Porn shots I couldn’t sell….

I was looking through the stack of porn magazines that I have work in the other day. (And by that I mean, photos I’ve taken, not photos I’ve modeled for.) I miss shooting, and I had a pretty good little system going for a while with finding amateur girlie-porn models, shooting them, and selling the sets to one particular magazine that specialized in amateur ladies. "Naughty Neighbors"- isn't that a great name for a magazine? It's so British-sounding, somehow. Even the total newbies felt comfortable working with me, a female photographer, and I found it an interesting sideline to being the Mistress.

But my luck took a turn for the worse when NN got a new art director, because after that, they began to inexplicably reject about a third of the sets I’d done. Since I was just a freelancer, this would leave me stuck footing the bill a model fee and the processing costs for five rolls of film. Not like I was going to starve to death, but annoying, because having shot it according to their particular guidelines, I had nowhere else to go with it.

Sometimes I knew a model was a gamble when I shot her, but sometimes I was completely mystified as to why they would turn down a certain girl.

(Note: Pictures not work safe, obviously. Also, these are scans of slide film, and my scanner is only so-so. Just saying.)

Take this girl: Elizabeth. Okay, yeah, she’s got a few tattoos, but jesus, she had a tiny little waist and beautiful (real) breasts, and she’s a natural redhead. I was knocked out when they said “No thanks”.

And Danielle – slim, long hair, and unshaved, everywhere – that’s a whole little fetish in itself.

Kendra: another petite, eighteen-year-old cutie declined. Inconceivable!

It was when they turned down Stevie that I decided to quit. Slim, blonde, big breasts, I shot her splashing around in a kiddie pool, and they said no? I just had to go back to a universe where things made sense again. See, that’s one of the good things about being a writer: if an editor says no, you can always rewrite it and send it somewhere else.