A Bit of a Shayk-Up

Wow. Some surprisingly big and surprisingly good paparazzi photos of Irina’s shoot in Hawaii have sprung up on Bellazon.

(There are a few full-on topless shots to be seen there too, word to the wise.)

Looks like Irina will be making her ninth consecutive appearance. If I were a betting man, I’d bet on her pulling off the decade mark in 2016.

Also featured, a few shots of a plump-lipped model named Hailey Clauson.

I think the “surprises” are going to be fewer and farther between as the years go on. You have the sanctioned hints that MJ Day and company send out, you have the consistently increasing quality of cameras and the speed of internet communications, and you have the up-to-the-second Twitter dispatches from the (occasionally loose-lipped) models themselves. For crying out loud, someone scooped the Antarctica shoot a couple years ago, and what more remote, unlikely place is there for a bikini shoot?

Anyway, it will be interesting to see the 2015 issue take shape. I’m not sure I’ll still be maintaining this blog by then—I’m starting to feel a little worn out by it. Not a definite decision yet, but I’m coming up on the four-year anniversary, which might be a good time to put it to rest.

But these are the days that keep it interesting.