In His Absence

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I was highly exhilarated when Pandora Blake and I commenced planning for a joint shoot for Held Elegance and her fresh site. I've worked with her several times before on other producers' projects, but she's never modelled for Held Elegance until now. Our very first planning sesh took place on board the Eurostar train, on our way to a shoot with someone else. By 'planning' I mean that we kept telling things like 'Pirates! Oh, I love them - lets do something with pirates!' and 'I always used to fantasise about losing my innocence in a chess game - lets do that!' The chess game idea stuck, and over the next few weeks we developed it inbetween us. I'd enjoyed the idea of doing a video in which we were to do terrible (but hot) things to each other. That seemed difficult to organise, because Hywel couldn't lightly Dom on-screen while also filming us with his fresh camera, so I determined that our collective Sir had maybe left us guidelines to have fun chess, with forfeits when a lump was taken. Pandora enjoyed the idea, but further refined it by writing out a list of forfeits that'd always apply to a specific lump when it got taken. I enjoyed this highly much because it meant we could actually have fun chess for real and let events take their course... So when the shoot day ultimately came round, all we had to do was set up the lights and cameras, then begin toying chess and observe what happened. And this is what did happen. I expect you enjoy it, and that it's less traumatic to see than parts of it were to do!