Artist v photographer
I agree that it was much easier to pose for an artist because all one had to do was adopt the pose asked for and remain still for a period of time. It was also necessary to readopt this pose for subsequent sittings with everything, as much as possible, the same as before ( hair etc).
I also found that doing figure sessions in the outdoors was very agreeable and not hard to please either an artist or a photographer. One photographer that I worked with used to ask me to arrive for a session wearing nothing but a dress, thus removing the time needed for elastic marks to disappear. he then would request that I remove this garment and walk around in a piece of woodland or where ever we happened to be. This quite often involved me being nude in very public places but as I have said before this was the time of free love and flower power and young women were less modest than today and as a bit of an exhibitionist it appealed to me and gave me an excuse to reveal myself. It is fair to say, however, many of these sessions were done at a naturist site but not all.
The attached were at a holiday village, out of season, but by no means unoccupied and at one stage I got quite an audience whilst posing.
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