I am a photographer. Only an amateur, but quite a good one. I like to shoot wildlife. Trouble is, I also like my bed, which means I don't get out there in the wee small hours of the morning, hiding away until the early bird comes looking for his worm. I leave that sort of thing to the professionals.
What I do is pick a nice day and a nice beach, preferably one off the beaten track so I don't have to worry about bystanders hurling themselves in front of the camera, or little kids running up screaming and chasing away a bird I'm about to shoot. Finding my nice quite beach I make myself hard to see and wait. Animals and birds will come out to play, even if it is the middle of the day.
When I say I make myself hard to see, I'm not talking camouflage or hideouts. I just wear clothes and a hat that tends to blend in with the vegetation, then wait quietly. It's movement that draws the eye.
One nice sunny Saturday I'd found the perfect beach for myself. There wasn't much actual beach, just a short stretch of sand, surrounded by a lot of picturesque rocks and a few stunted trees and some shrubbery. I nestled under a tree and set up my camera. If you knew I was there I was in plain sight. If you didn't the chances were that you'd overlook me.
As the day wore on I got a few nice shots, including a couple of a sea-hawk just hovering in the air, waiting. Apparently nothing worth waiting for came along so he drifted away on the breeze. In the early afternoon I had an interruption.
I was just sitting, waiting, when I heard a car pull up on the road. Five minutes later a young woman came traipsing down to the beach carrying a bag. I cursed quietly and thought about telling her to go away but, what the hell, it was a free beach.
I looked her over through my camera. I have a very nice telescopic lens and could zero right in on her. A very nice young lady, I decided, with a happy smile on a pretty face and a very nice figure. I took a couple of shots, seeing the camera was already pointed at her, then settled back to see what happened.
She had a camera in the bag. Quite a nice one from what I could see. Not a girl who wanted to point her phone and just click away. She pulled out a small tripod with flexible legs and set the camera up on a rock, pointing along the stretch of sand. Damned if I knew why. She was expecting penguins or seals to come ashore at this point?
She knew exactly what she was doing. She stripped off her outer clothing, revealing a nice blue bikini. Pressing what I assumed was the record button on the camera she moved down onto the beach, not moving fast, which would allow the autofocus to keep track of her.
She pulled a few poses and then headed back to the camera. She stopped it and pressed review, watching what she had. Satisfied that things were going nicely she went on back to the beach and spent the next ten minutes posing, doing mild acrobatics (quite nicely, too), and generally making a selfie movie of herself.
Personally, while she was doing this I stuck to single shots, getting a number of nice pictures. I was about to get some even nicer pictures.
She took off her bikini and tossed it to the side. Then she continued with her selfie movie. She cavorted and posed, did acrobatics, walked slowly towards the camera with her hands behind her back, everything she had being captured. She was giggling and having a ball.
I was quite enjoying the show as well. A nubile young lady in the altogether was prancing around in front of me. What was there not to enjoy? I got some excellent shots, especially when she tried to do a couple of slow motion cartwheels. I suspect I had a better view of her than her own camera did.
It was the breeze that brought the fun to an end. A wisp of grass blown against my nose and I sneezed. The young lady was doing a handstand at the time and she collapsed into a heap before bouncing up and looking around. I was easy enough to spot now that she knew I was there.
"What are you doing, you pervert?" she yelled at me.
I rose to my feet, stretched and ambled over to meet her. I had no worries about getting a closer view.
"How long have you been here?" she demanded, one arm across her chest and a hand trying to cover her pussy. Why, I don't know. It's not as though she hadn't had it all on display for a while.
"Me? Oh, four, maybe five, hours," I said casually. "I've been shooting birds and the occasional small creature that comes wandering past. I've got some excellent shots of a pink-tipped, red-faced, dancer. Rather a rare specimen, those, and I count myself lucky to have seen it."
The reference to the dancer passed her by. Oh, well, she'd been told.
"Why didn't you let me know you were here?" she asked, obviously displeased.
"Ah, why should I do that? I was just sitting over there under the tree, in plain sight. I can't really be expected to get up and announce myself whenever anyone wanders past. People would think I'm a nut."
"Well why didn't you say something when you saw I was taking my bikini off?"
"Not only am I not a nut, I'm not stupid. If a lovely young thing wants to walk around the beach in the nude I'm not going to say anything to discourage her. I saw your camera. I assume that you're taking pictures of yourself."
"I thought I was alone." She stared at me, finally noting that I had a camera.
"Did you take any pictures of me?" she asked, sounding slightly shocked.
"I did mention the pink-tipped, red-faced, dancer," I said, letting my eyes drift down to those lovely pink tips.
Her jaw dropped.
"You've been taking my picture? With me like this?" she shrieked.
"Why not? I assumed you undressed for pictures. It just seemed reasonable that I get my share."
"You can't just go and take my picture."
"Yes, I can, especially when you walk up, stand in front of me, disrobe, and then do a lot of very nice poses. Some very sexy poses, some of them."
"You delete them and you delete them now. I'm not having you take pictures of me."