Some time ago, this was our second attempt to get a decent-size group to show up on the beach. This time it worked! So I declare this as our first body freedom festival. The day was rather unfocused but I did manage to round up people to play a few games. There was a lot of "posing" which I realized was not quite what the objective was. On-camera: (too many to list!)
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First Bodyfreedom Festival
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First Bodyfreedom Festival
gallery-1 176 photos by numerous photographers People arrive and settle in, gradually shedding clothes. A few girls start climbing on the rocks. Click click.
gallery-2 113 photos by numerous photographers It was cold and gray that day but we tried to get things on track by organizing a game of tug-of-war. That got spirits up.
gallery-3 82 photos by numerous photographers Some body painting, sand castle building, playing in the freezing cold surf, and some view-camera posing.
gallery-4 106 photos by numerous photographers Hanging out, drinking hot tea and getting creative for some photos.
gallery-5 123 photos by numerous photographers Taylor leaps for joy while Umbra braves the water and Cypress does yoga on the beach.
gallery-6 115 photos by numerous photographers The sand castle has shaped up nicely. Time to play frisbee and Umbra gets tangled in a fishing net.
gallery-7 59 photos by numerous photographers The group photo! It's like trying to get a kindergarten class all to stand still in one place. Time to go home!
nomad-notes
It was a kind of strange unstructured day with too much "modeling" and too many male photographers with females posing for them. This is not really supposed to be like that! But a lot was learned and new things were tried on future occasions. Still, some of the photos are interesting!
The quality of the images you see here are not up to the standard of current galleries. When I originally processed the images I only used photoshop and could not match the look of the photos between photographers. So I had to recently re-process the set through Lightroom, trying to smooth out the differences. I managed to get things within an acceptable range but the re-compressed images are a bit fuzzy. Live and learn. I considered not including this set of images because the thematic tone is different from what the project has become. But I think it is of historical interest to those curious about the evolution of the Naked Club.
