Have you thought about what name you're going to give me?" ME: "I haven't yet."
After a minute of silence between us, she said "Just some Jewish girl."
ME: "What?" HER: "Yeah, just some Jewish girl. Whenever the pictures go up, you can call me just that: Just some Jewish girl. Nothing too over the top. Something simple, just like I am."
Just to rewind a little bit, it was within the first three minutes of the shoot that she mentioned she was Jewish. I don't remember the question or comment I said or asked that compelled her to reveal that part of herself to me. I didn't walk up to her with the intent of knowing what religion she was, which meant that it was also entirely possible that she divulged that information to me on her own.
As you can tell from the photos, she had some pretty dry feet. Didn't moisturized them, certainly not knowing they would become the subject of an impromtu photoshoot. The dryness of her feet was never a topic of discussion and she was not hesitant about showing her feet to me in the first place. During the shoot she was relaxed and enjoying her time there, having a good conversation about various things, completely normal. She was cool about the whole thing.
When it comes to her thoughts on men with a foot fetish, she said "Well, it's a common fetish when compared to lot of wired fetishes that you can't express in public, so I have no problem with it. I thought it was cool that you asked me for pictures. 'Why yes, you may take pictures of my feet,' I thought."
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**RE-UPLOAD**
Months ago, someone brought to my attention that the photos an iconic shoot I did many years ago disappeared from the gallerie. It must've been days before he sent me that message that I was going through that same gallerie and all the photos were there. But when I checked again, sure enough all the photos disappeared. I couldn't believe it because it wasn't going to be as simple as finding the memory card those photos came from and just posting them up again. My problem was that that card was corrupted because I didn't check all of my pockets of some lumberjack shirt I wore before tossing it into the washing machine. The photos of that shoot were in that card and I thought I'd lost everything.
It turned out that I didn't lose everything. Although I wasn't able to get all of the photos back, most of them stayed intact. Looking for those photos and then being able to make the transfer to upload them somewhere was harder than pulling someone's teeth against his will. That process took me days to complete and I wasn't sure if I was going to get them ready in time for this week. I almost gave up on this because it took that much time to get those photos working again.
What better time to show these photos again than the Season Finale? There is no better time, and so it's quite fitting that all the good stuff happens at this time of year.
The re-upload doesn't include all the pictures that I showed originally (I have almost all of the photos from this shoot stored away somewhere), but the ones I'm showing here is still more than enough to tell the story.
Enjoy this classic once more. In the interview of myself that I posted earlier this week, somewhere in there I made a mention about having four shoots that'll never leave my Top Ten. I may move them around the list from time to time, but they will never leave the top ten. That's the promise I made to myself and that's how it's going to be. Marry Faith is one of those four women (Dalhous, Distinctive Velvet, and a woman who I have yet to show are the other three). Whenever I mention someone's name in the same sentence as Dalhous, then she must be someone very special. And Marry Faith is that special.
This Hall of Fammer is an All-Time Great. The following is a retelling of the Marry Faith story.
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NATIONAL CLASSIC
This chance encounter happened early on a Sunday morning. She came to the park from Bible study class. She was reading the Bible (or some other religious scripture) at the time I saw her and made my way up to her.
By the way, she was not the first (nor the last) girl I met in all of my foot hunting adventures who went into a rhetoric about how Jesus Christ was her Lord and Savior.
Even though I'm not a religious person, I feel that if that's something she's comfortable talking about, then I'll let her speak her peace.
Actually, I don't think she classified herself as a Catholic. Instead, she told me that she was practicing something called "Unification", which explains the first name I've given her because that is another word for "unify". The last name I've given her tells us that she has faith because when one talks about religion, the word faith is not far behind it.
At no time did we argue about our differences because she was too sweet of a person to engage in an argument with. She is very, very polite, soft spoken, and very respectful. When one hears her speak, it's very hard to find a reason to raise your voice at her in anger over a huge disagreement about things that have nothing to do with God. Instead, I just simply challenged her point of views.
She grew incredibly comfortable with me as time went on during the shoot, which was great because she seemed quite hesitant about doing this at first. She became more laid back during the shoot, unbothered, in a very feel-good mood and was not in a hurry to get anywhere else anytime soon. She wanted me to take as much time as I needed during the shoot.
Another thing I liked very much about her was her overzealous inquiry to learning some unassuming, subliminal ways women can attract guys -- even those without a foot fetish -- by using their feet. I remember telling her about how men feel more comfortable around women who take their shoes off at a park. She wanted to know why that was. I told her that it was because men know that when you have your feet in that position (resting her feet on a neighboring chair), they know that she is not going anywhere, that she is going to stay put, enjoying the weather, enjoying the conversation, enjoying the drinks. I told her that that kind of message tells men that the woman is quite comfortable and relaxed where she is.
She opened her eyes in amazement because she never saw things quite that way before. Then she said something that told me that she truly understood what I was talking about. She said, "So men like to see me with my feet up on the chair because it lets them know that I have let my guard down, making me more approachable?"
"YES!!!," I said, "In a nutshell." You have no idea how excited I was to hear that. I couldn't believe it because she explained it better than I did. So precious and innocent, yet so eager to learn something new.
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One part during the shoot that I won't forget is the time when her neighbor just happened to walk by the photoshoot. She doesn't live anywhere near the park, yet it was one of those reminders as to how small the world can be when you run into someone you never expected to see in a certain location. Her neighbor was a guy who was pushing his baby stroller.
He wanted to know what was going on. She told him that I was simply taking pictures of her feet and that there was really nothing to it. He had that look on his face as if to say, "Um ... okay?" He then walked away with his baby. The whole thing was pretty funny because that left him feeling more confused than he was before. He seemed like a nice guy, though, someone who's dedicated on being the best father he can possibly be for his child.
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For the record, for those who are interested, her feet were a bit smelly. When I first approached her, her feet were already out of her shoes. When I started shooting away, I was able to detect a smell that came from her feet that was not strong, but enough to pick up its scent if you're standing close enough to her. I loved it!
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If I made a list of words I can use to describe her, they will be ...
In case anyone is interested, here's the book she was reading: Click Here The chapter she was reading was 'The Way of Restoration'.
Also, some of the landscape photos (the ones that are meant to show as horizontal) appear as portrait (vertical) for whatever reason. Not all of them, but a number of them do. Those photos appear wonky when you click on it to enlarge the images. In that case, right click on it and select 'Open Image in New Tab' to view it the way it's supposed to be viewed.
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NATURAL CLASSIC Luna Kuechler (last name is pronounced as kesh-la) is from Berlin, Germany.
In the middle of the shoot, we found ourselves involved in a good-natured debate about something. We didn't see eye to eye on a topic, a disagreement of sorts, and we were going to talk it out to see where we stood. Then things got a little testy and it was looking as if our conversation was going to become argumentative. The funniest thing was when there were certain times when I sensed the anger simmering from within her, I would interrupt her to tell her to pose this was or that way, to switch her foot pose from this to that, and she would do exactly was directed of her. When she switched her poses, she would be quite polite, helpful, even sweet about it. She was a completely different person it seemed, as if what we were in the middle of fighting about never happened. After the new pose was set, it was right back to our regularly scheduled program where we picked up from where we left off, expressing our diverging viewpoints.
This all started because she asked me a question -- an innocent question. And the innocent answer I gave didn't sit too well with her. After a while, I switched to being calm and addressing her concern in a compassionate and understanding manner, which gave her no other reasonable choice than to calm herself down and listen to what I had to say. She was taken aback and surprised by my responses that was able to do was smile and say that she loved it that I didn't back down. She then apologized to me. From there, it was a smooth sailing through the end of the shoot.
If that woman and I were to become a couple, we would be in the type of relationship where our feelings for each other would change suddenly and often from love to hate, hate to love, then from love to our bloods boiling, and so on and so forth. If I were to shove her off a cliff, I will rush down to catch her before she falls. If she were to argue with me in one instance, she would also come to my defense a minute later if someone else were to crack a joke about me.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - 2022 Season Finale
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NATURAL CLASSIC
Going through these photos made me realize that this one of the better shoots I've done.
It was 72 degrees (22 Celsius) in Central Park that day, pretty deep into the autumn season, way above normal for that time of year in New York. It was a nice day where you can hear the leaves. The dominant earthy smells of fall were largely present in the park from the plants hunkering down for the winter. The fallen leaves were decaying and their sugars and organic compounds in the leaf break down created that classic musky-sweet smell of a leaf pile.
Throughout my days, I've taken photos of women's feet who were teachers. Another one will be added to that list with the introduction of the lady we have here, who teaches kindergarten at a school in California. She was in New York with her husband who was on a business trip. He wanted her to join him on the trip and she jumped on the opportunity to get away from her hometown to visit New York.
I don't remember how the approach went and I don't have a recollection as to where in the park these photos were taken, but I'm glad I took them.
"As a kindergarten teacher I want to be someone they admire, learn from, and love. I really enjoy it. It feels like critical work to me and it feels like I really help our world. There is no better job really. At the end of the year I'm often so emotional saying goodbye - but I can reflect on all the amazing progress we've had."
She's taught to be patient with kids, especially in her case being that she works with little ages. At first she goes a bit crazy and not being able to handle them but then everything turns to be more flexible and professional.
I didn't see her as someone who could teach a bunch of teenagers in high school because she's too sweet and polite and those kids would misbehave more than the five or six year olds who run and shout all over the classroom. One thing she does worry about is, "having students split their heads open in the middle of class because everything around them is an occupational hazard," she said.
I can't say enough about how much I enjoyed this shoot. The camera and I were witnesses to how nice her feet were.
HER VIEWS ON HER OWN FEET "I love my feet. I've seen it all just as I'm sure you have, and I really think I lucked out with nice feet (thanks, mom genes!) This shoot, though, made me see my feet in ways that I hadn't noticed before. I feet like all the things a podiatrist would see, I can see clear as day now that we're having this photo session."
THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 8 (US), 38 (EUR), 5 (UK), 25cm, 9.84in
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Very true. You can include women letting you take pictures of their feet in this category.
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NATURAL CLASSIC
She's one of those who removes her shoes without untying her laces; the bottom of her shoe has a sticker that says "New York" on it. I thought that was pretty neat. A true New Yorker.
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I saw her walking west and from the turn she took on a certain walking path, there was a almost a 100 percent change that she was going to leave the park in less than a minute. I needed to stop her, give her my attention and she if she was okay with letting me take pictures of her feet.
As it turned out, I was right in thinking she was just about to leave the park because she was going to stop into the supermarket to grab herself enough food and beverages to get herself through the weekend. The first and last things she mentioned on her list of things she was going to buy was some Pop-Tarts -- not because she forgot she mentioned it the first time, but I could tell from how she said it, she mentioned it a second it more to emphasize just how much she loves these toaster pastries. I teased her when I asked if she was still in junior high school for relying on that as her go-to snack.
I remember her giving me some reason as to why she didn't want to do it. When I first told her I wanted to take pictures of her feet, I could tell from reaction that she couldn't believe what she just heard. She asked if I was drunk. Well, I did have a glass of wine before I got to the park, but I was far from drunk. Besides, I don't need liquor or drugs to let a woman know what it is I want from her, and that's precisely what I told her. She nodded her head in acknowledgement to what I just said.
HER: "So you want pictures of my feet? Just like that?" ME: "That's right."
HER: "Now this is truly a first. I guess I have to admire how straightforwardly honest you are about your desires of wanting to see my feet, but I don't know. I don't have great feet. Like, are you sure you want to see my feet?"
ME: "Do you know you look so cute when you say that?" HER: "No I don't, you're just saying that." ME: "See, there it goes again." HER: (Blushing a bit, then adjusts her glasses) "Really, like you actually think that? You look like the type of guy who can get any girl in the park. Why me, though? I'm not what you would call conventionally pretty."
ME: "Don't think so little of yourself. Something about you caught my attention. If you're a compassionate and fun individual, then there's no reason not to show you some love. Your worth is not summarily dependent on your aesthetics, and that's why I'm here: to see if there's more to you than meets the eye."
HER: "I gotta say, you're real good, and I think it's working on me. And I also appreciate your honesty and sincerity here. And you're not giving up on me even though I was a bit apprehensive about showing, out of all conceivable things, my feet. Resssspect!"
A moment later she admitted to not having a problem with her cute status, describing herself as "just an awkward woman who is somewhat-kinda cool, who also loves board games and who is really open to conversations with people." I loved that answer. She has the quintessential girl-next-door vibe. We have a woman here who is very down-to-earth, incredibly relatable, and ... who does appear to be attainable. She went on to say about herself, "Yeah, not too pretty, not too ugly, just kind of cute and in the middle, you know?" She carries the type of vibe that, if you got lucky, she could move in right next door to you.
During the shoot, she told me she works at Target. For those outside of the U.S., if you don't know what Target is, think of it as a superstore of sorts. It's a relatively inexpensive place to buy things. They have their own supermarket in there, they sell clothes, they have games for kids and adults, they sell electronic as well. It's a department store and it's one of the most popular places to go to buy things. Just about anything you would like to buy, they have it.
Upon hearing that she works at Target, I decided to take that moment to engage in a little bit of playful roleplaying with her, acting out a scene in which I played the part of the person interviewing her for her spot at the store, which she was all willing or eager to do, which added more points to her coolness factor in my book. She was getting more settled in her role during the shoot.
ME: "Your only job is to stock shelves. I don't need you to do data entry. I don't need you to do accounting. I don't need you to do anything but put an apron on, smile, be friendly, greet customers, and make sure my merchandise and products are shelved."
HER:(Being playful flirtatious with me) "You mean all I gotta do is one thing?"
ME:(Being playfully flirtatious back to her) "All you gotta do is one thing." (Then back to my normal self) "Stock the shelves and fold those sweatshirts. Customers can get sloppy at times ... and careless, and selfish ... and they're going to leave things on the floor and all of that. Just pick them up and make them look neat so that when I walk the aisles, I want to make sure everything looks presentable because how something is presented is representative of me. I'm the GM, I run this, and so you represent me. And if you let me rub your feet from time to time, then I may very well give you many, many more paid days off than what I would normally give other employees there."
HER: "I mean, wow -- this is the best interview I've ever been on. Where do I sign my name?"
She was great sport about it and I was impressed with how ok she was play along with me like that.
She's an awesome girl because it means there will always be something to talk about with her. There are many things she's familiar with and she can offer you useful feedback on pretty much anything! Also, getting a gift for her is a breeze! Since she likes many different things, you won't have a problem picking out something she'll like!
She isn't high maintenance. She isn't the type who always has time to obsess over her appearance. Yes, she looks pretty cute. But being in a T-shirt and jeans never bothered her. She has other things she like to obsess over, such as doing some insane DIY project she saw on YouTube or catching up with what's going on in her book club.
HER FEET "Me? I used to hate my feet. I wanted them to be smaller. But since I adore everything else about myself, I slowly began changing the way I saw my feet and how I think of them. I wouldn't change a thing about them now. In fact, seeing that you like my feet so much, now I really won't change a thing about them."
"What helps you," she's talking to me now, "is that you don't look like some goober sitting in his dirty tighty whities with like, digusting Dorito dust on his fingers. But seeing how you're so respectful about the whole thing, this isn't weird at all."
HER SNEAKERS "I'm kinda lazy, you know? They say dress for the job you want, not the one you have, but ugh(!), that sounds like a lot of work. Besides, I like them. They don't look that bad, right?"
SHE LOVES BOARD GAMES "Yes, I love board games! Come on over someday and let's have fun with some board games."
It sounded as if she only half joking when she said that. But when asked if she was serious about that ('cause I didn't want to get my hopes up in case she wasn't serious about it), she said, "I was really nervous about asking you, but yeah: If you like to hang around a little, enjoy some craft beer, you know? ... a little brewsky-dewsky," which was her fun and little way of calling a beer a beer (also, she elongated the two syllables of "dewsky" as her way of tempting me to join her for a drink), ... "listen to some records, play some board games, you know?"
She continued, "I hope you don't like, think I'ma lush or anything. I just want us like, to be a little relaxed, you know? But not before I finish my tea. Sometimes I just have this overwhelming need to finish my tea before I can drink the other stuff."
When asked a question, she said, "Oh, um, by 'lush' I mean like, somebody who's like, dependent on alcohol. Someone who needs to have alcohol all the time. Which is kind of a rude way of saying that, so I apologize if I offended you. I just, um, (then switching to baby talk, embracing her inner child for comfort and fun) I don't want you to judge me."
Then I said something (something about me not being offended by anything and reminded her of how I'm not the judgmental type) which made her reply with, "Oh, okay!" She lit up when she said that. I could tell the weight had been lifted off her shoulders. "So I'm good, right? You're not going to judge me for that. I just, um, ... come from a strict upbringing where it's like, 'What are you doing? What are you doing with that? Are you being good? You're not being good. It's nice to have some freedom for a change, you know?"
Being that she's an avid board game collector, she rattled off a list of some of the board games she has. When she was done, there was a long pause. She realized something to herself, and then said to me and to herself at the same time (all the while having fun with making fun of her herself), "I'm such a fuckin' dork!" She had a nice laugh about it and I liked how she was able to be lighthearted about it all.
I had a lot fun with this shoot. It was one of those days where it wasn't too hot outside, so it was comfortable. Spending that afternoon with her on a day like that? That's all one can ask for.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - 2022 Season Finale
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NATURAL CLASSIC When I'm in the park, it would take me hours sometimes before I spot someone who I feel would exemplify the right look for what I'm looking for as part of the photoshoot. That was the case on the day these photos were taken. Something about her -- a particular quality, trait, a characteristic perhaps, something that was hard to define, made her especially attractive. Something that left an impression on me that it was hard to concentrate on anything else that was going on in Central Park. I mean look at her! How could she not be such a loved person?
Have any of you been to Copenhagen before? I ask 'cause that's where she's from. A lovely Danish woman. Expressive eyes, healthy blush on her cheeks, and captivating legs and feet that will catch the eye of anyone in here. Blond hair and fair skin ... things that make life beautiful.
Foreigners have many stereotypes about Danish beautiful women, starting from imagining them as Vikings wives and ending with stereotypes of beautiful nude Danish women everywhere. I, for one, find it fun and entertaining to buy into those stereotypes. While she's not the wife of an actual Viking, and while she didn't go nude in Central Park, I will say, however, that this shoot was simply a wonderful experience. One of the better ones I ever did.
HER FEET FRAGRANCE Something to note here: her feet were quite sweaty. A while back I showed photos of someone who had sweaty socks to the point where you could see it on the socks before she took them off. I made some comment about her having the second-sweatiest feet I've photographed. At the time I made that statement, I had forgotten about this woman, meaning the one who I'm about to show. That woman is going have to take a back seat to this one because her feet produced a serious amount of sweat and I'm so glad I was able to find a real good one for you guys. You will be able to see the sweaty moist through her socks, which resulted in her feet being saturated in it. From the image below, it'll help highlight what I'm talking about better. Her right foot has a sweat mark in the upper center of it, while her left foot has sweat shining up and down the side of that sock.
She loosened up and felt comfortable when she was able to see that the sweat and the bit of feet fragrance emanating her feet was not going to bother me. Something like this was a sensitive topic for her and I had to make certain that she knew that I recognized that women with gorgeous feet that have sweat and some fragrance are people: just like anyone else. I was going to get to know her and become a gleaming example of what women appreciate in men. Besides, I have every reason to be good to the women with feet I like, to which she said, "that'll probably get you far, so it makes sense what you said." Because I loved that answer so much, I promised her an invigorating foot massage after the shoot.
Because I was communicating my ideas to her in an enthusiastic tone, she envisioned the end result, which made her settle in and just be herself without having to worry about anything else.
ON HER FEET Her footwear. It's an intelligent design and advanced technology coming together in an exceptionally light, durable and comfortable shoe. It's designed for technical approaches, day hikes and everyday wear.
It's especially designed for alpinism and climbing. It's designed for efficient movement and protection in alpine environments. Those hiking shoes provide comfort and confidence during technical approaches on difficult terrain. It's impervious to penetration by water molecules, providing shelter and protection.
Weight (1/2 Pair): 250 g / 8.8 oz Activity: Alpine Climbing / Hiking
She spends a lot of time outdoors, particularly in nature environments, and so this shoe fits her personality and lifestyle.
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SUCH A LOVED PERSON. ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. It was pleasant thing to watch when she showed me one of the books she was reading. She wants to gain wisdom and she talked about how wisdom is one of the greatest qualities human beings can possess. She loves how it helps her navigate through choppy waters, lifts her up from the depths of despair, and how it helps her put everything into perspective.
A well read woman, she certainly is, who has layers upon layers of qualities, ready to be examined and prodded. She has emotions that run deep and has the words of philosophers, poets, and artists flowing through her blood. She's an old soul and a new one.
She is a woman who shows every side of herself as it truly is but also perfectly bathed in the most forgiving light ... She has an attractive and appealing nature and quality about her ... Her soul is well fed with smiles and warm embraces ... She always shops around for knowledge to brighten up her mind and who illuminates her voice with sparks of wisdom. Simply beautiful in the most honest of ways ... She would be considered as gorgeous by unmet eyes ... Her beauty is seen clearly by sight that has never even touched her appearance ... She is an exemplary woman through and through.
To remind everyone, some of the landscape photos (the ones that are meant to show as horizontal) appear as portrait (vertical) for whatever reason. Not all of them, but a number of them do. Those photos appear wonky when you click on it to enlarge the images. In that case, right click on it and select 'Open Image in New Tab' to view it the way it's supposed to be viewed.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - 2022 Season Finale
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NATURAL CLASSIC Late one morning I spotted this pretty nice nineteen year-old girl walking east before turning north. It didn't look as if she was in a rush to get anywhere and so I figured she would be open to the idea of letting me take pictures of her feet. Something about her unassuming and friendly demeanor made me decide to walk up to her.
She struck me as someone who's mature for her age and that's something to admire. That level of awareness prevents her from doing a lot of foolish, damaging things that people her age might do. She finds her own company sufficient at home. She does her socializing in school. She's not the "popular" girl but is asked to do a lot of things, work on projects. She's had the lead part in three of the five plays she performed growing up. She's outgoing but not one to "hang out." She'll step up and help people. She'll give the person who genuinely looks in need, money.
Julia released the notion a long time ago that other women are her competition. All efforts to sabotage the success of other women becomes silly to her and we seeks to form alliances instead of enemies. She doesn't prove how knowledgeable is by understanding that there's a lot she can learn from others. She understands that, as she phases into adulthood, that she begins to appreciate her body as it is.
There's the feeling you get when you see someone's feet for the first time and they look better than what you'd expect them to. That was the case here. She always liked her feet, but didn't think they'll attract the attention of someone who views them in a sexual way. She took it as a huge compliment that I wanted to take photos of her feet and happily agreed to take the time to give me the time I needed to capture her feet that made her feel like an even more special person.
When I see feet like hers, I take my sweet time and not rush things because I wanted to savor the moment and the view. Nikki Brianna ushered in the Natural Evolution era. This shoot you're about to see cemented the phase of me moving away from that era, shifting my focus on what was to become the Visionair Era. What you guys saw this week was all thanks to this shoot.
This shoot was a breath of fresh air. She's very intelligent. Her feet are nothing less than wonderful. I am so impressed with Julia. I hope she lives a wonderful and meaningful life.
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Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - 2022 Season Finale
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That'll do it for this year.
Glad you guys enjoyed these shoots. I'll be back here to show more images for the Spring 2023 edition of The Women of Central Park. In the meantime, these images should keep you entertained all winter long.
The End.
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Cheers. Happy New Year!
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quote:Originally posted by National: That'll do it for this year.
Glad you guys enjoyed these shoots. I'll be back here to show more images for the Spring 2023 edition of The Women of Central Park. In the meantime, these images should keep you entertained all winter long.
The End.
Thank you, most sincerely, for all of the fine photo galleries that you have posted. Looking forward to the Spring 2023 photo sets to come. Posted by sftfan (Member # 1959) on :
Thanks for everything! All the best for the new year Posted by aka.footjoyboy (Member # 32751) on :
Thanks for the year end update, Nat.. Great work!
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You are the Master!
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- I love Britta's wool shawl/scarf. - Daydreams adjusting her eyewear that gives her that adorable geek look. So adorable! - Don't know why, but something about Julia's foot in that photo made me look at it for a long time. Makes me want to take a closer look at the bottom of her toes. - The Kindergarten Teacher is the first lady I can remember who placed her hand between her thighs when lying on her side. The toe pointing is hot!
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Thanks to all of you. I truly appreciate your words of appreciation. Makes me feel great to know that my contributions means something to you guys. It has been a lot of fun, as you can imagine, taking photos of these women with their feet just inches from my eyes in its purest form -- feet all ripe, as is. Great to know that my work has left a mark on you guys. You don't know how much that means to me.
I can't thank you guys enough, and the same goes for the women who made this thread possible. I sit back and thank my lucky starts for presenting to me wonderful women into my path who great enough to participate in something like this with me. I can't thank these women enough.
This is something I do for enjoyment rather than for work. All of this has worked because you people find enjoyment in what I bring to this space.
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Valerie is currently a Berkeley student.
For those not familiar, particularly those who are not from the U.S., The University of California, Berkley, is a public research university.
Berkeley faculty have won nineteen Nobel prizes, mostly in physics, chemistry and economics. Notable alumni include Oscar-winning actor Gregory Peck, and Women's World Cup-winning US footballer Alex Morgan. Speaking of sports, Berkeley's sporting prowess was demonstrated at the 2012 Olympics in London, when its graduates won 17 medals -- eleven gold, one silver and five bronze. If Berkeley had been a country, it would have ranked joint sixth in the gold medal table, alongside France and Germany. All of that to say that it's one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
Even though most people told her that it was a very competitive school and that only top students with 1500+ SATs and near 4.0 GPAs get in, she talked about how that was not the full story and how ordinary people can get in. She was one of those people.
Valerie's grades in high school were good, though if you try to compare them to the stereotypical Berkeley student, it was not as good. She had a 3.8 GPA and got an 1400 on the SAT. This might be higher than the typical score and GPA of average high schoolers. However, whenever she researched the school during application season, she was hit with the same response over and over again about how competitive the school was and how she needed to be a perfect (or next to perfect) student to get in.
Her volunteering consisted of working at an animal shelter, shelving books at a library. She didn't have a 4.0 GPA nor any outstanding thing that stood out from those people she saw posting on the school forum.
You can imagine her shock and surprise when the decisions came out later that year. Somehow, Valerie was able to surpass many other people and made it into Berkeley. She spent a lot of time puzzling over why she got in. The only reason she could think of was Berkeley's more holistic review of applications. She wrote a very heartfelt essay that she had hoped would make up for her stats. And maybe it did.
Many of the same people that she saw get perfect scores didn't get in. That was when she realized that the reason why people would say that it's so hard to get in is because they see that there are all these smart people who were rejected. They completely forgot that there were others that are like her - not as accomplished as those people - yet manage to get in because they put more into their applications than just their stats and achievements.
Valerie majors in political science. The study of politics - both the theory of politics (going off into Political Philosophy) and the practice of politics - how people win elections, get Bills passed and so on.
She'll never know the real reason why she got in. In the end, Valerie would've been happy had she had chosen another college. But instead, she chose Berkeley and, "I've never been happier about my choice. Even if I'm not the brightest of the bunch."
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Spring 2023
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Here we have Lethenta (pronounced Lechenta).
Mythical creatures have captivated her heart and imagination for centuries. Mythical creatures born out of ancient legends. She can't resist the charm and allure of mythical beings. They bring a bit of magic to her humble existence.
In her part of the universe, magic comes from the Eternal Fountain. Like a heart, she pulses magical energies into the world around her and changes life as it was before the influence of these magical energies. Despite or perhaps because of these powers, war hasn't broken out. There's a peaceful balance with her, as she often lets other people be as they are.
While the beings in this world feel safe knowing they all count on the same source of magic, beings from other worlds keep a hungry eye on this seemingly free source of power name Lethenta.
Her feet heals minor injuries to whoever is looking at them, including unseen injuries. Words that come to mind when describing her feet are mythologically divine, proverbially distinct.
