I've always been curious about females. Males bore me. Every inch of a woman's body fascinates me, though there are areas that I'm sure you can guess I pay a little more attention to sometimes.
Being a photographer, I get to take photos of all manner of things: landscapes, people, architectural things, sunsets, and I enjoy them all…mostly the people, and yes, mostly the females that I work with.
So when it came to working with fresh-faced young Izzy, I knew that I was going to be in for a treat. She was 20, slender, tall and blonde and had beautiful C-cups and by god she held herself magnificently. This was a woman who knew power, sex and money, though she didn't flaunt it. And she had chosen of all people, me, to do a photography shoot for pleasure with, promising me that her fee would be at least double without having seen any of my work before shooting. I couldn't believe my luck.
The plan was simple, she would be doing a shoot in a variety of different clothes and styles, act like she would at any day or event she had the clothes for, and I would make her look, well, like she was, natural, stunning and bloody perfect. That was the plan at least. Work and play should never meet.
When she walked into my studio, I knew within seconds that this was going to be the easiest shoot of my life; it wouldn't have surprised me if we had been there an extremely short length of time.
Izzy was dressed in her first outfit, dark blue jeans that were slightly baggy, beaten up Converse and an oversized jumper that would have fitted us both in there, wearing something unpretentious but completely effective to start the day off. There was little make-up on her face, a simple foundation and mascara combination was all that could be seen. Shooting the photos was as easy for her as it was to be beautiful. She found every position naturally and I found my part of the shoot to be simplicity itself.
The day went on in much the same manner, each different outfit showing another angle to her personality, the sass, the innocence, the power, the woman, the sister, the friend, the business woman and then came the final one that she wanted, the star. For this she wore a shimmering, sparkling floor length black gown, cut so it went over one shoulder and had a slit down the side on the opposite leg to the shoulder where the dress started. It accentuated her curves, clinging to her and fitting like a glove, little tiny specks and diamanté reflecting light from her thighs downwards.
It took me a few seconds to remember that I was supposed to be taking pictures of this stunning specimen of a human, not just to gawk at her like I hadn't ever seen anything as beautiful as her before. She was a dream, a vision, completely brilliant. I really hadn't ever met anyone like her in my time as a photographer. I still haven’t to this day.
I set about to do the photographs, capturing every angle of the beautiful woman before me, wishing the time I got to spend with her was longer than it would be.
After the shoot was finished, Izzy decided that she wanted to stay in the dress a little while longer, having had it specially made for her in New York at one of the finest shops. If I had spent as much money on the dress as she had, I would too. She leaned over my laptop as I plugged in the camera to view the pictures and she marveled at them, looking at how I had managed to capture the light in her eyes, all the tiny little details that people usually don’t notice when seeing my work.