The Skinny as seen by the Shutterbug:
Jack Frost, Photographer

An Owl-Eyes PROFILE

A UK-based free-lance moto-journalist and photographer, Jack Frost has taken lots of pictures of women with motorcycles for magazines such as SuperBike.

When asked by Owl-Eyes what made for a good biker babe shot, here's what he said:

"A good biker babe is one I can work with easily; she'll pose in the way I want, come up with her own ideas of what looks good, and also be happy and
have some fun while she's doing the photoshoot. If she isn't happy it comes across in the pictures. I always try to have a laugh with the models and put them at ease because it makes for better pictures. Sometimes the model is just pissed off because her bus was late, or because her phone just got cut-off.

"If that's the case you just have to try to work around it. There's no perfect figure or face for a biker babe because men's tastes are different: what I dislike someone else may adore. It doesn't matter whether she's fat, thin, young, old, blonde, brunette . . . as long as she looks like she's having fun and happy with what she's doing it'll be a good photo.

"If it's obvious she isn't happy, the person looking at the picture will be able to tell, and the message the picture is trying to send-- 'I'm available and you want me'--will be lost."

And when a woman finds the groove and gets into the biker-babe mentality, Jack contends that she actually feels powerful:

"A woman likes nothing more than to think she is adored by lots of men. By posing nude on a motorcycle they become more appealing because they feel that they are making the man choose--the bike or them."

While on a recent trip to Arizona, Jack had the opportunity to do a photoshoot with the lovely Alisha Trausch, and he is still singing her praises: "she's the most gorgeous creature that ever walked God's Earth. Not only is she the most attractive woman I've ever laid eyes on; with the kind of body only ever seen in my wildest dreams; but she's also one of the
nicest people I've ever met.

"I worked (well--if you can call taking pictures of a naked woman work!!) with Alisha on a couple of occasions while I was in Tucson and as you can see by the pictures she's an up and coming young model with a very bright future ahead of her!!"

As for why the American market seems unable to support a magazine like SuperBike, one that covers cutting edge bikes and presents that material complete with some good looking women and writing with some snap, here's
Jack's two cents:

"US men seem far more conservative in their outlook to bikes and women. A lot of the guys I spoke to in the States didn't tell their wives that they bought SuperBike Magazine and kept it at work. This seemed to be because they didn't want their wives to think they liked looking at other women as it would be frowned upon. This view also exists in the UK but to a much
lesser degree."

Men in the US may not have a SuperBike to call their very own, but we got a modem, so cruise on over to Jack's unofficial SuperBike web site and check out more of Alisha and some of the other birds that keep English bikers smiling when its raining--and remember it rains there often.

A writer, publisher, and avid rider, "Owl-Eyes" publishes often on motorcycling. E-mail him via his good friend bigsid@mindspring.com