The Photo shop
by Candyman666Β©
Although each chapter is a story on its own, you might enjoy it more by starting with chapter 1 as there may be references to characters or events that happened in previous chapters. All characters participating in sexual activity in the stories are 18 or over. This story is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
Chapter 28: Lori and Mel
Tuesday morning I was busy sorting out photobooks I had received from the printers when the shop doorbell rang: a couple I'd never seen before walked in. She was good-looking, while he gave the impression of being from some southern European country, Italy or Spain maybe?
As usual, I greeted them in my local language, "Goede morgen." They looked puzzled.
"Good morning," they replied.
"Oh, you're American."
"Yes we are, how did you guess?"
"Mainly the accent, I can spot an American accent a mile off, I worked for an American multinational for many years, so I can spot the difference between American, English, Australian, and some other Australasian variants."
"Excellent, and yes we're Americans. Are you Lew, the guy that took this photo?" the woman said while holding up a print of a photo of Nancy with her baby Emilia, the ones that were sold to the agency some months ago.
"Yes indeed I took that photo, are you looking for the young mother?"
"No, it's you we're looking for, the photographer."
"I see, and you came all the way from the States to find me?"
"No, not really, we are on one of these Europe tours for the moment and as it's Tuesday we are in Belgium, exactly like in the 1969 comedy, 'If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium' so we took the opportunity to come and find you. We had already seen the Belgian sights during our stay in The Netherlands in the seventies so we skipped the guided tour. We were intrigued by the way you portrayed them, it's so beautiful, and yet it's also erotic in a way, the woman, a very pretty one at that, combined with the result of what was probably a passionate night with her lover held so tenderly in her arms."
"Wow, I never thought about it in this way, but yes your observation makes sense. When you look at it from that perspective, I can follow your reasoning."
"You see Lew, I'm an amateur photographer myself, I've taken lots of pictures of my wife Lori, and...my apologies for not introducing us before, I'm Mel by the way. As I was saying, I've taken lots of pictures of my wife in the nude, but I was never able to capture her in this erotic and yet also non-erotic way. If you want to see some of the photos, you can just go to XHamster and you'll find them."
"I'll certainly take a look at them. I too started as an amateur photographer so I'm most interested to see your work, and it seems like you I too was drawn to the most beautiful thing in the world, the naked female body. I took my first pictures of a nude woman more than thirty years ago when I met a gorgeous Italian girl during a business trip to Rome. And then upon retiring I decided to go pro and opened the shop and built the studio."
"Meeting you was one of the reasons we're here, the other one is to ask you if you would be willing to photograph my wife, giving it that professional touch you seem to master so well. It may be too much to ask, but as we are only here for the day, could you perhaps do this today? If right now is not convenient, we are staying the night in a hotel not too far away, so we have till tomorrow morning if need be."
"Let me see, as you've come from so far, I can hardly send you packing without trying to help you fulfill a wish that seems so dear to you. Could you come back at 5? I can close the shop an hour early and take the pictures you would like. We can even have a bite to eat afterwards if it's not too late for you. I know from my working days, Americans love our Belgian cuisine, the ex-pats usually put on a few extra pounds by the time their 3-year stint in our country was over."
"OK we'll be here, and the dinner will be on me, we remember some of the excellent food we had in Belgium when we were passing through so many years ago."
Although they were well past their youth, they walked out of the shop hand in hand, like a couple of love-sick teenagers.
On the dot of 5, they walked in again, I had the impression they'd already sampled a few of the 600 different types of beer Belgium is famous for. They confirmed, beer being one of the other good things they remembered from their earlier days in Europe. When we adjourned to the studio and after they expressed their surprise at its size, we got talking about their stay in Amsterdam so many years ago.
"So what exactly did you do when you were in Amsterdam?"
"Being broad-minded young Americans, living in a country where violence is far more tolerated than nudity, we enjoyed the liberating feeling of that city even in those days. I'm talking end of the seventies here Lew: Hippy time you know, Love, Love, Love, The Beatles, The Stones, the sexual revolution. We did it all, topless protests with flowers in our hair, swinging, we even participated in a few porn flicks, to make some money. We loved to wander along 'De Walletjes', the red light district. We were amazed they even offered real live shows, where you could just walk in, although they existed in the States too, it was extremely expensive, very private and secret, and totally illegal. There was even nudity on Dutch national television."
"Yeah I remember, "De Barent Servet Show", or "The Pin-up Club", do you know that the girl presenting the latter, Wendy, just turned 60 and she even posted a photo in a bikini in the snow to celebrate."
"Really? I had no idea, yeah The Netherlands were light years ahead to the rest of the world in that respect."
"OK but we're not here to reminisce over days gone by, you want pictures of Lori, in the nude I presume?"
"Yes please."
"Great let's have look at you, Lori."
Lori moved to the center of the studio while unbuttoning her blouse.
"No, no don't get undressed just yet darling, just let me get a good look at you and get a feel of your aura. Mel do you want to play a part in these pictures, or is it strictly Lori?"
"I don't mind, we have loads of pictures of both of us in the nude, even having sex."
"Good, I'll first start with Lori then and when I feel like it, I'll include you, I've done this before with another couple, I guess they're slightly younger than you, in fact, what is your age, if I may ask?"
"It's no secret, Lori is 56 and I'm 57, and you Lew?"
"Oh please don't remind me I'll be 60 soon."