LETHENTA, PROTECTOR OF THE SKY -- Click Here SHOE SIZE -- 10 (US), 40 (EUR), 8 (UK)
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Welcome back! Spring has arrived and it is barefoot season again.
Of Lethenta's gallery, my favorite is #25 which shows her glorious soles and her face in profile.
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Welcome back. A good start :-)
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This shoot took place right on the The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir (named after her because she used to jog there), also known as Central Park Reservoir. This thing covers 106 acres and holds over 1 billion US gallons of water. The trail that surrounds the reservoir is often filled with runners and walkers enjoying the scenery of the water with skyline views in all directions. It'll take someone about a half hour to walk around the thing.
There were women who I took photos of who were approached on the reservoir, including future Hall of Fammers Nighting Dream and Margot Bruland. There are several notable stops there that are somewhat akin to "stations," the biggest ones being the entrances of sorts on 90th and 86th streets on the west side.
Many of the attractive women you'll see will be joggers, but the stops on 90th and 86th streets, and the observatories around them can often yield you a nice number of women to approach. It's also a popular tourist spot.
But as I said before, this women here marked the first time I had a shoot on the trail. She was already sitting down by the time I approached her. I don't remember if she was doing her homework or taking down notes that was work related or if she was writing on her personal journal.
She reacted to my request to take photos of her like someone who liked to have a lot of fun, which felt so good hearing that. Normally I would take the girl from the reservoir to another location to start the shoot, but she was already seated, she looked comfortable there and I got the sense that taking this somewhere else was going to get her out of the mood. She was already in a good mood and I decided that having the shoot there was going to be a fun idea, and so that's where it happened.
I'll give you her daily routine and in the end I'll tell you what she does for a living.
- 9:00 gets up - Gym for an hour or so - Have Lunch - Do groceries/chores, etc
Any guesses yet? Perhaps you'll get a better idea once the rest of her schedule is filled out:
- Arrive at theatre for 5:30 - Say hi to everyone, go to dressing room - Get costumes and such ready - Have food if needed (a light snack) - 6:30 start makeup - 7:00 get into costume and warm up for show - 7:30 perform Act 1 - 8:45 fifteen minute break - 9:00 perform Act 2 - 10:00 finish performance, get out of costume, tidy up - 10:30 leave the theatre - 11:00 arrive home - Midnight, go to bed
She's a Broadway performer.
With a matinee, its the same but for a 2:30 show she would be in between 12:30 and 1, usually staying in the theatre until the next show, usually having a meal between shows in the green room.
She has very cute feet, lovely and fresh out of her sneakers. Fresh female feet fragrance. She has a positive outlook on life and has lots of energy. Everything else flows from that and it's beautiful. We were able to make interesting stories out of mundane topics. With her, the more outrageous the story sounds, the better.
Many people jogged or walked by us during the shoot as you can imagined. We were immersed in our shoot and conversation that it felt as if there was no one else around. Again, I refer you guys to this post: Click Here
ON HER FEET Asics - Gel Kayano 25 Type - Running Shoes Color - Grey Material - Mesh Weight - 8.85 oz. (250 gr.) Heel Drop - 24mm
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Nice :-)
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My favorite photo from Riley's gallery is #32 because of both her wonderfully wrinkled right sole and her smiling face in that photo.
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I came across this lady walking through the park. She was on her way to see her boyfriend and a few of their friends for some brunch, which meant that I was only going to get a few shots from this photoshoot. It was a little amount of time the shoot lasted, but I was happy to have had that time because the soles of her feet looked spectacular.
She has an athletic built to her, which she explained was due to her playing days as a field hockey player during her college years. I've seen a few NCAA field hockey games on TV, to which she said that I may have seen one of her games that was televised. She played for a team that's part of the collegiate athletic conference called the Patriot League.
These girls are vicious when they play the game, and our lady is no exception. I appreciate and respect their competitive nature.
I mention her having an athletic look to her because one would have to be a good shape to play a sport like that. She told me that a field hockey player typically runs five miles a game and a lot of that is sprinting. As a midfielder herself, she has to see the entire field with the ball on her stick and be really good and acting quickly. She has good stamina an accurate passes. Someone playing her position doesn't sprint as much as the other players do, but overall she runs more. She blocks tackles and other defending skills.
Even though her college playing days are over, she still participates in playing field hockey from time to time and she gets paid for her advanced knowledge, skills and for her bravery in battle for that sport, but she doesn't rely on it entirely for a living.
The rest of the conversation was just us chit-chatting. Just your normal lighthearted conversation about other people or other things that are not important. I didn't get the chance to know anything more about her because she didn't want to keep her man and their friends waiting, and so we wrapped up the shoot that lasted only for a few minutes.
UNLIMITED -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 10.5 (US), 42.5 (EUR), 8 (UK)
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I was walking by the Central Park Tennis Center when I spotted this girl lying on the grass, reading a book. Her feet were already out of her shoes and the entire area seemed peaceful. She's a regular at the Tennis Center and she was killing some time by relaxing and reading her book before going onto the court for her session.
She said something about catching her at a great time because I would get to see her feet before she was going to put them to work, running back and forth, left and right on the court.
She has a season pass at that club and she she's in Central Park playing tennis as many days as she can. She loves the sport because it gives her a great exercise. "It is cardiovascular, resistance, and flexibility training all in one. You sprint. You move for long periods of time without resting more than a few seconds , all while standing. You go fast and you go slow quickly, like that. It trains for my legs. I swing a racket hundreds of times." She loves how she has to stretch her body in multiple directions reaching for tennis balls high, low, and outside her reach. Mostly, that's how she gets rid of the tension of the day.
Tennis requires special considerations to avoid injuries, "especially to my feet and ankles," she told me. I know, because the last thing I want is for her to reinjure her nice little pretty pretty feet. Tennis requires your hands, arms, and feet to repeat the same motions many times as you serve and return the ball. Those repetitive motions took its tool on the muscles and ligaments in her feet and heels during her early playing days as a result of improper play. That was a wakeup call for her to understand the game better, and for her to educate herself about proper form when serving and volleying. Now that she plays the game pretty well, she sets aside the proper time to stretch and warm up her muscles (including the ones in her nice little pretty pretty feet!) so that she can perform without damage.
This shoot was a nice little distraction for her that took her mind away from tennis and she enjoyed my company. She asked me some questions because she was curious about me. She understood why someone would like girls with nice feet, but doesn't quite understand why I would like them so much. She wasn't being insulting with her line of questioning because she was really playfully curious. She wanted to know how having a foot fetish actually works, adding that it must be nice for me during the warm days to see flip flops and girls like her relaxing with her shoes off in Central Park. "I envy you," she said.
This was a pretty fun shoot, I must say.
GRAND SLAM CHAMPION -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 6.5 (US) 37.5 (EUR), 4 (UK)
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I love the big soles of that field hockey player! My favorite photo from her gallery is #17, showing her soles while she is using her cellphone.
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A German tourist I met while in the park. I don't have a story to tell about her, unfortunately, other than to say that she was a bit self-conscious about posing for me because she was older than I was. I really like talking women like her into changing her mind and going along with the shoot because she had nothing to be ashamed of. That really flattered her and she decided to do the shoot after all.
ELENA ROTHBERG -- Click Here SHOE SIZE 9.5 (US), 40.5 (EUR), 7 (UK)
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Taking pictures of a park ranger. That's a first. She works for the National Park Service as a ranger.
There are those who work behind the scenes in the corporate offices, and there are those who are the public faces of the National Park Service. She is one of them. She serves different duties such as operating the campgrounds, creating and providing educational programs to children, and guiding visitors on hikes. Unlike other people who basically live in these national parks when their work shifts are over, this woman, because she lives off the park, her job is like any other job in that she works for eight hours a day, five days a week and goes home at the end of the day to have her own life like any other 9 to 5 job.
The National Park Service is an organization that helps assist in conserving the nation's natural and cultural heritage for the benefit of current and future generations.
REASONS WHY WORKING THERE WAS MADE FOR HER First, she truly wants to help protect the resource where she works, saying, "Whether it's a museum, a river, ghost town, historic site, patrolling huge tracks of forest or desert, running campgrounds, doing maintenance, being out in the middle of no where, this is important to me."
Secondly, she wants people to enjoy the resource she and her team are helping to protect. She loves seeing all generations enjoy the resource. "Nothing is better than to see excited children enjoying the outdoors or learning from a program I put on. Even better is seeing when they bring their families back to enjoy a public resource."
Finally, she dislikes abuse of the park. Vandalism, graffiti and not following rules that are there to protect the resource and interactions with nature or other park visitors are a sore spot with her and other Park Rangers everywhere.
HER VIEWS ON HER OWN FEET "I'm completely flat-footed and I can tell you one advantage I've noticed over the years. When walking up a hill whether grass or dirt I can sort of stand on the incline and stay balanced. So it's like I'm sort of standing sideways. For me it makes it easier going up hills."
Being more comedic about it, she added, "I guess walking barefoot across damp tile or wood floors, sounds like I'm walking on suction cups like you'd see someone use to climb a glass skyscraper. I also think I may be able to swim faster. Wearing flip flops, I can get my feet to make cool slapping sounds when I hit the right surfaces effectively, startling people."
She wishes to have arches on her feet, but she's not embarrassed by her feet either.
She's seen a lot of things in the National Park she patrols, but she hasn't seen anyone take pictures of another person's feet in a purposeful shoot. Having this happened to her in Central Park was a treat for her. That was her first time visiting Central Park and already she felt like it was a new home to her.
NATIONAL PARK GIRL -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 10 (US), 42 (EUR), 7.5-8 (UK)
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Spring 2023
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NATIONAL PARK GIRL has lovely soles despite her flat feet. My favorite photo in her gallery is #18, a full-on double sole shot that includes her smiling face. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL ADVICE
If you want to be successful at this, it'll really help that you look fantastic. I want you to look as good as possible this year. To do so, just follow these steps and it'll change how you dress.
KILL OFF DESIGNER CLOTHES I've seen a steady decline over the last few years of people who wear clothes that bear the names Gucci, LV and other major fashion labels, most recently with Balenciaga 'cause they're a bunch of pedophiles. Stop wasting your money on that garbage and understand that labels do not matter.
Whenever I see someone with a Gucci product on, it looks tacky more than anything else, especially being that it's so easy to get counterfeits. You look tasteless and you're wasting your money. If you really want to better your style, buy brandless stuff.
Brandless items of clothing. It's low-key, it's not in your face, it's not showing that you're rich. Keep your stuff simple -- low or minimal branding, at best. The best part of about this is that it's timeless. A simple, grey crew neck is something I've worn for a few years and it still looks great on me.
UPGRADE ACCESSORIES I don't think men fully understand just how powerful accessories are to build up a wardrobe. It really has the power to restructure what you already have without having to buy new clothes.
Make a list. Most of you have at least one of these: necklaces, rings, watches, bracelets, sunglasses. Whatever you don't have, prioritize. If you ask me, the most impactful one on that list is the sunglasses.
When it comes to dressing well, the best accessory you can have are sunglasses because that's the one thing that can make you physically (more) attractive. They structure your face, they add balance, they add symmetry, on top of hiding imperfections, on top of being the item that elevates what you have on. And let's not forget: sunglasses have the functionality to block the harm to your eyes from the sun's rays.
It's incredible to me when thinking about all of the benefits sunglasses gives you, and yet a lot of men still are not wearing them. You're leaving so much on the table, and I don't want you to be that guy this year.
TRY NEW STYLES You should not be stuck in the past.
Look, I'm a sucker for classic pieces. I have certain pieces in my wardrobe that are two, three or four years old. That's all well and good, but on the other hand style should be fun. I've been dressing well for years now. I am not stuck on that same style from ten years ago.
With style, you can try new pieces, new aesthetics, new fits that you're not used to, which keeps everything creative and fun. All of this makes you want to get up that day, dress well and show the best version of yourself.
By the way, the same thing applies to your hair style. If you incorporate those changes, you won't look like the guy who's been dressing the same way for the last ten years.
CLEAN OUT THE TRASH I would venture to say that seventy-five percent of your wardrobe is useless, and I know what you're saying: "National, you actually want me to throw out my closet?" Yeah, pretty much.
If you analyze your wardrobe, you'll realize that you wear only twenty-five percent of it. Everything else is just bulk. All of that stuff is taking up space and taking up time in the morning for you, trying to make this imaginary decision we all know you're going to make, which is to gravitate towards the same pair of jeans you always like to wear. That should tell you that seventy-five percent of your closet should go.
Anything that has shrunk, that's overstretched, faded, anything that has bacon neck, that's torn, stained, should be gone. If you sell those things on eBay, you could make $100-$500 depending on how expensive those things were. You can take that money to update your wardrobe.
WORK ON YOUR BODY This is going to decide if you're going to look good. When you're athletic and fit, everything looks good on you, better than the other guy. When you work on your body, you're also working on your clothes. Not only will clothes look better on you, you'll also have more options. Guys who are overweight have a harder time finding clothes that fit, and the clothes that do fit are out of style, and the ones that are in style only amounts to a very small selection.
Don't make your life harder. Instead of making it harder that way, make it harder by going to the gym.
Pick your struggle. I'd rather pick the gym struggle. You'll expand your life and you're going to make it easier for yourself to pick out clothes from any department store.
I'm telling you, being attractive is powerful because there is ...
AN ATTRACTIVE BIAS That attractive premium can mean the difference between you making more money on your salary, getting higher grades even though you're not smarter.
Attractive people have a higher chance of being in leadership positions. Studies have shown that attractive CEOs brought in better gains for their companies in the stock market, and they were better at retaining their employees. You are nearly fifty-five percent more likely to get a call back from the interviewer if you are attractive. Listen, it's so bad out there that unattractive people can serve up to 120 percent more time behind bars for the same crime. There is an attractive bias and you need to start caring about how you look.
You can start with your hair. This is one area most men don't pay attention to because they think it's too feminine. Getting a haircut regularly should be a standard, along with keeping track of the products you put on your hair.
Hair is something people will notice about you right away. If you get a haircut that actually suits your face shape, it's going to make you more attractive.
DRESS BETTER I may dress formal one day, and the next day I would wear something casual. I like to be versatile with my style. I like to keep things entertaining because I love to dress well. When it comes to a man, you don't have to be that versatile. I mean, it'll help ... but you can get away with doing the bare minimum.
Make sure the clothing fits right, make sure it looks good, and make sure it flatters your body shape. That's it. You can look good as a man by wearing the right t-shirt. Start adopting white simple tees, black simple tees, solid colored tees that fit right made out of a good quality, and that's it. Pair them up with some jeans and nice sneakers and you should be set.
BECOME MORE CHARASMATIC You can get these women to like you just by conversing with them, having great conversations. The only way to develop this is to practice. You have to stop being so isolated. The only way to do that -- even if you don't have any friends -- is to talk to different people.
Doing this is going to be uncomfortable ... but because you're doing it, it'll force yourself to grow and become comfortable in uncomfortable situations so you can have natural conversations with anyone, especially women.
INVEST IN SKINCARE First things people notice when they see you are your hair and skin, and that's just the natural progression of your eyesight. If you have ashy skin, if you have acne, if it's dried out or flaky, if it's oily, those are all negative connotations that'll make others think that you haven't washed your face in weeks, and I'm going to remind you of the Halo Effect when I talked about it back in December: when they start thinking negative things about you, everything else after that will be viewed through that negative lens, which is why you need to perfect all of your bases.
Having a skincare routine is a hygienic requirement. You should washing your face everyday, you should be exfoliating once or twice a week, and you should be using a moisturizer on a daily basis. If you follow this routine, you will go through your 20s and 30s with perfect and radiant skin, minimizing imperfections, minimizing wrinkles and looking more attractive.
FIX YOUR POSTURE You can do everything I said in this list right. But if you're always hunched over, if you're always walking around with your head not held high, not walking as if you own the room, not walking with confidence, instantly people will think you're insecure, even if you're not. Even if you're not insecure, that's what you're projecting to the world with poor body posture, which will be seen as less attractive.
People with the right posture look better because the clothing fits right, you're highlighting your broad shoulders, you look proud, you look tall. Fixing your posture is a great way to get your clothes looking good, which makes you more attractive.
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NATURAL CLASSIC Bricey (rhymes with pricey) was walking through the park carrying a duffel bag. I had no idea how she was going to make it to where ever she needed to be with that thing because it looked too heavy for her to carry. She was struggling with it and chose to carry it using the shoulder strap as opposed to using the handles. I figured she needed to rest before it was going to be too much for her to handle.
She was walking in the direction to where her car was, which about a fifteen-minute walk from where I stopped her. Her plan was to drive out to Long Island to spend time with her boyfriend, but she was willing to participate in the shoot.
This was the first shoot I did that took place on a bench from beginning to end. I loved how she was always laughing, smiling, and being a bit silly. Bricey is a fun conversationalist, sharing entertaining stories that were short and to the point.
She had so much fun during the shoot, and you can tell from the photos. The whole concept was fascinating to her and she wanted to know more about me. At one time she said, "If I were your girlfriend, I'd be soooo cool with your fetish. Like, so cool with it. I don't know how you made this so much fun for me, but you have."
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Spring 2023
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Thanks to everyone who posted a comment over the last several days. They don't go unnoticed and I truly appreciate your support and I'm glad you found something about these women that you liked.
I'm going to be back for the Summer 2023 edition of this thread, and everyone in here is going to have an opinion about the women I have in store for all of you. It'll be a heatwave outside, and this thread will be your best place to go to cool off. It'll be the stuff that the Visionair Era is made of.
Thank you all, and take care of yourselves.
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From left to right, top row to bottom row.
- Very impressed with Valerie-dictorian's soles. - Lethenta, secretly on the lookout to make sure no evil spirits haunt us. - I just love making these women smile. Makes them comfortable to talk to me about anything without judgement.
- Since that shoot with Grand Slam Champion, I've seen her several times since then, always playing tennis, and sometimes taking more time out of her day to talk with me a variety of topics. A real sweetheart. - Unlimited. She has my utmost respect for the blood, sweat, and tears she dedicated to her spot of field hockey. Her feet stays looking amazing after all of the battles she's been through. Amazing. - National Park Girl's backpack bares the logo of the organization she pledges to. And I love her feet from that angle. - Bricey Nicey felt so noticed and pretty. It made her feel so good.
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There are pretty girls all around the world, and most of them aren't porn stars. This is the Natural Park thread where you'll find nothing but real girl-next-door amateurs posing their feet for this perfect stranger all for the fun of it. For those of you who find yourselves being into the amateur niche of foot fetish photography, with an emphasis on women who are not professional models, an emphasis on amateur foot modeling, this is your place to be.
We shifted away into a new phase called the Visionair Era this past December and you'll see more of that work in the coming days. The women felt special indeed, and you'll see through the work I've put together.
Approaching women in the park during the summer months is very fun. Lots of bare feet to be seen, making Central Park my DisneyLand.
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A very short shoot featuring a Russian lady who teaches Tai Chi. It wasn't until she volunteered that information to me that it finally made sense to my why she kept moving around even I didn't want her to move around so much. She was doing her Tai Chi movements when I had to remind her that the focus of the shoot was going to be centered around her feet.
I got the impression that she uses this martial arts form to show off the gracefulness, smoothness, roundness, and beautiful motions of the poses, making it look like another form of yoga. In other words, she probably practices it for health reasons and not so much on how to defend herself.
For the little time we shared, I did enjoy the shoot.
MOVEMENTS -- Click Here Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Summer 2023
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NATURAL CLASSIC I was having a slow day in the park and the clouds were getting greyer. A lot of rain was in the forecast for that afternoon and I was hoping to find someone who would make for a great shoot before the rain would start. I see someone walking towards the exit of the park and one look at her told me that she would be completely fine for a shoot.
When you approach women for this type of stuff, you'll meet those who say yes without hesitation, those who say no, and those who are on the fence. It's the ones who are in the middle where you have to incorporate a bit more charm into the conversation, to be a bit more persuasive, and that was what I found myself doing with this one, and it didn't take as long as I thought it would before she finally decided to do it.
If I remember correctly, she's from Bakersfield, California or somewhere thereabouts. She was in New York with her husband who was a participant in some nationwide barber competition at the time this shoot took place. In addition to being a wife, she's also a mother of three. She lets her kids ride around outside on their dirt bikes. The kids riding their own dirt bikes, not their parents, in case anyone was confused as to how I used the word "their" in the previous sentence.
She said, when asked why her kids take up the activity to ride dirt bikes around, "Not only is riding a dirt bike fun, but my sons and daughter will learn lessons that will help strengthen and build them. A new challenging trail is frustrating, but their refusal to quit and trying again will build their character.
"Also, it's not hard to keep your kids away from drugs – one thing that can make a huge difference is allowing them to have another activity that they enjoy. Getting my children into dirt biking has cost us a decent amount of cash, knowing some of risks involved, but it's a whole lot better than getting into drugs or something worse for an extracurricular activity."
She was not a girly girl growing up who played with Barbie's 'n stuff. "Growing up, all the other girls wanted to do was play with makeup and hairdos and gossip! I never saw these things as fun. I prefer gaming over make overs and action films over romance."
Her favorite type of music is anything with an emo influence such as emo pop, pop-punk, you know ... something that's a blend of grunge and alternative rock that's characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics.
WHAT'S ON HER FEET "They're very retro yet modern. They're actually the only Vans I have but I definitely like them when I see them on other people around town. There so comfy, too. I sometimes wear mine without socks, but I decided to go with socks today 'cause they're cute."
ABOUT HER FEET THEMSELVES "Honestly, I've never had very strong feelings about my feet. Aside from treating them to a pedicure every once in a while, I don't pay a ton of attention to them. But they do so much for me -- I definitely take them for granted. At least they aren't ugly. I don't think I'd change anything about them -- I love them just the way they are!"
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Summer 2023
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My favorite photo in her gallery is #21. It shows both gorgeous, big soles straight on as well as her face.
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quote:Originally posted by Jota Milagros: My favorite photo in her gallery is #21. It shows both gorgeous, big soles straight on as well as her face.
I don't see how anyone can disagree with you there. I like that it takes up so much of the photo, almost like measuring your face against it to see how much of that it'll cover. Being that close to her feet was amazing.
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I met Katherine, a lovely lady. She's thoughtful, loving, caring and kind. Kind enough to let me take pictures of her feet. She was glad she went with the boots she wore that day. She was feeling "extra pretty" that day and went with the floral design on her boots to help brighten her mood. A part of her believed that had she not worn those boots om that day, then I would not have noticed her. The sole of her boots are semi-transparent. You are able to see her socks through them.
She started reading that novel she held in her hands just because the title bore her name on it. She's no expert in math (which is part of the story), but the topic of relationships was what sold her on it and is curious to see if she can relate to what's going on in the book, which you can know a little bit about here.
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She graduated from University with a major in music theatre and vocal performance. She's a performance artist, creating work through actions performed by her and/or other participants, whether it's live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted.
At its worst, her art form can seem gratuitous, boring or just plain weird. But, at its best, her performances tap into our most basic shared instincts: our physical and psychological needs for food, shelter, sex, and human interaction; our individual fears and self-consciousness; our concerns about life, the future, and the world we live in. Either by herself or with a group of people, the scenes presented often forces us to think about issues in a way that can be disturbing and uncomfortable, but it can also make us laugh by calling attention to the absurdities in life and the idiosyncrasies of human behavior.
She's won some singing competitions and has done voice over work for a very popular show on Netflix.
In describing it, it was beautifully put by her, "It (meaning the type of work she does) allows a broadening of the perspectives of life beyond the daily grind. It can expand your personal space, allows you to be transported to a place in your mind that you might only have dreamed of, and allows you to escape your problems. You can admire the performer's expertise in his or her portrayal of a character. As a professional in the field, I don't think an audience of today realizes how much their presence affects the performance. In this day and age of the internet, one thinks that everything is available there. But a live performance is truly a meeting of one human directly with another. There is no substitute for that type of communication."
HER VIEWS ON FEET "Feet are simply not considered disgusting, if you ask me. I don't think women should be ashamed of them. I'm not ashamed of mine. Come to think of it, there's little to the human body that should be shameful, but that's an entirely different question."
Katherine shows love through her words and actions. She's typically motivated by a desire to bring happiness, joy, comfort, and calmness to those around her. In addition, she shows love when she treats herself with kindness, compassion, and understanding. Talented and brave.
AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINE -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 9.5 (US), 40.5 (EUR), 7 (UK), 26cm, 10.222279in
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Summer 2023
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quote:Originally posted by aka.footjoyboy:
Not sure who you were referring to, but I agree with you.
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"Not sure who you were referring to,".....
All of the new posts. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
For those who aspire to do what I do and you want to walk up to women and have them take their shoes off for you, this is your guide to how to get you there. There is so much I want to say about this topic that instead of putting it all in one post, I'll break it up into several parts and I will post them in the coming days, so be on the lookout for those. Some will focus on your looks while others will focus on your state of mind so that you don't psyche yourself out.
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If you're less attractive, you probably already know it. In fact, the only time you get compliments on how good you look comes from your mother. You probably feel unattractive and you're not alone. If that's how you feel, I'm going to show you what you can do change this.
HOW YOU WALK It doesn't matter what your genetics are, how tall or short you are, if you're fat or skinny. What matters greatly is how you carry yourself. Look, even if you feel insecure, you can not show that with your body posture, whether it's you sitting down on a date and you're slouched over or if you and I are having a conversation and your shoulders are rolled over.
Stand or sit up strait and just notice the difference. You will go from a guy who's slouching, whose chest looks small, who looks wider because your gut is expanded ... to a guy who looks proud, shoulders rolled back, your shoulder width makes you look like a cobra, your head held high ... will instantly make you look more attractive and we haven't even talked about your face.
SMELL AMAZING I've talked about this before and most of you guys are STILL not taking advantage of this. You do not attract women just by sight because that's just one of five senses. You have other attributes to yourself, how you talk and sound as just a few examples. How you smell is an impactful thing you can do to look more attractive. Doing this is easy to control and it only takes a few seconds for you to do. The part where people screw this up is by either not putting on the fragrance at all or by putting on a crappy fragrance like an AXE body spray. And yes, when I tell you to smell great, AXE body spray does not count.
EXERCISE If you find yourself unattractive, go to the gym, loose the weight, put on some muscle, manipulate the areas of your life you have complete control over, which is building muscle.
MOISTURIZE AND EXFOLIATE Now let's start to talk about your face. Your face cannot be easily mistaken for a bum's. You can't change the bone structure of your face unless you get plastic surgery. I'm not here to tell you to get surgery because it's too expensive and inaccessible. However, I can show you how to manipulate your skin. The best thing you can do is exfoliate your skin to remove all of the dead skin cells, unevenness, craters, acne ... any one of these things on your face will have women detracting points from your attractiveness. If you can get a handle on that, you're already winning. On top of that, you'll need a moisturizer to keep your skin as soft as possible. When your skin is glowing, you will look more desirable.
KEEP A FRESH HAIRCUT Guys, you need to look good at all times. There is no excuse for not getting a hair cut regularly. If you cannot afford to go to the barber on a regular basis, then you need to get yourself a trimmer to make sure you have a clean haircut. You have to win in areas you can control, which ultimately takes me to this next tip ...
BE MORE RELAXED Slow down. In every situation, if you just slow down your speech, your body movements, even how you walk with confidence and great body posture, people will see you as more aloof, more dominating, and that's insanely more attractive. They will see that you're not nervous in social situations, and that's something women become more attracted to.
And that's it for now. Tomorrow I'll be back here with more photos to show. The next woman I will show will be our main event for this week's presentation. The female will go on last next week will be the overall main event. We will build up to that moment with more fantastic shoots I have in store for all of you.
-National
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A nice woman sitting on a bench in a park is always a nice to see. I was walking east when I first saw her. She was seated facing east and so in the beginning I only saw the back of her head. From what I was able to glean up to that point, she looked pretty nice. I wanted to see how her face looked, though, before I could decide whether to ask if I could take pictures of her. Her face passed the test and she seemed like someone who's kind, considerate and generous. I had to figure out something to saw real quick now that I was standing a few feet in front of her.
