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A little back round on my hobby. I have been a photographer for about 5 years. I didn't start really developing my shooting style until this summer. I had been shooting for the past 4 years, but I look back at my past work and it is truly mediocre compared to where I am now. I started as an event/club photographer. I then got a job as a studio photographer and did that for a year and a half while attending college. Recently I've been shooting tons of landscape and models.
I never really got into editorial or modeling photography before because I had no subjects to shoot. After shooting with a mutual friend I was abel to showcase my work. After that I had no problem finding model or companies to shoot for.
Just today I met up with a model and got a few pics that I'd been wanting with her. We had been texting this whole week and flirting a lot. I really dig her style and persona, she also happens to be super gorgeous too haha
Whilst shooting there was no awkward moments or weird silence. We clicked really well and she took my directions great. I was able to shoot and have a full on conversation with her. I've had shoots where it was just a ton of awkward silence, with the occasional "move your hand, fix your hair" type stuff 
We were talking after I got home and I literally asked her if she found me attractive. I wanted to completely separate myself from my work. If she was only interested in modeling for me that would be completely fine! I love to create with new faces. She said she had only agreed to meet up because she also found me attractive. After this is when she laid the huge question on me.
She moved from Washington D.C. to SF for school. I guess her housing situation fell through and she literally had no other options lined up. All her friends live in the college dorms and won't risk having her stay with them. I had mentioned I live on my own, so she asked if I knew anyone that needed a roommate. I literally responded with of course "you're welcome to stay with me for a little."
Keep in mind I've only known this girl for a week. I'm having second thoughts about bringing a completely unknown person into my home. She seems like a good soul and genuine person. While we were walking to our shooting location she stopped to buy a homeless man some food. I haven't met much people who would even give a homeless person a dollar, nonetheless go to of their way to purchase them food.
As of now I'm thinking of letting her stay with me for a couple weeks to secure somewhere to live. I don't think I could bring myself to let her live on the streets until she found something. Even though I know very few about this girl, I feel like I was meant to meet and help her at this time.
I'm also going to start including a photo or two of my personal work just to showcase what I enjoy doing. As always advice or comments are welcome.
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Edit: Deleted image of one of my models. this wasn't the girl I was talking about, but from now on I will only post landscape photos to protects all my clients privacy.
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So what's the thing about stumbling then?
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I think you're overreacting a little. Why would she have to live on the streets? Is that the way she put it?
She moved from Washington D.C. to SF for school. I guess her housing situation fell through and she literally had no other options lined up.
I'm sure she could find a decent enough hostel for good price in a matter of minutes before she secured another place..? There's couch-surfing and other options as well. It shouldn't be difficult at all and apparently she has time to meet up with some random photographer she doesn't know only because she finds him attractive..? Uhh, I'd be careful.
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As of now I'm thinking of letting her stay with me for a couple weeks to secure somewhere to live. I don't think I could bring myself to let her live on the streets until she found something. Even though I know very few about this girl, I feel like I was meant to meet and help her at this time.
Well... Good luck with that. I'm surprised you've never seen this song and dance before...
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On September 07 2015 10:15 MountainDewJunkie wrote:Show nested quote +As of now I'm thinking of letting her stay with me for a couple weeks to secure somewhere to live. I don't think I could bring myself to let her live on the streets until she found something. Even though I know very few about this girl, I feel like I was meant to meet and help her at this time. Well... Good luck with that. I'm surprised you've never seen this song and dance before...
aye, make sure you share the covers to bruh. Don't want her to get cold during the night if you know what im sayin
Edit: You should also take her picture out, i dont know how many people are comfortable with their pictures on a random site
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Have to agree with the others that this doesn't have a good sound to it.
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The picture I posted is not of her, it is of a model I worked with this past July. She moved from across the country and doesn't have any other friends out here. I've taken extra precautions so I dojt end up getting tricked in the end. I won't have her staying with me for to long, only until she can get her own place. You guys are correct in saying that she could find a cheap hotel/hostel in the area meanwhile she searches for a place. How many people would want to board by themselves at a random place? I know I would prefer to stay with a person I somewhat knew than a random hotel.
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Sure I'd prefer couch surfing over staying at a hostel any day, even if I were to pay the same amount for both. But I don't see what's bad about staying at a random hostel at all. There are ranking sites for these places much like there's ranking for coach surfing, and for a good reason.
Maybe I'm skeptical because the last chick that tried flirting with me over the webs and wanted to meet up turned out to be a prego girl on the hunt for a stand-in papa. I can only imagine letting someone I have 0 reference for stay like that overnight or the weekend, then let them go find their own place to stay.
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I understand where all you guys are coming from. We were texting back and forth for two weeks prior to meeting up. She was the actual person I had been talking to and didn't really hide any of her persona. Like I stated she also did a very charitable thing, her friend mentioned that she is always doing things like that.. I'm definitely giving her the benefit of the doubt, which could end up screwing me over in the end. Keep in mind she has no kids and is only 19, I'm only 22.
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On September 07 2015 19:09 Nufo wrote:
I understand where all you guys are coming from. We were texting back and forth for two weeks prior to meeting up. She was the actual person I had been talking to and didn't really hide any of her persona. Like I stated she also did a very charitable thing, her friend mentioned that she is always doing things like that.. I'm definitely giving her the benefit of the doubt, which could end up screwing me over in the end. Keep in mind she has no kids and is only 19, I'm only 22.
Like shit goes down, you kick her out. If you have her personal information you can always pursue legal action if needed. just make sure your valuables are hidden.
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You are definitely taking a risk. I am quite risk averse (maybe because I am a bit older than you) so I would not let a person who I don't really know stay at my place.
Since things are already kind of set I would try to make the situation clear from the beginning. Be as specific as possible. Give her a time limit after which you expect her to move out. If you say "a couple of week:, she may take is as 6 weeks while you meant 2... Also, you want to make sure that she is actually searching for her place. A lot of people will try to take advantage of others. Especially with housing. I saw that happening many times.
I am saying all of this of course not knowing anything about her, and just using my prior belief. She might be a great person and genuinely needing help. But there are a lot of people who do not and just pretend to be in need of help...
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For the sake of this blog i really hope you do let her stay at your place, now you can't really take it back either.
I also don't really get the problem since you seem to be the one that asked her?!
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She is currently staying at my place and no I did not ask her. She asked me if I knew of anywhere she could stay.
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On September 09 2015 00:57 always_winter wrote:
You lay the pipe yet?
Netflix and Chill?
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I think it's a bad idea. Moving in even with someone as close as your GF turns horrible for some people - and you don't even know this girl for long. If you're both going to further explore the mutual attraction thing, I'd say that's going too fast and it might backfire. If it's only for a short while, that reduces the problems, but it's still not a good idea.
I might be wrong and it could turn out ok, but I believe it has more chance not to. You can roll the dice and learn from the experience, you're still young and nothing seriously bad can happen from this. Plus you'll meet tons of other girls (especially in your profession) if this falls trough, so no biggie. So if you feel like YOLO go for it.
Edit: I see she already moved in. Well, enjoy the experience, it will probably help you later in life with other girls. 
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