Todd, Chapter 2

Todd

It was the evening and Troy, Charlie and I sat outside in the little restaurant in the resort. I had my laptop on the table and I went through the photos I had taken during the day. It had been such a hot day and not just weather-wise.
“So first, the one-bedroom apartment”, I said.
The first picture was of Junior and Keegan. Junior was pretending to be asleep with the covers only reaching up to his waist. Keegan was on his stomach, the covers only revealing the top part of his butt. Keegan was looking lovingly at Junior, his hand resting on Junior’s chest. The photo was taken so that it showed the kingsize bed and the closet space.
“I really like this one”, Charlie immediately said.
“I wanted to also show the sliding doors to the outside patio, but there was backlighting”, I said.
“There will be a floor plan on the website as well, it’ll be fine”, Troy said.
“Or we can do a separate photo of the patio on there?”, Charlie proposed.
“Yeah, I can take some more photos tomorrow if you like”, I said, “anything that doesn’t require models.”
Because there were ten versions of this same picture, I said, “I’ll have to pick out the best one tomorrow and see if I need to edit it”.
“I love the composition though, great call”, Troy said.

The next photo was of Junior and Keegan in the Jacuzzi, toasting glasses of champagne. They were both wearing speedos but with the bubbles there was the implication of nudity, making it both a romantic as well as a sexy photo.
“This is possibly my favorite”, Troy said.
I looked at him, knowing the hot pictures that were still to come.
“That luxurious feel of the champagne, the way they look at each other… It really shows what the resort is trying to do.”
“Yeah, great job, Vincent”, Charlie agreed.
“It doesn’t show that there is a separate shower though, there was no way with the angle”, I said.
“We can do a photo with no-one in it instead for the page, or the one we took with Andre and Todd… We’ll see.”

Scrolling down further, I came to the last picture of the one-bedroom apartment, which was of Junior and Keegan in the kitchen.
“This was so smart”, Troy said.
I had Junior and Keegan pose in the kitchen, with Keegan hugging Junior from behind while he was cooking. I had taken the photo from further out so the counter was blocking them from the waist down. You could just see the curve of their asses but they both just had their speedos on and had pushed them slightly down. This way, I managed to get the living room sofa into the picture.
“Yeah, it’s sexy, romantic, but it also shows off the living room”, Charlie agreed.
I was also really happy with that one.

“Right… studio apartment”, I said after scrolling further. The first picture showed Andre sitting up in bed, his upper body exposed, looking at Todd, who we see from behind, nude, holding a tray of fake breakfast. His round, smooth butt really stole the show in the picture, yet it showed the bed, some of the closet space, as well as the sliding door to the patio.
“You certainly enjoyed taking that picture”, Troy said.
“I’m not going to lie, I did!”, I said.
“Todd and Vincent got along so well all day”, Troy told Charlie.
It was true, he had been incredibly charming. He was the oldest of the group and had no issue being naked on set. He was the only one to have done full frontal pictures before and I knew that once I was alone I was going to be googling him.
“I love the picture though”, Charlie said. “The butt is slightly distracting, possibly. But I have a hard time convincing myself that’s a bad thing.”
We all laughed.

