Stealing The Soul Of The Landscape

Added 26-07-2017

Tags: rope bondage, barefoot, blonde, shoes, business wear, lingerie, cloth gag, melodrama, ungagged

Callous photographer Tillie is putting on an art show in the valley, having stomped and tramped all over everyone's land without so much as a by-your-leave. Worse, she drove her 4x4 over the sacred ford and up to the top of the forbidden mountain, just to capture a sunset... and the people of the village believe that she has taken something from them. The spirit of the mountain must be captured in the photographs, and only punishment of the transgressor will placate the gods enough to allow her release. One should always be respectful of the people and places one photographs, as Tillie finds out to her cost.

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Efficiency Is Not A Priority

Added 24-07-2017

Tags: rope bondage, barefoot, hogtie, brunette, leather bondage, lingerie, collar, dress, ungagged, uniform

It does feel mean to invite a new model to shoot with us at our house, and try to make her clean the room in the first set! Granted, she didn't have to actually do it, but there's always dust around, so it still felt rather rude of us to even ask her to pose as a maid. But while we were sympathetic to her in real life, her character was a VERY BAD maid who wasn't doing her job very well. So naturally she had to be punished. Which in the story her employers did by tying her in an unusual hogtie variant. It was only because she was so bondage tolerant that we also ended up using a high, stiff leather posture collar on her too- in retrospect, that was more than a little harsh. (In the first set, too. A bit rude, sorry Alias.) But as you can see it added a real predicament element to the bondage which definitely adds a lot to the impact.

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Recapture Lost Youth

Added 23-07-2017

Tags: rope bondage, blonde, lingerie, cloth gag, stockings, crotch rope, ungagged, romance

Some people say you can recapture your lost youth with pills or potions, lotions or creams. Some say you need to say young at heart. Personally I think capturing youth and beauty is best done by capturing young and beautiful girls. Playing with them certainly keeps the blood pumping, keeps me young. I've got a warehouse full of them, old chap. Would you like to view my latest acquisition? She's quite a stunner, I think you'll agree. Oh no, old boy, you can't play with her. Go capture your own youth, she's all mine.

#GameOfSlaves: Calling Card

Game of Slaves

Added 22-07-2017

Tags: ballgag, barefoot, self bondage, brunette, slave training, business wear, leather bondage, chains, lingerie, stockings, collar, nude

New submissive in #GameOfSlaves @TweetRSummers makes quite a splash with her debut video "calling card". Imagine having this preternaturally beautiful woman arrive at your door, clad in an elegantly-cut leather skirt, blouse, black stockings and high heels. Imagine that without either of you saying a word, she slowly strips off her clothes for you, revealing the decadent lace black underwear beneath. The high heels, the stockings, then the soles of her bare feet... there is nothing to be said, just a pleasure to be savoured. She has brought with her the symbols of her own enslavement, black leather cuffs trimmed with a splash of scarlet. She locks herself in. Wrists, ankles, the collars herself as the mark of her submission. Naked, chained, she gives herself to you to do with as you wish. She is her own calling card: pleasure by appointment.

Date Night Outfit

Added 21-07-2017

Tags: ballgag, barefoot, bedroom, handcuffs, self bondage, brunette, leg irons, metal bondage, nude, thumbcuffs

Nude-in-metal girl Aria is getting all dressed up in her new outfit for date night. Darby cuffs are back in fashion this season- thank goodness, the rounded bars on the leg irons especially make them much more comfortable for extended wear, whilst still having that satisfying weight and heft. The thumb-cuff accessories both accentuate the look and, practically speaking, confer a much greater degree of the desired helplessness than more or less anything else you can cuff yourself into. And the penetrated ball-gag is so nice- filling, firm, but so much more comfortable to wear for a whole evening than the solid sort. It's all so exciting.

An Act of Rebellion

Added 19-07-2017

Tags: rope bondage, barefoot, bedroom, hogtie, brunette, cloth gag, nude

How annoying! Anita's protest against the government was very serious; she'd spent weeks preparing with her comrades, and the demonstration had started so powerfully, with the city's square filled with angry, young people demanding a fairer voting system. And somehow, everything had gone wrong. No one had planned for violence as far as Anita knew - the whole point was to take the moral high ground. But the peaceful protest turned into a brawl, and though Anita just stood and waited, dumbfounded by the crazy scene in front of her, she ended up being arrested along with the troublemakers anyway.

