There are many naked charity calendars out there, but the naked huntress is the only one i appear in!
The naked huntress calendar was created back in 2015, when Mark, our fabulous photographer, creator and tea boy, made, in his own words, a ‘silly remark’ about his wife taking part in a charity nude calendar whilst having breakfast with friends, to which one of the ladies there replied ‘I’ll do it if you are brave enough to take the picture’- and so the Naked Huntress was created.
6 years later, a feature in the ‘The Field’ magazine, the calendar has raised just shy of £28k (& counting) for The Pancreatic Cancer charity that it supports, and it was my turn to ‘dare to bare’ and feature in this years (2021) edition.
Mark and his fantastic team of admin ladies, who have featured many times themselves over the years, do not select the models for the calendar; ladies enquire about how to take part and are asked what aspect of country sport they are they involved in, and any lady brave enough to go naked for this calendar is automatically accepted onto the team.
ALL the ladies who feature are real ladies; no paid models here! We are all involved in country sports, from beating, picking up, shooting, hunting, to fishing, and we are all ages and body shapes, some of us have tattoos, some of us have scars, but we all love country sports and are proud to feature.
I had the pleasure of having my photos taken with 3 other ladies; whom i had only met that day of the photoshoot! and we gained the nickname the ‘Norfolk Nudies’, The ice was broken within minutes of us taking our robes off in preparation for the first photo, by model S, who looked at me, smiled and said ‘nice boobs’. I think Mark knew from that point he was going to have this work cut out keeping us 4 from giggling all day!
I was coaxed into taking part in the calendar by model D, who also runs the naked huntress twitter page (Twitter has ALOT to answer for with my shooting journey so far!). I had followed the page for a few years and admired the ladies who took part and shared their tweets, and D had tried to get me to consider taking part after i started clay shooting and had been out in the pigeon hide a few times, but i personally did not feel i fitted the description of being involved in country sports until i did my first game day, which was a success, so it was time to put my big girl pants on, or in this case, take them off! and bare all.
Mark is highly professional, and us ladies always have a female chaperone with us at all times. The usual format will be that Mark will ask us to pose in our dressing gowns first, so he can see if the shot will work, and then turns his back while we disrobe and hand it to our chaperone and get into position, once we are happy and comfortable, we tell Mark we are ready, he turns round and takes the shots he wants and then turns back away while we get handed our dressing gown and get wrapped back up in it.
Mark will then review the shots with the model, and any she does not like, are deleted in front of her. No filters, no staging, just natural locations and ladies.
It took Mark and the other models awhile to coax a relaxed, natural smile from me during the shoot, mainly as being in a field in mid October in North Norfolk with nothing on, is bloody cold! but once i started to relax and see the stunning photos Mark was capturing, the photos spoke for themselves. One of the highlights of the photoshoot for me, was when model S and her dogs were posing. The dogs were looking every which way apart from straight at the camera, until a cock pheasant strutted out behind Mark…. the instruction of ‘DO NOT MOVE’ was issued to us, as the dogs sat alert and eyes set on this pheasant, and the final photo was certainly one for Model S to treasure.
In between the lockdowns last year, i made the most of being out with the beating team and persuaded most of the team to buy this years calendar as yes, i was in it, and took the good natured teasing i knew i would get, but overall the team was supportive and said i was brave to take part.
The 2022 calendar is now on sale and can be ordered via the naked huntress social media pages; twitter, facebook or instagram, but be quick as every year they have sold out!
I don’t appear in the 2022 edition, but i may come back and do another year if asked, and certainly recommend any ladies who may be contemplating in asking if they can take part, to contact Mark or the admin ladies via the naked huntress social media pages and have a chat, its a decision you wont regret.
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