With the villa now ready to begin operation as a top-class photographic studio and location, I had publicity fliers and business cards made up as part of my promotional drive. Rather than wait passively for business to come to me, through the photo holiday adverts in magazines and such like, one way forward, and more immediate, was to go out and hunt for it, so I set aside a whole week to go out to prospective clients, and make possible contacts in the area. There was a whole coastline to cover, from Malaga to Marbella, a millionaire's playground as the tabloids back home would have us believe, and so I set out to exploit some of these millionaires, and hopefully part them and their lady friends from a miniscule fraction of their ill-gotten gains.
I made up a promotional pack of flyers, business cards, and a sample photo album typical of the kind of service I was offering. I would use the album to show sample pictures of my work if there was any immediate, on the spot interest. By that, I mean if I managed to get face to face access to a woman who may be a possible photo subject. If you can sell the idea to the woman, the man, whether a husband or lover will more than likely fall in behind. The photos in the album were of the more, 'artistic' variety, mainly low level 'soft' glamour, but offering a wider range of services for the more 'discerning,' clientele as it said in the flyer. In other words, you can be as naughty as you want, it's your photo shoot, and I'm here to help you get what you want.
Rather than start on a Monday morning, I reasoned I might be better starting mid-week, and working through the weekend to the next week. My main targets were going to be the yacht marinas, but I would keep an eye open for any other chances that may come my way. The yacht owners invariably had beautiful wives, or mistresses, and there were often young women working as members of the crew. I thought I could find some clients amongst the afore mentioned wives and/or mistresses, while the female crew member were most often quite young, and athletic sporty types. I imagined, or surmised rather, that they would be adventurous and outgoing in nature, and hopefully the type who might go for a modelling photo shoot just for the hell of it.
With that as my intention, I sallied forth the next morning to check out the nearest marina. I found parking quite close to the harbour, and strolled down to the marina, taking in the sight of these million pounds plus floating palaces. There must have been over a hundred sleek, white, yachts moored there, and I decided to walk to the end of the row, and walk back, stopping at each one in turn. I made a note of each yacht's name, to eliminate it from any future reckoning, as I didn't want to canvas the same yacht over and over again. Some of these must come and go I reckoned, so any yacht I canvassed today may well leave tomorrow, and come back in a month's time, or even a week from now.
Quite a few of them were a hive of activity, getting ready to leave I was told, but I left a flyer and business card all the same, they were coming back later in the year was what I kept hearing. Others had just arrived the previous night, and I spoke to a few crew members who took my flyers and business cards, promising to pass them on to wives, girlfriends of the yacht's owners. I also spoke to a few rather nice crew members (female) who were quite enthusiastic, and said they'd think about it, and two said they definitely would. Then I spoke to a rather delicious blonde, sunbathing on the cabin roof. She looked up as I approached, then sat up, and pushed her sunglasses up on top of her head.
'Yes, what is it, can I help you?' she enquired, but no smile, just curiosity. So, I explained a little of what I was there for. 'Why don't you come aboard, and tell me more?' she offered, and so I did. Up the short gangplank I went, and walked round the starboard side of the cabin to where she was. Up close she was even more impressive than she had looked from the dock. She looked about twenty-seven or eight, with a very slim figure, long blonde hair as I said, sparkling blue eyes, full and very kissable lips, natural I thought, they didn't look as if they had been created by the use of dermal fillers. She had a nice cleavage, which I could see a fair bit of, since the bikini top she wore was very small, with equally small bottoms. She was lightly tanned, and as I got closer, she turned over on her side, and propped herself up on her elbow. 'I'm bored,' she said, 'so if I find you amusing, I may well take you up on your offer to take some dirty pictures of me,' adding, 'it may be fun.' She was obviously trying to shock me, but it didn't faze me in the slightest.
'Yes, I think you'd look marvellous in some good dirty pictures,' I agreed. 'Unfortunately, I don't have any samples of the really dirty ones with me, but I can show you what I've got,' and I showed her my sample album. She took her time, slowly going through it, studying this one and that.
'Yes, I must admit you have some lovely pictures there. Do you think you could make me look lovely too?' she asked, playing the coquettish spoiled brat to perfection. I smiled at her, and she smiled in return.
'Nah, not a chance,' I said abruptly, her face fell, and her mouth opened wide in surprise as if she'd been slapped, she'd never heard that before. 'You already look lovely, and you know it. I on the other hand would be trying for something more, some portrayal of the real you, not this bratty persona you've put on. Perhaps something a bit more sensual yes, but allowing you to express yourself, be the intelligent woman you really are, not the blonde bimbo you're pretending to be.' She looked at me, no smile now, and I thought for a moment she was going to call someone to have me thrown overboard. She sat up and swung her long, beautiful legs over the side of the cabin. She looked at me again and smiled.
'How very astute of you, Mr photographer. Leave me your contact details, and I'll get back to you when I've a mind to, and we'll take it from there, okay?' I assured her that I would look forward to hearing from her, and perhaps photographing her too, and I was confident we'd get some amazing photos. There was more information on my website if she wanted to follow up on what I had told her, and she said she would, so I turned to go. 'Can I do some topless pictures?' she asked me, reverting to her act, and when I turned back to answer her, she lifted the tiny bikini top, displaying her naked titties. 'I'd like to get some pictures of these puppies before I grow too old. What do you think?' I didn't even look at them directly, just looked her straight in the eyes, she smiled wickedly, I smiled back. I wasn't about to give her the satisfaction of looking at her tits, but I have excellent peripheral vision, and could see they were absolute perfection. And besides, this was southern Spain, topless women were ten a penny here. I gave her a wink and a smile, and left.
I met quite a few more bikini clad beauties that morning, some were wives, some who's status wasn't quite so clear, 'companions,' or as they used to be called, 'mistresses,' and some who were neither. Daughters and nieces of the 'money men' and of course, more female crew members. Most of these female crew members had something in common, especially amongst the British fraternity. Most of them had been very active in sailing while at school, I learned in my conversations with them that morning, which told me they had probably gone to a private school. There aren't a lot of sailing clubs in council run state schools, and the private schools told me they were most likely middle class, the daughters of judges, lawyers, doctors, and such like, or even from minor aristocracy. They were on the whole a fine collection of healthy young women, but since 'crewing' doesn't pay a lot, they were almost all interested in earning extra cash, so I left the dock with more than enough telephone numbers to tell me I'd hit a rich seam of potential modelling talent.