And what a pitiful, humiliating end to her protest. And what a perfect illustration of the corruption within this government. There was no way that the police were actually allowed to strip her, was there? And tying her up in the patriotic colours of the national flag? What an insult. Anita lay, helpless, and planned revenge...

Riddle Me This

Added 17-07-2017

Tags: rope bondage, barefoot, bit gag, lingerie, nightwear, redhead, reverse prayer

Riddle me this, wicked countess. What did you do to poor Mad Tom? What secret did he spy that made you ensorcel his mind? What did you do to William Seneschal? He is supposed to keep order on milord's lands while he is called away... and indeed was he called away? Or was that some clever contrivance of yours to have free rein ruling these lands? We have so many questions for you, Countess. But we dare not let you speak, lest your honeyed words and clever connivances trap us in coils of compulsion. So forgive the horse gag from the stables, milady. You can answer our questions with nods and shakes of your pretty head.

The Muse Appears

Added 16-07-2017

Tags: barefoot, historical, blonde, chains, medieval, metal bondage, dress, ungagged

The muse appears and take the form of the inspiration you most need to complete your work. If she's showing up as a Medieval maiden bound in chains, the perfect damsel-in-distress, it's a sure sign that what your work-in-progress most needs is a bit more bondage, a little hint of the traditional bodice ripper, maybe even a full-blown bondage sex scene to spice up the otherwise rather mundane boy-meets-girl sub-plot. Now why not explore exactly what the muse has to offer- in exhaustive detail- and experiment before putting pen to paper once again?

Ariel's New Handcuffs

Added 15-07-2017

Tags: barefoot, handcuffs, blonde, leg irons, metal bondage, ungagged, pvc

Wheee! A fan sent us some new handcuffs, so I had a play with them. We actually shot this three years ago but it got a bit lost in the filing system so we're only just putting it up now (sorry, I should probably be punished for this).

Sweetheart, What Did You Bury In The Garden?

Added 14-07-2017

Tags: rope bondage, barefoot, brunette, nude

Sweetheart, what did you bury in the garden? Why were you out there at four o'clock in the morning? I'm starting to think that maybe you aren't as sweet and innocent as you make out, you know. Like maybe you seduced e for a reason at that party last month. Maybe you're here looking for the Dagger of Usk. Maybe you even think you found it. Maybe that's what you think you buried in the garden. Well, let's wrap you in rope and have a little chat about it, shall we?

Hywel's note: this is another example of cross-lighting, with a two light-pattern. The key light is outside the window, in the form of the mother of all softboxes, whose front face is more or less the same size as the window. (So that whited-out window look is actually the softbox: the window is shaded most of the day, which is why I'm using artificial light instead of actual pukka daylight). The cross-lighting is from a hairlight on a pole behind the bamboo-and-paper screen. It's functioning as a hairlight and rim-light for most of the shooting angles. A traditional lighting set-up would have a third light in front of Rachelle but the room's dimensions are a bit too tight for that. So sometimes I put a light out in the conservatory to try to generate catchlights and fill the shadows a bit. But for a slightly more dramatic look, which I was after for this set, I generally just rely on light bouncing around the pale walls of the room to provide some fill.

P.S. lovely job on the "rope ladder" tie by Ariel in this set, and super dramatic poses from Rachelle- a winning combination, I think.

Femme Fatale Falls Foul Of Fetishist

Added 12-07-2017

Tags: ballgown, barefoot, bedroom, blonde, bondage tape, tape gag

Saucy seductress bites off more than she can chew when she tries to suborn unscrupulous shady small-town sheriff. Sheriff shows her the slip-up she made seeking to solicit his assistance with sexual shenanigans by taping her up tight, collaring her closely and carting her off to the court of the commission where she can exercise her winsome ways winning pounds from punter' pockets to enrichen her new owners.

Kidnapped In Red

Added 10-07-2017

Tags: rope bondage, ballgag, ballgown, barefoot, bedroom, blonde, ungagged

Lady Penelope had outstayed her welcome, provoking an extreme kidnapping to put her in her place. Let's see her put on airs and graces as she shimmies in the ropes on the auction block, to be sold to the highest bidder.

