#we were on like a zillion rec lists last year but sure no one knows about petoskey it's an undiscovered gem

[lookninjas]

I have literally never seen anything as wrong as this description of Cheboygan in my whole entire life.  I’m actually going to quote it, so you don’t have to visit the link.

Situated only a few miles from Mackinaw City, Cheboygan is the iconic tourist locale’s less flashy sister. Sure, you can pop over to Mackinac Island, but you can also enjoy a more low-key vacation wandering around in Headlands International Dark Sky Park, Cheboygan State Park, or Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park.

Of course, there’s always a lighthouse to tour (this one being Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse), and the Cheboygan Brewing Company is an excellent spot for a nice cold beer after a day hiking or at the beach. A unique point of interest is the National Shrine of the Cross in the Woods, a massive crucifix located in the desolate wooded landscape of northern Michigan. Whether or not you’re religious, the site is impressive.    

Headlands, Old Mill Creek, and the Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse are all in (shockingly) Mackinaw City.  Cross in the Woods is in Indian Fucking River!  Like, I love Cheboygan, genuinely, but recommend shit that’s there.  Recommend Aloha State Park.  Recommend Duncan Bay.  Recommend the bike trails (The bike trails!).  Don’t fucking recommend locations where I’m gonna have to start my directions with “Okay, so that’s gonna be about a twenty-minute drive.”  Fuck’s sake.

Or, you know, recognize that we have more than enough tourists to keep us stressed and miserable all summer long and don’t recommend us at all.

[peppurthehotone]

We sat outside a New York Bagel shop in Sedona, Arizona. She worked her way through an egg and cheese with ketchup and I enjoyed a smear of white fish on a toasted sesame bagel. With the mid-morning sun in Leo and Scorpio, we were two east coast girls, she much more than I, enjoying the warmth caressing our spirits. We were there to heal, as so many people aim to do when they visit this special place. We’d become Thelma and Louise, without the law after us, but the law of nature. We’d driven together from Utah, having enjoyed a whirlwind of creativity, excitement, adventure, gratitude, snow and fabulous free drinks while at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City.

Let me back up a bit to the beginning.

I’ve been in Arizona since my birthday in November. I mentioned how, after all the other stuff that happened and hadn’t recently, that all I wanted for my birthday was to be with the woman who birthed me. That happened. Mom, now retired, was gracious enough to open her arms and her home to me. Snuggled on the couch under blankies, we binged on Downton Abbey while we drank loads of Yellow Tail. We rose early mornings to the 7 am wake-up bugle from the air force base nearby, signaling our coffee time, which we enjoyed from her collection of vintage china cups while sitting like dusty desert royalty on her back patio. We’d sit and chat about how “Rocky”, her lime tree, just wasn’t coming back from the last frost, or about what plumbing she wanted to fix in the back bathroom, or about the weather. I’d open up sometimes about what I was feeling; she’d ask questions at the right time or remain silent during others, as moms are wont to do. We’d finish our coffee; mom (petite, at a mere 5’1) would run off in her over-sized outside work clothes, hammer in hand, to go and fix something around the house she was still renovating and I would retreat inside to work on my freelance writing gigs, or writing my book or writing something else. It has been this way for several, several weeks, and with this time (and my new therapy sessions!), I have begun to heal and regroup.

Earlier this month, my lovely friend Yvonne invited me to Sundance. This is the golden bugle of the film industry. I’ve always wanted to go, but never had the time or funds to do so. I hemmed and hawed about going because I couldn’t justify spending what little cash I did have on something so…frivolous. It’s not like I “LA” act anymore. Or write scripts anymore. Or anyone knows me anymore. Sundance wasn’t for me anymore. And then one evening Yvonne sent an important text, as wonderfully endearing and wise friends are wont to do. She simply wrote, “You should come.” That prophetic text pole vaulted me over my “anymore’s”. I got my head out of my ass crack (as my friend Nicole likes to say) and I went.

I decided to drive. My college friend Lisa takes road trips in her sleep; I’d never really taken one of this 12-hour magnitude, so I decided it was time. It was time to do something for myself and by myself. Make myself accountable to me. I rented a car. I booked a hotel. My mom packed the car with snacks and OJ and water and dental floss and a Tide Stick (“You never know when you might need a Tide stick!”) and I was off.

My primary destination: The Grand Canyon. In my 47 years, and with family living in Arizona for at least 20 of those years, I’d never been to the big crater in the ground! I wanted to see it, I needed to see it and now was the time.

