A couple of weeks ago while hosting another workshop Faye and I found these fantastic doors at Freemasons Hall in Edinburgh’ George Street and thought that we should use them one day for one of our Fine Art Nudes. We had Carla Monaco visit us on Monday for a session on Tuesday for N-Photo magazine and so on the evening of bank holiday Monday we drove into Edinburgh with Carla. Faye had already styled Carla’s hair before we left Claremont so it was simply going to be a matter of picking our moment! Though chilly it was a lovely evening with little wind however George Street was not as quiet as we had anticipated. Plenty of tourists and tour buses! Not to be deterred we parked outside the building and waited for the ‘coast’ to clear which it did but only for very brief periods and that was only on our side of the street as we tended to forget that pedestrians also walked on the other side of George St! After a few abortive starts due to passing buses and pedestrians we eventually managed to do two very short sessions, and I do mean short. Carla did mention afterwards about a bus that passed on the opposite side but she was to busy concentrating that she did not see if anybody spotted her and even if they did who would ever believe somebody who claimed to have seen a nude model posing in one of Edinburgh busiest streets on a Monday evening! Faye of course was close at hand with a robe just in case! I love how Faye has processed this image in our signature style.
