Serena and I rushed down Highway 168 heading away from Norfolk toward Nags Head, North Carolina. Normally we would be working for a late afternoon photo shoot, but there were rainstorms in the area and we expected it to start raining sometime about midmorning, so instead, we went for an early morning shoot. I had picked Serena up at her motel and was explaining to her where we were headed.
"You remember hearing about the Wright Brothers?"
"Oh yeah, you mean like Mario and Luigi?"
"Mario and Luigi? Are you kidding me?" I asked, then seeing the smile on her face I knew she was kidding.
"Of course I know about the Wright Brothers, the first to fly a heavier than air airplane."
"You never really know with you youngsters these days, I bet if I go to a mall anywhere, and ask that question I'd get plenty of answers like 'Mario and Luigi'."
"Okay, yeah you're probably right, but who are you calling a youngster? I'm every bit of twenty years old."
"Twenty, really?"
"Well, I will be next week on my birthday, but hey you're not that old."
"Now who is kidding whom?"
"What, you're what forty-five, forty-six?'
"Ah, a sweet girl here. Better add about six years to that."
"You're over fifty? No, it can't be."
"Well it is. Now back to what I was talking about. We're heading to Kitty Hawk, well actually just a little south of there, it's Kill Devil Hills to be exact. Anyway, the monument to the Wright Brothers is up on this tall hill where we can get the sea in the background."
"Sounds fun, but why so early?"
"Well, it's probably going to rain this afternoon, so I want to get there early in the morning, before anyone else is there. We can go up on the hill and take the more risquΓ© shots there. Later, when the public is around, well take the fully clothed shots around the other sites."
We were making good time, crossing the Wright Memorial Bridge still a good thirty minutes before sunrise. Serena had dozed off a few minutes after our conversation, so I had an opportunity to look her over pretty good. Look her over in a completely professional manner, of course.
Her dark hair was long and straight, rolling down her shoulders and over her breasts as she slept with her head bent forward. Her breasts were very small, but the rest of her was also very small, so they were in nice proportion. There were a number of shots where her breast would be either partly or completely exposed in the photographs, so I hoped we could present them well.