ME: Do you always come here and just stare off into the depths of thought? HER: [paying attention to me now] Oh! No, I was just thinking. ME: Yeah, that's what I said. What were you thinking about? HER: Mostly just life. ME: That's it's amazing, or cruel and unfair? HER: Maybe both? [laughs] ME: Interesting. HER: So, what are you doing here?
O, now there goes a question.
ME: Thinking about life myself ... and something else. HER: Like what about life? ME: Oh... you know... everything, and nothing.
We then introduced ourselves to one another.
ME: So tell me about you ... do you live in the city? HER: Ah, I'm not from around here, and I don't know if you'll find what I do very exciting. I'm the confidential secretary to the director of the bank in Zurich.
I thought she was Swedish based on the bag she had with her, but no.
A HIGHLY PROFESSIONAL AND POWERFUL WOMAN A company produces much sensitive information in the form of reports or documents, which are of the utmost necessity. They might be some secret business deals or personal information which should not leak out of the company. Her primary duty as a confidential secretary is to prepare, handle, and keep documents and reports only accessible to the higher level of the company. So she, and the guy who's at the top of the food chain in her bank, have all of the dirty secrets. Someone has nice as her having access to pieces of information that not even the customers themselves even knew existed is some pretty sexy if you ask me. These reports consist of secret data which are needed for the company to run or grow. She actually manages the reports and guards them. In other words, she must be able to keep secrets. Apart from that, she's outgoing and very friendly.
She could tell I was joking around when I asked her to share some of those secrets with me. She also joked (while being serious at the same time) that if she told me, then she'd have to kill me. What a nice lady!
I love - and fondly recall - the conversation we had where the discussion itself, and not the particular topic, lead to an understanding (enlightenment) neither of us might have reached otherwise. We were extremely interested in each other's opinions. We listened to each other, gathered ideas from each other, and respected one another.
SCHWEIZERDEUTSCH Switzerland has four official languages, and German in one of them. Where she's from is the German-speaking part of her country. The German they speak is not the same as the German spoken in Germany. A German person may have a hard time understanding a German speaking Swiss like our lady friend here because the Swiss German dialect has many variations and is not easily understood by speakers of standard German.
If you're going there to visit or study there, I don't think there's a need to learn Swiss-German, as Standard German is the language of instruction anyway. However, if you're going to work there, it's recommend that you learn to speak or at least understand Swiss-German to be able to integrate properly.
HER VIEW ON FOOT FETISHISM "I'm okay with and he can have fun with my feet all he wants, just as long as sex is involved." Nice answer.
At the end of our time together, she said, "Someday you must come to Switzerland, and you must come and see me. I speak three languages, excellent office skills, and I still have a lot to learn about myself, and about men." That last part was in reference to something we were talking about. It's amazing the things you find yourself talking about when you meet a beautiful stranger.
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MORE ADVICE Usually I give people tips on what to do if you aspire to do what I do, walking up to any woman you want and asking for their permission to take pictures of their feet. The advice below is based on how best to present yourself in terms of your looks. Next week, I will focus more on the mental aspects of the journey that seems to intimidate so many guys from not taking part in this hobby.
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LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR HAIR
Most of you are not realizing this, but you're screwing up your own hair. You're probably making things tougher on yourself without realizing it. How so?
USING ANY TREND Any hair trend that comes around, you try it. If it's the buzzcut, you try it; the mullet trend comes, you do that; the man bun trend ....
You have to understand that if your head shape is not made for it, you should not try it out. Yes, hair trends are great and some of them look real good, but I don't try them because I know it's not suited for my hair texture, it doesn't fit my head shape and I'm going to look silly. It also won't fit my lifestyle. You need to think about all of those aspects before you try out a new hair style you're thinking of doing, and this is where a barber is crucial. The barber should know which styles fit your head shape. If it does, go for it; if not, try something else.
GROWING YOUR HAIR TO COVER BALD SPOTS I can see. I can see it, and so can everyone else. Trying to hide the bald spots has the opposite effect.
The more you grow out your hair to hide that spot, the more that spot is visible. You have to understand that because your hair is thinning, it lacks the texture and volume to cover that spot. There's more baldness on that spot than there is hair. Growing out your hair to cover your bald spot will make you look worse.
I'm not saying you shouldn't grow out your hair, especially if you want it to. But if you want to keep your hair without showing your bald spot, use something like Keeps or Romans or Hims. You need to understand that we're not living in the year 1998 like your father did. You can take action now and you have no excuse. Unlike you, your dad had an excuse because he had to go to the doctor, make an appointment, have that consultation ... it was a pain in the neck back in the day. But today, it is so simple to the point that the excuses don't exist. If you realize that you're starting to lose your hair, starting now is the best thing you can do. The earlier you start with the hair loss medication, the more hair you can keep and the more hair you can get back.
With your computer right now, go to Keeps, Roman's, or Hims, sign up where you can schedule a consultation with a U.S. physician. They'll take a look at your case to see what the correct course of action needs to be taken, and then they'll prescribe to you the only two FDA approved generic medications that have been proven to stop hair loss in its tracks and regrow some, if not most, if not all of all of your hair. You will get that prescription online, you will then get those prescribed medications delivered to you, and notice how you didn't have to leave the house to do any of that.
If you're starting to notice your hairline pushing back, or your hair is starting to thin, or if you're noticing that a bald spot is starting to creep in, start now. The sooner you begin, the more hair you can salvage and the more hair you'll get back.
SCRATCHING YOUR SCALP WHEN YOU SHOWER This is an easy mistake to make because it's intuitive, thinking that using your fingernails to scratch your scalp will really clean the surface. What you don't realize is that the follicles in your hair are very sensitive. Doing this, especially if you're aggressive with it, causes damage over time, which leads to traction alopecia. In other words, the more friction you cause on your hair follicles, the more you can cause your hair to fall out.
Instead of using your fingernails, use your fingertips to wash your hair because it's much softer and you should use a more gentle motion on your scalp. The shampoo is formulated to lift up the dirt anyway, which means you don't have to do all of that extra work.
WASHING TOO OFTEN Shampoo is formulated to strip the oil, dirt, and sweat. But if you overapply it, it becomes counterintuitive because you're stripping too much oil away from your hair. The oil in your hair is healthy to a certain extent and it's there to keep your hair hydrated. If you shampoo every day, you strip all of that oil off, causing your hair to be brittle, your hair looks thinner, it ends up splitting. Wash your hair every other day or every three days.
IGNORNING YOUR NATURAL TEXTURE If you have curly hair, for example, and you try to incorporate a style that straightens the curls out, you will be wasting time (because of the time it takes to fight against the natural hair), you're wasting energy (because it'll take you 25 minutes to get it done), and you're wasting product.
Going for a style that suits your natural hair texture saves you time, energy and money, and you look better because you have a hairstyle that suits your personality and hair type.
USING 2-IN-1s I understand you want a shortcut. You want to look as good as possible without putting in that much effort. What ends up happening is that you buy the two-in-ones or the three-in-ones (body wash, shampoo, conditioner). That is a mistake.
Each product (the body wash, shampoo, conditioner) has its own set of ingredients and it is designed for that specific area and specific purpose. The body wash for your skin has to be lighter, the shampoo for your hair has to be stronger, the conditioner is different because it's supposed to infuse hydration. It is chemically impossible to mix all three of them together and have it work just as well as each of those products individually. That means that that two-in-one or three-in-one product you have is unsuitable. That product is failing to live up to any respectable standard because you're applying certain ingredients in areas where they should not be applied.
You need to stop buying those two-in-ones and three-in-ones because they only set you back and not propel you forwards. Those 2s and 3-in-1s are unnecessary, and if you don't believe me, go down the women's aisle and find me a two-in-one. Women are smart enough to know this -- and the reason they sell this stuff to us is because they don't think we're smart enough to know any better.
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NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT FRAGRANCES
When you have a good smell, people will linger around you and it becomes a magnet when you use it right. But the problem is even when you have the good fragrances -- the stuff you paid top dollars for -- you're applying them the wrong way or you're doing other things that are ruining the scents and destroying the smell experience such as ...
RUBBING IT IN This is the cardinal sin. This is usually second nature to you guys when you rub the fragrance on your wrists. When you rub it in, you're destroying the top molecules or the top notes of that fragrance. When it comes to fragrances, they have a spectrum of notes: the top notes, the middle notes and the base notes. Click here to see the chart.
As you wear the fragrance, the top notes disappear, then the mid notes linger and then the base notes linger. This increases the longevity of the fragrance and it also morphs the scent of it throughout the day to give you a different experience. When you rub it in, you're destroying the top notes, removing that experience and shortening the life span of what you sprayed on.
USING THE SAME FRAGRANCE Just like clothing, you want to use different fragrances for different seasons. When it comes to summer, you want to use something light with citrus notes and that smells fresh. When it comes to autumn, you want something dark, woodsy, Tuscany, leather. The same thing happens based on occasion: what you wear for a date will be different than what you would wear at the office. Buying Dior Sauvage and wearing that all year long for every single occasion is limiting your potential.
Just like wearing the right clothing for the situation, the same rule applies to fragrances. I understand that this can get expensive and I'm not telling you spend ten thousand- or even a thousand dollars on different fragrances that you can have. One way to cheat the system is to check out Scentbird.
These people make it easy for you to build a collection. The great thing with is that when you build an online profile, they will start sending you fragrances they believe will work for you and will work with the season you're in.
Every sample is a large container and they suggests it lasts only a month. If you apply it modestly, it can last you more than a month. You're going to start collecting them, and every month they're going to send you new fragrances so that you'll have an entire collection of different scents that you have not tried, and here's the insane part: less than twenty dollars a month. They have every major name brand you can think of, and it's like having a mini Sephora in your home.
APPLYING TOO MUCH You need to understand the concept of projection, meaning how far the fragrance projects from your body. If the projection is too tight from your body, no one is going to detect the scent from you. Not only are you not going to get compliments from women, but you're also not doing any favors for yourself. But if the projection is too far away from your body that's enough to fill up an entire room, people will get annoyed. You want the projection to be one to two feet from your body because that's your personal space area. If anyone steps in to your personal space, they will want to linger around because of how pleasant the fragrance is. When they step away, that fragrance is not going to be annoying.
You see, if they want someone who smells good, these women already know that they have to step closer to National because that's where his personal space is. That's what I want to happen to you guys as well.
Don't bathe yourself in that stuff and don't waste a half a bottle in two days.
NOT MOISTURIZING YOUR SKIN Most men don't use body moisturizer as it is. If that's the case with you, then what ends up happening is that the fragrance won't work as well on you because what you're spraying on is filled with oils and your skin is looking for hydration. Guess what happens next? It's going to absorb the oils to try to hydrate itself, cutting the life of your scent in half.
If your scents are lasting one to two hours, it's probably because your skin is dehydrated. You want to give your scent something to attach to. As soon as you step out of the shower, apply body lotion, something that'll hydrate your skin, then add your fragrance soon thereafter. That'll give something for the fragrance to attach to because you're moisturized and your skin won't be as quick to suck up the oils. Your fragrance will last longer.
NOT WEARING ANY FRAGRANCE So many men completely ignore the fact that a fragrance can build their confidence, can make them feel better because they can get compliments instantly. They think that your regular Degree sports deodorant or some generic body wash is more than enough to smell good just because those come with some hint of ocean scent.
A powerful fragrance will take you to the next level because it'll elevate your mood and will also get compliments from those around you.
And that's it. So many people are curious as to what it is I do that makes so many of these women say yes. I implement the same things I outlined above.
More photos of more women next week. The summer is here and things are going to heat up in the park.
[ July 09, 2023, 12:16 AM: Message edited by: National ]
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Melissa couldn't believe I had asked her to be the subject of my photos. She felt as if she was a part of welcoming club when I was able to show her that not every woman I shoot had to look like a supermodel. She became a part of a debate about standards of female beauty. Melissa is all for positive self-image. But she's finally getting over it. "I'm happy to talk about it, and I feel passionate about it—but can we change the conversation? Can we talk about something else?"
Yes, let's change the conversation. It's hard not to once you get to know the real Melissa, a South African multidisciplinary artist whose practice is influenced by "sensual femininity, mystical nature and the place where the two meet." A few years ago she began photographing herself in sensual poses in hotel rooms. She's naturally attracted to women's bodies. "As a woman, like others, I'm focused on my own," she says. For her, those photos were about having an organic form—the female body—in the middle of the hard, lonely symmetries of hotel rooms. It was about traveling and how the concept of loneliness is something than can be enjoyable and pleasurable. For this kind of shoot, she was interested to see how the photos would come out. Despite her initial doubts, she enjoyed the results.
It was worth it, and for Melissa the message was evident. "There's an accepted idea that woman who are free with their bodies—be they strippers, nude models—are broken, put upon. That's sad and disappointing," she says. "It doesn't have to be like that. My self-portraits have changed my self-image over time. Seeing these beautiful photos that you shot of me has further bolstered me. It makes me feel better."
HER NIKES, COURT ROYALE This has a timeless look with a bit of class due to the leather upper. This feature makes it great for people who want a bit of a boost to their casual everyday look. Aside from the adequate comfort and classic design, it is hard to go wrong with a pair of these. Extremely comfortable, sleek style, lightweight, compliment magnet, easy to clean.
"I love them! Just love it, love it, love it! My niece saw mine and wanted to try a pair so I ordered them for her. She loved the look but still preferred a different sneaker so I had to return them. There was nothing wrong with the sneakers at all, just a preference of a different sneaker for her."
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Summer 2023
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Originally I didn't plan on posting these photos until as part of the Girls of Summer '23 package, but I've decided to change my mind about an hour ago and give you guys this shoot. Since this was not planned, I had to put her story together real quick so that it could be released today. This shoot was not as long as I remembered it being, which was a disappointing feeling when I came to the realization that that was the case. I had some fun with this shoot and I thought her soles were very nice. They were as nice as she was. She's also the second woman I took photos of who wore Moccassins. Actually, she's the third one now that I think about it. Those shoes made for a great conversation starter, which eased her right in to agreeing to having her photos taken.
For those who like girls who have this look, then Kaelyn is for you. She's "weird" in an endearing way. She's just weird enough to be interesting and intriguing but not weird enough to be off-putting.
Kaelyn passionately support a few key causes such as animal cruelty/going vegan, green causes, and the like. She has one or two mainstream interests, like meditation, but another interest of hers is watching math videos on YouTube. Her favorite TV show is Jeopardy. She would do real well when watching the game at home and is considering actually becoming a contestant on that show. When she tells her friends about how well she did from watching an episode of the show, they would show no interest in what she's saying, which I find to be funny.
Kaelyn was always a top-placer in exams, she has an incredible memory, she flourishes in academic environments and loves to read.
Hanging out or dating her, you'll find yourself laughing at yourself more and taking things less seriously. You might also find yourself trying things you hadn't considered before, such as doing crossword puzzles for hours. Her mood is somewhat capricious, usually cheerful and content with occasional bouts of unease or unhappiness when thinking too much about one of her causes, for example.
KAELYN SAGE -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 8 (US), 39 (EUR), 5.5 (UK), 25cm , 9.8in
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NATURAL CLASSIC One can tell which country she's from based on the embroidered blouse she wore that day. A visitor from Hamburg, Germany.
Suzanne is her name and here she is in describing her hometown: "It's very green, blue and there's always something to do. There's no city that's as left as Hamburg, which means: it's a city that's as Liberal as it can ever get, and I couldn't live in a better place than Hamburg. We're multicultural here and it works great. It's peaceful as long as you don't send despots or other dictators to our city for a G20.
"Hamburg is the best city in Germany - friendly people, lot of culture, lot of water and lots of canals, variety of different lifestyles, visitors from all around the world. If you're going to visit Germany, then Hamburg.
"The architecture of buildings, bridges, even bus stops and street lamps are amazing. You always find something amazing to look at. There are great running tracks, especially along the quay walls in der Oberhafen (a neighborhood in Hamburg), and good outdoor sports and recreation sites."
I wanted to make this a great shoot. I wasn't sure, however, that it was going to turn out to be great because the sun was relentless as it hovered over us. There was no source for shade and there was not a cloud in sight that was going to provide the comfort for us by covering the sun. At first, Suzanne said the sun wasn't going to be a problem for her, but after a few minutes I felt that it was best for us to go somewhere else to continue the shoot and the second spot I found for us gave us the shade we needed.
When I was asked what it was that I like about women's feet, I could tell that she posed the question in a way as to see if how I answered it matched the description of her feet. I answered, "What it looks like, how it feels, how it tastes, it's scent, who it's connected to, how it affects woman it's connected to when I do things to it."
She was impressed, she showed admiration, respect, and she took a more liking to me. She was sold. Now she really wanted to know more about me, showing some interest.
DO WOMEN MAKE THIER FEET PRETTY TO BE NOTICED? "Of course we do. If we did not want people to see them we would wear closed shoes and would not go to all the effort to make them look pretty! I didn't think that I was going to get the kind of attention that someone would want to take special pictures of them, though. This is a first for me. I'm glad you noticed, glad you're happy. You make me feel more pretty now."
HOW SHE GOT TO WHERE SHE IS She graduated from FOM University of Economics and Management (Germany's largest private university) and now earns a living working for a debt collection agency. Most consumers never expect to fall behind on their debts and obligations. Sometimes, however, circumstances beyond a person's control will result in them being contacted by her. In cases where debtors fail to cooperate or make payments, her agency may initiate legal actions. This can include filing lawsuits, obtaining judgments, or seeking legal remedies to enforce debt repayment. However, legal action is typically a last resort after other collection efforts have been exhausted. Suzanne may look lovely to you now, but if things get tough for you financially, she may be the last person you want to see or hear from.
Overall, her primary role as a debt collector is to assist creditors in recovering unpaid debts while adhering to legal and ethical guidelines. She acts as a mediator between the creditor and debtor, working towards a resolution that benefits both parties.
"What I've learned doing this is basically this: collection is about making the debtor - the person that owes the money - feel good about paying it. You know that he or she doesn't want to pay for something they don't have anymore, like a car or a credit card or an apartment they were evicted from, but it's my job to sell that person on the idea that is in his/her best interests to just pay it and get it over with, because the price of NOT paying is higher than paying it. So, I deliver the 'bad news' and try to be understanding about it, while at the same time painting that picture of possible "bad things to come" if they don't somehow take care of business right now.
"My job teaches me patience, sales skills, confidence and perseverance. Most importantly, it teaches me a lot about the way credit works and the importance of keeping your credit good."
What's great about doing what I do is meeting women who do different things for a living and for fun. Meeting someone who does what she does for a living became an informative part of the conversation. After the shoot she was given a new light on how the concept of foot fetishism can be fun and flirty. She was certainly that with me during the shoot. Suzanne was a much delightful woman to be around and she really felt the same way about me in terms of being a man whose company she was enjoying.
She has a very famous last name, making it one of my favorite names to ever grace the pages of this thread.
SUZANNE BONAPARTE -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 9 (US), 40 (EUR), 6.5 (UK), 25.5cm, 9.84in
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NATURAL CLASSIC Some Southern hospitality has found its way to Central Park.
Emily is making her mark in the art industries, more specifically within the fashion design division. She is incredibly strong. As a ballet dancer, her grace and elegance defies both physics and physiology. In other words, she moves in ways that are decidedly un-natural, but is so smooth that she makes it look like that's how the body "should" work.
She lives in New York, was born and raised in Georgia, though the typical southern accent wasn't detected on her. She sounds like she's from Anywhere, USA ... a neutral accent.
One of her main draws to NYC is the job market. The city is a major centre for finance, media, fashion and technology, and there are many opportunities for highly skilled individuals in these industries, and Emily here has the skills, determination and dedication to believe in herself to thrive and get ahead in the Big Apple. She takes her work seriously with the passion and professionalism it deserves, and she's a sweet lady on top of that, and she has earned the admiration and respect from her peers. Anyone who knows her is proud to have her as a friend and family member.
Emily is a War Eagle and she will bleed navy blue and orange for as long as she lives. Yes, anyone who follows college sports in the United States should be familiar with what was referenced in the last sentence. We are looking at someone who attended Auburn University (yes, that Aubrun University) and has a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Apparel Merchandising, Design, and Production Management to show for it. War Eagle, for those who don't know, is the fight song for that school.
WHEN DESCRIBING LIFE AT AUBURN "Auburn is family. Auburn is like going home. It has the happiest students in America. It's historic, pleasant, it's about tradition. Auburn is coming onto a flight and someone greets you with 'War Eagle.' That university is about finding family everywhere, which gives you the comfort of knowing you have family nearby.
"The students there are very friendly. The teachers are also super kind! When you go to Auburn, it truly feels like home away from home. Not to mention that the campus is absolutely gorgeous. Seriously. The scenery is amazing.
"I will say that the campus has a very traditional, southern family feel. In my opinion, people with politically liberal ideas would not fit in very well there. Being in the middle of Alabama there are a lot of conservatives there and it'll show. I'm a conservative lady myself, and so naturally that environment is right up my alley. But the people are nice and friendly if you are willing to go out and meet people."
THE COLLEGE PARTY SCENE "SEC (Southeastern Conference) schools are known for being major party schools, primarily due to our Greek life, football, bar scene, and tailgates. Auburn is no exception to this. However, Auburn is not as big of a party school as the other SEC schools like South Carolina, Bama and Ole Miss.
"Basically every college has a good amount of parties, unless you go to a heavily commuter school, a tiny school in the middle of nowhere, or a super religious school like a BYU. In summary, I suggest that students who are only there to party not to attend Auburn, because most everyone else is there for school, and while they do go out, education is their goal, not getting wasted. If you want a real party school with very little education, go to Bama."
I like that little dig from her at the end there, referencing Auburn's biggest rival.
Emily knows more about college football more than a casual football fan. She would talk about the Auburn Tigers games in very much the same way that someone at SportsScenter would while you would imagine the showing of the highlights of the game that just happened. She has an extensive knowledge about the history and latest going-ons about the Tigers and can communicate clearly what happened on a specific play. The way she talks about the games and the players would make one think she's a play-by-play announcer.
THOUGHTS ON HER OWN FEET "My feet are great. I wouldn't be where I am today without them," she joked. I mentioned something about how she dances some ballet. It wasn't really the focus of our conversation, but from what she did say about it, I never got the sense that this was something she really really dedicated herself to, but she knows enough about it to be able to have a lengthy conversation with someone who dances ballet professionally.
A LASTING IMPRESSION ON HER FEET I loved how her socks left indentations on her ankles caused by the pressure from the elastic in them. She apologized to me for how prominent that feature was and I had to assure her that that was nothing to be ashamed about because it's normal for her to get lines on her ankles after wearing tight or restrictive socks for an extended period of time. She then said, "Yeah, I mean they are typically harmless when you think about it, and it should disappear once the socks have been removed to allow the blood flow to return to the area."
Her feet were hot -- and I mean hot -- coming out of those socks as I felt the intensity of the humidity emanating from her bare feet. Waving my hand a few inches above the tip of her toes while her soles were facing me, I felt the invisible waves of humidity surrounding her feet, and that was a pretty neat sensation to feel.
IN HER SHOES The iconic shoe has became the go-to choice of sports stars, artists and musicians alike, and to this day is a part of the uniform of daily life. The All Star still remains Converse's key style, while apparel and accessories collections now sit alongside its sneakers to offer a full lifestyle range.
Her name is Emily Class, but here she's EMILY WITH CLASS -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 7.5 (US), 38 (EUR), 5.5 (UK), 23.5857171858754cm, 9.28571428571in
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Summer 2023
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NATURAL ADVICE This addresses the mental aspects of someone who aspires to do what I do. The mind can make people see or imagine things that aren't there. I get asked a lot about how to deal with rejection. I'll talk about dealing with the aftermaths of rejection tomorrow. Today, though, I'll address what to do before you make the approach so that when the inevitable rejection happens, you will think nothing of it. That stuff has doesn't do anything to me, as it allows me to walk up to other women.
You have to go into the conversation assuming the woman is going to say yes. When you have that way of thinking, it is going to come off in how you speak, how you carry yourself and the woman is going to sense that.
A lot of guys assume the woman is going to say no already, which means they're going to go into that conversation thinking she's not going to like them anyway. When you speak to them, already thinking they're going to turn you down, you will sound soft and apologetic to her, in addition to feeling timid and very nervous around her. That energy repels the woman. She rejects you based off of the energy you're giving off. If you're the opposite of that, all confident and a bit more playful, a bit cocky even, and you're assuming women are going to say yes, you will have a different approach and it will make a world of difference.
Women have filtering systems because a lot of guys come at them all the time. If you're nervous, jittery, apologetic, scared to say certain things to them, they're going to think you're one of those weirdos. Any one of them won't feel the need to spend any time with you and so she'll dismiss you right away because she knows you're going to be awkward and she is going to have to be awkward with you, and so it's best for her to end it.
A guy who exudes confidence, who has the ability to talk smooth, she'll sense that the interaction is going to go well. When she filters through, she'll think you're fun, she'll think you're interesting, and she wouldn't mind taking part in the shoot.
If you're all nervous on the approach, you increase the likelihood that she'll reject you and she'll say to herself, You know, I don't want anything to do with this guy. I'm done here, please get away from me. If you talk to her as if she's going to say yes, it increases the chances that she'll go along with the impromtu shoot.
If you're approaching women who turn out to be neutral in your presence, knowing how to sound persuasive, talking as if she's going to say yes, she may actually comply with you. If you're scared to talk, if you don't know what to say, if you're all over the place, if you sound inadequate, she'll dismiss you on the spot because she is going to have to find a way to get herself out of the interaction because you're making it awkward for her. When she recognizes a guy who can talk, she's more likely to say yes. When you're the guy who's weird and kind of nervous, she'll say to herself, Okay, let me back away from this guy.
I always talk about how looking good can increase your chances of success. While that's true, while looks certainly help, it doesn't paint the whole picture. When you appreciate your own abilities and qualities, that can get you past the finish line. In other words, even if she thinks you look good, not knowing how to speak to her will not get you the results you want.
When you have the assumption that these women are going to say yes, then you're better off. You see, I assume that the woman I approach is going to say yes. Guys who aspire to do what I do go about this the wrong way: they interact with women who are not interested, they think the women are going to say no before making the approach, which means they interact with more women who wind up not being interested in being in their presence. This is what a lot of beginners will do, and this is a huge mistake. What a beginner will do is he'll go up to a few girls, they try to talk to them, and let's say one girl doesn't stop to talk to him, the other girl rejects him, another other girl says she has a boyfriend and walks away really fast ... he'll start to think, I can't believe this ... none of these girls like me ... I can't get these women to do this ...
When he starts to think that way, that is going to make it harder for him to find women to participate in the shoot. It'll make it harder for him to get all of these wonderful women to show their wonderful feet to him on a nice beautiful day. Why? Because he's going down a spiral that leads to negativity.
The reason rejection doesn't bother me is because I may not know what her situation is. The reality is not every girl is going to say yes. You will get turned down. But what most guys do is that when women reject them, here's what they'll do: they'll give a reason for the rejection and they'll act as if it's a fact. They'll think she rejected them because they're ugly, or losers, or because they're not 6'3'' or some other reason. These guys will say that to themselves as if they know for sure that that's why they got rejected. But how do they know? They don't. They're coming up with their own theories. So if you're going to come up with your own theories, why don't you come up with theories that serves you?
A lot of this journey is mental. It's a mental exercise because they talk themselves into being insecure. A guy will talk to a girl, the girl rejects him, he'll think he got rejected because he's ugly, then he'll talk to other girls because he needs something positive to happen.
He'll go to the second girl. But he'll go to the second girl with the defeated energy from the first girl. The second girl rejects him because she feels there's something off about him (the defeated energy) and it repels her. And so he goes to the third girl with the defeated energy from the second and the first girl. Now he's all upset and goes to the next girl asking if he can take pictures of her feet, but he sounds deflated as he speaks to her. She rejects him and so now he's pissed. Then he approaches the fifth girl with the defeated energy from the four girls before her. So after she rejects him, he goes postal.
When you reframe it and assume that women are going to say yes, every time a girl rejects you, you reframe it to something else. You can think that she's having issues and she's not ready to bask in your glory. Or you can think to yourself that her having a boyfriend or husband is the reason why she's doesn't want to participate in the shoot and she doesn't want photos of her on the internet because her man will get upset.
Looks get eyeballs on you, confidence gets you her ear.
