Gothic festival “Summer Darkness 2009” in Utrecht – Part II

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Two moments.

First. It took me two years to return to this event and finally sort and process the photos I made there. (There will be one more part). And today (what a coincidence!) I’ve been to the Summer Darkness festival again.

Second. It too me five years to figure out why my vivid photos look so flat and lifeless on the website. And the reason is … oh…. this is soooo embarrassing… wrong colour space!

Now I have to either reprocess all the published photos again, or leave them as they are. I will probably redo only the posts I was going to rewrite/reformat anyway. In this set there are pictures in both sRGB and AdobeRGB spaces.

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Black and white sensual stories. Andy Julia photography

Why can’t I just repost a photo or a drawing I stumbled upon on tumblr, facebook, *chan or various forums and shut up? Why am I so curious that I begin to search the source, who the author is, what else he/she does? Why do I spent my time and energy to compose these messages which nobody reads, cares of or gives me money for? Yeah, demotivated again…

OK, some useless details you do not want to know anyway. The author is Andy Julia, a freelance photographer from Paris. Books, exhibitions, on-line and off-line galleries… All that stuff you can find on his website Andy Julia Photography, isn’t it what it was created for?

And the reason why I bothered with typing is that these photos “work“. I would like to be in these clothes, these situations, “to touch and feel”. These moody photos tell stories and … motivate my imagination

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My “Home alone self-bondage and fetish adventures” thread is back

My not-so-micro-blog is back. I have two weeks for myself, my work and my fetishes. Here I post almost in the real-time what I’m busy with, my thoughts, ideas, perversions, current self-bondage sessions, deep throat trainings, etc.

The beginning of the thread is here.
The beginning of the “new season” (if you read the thread earlier) is here.

And a couple of teasers:

deep throat self-bondage deep throat selfbondage single-glove shiny pantyhose deep throat selfbondage inescapable selfbondage session in latex inescapable self-bondage session in latex Forced deep throat gagging with a dildo and latex hood

Family, kids, fetish moments and shiny pantyhose

I’m almost never bare legged and almost never without pantyhose. And the last vacation was not an exception. The weather was on the hot side, so I was wearing breeches with shiny pantyhose (German nur Die Hüft 15, French Well Elastivoile Satine 19, Dutch Vroom & Dreesman 12 ).

The good thing about pantyhose is that they “normalize” the environment. If it’s too hot, they spread and evaporate sweat and protect your skin from sticking to everything from seats to dirt. If it’s cold they keep warmth. If wet they dry very quickly. And they look cool!

But if you wear nylons literally 24×7, you stop noticing them (you do notice when you do not have them on). But what about the others? Continue reading “Family, kids, fetish moments and shiny pantyhose”

Single-gloves, men vs women, problems and solutions. Part I

Single-glove hogtie and pantyhose encasementSingle-gloves mean fun, no doubts. It’s a fun to see a pretty girl in a single-glove, it’s a fun to wear a single-globe, it’s a fun to feel absolutely helpless. But it’s a no fun when your arms go asleep in only a couple of minutes after the single-glove just have been finally put on you and tightened.

But why didn’t we see any (or did we? and many?) men in single-gloves with their elbows touching each other? Let alone flying in mid-air hanging in strappado? Why Japanese single-glove style is different from the western one? Why some single-gloves are more comfortable then the others? What is the ideal single-glove? Let’s have a look…

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What is the fetish sport #1? Roller derby or girls in fishnets and men in shiny pantyhose

Long-long-long time ago I stumbled upon a photo of a girl in tight jeans shorts, shiny skin coloured pantyhose and in-line skates. That photo (made by Boris Fomin, who later became Olga Fomina, yes, you guessed correctly) was the beginning of another big fetish of mine: skating in roller roller blades and shiny pantyhose. (Didn’t I mention this story before?)

Unfortunately, not many skate in pantyhose and let others take and publish photos of them.

Fortunately, there is a sport, where not only girls (who always wear pantyhose, usually fishnets but also coloured or mixed tights) but even boys can show up in shiny pantyhose.

See the photos and art below and visit the dedicated forum thread: Another fetish sport: Roller Derby? (Thanks to Culmor!)

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40% lycra or Second skin for the summer

Updated on Jun 18, 2011 @ 03:05:

Bought 6 pairs (for me, my wife and my daughter) with 70% discount (€4) in de Bijenkorf. Those who live in NL can still find XL and XXL sizes. The colours are not that interesting (very dark grey and brown), but at this price and with this quality…

They are tight, especially considering their thickness, very transparent, have almost no reinforcement (even around the seams!). My daughter was the first one who tried them on and when I asked her about the pantyhose, she answered: “What pantyhose? I do not feel anything on my legs”.

Published on Mar 23, 2011 @ 13:40:
Almost bought these pantyhose on Saturday in De Bijenkorf, but decided to wait for a sale. The look of the fabric and the description are very promising. I would (hm.. will) definitely wear this Second Skin with shorts or breeches this spring and summer.

They are called Oroblu Pearl 15 Second Skin, have glossy sheen (I think their shine and transparency are sufficient to wear them in public 😉 and the following “features” according to the description:

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Eve Ellis bound in blue latex. Part II

Eve Ellis in bondageIf there is Part I, there should be part II 😉

Interesting thing, these 30 photos are not that old, but they reminds classic bondage photos from around the 70’s-80’s (think of Irwin Klaw, “Bondage Life”). To continue on the subject of this post, most likely it depends on the “old school photographers” (70’s were already 40 years ago! Unbelievable… ) than on the model herself.

Yes, there are preferences and features (like ball-gags for Eve Ellis or burlesque for Dita von Teese), but check the results of Eve’s collaboration with contemporary Marquis (will post later, if I find them, or scan them by myself) – completely different style.

30 photos below.

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Eve Ellis bound in blue. Part I

Eve Ellis in bondage. Blue stockingsAmong several thousands photos of Eve Ellis I have I could find no more than 50 where she’s wearing something blue. Apparently (unlike black, tan or red) this is not her colour.

The quality of these 16 photos is not great. I think they were “digitized” at least 15 years ago and the negatives were probably shoved somewhere and forgotten about. (Pity if it is indeed so).

Like the blue stockings and how easily and naturally she can make her elbows touch each other. Born to be bound…

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