The next photo was most definitely one of the hottest ones.
“I have two versions of this one”, I said.
The photo I showed them was of Andre and Todd in the shower. It was a spacious shower area in both types of apartments, clearly designed so that it easily fit two people. In the photo, Todd was once again with his back to the camera, kissing Andre’s neck. Andre was squeezing Todd’s left butt-cheek. Todd’s thigh blocked Andre’s genitals. Water cascaded off both their bodies. We had created a sock-type construction for Andre’s modesty, but Todd was fine letting it all hang out. His beautiful, soft, circumcised, 4-inch cock was already engraved in my mind. During the shoot for the shower, I remember getting a raging hard-on.
“Oh wow”, Charlie said. “Very sexy.”
“It shows the size of the shower too though”, I said.
“I doubt anyone’s going to look at the shower”, Troy said.
“Yeah, but it is the type of photo I would want for the site”, Charlie said. “The passion is so clear here. Like, we want couples to fuck in that shower. It’s why we had the showers made so large.”
We all laughed.
“That butt is just asking to be photographed”, Troy said.
“What’s the other version you have though?”, Charlie wanted to know.
Troy giggled.
“Well…”, I started, “this was Todd’s idea.”
I clicked onto the next one, and well, it was more explicit. Todd was now facing the camera, his gorgeous body on display. His right hand was behind Andre’s head, who was standing behind him, causing Todd’s bicep to flex beautifully. The two guys looked into each other’s eyes seductively. Andre reached from behind and cupped Todd’s genitals in his left hand. I remember the sexual tension in the room and their chemistry was off the charts.
“So, I thought this was maybe a bit much”, I said.
“Yeah, I agree”, Troy said. “It was good to try out, but I feel like it crosses the line between slightly gratuitous man-candy on a resort website into softcore porn.”
“This isn’t porn!”, Charlie objected. “Yes, it’s very hot, and yes, it distracts from the bathroom that it’s supposed to show. But it’ll get people clicking! Plus, no butts and no genitalia in this one, doesn’t that mean we could post it on Facebook and Instagram?”
“I don’t know”, I said, “it looks like they’re fucking. Could be pulled down.”
“Well, let’s think about it”, Troy suggested. “We can choose tomorrow.”

The next photo was of Andre and Todd in the kitchen. Because it was the studio apartment, there was no sofa. And the kitchen was also smaller than in the one-bedroom apartments. I wasn’t immediately sure how to stage this photo. I ended up with a photo taken of Andre and Todd from the waist up, shirtless, obviously, with in the background the sink, the stove, and the fridge. That way I showed off the kitchen as well as I could. Andre and Todd laughed as they looked at each other and were feeding each other some food.
Troy and Charlie agreed that it was well done.

Then there was the group shoot by the pool. I ended up doing two photos. One was in the pool, and one by the bar. The issue here was that although Troy had prepared an extensive wardrobe of speedos for the models, none of them would fit over Todd’s big butt. I had quickly picked out speedos in different colors and patterns for Andre, Junior and Keegan, but I couldn’t find anything that really suited Todd. I could still picture his bubble butt shaking up and down as he tried to pull the suit over his cheeks. I remember getting my second raging hard-on of the day right there.
I wasn’t sure if Todd in his too-small swimsuit would be sexy or strange for the photo. In the end, I decided to work around it.
For the photo in the pool, Junior and Keegan were lying on two of the sunbeds by the pool. Andre was standing on the steps that lead into the pool, water up to his knees, really showing off his body. Todd was closer to the camera, submerged under water up to about his chest.
Charlie and Troy loved the photo.
“It’s not as romantic as the other photos, but that makes sense”, Charlie said.
“Yeah, the pool and the sunbeds are for the ‘Recharge’ part of the resort”, Troy agreed.

The next photo was taken at the pool bar. I had Todd stand behind the bar, he smiled and looked at Andre, who was shown from behind. His black and white speedo accentuating his butt. We also saw Keegan from behind in a white speedo. Junior was shown from the side, which meant we saw his face and the curve of his ass, encased by a red speedo. Keegan and Junior were also talking to each other.
“I see you decided to stick to the two couples”, Charlie said.
“Yeah, I could have mixed them up, but I felt like the chemistry was so there between the couples, it was hard to stray from”, I said.
“I like all the speedo butts though”, he replied.

The next photo was taken in the gym. I realized too late that there was no wardrobe for this, so Junior and Keegan were still wearing their speedos in this shot. I shot Junior on the chest fly machine up close, where you can see Keegan running on a treadmill behind. Just Junior’s face is in the frame, and Keegan’s upper body from the side, avoiding the wardrobe issue and showing off the gym. This picture was also approved by my hosting couple.

Then there was a photo taken at the restaurant where we sitting at that very moment. I had asked Junior and Keegan to put on the clothes they came here in. It showed the back of Junior’s head and Keegan in his dark blue T-shirt, lovingly looking at Junior while they were having food at a table in the restaurant. In my mind the photo would have had a candle in between them and it would have been nighttime, but this also worked.
“Yeah, I see what you mean, it could have been an even more romantic photo, but this is great as well”, Troy said.
“That guy’s face is gorgeous, this is the best shot of him for sure”, Charlie said, talking about Keegan.