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MORE ADVICE
I WANT TO APPROACH THESE WOMEN AND I WOULD LOVE TO TAKE PICTURES OF THEIR FEET. IT'S JUST THAT I HAVE A HARD TIME FIGURING OUT WHAT TO SAY TO THEM. The problem is not the women. Let me repeat that: the problem is not the women. When you go to McDonald's to order your food, do you have a hard time ordering your food?
"No, I know what I want."
Wait, say that again 'cause this is a lightbulb moment for you. So you know what you want with McDonald's, but you don't know what you want from these women?
"No, I know that I want to take pictures of their feet, but I don't know how to get to that."
So if you want to take those type of pictures, then why not just say that to them? That's what I do.
"Well, I can't just approach a woman and say that."
Why can't you? What's the issue? What are you scared of?
"I'm scared that I'm going to get slapped across the face or yelled at."
Then participating in this activity may not be for you.
I'm going to tell you why you just may get slapped across the face or yelled at. You don't think you have what it takes to pull this off, Number 1. Number 2, you're scared of these women. Number 3, you're not going to be able to stand on what you are, so any words that come out of your mouth is going to be creepy. If you don't believe you can get women to remove their shoes for you and get them to enjoy the experience with you from the photoshoot, then the words you tell them will sound creepy to them, I don't care how carefully you worded it to them.
If you're in a plane and you sense there's trouble in the air, and the pilot assures you that everything will be just fine, you'll feel better. But if he tells you everything will be just fine, but there was something about how he said it that made you feel as if he couldn't convince himself of what he said, you will feel unsure about the situation. The same thing applies here: you'll get yelled at and have security called on you because your words aren't smooth. The words will come off as unsettling, causing an unpleasant feeling of fear and unease to these women. That's what it is, because why else do you think you'll get those harsh reactions?
I get a lot of private messages from guys saying something along the lines of how the women in their city or country wouldn't even dare to expose their feet for them. To them, there must be something in the water in NYC that makes all these women say yes, and whatever that something is, it's not in the water in their part of the world, they believe. They'll say something along the lines of, "They're open minded in New York, but they'll never do that in (name whatever city or country)."
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That's the wrong attitude to have. What would make you think a woman is going to slap you or go crazy? I'll answer that question for you. You believe these women are going to blow up and make a huge scene because you don't think women are that open minded, and because you don't think they will be open minded like that with you.
It doesn't matter which part of the world you're from, if a guy walks up to them with the right attitude, these women may very well do it. I've taken pictures of who come from such and such city to such and such country. I've taken photos of women from Maine to Brisbane (in Australia). Even though everywhere else in the world it's pronounced Brisbin, I'm saying that in American as Brisbaine just to make it rhyme so I can get my point across. From Maine to Brisbane. (Click Here to See What I Mean)
Women from around the world are open to doing this. And so if you really think they can't do it in the city or country you live in, again: the problem is not the women.
My advice to you is that if you're that worried about how negatively they'll react to you, then don't do this because the state of your mind is not on the right page right now because just because you want to see their feet, doesn't mean it's going to happen because she's not going to by into the things you're saying. If you don't believe in yourself, it's going to come through in how you speak and it'll come through in your demeanor, which means you're going to get the responses you won't like.
Let's say I go up to a girl and I ask her if I can take pictures of her feet. Let's say she tells me "Hell no." By the way, that actually happened to me one time. She said that to me before walking away in a hurry. Let's say she says hell no or "that's disgusting! .. Like, what's wrong with you? ... Like, eww!" What's going to happen is that with me, I'll tell her to have a nice day and I'll walk away. What'll happen next is that I'm going to walk up to another girl and I'm going to say the exact, same, thing. The exact same thing.
Now what you're going to do is, let's say you said the same thing I did to a female who's feet you'd like to take pictures of. Let's say she reacts to you in the same way the other girl reacted to me. Do you know what you're going to do? You're going to be upset, you're going to be shaken up, you're going to think about it all day, you're going to wonder why she said those things, and you're heart rate is going to triple. Do you see the difference?
So what I'm saying is that your focus is the issue. You may look at a girl and think, Oh my God, she's so pretty ... I could never get a woman like that to say yes to this ... oh my God, how do I say the right thing? ... What if she doesn't like me? What if she says this, or what if she thinks that? I don't talk or think that way. I'm going to give her the opportunity to enjoy my company while she rewards me with her feet all because I tell them what's on my mind.
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And that's all the advice I have for the summer. I've got a couple of more shoots to show you. Both of them are Classics, and they are true masterpieces to the Visionair Era. The one I'll show on Saturday will be the Main Event of the entire summer, the main event of all the women I've shown for the summer issue.
In the meantime, enjoy your night.
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Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
My favorite photo in Emily's gallery is #17. Great, high resolution close up of both gorgeous soles , with her beautiful face, too.
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NATURAL CLASSIC This may very well end up on my personal list of my fifty most favorite shoots I've ever done. I knew that I had fully tapped in to the Visionair Era with this shoot and I was proud for what I have done here. The day was just nice, the shape of her feet were just right. I love how she was cool enough to give me the time I needed to let my creativity flow to get the shots that made this shoot memorable for me.
I remember thinking just how slow of a day it was for me until I saw Aimy reading a book while sitting on the grass. She has an athletic build to her, I like the jeans and sneakers combination, and she looked like someone with a competitive edge to her and someone who's a consummate professional in whichever line of work she did. That was what I able to gauge from her appearance.
The novel she read on of the shoot is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation towards the end.
When asked to describe her take on the book, she said, "It's brutal, devastating, beautiful, and stunning. The author didn't write this book; he opened his heart and just let it bleed all over the pages. Truly something else. For example: ..." She's turning through a few pages back before she finds it, "You once told me that the human eye is God's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty." She wasn't done yet as she read off another passage from the book that meant a lot to her. She held the book to her chest. It was all just beautiful to her. I let her have that moment to herself.
This is Amee Pearson, a woman with a New York address, a Massachusetts ID, and an Iowa area code trying to find a place to call home. She loves traveling, marketing, yoga, eating her way through NYC and anything that makes her laugh.
SOME SCENES FROM THE CITY THAT INVOLVED HER: ∙ "A few days ago as I walked down the block to work that morning, I saw a man doing chin ups using the scaffolding on the building next to where I live. As I approached wondering what his story was, a security guard comes out of the hospital and chases him away. I guess he couldn't afford a gym membership."
∙ "I was walking through the East Village yesterday when I found myself crossing at a busy crosswalk. A large group of us were almost across when a young teen on a bicycle came racing around the corner right in front of us. The old woman next to me took her rolled up newspaper and smacked him right in the back as he went past."
∙ "Have you ever been to the Burp Castle? Well, it's a bar and my friends got ssshhhed for talking to loudly in it."
Love how Amee has adjusted to life in New York pretty well.
CHOOSING A CAREER IN MARKETING AND ADVERTISING "To be a good marketer you constantly have to be thinking of new stuff. To do that you constantly have to be learning new things. It's never rocket science, but it's fun to see when things like good design affect business results."
Pearson's job as a marketer is to figure out what motivates people. There's a lot that goes into this. She has to look at data, talk to people, and ultimately test what works, just like a researching psychologist would.
Amee has one of the high ranking positions at a marketing agency. Her favorite part is that it never gets boring. Every client is different. To her, one of the most fun things is pitching new clients and getting to learn everything about their world.
To a certain extent, she has to be in the know about trends, tech, and tactics to stay successful as a marketer, saying, "I like be up to speed on this type of stuff. I'm turning forty soon and sometimes when I hang with friends my own age they seem old and out of touch. I suppose marketing keeps me young."
Amee here an avid jogger. An avid jogger. I caught her on her off day but we spent some time talking about how she uses her feet. She ran in two NYC Marathons and and so she definitely puts her feet to good use. She talked about how jogging improves her mental mind set and how it makes her a better person internally.
She said, "It's a life experience truly, as you learn the failure, success, speed, slowness, overtaking, being overtaken, stamina etc. It's a blessing to your body, it's a pain killer for all your worries and failures. For all of my worries and failures. And," almost as if she forgot to mention this part, "it increases endurance: jogging helps to build endurance, making it easier to perform physical activities for longer periods of time."
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HER SOLES ARE PRECISELY MY TYPE Time slowed down when I finally saw the magic that her sneakers hid. Seeing soles like Amee's validates to me why having a foot fetish is justified through and through. When I see something that beautiful, I take my time during the shoot to figure out what I can do to make this a memorable shoot. It was one of those things I was glad I was able to live through the experience, being in front of her feet like that. I love the shots of being underneath the soles, looking up at them. Seeing something truly beautiful like that makes me fall in love. It's inexplicable.
You should see the arches on her feet. Opposite of "National Park Girl" back in the Spring 2023 edition who had flat feet. That was how her feet naturally aligned, relaxed in its normal state.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Summer 2023
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NATURAL CLASSIC I was walking along and I saw someone out of the corner of my eye. I was that close from not being able to spot her because she was hiding behind some trees and the whole thing had the look and feel of not wanting to be found. If she had worn green that day, I don't think anyone would've spotted her because that's how well hidden she was. Her back was facing me ... but I could tell she was an elegant grace. That was what drew me closer to her.
As I got closer, I could hear her singing. Singing opera. She was practicing or rehearsing her story through singing. It was only loud enough for only for her to hear herself. I had to find a way to interrupt her without startling her. It was a good thing I didn't because that may have screwed my chances of getting to know her. As I usually do, I got straight to the point and told her that she would make for a fantastic centerpiece for my photography. When I told her that I wanted to take pictures of her feet, she said, "Oh!"
ME: I'll take that as a yes. HER: I mean ... yes! This is something different. I admire what I can sense is your ... the way you project yourself, I can't find the right word to describe it at the moment. But the way you said it was calming, and I get with that.
When I told her that many women have gone along with the shoot, she said that she could see why, saying that my that my smile can anyone over, "It won me over. Your smile makes me feel beautiful." That, and how she liked my sunglasses.
We walked for a couple of minutes before I found a spot to do the shoot. I was starting to like how the photos were coming out doing shoots on the bench and so I wanted to continue with that trend to see how the results were going to look like with her.
SHE'S FROM WISCONSIN "Yeah, Midwestern girl here. Wisconsin is so beautiful. People seem to think that Wisconsin is just another Nebraska with a lake. It may not be as interesting or exciting as New York, but the truth is that Wisconsin has a lot of hidden gems, beautiful scenery, little towns that seem to have come straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting.
"Football is a way of life there, as you know. Life-long Packers fan. Cheese is in abundance there. I love cheese. I love, love, love, love cheese!
"In Wisconsin, it's not uncommon to come across local cheese factories and find the parking lots full. Shoppers that stopped for ice cream are leaving with bags and boxes of a variety of flavored cheeses produced on-site. Have you ever had taco cheese, cranberry cheese, and even chocolate cheese? I have.
"Summertime is the best in Wisconsin. Folklore festivals, air shows, car races, beaches and of course the northern lakes area. You name it and you'll find it here in Wisconsin.
"One more point: Winter. Wisconsin lets you know when its winter. There will never be any confusion, until you find yourself standing outside in 48-degree sunshine in February, followed by the next days of 10 below zero. Just have some cheese and everything will be fine."
A BEAUTIFUL VOICE When it comes to opera, she's a soprano who can belt. Belting requires using a mixed voice, which in layman's terms means head and chest voice. Chest voice will give you the power of a belt, while head voice will let you take your chest voice up and belt those higher notes.
She did some supporting acting roles in independent films and has been on stage performing for several musicals. She's also a majorette -- and so if you've never met a girl who can twirl a baton, throw it in the air and catch as she's spinning or doing a dance routine, then you've got your class act right here.
SOME BEAUTIFUL FEET She has some of the prettiest feet I've ever photographed. She said, "The way I see it, humans are weird and we all have weird things we like. If it's not unhealthy or hurting anyone, I don't judge. The way you (meaning me) described how you feel about my feet is actually quite beautiful."
BEAUTIFUL ALL AROUND ∙ Kennedy is charming and can make others smile. She has the grace and charm to get out of most uncomfortable situations. If there's anything she isn't, it's catty or mean.
∙ She's thoughtful, caring, loving, and kind. She'll make you smile back whenever she's smiling at you.
∙ She has a clear vision for her future and goes after it with determination. It does not necessarily have to be a job or career, just something she is passionate about. She'll stir your emotions in a positive way, and give you a run for your money. She's extremely strong-willed and may also be too stubborn, and that could be very frustrating sometimes. But Kennedy is a smart woman, which means she knows how to choose her battles diplomatically. That is what helps her become a winner in life.
∙ If you're out with her at a bar or restaurant and you bump into someone you know, you don't need to be worried about any attitude she may give to your friend. She will uphold your image in front of others. Needless to say, you should also possess the same qualities. You should extend the same courtesy and respect to her family, friends, coworkers, and any other person in her life.
∙ She has a face that can get away with murder. I say that only to accentuate just how great quality of a person she is because Kennedy has a heart of gold and will not stress you out.
∙ She likes dad jokes: "What did the cop say to the belly button? You're under a vest."
Kennedy Girl is great. Her feet are so good. Interesting background story as well.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
- I like how the guy in Suzanne's photo is looking back to get another look to see if a foot shoot was indeed a fetish shoot, and in the photo with Emily, it's as if the people in it don't know we're there.
- "Oh! My big boobies," was what the Coolest Mom Ever said right before that photo was taken. - Melissa looking forward to whatever life has in store for her. An optimistic outlook. - Katherine is full of joy, enjoying her read in Central Park.
- Movements reflects - Something about nerdy girls that make their feet amazing. - This shot with the Amee shoot was one of those perfectly timed photos. That black spot was a hawk flying above us.
- Wisconsin cheese or Swiss cheese?
Length of Each Shoot: Movements - 15 mins Melissa Truly - 21 mins Abundance of Katherine - 23 mins Kaylen Sage - 38 mins Emily with Class - 39 mins Kennedy Girl - 40 mins Suzanne Bonaparte - 41 mins Coolest Mom Ever - 58 mins Amee Pearson - 63 mins The Kindest Heist - 70 mins
Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy the rest of your summer, and I will see you guys again in Autumn.
Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
Have a great remaining summer time, National, and thank you for posting these truly fine galleries. Looking forward to your posts in the Autumn.
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Every weekend during the spring and summer months, Tiffany would sit at a nice spot, sunbathe in a shaded/not-so-shaded area, while going through some research papers, taking notes, all in the name of she does for a living.
I don't know where to even begin when describing her work because it's expansive, and her full span of knowledge, the depth and breadth of what she knows, far exceeds what most people are able to comprehend.
Tiffany is a research scientist. She's a professional who conducts scientific work in a variety of fields, such as biology and engineering. In order to collect data and analyze results, she uses a variety of methods, such as experiments, surveys, and simulations. She also specializes in bioinformatics.
Bioinformatics is a scientific area of study that involves using computer technology to collect, store, analyze and disseminate biological data and information, such as DNA and amino acid sequences or annotations about those sequences. She works in wet labs (laboratories that contain sinks and other fixtures for working with liquids) and dry labs (typically reserved for computer work and other tasks that don't require access to water). She knows a thing or two with regards to oncology and she does extensive work when it comes to auto-immune diseases. All of this to say that anyone who studies Tiffany's past, knows she has the answers to questions we're probably not advanced enough to ask!
WORDS SHE USED DURING OUR CONVERSATION ∙ cell microstructure ∙ computational predictions ∙ electrophysiology ∙ hypo-osmotic
I guarantee that that marked the first time those words were ever spoken during a foot shoot. She spoke to me as if I knew my way around an operation room or a laboratory. I think what made her think I had a pretty good idea of what her job entails was because I used some terms or phrases that a forensic scientist would use. By the way, in case anyone is keeping score, she's French, and so you can imagine how it sounded like when she said all of those things in her accent. Sounded nice.
Right now she works at one of the hospitals in NYC, applying all of her skills in that environment.
It wasn't until after the shoot was over was when she asked me if I had a foot fetish. You see, at the beginning when I asked if I could take photos of her feet, she said yes and I just went right into it. We never talked about feet during the shoot. When she asked if I had a foot fetish, I said yes. Not, "umm ... yes?", but yes in a matter of fact way. Do you know what she did about that? She smiled and thought my liking of women's feet was pretty cool. She said, "It's pretty normal. I like how you were honest about it." I wasn't sure what she made of the shoot during the shoot, but she appreciated it a lot more in hindsight.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Autumn 2023
Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
I really like photo #8 in this gallery because it shows one sole smooth and the other sole wrinkled with toes scrunched.
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I came across a Japanese woman reading a book on the grass under a tree. She looked beautiful and was curious to see how shooting photos of her would come out.
She's a home baker. She talked a bit about how baking is fun for her and how it requires a certain meticulous attention to detail and skills that get better with practice.
She has biscuit hands. That means she has mastered the art of rubbing flour and butter together, adding liquid, and patting or rolling the dough without developing the gluten that makes it tough. It's important for pie dough, for shortbread, and naturally, for biscuits. Some bakers are relaxed with their ingredients. I suspect she's one of those bakers who's not that way, but instead she's one of those who always knows to the very last gram what's in every recipe.
She talked about some of the desserts she loves preparing, including a Japanese caramel custard pudding called "Purin", which is similar to flan. To get technical, the dessert in Japan is called "custard purin" not "pudding" because the way you pronounce an 'r' in Japanese sounds a bit like a 'd'. The photo you see of that treat was a photo she actually took. Very nice and inviting.
She's joyful; loves to show and give pleasure; often satisfied with something and not worried about it. It brings her joy to bring joy to others.
She has no problem dating a guy with a foot fetish, just as long as he doesn't "obsess" over them.. She was completely fine with me touching her feet and it helped her become more relaxed during the shoot.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Autumn 2023
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jota Milagros: I really like photo #8 in this gallery because it shows one sole smooth and the other sole wrinkled with toes scrunched.
I remember wanting (or wishing, long after the shoot was over) the foot on the top to have its toes be a bit more scrunched than the way it came out in the photo. Glad you liked it.
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I was walking along when I spotted our next lady walking ahead of me. I immediately knew I wanted to take photos of her. I got distracted, however, and saw another woman who walked past me who caught my interest. Since the second lady was closer to me in proximity, I decided to go up to her instead.
She turned me down.
That approach didn't produce a shoot, and I had lost sight of the first girl I was interested in.
It may have been fifteen minutes later after doing some more walking around the park when, miraculously, the first lady reappeared. This time she appeared right in front of me, walking in the opposite direction I was. That was my lucky stars' way of giving me a second chance at this, and so I seized on it and got her attention.
She was excited at the opportunity and I began looking for a spot to have the shoot with her.
There's a noticeable bruise on her left ankle. She was involved in a car crash that saw her bone around the ankle poke through her skin. It was a pretty horrific scene and she's lucky to be alive today, given the details of what happened to her in that moment. She doesn't walk with a limp, and so she's doing pretty well for someone who has had that happen her.
She's into hip-hop and knows how to rap herself. The topics of conversation in what she raps about revolves around aversion to crime and violence. She'll rap about culture, the economy, or depictions of the struggles of ordinary people. She seeks to raise awareness of social issues, leaving the listeners to form their own opinions.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Autumn 2023
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I love the way her soles shimmer in the sunlight in photo #11 in her gallery! Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Around four in the afternoon on a Monday, strolling around the park on my day off from work. A very short shoot with a woman born and raised in San Francisco but who now lives in New York. She was enjoying her afternoon in Central Park doing some art work. Her dirty soles, from having already walked on the grass, added something different to the shoots I usually do.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Autumn 2023
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Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
I love her big, dirty soles! It is a shame that she is hiding her face under that mask, not really necessary outdoors in the park.
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I saw a girl with incredibly long hair, and I immediately knew that I wanted to take photos of her. She's about 6'1'', and is twenty years old. She's into anime, and she's an artist who draws anime characters. That has become her lifestyle and she's a sweet and awesome person to be around.
She would date a guy who watches anime, saying, "I like anime- if you like anime, it's a bonus, definitely. Genres I watch go from romance to psychological horror, non-stop action and adventure. We'll be able to talk about things I like, and things you like. Where's the negative?"
She loves watching anime because, "it's just the perfect thing for those who are fascinated with animation, which narrate amazing storylines. The visuals leave an impact hard enough to make you re-watch it. Anime is like a dreamland, carrying great stories with a rainbow of emotions."
She went on to talk about how the plots and storylines when watching the animation would widen your brain's imagination. "Anime provides a look into the human heart in this way ... often brings tears and even profound reflection to me. It forces you to confront topics and ask questions."
She's a digital artist. The field of digital art branches out to multiple career paths. Many of these involve designing visuals and animations for videos and games. Digital artist work goes hand in hand with film production, advertising, video game, and software design companies. Being a digital artist, computer and software proficiency is necessary to bring one's art to life. With her look and personality, I cannot imagine her being involved with anything else that doesn't involve anime somehow. She used the shoot as an opportunity to catch up on some of her artwork.
She never thought her feet would ever become the center of attention in a series of photos, but she was glad to take part in this creative process with me.
As for her personality, I would say she's rather curious, naive, hopeful, playful, creative, adventurous, optimistic, outgoing, caring, rebellious and empathetic. The name I've given her combines her characteristic traits and is given the feel as if it's a name that a mythical creature can have in those animation movie or series. She's cute with some superpowers.
*As a reminder: if an image doesn't appear properly when you click to enlarge the image (as it does with two images in this gallerie), you can always use the right-click on your mouse, go to 'open image in new tab' to view it in its proper dimensions.*
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jota Milagros: I love her big, dirty soles! It is a shame that she is hiding her face under that mask, not really necessary outdoors in the park.
I know, taking photos with her mask on was not ideal. Before the shoot started, she gave me the disclaimer that she had Covid, and so I had a choice to make. I decided to take the pictures anyway, and she was okay with that. There was another one who had her mask on because she had Covid (I have yet to show those photos). In neither case did I catch a cold from those shoots.
Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
quote:Originally posted by National:
quote:Originally posted by Jota Milagros: I love her big, dirty soles! It is a shame that she is hiding her face under that mask, not really necessary outdoors in the park.
I know, taking photos with her mask on was not ideal. Before the shoot started, she gave me the disclaimer that she had Covid, and so I had a choice to make. I decided to take the pictures anyway, and she was okay with that. There was another one who had her mask on because she had Covid (I have yet to show those photos). In neither case did I catch a cold from those shoots.
Ah, she was wearing the mask for everybody else's protection. When I had Covid back in February, I just stayed home for ten days until I tested negative on a home test.
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NATURAL ADVICE For people who are interested in what plays a role in how women do not see a problem of posing their feet for me, I present you the following piece of advice. Looks do play a part in my success. In this post, I will tell you some of the things you may be doing that are hurting your chances of success.
You are destroying your appearance all by yourself. Congratulations, man. Congratulations. On a daily basis, you are ruining how you look, and it's easy to fix. An example?
I promise you that 99 percent of you reading this do not moisturize on a daily basis. What you do not realize is that although a moisturizer is great for minimizing the appearance of wrinkles, what the moisturizer is also great for is avoiding acne breakouts. Your face filled with acne, bumps, and all of that texture will never be attractive. You can fix that by moisturizing.
You need to understand that when you moisturize, your skin will understand that it's hydrated, and it will avoid the overproduction of oil. When oil starts to overproduce, not only does your face get oily, you start clogging your pores, which leads to the appearance of acne.
Moisturize your skin.
YOU'RE SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME IN THE SHOWER The American Dermatology Association recommends that you should spend no more than ten minutes a day in the shower, and that's with lukewarm water.
Most of you are spending a half an hour in the shower with boiling water, which is three times the recommended amount. The scorching water destroys your skin, strips away the oil from your hair, the oil from your skin, and it's over-drying your scalp. The more you do all of this, the more you're wearing down your looks, your protective layers, making you more susceptible to damage. You leave your scalp too dry and your skin looking and feeling irritated. You develop cracked skin that can lead to infections.
YOU'RE IGNORNING YOUR HAIR LOSS. Too many times a lot of the problems can be preemptive. You can go on the defensive early to avoid the massive loss in the future. What ends up happening, though, is that you go on offense when you're fifty years old when you've already lost sixty percent of your hair, and good luck getting that back. At that point, you're going to have to book a flight to Turkey. But right now, when you're young, this is when you do it.
Two out of three guys will experience some sort of hair loss by the time they're thirty-five -- and that includes any number of you reading this. With Keeps, or Roman, or Hims, you can do something about it. Those companies have revolutionized how men take care of hair loss at home. You no longer have to call to make an appointment, then go to that doctor visit, then have that awkward conversation with a doctor, the doctor giving you the prescription, you having to go the pharmacy ... none of that.
In your home, right now, as you're reading this, you can go to any one of their sites to schedule a consultation with a US-licensed physician who will take a look at your case, see what has to be done, and will prescribe to you the only two FDA generic medications that have been proven to stop hair loss in its tracks and, in some cases, regrow your hair.
If you don't ignore this, and if you listen to me and take action today, the earlier you start, the more hair you get to keep and grow back.
YOU DON'T CHANGE YOUR HAIRSTYLE Most of you have had the same hairstyle since you were ten years old. It's been all that time and you cannot look the same. Your face has changed and your structure has changed. You've become a man, and you have to understand that as your face morphs, your hairstyle should change as well.
Have a barber look at your face structure and have him recommend to you a different hair style. If you are not sold on the new hair style, you can always grow it out. But the more you explore with different styles to your hair, the sooner you'll feel fresh, more confident, and if you hit it right, you will look more attractive.
YOU GO OUT WITHOUT SUNSCREEN Most of you only use sunscreen when you know you're going to be at the beach or at the pool, which is basically never. It doesn't matter what the weather is doing and it doesn't matter if it's in the middle of winter, you have to use sunscreen on a daily basis. Even if you work from home -- and listen to me carefully -- even if you work from home and you are near a window, you should still use sunscreen.
A truck driver (who's basically indoors most of the time) showed us the left side of his face (where the sun kept piercing through the window). It had more damage than the right side of his face (where there was very little sunlight). Click Here to Read the Story
If you're indoors all the time or if you do Ubereats, whatever it is ... if there's a window near you, you're getting sun damage. The best thing you can do is to start early, apply the sunscreen to avoid the loss later on.
YOUR LACK OF COMMITMENT By that I mean a lack of commitment to yourself.
You see, you don't need me. Everyone knows what you have to do. Deep within, you know what you have to do to look better, whether it's going to the gym, eating less, fixing your hair loss, smelling better ... you know what you have to do, but you're not committed enough to put in the work because most of the stuff you have to do to work on yourself is not easy.
It takes time. It takes consistency, it takes commitment, and you're not committed enough to yourself, and that lack of commitment is ruining how you look.
That's it for me today. I will be back tomorrow for more advice for those who are curious about my success, and for those who aspire to do what I do. I'm giving you guys the insight, and I hope you find this helpful.
-National
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NATURAL ADVICE I have more piece of advice for anyone who aspires to do what I have done, walking up to random women and getting them to reveal their bare feet for you, just like that. Like yesterday, the points I'm going to make are geared towards letting you know what not to do to your appearance, meaning if you ignore what I'm about to say here, your chances of seeing their feet up close and personal won't increase, and it'll decrease.
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There are certain grooming trends that are not helping you. You would think that everything you do for your personal grooming is a positive. But when it comes to, for example, ...
PAINTING YOUR NAILS ... , it's not a positive. Listen, you can do whatever you please. If you want to paint your nails, and if that's what you're into, go for it. But let's be honest about this: it comes with a stigma, and what benefit does that bring you? And I know what you're going to say: "But National, Bad Bunny does it, and all the girls love him."
*Sighs*
Yes, Bad Bunny does it, and all the girls love him. Yes, those things are true. But what you are forgetting is that Bad Bunny is also rich and famous, and you have to take those things into account. If you are a normal Joe, a regular guy with a regular bank account, painting your nails is not helping you.
WEARING CHEAP FRAGRANCE The stuff you buy that's really cheap, that makes you think you actually smell good, such as your AXE body sprays, the stuff that costs you under ten dollars, most of those sprays are filled with ninety eight to ninety nine percent alcohol, and only one or two percent fragrance. Not only is the scent cheap (because it makes you smell like a public restroom that just had its floor mopped), it's also packed with so... much... alcohol, that you end up smelling more like a counterfeit chemical and less like the natural oils that make you smell fantastic.
