The photographs: how they are taken, softened and kept current
Every picture on this site was made for it. None is bought from a library, none is borrowed from another agency and none is a stranger standing in for somebody else. Guests out here have been let down by photographs often enough to ask about it before they ask about anything else, so this page answers it first.
What follows is the whole of the practice, including the parts that are inconvenient to admit.
What the pictures are
Glamour and lifestyle photography, shot in rooms and in daylight, with faces softened. No nudity appears anywhere on this site, and nothing in any frame is explicit. A companion is dressed the way she would be for a hotel bar or a village pub, because that is what the evening actually is.
The softening is done for her sake, not to change how she looks. The women on this list have careers, studies and families that have nothing to do with this work, and anonymity is the condition they agreed to be listed under. Every face here is treated the same way and none is left sharp. What the softening does not touch is everything a guest actually needs: height, build, figure, hair, colouring, bearing and the way she dresses are as the camera found them, because a guest who is surprised at the door has been sold something. The unsoftened face exists in one place, which is in front of you, once she has arrived.
Shot for this site, cropped for this site
The sessions are arranged with the companion, on her terms, with her approval of every frame that is published. She may withdraw any image at any time without giving a reason, and images do come down that way.
The crops and the filenames on this site are its own. The same woman may work elsewhere, and the pictures here are not the pictures there. That is deliberate: a set of images that appears in four places at once tells you nothing about any of them.
When they were last checked
Photographs are reviewed against the person at intervals through the year and replaced when they stop being accurate. Hair changes, and so does everything else over eighteen months. A gallery that has not been touched in three years is a warning sign and this one is not allowed to become one.
If a picture on the hall is out of date, the fault is the desk's and Hester will say so rather than explain it away. Ask her before you book and she will tell you honestly when a set was last refreshed.
What is never done
No stock photography. No images taken from other sites. No faces swapped, no bodies reshaped, no borrowed galleries, no composites and nothing generated. No picture of anybody who is not working here now.
And no photograph of a guest, ever. Nothing is taken during an evening, by anybody, for any reason. That rule runs in both directions and it is not negotiable at the Bath Road or anywhere else on the airport areas.
What may not be done with these pictures
The photographs belong to this site and to the women in them. Copying them, saving them, reposting them or running one through a reverse image search is not permitted, and that covers every crop on the hall as much as a profile portrait.
Working out who a companion is away from these pages ends the arrangement. An attempt to identify her, to photograph her or to record her without her written agreement closes the booking on the spot under the conduct clause in the terms, with the whole fee standing and no explanation owed to anybody.
Asked most often at this end of town
Why are the faces softened?
Are these the same pictures used on other sites?
How recent are they?
Can I take a photograph during the evening?
Read the sign, then pick the hour
Send a length, a time and the road or the terminal you are staying near, and a name comes back with a travel window on it.