This one has a lengthy introduction, to set the scene. Please don't get bored, because there will be plenty of fucking, sucking, and all kinds of sexy action which I hope you will find worth waiting for. This is a 10 story series, about an erotic photographer relocating to Spain, so there will be plenty of opportunities for him to have 'fun in the sun.'
When I was made redundant from my executive position with a major oil company a couple of years back, I was in no hurry to rush back into the jobs market. Since my divorce five years earlier, I had lived a pretty frugal lifestyle, my only extravagance being indulging my hobby of photography. I had made substantial savings and investments with an eye to just such an eventuality as redundancy, and I also received a very generous redundancy package so I could afford to take my time deciding my future.
Gradually over the years I had built up my photographic equipment until I had a range of cameras, lenses, and studio flash units that quite a few top-class professionals would envy. I wasn't an equipment freak, buying the latest, all singing, all dancing technological advances in camera equipment for the sake of it, and god knows, there are enough of them in the world of amateur photography. Along with acquiring the equipment, I had made a determined effort to improve and develop my photographic skills, through constant practice, reading as many books on the subject as I could, and attending weekend seminars, etc, to a level where I was winning prizes regularly in local competitions, and then nationally and even internationally, so even if I do say so myself, I wasn't too bad at what I did.
Photographically, I had two areas of interest, which were landscapes and people, especially women. I loved a good landscape photograph, and often went off to other parts of the country at the weekends with a friend (also a top-class landscape photographer) who owned a camper van. I paid half the fuel and a little extra for wear and tear, and shared the driving and cooking duties too. Being mobile was great because we didn't have to depend on hotels or B&B's, and if we needed to get up at 3.30am to catch a sunrise in the Scottish highlands or wherever, we were free to come and go as we pleased without disturbing anyone else, or requiring a pass key.
Being made redundant was the great game changer for me. Now I had the time, and money to sit back for a little while, and really think about my future and what I wanted to do. I had no ties. My ex-wife had already gone off with half of our assets years before, and although still on friendly enough terms with her, I owed her nothing. My parents were sadly both gone, and although I had a brother and a sister, they were caught up in their own worlds of family, children, etc. Yes, of course I loved them all dearly, my brother, sister and my little nieces and nephews, but now was a time for me to really take my life in a different direction rather than rush back into the corporate rat race.
In the following week, I formulated a plan. I didn't require a lot of money to live on. I had simple tastes, no drug habits, and rarely touched alcohol either, only rarely indulging in an occasional glass of wine if there was something to celebrate. I wasn't one for designer labels either and was just as happy wearing cheap jeans as an Armani business suit of which I had a few. Little by little everything fell into place in my mind until I had a plan for a complete change of lifestyle. I would strip everything out of my apartment that I really wanted to keep, furniture, pictures, personal belongings, put it all in storage until I needed it, and give the apartment to a letting agent to look after. That way it would generate an income, be as little trouble to me as possible, and if I wanted to come back to it at some future point, then I could. It was a nice apartment in a desirable area, so it should bring in more than enough for me to live on where I was going, and I had finally made up my mind. I was going to Spain!
I reasoned that if I was going to make a change of lifestyle, then I would just go for it and make a significant change. I planned to move somewhere like the Costa Del Sol, Southern Spain. Possibly Malaga, or Marbella. Somewhere like that would suit me very well, and they were not too far from places that interested me from my reading on history over the years, places like Granada, Seville, and Cordoba. There should be enough in that area to interest me from a landscape point of view, but the area also held other attractions, and that was where my other photographic interest came in, namely women.
I planned to look for a decent sized villa, with a swimming pool if possible, and use it as my studio. I could do photo shoots outside when sunny, and if the weather or light wasn't right, or if I were shooting a private client and needed privacy I could move inside. For private clients I would charge a decent fee, and with possible models which I could pick up from the night clubs, the beaches etc, I could sell photo sets to magazines and photo agencies with commercial 'lifestyle' photography, or just plain old glamour shots of topless and nude girls. Let's face it, they were sitting around topless on the beaches or by the swimming pools anyway, so they might well find it easy, even exciting to model for me, especially if they were getting a reasonable fee to do what they were already doing for nothing.
I knew it wasn't going to happen overnight, so I booked a last-minute package holiday, but it was going to be no holiday as such. I was going over to have a look around, try to find somewhere to live and work and put the first part of my plan into operation, but first I contacted my solicitor to ask if he had any contacts with a reputable solicitor in southern Spain. To my surprise and delight, it turned out that he did indeed have a contact, simply because he had bought a holiday home there himself quite a few years previously, and so armed with the Spanish lawyers address, and my 'Spanish For Beginners,' tapes which I planned to listen to on the plane, I set out to change my life.