You should invest in quality scents which will make all the difference in the world. If you want the quality fragrances that'll have the scents last for quite a while, without making your wallet feel nineteen pounds lighter, then check out Scentbird.
A MESSY BATHROOM Just because you're a guy, it's almost understood that your bathroom should be messy. Let's get to the point here: it's a power move for it to be clean, and it makes you look better knowing where everything is, where your tools and equipment are, to make you look as good as possible that morning.
Women who I shot photos of in Central park visit my apartment. Let me tell you: when they go into my bathroom and see that it's in immaculate condition, when they see that everything is organized, they get American Psycho vibes. They are astonished by how my bathroom is exactly right, and exactly the way it should be.
It's a power move to keep your bathroom organized.
GREEN GROOMING This is the category for the organic stuff. There are guys who say they only use organic bars, organic this, and organic that. Green grooming, to an extent, is a good thing. I can understand you wanting to use items that has less plastic, that's more environmentally friendly, and anything else that makes you hum in harmony. But you need to understand that if you want to look as good as possible, there are certain products that cannot be organic because they are not as effective as the things that are engineered in a laboratory. You have to understand that these labs are spending billions of dollars to find ingredients such as retinol and salicylic acid that have been engineered and found to be extremely effective on the skin.
If you want to find products that actually work, you can't just use the green stuff just because it's organic. "Organic" is just a marketing word to make you feel good on the inside, but it won't make you look as good as the stuff that have been concocted by the people in those lab suits over the course of many years.
ONLY GROWING WHAT YOU CAN Beards can make you look better ... but if you only have a peach fuzz, a little soul patch, or a few strangling hairs on your cheeks, shave it off. In that case, you're much better off clean shaven than growing only what you're able to grow.
HAVE A SHAMPOO AND CONDITIONER You need to have a separate shampoo and conditioner, and that means no 2-in-1s, no 3-in-1s, no 5-in-1s.
Yes, it might seem efficient, but you need to understand that you're not getting the job done with that stuff. A shampoo and conditioner have different objectives: a shampoo is meant to strip things away, whereas a conditioner is meant to add or nourish. You cannot have both in one bottle because you're going to have a subpar item that's not giving you the results you need, and it's going to over-dry and damage your hair.
It's time for grown-man moves, and you should always have a shampoo, conditioner, and a body wash separately.
REPLACE YOUR TOOTHBRUSH EVERY THREE MONTHS This is not National saying this. This the ADA (the American Dental Association) saying this. Your toothbrush collects a bunch of bacteria and dirt. On top of that, the bristles become weaker after those three months of usage, which means you'll have weak bristles that are not cleaning off the plaque and dirt buildup, while also having dirty bristles that are adding back bacteria and dirt into your mouth, which ends up causing bad breath.
For me, the start of every season is my cue to replace my toothbrush.
CUT YOUR NAILS This one is basic.
Look, I don't know why your mom never told you to do this, but I'm telling you that the women you walk up to are going to check out your hands. Your potential foot model will look at your hands. However, you probably fumbled the bag because your fingernails looked disgusting. No girl is going to want you to touch her feet for a foot fetish shoot if your fingernails are full of dirt or if they're longer than hers.
Hopefully, you'll find this useful and use it to your advantage. I have three more women to show before the week is over, and I will show one them tomorrow night.
Take care, and see you guys soon.
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Lol
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
At the time I shot these photos, our lady here was an intern who had been working at the FNNDSC in Boston for a few months and was making a short stop in New York City before heading back to her home country (Brazil). The FNNDSC stands for the Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging & Developmental Science, and its purpose is to develop and optimize tools and analysis streams for better detecting and understanding both normal and abnormal brain physiology and development. The primary end goal is to provide mechanistic information that enables optimization of cognitive, behavioral and neurological outcomes in children with a focus on fetuses, neonates, infants and toddlers. At the end of her internship there, she gave a presentation on her work, explaining to her peers what she had learned and what projects she supported.
When she arrived in Boston earlier in the year, she was greeted with incredible warmth by everyone. Before starting the internship, she wasn't sure what kind of work environment to expect, and was afraid there were going to be challenges, especially for a foreign student like her. Instead, she was met with an incredible setting where people cared about creating a welcoming environment.
In Brazil, she was a medical student with very little previous experience with coding, and yet she ended up working with two incredibly talented computer scientists.
If it wasn't for this internship, she would never have come in such direct contact with the world of big data and machine learning. She was grateful to the center for the opportunity of working alongside brilliant researchers and for broadening her horizons beyond her experience as a medical student.
I liked her feet very much. She never gave her feet much thought, but knew that they shouldn't look ugly. Her feet never made her feel embarrassed about them, and that's what made her know that doing this shoot with me wasn't going to be a bad idea.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Autumn 2023
Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
I really love photo #17 in Diana's gallery. It shows both of her soles clearly and also her face. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Central Park in the Dark
It was getting late one evening and I knew that if I couldn't find another willing person to model her feet for me in a few minutes, then I was going to call it a day. Right then, this lady walks on the grass and sits on it. I could tell she had just entered the park. I gave her a minute or two to get herself situated and take a deep breathe to herself because I didn't want to just barge in two seconds after she sat on the grass and hasn't had a chance to look around to observe the trees and to just think to herself.
After a few minutes, I walked up to her. When asked if I could take pictures of her feet, she said, "Yes, of course you may!" The women in Central Park are so understanding. So understanding.
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Ariana is a headshot photographer with plenty of years of experience in the industry.
"Anyone can take a head shot, but doing it well takes practice and skill. There is a huge gap in quality between your average photographer and someone like George Hurrell. Technically and artistically, the photographer needs to be able to set up the lighting and backdrop in a way that is 'best' for the individual, while personally the photographer must be able to work with the subjects to get the most out of their expression and pose. When focusing on just one area of the human body, any flaws or mistakes (in the picture, not the person) are immediately apparent and glaring. Getting everything right effortlessly takes practice and talent, so that makes what I do a special skill."
Some of our conversation centered around the concept of taking photos, and it contained some good lessons for photography as well as life wisdoms. It made sense for the two of us to help one another and explain what we could. Some of the things we learned can come from just asking. We both felt it was perfectly fine that we kept certain tricks to ourselves, but it still didn't hurt to ask each other whatever we were wondering, and it turned out that we shared something valuable to one another.
Ariana is physically fit, and she keeps her physique intact by participating in several outdoor activities. She is an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys going for day hikes, weekend backpacking trips, and longer excursions. She's part of a group where people ride bikes for fun and fitness, going through roads, trails, gravel roads, and tow paths. Those activities require her to stay on her feet most of the time, keeping them active. The shoot provided a much needed break for them.
She also talked about an awkward date she went on the night before, and she came to the park to make some sense as to what in the heck she experienced. She felt icky about the guy and the date as a whole. She went into some of the details and provided me with what her thought processes were during that date, and expressed so much how this shoot I was having with her was much better than that date, saying, "Just imagine: a guy who likes feet, taking a bunch of pictures of my feet, is a better date than a guy who took me out for dinner last night. Only in New York, I guess!"
As a photographer herself, she found the whole experiment as fun and it made her learn some things about herself, being that she's the one who's usually behind the camera.
SHUTTERFLY -- Click Here Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC A woman aspiring to be an excellent actress, she'll be one among thousands. If she's attractive, still just another face among a crowd of beautiful faces. If she's both a good actress and attractive, the odds are better, but she'll still have to compete with hundreds of others with the same attributes, from all around the world. She will need something extra. Nepotism, luck, or old fashioned hard work to make the goal more attainable, but still a long shot. If there's anyone who's tailor made to take on those challenges, we have Haven.
Letting her personality shine is an attribute that comes second nature to her.
"Being an actress myself, I get the chance to be someone, unlike myself, and walk in somebody else's shoes (a fictional character) creating my own expressions, thoughts, venting, channeling stuff that I would not do as myself. You could be one way in real life but play the role of someone opposite to yourself on stage or in film. I always relish the roles I'm given, and through the new characters, I can vent frustrations and insecurities through my acting, being someone different, like someone with multiple personalities." She can play an upbeat persona with artistic and with optimistic views and live vicariously through that character's happiness and joy. She enjoys what she does, always perfecting her craft. She can invent someone else and become that person.
Haven is high-spirited, friendly, talkative, animated, and just generally enthusiastic about life. Her friends and family value her immensely, and their lives are better because she's a part of them. Her preciousness and unique personality is what they all want to be with, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
Her feet were already out of her shoes when I spotted her sitting on the grass. Her soles were looking better and better as I go closer to her. She didn't see me at first because she was too busy writing something on her notepad. After trying to make my presence known by saying something and her not being able to hear me (because in addition to writing something on her notepad, she had her AirPods on, and was listening to something on YouTube from her phone), I had to crouch down and wave my hand in front of her before finally snapping out of it.
When asked if I could take photos of her feet, she said, "Well, my feet are out there already ... so you might as well, right?" So lovely and bubbly the way she said it, and what's not to like about her response?
Later in the shoot, when asked if she would go out with a guy with a foot fetish: "Of course! There are plenty of women who would, and my advice to those guys is that they just have to keep searching, darling. That's my advice. Just keep on searching, just keep on keeping on.
"Also, very important: women who like guys with foot fetishes, like the guy. We are not interested solely in the fetish. We may love having our feet pampered and whatnot, but by people who really like us, as well as our feet."
True words spoken from Haven. She gets Broadway, and she gets the aspects of what makes our fetish work.
She's putting in the work that it takes for someone to be a superstar. New York is where everything happens: If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. To be in show business in New York, you need to have a thick skin. She hustles her way, she networks, and if that means booking a role in a huge play without an agent, then that's what she'll have to do.
It takes talent, balance, and an adaptation to that environment to be able to not succumb to pressure, while keeping the smiley face and an incredibly upbeat personality that can easily rub off on anyone, to make it far in the industry. She has the drive and motivation to make it far, to go places, to be seen and heard, to be recognized truly for her multi-faceted talents as a singer, actress, and role model.
You never know who you're going to meet in Central Park. You can come across an Broadway entertainer like her and have a fun time taking photos of her feet and getting to know a bit about her.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Autumn 2023
Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
Shutterfly #25 is a wonderful sole shot with her face in lesser light in the background. Great photo! Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Haven, with her hand motion, was letting her creativity and imagination form new ideas that sparked from a question I asked her; Shutterfly having a laugh at the expense of the date she went on the night before.
Three women with big feet. I love the look Hennessy gave; Velocity Winterray looking for movie reviews for a film I recommended for her; Wonderful Brighte's wonderful feet, so huge and beautiful with some colorful dirt.
The Women of Science. They have a rhyming sequence in common: Their adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine are what makes them intellectually supreme.
A lady as sweet as the desserts she bakes.
The Length of Each Shoot: Wonderful Brighte - 13 mins Tiffany Lièvremont - 25 mins Hennessy Gold - 33 mins Shutterfly - 33 mins Suga Loaf - 35 mins (felt more like 20 minutes) Diana Learning - 40 mins Starring Haven - 44 mins Velocity Winterray - 62 mins
That'll be it for this Autumn. The Winter 2024 edition will be the Season Finale, and that is always my favorite time of year to post photos in this thread. You're going to love everything I have in store for you guys, and we're going to find out who will be inducted in this year's National Gallerie Hall of Fame of Women. If you want to close out this year right, this thread will be the place to visit.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
I would like to start this with a bit of an apology and a thank you.
The apology first. I'm afraid next year is going to be my final year posting photos on the internet. The thing is I've got so much going on at the moment. There are many things I want to do with my life and going out and taking photos of women's feet, then taking the time to put everything together to upload the stories and photos to this forum, has gotten in the way of other things I would like to do, which is not to say that I hated doing this ... is just that priorities change. Sometimes in life, new circumstances arise that require a shift in focus, and that's what happened to me. To make room for those other things I want to do, I've made the decision one day to not take any more photos.
This leads me to the thank you. Thank you to everyone who has commented on my photos and has stuck by me through it all.
When I started posting images on this forum, I didn't think it would catch on the way it did. I thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder. I thought I was going to post a couple of dozen shoots I've done and that would've been it. It has been gratifying that people got something out of them. I thought that even if a handful of people took an interest in what I posted, then it all would've been worthwhile. I started posting pictures just for my own amusement and satisfaction, and, inadvertently, it found an audience.
Sometimes I would ask myself what it would've taken for me to have this amazing journey come to an end? There were two answers to that question. The first answer was something I heard from a YouTuber. When he was asked the same question, the answer he gave was something I hadn't thought of, but it made sense. He said that what would stop him from making more videos was if there was a dramatic change in his work schedule that would not give him much time or energy to make more videos. When I heard that, that's how I knew my thing would come to an end because at the time I didn't see how my hobby of taking photos of random women's feet would come to an end. At the time, my work schedule allowed me to take a lot of photos of the different women I met. Then, I got hired to work for a new company and my work schedule didn't allow me to go to the park as much I used to.
The other thing that made me decide that it was time to hang it up was another question I'd ask myself, which was: What would have to happen in a shoot that would make you feel as if it was the shoot of all shoots, the type of shoot that you can ride off into the sunset from? I would have some idea of what my perfect shoot would look like, but my ideas of what such a shoot would look like were always vague in my mind. Well, such a shoot did take place. I never had the details of my perfect shoot set in stone, but when it happened, I knew that was the shoot I had been looking for my entire life, and I felt it. I will show all of you what that looked like at the end of next year.
In a sense, that shoot felt like the end of the movie when all evil was conquered, and my of my work was done. The hero rides on his horse towards the big sunset. That epic shoot could not have come at a better time for me because at the time I was running on fumes and I had already committed to calling it a career after another few weeks. But when that shoot took place, I retired weeks earlier than I planned to because I did what I had to do and I had nothing left to give. With that shoot, I had finally given it my all. At the end of next year, I plan to unveil what I consider to be The Greatest (Amateur) Foot Fetish Shoot of All Time.
In the meantime, I'm going to show some fantastic shoots throughout next week, closing out the year. After that, I won't upload any new photos until Summer of 2024. After that, I'll upload my Final Ten Shoots in December of 2024.
I'll see you guys on Sunday night for the start of what will be a classic week.
-National
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Looking forward to it! Thanks for everything you've done for us Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
INTRODUCTION It is amazing how many women are willing to pose their feet on camera to someone they just met.
It's as if everyone under the age of twenty five is a pornstar these days, and so it's refreshing to see that there are women out there who you can meet in real life -- meaning away from the internet, at a physical location -- who are willing to go along and participate in an impromtu shoot just for fun and amusement, and as a way to connect with someone new.
Most of the women I show comes with lengthy descriptions about them. When it comes to amateur models, with these real life everyday women, it always helps to have a little bit of back story. The more you know about these ladies, the more you can appreciate their generosities to relax in a park, baring their feet and having it all be natural in front of a camera.
All of the women I met have been photographed in one shoot (with the exception of four of them who were shot twice). After all, if they modeled for me a bunch of times, they wouldn't really be amateurs anymore, would they?
If you've seen tons of internet porn, then it's possible your notion of what women look like is distorted. The truth is pornstars and centerfolds are outliers; they're the most manufactured and sexed up women on the planet and the average woman doesn't resemble them. I mention this because the women featured in this thread are genuine women who can spotted at the supermarket, a Barnes & Noble, or out there somewhere looking to buy some last-minute Christmas gifts at a kid-friendly flea and street market, and not at places like the Hustler's Club or The Loose Caboose. In other words, the women here are not going to look like supermodels or someone who can be found on the homepage of Playboy's website. If you ask me, that makes the women in here sexier; these are people you could actually meet and form a connection with!
Despite me being an amateur photographer with no camera expertise, and the women being amateur models, these ladies are undeniably wonderful and they have pretty nice feet that puts nice finishing touches on their femininity.
This is the 2023 Season Finale of The Women of Central Park! See you guys tonight.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
It was approaching darkness in the park when I spotted Cloe on the lawn doing work on her laptop. Just the vision of how the whole scene looked, spoke to me that she was going to be open to a conversation with a man who was going to stimulate the mood with topics of intellectual substance, meaningful with depth. One look at her and I knew she was someone I was going to have an educated conversation with. She not a know-it-all, but has a solid understanding of current events. More importantly, Cloe is quick in perception and understanding, and possesses the trait of being prompt in finding answers in a debate. She was in for a treat because she found something special in me that made her fascinated, someone who she was able to keep up with.
Cloe is some who understands the difference between right and wrong; she's someone who has a strong moral compass. What I received in return during our discussion was someone who showed warmth and compassion, but most importantly, she respects a difference of opinion, and we certainly had some of that throughout our conversation and shoot. It wasn't contentious by any means, and her respect for me was there for standing my ground. I know that because she said so. We also had our agreements, and it was that balance that kept her wanting to pick my brains about certain issues. All the while, I would take more and more photos of her feet, and she was completely fine with that. Otherwise, she would've abruptly ended the shoot.
Cloe majored in Hispanic Literature at the University of North Carolina, and has a Bachelors in Spanish Literature and Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. At UNC, she instructed beginner and intermediate Spanish students. She taught English in Ecuador for a year. She's now a faculty member at NYU.
All the work she has devoted herself to has earned her with a comprehensive knowledge of Hispanic literatures, their histories, and their major works, along with a theoretical framework for research on specific areas of Spanish and/or Spanish American literature and culture. As a result, Cloe has developed the conceptual and communicative skills needed to conduct and disseminate original research and to achieve excellence in teaching at NYU.
WHEN IT COMES TO FEET After I told her I wanted to take pictures of her feet, she said, "Let me guess: you like feet, right? You don't strike me as someone I would describe as ... you know ... strange. And the way you described it makes it seem okay. So okay." As soon as I sat down, she said, "Something like this happening in Central Park makes for a great story to tell my friends. So tell me, what's on your mind?" That's how the conversation started.
She took an interest in the topic of feet and wanted to know why I like feet. I told her to guess. She liked that I put the challenge on her. In fact, she took that opportunity to pour herself another glass of Chardonnay, suggesting that another sip of wine would help guide her to the right answer. After she takes a sip, she took a look at her own feet after noticing that I was looking at them. Her answer? She said, "It could be a matter of aesthetics. Maybe the curve of the arch (I don't have much of an arch, so I'm sorry about that) or the shape of the toes, but there's something inherently pleasing about a woman whose feet are well formed. I can see how this appreciation can translate into sexual attraction."
She asked what I would grade her answer, and you should've seen the shocked look on her face when I told her that I couldn't decide between a C or a C-. Then I told her that I was only kidding and that I would give her a "much higher grade" than that, being that that was a pretty good observation on her part. The answer Cloe gave was pretty good, and she answered it in a way I hadn't quite thought about. I wasn't sure if the answer I thought of giving her would've topped hers. Only in Central Park can you meet a University professor, having a conversation like this while she's trying to grade her student's work in her laptop, all the while having no qualms about me taking images of her feet. All in a short amount of time.
*Her artwork. A self portrait of herself is the mark of incredible self awareness.*
As she was wrapping up her computer work, there was something she wanted to tell me. "In a way, you and the time we spent here has restored my faith in men. The dumbing down of society has had me surrounded by so many unintelligent counterparts that I forgot what it was like to hear the perspective of certain important topics from a smart, thoughtful man."
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Winter 2024
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATIONAL Q+A Last year, December of 2022, I did a Q+A of myself to give people some insight as to what goes through my mind while I'm in the park or during the shoots. There were some pieces of advice thrown in there as well to inspire others to become what they've always admired. I thought last year's list of questions to myself was going to be the last installment of this concept. I decided to give it another go. Consider this as an Ask Me Anything segment. I may go over some of the questions that were asked last year, along with some random thoughts that I felt was noteworthy to include in here.
Last year (and the year before that) I did it all in one post. This year, I'm going to post these comments in bits and pieces throughout the week because I have so much to say, and putting that all in one post was going to be too daunting for people to read through all at one time.
Enjoy.
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WHAT KIND OF SHOWS AND MOVIES DO YOU LIKE TO WATCH? I have a love of classic films and old TV shows. Just about everything I have digitally recorded and saved up in my cable box are shows and movies that date back to the times before I was born. I just saw Rebecca the other day. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen in my life. I later found out that it won the Academy Awards for Best Picture in 1940, I understood why. It was that amazing. I love being able to study the TV shows and films of long ago, as I feel a sense that I'm traveling back in time, seeing just different the times were, and having a fondness for how life was when I wasn't around. Most of the things I watch are from years before I was born.
DO YOU FEEL IT (MEANING THE FILMS AND SHOWS I WATCH) INFLUENCES YOUR WORK IN A WAY? No, but that's a great question, though. It's not that I see a movie and then say 'I'll do that in my next shoot.' The directors I'm interested in are kind of searching for the same thing: portraying humanity. It's in that sense that they influence me.
WHAT'S THE SMALLEST SHOE SIZE A WOMAN'S FEET MUST BE WHILE STILL BEING CONSIDERED BIG? Size 9 (in the U.S.). Anything smaller than 9 is not big. Women's size 8.5 (U.S.) is not small, but it's not big either.
Many years ago, probably twenty years ago, I thought a size 10 was the beginning of big because the number ten has two digits. What changed my mind to nine was a website (that's no longer active) called sizenineandup.com or something to that effect. As one would tell from the name of the site, it only featured women with feet that were sizes 9 and bigger. The size 9s featured on that site looked pretty big to me, and I was sold that size 9s are classified as big.
Some years later, Jay Leno on his late-night talk show cracked a joke about women with big feet during one of his monologues. As best as I can remember it, he said, "A study came out showing that a third of the women in this country wear a size nine shoe or bigger. Do you know where those women buy their shoes? At amazon.com." Get it? Amazon, big, tall woman?
When considering those two instances, it's size nine. The three women seen below have size 9s.
WHY DID YOU TAKE MOST OF YOUR PHOTOS VERTICALLY AS OPPOSED TO HORIZONTALLY? WHY PORTRAIT MODE MORE THAN LANDSCAPE MODE? I liked taking vertical photos because it was the best way for me to get a little bit more of themselves in the pictures. The four women seen below are just random examples that illustrate my point.
ANY PIECE OF ADVICE YOU CAN THINK OF THAT YOU WANT TO GIVE TO ANYONE WHO ASPIRES TO DO WHAT YOU FOR AS MANY YEARS AS YOU HAVE? Be authentic and be genuine at all times. Be nice to people, and positive things will come your way. You're never not going to have negative reactions, now matter how you approach them. If you're nice and positive, you can hopefully turn their heads a little bit to your perspective in what you're doing. If you believe in it enough, they may also believe in what you're doing.
There are different ways of doing what photographers such as myself are doing. You just have to do it, and eventually you'll come up with a system that's best for you.
I feel lucky that people enjoy what I did. I was never out there making photos for other people -- I made these photos for myself, and if by happenstance I created photos other people love and have found inspirational, then it was all worthwhile.
-National
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If anyone in here has a preference for a smart, well-read, educated, glasses-wearing girl who reads huge books, then this woman is for you.
I spotted Amelia from afar doing some stretching exercises and figured that if she was loosening up before she started doing some work on her laptop, then she would be more inclined to take part in the shoot, being that she would be in a more relaxed state being. She asked how I knew she was going to say yes, and that was before she actually said yes. Everyday there's something new with the Women of Central Park that makes them more likeable, more relatable. I love it. When she asked that question, we both knew it was on.
Amelia works as an organizational developer at the United Nations. Yes, that United Nations. She's worked there for eight years at this point, climbing up the corporate ladder from one job title to other job titles that are more important.
A typical day for her is, in her words, "well ... there's really not a typical day." There are several things she's responsible for: she runs orientation programs, making sure everyone gets all boarded into the organization effectively. She has to make sure that people who are going to be in very powerful positions have the skillsets needed to perform well at what they're expected to do. Amelia spends a lot of time coaching and developing departments within the UN, making them understand the issues that are going on within them, whether it's teamwork or communication, or with conflict resolutions. She spends time trying to come up with solutions to the big problems that come up within the hallways of that building. She finds working for the UN rewarding, while also highlighting that it can become stressful for her when she's under pressure to meet deadlines and trying to get projects done, but ... "for me, it always pays out in the end."
Amelia is originally from Lincoln, Nebraska. When speaking of that town, she said ... "Lincoln is a quiet city. I have enjoyed living there because I love quiet places. It has its share of things to do, but no where near as much as New York. It's fun, unhurried, and social. Lots of bars full of young people, a small historical area, active arts and culture scene, growing bike community and great schools. Incredibly low crime and low cost of living. It feels like a small, low crime Kansas City."
∙ Amelia is very smart and has an area of knowledge in which she knows more than most people. In that sense, it takes time to get used to dating her. If you ever feel the frustration of not knowing what in the world she's talking about, you can always look up the answer.
∙ Amelia is punctilious about her hobbies, and she doesn't like it when people denigrate her for enjoying something. When she's on pins and needles waiting to find out what is happening in the latest episode of her favorite TV show, don't make fun of her.
∙ Guys assume that because she's a nerd, they imagine that she doesn't like to dress up or that she's incapable of putting herself together for a night out. If you find yourself dating her, make sure you take the time to learn more about her.
∙ Amelia used to be an avid runner, participating in two or three NYC Marathons. She doesn't run as much as she used to as a result of developing pains in her feet for all the stress she puts them through. To alleviate the discomfort from her feet, she runs her fingers between each of her toe bones, five to six times for each spot. She curls her toes under, applying pressure to the muscle belly on the outside of her foot for about a minute. Next, she takes a tennis ball and squeezes it between her heels as she goes up and down on the tips of her toes.
That was a very nice afternoon spent in the park for the two of us. She doesn't describe her feet as fancy, but her toenails were nicely kept, I liked her choice of footwear for the day because I don't know what else she would've put on her feet that would go well with the rest of her outfit as well as those Uggs did. I'm not a fan of Uggs usually, but what she had on that day were the best exceptions to that rule.
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Wonderful gallery! My favorite photo is #8, the full-on double sole shot which also shows her face.
It is sad to learn that you are soon to cease activities. Thank you very much for all you posted here in past years.
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NATIONAL Q+A
∙ Buck the trend. If the world around you tells you that you should shoot in black and white, don't. If the perceived wisdom always says to shoot with the sun behind you, don't. Do what feels right. Shoot in a way that connects with you and the world. Don't listen to Instagram. Instead, do what you want to do. If you look closely at my work, you will see whoever I'm shooting as a representation of how I connect with the world around me. I, personally, and nobody else.
∙ We creatures are extraordinarily sensitive: we've lived millennia, we've developed from millions of years into a species where our brains, instincts, intuitions, and our senses have allowed us to survive as the most sentient creature on the planet, and we can use these assets nature has developed in us to sense out, identify, and recognize fragmentary moments that appear in front of us. All we have to do is acknowledge them and say yes to them. Photography allowed me to say yes, and going around in the park has given me a joyride.
YOU'RE A HOBBYIST PHOTOGRAPHER. HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED GOING INTO BUSINESS, AND WHAT HELPED YOU MAKE THAT DECISION? I really love the freedom of being a hobbyist. I feel it allows me to play and explore with my work, and it offers me the opportunity to truly nurture my creative side. I haven't considered going into business because I feel it would take more time away from everything, and I would lose that "personal" edge to my work. There are many talented photographers and artists out there that I feel just fine leaving it up to them to do what they have to do, while I keep my own work as truly personal.
LAST YEAR DURING THE Q+A SECTION, YOU GAVE US AN EDUCATED GUESS AS TO HOW MANY PHOTOS PER SHOOT YOU SNAPPED, AND THEY ARE MORE THAN THE NUMBER OF IMAGES YOU SHOW US IN YOUR GALLERIES. WHY DON'T YOU SHOW US ALL OF THE PHOTOS FROM EACH SHOOT? For one thing, it's not hard to capture a "bad" moment, such as the blink of the eyes. Just a split of a second and those can be easily captured. That's part of photography. This is why I usually take a lot of photos.
