A few years ago we became good friends with a local photographer. We love the arts and met her when we bought two framed photos she had taken for our guest bedroom. She specialized in architectural buildings, structure in nature and also human form. She intertwined the two frequently in her work. A few of the works we saw included nude or nearly nude people posing with certain structures, rocks, old houses, modern black marble carvings, etc. When she came up, we were looking through her photos with several other people around in the area. She was looking at my wife and following her all around the area. She seemed to ignore me and the others but concentrated on my wife.
We bought two framed pictures from her and talked to her about her work and she joked about her passion to capture the perfect pictures. When we went to leave and were almost gone she suddenly asked my wife if she had ever posed for an artist before. She told my wife that her proportions and features were very unique. She indicated that she had a small group of models that she has discovered over time and used in most of her photographs because they all had unique intriguing looks. She said that she had been searching 15 years for a particular look and my wife was the first person she has found that was perfect in body type, hair coloring, delicate facial features, etc. She indicated that she would be most grateful if we would agree to her posing for a few pictures. She did not pressure any further when my wife indicated that she was not pretty enough to pose for her pictures. I thought my wife was beautiful and that I felt the same way about her as the photographer did. She handed us a business card and encouraged my wife to at least consider it and give her a call.
As we walked away my wife was giggling and asking me why I would want her to pose/model for the photographer. I told her that I agreed with the artist and completely understood why. Well, we joked about it on and off for a couple of weeks. My wife is unable to have kids and I run an internet company that has done very well so she has not had to work for a few years now. Eventually I encouraged her in earnest to call her up and give it a try,, indicating what could it hurt and jokingly indicated maybe we could get some free art out of it. She punched me in the shoulder and laughed. Well a couple days later I came home and my wife told me that she ended up calling Carissa, the artist, back. My wife said Carissa was so excited to have heard from her and again said she was so afraid that after 15 years of searching for my wife that I would not accept the offer and she would be searching for another 15 more years. She said that they talked for a long time and that my wife had agreed to a photo shoot that she was doing south of town for a new unique building.
Well when the day came Carissa and two other models, one male and one female were with her in front of the new build. The building had a very bold staircase that circled around the front to make a really interesting entrance. She began setting up a camera and a few other things. She did several poses of them on different steps, going up, going down. The first shots were individual poses, and then with more than one person in the shot. She actually did a couple of shots of the other woman topless on the stairs and then in a pose lying out on the stairs. Everyone acted normal like nothing out of the ordinary was going on. The shoot lasted 5 hours and then Carissa declared she thought she had the pictures, but a few passer bys stopped to see what was going on. The other female model was very comfortable with nudity.
Well it was about a week later that we got an envelope from Carissa of the pictures from that day. I was truly blown away about how her pictures drew out the angles and detail of the new building. She really was amazingly good at her work. Well after that she would periodically call and ask my wife about doing another shoot. This went on for about two years and we became very close friends with Carissa. She was amazingly dedicated to her work. My wife had gotten comfortable to be topless in a few shoots over that two year period of time and one shoot Carissa encouraged her to be completely nude but cover by the structure she was posing with.