In 2008 our friend Louis came to the Serious Bondage Institute for a visit, and during his stay he talked us into going with him on the Alcrtraz Island Prison Tour. I got on the phone and rounded up seven or eight of our local bondage friends, and the next day we met at the waterfront where the tour boat would take us to the island. The Alcatraz tours are quite popular and although this was the last tour of the day there were around 100 people on the boat with us. Once we landed on the island I scrambled to get my camera exposure set because the sun was going down. As a result, I photographed most everything with time exposures and the ambient indoor lighting which gives you a better feel for the prison environment. Since this was the last tour of the day there seemed to be ample time to see and photograph everything.

We were mesmerized by the rows of small metal-front jail cells arranged in an apartment building style three-tier configuration. As the tour progressed we saw six solitary confinement cells which naturally fed our fantasies of extended confinement and inescapable bondage. Also, because our friend Louis did his homework before we bought our tickets, we got to see the prison hospital which is normally off limits. It turns out that the hospital is only open to visitors during the last tour on Thursdays. Good work Louis!

The high point of the tour was when the tour guide demonstrated the unique mechanical mechanism which is used to open and close all of the jail cell doors. With one lever located at the end of an isle the guards could selectively open and close any - or all of the cell doors. And when the cell doors slid closed they made a loud metallic crashing sound which gave way to the well known phrase ‘spending time in the slammer'.

I would highly recommend the Alcatraz tour, and remember to go on the last boat of the day on Thursdays so the guides aren't rushed and you can see the prison hospital. We will try to feature more jail cell photos and videos on this web site in the future. I hope you enjoy the photos, I think with the natural light they turned out great.

In this photoset our friend Mister-X shares his ‘high collar' fetish with our cameras. Mister-X is 67 years old, and for the longest time thought that he was the only person in the world with this particular interest. Recently however, he ran across the web site www.hogtie.dk and discovered that the owner of the site (located in Denmark) had the same fetish. Mister-X was quite excited, so we shot some photos of him in his high collar leather shirt to share with the guy in Denmark. Does anyone else have a fetish attraction to high collars? High collar leather shirt by Off Ramp Leathers, neoprene hood by 665 Leather.

This is a series of pictures taken during the construction of a new bondage chair by Paul Mauser Studios. Mauser is skilled in leather and woodworking, and when he combines those skills with his love of bondage, the result is an over-the-top chair that we can all appreciate. The chair incorporates a special self-bondage latch and release mechanism for the solo user.

These photos were taken with my old digital camera. JG-Leathers had come to the Serious Bondage Institute for a visit, and as always, we had fun photographing him in all of his gear. We experimented with different lighting techniques and fog filters on the camera lens.

JG loves to experience all kinds of kink gear, especially bondage gear, and is famous for his invention known as ‘The Creature'.  It's an intense and serious stimulation assault system which incorporates bondage, rubber, gas mask and breath control, E-stim, vacuum suction and an overhead spring suspension system. JG travels all over the world and has met with all the manufacturers of latex, bondage and chastity.

In this set of photos, Doctor Wildefyre and her staff secure Paulette to a special Hannibal Lecter Cart inspired by the 1991 horror thriller motion picture Silence of the Lambs. Doctor Wildefyre is especially talented in designing and building unique bondage gear, and this special cart is just one example of her diabolic ideas. The cart is fully adjustable allowing the subject to be positioned horizontal or vertical, arms extended out or by the side, and wheeles which allow the cart to be easily moved around the MedicalToys facility.

The folks at MedicalToys.com have a very impressive facility for fetish photography. In this short set of photos we see their Nurse Ivy in her sexy red latex catsuit while strapped to the unique wall-mounted Gingerbread Board from SeriousBondage.com. This interesting bondage device seems to defy the laws of physics by holding the Nurse Ivy in mid-air at a convenient height to receive any fiendish procedures the Doctor cares to apply.

In this photoset we experiment with a popular fantasy which is to be bound in a black head-to-toe heavy neoprene rubber dive suit. There are a number of factors that contribute to this fetish:  the way the tight neoprene molds to the body for a skin-tight fit, the sleek black color of the neoprene, the smell and feel of the neoprene, the heavy cocoon enclosure feeling, full enclosure so no skin is showing, neoprene covering the entire face, the warmpth of the enclosure and isolation from the outside world, and lastly, the bondage which makes escape from the suit impossible. In this case, our 67 year-old friend ‘Mister X' explores his neoprene fantasy with our help. Notice that the heavy metal collar and shackles seem to match the thickness of his neoprene suit, which makes his experience all the more fun.

Neoprene is gaining popularity as a fetish material not only because it simply is, but it's also cheaper and more durable than latex and natural rubber. Personally, one of my early bondage experiences was while wearing a ¼ inch gauge black neoprene wet suit. I was a teenager at the time, around 1970. The neoprene suit Mister-X is wearing in the photos is a ‘Dry Suit' which is specifically designed to be water tight (as opposed to a Wet Suit which is designed to allow a small amount of water to enter the suit). His suit is made in made as a one piece garment, and entry is made through a water-tight zipper across his chest. To ad more fun to his total enclosure experience, Mister-X is wearing a fully-enclosed neoprene hood from 665 in Los Angeles under his Dry-Suit open-face hood. Excelent idea! The only thing that might top this is to wear a full face gas mask over the 665 hood! Yeow! We will try and photograph more neoprene suit bondage in the future.