A Quiet Day at Home

Added 09-07-2017

Tags: barefoot, bedroom, handcuffs, blonde, shoes, metal bondage, sweater, dress, ungagged

Ariel writes;-

Golly, this set is from a while ago! Sometimes, when we have a period of shooting a lot of sets of me, some of them end up held back for a long time, for the sake of variety. Much as I love to believe I have some super loyal fans, a whole month of nothing but me would probably not be ideal for many of you. Sigh. Anyway, so this set is from just before we moved from our old (modern) house to our new (old) house. It's from back to a time when I had a blunt fringe and hadn't yet made my peace with the fact that I just couldn't make it lie straight. It's from back to a time when I liked nothing better than a bit of vintage knitwear...oh, actually that hasn't changed.

In any case, we had the idea of telling the story of a girl (with a blunt fringe) who just likes to hang out at home in her favourite heavy cuffs. So here she is, roaming around the house, relaxing and enjoying the feeling of steel against her skin...

Captured Jogger (Part Two)

Added 08-07-2017

Tags: barefoot, bastinado, blonde, spanking, sportswear, stocks, cock gag, collar, nipple clamps, nude, electroshock, foot torture

In which poor innocent keep-fit fan Ariel gets further stripped, whipped, tormented and tortured by her cruel captor. He begins her training as a slave girl- can she perform waitress duties with a tray chained to her and her hands cuffed behind her back? She must balance the tray and not spill a drop of drink... let alone ditch the actual glasses on to the floor! Needless to say, she fails... and is cruelly and brutally punished, without the least hint of mercy from her tormentor!

He locks her in the stocks and starts to torture her soft silk soles in the stocks- with whips and crops and cruellest of all an electric unit which not only hurts like the very devil but causes her legs and feet to painfully contract and cramp- making her own body into her torturer!

Kinky Prince Charming

Added 07-07-2017

Tags: rope bondage, barefoot, blonde, nude, dungeon, ungagged, frogtie

Kinky Prince Charming isn't so interested in rescuing princesses. He's far more interested in exercising his rights of droit de seigneur, finding feisty fabulous village maidens to carry off to his dungeons for sexy romps! But in Artemis he has found his match- she has planned and schemed for this day, planned her seduction of the prince, pandering to his desires, besotting him with beauty and passion... she WILL become his princess, marry him, and rule one day!

The Ashforth Diamond

Added 05-07-2017

Tags: barefoot, shackles, brunette, sm factory, leg irons, chains, metal bondage, tape gag

Lauren Louise hadn't enjoyed being assigned to guard the Ashforth Diamond. Ashforth manor was drafty, she was fed up of having to be barefoot because His Lordship didn't want her usual stiletto boots causing damage to the wooden floors, and he made her come in by the tradesman's entrance. Which wasn't a euphemism, unlike more or less everything else the sexist pig usually said to her. She was half convinced that the whole barefoot thing was a power/fetish kick for the old perve, too.

So it must be said that when dashing Miss Black arrived to steal the diamond, Lauren Louise didn't put up much of a fight. She knew Black of old, knew that they were evenly matched, that without backup (which Black would surely have) there was not much to be gained from the fight. She'd just have to hang around bound and gagged until someone let her out. Lord Ashforth could live without his bloomin' diamond.

Behind The Scenes: Tillie New Slavegirl Part One

Bonuses, Behind-The-Scenes & Outtakes

Added 04-07-2017

Tags: rope bondage, ballgag, barefoot, blonde, shoes, cage, metal bondage, pvc, uniform

We shot this custom series of Tillie as a new slavegirl a year or so ago and while we were shooting our friend Michael Stamp came along to experiment with shooting video. Although he kindly edited it into something like a music video, he then moved to Spain (huh! The nerve of some people ;-) We never got around to properly handing the project off, and in the end I decided that since the customer who had ordered the photos liked behind-the-scenes stuff, it was probably nicer for him for me to edit the footage into a behind-the-scenes feature rather than go with the contortions of editing video shot while we were shooting stills into a traditional music video. (There's a reason we shoot video OR stills of a given set, not both). So I hope you enjoy this look behind the scenes at a day of shooting with Tillie.