Another reason is something I'm going to admit to: there are photos that come out as out of focus. Sometimes, I know my equipment has to struggle in a given condition. Sometimes, it just acts weird. What has to be taken into account is that equipment is just a thing and there are times when it won't behave as well as I want it to. If cameras were incapable of having that flaw, then anyone can be a pro at photography and those people would have lost their jobs already! That's another reason why I take a lot of photos, in case it decides to act up.
Another reason: if at least two photos look identical, I try to pick the one I like best.
While many photographers stick with a safe angle the entire time, I don't. After I get some standard/safe shots, I then go for different angles, and those angles are more rewarding to capture. For me, after getting the safe shots, I try for a new angle. I would rather show six photos of three different angles than to show you twelve photos of the same angle, even if all twelve of them are spectacular photos. There was a time when I did that, but I started becoming more selective with the photos I wanted to show as the years went on. Believe me: there were a LOT of great photos that I wound up not including in the galleries.
What you need is the end product. That's what you need to enjoy. I spend a lot of time and effort to create the best representation of the women I meet. I know not 100% of the photos I capture will be perfect, but I know that what you receive has been carefully crafted.
YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIE Susan Slept Here
ANY OTHER PIECE OF ADVICE? Accept that the moment is now. We all look at great images that were shot decades ago, and we think to ourselves, Man, if only the world would look like that today ... But it doesn't. We have to remember that fifty years from now, people will look at today's images and say the same things. You can romanticize about the past, but also accept that you live in the present. Create history by preserving what's in the present moment for future generations to look at and admire. It's up to us to create our own little part of history.
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Natalya is the president of an international business consulting firm in Manhattan. The idea of her getting into that line work came when her friends and friends of friends asked her for business advice more frequently, and then the word of mouth started bringing clients. She saw a lot of good ideas and projects that needed some creative and positive boost, a good structure and direction.
She's also been involved in charitable projects with the main purpose to help people open their potential in life. For this purpose, she has also been teaching yoga and meditation, doing the healing. She believes you can only be happy and truly rich when you share and teach others to share and multiply. That is why her firm has been created, to help serve as a bridge from the world of ideas into the world of actions, resting on the pillars of thoroughness awareness and understanding.
The day-to-day of business consultants will vary by the industry her firm is consulting. However, to sum things up nicely, Natalya works with her clients' data to provide insight on strategy, planning, and problem solving for the business. She mainly focus on helping her clients create and implement processes which will ensure the business's success going forward.
Going back to yoga for a moment, she started practicing that in 2001. She discovered kundalini yoga in 2009 in Austin, Texas. When she moved to Houston in 2010, she started teaching yoga because she felt there was something she needed to share something important with people about the benefits of participating in a practice that helps the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of a person.
It was starting to get dark, and I wanted to see if I could find someone to shoot before I was going to call it a day. I was minutes away from leaving the park when I saw Natalya using her phone, standing barefoot on the base roots of a tree, with her shoes rested a few feet in front of her. I could imagine her placing her shoes neatly on the grass before situating herself in the way that I found her.
When I spotted her, I had to do a double take because the whole setting was set up and tailor made for me to shoot some photos of her. I walked up to her, took a quick glance at her toes and thought they looked pretty nice. Anyone with a foot fetish who happened walk by her in the same position I found her in, who didn't know what to do or say that'll allow her to give him a closer look and explore his senses in the presence of her feet, would've continued to walk past her, feeling tortured. Her naturally balanced feet out of his sight and no longer within his reach.
Me? I was going to tell her what I wanted from her, knowing she was going to say yes. "Yes," she said, right before telling me that she had walked in her shoes for "quite some time."
Getting a look at her insoles gave me an idea how long she walked in her shoes that day (without socks), and how often she uses them since having purchased them. She wears these particular pair when she's not working (this was a Sunday), and she has given them quite a workout. She wanted her feet to feel a connection with a tree, and there was not a way she was going to infringe on the rights of a tree standing on the base with her shoes on.
I allowed her the time she needed to do whatever she needed to do on her phone, while that gave me the opportunity to explore with some new angles. This was the first and only shoot in which the lady was standing from beginning to end. Because she didn't sit anywhere, it was a new challenge I thrived in, I think the photos turned out great.
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UNDER ARMOUR WOMEN'S HOVR SONIC 6 RUNNING SHOE
This is a great choice for runners looking for comfort and support during their workouts. The shoe features technology that which provides a responsive and cushioned feel to every step. The upper is made with breathable and lightweight material, ensuring that Natalya's feet stay cool and comfortable. The shoe also features a durable rubber sole and a removable insole for additional cushioning. The design is sleek and stylish, making it suitable for both running and casual wear.
Cons: The shoe is priced at $110.00, which may be more expensive than other running shoe options on the market. Some women may find the shoe to be too narrow, which may cause discomfort during longer runs. The shoe may not be suitable for women with flat feet, as it has a higher arch that may cause discomfort. The white fabric could be difficult to keep clean.
The Pros: "I was pleased by how comfortable these sneakers are! Whatever I would've gotten from the more expensive brands with the comfort and cushion, I get those same things with these sneakers. At first, I thought they felt [very tight or close fitting], but after one or two uses, they were perfect."
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Winter 2024
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On a day when all the leaves have fallen to the ground, it signifies a cold day, usually. On this day, however, temperatures were well above where they should've been for that time of year in New York, and that's how it felt like on the evening this shoot took place. I took advantage of the nice day and decided to visit the park.
I was on one side of the West Drive when I saw a woman on the other side of the road, walking in the same direction as I was. I could tell from the boots she wore that she wouldn't mind being photographed. Because she never had anyone ask to take photos of her feet, and being in a place like Central Park, she didn't see a reason to turn down the offer.
She was visiting New York from Colorado. Blue hair, skull and crossbone long sleeve mesh top, and those boots, she must come with an interesting story to tell.
She finds beauty in death that others only see in life. Perhaps she likes the symbolism of danger and hostility. She's drawn to dark things. She' s happy that way, and doesn't necessarily need sun and rainbow colors in her life. Mystery, intrigue, and darkness represent an essential trio for her.
I love it when the sky turns to night during a shoot as it gets me to expand on my creativity a little bit to see how magnificent the images turn out. Pictures like those do a great job of highlighting how fantastic feet can look. When I'm not in a rush, a pretty respectable shoot takes place.
HER DR. MARTEN'S 1914 Color: Black Type: Boots Heel Style" Block Style: Combat Outsole Material: Rubber Insole Material: Leather Heel Height: 2 inches Theme: Grunge, 90s
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Winter 2024
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The National Gallerie Hall of Fame of Women is sacred ground for those who have come to appreciate the contributions I've made over the years, where the names, photos, and memories of those who've been enshrined are highlighted and where the visitors speak in hushed, reverential tones. The first few moments of the presentation lets you know you are somewhere special. It is at that point where you know you're in the most exclusive club in all of the entirety of what makes up this genre of foot photography.
Take the time in the iconic trip down memory lane to explore the women you spent the years idolizing, as well as those with whom you may not be familiar with or remember. Each induction bares the inductee's likeness and describes her accomplishments and what has made her shoot a masterful piece of visionary that has become an inspiration to all.
This a great place to reflect your admiration and appreciation of these ladies, your memories about them, your favorite shoots and the incredible history of what 'The Women of Central Park' has been able to showcase everyone.
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Tonight, the Museum proudly honors the finest women we have ever seen, the legendary girls who have laid the foundation, and those who have set the standard for the women who came after them. Tonight, we celebrate the Class of 2023.
Welcome to the 2023 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies.
KENDALL ASH -- THE LEAD INDUCTEE
If it wasn't for the fact that my camera's battery died out when it did, this shoot could've made an argument to have been included in my twenty five best shoots of all time. It was heading in that direction. But with what I was able to get in the time my camera was alive, the shoot turned out to be of quality and grace that has earned its enshrinement into the Hall of Fame.
Kendall Ash is intelligent beyond her years. She has the will and drive to be an exemplary example for her parents to be proud of and for any woman younger than she is to look up to her as a role model of success in the gift of life. She is strong, not stubborn; flexible and not fickle, helpful and without being a showoff. Other times Kendall can be annoyed and not resentful, right ... yet wrong, and composed if she gets upset about something. Successful yet grounded, because her father instilled those noble attributes in her.
Kendall is a great listener and she enjoys helping others – and she becomes a valuable advisor to them. Her family members, friends, colleagues, and even just someone she just met are drawn to her with knowledge and empathy. They see her as a confidante who they can trust.
Kendall Ash was nineteen years old at the time those photos were taken. Since that day, she has gone on to live the life she always aspired to. She currently holds a top position at a product design firm, as she is heavily involved in the behind-the-scenes of the fashion industry.
She takes pride in being a designer and all the challenges that come with that line of work. Her commitment extends far beyond drawing up blueprints of fantastic designs; she is deeply invested in ensuring they are functional and that they serve a purpose.
Her journey in the world of fashion design of has paid off for her in spades. She had the privilege of collaborating with exceptional individuals, where together they always met rigorous production deadlines. She took on leadership roles, managing dynamic teams and directing significant production segments for renowned brands like Kohl's, Macy's, Forever 21, and Zara. All of that hard work has led her to various certifications, intensive bootcamps, and invaluable networking opportunities, all of which honed her proficiency. As she moves forward, Kendall Ash is eager to contribute to and reshape the design landscape through this fresh perspective.
She has one of the most beautiful feet I've ever seen, and she is what those who appreciate women's feet appreciate: feet that matches the rest of the package, the totality of the presentation of her. Simply beautiful.
ASHLEY MILES
One of my favorite shoots from one of my favorite women who has been gifted with a set of one of my favorite pairs of feet in my entire life.
I remember this being an early afternoon on a Monday. When I was done with the shoot, there was nothing else for me to do because I had a great shoot and her feet were precisely my type. In other words, I got what I wanted.
One trait about her I took to notice was her sense of humor and the kind of things she finds funny. Something like the Three Stooges is not her cup of tea. Her jokes are more subtle. Her style of humor relies more on a lack of emotion and facial expressions. You don't know when the joke begins because she sounds rather monotonous and she uses hardly any body language or facial expression to convey her intent. Instead, she lets the joke do the talking while delivering it in a matter-of-fact observation. Her jokes are straightforward and seemingly unfunny to begin with. In other words, it's not obvious she's about to tell a joke. It's almost as if the joke just fell out of her mouth by accident. I wasn't laughing too much at her jokes, and not because they weren't funny. But she smiled because she knew I liked them anyway.
Ashley moved to New York from Oregon. In fact, she was still so new to New York, that she was looking at a map of the city that tourists usually use to get around, trying to memorize or familiarize herself with Manhattan. When she referred to Fifth Avenue as Museum Mile (I loved how she elongated the 'i' in 'mile') and that she waits for the light to turn green before crossing the street, I shook my head and I had to give her a crash course on how not to act or sound a tourist. She learned that New Yorkers do not have time to wait for anything because we're always in a rush. Always. I told her that to blend in, she had to stand as far into as she possibly could without getting hit by an oncoming car, and that as soon as she could safely dart across the street, that's the time she should do so.
Part of the fun of my way of shooting is that it allows the women to be themselves and not portray a different persona. She took out a book, started reading, while still allowing me to snap away, having a fun conversation. I also loved how she hinted about how her feet may smell like without really saying it, as a way for me to not be surprised.
She has a deep commitment to public gardens and a passion for building bonds between people and places. She is an accomplished leader with a vast experience in horticulture operations, public/private partnerships, urban and heritage landscapes, and strategic planning. She has worked at a variety of public horticulture institutions, from urban parks to secluded pleasure gardens, including at the NYC Parks Department, Central Park Conservancy, and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
Since the shoot, she has gone on to be married, and I hope she and her husband live their best lives possible together.
LAURIE A German lady who looks like Kate Upton. She wears flip flops most of the time based on the tan lines on the tops of her feet. A fun shoot that added another reason to why doing this was so much fun, meeting new people, seeing their feet, being in our own world, away from everything else going on. Laurie brought that kind of fun into the shoot.
LUSH
Taking photos of a sleeping beauty makes the experience magical. Massaging her feet made the experience magical. When she said yes to having her photos taken, I knew this was going to be one of the more special shoots.
When the mood is just right, calm surroundings, and a subject who was willing to do what was asked of her, made the time go slow. When time goes slow at a place in time when these are your conditions, it makes me glad I have a foot fetish, and that felt all the more rewarding.
CORRINA METAL
In this case, "metal" is in reference to how she dresses and the kind of music she enjoys listening to. Originally, I described her as being a bit rough around the edges. By that, I don't mean she's crass or obnoxious, because if I gave you a list of words I would use to describe her, those words won't appear anywhere on it. What I do mean, however, is she's not too sophisticated in her appearance, and how one can think that she in need of refinement. It doesn't strike me as a negative thing when I hear that phrase used. All I mean is she's just ... a little rough. Mostly good, but not completely perfect, which I mean as a compliment, which explains why I picked her to photograph, there's a lot there to like about her.
Corrina has a great heart, really sweet and caring. Good natured, kind-hearted, and empathetic in character.
Since the shoot with Corrina Metal, she has gone on to become an associate instructor in anthropology at a university in one of the Mountain states. She is responsible for providing instructional assistance to senior educators. Her duties include curriculum planning, covering scheduled classes during senior instructor's absence, and implementing strategies to motivate subject interest. Corrina creates models to improve learning while facilitating sessions for students who require additional assistance. As an Associate Instructor, she also attends meetings and prepare reports for Senior Instructors. She helps in producing learning material and developing new learning programs.
Metal has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology. As such, she seeks to understand the different ways people lived today and how they live in the present day moment, including how they think, act, create, struggle, make meaning, and organize their societies.
Places she calls home: Almaluez, Soria (Spain), Amazonas (Columbia).
We took the time of the shoot as a time to feel calm, at ease, comfortable in each other's company. We got alone well and were able to find a way to make the shoot work, despite there being a language barrier between us. So calm she was, that she fell asleep during the shoot and didn't have a worry in the world that I wasn't going to do something I should not have been doing. Complete trust that I was going to watch after her honorably.
AYAME DOVE
An amazing woman with amazing feet. At the time of the shoot, she went to school for fashion. Since the shoot, she graduated with a GPA of 3.88. She's not making the most of the hard work she's put into her studies by excelling in a career in that involves any aspect of the fashion business, including product development, styling, event planning, and buying.
VIRTUOUS HOPE
Virtuous Hope is someone who focuses on living a morally correct life. She understand that any actions or words spoken are better if said in a positive way. She understands that life doesn't always work out, and if success is gained, it won't be as good if tarnished with guilt. Such a lady lives in a way that she won't regret and tends to be liked by most people. Virtuous Hope is less motivated by her animal nature (fear, lust, envy) and is more motivated by her spiritual nature (humanity, service, sacrifice).
She's the daughter of a minister, and is all about her Christian faith.
She didn't talk a whole lot about religion, which most of them would do during a shoot. I don't know what would explain that, but she mad meaningful things to say on different topics, which still made for a great shoot.
She's the only woman I've photographed who had a pedicure on the day I met her.
SYMBOL BEAUTY-INK
I was filled with wonder and astonishment when I saw the tattoos she had on her body. I was filled with wonder and astonishment when I saw her feet. The shape to her feet were my type, and the tattoos on her feet and ankles were decorated in a way that I don't think will be as creative as the designs Symbol Beauty-Ink had on her feet. Her feet are an artistic creation of aesthetic value. The work on her left foot turned into a design that could not easily be distinguished from the rock underneath it. A woman and a shoot unlike many others.
RUSLANA IVANOVNA
I saw this lady walking through the park. With the ripped denim jeans she wore that day, there was no way I was going to let her out of my sight without at least saying hello to her. There was a moment when the cops drove by the scene, and the one on the passenger side just happened to glance out of his window and saw what was going on with me and Ruslana. He had a delayed reaction to something unexpected, immediately after his first reaction. That something unexpected was the foot shoot. The jeep kept driving down the road, and I bet he wanted to step out of the vehicle just to make sure what he saw was what he saw. That part of the shoot was great.
Her feet looked nice, well cared for, and the entire experience made her day.
FIONA of DUKE
A conversation that started a bit awkwardly ended up being a nice shoot surrounded by quietness. Sometimes a nice lady with nice feet on a quiet day is all you can ask for. Fiona attended Duke University, and I named her Fiona of Duke to give it that prestigious sound of someone who lived in the seventeenth century.
JAIME AITKIN, PhD
Jaime is from Australia. She has a doctoral degree in psychology
She has always felt a strong drive to help others feel fulfilled, peaceful, happy and enjoying life. She likes doing work that feels like her purpose in life and doing what she does for a living is that work. Atkins enjoys having a career that requires constant learning, creativity, critical thinking, compassion, caring, connection with others, being helpful, being of service, exploration, flexibility, mental acuity and presents new and interesting challenges each day. She enjoys watching people overcome their limitations and problems and in order to find their joys and strengths in life. During the shoot, I remember her saying, "Seeing people reconnect with their essential aliveness, and develop a settled knowledge of who they are and what they want for themselves. It's a pretty fulfilling thing to get to witness."
The concept of the shoot gave her a lot of things to talk about, and we were picking each other's brain, getting a sense of the inner workings of the minds. Given the academic doctorate at the end of her name, she was curious to know what it was that made me like female feet so much. I took that opportunity to ask her some questions to do a little analysis on her, something she's probably not used to in a one-on-one conversation.
She enjoyed the experience and being the one who has to receive instructions instead of giving them, for a change. Jaime had a positive outlook about the whole fetish.
ANGELINNA SARRAH
I love big feet and long toes. She has the most beautiful long toes I've ever loved photographing.
I left work early that day and this very beautiful woman was walking through the park, taking in all of the life and wonderment of it all. Someone like her could not go unnoticed, and so I made it a privilege to see what she was like, up close and personal. She was one of the best dressed women I've photographed, her sneakers went well with the rest of her outfit, and her feet did not disappoint me. Her toes exceeded my expectations. Her toenail polish was and how neat that presented her nails were a thing of beauty, a sight to behold and be beholden to.
Making photos of was yet another reason why Central Park is the place to be.
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THE HEROINE SPIRITESS
She is bold and quiet, brave and gentle. This is someone who can come into your life and leave an indelible impression that points back to the beginning of time before it points back to you.
I see her as a courageous expression of that valiant spirit. She's someone who is willing to stand for the truth and reality of Spirit in a world with beautiful and flawed things on it. The reason that's important to her is because when she awakens to that truth and reality, she sees much more deeply into the nature of she really is, into the nature of reality itself, and she discovers a fearless courage to live this life for the highest reasons. She looks, dresses, and acts the part, hence why she is who she is: The Heroine Spiritess.
She had one of the nicest naturally-looking toes I have ever photographed. If her toes are not at the top of my list in the unpainted category, then she's pretty high on that list.
THE BEAUTIFUL FINNISH
I gave her this name an amusing attempt to use a word or a phrase so that more than one meaning is suggested. She's from Finland, and she's beautiful. But also, it's in reference to her composing an self-portrait during the shoot that showed her masturbates on her bed. We talked about that for a few minutes, how masturbating lowers stress and how it can be aided to become a form of a natural pain killer. When talking about it in that sense, her masturbating climaxes to a point where she reaches that beautiful finish in the end. That's a beautiful finish. Because people from Finland are Finnish (with two n's), that's how this nickname came out with her.
This shoot allowed me the time I needed for my creativity to flourish. It was a quiet afternoon in the park, which helped for the peace of mind I needed to concentrate on making that shoot as memorable as I wanted it to be.
Allowing time for my creativity to flourish increased my sense of happiness — and happiness is an energy booster. Creativity also increased my productivity because I began to get some clarity about how I wanted to spend my time and I was able to become proud of myself for how she came out in those photos. You won't find amateur foot fetish photography that looks as artistic as the ones shot with Beautiful Finnish.
Beautiful Finnish has a sense of humor rooted in trauma, love, and knowledge of the transcendent absurdity of life. The Beautiful Finnish is a thinker, a good observer, imaginative, expressive through her art, manages to do more with fewer resources, and she isn't bound by any orders by following in her heart, what her instincts tell her.
WANDERLUST
She embraces fearlessly any parts of the world she has yet to discover. Long-distance trekking, short day trips out of town, an extended weekend escapade; having this lady as your travel companion will have you going to new depths and soaring to new high points on earth. Wanderlust is an experienced outdoor enthusiast and you would be, too, even if you're lacing-up your boots for their first time as you prepare to hike the different landscapes around the world. She aims to conquer epic expeditions, or simply complete a day hike to recharge, if that's what the mood calls for.
As far as the most laid back and coolest chicks I've ever met through all of my Central- and Bryant Park days, if you were to ask me who's the most easygoing, low-maintenance, and fun lady I've photographed, if she doesn't win that award, then she's a candidate for winning it.
Usually, I would spot someone from a distance and decide if I would like to photograph her. In the case with Wanderlust, she appeared from out of nowhere, and I had to make a split-second decision about whether I was going to ask to take photos of her. After I've decided that the answer was yes, then I had another split-second decision on figuring out what I wanted to tell her because everything happened so fast. There wasn't enough time, and all I had time for was to say the first thing that popped into my head, running the risk that it was going to sound disorganized or sloppy. Whatever I must've told her, worked, and she had one of the best reactions to the request of being photographed.
These photos were taken on a Monday, and it was a great way to start the workweek. It got a bit chilly towards the end of the shoot, she put on her lumberjack coat and we spent the sunset getting into deep conversations about life, meaning trying to talk through things and figure stuff out. She was trying to find her path and find out what that means to her as well as where she fits in with the rest of the world. Her place in all of this.
Wanderlust keeps moving forward. Her place in this world is all over the world.
THE GOOD WIFE
She was having a picnic all to herself and she welcomed to join her. She took that day as the opportunity to relax from her daily life, and this shoot in a picnic setting gave us a change to talk to each other in a relaxing environment.
We shared humorous stories together, which helped lightened our burdens, inspired hope, kept us grounded, focused, and alert. The setting of the shoot facilitated the mood to be more uplifting, more creative, more appreciative of our world, helped us worry and overthink less, plus it allowed us to become more open and playful with each other.
Beautiful feet as beautiful feet can get is what she has.
She is a researcher, capacity development specialist, and advisor with at least fifteen years of professional experience in the social realm spanning multilateral, academic, and philanthropic sectors. Her work focuses on education, nutrition, and youth empowerment programming in resource-limited settings around the world.
She attended the University of Cambridge where she earned her PhD in education, examined the links between early undernutrition, cognitive development, and learning among primary schoolers in different parts of the world, with an emphasis on the unmet educational needs of learners affected by stunting.
She's worked in different countries, and currently resides in California.
DOVE ETHEREAL
I remember, as I was shooting the photos of Dove Ethereal, that this was going to be one of my finest pieces of work I've ever done. It's fitting that a shoot like that was with a person like her.
She was so lovely in person as to have earned the sobriquet of "Dove Ethereal". A name like that is reserved for unique individuals. It's incredibly rare.
Why is she so meaningful? Not only does it acknowledge a pure, natural and effortless beauty on the surface. But also that she compels charm that can inspire devotion in others, and she exudes personal integrity. It's a commentary on the beauty of her soul as a person, in addition to her artistic esthetics. She favors humility over arrogance. It's a perfect quiet confidence matched by a measured feminine intuition.
In a world filled with plurality, Dove Ethereal is singular. One of a kind. Her expectations compromise for nothing and to no one. She inspires admiration.
A Hall of Fame would not be a Hall of Fame without her.
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REBECCA AINSLEY
Something I've never mentioned about Rebecca in my story is that she is a deeply religious woman. She and I talked about what she practices and her views on different topics that ties around religion, but that part never made it to the final cut when it was time for me to upload her photos. I'll talk about some of that here, during her induction into the National Hall of Fame Museum of Women.
Rebecca is an Arts Fellow at an education center for advanced Jewish learning, a place that promotes advanced scholarship for women. She spends her days filling up on Torah. She graduated from Harvard University (yes, that Harvard University), where she spent her days filling up on great books, spending most of her time in the Committee on the Study of Religion. Outside of text, she explores paint, movement art, yoga, and meaning making. She's a trans-disciplinary artist, a scholar of comparative religion, and a death researcher.
Rebecca is a Lady of Faith who wants strengthen the voice of women worldwide and empower them to create caring communities, nurture congregations, cultivate personal and spiritual growth, and advocate for and promote progressive Jewish values.
We spent very little time on talking about her commitment on her devotion to Judaism, but not so much time on it as the rest of our conversation focused on some philosophical topics and other topics that lent itself to laughter, smiles, love, and many other things away from her main topic that would make for a great conversation on a date.
Rebecca Ainsley is authentic. She is mentally and emotionally mature enough, if necessary, to put aside her own needs in favor of others without losing herself in the process. She has self-discipline as well as humor and lightness. She's authentic, which covers the whole range of human behavior and emotionality, including flaws and mistakes. She's honest and self-reflective enough to teach her nearest and dearest that this is how healthy people act and feel and that there's nothing wrong with that. She keeps cultivating her own interests and has her very own convictions. She doesn't shy away from conflicts. She contributes to the well-being of her community. All these things are her top priority. What makes her all great while being all normal is her propensity to balance, push forward, protect, hold back, enable, teach, nurture, inspire, support, to encourage, to live and love and laugh and fight. Rebecca is a whole person, not the incarnate ideal of what's considered an incarnate ideal.
Whenever I see a woman with unpainted toenails, I think of Rebecca. I think of Rebecca because of how humorous she was about her natural toenails in its natural state of being, referring to them as "naked". Naked for not being dressed up, naked for liking that her toenails are all bare.
WOMAN OF STEEL
This is one of my favorite names I've given someone. It fits this woman's characteristic traits, and she felt honored to learn that that was how I viewed her. The name Woman of Steel made her feel as if she was given an award for something she had done.
This was one of those times when I walked up to someone while she was taking a break from her jogging routine. I remember it being incredibly humid that day, and somehow the shoot made her relax. I could tell a part of her wanted to do the shoot with me and another part telling her to not do it. It's unethical to pressure someone into doing something they don't want to do, and so I had to, in a sense, do a balancing act by directing the conversation and mood by way of showing great adroitness in handling that delicate situation for her, which was something she later came to admire. Not long before I met her, she was involved in a situation that caused her to experience a sense of uneasiness or of nervousness with another guy who had a foot fetish, and so how I was able to soothe, to alleviate, to ... calm her anxieties was something she regarded with great respect and warm approval.
She can climb trees and rocks, lift logs, balance herself on narrow surfaces. She knows carrying techniques of objects and of other people, she does ground work involving learning how to fall, crawl, and roll, precision jumping, and anything else that's fun and gets the heart going!
Being outside and moving naturally as her body was meant to gives her not only a great workout, but a true sense of fulfillment of her natural instincts and a greater body awareness.
She is referred to as "Woman of Steel" because of her incredible strength and durability. This nickname is meant to convey the idea that she is as strong and indestructible as steel, which is known for its strength and resistance to damage. However, it is important to note that I'm not directly comparing her to steel ... rather, it's just a metaphor. In reality, her powers come from her genetically gifted biology and through brute force and will, all while being a lady.
LITTLE MOUSEY GIRL
I was having such a hard time coming up with a name for this lady. She's quiet, shy, and people don't notice her. She's one of those girls who was often overlooked by guys in her school. I knew I had to go easy on her as she was enjoying the peace of the park and was writing what was on her mind in her journal.
She's also pleasant, kind, and gentle towards other people. She helps others and talks to people when they need help and will lend a helping hand to those who are at a disadvantage. The Little Mousey Girl leads with her heart and also her head. But, having the heart and head balanced is great, her heart in in a good place, she's smart and she'll go far in life.
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THE LEGACY GIRLS This category for the Hall of Fame is called the "Legacy" wing. Inductees in this category are from the earliest era during my Bryant Park days.
ZeVa Esme
ZeVa, four letters and two syllables, pronounced Ze-va. I capitalized the V to make it look medieval because she had the look of an modern version of someone transported into the future from the year 1425. "Esme", in this context, means a protector and someone could bring good luck to those who called upon her. The name matches the look, and matches the personality.
Any woman who wears crochet flats must have good feet. I made that bet, and it paid off because her feet were simply splendid. Her skin tone, complexion, hair color, and hair style, are the stuff dreams are made of. Her glasses added complexity to who she was.
