By SteveO
“Hey Mister, take my photo” I turned to see a young kid zooming by on one of those nifty-fifty type scooters, I smiled, and gave him a little wave. He waved back. I turned back to Julie and raised the camera to my eye. “Move slightly to the left” I said. She obliged. I took the shot. And another. Before long the scooter boy was nothing but a small buzz, heading up the hill in the distance. I’d chosen this spot for the bikini shoot because (I thought) it would be secluded. We decided to move further down the beach, over by the rocks. The tide wasn’t due in for a while so we would be okay there. As we were walking, Julie told me about her boyfriend Rex. “He’s a mechanic” she said “he’s always tinkering with cars. You know what, he’s building himself a race car? He wants me to be one of the pit crew…” she sounded really enthusiastic when she spoke about Rex, and her eyes sparkled. Julie had just turned nineteen, she told me, and she wanted to work in a government science lab. She’d enrolled at Polytech and after the holidays she was heading off to the Waikato to study. A long distance relationship, I said to myself, bound to unfold. We reached the rocks and I got Julie to lie on her side on one of the bigger rocks. It was about I imagined. I’d left my watch at home, hadn’t I? The sun was just to the left of me and there was a little bit of cloud about, so it was ideal for taking photos on the beach.
In the distance I could hear a truck coming down from the hills. I looked up and could almost make out one of those truck and trailer units, probably full of smelly sheep. I decided to give the driver a bit of a thrill. I asked Julie to move away from the rocks, more towards the middle of the sand. From there the driver would get a better view. I heard the changing of the gears as the truck came slowly down the hill, and could see out of the corner of my eye it getting closer and closer. Julie did some nice poses and I took a whole series of shots. As the truck wizzed past on the road beside the beach, it sounded its horn (in appreciation, I hope) but pretty soon it was quiet again.
