After a fairly long career as a professional photographer I feel I can look back and enjoy the memories of happy days (and nights) when was younger and the models were beautiful, sweet, and from time to time quite adventurous. It was hard work for sure, but certainly with its lighter moments, and as a young photographer I quickly found out new girls were quite keen to obtain good pics for their portfolio, and often suitably grateful when they got what they wanted.
So here's a few memories of fun times, all based on fact, only the names have been changed to protect the guilty!
Episode one.
The other side of the camera.
I had shot Gail several times, a great model with a lovely face and figure. Of mixed race her flawless skin was a warm gold and her young body (she was just eighteen) was perfectly toned. I used her first for a cosmetic ad. where she needed to be nude, and she was perfectly relaxed and confident exposing her body to the camera. I liked her body a lot, slim but not skinny, high pert breasts, perfect round little bottom...the ideal body for modelling nude in my opinion.
When I was not busy on commissioned work I liked to experiment with my own ideas, and when a quiet week arrived I thought of Gail, and how it would be great to use her for some artistic body shots. I called her and arranged for her to drop by the studio to chat about what we could do.
When I opened the door to her that day I had forgotten just how attractive she was, not as a model, but as a natural young girl. She wore ripped jeans and a tight t-shirt under a leather jacket. The outline of her nipples under the material left no doubt she wore no bra.
I made coffee and we sat down to chat about some ideas I had for the pics. She was very cooperative, making suggestions herself and told me she had been an art student before taking up modelling and was keen on photography.
"It's not always easy to find a girl willing and able to do nudes." I told her, "I'm glad to have found you!"
"Well, I feel quite relaxed with you, I won't do nude work with anyone I don't feel comfortable with, and when I was an art student I used to enjoy the life classes, drawing and painting nudes, both men and women. So I understand the attraction."
We talked some more about our ideas and I was watching her face as we chatted. She was really attractive I thought, big brown warm eyes, a soft and sensual mouth, and a smile always ready to reveal itself. From time to time I couldn't help glancing down to where her nipples showed clearly through the t-shirt.
We were just about finished and about to fix up a date when she said.
"Mark, can I be rather forward and ask you something?"
"Of course...fire away."
"Well, this may sound weird, but...well... You know this will be the third time I've posed nude for you...and that's great, I enjoy it, apart from the money. But I'm curious...and please don't laugh...but I wanted to ask if you would pose nude for me."
For a moment I had no idea what to reply.
"You mean for you to draw or paint?"
"Oh no, I want to photograph you, like you do me."
"But Gail, I'm no model, no Adonis. I'm just an ordinary bloke, a bit on the skinny side maybe! And I don't think my body is very great...ok, I'm not fat, but ...well..."
"I don't want a model hunk Marc, I want a normal guy...a normal guy nude. I just thought it would be nice to see and shoot you like that. But if you're uncomfortable doing that I don't mind, forget I asked."
I was thinking, thinking of what it would be like to be naked in front of her, a girl I hardly knew. But I couldn't deny a light but growing fascination with the idea, and the beginnings of a feeling of arousal. She would be seeing my penis, my most intimate part exposed under her gaze. What if I became excited, what if my organ became erect? What would she think? But a part of me was already saying yes...go for it.
"Err...I'm not sure. I think I'm a bit shy. You know...like being naked in front of a girl who's not even a girlfriend...it's sort of strange."
"I understand Marc, don't worry, just a mad idea of mine, forget it."
For a while we were silent, but I was still thinking, still imagining.
"There might be one way I could do it I think." I said eventually.
She smiled, raising her eyebrows.
"Tell me."
"Well, if you were naked too, that would seem more natural I think, I could do it that way."
"So I'm behind the camera nude, and you're in front, nude too? That seems reasonable and fair, why not."
What have I agreed to I suddenly thought? This would not be a normal studio shoot! I felt I had to justify it.
"it's just that I've always wanted to shoot a series of pics of nude bodies intertwined, you know, involved with each other, maybe just in silhouette, nothing too revealing you know, so when you've done with me maybe we can put the camera on auto and do some of both of us together?"
"That sounds like an interesting idea." She replied with a slight smile, "but you'll have to be gentle with me!"
We both laughed, but I couldn't ignore the rising excitement I felt at the prospect of being not only naked with this lovely young girl, but being close to her, even touching her with my body.
We stopped laughing and I said.
"So when shall we do it, the pics I mean?"
"I suppose you're busy today? I'm free now for the rest of the day."