My wife and I own and manage a small, guest house in N.E. London with its own spa, including sauna, steam room, jacuzzi and massage chairs. We describe it as a Continental style spa, as we follow the German, Dutch and many other European countries that do not allow clothes into the spa area.

This is an ideal venue for models to be photographed, particularly those who would like to try nude (or just implied nude) modelling for the first time. The very relaxed atmosphere makes it a more natural environment and less intimidating than a studio.

I am not a professional photographer, but I normally work for pay only in the sense that we offer a nights accommodation, including photography services to our guests (this is from £149 per night). This includes Full Board and unlimited use of our clothing-free spa for two. For experienced models, we will however consider TFCD if it enhances our portfolio. We are very keen to show a broad range of people, so are particularly keen to include Asian and Afro-Caribbean images, pregnancy, identical twins, parent/baby, or over 18 and parent. Try us.

I am also keen to develop collaboration with local models (specially couples, but not exclusively couples) where we could work together on a regular basis to develop each others ideas and experiment. In an ideal world, the models would be over 22 and even better would be two couples - a couple at each end of the age spectrum. Not at the same time though. For a while, we could meet up once a week/fortnight/month, whatever, at the spa, shoot some photos and then you could make good use of the spa for relaxing. Got to be better than a cold studio or location shoot! It would be very relaxed and I prefer to make it fun. I don't take myself too seriously as a photographer and believe we would get better results that way. The longer the arrangement lasts, the more I feel that I could bring both of our personalities into the images.

Contact us through our website or through here and tell us a little about yourselves and we will see where it leads us. I have lots of ideas for forthcoming projects over the next few months.

By their very nature, photographs in our spa will often be naked, so you must be comfortable with nudity. Having said that, we are only interested in tasteful shots, mostly implied nudity and definitely NO open-legged type shots. (Less is usually more). And as they said in the film Calendar Girls, "no front bottoms".

Website for Guest House / Spa : www.edengarden.co.uk

The spa has various other attributes as a studio, including natural lighting at the conservatory end, a large full length mirror, open pine staircase and a small garden area with patio and table/chairs.

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