In a blog entry about Jana Cova, I said I don’t normally write about my experiences with models during our photo sessions.  But after a deserved exception with Jana, I now make one with Karlie Montana. Maybe this is a trend.

She had taken care of herself.  Even under loose street clothes, it was easy to see that she was still as hot as three years ago.  She was right on time, which I expected, and that should have tipped me to what would happen next, but it didn’t.

She walked through the front door and said, “Where do I put my stuff?”  It was hardly the excited reunion of old friends I had expected.

The last time I had seen Karlie Montana was three years earlier in April 2007, during our Torrid Art photo shoot.  Torrid Art had been online only a few months.  We were all a little green back then, and I was beginning to think a little too impressionable.  I remember how easy Karlie was to work with, how easy-going and professional she was, and how great she looked.  I knew I had hit the jackpot!  To this day, Karlie continues to be very popular with members of Torrid Art.

So when I booked Karlie for a second Torrid Art photo session a few weeks ago, I got pretty excited.  I felt like I would be seeing an old friend.  But when she walked through the door, I felt like I was having a reality check.  This is a professional model who deals with photographers on a professional level.  And besides, there was no guarantee she would remember me at all.  But even if she didn’t remember me, I still knew the photo sessions would be enduring.

But after Karlie set down her “stuff,” and we finally started talking, it turned out that she did remember me.  In fact, she remembered me quite well, and most everything else about that photo shoot three years earlier.  And she was very happy to see me and to be working with me again.  She was the warm, friendly woman I remember.  So reality did finally prevail, though initially her instincts to be professional had tarnished my gilded expectations.

We had fun reminiscing for a few minutes, then it was time to work.  During the day, Karlie not only matched my expectations, she surpassed them.  Karlie was just as easy to work with as I remembered.  As I said on Karlie’s model page: “My work couldn’t have been easier!”

A great model, for sure.  But there was another reason I wanted to shoot Karlie Montana that day.  I had scheduled a second model to be on set with us.  We were shooting the first girl-girl gallery for Torrid Art!  I wanted at least one of the models to be a “known” model - one I had worked with before. I wanted to reduce the chances that something would go wrong during this little experiment.  As luck would have it, we ended up with two known, proven models.  The results were magnificent.  More about that later.

Oh, and I was right.  Karlie had taken care of herself.  She looked fantastic, as you can see in the new galleries on Karlie’s model page.

- RAP

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