Well, I’m back to where this blog started just over a year ago and setting off at silly o’clock in the morning to Gatwick Airport en route to Bulgaria. It’s Sunday 24th January and on the way I picked up the first of this week’s models, a very sleepy OT newcomer of the year, Bryoni-Kate and Carla Brown.
It’s a 3 hour flight followed by an hour’s drive to our base in Dolna Banya near the Rila mountain range, where we stocked up with supplies.
I’m only going to display a few samples from the trip in this post with some more to follow probably later in the week.
The first couple of days were extremely cold compared to what us Brits are used to – a constant -13 centigrade ( 8 Fahrenheit ), luckily the sun was out and the air perfectly still and the girls bravely battled away for as long as they could. Steve and shot with Bryoni and Carla for 3 days, partly inside as well, so there are loads of sets of both girls for all the OT sites.
So just as a taster, here’s Bryoni inside the house followed by Carla stuck out in the cold.
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On Wednesday afternoon we were joined by Sophia Smith and Charli Delu who were out to shoot for the next 2 days so we all went out in the evening for dinner
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 Classic Bulgarian fare of chips and wine |
It was slightly warmer the next day for Sophia and Charli, up to about -9 and by Thursday we were sweltering as temperatures approached zero. I’d invested in a bottle of Irish whisky too which helped keep the girls a little warmer.
Here’s Charli in what is sadly her last glamour shoot, she’s just started a new full-time job and has decided to hang her bra up for good.
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And Sophia Smith who is thankfully not giving up, and yes in those last 2 shots she’s standing on a frozen mountain river – that’s cold!
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To finish off the week we went for a slap-up Chinese meal in the near-by ski resort of Borevets, then Saturday morning returned to Sofia airport to catch our flights home.
As I said – more samples to come when all the images have been sorted out and there’s plenty more to come in the first week in February with 4 more lovely young ladies lined up for me to shoot this week.
