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the photography of
Simone de Raineri
Italian photographer Simone de Raineri’s photography featuring beautiful models in motorsports themes are so exceptional that I devoted an entire Calendar to his
pictures last year to do them justice. I renamed our long standing Garage Girls Calendar to the 2023 “Gasoline Girls” to honor de Ranieri’s beautiful fashion magazine style photos.
For this year FastDates.com Calendars and Yearbook, I asked Simone to return with two exclusive shoots for the 2024 with two of his beautiful Italian models from last year, blond haired freckled face Elena Beezley, a
student in Pisa, and red haired Roberta Marchiori, a professional model livingand working in Milan.
And to make their shoots
really cool, I asked him to find two iconic Italian vehicles to photograph the girls with, a classic Fiat 500 car and an old Lambretta motorscooter.
Amazingly, Simone was able to grant my wish on both counts as you can see here.
Simone also set me up with another of his girls from the 2023 Calendar, Sophie Francesconi, to me my tour guide in Rome and shoot with me when I came over to Italy for the Edelweiss Rome to Sicily
Motorcycle Tour also featured in this Yearbook.
One thing I did change was to revert the 2023 Calendar’s name from Gasoline Girls back to “Garage” Girls” for 2024, both because if again
includes some of my photography, and because I wanted to keep honor “Garage Girls” 30 year history and protect it’s trademark as an offical FastDates.com Calendars product.
- Jim Gianatsis
Roberta / Fiat 500