At a traditional New Year's Masquerade, everyone conceals their identity by mask or costume until the stroke of midnight, at which point everyone reveals their true selves. Well, for most of the year, we were very careful not to reveal our faces...rear shots, closeups, blindfolds and locks of strategically-placed hair kept you from seeing us.

Then in June we went to West Virginia for a photo and video shoot for Equus Eroticus and Playboy TV. At that point we pretty much commited to showing ourselves to the world. The Equus magazine issue is already out, and next Spring should bring the Playboy episode, so our masks are off.

We set out in 2004 with the goal of going to some fetish event or other every month, and we came very close.

January

One of our most popular galleries in January was Bedtime Bondage, which showed how many different ways Dee sleeps in bondage every night.

  

February

Then a week later, we visited Toronto to go shopping at Northbound Leather and attend a fetish party called Fetish Masquerade, held at the Reverb.

     

In February's Leap Year Bondage, we had a photo of Dee dressed for a party at B-Witches, and here we show the full length photo. We also showed photos from our New York trip in December.

March

These photos are from the Metal Harness gallery, which shows one of my most restrictive creations, welded steel body harness that fits Dee from crotch to neck and eveything in between.

On the way to New York, we stopped in Philly and met Donna and her husband for some two-girl bondage fun. Then on the way back, we met David Lawrence and his slave judy.

        

April

     

May

But the highlight of the month was our trip to Chicago for ShibariCon. This was the first annual rope conference with an emphasis on Japanese style bondage.

Here are three of the many photos that Lochai shot of us playing.

     

June

In June we were invited to participate in a magazine and video shoot for Equus Eroticus which was also being filmed for Playboy TV's Sexcetera program. At the right you can see Dee being interviewed by Kira Reed, who was also the cover girl for issue number 15 of Equus Eroticus.

  

July

We didn't do a whole lot of bondage on the trip, but we did take a few flashing photos around France, Italy and Greece.

     

August

This was a campout with other members of the bondage industry who get together to play, shoot photos, and eat roast pig.

From there we drove our truck and travel trailer to Reno to be ready for Burning Man, and flew home to get the kids in school. Then just three weeks later we flew back to Reno to pick up the truck and drive to Gerlach for the festival.

     

September

Then later in the month, we attended [lvb link=]FetishCon[/lvb] in Tampa Florida, a bondage industry convention.

     

October

October was the month we used out largest bondage prop...a fourty foot long garbage dumpster in the driveway. We actually didn't travel anywhere in October, but after being gone for half of August and September, we were happy to stay home and play in the backyard.

     

November

Our friends Scott and Mistress Rosemarie went to Kink with us, and stayed at our house for a few days afterwards. We got to shoot Dee and Scott in a couple of scenes together. Then later in the month, Michelle Wild of Michelle Wild Photography came down to Pittsburgh to shoot us playing in the bedroom for her upcoming book. You can see the best photos from that shoot next month, here at Luvbight.com.

     

December

In December we returned to Paddles, and also invited David Larence and slave judy up to our room, and had Michelle Wild over to take photos.

It seems that each December I actually get even more serious about the quality of our photography. You may remember that last year I bought a set of so-called "hot lights", continuous tungsten lighting. Well the Christmas shopping season got me in the mood to upgrade to monolights, a combination high-powered flash and halogen modelling lights, along with a raft of attachments, reflectors, soft boxes, grids, diffusers and filter holders.

One of the first galleries we shot with the new studio lights was Christmas Decoration, showing Dee wrapped in red and green rope and hung from the ceiling like mistletoe.

     

You can see all 120 photos in this update in these journal galleries:

2004 in Review #1 40 photos Dec 30, 2004

2004 in Review #2 40 photos Dec 30, 2004

2004 in Review #3 40 photos Dec 30, 2004

All in all, 2004 was a fantastic year for us...we attended more fetish events in more cities, met more people, and posted more naked photos of my wife to the Internet than ever before.