Since I’ve been in Europe the past three years, AND I no longer have a car, it was a l-u-x-u-r-y to be in a car by myself, floating down the highway with the sunroof open, radio off, and a bag of trail mix to keep me company. Peace, peace and more peace!

I’d wanted to arrive at The GC at sunset. And arrive, I DID! Oh my gosh, you guys, if you haven’t seen this thing, it is beyond breathtaking. It is SCARY! I couldn’t go near the edge like the other tourists. I just knew some rock would rubble, a branch would break and I’d be on the 5 O’clock news with photos taken from my Facebook and IG to commemorate my shortened yet fabulous life (!!!). Couldn’t do it. So I walked along the path for walking, found a bench to sit upon, one planted far from the edge for scardy-cats like me and took it all in. I crossed my legs in Lotus, tucked my feet under me, which were ruggedly outfitted in Timberland boots the lovely Crescent gave me, and I meditated. I spoke to the trees above and the Canyon ahead. I called on the reds and oranges and the blues to come to me, to wrap me in the vastness that was them. I spoke to the open expanse and asked for forgiveness. I asked for humility. I begged for gratitude and filling-upness. I asked not just for a second chance, but a new chance and new experiences and new memories to go along with those accumulated since this past July. And then I asked for permission from this Mother Earth to please accept the spirit of the being that had been a part of me. I felt like she turned her head toward me, smiled slowly and said, “Sure, let me hold onto that for you.” I let her hold on and I let go.

Then, as the sun began to really set and the chill of air became a bit too chilly, I jogged back to the rented Ford Focus and continued on my way. Lighter.

    I will offer one caveat: do NOT drive out of the Grand Canyon at night, alone, on your way to Utah. You will find yourself on a very dark, very narrow, very spooky two-way ROAD in the gosh darn FOREST for thirty (or fifty) miles. Yes, you will be amazed at the Holy Cow-ness of the zillion stars in the sky (as the booth girl at the GC entrance told me I would be as she took my $30 to enter), but this awe will not outweigh the fear of being in the dark. Nor will it make the excitement of the three unidentifiable furry creatures that popped out into the road in front of you exciting. It will scare the shit out of you and will go on your personal list of what I will now call “Character Building”.

Howeves, my friends, the ultimate beauty of driving for hours in the dark to the Utah/Arizona border for the first time is the thhh-thhh-thrilll you will get when you wake up to the V-I-E-W of the such-n-such mountains against a nippy January sunrise. God and the Universe are truly amazing and doing a bang-up job out in Monument Valley, I tell you! You’ve never seen such a thing (unless you have).

When I lived in Prague, I was too afraid to book hostels and rent a car in a foreign land and try to travel more by myself. Yes, I made it to Croatia, Germany and the Netherlands — lovely places and proud of myself for doing so — but this trip was also an effort to make up for that limiting fear. (If we’re being honest, I was afraid to go to obscure foreign places because I wasn’t a white girl and I couldn’t bare to walk up to a hostel counter alone and get The Stare or worse. So, there’s that. I’m evolving. I’m trying. I’m countering.)

    I drove from Monument Valley towards Park City through truly amazing ringlets and valleys of roads that dipped and wove through wide expanses of mountain-dotted land. Over the Bluetooth car phone, Mom told me many John Wayne films were made in this area. I could see why. I stopped to take a picture, hoping to capture what I was feeling energetically, and came upon a Navajo woman selling jewelry from the side of the road. It was still a bit nippy even at 11 am; she emerged from her warm car as I approached her table of goodies.  I just knew I was about to have a indigenously spiritual experience as I perused the handmade earrings, sparkling with Navajo-ness. “Which one do you think is right for me?” I smiled and looked deep into her brown eyes for her inherent guidance. “Um. I don’t know. The malachite is pretty,” she said with a polite hunch. I gave her my $10 to support the life hustle and was on my way.

Three hours later, I pulled into sparkly, sparkly Park City upon which it literally began to snow. Beautiful. I drove up to my girlfriend’s condo, truly elated with myself. She anxiously greeted me in the garage with, “Love you, glad you made it, you’ve got three Uber minutes to change. We gotta go!” I threw on my Sundance gear of Timbs, jeans and a cute sweater and GO we did! We — Yvonne, her awesome husband, and their fab friend and business partner — hit a dinner party for the premier of Night Comes On (DIR: Jordana Spiro), of which she and her husband associate produced via their kick-ass company Lagralane Group, and has since won the NEXT Innovator Award. I sat across from the stunning, young lead actress Dominique Fishback, her hair braided in a foretelling crown magnified by her brilliant smile quite possibly enhanced by my favorite Ruby Woo red. From that moment on, I was their +1, their fourth Musketeer, and was enveloped into the red-hot orb that is the Sundance bubble and never stopped until Tuesday when I had to leave.

