Hello,
Hi TODPeepers! Before I get to my regularly scheduled message and pix, I need your help - and quick! Before I get cold feet. I've finally agreed to do a photo shoot with another person. That's right - if you've been following my posts, I've been trying to get up the nerve to do a cover shoot for a book of mine... with me not wearing anything while posing with another person (who can remain partially/fully clothed).
This past week, after lots of kind words from many people (MoTown, AndyMan, Rodball, Melvin, Paul, and my wonderful Trekkie Friend from Down Under... just to name a few from TODP followers) - I agreed to do a test shoot. Not necessarily the cover one (just yet), but I need to break my deadlock on not writing for fear of doing the cover. So to get over it, I'm going to jump in and do shoot with someone else. I'm not promising anything more than potentially suggestive stuff on my end - I just need to get the feel of having myself posed and positioned with another person.
Of course, if we click and things feel right, and the test shoot is going well - I'm not saying I wouldn't either arrange a different time to shoot the cover or just proceed into something a bit more than merely suggestive. So please keep that in mind - I'd like to pose with someone that won't be offended if they accidentally see me without clothes or would possibly need to pose with their hands on me covering the "can't show it" bits on a cover of a book. I repeat, there is no guarantee I can go through with it all in one sitting, but I _will_ shoot the cover of my book, dammit - and this shoot should fire me back up to keep writing.
For those of you still with me... I'd like someone local in the Portland (OR)/Vancouver (WA) area... for the actual cover shoot I'll need someone with skin tones contrasting to my own - although with the test shoot, I can consider others as well since it's a training mission for me. And I have to repeat in big, bold letters: if you are offended by nudity or can't be a gentleman (or gentlewomen? Oh good lord! I hadn't even considered _that_ possibility - excuse me while I hyperventilate for a minute!) if asked to put your hands on my chest or otherwise cover bits of my anatomy - please don't freak me out more than I already am! Taking direction from the photographer will be a must... dark, rich skin tones a serious plus for the cover shoot. Please e-mail me.
All right, I can now return you to the regularly scheduled message with my pictures for this month... while I shake my head in disbelief I'm actually going to do this. Hugs - CQtRose
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A huge thank you to everyone that wrote - especially those writing with suggestions of neat places and settings for possible photo-shoots (all _two_ of you!). When I use one, I'll be sure to write you and include some of the results. Speaking of which, if you've written me and didn't get a response, as always, be sure to check your spam bucket because I always reply to folks kind enough to write me... I couldn't be snooty if I wanted to - it's just not me.
And speaking of not me, I tried to include a couple more images that are still sort of revealing, yet enough tease so you'll know it's still me.
I had to include another one with the outfit from the previous post to answer the question about panty lines... trust me, there weren't any, it was just a fold of the fabric as I kicked my hips to the side. This image was shot from inside the car with me in the driver's seat... sort of. I've been informed this isn't a very lady-like pose, so you'll have to forgive me, but it does answer the panty question.
The rest of the images also answer questions I've gotten, often pertaining to things I've written.
The bathtub one is from a series done with tub... this one actually warmer than when the water went in as I was getting measured for the 'bottom off-set' (to raise me far enough out of the tub so the water wouldn't obscure anything, ahem, 'important' if you get the idea). You feel sort of silly sitting in a tub completely naked without any water in it, but for the start of things, it certainly helps keep you 'un-pruned' when you realize how long you'll spend in the water while the bubble wrangler does his job on 'posing' the bubbles on you (so, women, if you're trying to do bubble bath shots, remember it takes a TEAM to do it! You're supposed to get into position, then let everyone else put the bubbles around you - otherwise, you'll be chasing bubbles all day long. And it's a super weird feeling to have someone 'painting' your clothes on you using only bubbles! (I thought they were kidding, but they use a 'magic mix' of bubble bath - mine was mixed up in a silly kids bubble bottle shaped like one of the Muppets - so Grover got quite the view up my.... well, he had his head WAY down into the tub and because I was up on a block lifting my bottom - oh! Please! I was _not_ intentionally flashing my womanly bits at a Muppet! (That sounds like a serious kink if you're into it. I may tease a lot, but at least I try to provide for a mixed batch of interests.)
I have a growing number of people that don't think I'm as much of a country girl as I claim - they want to see my hat. Shows how much they know! A hat is a super-seriously personal thing - so I use props whenever it's needed. This image does double duty - first, those screaming, "Get the f- naked again!" will be pleased to know, I'm _only_ wearing a hat in this shot. Secondly, you were always told by your mom not to share hats... 'course, I don't think this was the reason why, but next time you're in the hat department, look around at the big hairy dude standing next to you... would _you_ want to try on a hat he's tested out in this manner? (Must also be why the store clerks look at me funny when I ask where the dressing room is so I can try on a hat.)
Finally a pair of shots from artistic sequences and my art stories. For the color one, get a good look, because that's the only time you'll ever see me with an hourglass figure! I love how they can paint with shadows - giving me curvaceous, but not 'heavy' hips (not at all like my God-gifted thighs) and even a slight hint of a chest. Although my right boob got a mind of her own and decided to slip out of position - so you'll have to forgive me if anything is visible that wasn't intended - but I had to share the shot eventually because I love pretending to have an hourglass figure. (I am so down when I have to select my 'figure shape' in magazines touting 'pick your outfit' based upon body shape... seems I'm a rectangle or something like that - anything but an hourglass. I hate being related to a square. So you women with the curvy luck? Flaunt it and enjoy it while you've got it!)
And lastly one of my favorite black and whites done with an art class... even though I could've lived without the wrinkles along my ribs that look like... well, like ripples of something other than muscle - like you can see how much I like donuts. So please don't write me and ask, "Are those warbles of fat?" It's my RIBS... my RIBS, damn it! It is NOT the last seventeen donuts from the last month.
I'm still looking for more location suggestions (particularly in the Pacific Northwest, but we do travel a little in the western half of the USA if you've got other ideas). In Oregon and Washington I understand we're pretty liberal on allowing public nudity, but be reasonable. I'm not going to get naked and drape myself across a squad car hood. I'm still getting used to the idea of intentionally setting out to get pictures of me out and about in public type situations (which is why I prefer private and discrete suggestions more! And they're more likely to be used. I did mention I'd share some of the results with those that make good suggestions I use, right? Not that I'm begging for more ideas with bribes).
Hope everyone is getting into a good early summer mood. My heart goes out to anyone that's been challenged with some of the extreme weather (like those down south and in Colorado with the flooding).
Looking forward to hearing from you.
PS Big warning! One of the large e-mail providers (starts with 'Y' ends with 'oo' and in my book rhymes with "Ash Hole" since they keep f'ing with me) is rejecting my mail sent to folks (Like poor AndyMan - who hasn't got a picture from me for _ages_ and I understand he's got serious 'frisson' issues because of it) AT THE SOURCE - so it never even makes it to your Sp@m Box - it gets returned to me immediately as a 'fatal error' and wording that says Yashole will never accept e-mail from my GMX address. SO - if you mail me from said e-mail Yashole addresses - trust me, I've tried to respond - but they reject it if it has a picture, they reject it if it has certain text in my message, or they just reject it... period. I tried! Just ask poor Andy.
CQT Rose -
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cqtrose@gmx.us