I've categorized ZeVa as a warrior in that she doesn't play victim, she doesn't make yourself look pitiful, she doesn't point fingers. She stands and she deals. She faces the world with a head held high and she carries the universe in her heart.
CARRINA
This is someone who's always held a special place in my mind. She's not talked about or mentioned much, and it's been a long time coming for her sake to be etched into the annals of time by taking her rightful spot in Hall of Fame. This shoot felt rushed to me, and I wish I could go back in time to take more of my time creating photos of her feet.
It was a good thing she stayed in the park for as long as she did because when I went to sit down to take pictures of her feet, that was my second time seeing her in the park. The first time must've been an hour earlier, sitting at the same spot in the Reading Room (a shaded seating space that serves as a public service on behalf of the New York Public Library. It's open during the warm weather months, and it provides a casual, family-friendly, open-air space for readers of all ages to enjoy an outdoor moment of literary peace in the city in which everywhere you go is a scene out of an action movie). When I got back around to the Reading Room the second time, I was pleasantly surprised to see her still in there, reading a book. I was given a second chance to walk up to her, and I would never see her again if I did nothing.
I loved her soles. Every single curvature to them, I loved. Why do I love women's feet? Look at her soles, and you'll see why.
Underneath the shyness, you have someone you can introduce to your friends and family. At the time I shot those photos, she had just left her job working the sales floor and helping customers find the right look and fit for their bras and lingerie at Victoria's Secret, to begin a new job as a secretary for a staffing agency. Since that shoot, she's held different receptionist/administrative assistant jobs at these offices in the city, always being someone these companies could rely on. When she's not doing that kind of work, she's tries to make a name for herself as an independent music reviewer/music critic, interviewing musicians, reviewing performances and albums, and sometimes cover music news, primarily classical music to punk rock and grunge.
A place where anyone can find her is at a record store. That is her library. Being an avid collector of vinyl records, a wish she has is that things go back to the way they were in the 80s and 90s when it was just vinyl, cassettes, and CDs. During the shoot, she talked about how anyone back in those days would remember the first album they bought, which usually comes with a great story behind that purchase, whereas now (meaning back then when the photos were taken, which also applies to today) today's generation would have their memories go blank from not being able to recount the first song they ever streamed. "What is the world coming to?" she asked me.
CARRINA IS MUSIC TO MY EARS Photos of Four Records (of many) From Her Collection
∙ "Why? It's the only one I own. Also, I am of the opinion that anything is automatically improved with an orchestra. I had to have this one because I first fell in love with Metallica after their 1999 concert with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Unfortunately, I feel like they sounded better the first time around. However, Scott Pingel - the bass player from the orchestra - performing "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth" with Lars makes it all worth it."
∙ "I'd have graciously paid the full $7 price tag on this used record, but I got it at an even greater discount. Does the world not understand the absolute beauty and genius that is Charlie Chaplin?"
∙ "I heard Edith Piaf's songs for the first time when my professor at university asked me to translate the lyrics of "The Accordionist" for an exercise. I fell in love with his music, and now I listen to it often. It's perfect for dancing, a good night out, or practicing my French vocabulary."
∙ "A classic for any Allman Brother's fan and as my father's daughter, I have no choice but to place myself in that category."
BLONDE BLUSH
Breath-taking soles. Lovely blonde hair. It doesn't take much to make her blush. The boots she wore made me think that there was a better choice of footwear she could've gone with that day, but there was something about her that made me look past that. A perfect combination when the soles of a woman's feet look just as hot as the woman herself.
STORY KEEPER
FRENCH DRESSING
NIVEA
Nivea (Nivea, because the color blue takes up almost 100 percent of what she wore that day, and because it reminded me of that brand of lotion of the same name that has most of its products sold in blue)
She wrote legal paperwork for a law firm at the time these photos were taken. Legal writing includes the writing of motions, memorandums, and briefs for any specific legal case. This also includes summarizing laws and case laws and legal trends. Lawyers themselves use such material in preparing cases. The legal profession deals with a very specific terminology with which you really have to be familiar with and have the experience to really understand what is going on. Shannon does. She has some sort of legal background or training to be able to take on a role like that. She's in the knowledge of not only about the terminology but also what each of the legal procedures she's writing about involves.
She had one of the best looking feet I've ever seen.
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...continuation of the Legacy Girls
FRUCTIS
The name Fructis was given to her because, even from a few feet away, she smelled just like one of those shampoos.
I had a friend of mine meet me at the park to see me in action. He also had a foot fetish, he had seen my posts on the forum and he had to see all of this for himself to believe it.
We met right outside the park, and as I was about to tell him what my game plan for the evening was, he points to a lady behind me. He didn't say a word, but I knew that was his way of saying that he wanted to see if I could get her to slip her shoes off for me. When I turned around to see who see pointed to, and then I looked down at her feet to see how those looked like, it was an immediate yes for me.
At first she was confused -- she thought I wanted to see her feet because there was something wrong with them. When she was assured that it was because I thought her feet were beautiful, she was relieved.
The friend who met up with me at the park, here's what he said in a post: "I am the friend that went to watch him at work, ... the man is a Goddamn marvel of modern science. Never mind the law of averages, of which this dude is batting in the high .800's I would say if I had to venture a guess, (though he knows his own actual average to the decimal which I'm sure will be shared in his response) but the sheer biological composure it takes to actually walk up to a woman and request such a favor so casually is breath taking. I don't think I could do it without knocking back a few Jacks, but I may try. It doesn't hurt him either that he is quite easy on the eyes. We are close in age, but I look considerably older than he even though I am myself not exactly a beast if I may be so bold. He also speaks Spanish which opens up those opportunities by about 25-50%. It is inspiring and there isn't much more I can add that hasn't already been said. National my man, you should start your own festival and charge people to visit each summer, like Cannes."
If I had to imagine what a woman's toes and soles should look like, it'll look like hers.
LOVE LETTERS
About five minutes after I was done with Fructis, I sat down next to this lovely lady, who was perfectly fine with letting me take photos of her feet. My friend sat on a chair 8-10 feet behind me so he could get a good look at her soles. He did a fantastic job being inconspicuous throughout it all because the lady did not catch on that he was a part of the show.
Here's what my friend said about this encounter I had with Love Letters: "Yes, I did manage to maneuver myself so I was sitting right where I could see her (meaning Love Letters') soles. And like National said, I did assist him in the first girl he asked that night because I had gotten to the park a little before he did and plopped myself down right across a girl I wanted him to ask. I kept playing with my phone to make myself busy (and in fact I was on the phone at one point, with my length in doing so to the chagrin of National:) ...I don't remember seeing any who already had their feet posed (meaning a girl who was seated, resting her feet on a neighboring chair with her shoes and socks off)...well there was that one National asked who was ashamed at how big her feet were. Hers were perfect and were plopped up but she was the one I believe who refused. But all of the others had their shoes on, so you have to just hope for the best once she is asked.
"There was even a brief moment when I considered getting in on the action and asking a few myself, but it's still a bit strange for me. Plus I have to admit I would get too excited at a few and would end up asking if I could worship their feet. It was a fun experience watching The Man in action, and also a bewildering one, as I could not believe girls who are comfortable with this sort of request exist!!"
Love Letters is from Spain, and so our entire conversation was in Spanish. She's can take your ideas and put them into a book that'll captivate the readers. She's a book cover designer and illustrator. Magnificent soles like hers has to be in the Hall of Fame.
CREAM CREME
This was one of my favorite shoots, and it was one of my first ones that made me realize I could see things differently than how I saw things before, and how something being presented differently could expand how others would see things. Sometimes I would get the sense that a memorable shoot would take place based on the person being photographed. In other words, if you know, you know. Someone who has not experienced doing this or been exposed to seeing as many woman's feet as I have may not fully understand it. Suffice (it) to say, I could tell that she was someone who had a pleasant appearance and manner, and that was a recipe for a shoot where I was going to make most of my time while sharing some small talk. She was friendly, kind, relaxed, easy to talk to, which made the shoot kind, relaxed, and easy to do.
Her feet blew me away. The shape of her soles, how those indicated they would produce beautiful arches, all of that was amazing, wonderful, and special to see. The natural color, texture, and appearance of her feet, the color she painted her toenails, the color of her ballet flats, and just simply seeing color of her hair ... were the things that made me give her the name of Cream Creme.
Photos to Her Gallerie: Click Here SHOE SIZE: 7 (US)
At the time I made these photos, I had no idea she was someone who worked in the entertainment industry as an actress who appeared on TV shows, films, commercials, and as someone who works as a producer of different shows.
Ana Mackenzie is famous to some people -- and not at all to others, which is not uncommon for different levels of fame. Making her living solely as an actress now was always her goal and is something for which she's grateful every day. She thinks of any 'fame' she experiences as a side effect.
She occasionally does things such as interviews, red carpet events, etc. where it's her job to be an actress some people have heard of. Those things are sometimes fun, sometimes a drag, and often a combination.
There are times when she gets recognized, and may avoid places and situations where that's likely to happen when she's not in the mood to be 'on'. That's something Ana didn't have to think about usually, which has made her more aware of the value of anonymity.
She has more friends who are famous than she used to. The funny thing is that they're just work friends the same way we have work friends with our part-time or full-time office jobs. The difference is some of the people Ana works with happen to be famous. I have no way of knowing this for certain, but I think she gets the sense that people sometimes assume that famous people meet each other at glamorous underground black-tie galas where they use hundred dollar bills as cocktail napkins... and maybe some of the people she knows fall into that category, but I never got the sense that she was like that. Given her down to earth and endearing nature, my guess is she's can make a friend while running to craft services to grab a lukewarm grilled cheese while she's on a twenty-minute break.
Ana was polite, friendly, and likeable. Anyone she knows will say those same things about her times ten.
VINTAGE SYMPHONY
A missing treasure from the pages of this forum. One of the great shoots I've done in my Bryant Park days, and there have been those who have wondered what had happened to the photos of that shoot when they disappeared. That's what happens sometimes with these image hosting sites. I felt the loss as well, as it was a shoot with a woman who journeys to different parts of the world, spreading the good word through her music, delivering inspiration to anyone who wants to lend her their willingness to open up and understand the lyrics woven into her songs. When she sings, she has spoken.
I'm going to retell the story of when I met Julia Toaspern, the woman who I would name 'Vintage Symphony'. I gave her that name without knowing just how true those words would describe her.
It was ten years ago when this shoot took place. There are nearly 33,000 people who visit Bryant Park a day. Through it all, she was the needle in the haystack. An incredible being was able to capture my attention and perception to all that is beautiful, wonderful, enlightening even. Something different about her than from other people I could've walked up to, that drew an inspiration in me I wasn't able to put my finger on, but I knew there was a story there with her, and I wanted to know what brought her to the park.
Vintage Symphony is a folk singer. Our culture is noisy, we are battered with multi-media stimuli, that we are on sensory overloaded. A lot of the music of this time reflects this, hyper compressed to be as loud and in your face as can be. Julia tunes out from the noise, bringing the listeners on a journey to self discovery without all of that static from other forms of music by giving us folk. Her peace of mind in music offers an alternative; softer, perhaps more emotional and personal, almost a one on one conversation. That's what you feel when you hear her sing.
Understandable lyrics, easy to follow meaning, evocative toe-tapping tunes...
When Julia performs, she sits ten feet from those sitting in the front row, and then casually chats with them during the intermission. As a musician, she loves to get together with other like-minded musicians to play and sing -- and festivals, jams, and musical evenings in people's homes provide her both a musical and social outlet. Folk music, for her is intimate and participatory in a way that she feels rock or pop or other mainstream forms are not.
The shoes she wore that day gave her the look that she was a product who lived through an earlier time. They looked as if she had walked a long way since the beginning of her journey and had made a visit to the park for an extended break she wanted to give herself and her feet. She brought some historical and sentimental values that time should conserve.
I mentioned earlier about how she would talk to members of the audience during breaks. My journey allowed for the opportunity to have that conversation with this musician during one of her breaks. Granted, she wasn't performing on stage when I came across Vintage, but a break it was for her, nonetheless. In my case, she was on her break while talking just a bit about her feet while she allowed me to take pictures of them.
What's natural, pure, joyful, real, ... those words come together to bring light to the kind of person Julia Toaspern is. Julian Toaspern is Vintage Symphony.
Here she is: Click Here Click Here to Know More About Her: Here
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I hope you enjoyed the presentation of the 2023 induction ceremonies here in Central Park, and for all the women who got in this year, there's no question that when they put their hearts into it, whether it's their generosities for participating in the shoots with me or going about their lives, excelling at whatever they put their minds and hearts to, it touches all of ours.
For all of the latest inductees, and for myself, thanks for being here. We hope in some way, we touched your heart a little bit, too.
Congratulations to all of these women, contributing members to society, and now ... Hall of Famers in the Museum of Women. Thank you very much.
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NATIONAL Q+A
WHAT'S THE STORY BEHIND YOUR "NATIONAL" USERNAME? Baseball is my favorite sport, and people have gone as far as to label me as an aficionado of the game. I would be able to engage in a two-hour conversation with the most knowledgeable historians of the game, gaining insights and new perspectives from one another.
The National League of Professional Baseball was what began major league play. It became Major League Baseball with the merger of the American League 120 years ago. I went with National as my username as my way of paying homage to the formation of professional baseball. The National League started it all, and there you go.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR APPROACH TO YOUR STYLE OF PHOTOGRAPHY? Doing this has allowed me to meet new people. Getting to know a complete stranger makes for an interesting story to tell and some interesting memories to recount. My photography is also about the women I meet and I'm genuinely interested in them. I want to get something real out of them, not just use them as a flat surface. I'm not interested in shallow, glossy fashion images. I'm more interested in the actual person. When I shoot photos, I'm interested in something that goes far beyond. That's what I want. Sometimes I succeed, and sometimes not.
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO SOMEONE WHO SAID HE HAS TRIED TO WALK UP TO LADIES, ONLY TO GET TURNED DOWN CONSTANTLY? HOW DOES HE GET ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO DO THIS AS WELL AS YOU DO I'm going to tell you why this is not working for you. You can't walk up to a woman ... out of shape ... you kind of stink ... your style is just wack. Listen, you can't just walk up to a woman in any old way and not have the right tone of voice and not being cognizant of your body language because there is an art form to this and you need to be a smooth operator to be successful and classy at this.
There is a reason why this is not working for you: you can't just walk up to a woman and say to her in a voice, tone, and posture that makes you look and sound socially inept, "Um ... pardon me ... excuse me ... hi, how are you? You look so beautiful. You're SO beautiful. Now pardon my ProWings with the grass stains from doing the lawn yesterday, and I know I'm a little dorky ... but I would to take pictures of your feet, please."
Here's the thing: you've got to look the part. You've got to look the part, otherwise the woman is not going to buy what you're selling. She's going to say, "You wanna take pictures of my feet?! Ay, pobrecito (Spanish for "Aw, poor thing!"). Not today, honey -- come back to me next week and try again."
The look has to be right, the body language has to be right, and, for extra credit, the fragrance has to be right. With the way I look and the way I smell, if I walk up to a woman with my tonality, energy and my charisma, and tell her I would love to photograph her feet, is it going to happen all the time? No, it won't. But my chances are very good, though ... why? Because everything is in a straight line: the look, the charm, the energy, the confidence.
In order for her to buy what you're selling, to buy into your program, she's going to look at you and she's going to think you look just right. In order for her to accept your proposal for a shoot like that, your presentation has to be good. If you have to lose weight, lose weight. If you've got to go back and read what I said about how to look good, do that as well because you've got to get the look right. You can't do this if you look and come off as disorganized.
HOW DO YOU GET INSPIRED? AND WHAT INSPRIRED YOU MOST? MOVIES, BOOKS, MAGAZINES? WAS IT OTHER FOOT FETISH PHOTOGRAPHERS? OR WAS IT THINGS THAT WERE AROUND YOU? I got my inspiration from photo magazines. Photo magazines that have nothing to do with any sexual fetishes. I would look through magazines that feature works from photographers who shoot interior designs, the lifestyles of the rich, nature, architecture, you name it. Just as long as sex (or anything else that's meant to make someone aroused) is not involved, I got inspiration from those aspects of human interests.
I don't think I've ever been inspired by another foot photographer, probably because I want to expand my mind's horizon to see what else was out there, to see the beauty in things other people may not have paid attention or become purview to. I got my inspirations from things that had nothing to do with women's feet.
∙ When you are connected to the everyday, when you are pushing through the barrier of seeing the events that unfold before you ... when you are at peace with your camera, that's when it becomes natural, and only then will it become easier to find the stories, to find things that are happening, to respond to them naturally. If you seek out these things too hard, if you walk through the park looking for that next great photograph, then you are closing your eyes to the possibilities that something might happen ... just off to your left, or behind you. You don't go charging through the bush, hunting for that butterfly to seek, look at, and admire. Instead, you have to go gently so that you don't scare off the events happening around you.
∙ You want to take the stance on life of resistance or acceptance. That's all there is and there's no middle ground. If you keep on choosing resistance, that means a no. I feel that life is a yes, then so are the opportunities that come with having the camera ready. Welcoming life and living in the now is all we can do, so what are we waiting for? Photography has shown me that even at a thousandth of a second, some fresh, and yet fragmentary revelation, is possible.
∙ There's no anxiety or haste with my work. Even though photography is fast and instantaneous, you can do it fast and not hastily. In other words, if you expand the moment of consciousness, your own consciousness as an artist, time becomes flexible, meaning that in the space of recognition comes the thousandth of a second of pressing that button. This feels like Einstein's physics about time in that I can manage these two dimensions of time in the same living consciousness of my being there, recognizing, raising the camera and knowing I have crossed paths with this moment of my destiny that I've either created this moment or that I've witnessed it.
∙ Photography is not only mechanics. When it comes to this, I'm not a camera technician. When it comes to taking photographs, I'm perhaps the least technologically savvy person when it comes to how a camera works, but my photos will stand the test of time because I'm an artist when it comes to the camera. Photography has a spiritual dimension in which your humanity is what's being recorded along with the subject matter. I want my work to show the expression of my humanistic qualities, how moved I was by what I saw. You see, it's not just design out there ... instead, it's something special about this medium that a machine can record emotions, feelings , humanity, and we give this to each other as our offering. It's not just about shaping the picture nicely in a frame, it's about how much compassion, or emotion, or understanding can you bring to the frame with an interesting arrangement of all of this information. That's the secret to how I shoot my photos.
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A LOOK BACK AT BRYANT PARK The following shoot was shot eleven or twelve years ago, during my Bryant Park Days. Her name is Jessica, but I heard her pronounce is as Yessica, and so that's what I'm calling her. She was a tourist from Brazil. She didn't know any English, and I didn't know any Portuguese. I wound up speaking to her in Spanish, and she to me in Portuguese, seeing that our languages shared some similarities. When that was established, we then had a level of understanding each other and everything went well from that point on.
Her feet were impressive to me. Her toes were well taken care of and her soles were simply fantastic. This is what taking photos of feet is made of, when you come across a very nice of them.
It was a very different time when those photos were taken. A lot has happened since, and at times I wonder what someone like Yessica is up to these day?
YESSICA -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 7 (US), 38 (EUR), 36 (BRA)
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NATURAL CLASSIC These were lost files. By lost files, I mean that the picture ("file") was lost in the sea of photos of thousands of photos I had taken over the years. These files were lost and just magically appeared in a folder in my computer about a month ago. I was glad and relieved that the photos from this shoot wasn't lost to space after all because I didn't think I was going to recreate a shoot like that one again. If it had been some other shoot that took place on some random day, I wouldn't mind not having access to it anymore because I always had more photos from other women I could showcase. But this one was different. This was something I always wanted to show, and when I came across them recently, I knew that the lineup of photos I'm showing this week was going to become more stacked.
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This shoot took place back in 2020, and many people were wearing their masks because Covid was still the talk of town. I couldn't get too close to Ilana so as not to make her worry about me having something that could make her sick, and so I had to keep a safe distance from her. Besides, she warned me that she still wasn't completely out of woods yet when it comes to fighting Covid because she was still struggling with it at the time. She said she was going to let me take pictures of her feet, but told me that I could catch the virus from her if wasn't too careful. I decided to proceed with the shoot, even it meant getting me sick for you guys. I felt it was worth taking the risk because her feet looked luxurious and I knew this was a shoot I needed to have. I didn't get sick from the shoot, by the way.
HERE IS ILANA TALKING ABOUT THE STRUGGLES SHE HAD WITH COVID This video was shot for her followers a few months after the shoot took place. It was hard for on the day of the shoot, and listening to this made me realize just how hard the virus had hit her. She's a fighter and a winner. Click Here to Hear Her Speak
I believe Ilana was 46 years old when these photos were taken (which would make her 49 now). She takes as immaculate care of her feet as I'd ever seen anyone take care of them. One can make the argument that she takes care of her feet, and takes the time to make sure they look as presentable as possible better than a 39 year-old, a 29 year-old, or even a 19 year-old.
A BIT ABOUT ILANA LANE'S BACKROUND Her aunt gave her her first camera when she was seven or eight years old in the early 80s, and that was it ... she's been shooting ever since.
She started working in production in her junior year of high school; producing, directing, shooting, and editing half hour segments for PBS. By her senior year, she was an associate producer for a news station in Reno, Nevada where she grew up. She landed her first sports gig shooting hockey for [a radio station in North Carolina] when she was twenty and spent the next ten years working as a news photojournalist and sports videographer in San Diego and LA while doing still photography.
In 2012, Ilana had back surgery that ended her time as a sports videographer, and took her out of working in production. She couldn't sit or stand around for too long, so she started figuring out other ways to occupy her time when she's not shooting stills. She currently spends her free time shooting love stories and rescue dog features for a company she started based on her rescue and her experiences with injuries, and the rescues other people have made of their dogs from the shelter system.
She wants to develop a magazine for those who have dealt with injuries and physical disabilities, featuring articles from medical professionals who want to give advice on what those people can do to get themselves back into better shape.
SOME OF HER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: ∙ Working with George Carlin on "Life is Worth Losing." ∙ Getting to interview Walter Cronkite, Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell, Tony Hawk, Bob Burnquist, Phil Jackson, etc for Fox. ∙ Getting to play with Ligers while working for ABC. "Seriously. It happened," she told me. ∙ Having lunch with "The Rock" (yes, that Dwayne Johnson) while filming a WWE Pay Per View event. ∙ Eating sunflower seeds with Randy Johnson on the field before shooting her first MLB game. ∙ Having her still photography featured in galleries across the west coast since 2003.
*How She Looks Like without the Mask*
She told me that I could take as many photos as I wanted, but then that'll have to stop at around a quarter to one because there was a phone call she had to make. I looked at the time on my phone, did the math, and saw that that left me a lot of time to work with, which made me happy because I love taking my time in shoots that feature women with feet I find to be among the most beautiful.
This was one of my favorite shoots, considering the amount of physical space that was between us. The closest I was able to get to her was when I was inches away from her feet. I had to respect her space, by taking into account that she still wasn't fully well from Covid at the time, by not going anywhere near her face.
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Ilana's feet is something that pleases the mind, makes you smile or sends you off someplace that has an effect on mood. It certainly did for me. In its presence, her feet are like the sun that shines through on a cloudy day, as her picturesque toes glisten with the depth of the ocean. Her soles carries the warmth of a thousand suns, and its grace is a symphony of elegance and strength, making them a breathtaking masterpiece of everything that gives pleasure to the senses or the mind.
ILANA LANE -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 12 (US), 44.5 (EUR), 10 (UK), 28.5cm, 11.22047in
A HEARTFELT THANK YOU NOTE SHE SENT ME "Didn't think about it until this just now, but these feet have carried me through all kinds of triumphs and adventures big and small.
Most pictures of me from this summer are of my feet. Hanging out of that hammock. Those feet gave me life and my friends and family hope. Each time I went out was a victory. I've been fighting and striving my whole life and those little piggies have taken me far.
Thank you for your time. Thank you for your kindness. Thank you for your vision." Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC This is one of my favorite shoots. She is a lovely woman with a heart of gold.
She smiles a lot, is respectful and helpful to everyone, she forgives easily, doesn't make fun of others, is grateful for the small things in life, and she doesn't take anything for granted in life.
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This was the Early Bird Special, as this shoot started at 9:30 in the morning, which meant that I must've arrived at the park at a quarter to nine for me to walk my route to get to that spot. I'm glad I was there when I was. She was already sitting on top of the rock by the time I got there.
A bit of a history lesson before I get back to the story. When it comes to the oldest part of Central Park, that would be the ancient bedrock that was formed between 100 million and a billion years ago.
During the last ice age, glaciers slowly crept over Manhattan, and moved rocks across the bedrock. In turn, that left behind the protrusions and boulders that are in the park today. Today, visitors have the chance to climb up some of these larger rocks to take in the views from above, find a spot to relax on, and just explore what the park is all about, and that's what this lady was doing that morning.
"TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOURSELF." She answered, "It's funny that you want to take pictures of my feet because I have a story for you. Imagine this: I spend my work days with my full body weight set squarely on the tips of my toes which are squished together inside a box made out of literal cardboard. So what am I?"
I guessed figure skater before I told her was kidding around.
She's an American Ballet Theatre dancer, and what she described was just part of what her days are like. In some ballets, "I even have to hop on my toes as if my shoe is hammering a nail into the floor."
She told me to think of this as Dancing with the Stars mixed with rugby. A typical work day for her likely includes around ten hours of conditioning, technique, rehearsal, repeat, repeat and then repeat again. 50-60 hours per week is common. And the teaching methods tend to be more scolding, slangs and slurs, not unlike what an athlete of another sport endures. There has been plenty of ups and downs throughout her dancing career, but she knows she needs to be her own cheerleader for the choices she makes, which leads her to the moments where the positives outweigh the negatives. She doesn't have "a lot" of free time to enjoy aspects of her social life because she spends most of her waking moments running back and forth between her home and the studio, saying: "it's sheer joy behind it that drives you towards the same path forward. You need to be a little crazy in order to be a dancer."
"Professional dancing, I guess, is among the most underrated and undervalued forms of profession. People often assume that it's for those who aren't good in academics, by which they mean it doesn't involve any brains, skill or intellect. But after doing this for as long as I have, I can definitely say it's the most competitive industry which requires not just physical skill and athleticism, but high intellect as well for quick grasp, execution and be totally aware of your body." She has my utmost respect.
HOW DOES SHE COPE WITH THE PAIN OF DANCING ON POINTE ALL DAY? When she leaves the stage and heads home, she relies on a host of things that bring her feet relief so she can dance another day. Here are her must-haves:
∙ Epsom salt soak. When performance season hits and she dances several shows per week, she takes as many as two Epsom salt baths per day, saying, "The lukewarm bath with salts helps with inflammation and swelling." It's her go-to when her feet needs a little extra care.
∙ Though chic footwear trends are always tempting for her, she is committed to being sensible. After a full day in pointe shoes, she laces up quality street shoes to prevent potential injuries. She went as far as to tell me that couldn't remember the last time she put on heels. Her sneaker of choice? Nike Tanjun running shoes (which she had on on the day of the shoot) or Hokas.
∙ A good roll out. In an effort to wake up her muscles and release tension in her arches, she rolls out the bottoms of her feet on a tennis ball or wooden foot roller.
∙ Years ago, her boyfriend gifted her some orthopedic ice-pack socks. She thought they were only meant for elderly people, but now, they play a central role in her post-performance recovery process. She keeps them in her freezer and puts them on "all the time".
∙ She's a sucker for tried-and-true topical pain relief. "I am old-school ... I use Tiger Balm," she says. "I typically put it around my arch, and my Achilles tendon, and spend some time massaging it in." During performance seasons, she moves through this process once every two or three days.
*Three ballerinas. Our lady is the one in the middle.*
She's a Minnesota girl through and through. Minnesota is her heart and soul. She loves the life in the Big Apple, but who she is and what she knows is unmistakably what makes her a small town girl.
I told her she had beautiful feet and how they possessed qualities that give a sense of satisfaction or pleasure to see and think about. Her feet are what drives her to put on a performance that's captivating and expressive, where people can be truly moved by her artistry. I told her that, too.
