Dear friends, followers and.. haters! (yes, you are in my heart, too! ).
This is a special Xmas for me.. as my paysites BAREFOOT URBAN GIRLS and BAREFOOT NUDITY have just turned five!
These have surely been five exciting years, full of great achievements and lessons learnt!
In these five years I have carved my own niche in a market segment dominated by City Feet and Toes-In-Action,
which had both already been online for 10 years when BUG and BN were launched.

BAREFOOT NUDITY had an avalanche success up to late 2015, but entered into a slow decline afterwards,
for reasons which are still unclear to me, and in spite of costly investments in 2016 and 2017.
Yet I have managed to keep BN economically viable, mainly thanks to the cooperation of two gorgeous models
I have the privilege of being great friends with: CHAT NOIR & PURPLE QUEEN.
I love BN because it is the oddball, the heresy, the black sheep.. and yes, I love it even more because
there are dudes hating it! (especially here in this forum ).
I'll do my best to keep BN alive for as long as I can.. I have loved female nudity and exhibitionism since I was a teenager..
and I'll love them until I die!

BAREFOOT URBAN GIRLS has had a different and quite peculiar story.
After a brief initial success (probably out of the novelty), it soon struggled to a point that I was unsure about holding dedicated shootings for it,
as these could only be funded through the (dwindling) profits from BAREFOOT NUDITY.
Yet BUG was about the very start of my career as a footographer, and I have a passion for (apparently) losing horses.
In a nutshell, BUG is a love story, not a business venture. So starting from 2016 I have tried hard to make it successful.
I have invested heavily into BUG in 2016 and 2017, holding dedicated shootings with both non-nude models (SWAINS, PERLANERA, AMELIE, LAVINIA..)
and BAREFOOT NUDITY models as guest stars (CHAT NOIR, GOLD CHANEL, ELETTRA, FENICE, CHARLOTTE, PURPLE QUEEN, CLEMENTINE POULAIN..).
I have put lots of creative energy in developing the new "BAREFOOT LIFESTYLE" series, and in producing non-nude "on the road" material
during my customary tours in Germany to visit my dear friend - and talented barefootographer - gb62da.
Well, it's great to let you know that those efforts have paid off! BUG has become economically self-sufficient in early 2018,
and has nearly twice as many subscribers as BAREFOOT NUDITY now! (it had been exactly the opposite for years).

A lot of other things have made these five years exciting and memorable.

I had three "Featured Model of the Month" specials at WU's FEET LINKS, one starring RED-X, and two starring SWAINS.
SWAINS - August 2017: http://wusfeetlinks.com/feat201708.html
SWAINS - November 2016: http://wusfeetlinks.com/feat201611.html
RED-X - April 2015: http://wusfeetlinks.com/feat201504.html

RED-X was interviewed by Patrick of SOLES OF SILK for WU's FOOT FORUM, and I was also interviewed by him.
THE FEETOSOPHER's interview: http://wusfeetlinks-interviews.blogspot.co...-interview.html
RED-X's interview: http://wusfeetlinks-interviews.blogspot.co...-interview.html

Finally, I became a Hall of Fame member at WU's FOOT FORUM

On a sad note, I also saw a legend like WU die, and pioneers like Lord Lucan and Arnaud Ferrand quit in the past five years.

I have learned a lot of things in these five years.. above all:
1) Everybody loves you when you give away quality stuff for free. Yet convincing people to spend some money to enjoy your stuff is much tougher.
2) You cannot please everybody even in a tiny market segment like this one.
People have well-defined, often diverging tastes also about female barefooting and dirty feet fetish!
3) If you are successful in what you do, you will have to handle the envy and hatred of some people.
My experience is that giving trolls the hell they deserve is a good move.
If you eat their shit in silence, it may take a long time before they get bored and quit trolling you.
If you systematically bust their asses, you will always be in the spotlight.. which is absolutely OK!
The worst thing for people doing business on internet nowadays is passing unnoticed.
4) The golden age of "foot-related paysites" is over, and will not come back.
Internet piracy and hordes of Ordinary Joes and Plain Janes flooding the web with DIY foot-related pictures and videos
have been giving, and will give, a tougher and tougher time to old-style vendors like me.
You can hold on or quit, there are no alternatives. Being a hard-nosed Italian S.O.B... I am gonna put on a brave fight before I die!

In the next days I will celebrate these first five years of BAREFOOT URBAN GIRLS and BAREFOOT NUDITY with
plenty of SPECIAL UPDATES for subscribers, FREE PROMOTIONAL PHOTOSETS and TEASER VIDEOS for everybody to enjoy, and a
"GOLDEN FIVE" TOP MODEL CONTEST here in the Forum!

To finish this long post (quite a rarity for a man of images like me ), I take the chance to:
- Wish all BUG and BN subscribers, friends, followers, casual readers and especially HATERS ( ).. merry Xmas holidays!
- Wish the same, with a huge THANK YOU, to all the 150-plus barefoot (and more-than-barefoot! ) beauties I have worked with in over 14 years..
on top of them, the five fantastic girls I am great friends with in everyday life: CHAT NOIR, PURPLE QUEEN, SWAINS, AMELIE & KEA. You rule, girls!

