RETIREMENT AND BRAIN ATROPHY???

Six years ago when I retired from the rather silly game of Photography, which had over a long career involved a deal of model photography, both fashion and “glamour”, I retired this and its companion blog, never thinking it would ever again be relevant.

But of late I am receiving notifications that the almost long forgotten and neglected blog is again being read, and by ever-increasing numbers, almost as popular as it was so many years ago.

A few model friends have been encouraging me to actually resurrect the blog as a whole, because it seems, that would-be models, and even those with a little experience are still being misled, and being fed, sometimes intentionally, misinformation about the path to a successful modelling career, especially how young wannabe models should ‘properly’ interact with photographers whose only wish is to make them a “star”.

So, at the insistence of several people I will be resurrecting this blog as health issues allow but in a slightly different form:

• I will continue to write it from the standpoint of giving industry accurate, reliable and career tested advice to wannabe, and experienced models.

• I will continue to fight the insidious and downright despicable and manipulative, misleading rubbish which has been peddled for decades by “guys with cameras”:

  designed to get naive and vulnerable girls with stars in their eyes “in front of their cameras”:

  “guys” who have absolutely no understanding of the modelling or the photography industry:

  have no contacts within the industry:

  or the ability or knowledge which in any way could help a would-be model establish themselves in the industry:

  providing totally wrong information:

  and photographs and “portfolios” which are so inept that no legitimate industry professional would consider looking at them:

  Which together usually, if not always, totally destroys a possible promising modelling career, long before it even begins.

• I will not write reams of garbage just to please some kind of internet imposed “algorithm”, but each post will be well considered, relevant and hopefully useful to at least one reader.

I do feel a bit of a fraud however, writing about “model stuff” that I no longer actively practice, so although I am somewhat reluctant to do so, my model friends, and surprisingly a few other friends — both photographer and ‘civilian’ - as well have been keenly encouraging me to take up the camera as well as the word processor again.

So look forward to irregular blog posts about modelling, models, and model/photography relevant as well as model calls in the future.

Well it sure beats brain atrophy from staring in boredom at an increasingly irrelevant television, stuffing my cake-hole with potato chips.