Not That Kind of Spreader Bar

Added 03-07-2017

Tags: barefoot, blonde, shackles, sm factory, leg irons, spreader bar, collar, nude, ungagged

Ariel writes;-

One of the challenges of rigging for Restrained Elegance (especially when models are new to us) is asking them to pose nude. We only do this if they've already confirmed by email that they work to this level, of course, but it still feels a bit rude to spurn the lovely clothes they've often brought with them and tell them we'd like to shoot them naked. And then if Hywel suddenly says 'we could do something with a spreader bar!' I really, really hope they don't jump to the conclusion that spreader bars are always used to hold feet apart from each other. Because that's something we certainly wouldn't shoot, nude, with a new model, it being rather prone to looking quite sexually explicit.

But spreader bars are actually fantastically versatile, and we always seem to find new variations - especially since they work so well with our SM Factory cuffs. The result is so pretty, and Laura Moore appears to be having a pretty jolly time, too!

Up Against It

Added 02-07-2017

Tags: rope bondage, barefoot, hogtie, brunette, lingerie, cloth gag, ungagged

There's no reason why a police officer has to use handcuffs. If, for example, he's experienced with rope, and if he really wants to immobilise the perpetrator he's just caught, brazenly flaunting herself on a street corner in nothing but her lingerie, hoping to lure naive young visitors to the city into giving up their money on the promise of something she has no intention to deliver...

And once he's started he might find himself getting a bit carried away. There's no real reason to incorporate her toes into the already strict hogtie, for example. And yet, perhaps he's a man who just can't help doing things thoroughly...

#GameOfSlaves: Mistress Hannah Sells Herself Into Slavery!

Game of Slaves

Added 01-07-2017

Tags: gag, barefoot, bedroom, handcuffs, self bondage, blonde, leg irons, lingerie, stockings, clothes cut off, metal bondage, toecuffs, topless

Hannah has managed to lose Ariel Anderssen from her stable of slaves, and her backers are not pleased with her (to say the least). She needs to raise funds and get herself out of the hole she has got into. Drastic action is called for- she decides to make herself available to be hired as a slave for a whole week. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity if you want Hannah Claydon to be your own personal slave for a whole seven days. Listen to Hannah sell herself to you at auction! You might want to tie her up with some rope, bind her wrists, her ankles... gag her? You've watched her gag videos, you know her passion for finding the perfect gag. Will you silence her and find the perfect gag for your personal slave? Or maybe metal is more to your taste? Handcuffs? Leg irons? And do you want to finally see her magnificent figure bared for you? You can... IF you win the auction!

Chloe Chained by Candelight

Added 30-06-2017

Tags: ballgag, barefoot, blonde, shackles, sm factory, leg irons, metal bondage, collar, nude, dungeon, ungagged

I've been trying to capture this look for years. Candlelight is an absolute pain to shoot by. It's very warm, very lush, and very, very, very dim. Movies use super-triple-wicked mega-candles to up the light output, something a bit beyond our budgets. I had some luck with previous Canon cameras and fast lenses, but the old Canon primes go to dreamy mush wide open and the noise is grainy and distracting much past ISO 400. I've always used a bit of cheat light from other light sources, but then we were talking about a full-on whack of studio flash through lots of warm gels. Now, with a Sony with a clean sensor, f/1.4 lenses which are sharp in the centre wide open, and LED panels to lift the overall light levels, we're finally getting to the real look and feel of candlelight. I could probably even have got away with lighting the whole scene just with candles, were it not for needing to keep naked flames away from some exposed structure wood-work in the house. I'm *really* happy with the way these have turned out, and with the way Chloe's delivery of disdain mixed with straight-up sex appeal works so well for the look and feel. She's decadent, warm, oiled-up, glowing, sultry, smouldering and a perfect match for the scene. Love it.

#GameOfSlaves: Ariel Anderssen's Hairtie Humiliation!

Added 28-06-2017

Tags: rope bondage, barefoot, satin, bedroom, blonde, blouse, humiliation, silk, skirt, melodrama, corset, ungagged

@TemptressKate gets her revenge on former slave-girl-turned-mistress @ArielAnderssen with a slave raid and hair-tie humiliation.