The last two photos were taken in the spa. The first one had Andre and Todd in the sauna, wrapped in towels. They were both sitting on the wooden bench, their eyes closed, their bodies shiny, holding hands.
 “Yes! Recharge and reconnect in one photo!”, Charlie said. “I love it!”
I smiled. I was glad that they were liking it so much.
The last photo just showed both Andre and Todd on massage tables with towels halfway down their asses. That was an easy call.

“You did very well”, Charlie said. “Thank you so much.”
“You showed why we picked you and had you fly in. I didn’t doubt you for a second and I am very happy with the result”, Troy added.
“I’ll take some more pictures without the models tomorrow though”, I said.
“Great!”, Troy said. “I’m going to be working on the website for the rest of the week, I hope we can go live by the weekend!”

In the week that followed, I was getting used to the life in a Palm Springs resort. I was taking some more photos, but boredom set in quite quickly. Charlie and Troy were around, working on the resort and stuff. And they were nice, but I felt a little useless. I helped Troy with the website, and soon the first reservations were coming in.

Once my photos had been published, Todd added me on Instagram. He had already shared many sexy photos with his 245.000 followers and I took my time looking at all of them. The photos were slightly more out there than the one on his agency’s website, but I guess that made sense. The last photo he had posted was one that I took, the shot of him and Keegan in the sauna. He recommended his followers to check out the website and book a stay at the resort. He tagged me and Keegan and said he had had a great time working with us. But that was pretty much the most exciting thing that happened for a while.

I asked Troy how he was doing staff-wise. Had he hired anyone to work the reception desk, the bar and wait tables at the restaurant? I said I was willing to help out where I could. Troy said that he and Charlie would be working most of those shifts but that I was welcome to help out if I wanted, especially at reception and the bar. I said that I would love to and insisted on not getting paid.

But it was only a week after the photoshoot that I got an e-mail from PEER International Models. Apparently the models had said good things about me at the agency and they were looking for a fashion photographer for a shoot only a few days away. If I was available, I was asked to contact the office as soon as I could. I immediately called and got Bonnie Crockett, whose name I remembered from that e-mail Troy had forwarded.
“I’m really glad you called. A client who asked us to deliver models had his photographer cancel, so we were trying everyone, but it was such short notice. Todd Barlow, one of the models for this job, suggested we try you.”
“Todd is going to be at the shoot?”
“Yes, you will be working with Todd again and three other male models. It’s for an underwear website. I will e-mail you the details.”
“Great!”
I’m not going to lie, I was incredibly excited to see Todd again.

I arrived at the studio in Santa Monica and parked Troy and Charlie’s car. They had been so cool about enabling me to be here, even if I had insisted they put me on the work schedule at the resort. I got out of the car, rang the doorbell and immediately saw a man open the door for me. He was in his 40s, balding, glasses, goatee.
“Vincent Aquino?”
“Yeah?”
“Alfred Garcia. Nice to meet you.”
Alfred was the client Bonnie had spoken of.
“Nice to meet you too!”
He let me in and gestured for me to walk in a certain direction.
“Thank you so much for agreeing to do this on the short term. I got you in here early to explain what exactly is going to be happen today. Coffee? Water?”
“Coffee would be great”, I said.

Alfred was a very talkative, possibly even hyperactive guy. He explained that he was the owner of an online retailer of designer underwear and swimwear for men, which was called underwearsubscriptions.com. People could order some of their favorite brands from around the world from his website, but they could also opt for a monthly subscription where they would be sent three pieces of underwear at random.  The website has an online following on social media as well as on YouTube, where people can interact with and see videos of their favorite models. The four models coming in today had all appeared on the site and the YouTube channel before. So Alfred had desperately wanted to get this group together today even when the photographer cancelled, just because there were fans waiting and a big number of new collections had come out.
Like I said, he was very talkative.

