Discovering recently the photos taken when I was a model in the Sixties were nowhere to be found, I decided to take some more and, armed with camera, tripod and remote, set off to photograph myself in various locations.

Memories of other location shoots flooded back, such as the time I was booked at Bertram Mills' Circus in full evening wear.

An elephant was led into the ring and instructed to kneel. Climbing on an elephant's neck is not easy but staying on is worse, as the giant beast twists and turns as it stands up.

With many rolls of film in the can and my assignment over, my album is full again.

-Michael Parker, Brighton