Many moons ago while I was doing a publicity shoot for a local horse show I met a photographer named Harry. Since that time I've done zillions of jobs for him. He likes me because I'm fairly tall and skinny and flat and available all summer. I mean available for photography shoots. Being fairly tall and skinny and flat are all big in modelling and his customers have been happy with the results so he keeps calling me. Harry lives on a very nice tract of land in Boxford about five miles from where I grew up and has a photo studio right on his own property and some garden areas and trees and a swimming pool which make nice locations for photo shoots.
Most people who read my stuff know about my best friend Michelle who works as a pastry chef in Salem. When I first started working for Harry I took Michelle with me every time I did a job for him. It's good form and even though he always had a make-up girl and a camera assistant and a lighting guy and his wife there, Chelle still came along to protect my virginity. Well, my modesty, anyway, my virginity having departed sometime earlier. But said departure is not what this story is about, it's about Chelle getting naked.
Harry is sixty-four now, I think, a large Santa Claus type guy, stout, with a gray beard and a shock of unruly hair. His wife is a very nice looking blond woman about twenty years younger than Harry, one of his former models, and they have a slightly older son and a daughter our age. They are kind of a hippy like family. He has nude photos of his wife hanging in his work place, something I don't think many men would do. His daughter appears at the swimming pool with no top on, which is something I wouldn't do at MY father's house except when my cousins visit from The Netherlands when we all go topless because Dutch girls do.
Anyway toplessness brings me to the point of the story. Harry has a lot of nude work in his portfolio and one day when he saw Michelle and I looking at some of them he asked her if she would pose nude for him, or as close to it as she felt comfy with. Likely his request stemmed from the fact that she has the biggest boobs of any girl we know. Naturally, everything would be done on the up and up, with model releases and chaperones and tasteful poses. She told him she'd think about it.
She and I discussed it between ourselves. Being a sensitive type she was kind of torn between the appeal of displaying her body to show herself as a sexual being and her natural shyness. It takes her a while to warm up to being nude with a new boy but she knows they enjoy her once she gets used to them and enjoys putting out once she's OK with it. She does have a really killer body and so it seemed like kind of a waste keeping it from the camera. Since she wasn't completely sure she decided she'd try a topless shoot first. So we made arrangements with Harry and a few days later we bicycled over there for what was Michelle's first ever real modeling job. For money anyway. She had allowed some of her boyfriends to take pictures of her.
Despite Harry being very nice she was very nervous, which anyone would probably be. The make-up girl did her face and fixed her hair and then Harry did a bunch of stuff first with her in clothes and then they graduated to bikinis to try to relax her. But I think all the suspense just made things worse. One of the problems was the witnesses, which in fact are absolutely necessary. Harry had one girl to do make-up and help him with the cameras and he also had his regular lighting man, Albert.
Albert was maybe nineteen at the time and he wasn't really a lighting man like in a professional studio, he was more of a handyman. For example when we arrived to do the shoot Albert was cutting Harry's lawn. He had a good deal there. We've had the same guys cutting our grass for years and as far as I know they haven't had any opportunities to see girls naked. At least I hope not since my sisters and I are the only girls that live there, except for Mom. Come to think of it Mom being Dutch and rather casual about that kind of thing they may very well have seen her naked. And her boobs are just as big as Chelle's.
Anyway I understood what Michelle's problem was being so shy about herself. Being naked, or at least bare breasted, in front of another girl and a man old enough to be your grandfather was one thing but having a guy there who was more or less your own age was another kettle of fish. He always made me nervous and he never saw me in anything less than my underwear. Showing him her bare tits was a big step for her. Harry had me break out some red wine to help relax her and after a half glass it did.
At any rate, they proceeded with the shoot and after a time got to some photos with Chelle in a thong bikini, which really set off her body. She's a tad thin for the size of the tits she has and has nice ass cheeks as well. In fact you could photograph her just for her bum. And being a tad short everything looks a little bigger in a photo. I think at that point with a little more wine and the natural effects of showing herself almost naked she started to get into it a little more and enjoyed the way the guys stared at her, especially her nearly bare ass. The bikini top covered her boobs pretty well but the thong bottom left little to the imagination.
Finally Harry wanted to try some tasteful photos of her naked to the waist. Because she had had a bikini top on they had to wait half an hour while the marks on her skin faded. Whenever I'm going to take my top off we always plan things to avoid that kind of wait but since it was her first time Harry took it step by step. The wait made Chelle nervous again so we resorted to still more wine. Finally Harry came over and very politely asked her to remove her cover-up so he could see her in just her thong bottom.