She was truly and sincerely touched by what I had just told her. She was at a loss for words. She didn't know what to say, really, other than to say that what I said was really one of the highest form of compliments she's ever received as a ballerina. This is a woman of grace, poise, and elegance who moves around with fluidity, precision, and control, giving off a sense of ethereal beauty in what she does.
Good feet: strong, flexible, and well-arched. Being right there with the feet of a well respected ballerina was a pretty cool moment for me. Two people (meaning myself and her) who like feet and who always look at feet for different reasons met in Central Park. We talked about feet. We gained a new understanding for why feet are useful and admired from the other person's point of view. I made sure time really slowed down for this shoot because I made it a mission to enjoy every single moment of it. And I did.
She is a beautiful and wonderful soul. She illuminates it.
*Yes, that girl you see on the left is also the same woman on the right.*
A NEW CHAPTER IN HER LIFE She was in the park that morning, thinking to herself ... the gathering of goals, visceral contemplation of where she is, where she wants to be, where she will be, and placing those thoughts in the present. It is the act of living as though her dream reality already exists here and now. She feels an overwhelming sense of freedom, a feeling that she should lean into, rather than run from.
She needed a change in the scenery. A studio with windows. A class with a view. A new set of teachers, a new set of tools. A shift in perspective, a purview breakthrough.
A new chapter began even before the last one ended. Started living in the new. Which brought her to the park. To reflect on life. A feeling of Freedom. Things Falling into place.
SWAN LAKE -- Click Here SHOE SIZE: 9 (US), 40.5 (EUR), 6.5 (UK) She is a beautiful and wonderful soul. She illuminates it.
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What a wonderful story and what exquisite feet she has! My favorite photo in her gallery is #42 which shows both her beautiful face and a close-up of one of her wrinkled soles. Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATIONAL Q+A
HAS THERE EVER BEEN SOMEONE YOU SHOT WHO HAS REALLY SURPRISED YOU? WHO WAS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT YOU EXPECTED? There have been some who come to mind. The first one was Bloody Mary. I went into that shoot not expecting anything outstanding to happen. The other shoot is one that may very well be the greatest shoot I've ever had. I haven't shown it yet, but everyone will know what I mean when the photos finally go on display at the end of next year. It was completely different than from what I had expected to happen, that it was unlike any other shoot I've had. I went into the shoot expecting it to be short because she gave me the impression that she wasn't going to stick around for too long. But the shoot was magic and she stayed with me throughout the entire thing, until the camera battery ran out of power. Another one shoot that was different than what I was expecting it to be was Aimee Young. There could others, but those three come to mind.
WHAT'S A QUOTATION ON PHOTOGRAPHY YOU LIKE AND WHY? '... The camera is therefore an eye capable of looking forward and backward at the same time. Forwards, it does in fact 'shoot a picture', backwards, it records a vague shadow, sort of an x-ray of the photographer's mind, by looking straight through his (or her) eye to the bottom of his (or her) soul. Yes, forwards, a camera sees its subject in the first place, thereby showing simultaneously THE THINGS and THE DESIRE of them. If, thus, a camera shoots in two directions, forwards and backwards, merging both pictures so that the "back" dissolves the "front", it allows the photographer at the very moment of shooting to be in front with the subjects, rather than separated from them. Through the "viewfinder" the viewer can step out of his shell to be "on the other side" of the world, and thereby remember better, understanding better, see better, hear better, and love more deeply, too ...'
-Wim Wenders
This passage, from Wim Wember's book Once, represents an appreciation for those who photograph, rather than telling people they should be there and be a witness to the moment. I think people often see photography as only seeing the surface, but Wenders talks about photography helping you appreciate things more deeply.
LAST YEAR YOU SAID THAT YOU DON'T GET AROUSED DURING SHOOTS AS OFTEN AS PEOPLE THINK YOU DO. HOW DO YOU NOT GET A HARD ON IN EVERY SINGLE SHOOT? Does an art student get excited at the sight of a nude model in a life drawing class? No, because context is everything. In that sense it doesn't happen all that often.
But in the sense that I do get excited, I get excited for what type of images I could create with the women I meet. The turn on is the creativity. As long as you don't seem turned on or act inappropriately, you should be fine. Just be a professional about it. Besides, they love the attention it gives them, so we understand what's going on. If it happens, just pretend it's not happening and it'll either go away or she'll ask you out for drinks after the shoot.
I will say that sometimes the women I shot gave the game away by asking, "Do you get turned on when you're taking the photos," thereby letting me know they were turned on.
DESCRIBE WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR MIND WHEN YOU'RE IN THE PARK LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO PHOTOGRAPH. ALSO, WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR MIND AS YOUR TAKING THE PHOTOS DURING THE SHOOT? When I'm walking through the park, people are just coming past me when suddenly ... one lady, for some reason, has a kind of vibration that speaks to me, and I would sense a possible harmony. In those moments, I would have to get my courage up to cross the social barrier between strangers, go over to this person, say hi, tell her what I do and ask if I could take images of her feet. I'm saying this while holding the camera in my hand, and they immediately almost can't believe what they've just heard because it's not everyday when a woman would have a guy walk up to her and ask to take those kind of photos of her.
You see, in a way, the camera acts as bait. The women would take me seriously because I'm not standing there with an iPhone. The entire encounter makes the women curious about me, and it would allow me ... just that breath or two ... to establish a communication, a rhythm with them. It could be playful when I say something funny, or it could be me making an observation about the clothes they were wearing, anything from an artistic expression to how their shoes look, or something else. By establishing that human moment, and then getting them to say yes, I would then suggest a spot where we could do the shoot (if the woman I'm talking to was already standing).
What I wanted from these women was to see if I could see their secrets. Whatever their hidden mysteries were, I was hoping they would deliver those to the camera. In the early stages of the shoot, I would keep a line of conversation between myself and them in which I'm holding them there so they could feel as if they can sigh a sense of relief, a moment of relaxing and giving themselves over to the camera. It was never really my way of doing things to press the button when I saw them attempt to impress me by being too showy or flashy ... too posey, smiling too much and giving their bodies some kind of cute form (which is another way of saying too posey). I wait until they dissolve, and some instinct in me would know that that's the right time to shoot some photos because that was when their realities would tell themselves.
To finish answering this question, I would talk to the women long enough to get them settled in, because what I wanted was the possibility of intimacy, especially in the era of the smartphone where everyone is self conscious when they're posing and trying to look their best. It's human intimacy between two strangers when a woman would trust me enough to relinquish something of her secret to the camera. If you look at my photos carefully, you get a feeling that you're with the person, that it's not a staged studio session. With my photos, you feel that there's something vulnerable about these women.
∙ When taking photographs of these women, you need to convey a body language that doesn't threaten them in any way. You have to be comfortable in yourself and comfortable taking photographs in a place like Central Park. I will try to bob and weave to make myself less visible to the women I'm photographing, and what happens is anyone who happens to walk by won't care what's going on. To the women, it'll become a natural part of the conversation. And why does it become a natural part of the process? Because even though the subjects know I'm taking pictures of their feet, they have convinced themselves in some way that the camera is not there.
∙ When you take a picture, you can only take in so much at once. Sometimes what will happen is that things will show up in the picture that you didn't see when you originally took the picture. It feels like a gift when something happens, whether it's a gesture or an expression or something happening in the backround that you didn't at all register when you took the picture, and then I'll find it in the picture after the fact. That feels like a gift. These four photos right below are examples of this, with my favorite one being Carrina (the third one). She was reading her book. I didn't realize at the moment that photo was taken that she peeked above the book and gave me that loving look.
∙ If you have stories in your photos, it makes your images that much richer. If you can inject stories into your images, you give a reason for the person looking at your photograph to linger, to spend time with it. The way you interpret that photograph, will be different than how someone else views it, as there is always something there to sink our teeth into, to spend that moment considering the photograph. The longer someone spends considering your photo, the longer that person is going to have that image stay with them afterwards.
QUICK, ... WHO YOU WOULD TAKE HOME TO MOM?
∙ It took my breath away that taking images of the feet of women I've just met in Central Park, understanding that this was a possibility made it feel as if there was a key that had been put into a door and the door opened to discover that there was nothing to be afraid of. In front of me, there just seemed to be a meadow filled with sunlight, grass blowing, birds chirping and welcoming, and I would step through that doorway into my life, and there was no reason to look back and resist. I truly believe that that first step I made was what gave me the sense that life could be like that. That every time something comes to me, I say yes to it. I enter the next unfolding of being.
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Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jota Milagros: What a wonderful story and what exquisite feet she has! My favorite photo in her gallery is #42 which shows both her beautiful face and a close-up of one of her wrinkled soles.
Glad to know that her story made you feel what it was intended to make people feel. She is one of the good ones.
Her feet, combined with knowing what she does for a living, has made that shoot something special to truly live through. I try my best to share those those things with the people in here as well, and Swan Lake was one of those I really wanted people to get a sense of what a remarkable moment the entire interaction was.
Your favorite photo from that set could aslo be my favorite as well. When I got to that portion of the shoot, I knew I was on a roll there. What a special sight to behold, viewing underneath a ballerins's feet like that. That's just powerful.
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NATURAL CLASSIC It is my privilege to recognize the extraordinary contributions of the recipient of the National's Most Influential Award. She has made a lasting and positive impact in the lives of her colleagues as a leader, advocate, role model, and mentor. This woman is leading with purpose. She guided by her passions to help others just like herself to embrace who they are and to rise above the challenges and to never give up. She inspires others through her commitment, sharing her time and her wisdom, supporting the professional careers of fellow members of her group, residents, and the children whose spirits she uplifts.
Today, it is my sincere honor to acknowledge and applaud Lindseynova, and I ask that you join me in congratulating her in her impact of helping people with disabilities.
I'm proud of a lot of shoots I've done, and this is one of them. How the shoot started was how I saw her, meaning that she was already lying on the grass long before I got there. The thing was, I almost missed her. The path I took would not have allowed someone to spot her immediately. By the grace of luck I happened to turn my head to the left and saw her. I was that close from not ever seeing her, even though she was about fifteen feet away from me. I had to stop for a moment to take a deep breath before walking up to her because of how she appeared so suddenly, and because I knew that I was in for a nice shoot. You'll know who to ask when you actually go out there and try it. When that special appears, it'll hit you like a ton of bricks. It's not easy to explain in words. I wasn't sure why I knew it, but my instincts told me. Sure enough, I sat right next to her, snapping photos away at her feet. How richly rewarding it is to be that close to a woman's feet.
WHAT MAKES HER LINDSEYNOVA She has a high position at a program that provides children with disabilities the chance to exercise on a regular basis in a group setting that's fun and supportive for them. In addition to helping these children become much stronger and healthier versions of themselves, she helps them gain confidence through their successes where they can measure their achievements at any level of participation, whether it's going for their weekly walks or race a local 5K. The children can run, walk or wheel and are paired with her and other volunteers who provide training assistance and encouragement.
Lindsey joined the organization back in 2018 as a volunteer and has been with them ever since. She used to hate running until she participated in one of their races. It didn't take her long to realize that this was the place she needed to be, that this was her calling. Pretty soon, she began running with the kids in their Central Park workouts.
She is earning her Master's Degree in Occupational Therapy at Columbia University's Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons. When I met Lindsey in Central Park, she was catching up on her studies to help her towards that goal, and there's no reason to believe that she won't graduate from there with honors and high accolades. Before Columbia, she graduated from SUNY Empire State College with 4.0 GPA, earning herself a Bachelor's Degree in Science, with the bulk of her concentration in Disability Studies.
GRACE UNDER PRESSURE Living her life as an adult woman with ADHD and an autoimmune condition that limits her movements, senses, and activities, she has found support, inspiration, and friendships in her community. That support system keeps her drive strong, striving towards what she was called to do: become an occupational therapist and give back by helping those who are struggling everyday with their mental and physical disabilities.
To make life for herself as smooth as possible, Lindseynova has to take things one day at a time. She has to make her physical and emotional health a priority, which is not easy for this autoimmune warrior. This lady is an over giver in her life. She has a big heart.
She was glad I was there to help take her mind off of things while I was shooting her feet. She gave me all the time I needed to be there. With that kind of time, I took the time to enjoy the surroundings, the vibe from her generosity, her feet, and life in general. All of which helped with the creativity on how I wanted the photos to come out. It helped appreciate the view of her feet more, and it gave me the time to have so much empathy for her. None of it was rushed. All of it was peaceful. She liked how I was able to balance the liking of her feet while not being intrusive to her about it at the same time, which made her stay at ease with me throughout the entire shoot.
Her cognition, mobility, and ability to do activities of daily living have been affected. So many things from sunlight to foods, to weather, to stress can impact her. She wants to be well. Sometimes she feels as if life is passing her by while she waits for different medicines to work. Things could be a lot worse, and she feels grateful that they're not. Even so, it takes its toll on her, until she realizes that she's blessed with so much and she begins to think of what she has and not what she's missing.
A REAL-LIFE HERO Lindseynova is a gift to many people. She brings joy, love, support, and positivity into their lives. She also provides comfort, companionship, and understanding. She loves spending time with all of the disabled kids. They bring her so much peace, and they give her so much love. She does all of the things she love when she can. She gets to do those things because she has people who really care about her. She is forever grateful to them.
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." -Christopher Reeves
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NATURAL CLASSIC I was having a great day shooting photos in the park and I had enough power in my camera's battery to do one more. It was a beautiful Saturday and I needed my luck of great shoots to continue. When I saw her walking in the park, I knew, just from taking one look at her, that she had the makings of someone that can make a shoot become a fascinating one.
Everything about her, from head to toe, called for a more delicate shoot, a shoot that was going to require the continued sequence of existence to slow down. This was a shoot that was not going to be rushed. It was going to allow us to make discoveries about one another and of her own self.
I was following her, walking a bit faster than she was so I could catch up to her. At first, I thought about not going up to her because she was quite a bit away from me when I saw her for the first time. I felt a bit lazy to make the effort to catch her, but I couldn't get rid of inner senses telling me a special shoot could happen with her.
She was walking along, looking for a place to sit. At the time I didn't know she was looking to sit somewhere because I thought she was going to leave the park. But as soon as she found her comfort spot, she decided to sit by the tree, which was where the shoot wound up taking place. I walked up to her, asked if she would open to having pictures of her feet taken, and she went along with it.
She lives in Bergen County, New Jersey (a 45-minute drive from NYC), and she is of Indian decent. She makes her trip to the New York every once in a while. Our lady dines at fine restaurants with friends, grabbing a latte at the coffee shop and attends art gallery openings.
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We have an artistic and creative, magical beautiful being on our hands. Sometimes, she's misunderstood, but she is a force of nature.
∙ She is always learning and expanding her knowledge base. She is never satisfied with the status quo and is constantly seeking out new information and experiences. This thirst for knowledge allows her to stay ahead of the curve and be at the forefront of innovation.
∙ As someone with an artistic nature to her, she continues to learn and grow, and she inspires others to do the same. She reminds us that it is never too late to start learning something new, and that the more we know, the more we can achieve.
∙ She trusts her own intuition and follows her gut feelings. She is in tune with her inner voice and uses it as a guide to making decisions. This ability to listen to her intuition allows her to take risks and pursue her dreams. It also allows her to stay true to herself, even when it isn't easy. Intuition is not just a feeling, it is also a form of intelligence she uses to her advantage. By following her intuition, she is able to tap into a powerful source of guidance and wisdom, which allows her to live in a more authentic and fulfilling life, and to create work that is truly unique and meaningful.
∙ She's knowledgeable and seeks knowledge. At some point in the conversation, she wanted advice from me on how make a name for herself in the art industry. She listened attentively, asked the right questions, and I appreciated that she took my advice to heart. She felt that I was a mentor of sorts to her, and I felt the same thing.
You'll get some surprises when a woman takes her shoes off and removes her socks. She painted all of her toenails of one foot black, and painted all of her toenails from her other foot white.
A unique trait I noticed about her was that she spoke in catchphrases most of the time, one of them being that pedicures are the art of painting happiness. Other catchphrases she used during the shoot:
"Fear kills more dreams than failures ever will." "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." "Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working." "When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."
We talked about a wide rage of topics, and something either one of us said reminded her of a catchphrase to use.
She maintains a sense of curiosity and a desire to continuously learn and evolve. She embraces challenges and setbacks as opportunities for growth and persevere through obstacles in her artistic journey. She thinks and acts in ways that align with her own values and feelings -- rather than the values of others. She creates a pathway for herself that reflects her unique voice and experiences.
Great photos in her gallery! My favorite is again one with a sole close-up the woman's face in the same photo, #32 in this case.
One correction: There are parts of Bergen County, NJ, that are a 45-minute drive from midtown Manhattan. But, the town of Fort Lee, Bergen County, NJ, borders Manhattan. The George Washington Bridge has its east end in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan and its west end in Fort Lee.
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NATIONAL Q+A ∙ I would leave my home, take my camera with me and I would go out to the park to see what happens. If you have a camera, and you visit the park, you'll get moments you cannot expect or anticipate, so be ready. If you're sitting at home, not knowing what to do with yourself, nothing will happen to you.
∙ If you never get turned down, you're never going to get success. Never believe someone when he says that you can get good at this without ever being rejected. This is like someone saying that he can teach you how to lead the Majors in homeruns without ever striking out. Something like that would never, ever happen. There is no way a baseball player is going to hit more homeruns than anyone else in a season without striking out. If you don't believe me, just ask Aaron Judge when he hit 62 that year. It's a ridiculous notion to think anyone can be successful at this without women turning down their offers of having their photographs taken. A woman saying no is not this huge ambiguous creature that men make it out to be. With me, of course I would've preferred it if every woman I walked up to said yes, but I was never afraid of a woman not wanting to have me take her pictures. Respect her boundaries and move on.
∙ Photography captures a moment, 250th of a second, one whole second, sometimes longer because some of the night time photographs captures the moment three or five seconds long, which runs the huge risk that the women will move. It's the skills I had to learn to maintain the subject's stillness, to maintain the purity of their giving over of themselves, relinquishing their secrets to a camera operated by someone they just met ... it's truly majestic when you think about it because this is mystical stuff we're talking about -- just like a magician or a tribal elder who knows how to pull the truth out of people.
A WOMAN YOU WOULD NOT WALK UP TO. A woman who's walking very fast. If you have somewhere to be, you wouldn't like it if someone interrupted you. You're doing the same thing to them. Walking fast is a telltale sign that they have errands to run. They have somewhere to go. If she finished her errand, she will actually walk slower, so why go after her when she's walking fast? If she's walking slower or at the normal speed, she's more likely to stop when you get her attention.
THIS IS SOMETHING I BET MANY PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW: HOW HAVE YOU DONE THIS FOR AS LONG AS YOU HAVE WITHOUT SOMEBODY THROWING A DRINK TO YOUR FACE OR BOPPING YOU ON THE NOSE? If your open-heartedness is on your being and on your face, if what you're doing is enjoyable to you, and you're smiling because it makes you happy photographing these people, when I'm engaged in the moment, that's when I light up, and that's when I think the women in Central Park get the signal from you that you're not a problem, that you're not dangerous, that you're not going to steal their souls. As a result, they will welcome you in that regard.
The secret to what I do is to stay accessible, to be generous, caring, and love for that moment the object of your desire, and you will have the key to making photographs.
There was a woman who was dressed fantastically the day I met her. She was so astonishing, I was drawn to her. I felt it was important to have a few words with her because having a conversation with beautiful people in the park is a highlight of the day. I said something about the way she dressed, and she was immediately happy that I acknowledged her efforts to look great that day, that the door was opened immediately. The next thing I knew, I was just mere inches away from the soles of her feet, taking as many photos as I wanted.
HOW CAN I FIND MY OWN STYLE? There are always a great mass of people who can easily imitate or try on the approaches of other people, and this applies to painting, sculpture, dance, photography, film, etc. There are always imitators. How does one find one's own voice? It requires a kind of listening to your impulses, instincts, intuitions, all of the eternal stuff that is your engine of creativity. I think learning to trust that is the task for anyone who wants to embark on a journey as amazing and fulfilling as mine was. You want to be an individual artist rather than someone who copies someone else's style. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque created the Cubist ideology, and so it was easy for people to come in and start fracturing everything. They were just imitators. The two or three inventors of Cubism are the ones who rose above it all because by the time everyone else was copying them, the originators had already moved on to the next phase of their lives and creativity.
If someone is passionate about public feet photography, you have to look for what excites you precisely. In other words, don't look at what you think I, or another public feet photographer, don't look for what you think we would've made. Instead, look for what is the moment. Carve your own path. Look for what is the scope of the space that life is taking place in that's yours. If you recognize your tendencies and your appetites in a sense, you'll begin to make pictures that only have your fingerprint on them ... not on the negative, not on the print, but on your vision. That's exactly what happened to me. There were different steps along my path where an idea refreshed itself in my mind in such a way that I could not negate it. The idea had a simple power, and it seemed to call me more loudly than everything else. When that arrived, and I started to do it, I poured myself into it. Some people may not have understood the kind of style I was trying to cultivate for myself, but I knew that I was going to keep working on it until I make it strong enough that you will get it. In a way, you need your individuality.
WHAT DID YOU END UP LEARNING ABOUT THESE WOMEN FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHS YOU TOOK? I think what I saw, or what I learned, is that they come with vulnerabilities. They wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, put on makeup, comb their hairs, get dressed. But when they're out in the world, they're all a little uncertain as to how they're perceived. Meeting these women and listening to them tell me a little bit about themselves, what happened was if they could deliver something of their humanity, their tenderness, their compassion for themselves and for others, they became more and more real to me. In other words, they were not just a façade of a person who's combed their hair perfectly or put on the lipstick perfectly ... it's all a mask. But if that mask can be opened a little bit so that they can come through, it's as if the mask falls away and these vulnerable human beings inside shines through for a moment in front of the camera, showing me that the humanity is their reality.
With a lot of staged shoots, the subjects will stay in pose all the time. In those cases, I often felt how scared they were, how they were holding on for dear life. I often felt how they were trying to keep their outside image present rather than reveal something more human, something more special about themselves ... their secrets, in a sense.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
NATURAL CLASSIC There I was in Central Park, enjoying the autumn scenery on a day that was milder than it usually was for that time of year in New York. The colorful tapestry of the trees glowing in shades of red and yellow was quite pleasing to the eyes. Amidst the contrast of the concrete jungle that is New York City, it's quite a welcome diversion to enjoy the parks and get a feel for the natural world as best a city slicker might. That environment is also a natural place to meet women, and the fall portrait was not the only thing that was beautiful that day.
At some point in the afternoon, I spotted a woman to approach. She may have been reading a book. I thought about walking up to her, but decided against it at first, and walked away. Then I looked back and saw her still sitting there. My mind began to stir, and I decided to go back. While I've been correct many times with regards to which women to approach and which women to not, I sometimes may miss out on opportunities, and I was very close to not saying anything to her. There was something about her that made me change my mind, something that drew me in to her. The allure of it all, she drew me in.
Meet Laurel from Amsterdam, Netherlands.
∙ She hones her intuition. She takes the time to listen to what her observations tell her. At first they may be wrong and from time to time, she may read someone incorrectly, but more often than not, she takes the time to assess what her intuition is telling her.
∙ She never speak negatively about herself to others.
∙ Laurel maintain an air of mystery. There's a reason mysteries are a popular genre in literature and television. But once the mystery is solved, that's when the story ends. Because she keeps a certain air of mystery about herself, she'll always be one step ahead.
∙ She accepts imperfection. As one of the most beautiful women I've photographed, and as a confident woman in her own right, Laurel owns her unique look, talents, age and well-balanced lifestyle. If anyone chooses to chide, bully or snicker, she'll just place a mirror in front of that person's face, exposing his or her own lack of self-confidence.
∙ She has created a life schedule that includes time for hard work and productivity as well as regularly pampering and self-rejuvenation.
She spent her university years studying computer science and programming & data processing. She also specializes in financial econometrics. She has held corporate jobs with the word "Financial" in its title, such as the one she has now as the financial manager of a furniture store. She also manages the legal and HR team there, saying, "I am responsible from payroll administration to insurance and matters related to the labor law. Legal also falls under finance, so I sometimes interact with lawyers. Questions from suppliers also come to me. That variety is really great and makes my role extremely dynamic."
The two of us shared a great conversation, one that was without barriers, meaning we had a conversation that was warmheartedly open and trying to make a connection by better understanding each other's life experience. We touched on personal matters which allowed her to share with me bits and pieces of her ups and downs with me. There was a focus towards sharing and learning about something.
I love her feet. Simply love them. I love it when a woman's first three toes (including the big toe) are of the same height, followed by the fourth and fifth toes descending in height, just like hers. Coming across a set of feet that are the stuff dreams are made of makes for a compelling shoot. I was taken aback when I saw how seamlessly they matched and lived up to the rest of her. If I wasn't in Heaven during the time of this shoot, then I was pretty close to it. Her feet, her beauty, her personality made me feel as if I was finally at peace. My mind was cleared, and any thought that did pop into my head had meaning to them and felt positive and comforting. We became completely comfortable with how quiet the shoot was. We felt as if a fog had been lifted and I could truly absorb how wonderful all of it truly was.
Natural Park, The Women of Central Park, NYC - Winter 2024
Posted by Jota Milagros (Member # 52780) on :
I love Laurèl's big feet! My favorite photo in her gallery is #39 because of the point of view. The ground level point of view, beneath her soles and looking up at her, is perfect.
Posted by imnotdave (Member # 23532) on :
Amazing stuff. Shame this will be your last year. You've done a truly wonderful job.
Who is this girl?
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jota Milagros: Great photos in her gallery! My favorite is again one with a sole close-up the woman's face in the same photo, #32 in this case.
That's a good choice there. Interesting photo. That was one of the photos I chose to feature in the thumbnail that was included in her story. I like how in that thumbnail, that photo, the way its placed, give a bit of an edge to her cool girl persona.
That was a real cool shoot, and she was fantastic through and through. Photo 32 was sexy, and it was fitting to take such a photo of someone with that look, matched with soles like that. The eyes draw you in to her sole and soul.
quote:Originally posted by Jota Milagros: I love Laurèl's big feet! My favorite photo in her gallery is #39 because of the point of view. The ground level point of view, beneath her soles and looking up at her, is perfect.
I love her facial expression in that photo.
quote:Originally posted by imnotdave: Amazing stuff. Shame this will be your last year. You've done a truly wonderful job.
Thank you very much for appreciating the contributions I've made in this forum. It does suck that this will be my final year posting original content, but I feel that the time is right for me to move on.
Posted by National (Member # 8568) on :
Did anyone notice the happy face Nightly Eve drew on the bottom of her big toe? With Yessica, that's the perfect place to place your nose.
Love how Natalya's toes have a grip on the base of that tree. Nice arch formation on her other foot; Ilana York's toes from a distance makes you want to get closer to them; I can't think of more deserving person to give the Most Inspirational Award to. She's someone who's an actual contributing member to society.
Both women have glasses. Both of them are doing work from their Apple laptops. Intelligent women of substance.
Three of the most beautiful women. Laurel, Lake Swan, and Love-Land. With Love-Land, I gave her a 15-minute foot massage and that photo was her mood after the massage was over. Swan Lake with strong and beautiful feet are a grace to all that is divine. Laurel is class personified.
Length of Each Shoot: Natalya's Insight - 29 mins Cloe Chardonnay - 41 mins (felt like 25 minutes) Swan Lake - 41 mins Ilana Lane - 42 mins Yessica - 43 mins Lindseynova - 46 mins The Nightly Eve - 49 mins Love-Land - 53 mins Council of Clarity - 57 mins Laurel - 71 mins
This is it, people. That's all I have to give. The season has come to an end, and I thank everyone for being a part of this. I hope you enjoyed the women, their stories, and their photos. I also hoped you got something out of the Q+A portions of the thread and the advice and perspectives I was able to provide those who are curious and interested.
I won't be back in here until late June or early July. After that, I won't post another photo in this thread until December, which will be the final time I will upload photos I have taken, and it'll mark the end of an epic journey.
Take care, enjoy yourselves.
-National
[ January 03, 2024, 09:38 AM: Message edited by: National ]
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