Nata's story
Many of you must already be familiar with Nata - a pretty, graceful, long haired girl. But none of you know that the person who discovered that beautiful model and made her first shoot was me. Here is the story of our acquaintance.
In August of 2006, I went to Saint-Petersburg, to search for new models. I was going to stay there for 10 days and walk along the streets as I knew that many beautiful girls live in the city of Peter I, the Russian Tzar who founded the city and gave it his name.
On the second day, I was walking along Nevsky prospekt - the central street of Saint-Petersburg, and suddenly I saw a smiling girl running by me. I walked up to her and asked if she would like to pose for me. She immediately got interested. I told her details of my proposal. The girl was Nata as you can guess. We made arrangements to meet to discuss the details and to look through samples of my photos as well as I did not have them with me at the time. We got each others phone numbers and said our goodbyes.
I was charmed with Nata's amazing smile. It was so natural and so attractive I could not resist and smiled like an idiot in answer.
On the day we had decided to meet, I called Nata and found out that she couldn't come because her mother, who she lives with, took all the keys from home and left Nata locked in her apartment. To be honest, I thought that Nata had changed her mind about posing and was just making excuses not to come, as sometimes girls do, but we made arrangements for a meeting another day and she came, so my doubts disappeared.
I should say few words about what Nata looked like when she came for our meeting. She was dressed with a T-shirt, sport jacket and jeans with a low hip line she put her hands in her jeans pockets and her jeans were pulled down so I could easily see her unshaven pubic hair. One thing came to mind - she's gonna be a great model. I wasn't mistaken, as I discovered later.
So I showed Nata my photos and she liked them. We arranged a shoot in the Gulf of Finland near Saint-Petersburg. On the shooting day, we met and went to the shoot location. The weather was perfect and our mood was great too.When Nata started posing, I was really surprised with the way she posed. It seemed that she had experience in posing. I even asked her about that but she told me that she poses (for me) for the first time and I came to conclusion that Nata has a very rare gift of artistry that is so necessary for all good models. I got the proof to that when I returned, a few months later, to Sant-Petersburg and shot Nata again. Her mastery of posing had greatly grown since our first shoot.
I arranged with Nata for one more shoot the next day and we said goodbye to each other. When she had left, I had a feeling that I was missing something important, as if she were my girlfriend. But I stayed calm and showed no sign of it when we met the next day. I realized that I had fallen in love with her when I left Saint-Petersburg. I should note that I fall in love with all my models, at least for the period of the shoot. That gives me a better feeling of the girl and I can discover her much better than if I was just shooting her according to job description. But what I felt with Nata was much more than that and lasted much longer than our shoot. I don't know if I succeeded in injecting these feelings into my shots...
This is up to you to decide, my dear visitors...