    I was granted an unexpected gift for the trip back, and this brings me back to the Thelma and Louise beginning. Over breakfast at the condo the day before I was to head back, a friend, Jen, mentioned how she wanted to rent a car and drive from Sundance back to Tucson, with a stop in Sedona. What the What?! (#CelestineProphecy) So, she jumped in the car with me, and we became a team. Both dealing with grief (hers more recent and jagged than mine); both wanting to explore nature’s purpose and add to our life-journey. We laughed, we cried. We experienced. We stopped to take pictures of stray cats and mountains. We stopped to simply marvel. We (I) took crappy video of a HERD of deer that loped across our path at sunset. We stopped and went curbside to break off and smell Desert Sage (we think). We stopped at the Old Fire Station thrift shop. We did the damn thing, together.

    It is said that Sedona has some of the strongest vortexes on the planet. It is said to be sacred, spiritual, mysterious, powerful. Jen knew this, I didn’t. I just knew there was a reason why I needed to go to Sundance. A reason why I wanted to reconnect with people who cared strongly for me. A reason why Jen and I were meant to drive. I was being pulled from the womb of my mom’s home toward something bigger. This I knew.

From the bagel patio in one of the most spiritual places on earth, Jen and I drew cards from her Moon Deck to guide us on our way.

She drew this:

I drew this.

Powerful endings to both our beginnings. I truly encourage you to listen to your intuition. I also challenge you to try a trip by yourself, as it is an electric zing for the soul and will get your synapses hummin’. In more ways than one.

Thank you,

Peppur

  When the ending becomes the beginning We sat outside a New York Bagel shop in Sedona, Arizona. She worked her way through an egg and cheese with ketchup and I enjoyed a smear of white fish on a toasted sesame bagel.

[mohamadpros]

So You Wanna Be a Fitness Model?  Individuals that take after my stuff know I for the most part expound on nourishment, supplements, preparing, and different points that are more science based than subjective themes, for example, what is canvassed in this article. I chose to shuck my science nerd persona, and compose on a subject I know will be useful to a huge number of would be and need to be wellness models. 