He showed me the racks of underwear he was going to shoot today. There were labels that said ‘Joshua’, ‘Kyle’, ‘Matthew’, and ‘Todd’.
“We get two models in for the morning. They do one piece at a time. You shoot them front, side, and back. I might step in and adjust the underwear if necessary. Our viewers like the guys with big asses. And don’t get me wrong, so do I. But those big asses get the underwear wedged right in there…”
I just smiled.
“Then the other two arrive, and we put them in swimwear and go to the beach just around here. I will film the four of them playing around on the beach. If you could make some action shots, that would be great. The first two leave and we do the same as we did in the morning. Like, when we’re shooting one, the other is changing. It’s proven quite effective in the past.”
“Sounds good!”
I was actually looking forward to it. There was very little room for improvising or artistic input on my part. But it was a job and there were going to be guys in underwear.

Kyle

I had only gotten to see what the models I was working with looked like a day before the shoot. Immediately when they walked I had recognized Kyle Fullerton and Matthew Stedman from their profiles on the PEER International Models website. Kyle was a black man, his head shaven smooth, with the most sensual lips I had ever seen. Matthew was incredibly pale in comparison, with hairgelled blond hair, blue eyes and a scruffy blond beard. They were going to need very different lighting settings, so I needed to figure out how to quickly switch between two settings, but thankfully it didn’t take me long.

Before I knew it, Matthew was already in front of my camera in green briefs that only covered about two thirds of his big, round behind. I was starting to see why these guys had a social media following. Matthew was incredibly attractive with his darker chest hair, his massive thighs and butt. His blue eyes popped naturally on camera. Alfred could immediately see my photos on a computer screen and agreed to all three photos I took of Matthew. That took most of the nerves away that I had for today.
Kyle was next in red briefs that covered about the same portion of his bigger than average ass. For the shot from behind, Alfred walked into frame to pull the briefs from Kyle’s crack.
“I got a case of hungry butt again?”, Kyle quipped.
I wanted to say I had just the solution for that, but I had just met all of these people today and decided it wasn’t the professional thing to say.
By the time he was done, Matthew walked back in front of the white screen, wearing tight, dark blue trunks with a black waistband. His ass was again a main attraction. It was only now I realized that these guys were changing right behind me where the clothing racks were. I could just turn around and probably catch Kyle naked right now. But I had to remain focused on the job at hand.

Matthew

During the morning, I did catch glimpses of both Kyle’s and Matthew’s butts as they were changing. My effort to sneak a peek and not get caught proved futile, as soon they were in front of my camera in jockstraps and even thongs. To them it seemed like no big deal, but I felt like I was witness to something very sexually exciting. However boring the job was from an artistic point of view, it certainly was very exciting when it came to the man-candy department.

By the end of the morning, Todd walked in. In between shots he walked toward me and gave me a hug. He was wearing a sleeveless black shirt and his massively muscled arms were a sight to behold. I got butterflies in my stomach immediately, as the chemistry between us felt tangible immediately, even though I wasn’t even sure if he was gay. Like, my gaydar had gone off with both Kyle and Matthew, and last week with Andre and Keegan. But with Todd, I just didn’t know.
“So good to see you again”, he said.
I thanked him for getting me this job.
“No problem, man. I really enjoyed working with you and I wanted to help make today happen, so…”
“Thank you so much, either way”, I said. He couldn’t possibly know how much he helped further my career by getting me my second job out here in California.
I was also introduced to Joshua Weatherford, the other model for the afternoon, who had this really nice smile. A perfect set of white teeth and little wrinkles by his eyes. With his black hair, scruffy beard and tattoo sleeves on both his arms, he was a completely different type than all of the other guys.

I finished the last of the underwear and swimsuits that Kyle and Matthew had on their rack. They had to keep the last pair on to wear to the beach scene. For Kyle this meant a blue and white Speedo. Matthew had a multi-colored striped Speedo. Joshua and Todd had also changed into their swimwear. Joshua, who I knew from the agency website to have tattoos covering most of his upper body, wore some blue trunks. Todd looked gorgeous as ever in white Speedos. All four of them had absolutely amazing asses. As they walked in front of me to Santa Monica Beach, which was only a few minutes away, people’s heads were turning. I of course snuck a peek here and there.

