This rescanned reedited set contains 20 pictures. Members can see them here and download them in a 6.84MB zip file.

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Hmm… apparently, as originally published, this set had 29 pictures. I thought I was being less picky this time around, but apparently not. I’ll have to repost those as well for all you completists.

We gave Karen the name “Beth Summers” before she decided that it would be simpler for her if she used her real name (well, a variation of it).  She had a way of making you feel like you’d been best friends forever even though you’d only just met.

She brought a case of clothes, but when she walked in dressed like this we just had to start with it.  This was the first time, but certainly not the last, that we befuddled a model by going gaga over their “ordinary everyday” street clothes.

When it was originally published, this set contained 25 images. This newly rescanned reedited version has 32. As always, there may some in either set that aren’t in the other. And there may not be a visible difference in the ones that were shot digitally.

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When it was originally published, this set only contained 13 images, so I’ve only made one sample here.  Here and now, it marks the debut of the new members’ gallery pages, which you can laugh at too if you sign up.  Right now it’s the only one of its kind, but unless there are a rash of complaints all future galleries will look like it, and the old ones will be transformed into the new format.

I still wish I’d left her glasses on longer.  But glasses or no, is there anything cuter than a pretty girl laughing behind a gag?

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Lily Engel was our second model. I found Lily through an ad she posted on USENET looking for bondage/fetish modeling work. Lily was unusual among our models in that she’d been into BDSM first, and came to modeling out of curiosity. I don’t know if NYB was her first modeling job, but she went on to work for many if not all the local producers at the time. She’s long since retired from modeling.

This first position was something that didn’t quite come off as well as it seemed like it was going to. While the sitting spread-eagle might be effective for actual play, it kind of limited the photographic angles. Also, this particular position and outfit didn’t lend itself well to the removal of her clothes. Later, we’d start off photoshoots with something nude, usually with handcuffs, but we were still figuring out a lot of things at this stage. We were also still fighting flash problems, as you can see in at least one underexposed shot that I thought was worthy of preservation.

I wish now I’d taken more shots of Lily with her glasses on. Glasses are sexy.

As originally published, the set contained only 13 pictures. The new versions are significantly larger, but not all the original 13 are among the new 34, so if you’re a completist, you’ll need them both. Members can download this set containing 34 pictures in a 12MB zip file here; if you’re not a member, sign up now!

If you don’t have any Bee-Tokens, you can buy them using the “Bee-Token | Buy” links in the forms. There are many other sites on which you can use Bee-Tokens as well, and I’d list them here but I have pictures to edit.

Brandi Hall in Boots, New Versions 36 Bee-Tokens

Brandi Hall in Boots, Original Versions 20 Bee-Tokens

Brandi Hall in Boots, Set 1, Series 1

One major difference, though: when we published this set as the first members’ offering, it only contained 13 pictures. But when I went through the archives to assemble it for republication here, I found quite a few images that either had been used as samples before we became a paysite, before we even had a website of our own (we were hosted as a subdomain of another site for about a year), or had been readied for publication and not used for whatever reason. So there are even a few here that were never actually published before, even though they were edited a decade ago.

So here for the first time ever is the complete original set of Brandi Hall’s first session of her first shoot with New York Bound. It contains 48 pictures, and members can download it here as a 7.14 MB zip file. The samples presented here are smaller than the images in the zip file (except for the digital photo which was tiny to start with).

There’s every possibility there are images in this set that don’t appear in the new Series 2 versions, and vice versa. I haven’t done a side-by-side comparison, but if you’re an obsessive completist, you’re going to need them both, hee hee.

SAMPLE - Brandi in Boots by New York Bound

Here’s the first set of the new edits. Not coincidentally, it’s also the first set we ever shot.

This first shoot was beset by lighting problems, which would continue to plague us for months. This day, the flashes just wouldn’t fire consistently; later, I would shoot faster than they could recharge and I ended up burning out at least three of them. And when I say burning, I mean that literally. Extreme heat and smoke, everything but open flames.

Our primary medium was always 35mm film, but we did a bit of digital photography this day as well. The camera was a first generation Kodak something-or-other, and the word “megapixel” had yet to be invented. So although most of these images are significantly larger now than when originally published in February of 2000, the digitals are the same size as they started.

The samples shown here have been reduced in size. The full-size set contains 45 photos. Members can download it as a 14.7MB zipfile here. If you’re not a member yet, you can sign up here.

The upshot of this is, for each shoot, we used quite a few rolls of film. Each roll became a small envelope with 24 to 36 prints in it. This very quickly became a LOT of stuff. Boxes and boxes and boxes of photographs to store.

Well, turns out I can’t afford the space to store all of them. Fortunately, although the prints are nice to have, they’re not essential; only the negatives need to be preserved. So, I planned to rehouse the negatives, and shred the prints. Not the easiest decision to make, but a necessary one. That’ll reduce the amount of space needed by several orders of magnitude.

I kept putting off actually starting this process… and then Hurricane Irene struck. And then the next weekend, another huge rainstorm hit the already oversaturated ground, and the basement room some of the photos were stored in flooded, high enough to soak the boxes lowest to (not on) the ground.

Sadly, Jack Cutler, the man who’d done all our film processing and who had rescued our negatives when they’d been water-damaged after the fire in 2000, went out of business a few years ago. I grabbed all the wet envelopes, and started to move the negatives into new sleeves. But I was too late for some of them; there are quite a few strips from which the emulsion has completely dissolved. If I haven’t already scanned those particular pictures, they’re gone forever.

… to be continued …

I phrased that poorly, but what it means is, hypothetically, I could now republish a whole bunch of photos I was forced to take down in 2005 because the models were not US citizens and I’d relied on their non-US passports to prove their identity.  Models like Chanta Rose, Anna Lieb, and Tiffany Walker.  Also, the records I already had proving their legal ages would be enough; generating a whole new set every time a file went online would no longer be necessary.  Two of the main things that drove me off the Web no longer apply.

Hmm…