Gay Pride Parade. Toronto, Ontario. 2009
Dedicated naturist. Set up the Free Beach Association of NSW, when Reef Beach became unavailable to naturists.
Dare to be Bare was the fund-raising gimmick. / / Held a few times, annually, on Sydney’s Obelisk Beach, at Middle Head, a mixture of some naturists and majority once-a-year skinny-dippers, carried on for an hour or so. All for a very worthwhile cause. /
Sunrise is a magical time.
I took this picture the morning when the QM2 made her first grand entrance into Sydney Harbour. It was a glorious morning and then, like at all great events the streakers arrived. I managed to get one shot and one shot only. It was published in SMH. What a laugh ! I still have no idea who they were…... Sydney Harbour / New South Wales / Australia
I now own about half a dozen publications, in which there is a little bit of me. / Other people’s work but a small contribution from me, or about me. / Exposing a little bit of me to the world, mainly in Dutch. / (About my migration experience, starting when I was 12, fifty-three years ago and other matters.) / I always knew that writing something on the topic of the pleasure of being a naturist, to hopefully be added to a book, called Nude, would not be quite what the ‘readers’ were expecting. / After all, how long have people joked about buying Playboy and Playgirl magazines for the articles? / . / Waiting for my copy of NUDE to arrive, was a little different to the past, when I was much busier and distracted. / I was curious to see it and checked the front door step extra often (In case the delivery person had left it there). / . / Now I am not sure whatto think and would be interested in other reactions. / The emphasis in the other writing, in the book seems to be on the thrill (the touch, the smell, the feel) of exposed skin and of being in its presence, in private moments. / And that’s a wonderful thing to write about and capture in pictures. / . / Naturists do things in the nude – in the right place, at the right time, in the right company – without the textile. / I cannot help mentioning here the ammunition used by opponents of naturism ( volleball playing, fat, ugly people, etc.). / Naturists also make babies – in the right place, a the right time, hopefully, in the right company. / . / If I’d wanted my writing to promote naturism, I should have submitted it to a suitable publication (_and I have had a number of these things published in TAN and Sun & Health magazines.) / . / I am still trying to work out, after waiting a little longer than expected, what I think of the book. / . / I hope that readers will relate to the experience I am trying to describe, i.e., throwing off your clothes and feeling the air, the sun, the water, the breeze, whatever…....all over.
The book is called: NUDE It’s being launched 6.30pm, Wed 12 August 2009 at Readings Bookshop / 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA The Redbubble people (in charge) are intending to follow up the launch of the book with an exhibition of the work (details on this to follow later). For those in Melbourne (or surrounds) who wish to attend, please RSVP in the Redbubble, What’s On forum. Places are limited so get in quick and Hop will get back to you ASAP. The evening starts at 6.30pm, where bubblers/stalkers can rub shoulders with movers and shakers, like Martin Hosking and Paul Vanzella. There will be readings from the book and afterwards more chatting about it all, at the Carlton Yacht Club. The book will be launched on RedBubble shortly after the event. Why am I excited? My description of what it feels like to park the car, after the somewhat dusty drive between Mittagong and the orange gate, followed by the somewhat tricky drive down the hill, into River Island Naturist Retreat, is in the book. Naturist matters, i.e., nudity, have been a hobby now for getting on to twenty years. You may remember this advertisement. It was in all the papers. Yes. That’s me. The gentleman with the white hair sitting beside the VW.
Members of this group show RedBubble visitors the natural world enjoyed by naturists (nudists). The media frequently like to illustrate reports on nudist matters, with unflattering pictures. This group is intended to demonstrate that people from all walks of life and all shapes and sizes, enjoy being textile-free, in the right place, at the right time. Only genuine naturist work accepted. (There are other groups on Redbubble which cater for the other kind.)
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Looking for works, showing naturists on beaches, in resorts, bush walking, mountain climbing, etc., out in nature!!!!!
Jo
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