Hegre Archives Review

How would you like to travel the world, asking ordinary, yet beautiful women, if they would like to do some nude modelling?

I'm sure many of us would love to try but, lets face it, you're unlikely to have many takers - unless your name happens to be Petter Hegre.

Petter Hegre's site has now been online for over three years, having been launched in January 2002. In that time he has managed to earn a reputation as the "new Hugh Heffner". He travels to places as diverse as Sao Paulo and Volgograd, flattering the prettiest girls he can find and asking them if they would appear nude on his site.

As a business model it's hard to knock. The models are amateurs, so they don't get paid much. Meanwhile, with the site attracting so many members, that profit margin must be as sexy as the models.

To be up front about it, I've never been a huge fan of Hegre's site. However, having recently joined up to review it again, I'm more impressed now than ever before.

Some of the models are stunning, though not all of them are to my taste, and the photography is clean and fresh. There is also plenty of content to download, with a new gallery every day and a new movie every week.

But the features that used to bother me most seem mostly to have been rectified - probably in the face of stiff competition.

Hegre Archives always seemed to have been designed to frustrate its members. All the galleries pop open in a small javascipt window, and the images open in a separate window. What's more, the images in every gallery would be called 001, 002, 003 etc. This meant you had to create a new folder for each gallery before downloading it. Either that, or rename each image as you downloaded it.

But now Hegre Archives has followed MET-ART and Galitsin News by offering all the galleries in Zip format. So although you still need to create a new folder for each gallery, you can at least download the whole gallery with a couple of clicks.

It may not seem a big deal, but it means that if you see an update you like, you can just download the whole gallery quickly, rather than download all the images independently. It must have been a big deal to Hegre and his crew too, as it means that members can now use up the site's bandwidth more quickly and easily. But with the competition all offering zip files, they didn't have much choice.

Navigation is still not great however. The films page is a masterclass in inaccessibility. The only movie thumbnail offered is that of the most recent update. All previous movies are listed in text format, in a long column running down the side of the page. So it tends to take about two minutes to find the movie of the girl you like most.

But the site's main selling point is it's girls. While I might only spend a second or two looking at the girls with fake breasts, there are plenty of naturally beautiful girls to behold. The fact they are 'ordinary' girls is a definite plus.

As for Hegre's style of photography, it hasn't changed much in three years. So it you liked Hegre's work three years ago, you're sure to like it just as much now. Personally I find the model's poses a bit on the dull side, but then again they are not professional models, so we can forgive them. It's just a shame Hegre can't get more from them.

Marks out of Ten: Eight

Related Links
Hegre Archives - Official site of Petter Hegre
Hegre Nudes - Profiling many of Petter's models