Remembering a day at the beach...

Remember there was a time where boys could just hold each other? Those were the good old days I say!

Our photographer wanted to try his hand at dudeoir to change from the boudoir he was already doing and found us through social media, we were all willing to do a tfp shoot. All but one absentee which is why our photographer used a timer to be the model at the top. One could say top model (sorry I just had to).

The composition is based on a famous shot with Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford.

I am very excited to be life modelling on Zoom tomorrow, check out my video for the details, it's at 10:00 AM Pacific Time.

In it you can also draw a few 30 second gestures of me. It's great for your artistic mind to these lightning fast poses.

It is not at all the same to draw from a screen but I think through the imperfections, the breathing, the change in daylight, you get much more than a photograph. It is a pleasure to be able to review my work so that I can remain motivated to stay sharp.

Here are a few more from that cold cold day at Wreck beach. Our penises are hidden from view deliberately to make for a suggested nude just like the original photograph. I had to darken underneath me in that first one to create an illusion of shadow, concealing my junk.

As a naturist, I find it shocking that even in the life modelling industry, many teenage art students are shielded from nudity. Creating a taboo around the human body forces it into being sexual when nothing could be further from the truth. It is the mind that is sexual, not the body and I feel like it is important to make that distinction with the youth who is after all, very vulnerable.

I genuinly felt at one with Nature that day between shivers and as the misty rain was keeping my skin wet. It is great to be alive, I miss Nature tremendously and the waves of the ocean. Our pulsing hearts were connecting with our surroundings.

I felt blessed to be with such adventurous minds to go along with a project like this at the last minute.

One of the models, the photographer, who came from Toronto, and I went for drinks after the shoot, it was a grand old time! That model, Jason, is such a sweetheart. Father of two beautiful children with his husband. He strives to become a musician. I truly believe this man is fighting stigma in the Chinese sphere of Vancouver and helping build a better future.

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