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Rod,

Just completed my first visit to your gallery, and greatly enjoyed it. It's interesting to me how very different your B/W shots are from your color photography. Entirely different sensibility, even when the theme and the model are the same. It's as if (at least to me) your photographer's eye switches to a different mode entirely. And not just because of the color. Don't know, exactly. I'll have to think about it.

Obviously your models are really comfortable with you and what you wish them to do. Their ability to arch and twist and present is exceptional, and your camera does them proud. You're clearly expert in the use of shadow and shading to create facets, hollows, definition, etc., and your compositional sense seems, to me anyway, really wonderful.

On bondage photography, a couple of thoughts:

First, you seem for the most part to stay away from gags as props. There are maybe 2-3 shots using gags in your gallery so far. I think this is quite nice, actually. There are plenty of galleries here at dA where gags are used a lot, often in very inartistic ways, often spoiling the shot in an attempt to be more erotic. But I don't think your style needs those props. You let the models' bodies do the work.

Second, it seems that to this point you've adopted the "artsy" look for your models' facial expressions: you know, the model-runway, look-into-the-distance, I-don't-give-a-fuck, this-isn't-really-me type of thing. I'm wondering if you'd consider beginning to explore more intense and emotionally communicative facial expression in your shots. Let the models' eyebrows, mouth shapes, eyes, cheekbones, etc. speak louder. Just a thought, and a wish....

Finally, in your profile page intro you say you're learning more about ropes and knots, etc. Do you mean shibari and other similar genres? If so, I want to express my two cents: you don't need to get more complicated. Your work currently is very, very expressive using bondage ranging from very simple (and realistic) ties to moderately complicated. Any more so would seem to me to render your work into a very different category, where the ropes and knots themselves become the focus of the photographer and the challenge to the viewer, and the role of the model disappears into being just so much putty for shaping into extreme and highly unusual shapes. Yes, there are lovely Japanese aesthetic theories to support all that, and it's okay, and perhaps worth exploring a bit. But I think you'd lose a lot, maybe more than you'd gain. I like the connection between the models and their bondage that I find in your work, and I'd hate to lose it. There's a lot less eroticism in ropes than in human beings.

Anyway, just some thoughts.

Thanks so much for displaying your work for us to appreciate. I'm looking forward to returning again and seeing what new things you've been up to.

too bad you're in the UK. I'd love to model for you.

you're doing amazing bdsm artwork.

Absolutely stunning work

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Wonderful work! I could fav all!