Pet Peeve: Badly Placed Watermarks

Since I'm a webmaster and run my own site, I get lots of emails from other site owners who want me to put up links to their sites. This is usually a very good thing - I get an inbox full of links to galleries with hot foot fetish photos and videos. Sweet! One thing that drives me crazy about these galleries is the way they pay no attention to where their watermark (the big stamp with the site URL on it) is placed. For example, check out this gallery from Footsie Babes. Super hot brunette. Lovely feet. Nice poses. But why do they go and do this:

Click on the thumb to see what I mean.

Even worse, check out this one:



Now I totally understand why they want to put large watermarks with their site's name all over the images. I know all too well how my pictures end up on various sites, groups and forums without ever giving credit to where the pictures came from, or even whose feet the pics are of. It's really frustrating to see all your hard work be passed off as somebody else's. But don't cover up the goods! Footsie Babes is a really hot site with super high quality photos. I really don't think sending out galleries like this one do the site any justice at all.

Now this video gallery? That's a whole 'nother story! *drool*

Pantyhose Feet

A new photo gallery is up for Barefoot Kristy members and I wanted to share some sample pics (if you're not a member yet, click here to join now).



In these pics I'm working hard at the office, dressed in my little black suit with a crisp blouse. My nude pantyhose feet get quite hot after a long day slaving away at the office. It's probably due to all that dipping and dangling I do while I'm typing. Just realized I'm doing it right now as I type this! Of course, right now I'm wearing my pink bedroom slippers, not my black leather pumps. These babies stay on my feet quite solidly, so you'll rarely see me lose one.

My pumps on the other hand are much more slippery. I like to pop them, but I have to be careful not to lose control. It's so embarrassing when one of my high heels slips off the tip of my toe and comes crashing down loudly on the hardwood floors. Quite startling too when I'm busy at work and focused on something else entirely!



Log in to Barefoot Kristy to download this full photo gallery in a zip file!

Sexy Feet in Jeans

I'm working on putting together a new gallery today and going over the photos, one thing keeps popping up that is driving me nuts: dog hair! It doesn't seem to matter how many times I vacuum each week or how carefully I sweep the floor before I set up my camera, I always end up walking over to grab something (glass of water, lotion, camera remote) and I manage to collect a couple of hairs that end up being in the pictures. Of course I never notice *while* I'm shooting the pics. No no! I notice after I'm all done and have uploaded the photos to my computer. Doh!

Here's a sample pic of my soles from my new set, Sexy Feet in Jeans, that should be up later today for Barefoot Kristy members:

Hula Feet

I just added a new gallery for members of my foot fetish site to download, plus put up a few sample pics on Flickr. It's a really fun vintage, pinup inspired gallery, though unfortunately the pictures didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped. I shot this set quite a while ago, before I bought my new camera. Every time I open the folder to look at them, I'm excited and then immediately disappointed when I see how blurry so many of them turned out. A lot of the close up ones of my bare feet were totally unuseable because they were so out of focus. Grrrrrr! I decided to put them up anyway because I did have a blast painting that backdrop and putting together the whole outfit. I love how happy and smiley models used to be. A smiling girl with a great sense of humor? That's totally sexy to me, much more so than the usual pout we see on today's models.

But don't worry! My next photo gallery will be full of crisp, high resolution shots of my sexy feet. Promise!

Feeling the Winter Blues

I think the winter blahs have settled in over at Casa Kristy. I've been feeling very low energy all week and praying for some sunshine. I'm so tired of rain and grey skies!

Since I can't afford a proper beach holiday, I think the best thing to do to beat the January doldrums is to set up a fake beachy photoshoot. Break out the bikini and the coconut oil, plus my super hot photography lights? Perfect! Just the smell of that coconut oil always takes me back to happy summer memories of days spent by the pool when I was a kid. I wonder if I can find some sand to import to my living room? Or better yet, a sexy lifegaurd!

New Year, New Socks

2008 has been off to a rather slow start for me, as I've been trying to fend off a cold that I knew was coming. Today my body finally succumbed to coughing and congestion, which is almost a relief. I've been sleeping tons and just generally feeling low, with no energy. At least now I know why!

My plan for the afternoon is to go to a yoga class that will hopefully get my body feeling stretched and loosened up, then finish up a new pic gallery showing off my new red socks for my wonderful members.

One of my goals for this year is to turn my sexy feet site into one of the best personal foot fetish sites on the net. I've put so much time into shooting the best quality photos and videos that I can. I'd really like to branch out this year and shoot with some professional photographers and hopefully some other foot models. Without sounding too much like a pledge drive, that's where YOU can help!

I've got some really amazing members and I'm incredibly grateful for anyone who has joined my site in the past. I feel lucky to have emailed and chatted with some of the kindest, sweetest people I've ever met, let alone come across on the internet (where being anonymous and being rude seem to go hand in hand).

But with the number of sites out there, it's a miracle anyone ever finds my little corner of the web. Going over what it's cost me to run this site for the past year and the number of members that have subscribed, I'm still in the red. Hopefully this will be the year that my site really takes off and can start paying for itself. Ideally I'd like to get to the point where I have enough monthly members that I can afford to pay for things like pedicures and new shoes, but my first goal is just to get to the point where the site is generating enough income to pay for the server it's hosted on and to pay off my camera.

So, if you've ever thought about signing up, but have been too shy, get your butt over there and join today! And tell your friends! *grin*