[KarlMalone]

Photographer comes to St. Pete to photograph the nude in public places

She wore nothing beneath her white flower patterned dress. An hour before, Maddie Kaye had even pinned down the arm straps so she could quickly wiggle out of it, and just as speedily tug it back on.

The 24-year-old bartender has nightmares of being naked in public, sometimes trapped in an elevator with others. But she thought maybe this stunt with the man she met the night before would help.

Her beer shook in her hand. She sat at the table inside the Engine No. 9 restaurant in downtown St. Petersburg Friday afternoon, beside the window with the shades opened. In the background, patrons drank and ate at the bar. Out front, Harvey Drouillard waited with a camera and a hand in the air.

Thumbs up.

The dress fell in a ruffled pile, just as she had practiced. She walked outside, flashed her peach rear to Drouillard as she posed and read the outdoor menu.

Inside, someone finally noticed.

"Look at that," said Kevin Rowe, seated at the end of the bar.

As calmly as if she had left behind her keys, Kaye walked inside again, sat down at her seat and dressed.

"Look," Rowe nudged the woman next to him.

By the time the woman craned her neck to see, Kaye and Drouillard were gone.

"She was completely nude," Rowe said. "Naked."

That picture will probably be a postcard in the future, or possibly inside a calendar, or even hung in an art gallery. It was the artist Drouillard's first visit to St. Petersburg, and already things were going better than expected

Video (censored model) here:

youtube.com/watch?v=_h4Y3bTUl4c