Chapter 3 : Nancy and Emelia
As I woke the next day I wondered whether my recent good fortune would lead me to new adventures.
I was not disappointed. Around two in the afternoon the shop bell rang as a young woman pushed a pram into the shop.
I guessed her to be mid-twenties, with auburn hair and blue eyes, an extremely rare combination, but ever so alluring. Nice mature figure with serious boobs, probably because of the baby, but for the rest, really well toned. She had clearly been working out since the birth.
She also had a lovely pair of trim legs, lightly tanned, exposed well by her rather short flowery summer dress. The neckline was plunging nicely, the reason why I could immediately judge her rack when she walked in.
"Good morning madam," I said, "how can I be of assistance to you?"
"I would like to have some pictures of my baby, do you take that kind of pictures?"
"Yes, of course, I do any kind of portrait, from babies to elderly people and everything in between, even of pretty young mothers like yourself."
That comment resulted in a short giggle and a slight reddeningof her cheeks.
"No, no it's photos of my baby I'd like."
"No problem, I was only joking. When would you like me to take these photos of...?"
"Little boy... girl?"
"Oh girl," she said, "Emilia."
"Ah and how old is Emelia if I may ask?"
"She is close to 6 months," she said.
"Good, good and if you don't mind me asking, how do I address the mother of Emelia?"
"Oh , I'm Nancy," she responded, cheeks reddening again.
"Excellent Nancy, I'm Lew. So when would you like me to do this for you?"
"You can make an appointment, or if you wish we can do it right now. I have nothing else urgently planned."
"Oh, now is OK for me," Nancy said, "it's sort of what I was hoping for, to be honest."
"Excellent, then let's get started!"
"Would you care to follow me into the photo studio and we will set everything up to make some fabulous photos of the lovely Emelia for posterity."
I put up the closed sign on the shop door and we proceeded into the studio.
"So Nancy, let me get you a chair while I get everything set up for our little photo model."
I rolled a big cube covered in soft material to the side of the studio I normally used for kids and adolescents and lowered one of the special backgrounds, this one with a representation of some sort of flowery garden.
On the side I added some plants to create the illusion of a real garden, together with some toys for Emelia to play with, so she would look like a happy baby.
I also kept a sheepskin as it's one of the classics to photograph babies on.
I still remember I had been photographed that way when I was a baby, I had the proof hanging in one of the dressing rooms. I was sure no one would recognize me on the photo anyway and it was there as an example of what I could do for young mothers and their babies.
I was smiling like crazy in that picture and my mother told me later that it was because I was actually peeing on the sheepskin when they took the picture.
"OK Nancy, let's have Emilia over here."
Emelia seemed a nice, well behaved and foremost curious baby, which was usually a very good sign as then they tended not to start to cry immediately in a strange environment.
No, Emelia was handling it like a trooper, smiling and playing with the toys I'd provided.
After about fifteen to twenty minutes we were done.
"OK Nancy," I said, "I think we have enough material to make a nice photo book of Emelia."
"Oh a photobook," Nancy said, "that's not exactly what I had in mind.
"I was thinking of just having one or two framed photos, which would be about all I could afford."
"I see..."
"Let me think how we can solve this."
"Well Nancy I am always interested in taking "special" photos of a mother with her child for my private collection and potentially to submit when I participate in international photo contests."
"If you would be willing to participate, not only would you get your two framed photos of Emelia but I would throw in a full photobook. All that for the price of the two framed photographs."
"If ever I submit one of the photos to a competition, and it won a prize, I'd share that prize with the model and if there were a request for publication, the model would of course be compensated."
"Sometimes there is a demand for this type of photos for an advertisement for one or other baby product." "No guarantees of course."
"So in short would you care to pose together with your baby?"
"Yes, I wouldn't mind doing that," Nancy replied.
"Good, but now comes the million dollar question: would you do that without any clothes on?"
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"Wow, I don't think so," she replied quickly, her face reddening once again.
"Well Nancy, I don't know if you've seen mother and baby competition photos, but they're always naked. They want representations of the beauty of the baby's body held against the mother's body.
You should also know that when I take pictures of naked mothers with their naked babies they are absolutely not sexually oriented."
"Most of the time the naughty bits are not really visible. Babies are held so that breasts are covered and the nether regions are usually camouflaged by the mother's legs or feet."
"I will of course see them when you are posing, but rest assured I have seen it all a million times.
"I guess I have seen more naked women than your local GP."
"When I do this, I always draw up a contract with the model to protect us both, for example, against unwanted publication of the photos. The photos will always remain the property of the model and if I want to send them in for a competition or I get a request for publication, I always get the explicit agreement from the model before I do."
"We don't have to do it today if you feel uncomfortable or if you want to discuss it first with your partner or even if you want him or her to be present during the photoshoot."
"Please think about it, you are a very lovely young mother and you have the most adorable baby who is almost a professional at posing. She definitely proved that today."