You can see more neoprene and bondage on our friend Squirm's popular web site called Rubber Zone. This reminds me of a conversation I had with Squirm about dive suits, when he told me how hard it was to buy a black neoprene dive suit which didn't have any markings or printing on it from the manufacturer. He said that manufacturers don't want to sell suit that without their name or embluimn printed on the chest where it's easy to see. We both agreed that a true neoprene fetisht wants the neoprne to be jet black with no markings whatsoever. I guess that's hard to find these days. Also, personally, I feel that thick ¼ inch neoprene is much more sexually exciting than 1/8 inch. Have a good dive!

In this photoset, Doctor Wildefyre and her kinky medical assistants unload their client ‘Paulette' from a specially modified bondage transportation truck. This is day-2 for Paulette in over-the-top  feminizing bondage - starting with a pink straitjacket, thigh-high boots, hood and inflatable gag which were applied at the hotel. While still secured in the hotel wheelchair, he is unloaded from the truck and moved to a holding cell where he is allowed to fully experience his fem-clothing in full view of Doctor Wildefyre's staff and our cameras. Jail cell by RigidCuff, facility provided by MedicalToys.

In this set of photos, Doctor Wildefyre takes her client ‘Paulett' on a femenizing journey like no other. Using and array of pettycoats, wigs, corsets, boots, stockings and bondage gear, Paulette is forced into his role as a pretty pink doll while chained to a heavy steel bed. After he is fully restrained and humiliated, Doctor Wildefyre raises the ante by stuffing Nurse Alice into a pink leather armbinder and gag, where she is then forced to lie on Paulette and wiggle around helplessly! Steel bed by RigidCuffs, falility by MedicalToys.

We appreciate Rubber Necro's willingness to try out some cage bondage that included more leather and steel than rubber. She's the latest diva in the world of rubber and latex, and it's my feeling that her new web site will carve out a unique position among the on-line rubber fetish community. In this set of photos Dalton and Rubber Necro explore a vertical cage at the Strict Restraint photo studios in Los Angeles.

In this set of photos we see our friend 'Mister X' as he explores some of his heavy bondage fantasies. Mister X is 67 years old and has been in the closet all his life with his bondage interests, and has only recently decided to share his kink with our cameras and the world. Leather straitjacket from Mister-S, neoprene hood from 665 Leather, leather sleepsack from E-Bay - made somewhere in Pakistan.

In this photoset we see 'behind-the-scenes' during some of our photoshoots with Ashley Renee. Ashley picked these images herself. Bondage modeling and photography can be exciting and a lot of fun, but it's also expesnive and a lot of hard work. Some folks are lucky enough to make a living from bondage and fetish, but it's not an easy business and usually requires - believe it or not - almost 24x7x365 attention. I built SeriousBondage.com after loosing my job during the great ‘Dot-Com' bust in 2001, and it's been a wild ride ever since. The business has been far more social than I ever thought (socializing with kinky bondage people that is), but with the devistating 2006 ‘US 2257 model ID' law and quickly changing technology I sometimes wonder what I got myself into. I hope you enjoy both SeriousBondage.com and SeriousImages.com, they're a labor of love for Dalton and I. We will be launching a new site MummificationPlease.com in the next month or so with our friends Ed and Bondage Roadie, so stay tuned. Mark the Editor.

In this set of photos, Doctor Wildefyre and her staff take a brief dip in the ocean on New Years day 2009, before greeting Captive #2, ‘Paulett', at the secret MedicalToys facility. Paulette enjoys forced fiminization, and believes that women don't know how to properly apply bondage. No sooner does he arrive than he is helpless-mitted and handcuffed, hooded, stripped, and then dressed in a pretty bra and corset. Not surprising however, Paulette was already wearing pink panties under his street clothes!

Being unaware of his surroundings, Paulette is forced into a specially decorated cage where ballet shoes are slipped onto his feet and locked on with special straps. The cage is then raised to the ceiling with an electric hoist, where, after time,  Paulette manages to work his hood off and witness for the first time his helpless and pracarious and situation! I'm afraid Paulette is in for more than he bargained for. Over the next 10 days Doctor Wildefyre will apply a host of special treetments which will surely change his anoying attitide about women and bondage...

In this photoset we watch as Rubber Necro sealed into an inflatable latex bag with attached gas-mask hood. The bag is inflated with an air compressor, and aditional straps are added around the outside to increase the pressure around Necro's naked body. She's a real rubber trooper and enjoyed every mnute of her inflation experience. The inflatable bag is from Regulation in England.

In this photoset we see exactly why this unique leather garment is called a 'Fuck Suit'. Our friend Ashley Renee demonstrates the vulnerability and sexual access that the Fuck Suit provides when she is bound within. The top part of this suit is modeled after the popular 'Butterfly Straitjacket' which keeps the arms folded into what appears to be a set of butterfly wings. However, with the addition of folded legs, the Fuck Suit renders both the arms and legs virtually useless. Without the use of her arms and legs, Ashley is free to flail around to her hearts content. Additionally, once she is placed on her back with her legs spread, the crotch zipper comes in to play and Ashley becomes a helpless fuck toy. Unbelievable! Add a leather hood and voilà! A helpless bondage gimp! Thank you to Amanda Wildefyre for the use of her Fuck Suit, and to Strict Restraint for the use of their Los Angeles photo studio.