Skinny dipping.

Maria at the nudist beach, getting her hair wet for some moody portraits, in one hand she is holding her glasses.
These glasses were both prescription glasses, as well as sun glasses, ideal for this shooting on the nudist beach, but less practical for the dark rooms inside the mad asylum of the day before...
Maria went in and out of the water several times, and got her hair wet at least 3 times, to clean herself after some shenanigans on trees, or to prepare for specific photos, or just for fun.
She really enjoyed the river Adda, and made the day for all the other nudists on the premises, and many more days for us, collecting and cherishing these pictures for years to come!

It is not easy to focus on Maria moving around using a medium format camera and a 85mm lens between f2.8 and f4, but at least some pictures are coming out really well, like this one.

Today 2 more photos of Maria in the water, one on my regular social media feed, and one on DA Subscriptions.

Not sure how many of you are old enough to remember about the object in today's bonus photo but, at that time, I was collecting nudes from other photographers, and this was my favorite model, Brazilian, that also featured as the stunt-double for Bella's character in the Twilight Saga (if memory serves me well).
I loved her so much I selected this photo as background on my phone.
The photo I will post later today on regular social media reminded me about this one, because it is very similar to(albeit it was not intentional), and had me thinking...
Here I am, many years later, shooting that kind of pictures myself, possibly inspiring other people to save them as backgrounds or even to take up the same hobby, as I was inspired to do back then.
I feel privileged to have fulfilled my dreams, and I have to thank all of my Patrons and Subscribers for this opportunity!
Inviting a supermodel like Maria to stay in Italy for days just to work with me, and shoot this high quality photos: unbelievable!

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