Also a known "bad-to-the-bone" science based no BS essayist, why I am composing what some will see as a "cushion" article? Throughout the years I have become hundreds, maybe thousands, of ladies that ask me by means of email, letters, or in person "how would I turn into a wellness model Will? You have been in the business quite a while, surly you surprisingly should know." I get this from amateurs and I get this from ladies that have been busy a while however have been not able "break in" adequately.  The truth of the matter is, I have been in the wellness, wellbeing, and lifting weights business quite a while, and however I am known as a science and nourishment based "master" sort, I have prepared numerous a wellness competitor, and judged wellness and figure/two-piece appears for the NPC, Fitness America, Fitness USA, and different alliances and in addition given showcasing and business exhortation to a wide range of competitors, including wellness models. Along these lines, it's not as implausible as it may appear that I am will utilize this space to cover a non logical theme, which is, the means by which one approaches being a wellness demonstrate.  This article will be valuable to both experienced and fledgling sorts hoping to "soften up" to the business. On the off chance that you are as of now an expert and fruitful wellness show, I am certain you may in any case gather some valuable data from this article.  In the first place the awful news, there is nobody approach to wind up noticeably an effective wellness show. There is no single way or enchantment mystery. There are however some key things a man can do to incredibly enhance their odds of "making it" in the wellness business as a model, and maybe utilizing that accomplishment as a take off platform to more prominent things, for example, motion pictures, TV, and so forth.  A few of the best wellness models (Trish Stratus and Vicki Pratt strike a chord yet there are numerous others) have gone onto professions in diversion of assorted types. Primary concern, however there is no enchantment mystery to being effective as a wellness show, this article will be about as near a diagram for progress as you will discover.  "Do I have to contend?"  This is an inquiry I get asked constantly and it's not a simple one to reply. Truth be told, the appropriate response is (drum move) yes and no. The individual needs to deicide why they are contending in any case to answer that inquiry. For instance, do you have to contend if you will likely be an effective wellness show?  The appropriate response is no. A large number of the present surely understood wellness models have never contended, or they contended in a couple of little shows and it was unmistakably not some portion of their prosperity as wellness models. Be that as it may, contending has its potential employments.  One of them is presentation. At the upper level shows, there will frequently be editors, distributers, picture takers, supplement organization proprietors, and different representatives. In this way, contending can enhance your presentation. Likewise, contending can bode well on the off chance that you are endeavoring to fabricate a business that is identified with your contending or will profit by you winning a show.  For instance, say you have a private preparing rec center you are attempting to manufacture. Without a doubt, having the title of say Ms Fitness America, or winning the NPC Nationals and being an IFBB star, will help your notoriety and the reputation of your business. There are numerous situations were it would have won a show for a business or different undertakings.  Then again, it must be understood that triumphant a show does not at all certification accomplishment in the business end (and it truly is a business) of being a wellness display. The telephone wont ring free with enormous offers for contracts. Likewise, it's imperative to understand that it's normal that the fourth or sixth or eighth place finisher in a wellness or figure show will get more press than the champ. Why? In spite of the fact that the champ may have what it took to win that show, it's regularly different ladies the editorial manager, distributers, supplement organizations and so on, feel is more attractive.  I have seen it commonly where the victor was stunned to discover she didn't get almost the consideration she expected and different young ladies who set lower have gotten consideration as photographs shoots, magazine scope, and so forth. A remark at the top of the priority list when you make the critical inquiry "do I have to contend and provided that this is true, why am I contending?" Answer that inquiry, and you will know the response to the heading of this area. Winning a title or some likeness thereof can be a venturing stone, yet it isn't in itself any assurance of accomplishment in the wellness business. It resembles a professional education; it's your main thing with it.  Presently. On the off chance that you go after its enjoyment, at that point by all methods pull out all the stops, however the above is concentrating on contending as it identifies with the business part of being a wellness display.  Right body, wrong alliance?  Alright, so in the wake of perusing the above you have chosen you will contend, or will contend once more. On the off chance that you don't plan to contend, you can avoid this area. The greatest mix-up I see here is such huge numbers of ladies have the correct body for the wrong organization. Every organization has its own particular judging criteria and a contender will do inadequately essentially on the grounds that they didn't try to investigate which show would be most appropriate for them.  I will give you an ideal true case of this. As of late I judged a demonstrate whose criteria for the figure round was the ladies ought to be more on the breathtaking milder agree with some tone, versus being more strong and athletic with less bodyfat that different alliances may permit. At this show a standout amongst the most lovely ladies I have ever observed turned out. She was extremely relative, awesome muscle tone, slender, and physically formed with limit hips and midsection and more extensive shoulders. How could she do at this show? She didn't put in the main ten!  Why? Since she was not what we were told to search for and didn't fit the criteria. After the show I educated her that she looked incredible, however this may not the alliance for her. I disclosed to her she had substantially more of a NPC sort body, where somewhat more muscle, athletic form, and less bodyfat is compensated.  The next week I was judging a NPC wellness, figure, and weight training appear and there she was. How could she do? She won the whole show with all judges voting her main collectively.  