Amateur Summer

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The sun is shining and that means it's time to break out the sunscreen for pale freckled girls like me. I actually shot this gallery last summer while I was staying at the No Tell Motel on Vancouver Island. The motel was perfect for the holiday - cheap, great location, pet friendly. But it was hardly the type of place you'd rent out to do a professional photoshoot.

I hesitated to post these pics (and the other set too), but I keep going back to them. They're like an homage to my amateur picture snapping days, the early days internet porn. Period. Back then most of the pics were stuff like this or worse. Grainy, unfocused shots of average people in bad motels or on tacky living room couch sets. There was always some of that terrible motel art hanging above the bed, personal items on the dresser, extension cords or piles of laundry in the background. Despite the low production values and unflattering lighting, it was hot simply because it felt so real. It was the complete opposite of the large scale storyline porn productions of the day featuring glamazon porn stars. Once the porn industry realized they could save themselves thousands of dollars by shooting gonzo amateur style, they started cranking out the content and the amateurs got buried under the floods of new movies, new girls. Anybody with a camera could start up the next porn empire.

This set, complete with my hairy bush, makes me feel a little nostalgic for those days. And happy to have been part of it.