CHAT NOIR


PURPLE QUEEN


SWAINS


AMELIE


KEA

WOW, cool.. NO REACTION AT ALL.. posting on this forum gets more and more rewarding!

Even if VERY FEW among you deserve this gift.. now you can feast on
BAREFOOT NUDITY's XXXmas FREE VIDEO TEASER on TWITTER!
Starring: KEA, MJ36, VALERY VITA, RED-X and ELETTRA!

https://twitter.com/The_Feetosopher/status/...914924050399233

Yeah, penny-pinchers.. now you can WANK at BAREFOOT NUDITY's naughty XXXmas beauties.. free of charge..

Merry XXXMas and Happy Holidays to you, Feetosopher! Congratulations on five years of bringing barefoot beauties to the world (Yes, I know you've been doing it longer than five years, but we're celebrating the BUG and BN anniversaries here)!

Best of luck to you in the new year, and those to come after. Of course, being good friends with these five gorgeous ladies, you're already a winner in life!

Thank you very much, my dear friend! I wish the same to you and to the people you love!
I'll do my best to keep on delivering also in 2019, in spite of the challenges.
Yes, I deffo call myself lucky for being friends with these five wonderful women!
Take care, ciao from Italy!

Happy birthday BUG and BN!!!!

I'm so happy these 2 sites are enriching the barefoot fetish world with high quality content and the most beautiful barefoot and nude girls one can imagine. Despite all issues you are facing!

And I'm proud of knowing you and some of the girls in person... And thus can assure they are even more beautiful and charming in nature.

Let me wish you success and, even more important, fun for the next years if not decades!!!

We will photograph beautiful barefoot girls as long as we can hold our cams!

g.b.

Thank you soooo much for your appreciation and your best wishes, my dear friend!
As a day one, loyalty-prize winner subscriber to both BUG and BN.. your review should definitely be trusted!
You can bet that I'll do my best to keep on delivering.. as you said.. "as long as I can hold a camera"!

This would make us very, very happy, my dear friend!!!

Congratulations Feetosopher,

this is a huge achievement, and as someone stated in another thread here on the forum, you are a lucky man as you are constantly surrouned by this incredible barefoot women, what else can you wish for in life?

To me, your both sites BUG and BUN are one of my favourites from all over the net, especially BAREFOOT-URBAN-NUDITY, combing incredible looking models, kinky outdoor action and dirty barefeet all in one splendid package, i never get tired to look at your pictures and videos.

And your content never fail me to please, my dear friend.

I wish you another 5 great years with both of your sites, stay as you are, lots of health (most important), and of course much joy in life.

what is on my secret wishbook?
more awesome updates on BAREFOOT-URBAN-NUDITY, hehe, what else.
maybe a a new series with Elettra with superdirty soles and kinky nudity?
a new series (comeback) of blue ice with filthier soles than ever and showing her pierced pussy
maybe some more Gold Channel
and hopefully a return of RED-X licking her adorably dirty soles :-)
and perhaps VEGA BAUSCH will also return in a lesbian dirty soles licking frenzy? wouldnt that be nice?
well, who knows

and on BAREFOOT URBAN GIRLS, life seems to be perfect, we have Swains, we have Amelie, what else can we wish for? well, i´m really excited about all the upcoming updates, that is for sure

My dear Friend, all the best to you
with warmest greetings
shifter

Thank you so much for your ultra-kind words and your constant appreciation of my efforts at BN and BUG, amico! Your comment has made my day!
And thank you so much for your good wishes: I'll do my best to deliver, as usual!

Now, coming to your wish list..
ELETTRA (a.k.a. Silvia Lamberti) has become a rising star of Italian porn scene. She even joined Rocco Siffredi's Porn Academy!
It's difficult that I will have a chance to work with her again.. but you never know.
I am still in touch with BLUE ICE, and she may be available to work with me again.. stay tuned!
Even more probable are future appearances of GOLD CHANEL!
As for RED-X.. she is travelling around Europe as a professional barefoot escort.. her agenda is always full.. yet I am still in touch with her.. we'll see..
VEGA BAUSCH sadly quit modelling four years ago, and totally disappeared. I have no clues where she is now

As for BUG.. STAY TUNED.. several NEW "BAREFOOT LIFESTYLE" SERIES will be published in 2019!

In a nutshell.. we are gonna have great fun in 2019, amico!
All the best from Italy! Ciao!

HAPPY NEW YEAR and all the best to you FEETOSOPHER

i´m really happy that ELETTRA is doing well and on her way in the industry, thats amazing news!
and for everything else, i´m really stoked and excited on which excellent pictures and videos you will bring us joy with, in 2019

keep up the good work!!
all the best
yours
shifter

Thank you so much for your good wishes, my friend.. please accept mine in return, and extend them to all the people you love!

As for 2019 at BAREFOOT NUDITY and BAREFOOT URBAN GIRLS,
all I can say is.. STAY TUNED.. The Feetosopher WILL DELIVER, as usual!

Ciao from Italy!

All the best for 2019 and congrat on the 5 years, mate. Keep up the good work and let's keep our fingers crossed that we again have a brilliant summer this year with lots of barefoot women

Cheers,
-Hal-

Thank you very much, mate!!!
Yeah.. let's at least reap the (very few ) advantages of global warming..