Then again, if your body sort has a tendency to be more adjusted and conditioned, yet with somewhat more bodyfat, more extensive (yet not fat!) hips, you might be in an ideal situation contending in say the Fitness America Pageants. On the off chance that you will contend:  (1) discover precisely what the judging criteria is for that organization and  (2) go see those shows as an onlooker for a few changed organizations and see which one your body, style, and so forth will fit into best.  (3) You need to choose in the event that you really have the athletic capacities to contend in a wellness rivalry (which requires a schedule) or a figure/swimsuit rivalry.  I frequently observe ladies who might do well in a figure appear yet truly don't have the athletic capacities do the schedules required to be focused with different competitors in the show. A few shows will enable you to do the two rivalries and some wont.  Systems administration 101: rules and regulations...  In such huge numbers of regards, this is the zone that will represent the moment of truth you in any business, but then, individuals in the wellness business make an incredibly poor showing with regards to with it. On the off chance that you don't system and market yourself legitimately, you can basically disregard having any genuine accomplishment as a wellness display, or an achievement in for all intents and purposes any business. For space, we will stick to wellness.  When I initially began, I was a self showcasing machine. I could be found at each show I thought may be an open door, strolling the isles of expos, lifting weights, appears, wellness show, and others. I gave out a zillion cards and I brought a million home with me, and followed up on every last one. I went to the same number of industry related gatherings, trips, parties, and so forth as I could get into. I now have the notoriety and involvement in the business that I don't need to go to such a show unless I sense that it, or have gatherings, yet they were very useful in the first place.  I am constantly flabbergasted at the quantity of wellness models who get in touch with me who have never at any point been to the Arnold Classic Fitness Weekend, or the Mr. Olympia, or the exchange demonstrates like the NNFA Expo West and others. In the event that you need to make it in the wellness business you beyond any doubt as hellfire would be advised to treat it like a business.  I have seen numerous a lovely young lady who needs to be a wellness display who considers in the event that they remain there looking entirely sufficiently long, somebody will offer to put their face on the front of a magazine. News streak, there are a great many wonderful ladies out there and to be seen, you need to hussle to get that professional every other person by systems administration your butt off, or having a decent operator (on the off chance that you can manage the cost of a wonder such as this) who is doing it for you. Pick a couple of real industry shows to go to (some of which were said above) and go to them consistently. Have an arrangement of assault of precisely how you intend to advertise yourself and system. Numerous wellness models, muscle heads, and so forth observe a show as one major gathering. On the off chance that that is you, at that point have a fabulous time at the gathering, however don't think you are truly advertising yourself as a serous agent or competitor.  Something else that dependably flabbergasts me is the quantity of wellness models who either have no business cards, or have a few cards they printed up on their air pocket stream printer at home! They request that I help them or what ever and I say "give me your card" and they take a gander at me like "I am so lovely I ought not require a card you trick." This demeanor kills editors, picture takers, scholars, and industry individuals quicker at that point in the event that they discovered you were extremely a transvestite. Try not to do it. For each beautiful young lady out there who thinks the world owes them some help, there are 100 who are prepared to act like experts.  Ever ask why some wellness demonstrate you know is improving the situation than you are despite the fact that you know you are prettier than her? That might be why...never ever go to a show to organize without great cards, profiles, and professionally done head and body shots you can provide for said editors, distributers, picture takers, industry sorts, and so on. Try not to remain around looking truly accepting they will discover you, discover them first and present yourself. Furthermore, obviously it ought to abandon saying you ought to be in great condition and have something of a tan to look awesome.  You need to go to the shows and gathering? Fine, yet do it in private after the work is done and don't influence a trick to out of yourself at some industry supported social affair. For hell's sake, I was for all intents and purposes filled a taxicab finally years Arnold Classic in the wake of setting off to a sushi put with some understand industry sorts and organizations proprietors (you know your identity!) however in any event nobody saw me! We had our own particular minimal private social gathering after the show to let free.  Give me a chance to give you one last certifiable case of how NOT to advertise yourself. A year ago I was on retainer as an expert to a moderate sized supplement organization. The proprietor of the organization inquired as to whether I knew a few wellness display sorts that could work his corner for a public expo. Actually, he asked for "questions, some new faces individuals had not seen yet but rather could develop with the organization." I went and discovered him two such ladies I thought fit the bill.  He offered to pay their flights, room, and sustenance in addition to a thousand dollars each for the days work. The two young ladies were advised to be at the corner 9am sharp. The prior night at the lodging, I saw the two young ladies getting in a taxi at 11pm or so dressed to slaughter, obviously on out to party. The following day they appeared at the stall 90 minutes late and hung over! What was the consequence of this? (1) it humiliated me forever as I had prescribed them to the organization proprietor (2) they could never get work from that organization again (3) they could never get any work from me again and (4) they would not get a reference from both of us for different occupations.  I see this kind of thing all the time in the wellness business, and it's not restricted to wellness models. Incredibly, fourteen days after the show they messaged me and the organization proprietor needing to know when their next activity would be! Astonishing...  Who cherishes you infant?  