Santa Monica Beach wasn’t very crowded, it was 2:00 PM on a weekday. The models were instructed on what to do. Alfred had brought a small videocamera and it was my job to make photos. The guys jogged away from the video and then toward it. They played some volleyball where there was a net. They chased each other around a palm tree. The guys really made it look natural, and I captured some great shots. Alfred told me in advance that the guys themselves were about equally important as the swimsuits, so I decided to focus on both. I could only hope he, as the client, would be satisfied with my work.

Most interesting was when the guys were told to play in the water. They splashed water at each other and threw the ball around. When they all walked out, I managed to get a shot of the four of them in a row and I immediately noticed Todd’s white Speedo had become see-through. His circumcised cockhead was fully visible, giving me an instant hard-on.
“Very good!”, Alfred said. “That’s a wrap, let’s go back to the studio.”
He gave each of the guys a towel and we all walked back.
The models walked in front of us again, and now I could see that the back of Todd’s swimsuit was also transparent, giving me an unobstructed few of his cheeks and crack.
“Will you be able to use the last shot? Todd’s suit is see-through when wet”, I told Alfred.
“Oh, I wanted it to be that way. And he knows. You should see what we’re putting him in later”, Alfred raised his eyebrows at me.
“He loves it, too. You’ll be able to tell why Todd is a fan favorite”, he concluded.

Joshua

Kyle and Matthew thanked me for a great shoot and left. After a short lunch break, where Todd told Joshua all about the shoot at the resort, we got to work on the second half of the underwear and swimwear. And it did show that while Joshua was mainly posing in boxerbriefs, trunks and briefs, Todd was coming out in jockstraps, bikinis, thongs, and some things I could only describe as male lingerie. Underwear with cut-outs, mesh panels, some more spandex type things, inventive pouches, backless underwear… There were loads of different things there. Joshua seemed boring in comparison, as every time Todd came out it was a complete surprise as to what he would be wearing. And Alfred had been right. Todd loved it. I started noticing in some of the underwear that his cock wasn’t pointing down but up. In a light-colored thong I noticed a wet spot, that immediately got me hard as well. And as the afternoon went on, Todd had a full-on boner, sometimes poking out the top of some of the skimpy underwear he was being put in. But no-one said a word about this. Todd just continued to pose and everyone went on like they weren’t aware. Alfred even continued to adjust the underwear every now and then, coming very close to Todd’s hard cock. I knew why Todd was a fan favorite. But did this mean he was gay, if the underwear was turning him on? Or maybe he was just an exhibitionist?

When the shoot was over, Alfred complimented me on the job I did. I asked him if he had seen the photos I had taken on the beach. It had been the only time during the shoot where I had been able to make the photos my own in a way, but I was uncertain if it was what he had wanted.
“I looked at some of them during the lunch break, and you really did a good job. You have an undeniable talent and I will tell the agency how happy I was with you.”
“Oh wow, thank you so much!”
We shook hands and I said I hoped we would work together again.
I was packing up my stuff when a fully dressed Todd came up to me.
“Hey”, he said, “I had a great time working with you again”.
“Thanks, same here”, I replied. “I appreciate that I got the opportunity and that’s completely down to you.”
“Look, it was my pleasure.”
I could make a joke about his pleasure and how his cock had somehow been fully erect for half of the afternoon, but again I didn’t as it didn’t seem professional.
“I may have another job for you, could we discuss it over coffee later this week?”
“Absolutely!”, I said enthusiastically.
“It’s something that sort of goes outside of the agency, and I only saw an e-mail address on your website. Do you have a number where I can reach you?”
My heart started beating faster. He probably was actually going to ask me for a job, but a part of me wanted to think he was actually asking me out on a coffee date.
“Sure”, I said, as I quickly gave him a business card that I had made ages ago.
“Great”, he smiled as he looked at the card. It had the photo of Luis on it, nude. “Nice card. I’ll text you. You’re in Palm Springs, right?”
“Yep. We can meet at the resort if that’s good for you?”
“Oh that could work! Gotta go now, my trainer is waiting for me.”
He hugged me like he did when he came in, slung a gym bag over his shoulder and walked out. I unashamedly checked out his ass.
“I’ll be in touch!”, he said, looking back. It was very likely he caught me looking.

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