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Back in 2000, when I started this decade of imaging women, there was very little opportunity to find women to model from the Internet. Agency models were too expensive and often too trained in girly-poses to be useful for my type of art. One was left to ask women met casually in non-relationship encounters. I thought it might be interesting to give a few of those early free spirits a mention in more detail here. The first is Yurata, a young woman on holiday from Lithuania, during the summer of 2001. I met her in a local cafe and asked if she would model for me. She did%u2014a number of times. I love her strong eastern European look. Most of the photos here are untouched and were taken with a very early Nikon coolpix 3.3 Megapixel ccd. In many ways, finding women To pose for me in this casual way, was more interesting. I quite enjoyed the initial challenge of gathering up courage to ask! Yurata was intelligent, and a student in her home country. I would love to know how her life is going now, 10 years on. At the time, I was interested in the idea of cyborg images.