In the event that there is one generally accepted fact, it's that the camera either adores you or it doesn't. Any expert picture takers will reveal to you this. For some obscure reason, a few people are extremely photogenic and some are definitely not. Truth be known, there are some outstanding wellness models (who might stay anonymous as they would presumably smack me whenever they saw me) who are not too alluring face to face. It's simply that the camera adores them and they are extremely photogenic, yet not awfully lovely face to face.  On the other hand, I have seen the turn around commonly; a young lady who is vastly improved looking face to face than in photos. Such is the destiny of the individual who needs to be a model of any sort, including a wellness demonstrate. On the off chance that you discover you are not extremely photogenic, continue working with various picture takers until the point that you discover one that truly catches you well and pay that picture taker liberally!  Presently, to be gruffly genuine, there are additionally some need to be wellness models who are not "unphotogenic", they're simply "fugly"! There are a few people out there who should not be attempting to be wellness models. It doesn't influence them terrible to individuals, it just means they have to snap out of their dreams and discover a calling they are more qualified for, similar to radio personality....  "How would I get in the magazines?"  This segment kind of consolidates all that I have secured above, and includes a couple of extra techniques. For instance, as I specified some time recently, contending in wellness appears as well as figure/two-piece shows can expand your presentation, in this manner getting the consideration of some magazine distributer or picture taker. Systems administration effectively at the different exchange shows may likewise have a similar impact, and obviously having a decent portfolio done by a picture taker that truly catches your look, a great site, and so on., will all expansion your potential for getting into the magazines, or getting promotion work, et cetera.  Notwithstanding, these systems are still to some degree uninvolved versus dynamic as I would see it. It's as yet the wellness show holding up to be "found." As far as I am concerned, sitting tight is for transport stops and pregnancy tests. Achievement sits tight for no man...or lady as the case me be. All in all, after all the above counsel is thought about as having an additional impact to getting you magazine scope, what else should be possible?  For a certain something, you should read and be acquainted with every one of the magazines you need to be in so you know who will be who and what the style of the distinctive magazines are. I can reveal to you at this moment, if say the Editor-in-Chief of a decent estimated wellness or weight training distributions and says "hello there, I am the Bob Smith what's your name?" and the wellness show has no clue who Bob Smith is, Bob won't warmly embrace that. For what reason would it be advisable for him to? You should know who the real players are in the distributions you need to be seen in. He is helping you out, not the a different way. You should know who the real players are and effectively search them out, don't sit tight for them to "find" you.  On the off chance that you take a gander at the masthead inside any magazine, it will reveal to you who the distributer is, who the Editor-in-Chief is et cetera. The street number for that magazine, and regularly the site and email, can likewise be found. What is to prevent you from looking into those names and mailing them your photos and resume straightforwardly? Nothing, that is the thing that. On the off chance that you see a photograph spread you believe is extremely well done, what is to prevent you from discovering who the picture taker is and reaching them specifically and sending them your pics? Nothing, that is the thing that.  My point being, you need a get a break in the business, make the break, don't stay there believing it's searching for you, since it's most certainly not. Be proactive, not responsive! Fortunes is the buildup of plan. Be effective by plan. As my more established sibling used to state to me as a child when I revealed to him I was excessively frightened, making it impossible to ask out a beautiful young lady "what's the most exceedingly bad that can happen Will? Everything she can state is no." That's the most exceedingly bad that can transpire too.  Be careful with web numbskulls, schlubs, simpletons, debases, slime buckets, and sleazoids!  This part is kind of plain as day yet worth specifying. Likewise with all ventures that arrangement in excitement based media (e.g., TV, theater, displaying, and so on.), the wellness business draws in its far offer of web dolts, schlubs, boneheads, distorts, slime balls, and sleazoids, to give some examples.  There is likewise the class of individual known as the schmoe, yet we will leave that for somewhere else and time. Point is you need to meet the correct individuals while not getting included with that gathering of useless sorts who will just drag you down, postpone you, or only level out mess you up and over.  For instance, a person comes up and says he needs to "shoot you" for the magazines, however what do you truly know about this person? He has a camera and some business cards, with the goal that makes him a picture taker right? Off-base! On the off chance that somebody need to shoot you and they are not an outstanding name (and you should know who the notable picture takers are on account of you inquired about that as of now!), discover their identity. Do they have references you can call? Young ladies you can contact he has shot earlier and were content with the work? What magazines has he distributed in? Does he do it professionally or as a side interest? That sort of thing.  Something else I see is the enormous web trick. I'm astonished what number of young ladies get misled by these web morons. Lesson here is you get what you pay for, so when some individual needs to construct you a site for nothing, you are getting what you pay for. Truly, there is great cash to be made on the 'net, and the net can be extraordinary for advertising yourself and making contacts, however a large portion of it's a trick.  You are in an ideal situation paying a decent website specialist and website admin who has involvement with different wellness show sorts and has references you can converse with. I can't reveal to you the quantity of young ladies who have been cheated by some web thing that went to heck, similar to the "fan" who volunteers to assemble a free site and either keeps running off with any cash produced using the website or puts their singles out porn destinations and any number of different things that influenced them to lament like damnation regularly consenting to the webpage in any case.  Plainly, I can't go down the rundown of all the conceivable entanglements of the web simpletons, schlubs, imbeciles, distorts, slime buckets, and sleazoids out there to be found in the stimulation business, yet you get the thought. Be watchful!