Are we ready for an adventure? Not really. Actually, we just wanted to look at some pictures of naked chicks.

Type of Site: Photographer
Address: www.eroticdestinations.com
Price: 
$25/month; $37/month for European Glamour Girls and Erotic Destinations together
Date of Review: 
December, 2005
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

Erotic Destinations is a sister-site to European Glamour Girls, so this is just a brief review. Both sites feature the photography of Martin Krake. EGG was launched first, and we suggest you take a look at our review of it before you read this one because we're not going to repeat ourselves. Same thing goes for everything we said about technical quality, so we'll just cut-and-paste:

"You can view the pics in three different sizes: 400x600, 500x750, and 600x900 (you set the default as a preference). You can also download zip files in an even larger format (up to 2000x3000). . . . Videos come in two very good formats: 640x480 .wmv or 720x528 DivX. Each clip runs from 5 to 10 minutes."

A couple of things to repeat about the membership: (1) don't get the trial because it's limited access; (2) for a bit extra you can get a double membership that gets you into both sites.

The big difference between the two sites is that EGG is indoor photography (though according to what he says here Krake doesn't have a studio and thinks studio photography is boring) and ED is outdoors and shot in what may be considered erotic or romantic European locations. 

May be considered. "An abandoned oil mill in the Provence or in a village of ruins in Calabria?" Abandoned? Ruins? Doesn't that mean the place is a dump? Is this really where you'd like to go on an erotic vacation? Vegas is probably just as sexy. On the other hand, the waterfall in Sardinia was kind of nice.

Oh, and here's a "pic of the day" to look at:

No doubt it's about this point you're asking yourselves the following question: Why the fuck did we give this site an "8" when we only gave EGG a "7" and it has twice as much content? (The site stats, updated every other day here, were 146 pictorials, 8,607 photos, and 19 video clips when we visited.) 

Good point. Here's our justification (aside from the obvious answer, that this is all subjective anyway).

(1) It's outdoors! Not such a big deal maybe, but we really didn't like Krake's studio. It just looked too much like an Ikea catalogue layout. Now the beautiful settings here may not be quite as magical as the commentary tries to make them out to be (most of them might as well be in someone's upscale backyard), but the thing is Krake works well in natural sunlight and the pictures and videos just seem more interesting set against the different backdrops you get here. And the landscape does seem to inspire Krake in hard-to-define ways. The photography just seems more alive.

(2) You get to see two girls together! That always freshens things up a bit.

(3) There's a lot more personality. For some reason this site, unlike martinkrake.com and EGG, gives you a full bio page. It also gives you extensive shoot notes (they come in a .pdf file) and behind-the-scenes coverage.

There you have it. Despite the fact that this site isn't as big as EGG and doesn't update quite as much, we still liked it better. It needs to grow a bit to be in the very top rank of nude photography sites, but what we've got here is a great start and a nice original concept (the porn travelogue). For what it's worth, and this is a very subjective judgment call, we'd be inclined to just join this site and pass on the double membership, unless you're a real fan of Krake's work. The $37 is just too much. Sure it's for two sites, but when you add up how much total content you're getting it's still out of whack with other erotic photography sites.

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