Today is the day

Am getting all geared up for my very first model shoot. Having ignored my suggestion that we just get my son to be the model for today's studio shoot, we are still going to go with a conventional female model. Have received a number of enquiries today as to whether she will be nude. She will not be nude. She'll be wearing tight clothes, and so will look no different from the next woman on the street wearing tight clothes.

Am going to suggest today (whilst inciting the hatred of the 10 men in my class) that we get a male model for next week's class. After all, they're likely to be cheaper. Or we could get a more experienced male model for the same price. Or he could pose nude. Frankly I don't care. My main purpose of signing up for this class was to learn how to shoot photos of my son under studio lights. And possibly to arrange for him to be a model in one of the classes so I'd have about 900 photos of my son taken by different photographers, some of whom could well be semi-professional. Now that my evil plans have failed, I'm determined to scuttle someone else's evil plans to get up close and personal to a real female model.

Maybe I'm just homophobic. The idea of hovering around some strange woman dressed in tight clothes for 2 hours and under baking hot studio lights, asking her to "work it, baby", just does not appeal. I've flirted with the girl with girl idea - convent girl, sick bay and some other things I shouldn't mention - but it's just not for me.

Am off.