Skinny dipping like a pro?
Author: Paul
Promoting the clothes-free lifestyle.
World naked gardening day and the sensitivity of people
I am on Facebook. Really. I hardly put any naturist stuff there because we all know that Facebook is very sensitive about anything that shows more skin than is needed for a beheading, a public burning, an assembly of Neonazis or lots of girls in skimpy bikinis.
A few days ago someone posted a remark that today is World Naked Gardening Day and “please don’t post any pictures if you participate”.
Incredible, isn’t it? How can people be so scared of seeing other people tend to a garden? And doing that the most sensible way, avoiding dirt on their clothes?
That really beats me…
How to protect your naturist pictures.
Hi there.
Picture poaching.
Some days ago on Twitter I was into a discussion on how people are annoyed that the pictures they post are harvested by porn collectors, reposted by others without their permission and more things close to that issue. You may recognise several of those things. Many people don’t want to share their own images because of that.
Some tips on how to protect your pictures.
There are ways to make your pictures less interesting for collectors, harvesters, call them what you want.
Shrink the size
People who are looking for pictures for their personal, lewd entertainment usually want big images. Full screen, high resolution shots. By resizing your images to something a lot smaller that is a step towards making them unappealing.
On my android phone I use an app called ImageShrink. The free version is great and does a great job. There is a similar app on the itunes store called image size. Resize your image to 480 x 320 pixels and your pictures are already a lot less interesting. For example, this picture:
is 300 pixels wide and 150 pixels high. Nothing wrong with it, you can see what’s happening – a man reading a book in a park – but hardly anyone would want to steal this for its quality.
Add some text
Yes, it is ugly but it is the ultimate way to make your pictures unappealing for poachers.
This picture is 480 pixels high and has text on it. Not pretty. Not exciting. But a lot safer from harvesters.
If you use Google to search “image resize program free” then you’ll find plenty of software to easily resize your images, even online ones. Note that online ones might not be the best choice because you can’t tell what happens with the pictures you upload to a site. The service might be wonderful but remember that the original might not be deleted until the owner of the site had ‘a look’ at it. Just something to be aware of.
The advantage of that also is that more and more people are on mobile devices. Small images download faster so they will love you for being kind on their data plan!
You can also see I added some filtering to the above image. It makes it more interesting (for me) but it also makes me a bit less recognisable. Play with filters a bit. E.g. snapseed on Android gives you a wide choice of those. I am certain Apple has something like that too, and you can find software for your PC for that as well. Just use your Google skills.
I hope this little ‘tutorial’ has given you a few ideas how to keep your images safe from porn gatherers.
Sunday Noon Nudist
Gaming, the nudist way.
More naked authors
Naked authors – part two
Yes, there are more naked authors than the list I showed you earlier.
Anthony Crowley
Anthony Crowley is an award-winning author, poet, actor, photographer and film maker. Anthony has contributed to numerous magazines and anthologies, including official Haunted magazine, Sanitarium magazine, Fear Magazine and Art Decades magazine, Folk Horror Revival: Corpses Roads anthology. His works have been featured on various known media resources, such as the BBC. His novella 
The Mirrored Room was also a SEMI FINALIST winner at the authorsdB book awards. Anthony has also been featured in anthologies amongst legendary writers like, H.P.Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy and Ramsey Campbell. Anthony has been a naturist for many years and he’s also a proud member of British Naturism. During the cold month of October 2004, Anthony wanted to honour people close to him whom passed away from Cancer, he decided to walk across the Shropshire Hills with nothing more than a pair of shoes on his feet. This present day, Anthony is working on many projects simultaneously while sitting at his desk as nature intended.
Anthony is working on a documentary film called ‘Nude Britannia’ and the poetry/photo book ‘Tales from the Nymph Garden’ which will be naturist related side projects.
If you want to know more about Anthony, you can stalk him on Twitter and Facebook. 😉
Ted Bun
Born in 1956, Ted discovered naturism in 2004, during a trip to the island of Menorca. After some travelling he discovered the South of France. With his wife he moved there to open a welcoming home for naturist visitors (it’s called L’Olivette) and in the quiet season he discovered he was coming up with stories. Since then he’s been writing, and welcoming naturists from around the world to their home. It’s quite a change from his previous job, being engaged in IT projects, but they have decided that this is what they really want to do. And who could blame them? Ted’s work consists of police/detective stories with – of course – a naturist twist. You can find his work in the naturist’s library.
Free the body. Free the nipple.
Free the nipple, or Topless in New York.
You have probably all heard of “Free the nipple”, a movement that tries to make being topless in public a common reality for women. They are doing great work, but they are not the only ones active in this area of body freedom. On Twitter there’s a feed called “Topless New York“. This Twitter feed is also very active in promoting body freedom for women, and the focus here – you may have guessed it – is New York.
Why New York?
An obvious question probably. If you live in New York you probably won’t focus on Miami, right?
New York is one of the (too few) cities in the United States where it’s perfectly legal for women to go around topless. Somehow this liberating fact isn’t know very widely because it’s barely ever you can spot a lady who frees her nipples.
Topless New York is the Twitter feed of a photographer who takes pictures of topless women in New York. Of course with permission of the ladies in question. It is a work in progress to make the world aware of this legal possibility. If you are a lady who’s proud of her body and you want the world to know, get in touch with “Topless New York” and see what can be done.
Patreon
Topless New York has recently started a Patreon page to fund the work he does.
If you think this is a worthy cause then please drop by the Patreon page and pledge a dollar or two per month. Or three.
It will help body equality for women.
Sunday Noon Nudist
Family picnic.
A book review
Here’s a book review. I don’t only write them, I also read them.
Who is this naked lady – and what have they done with my wife?
This is the first book by Wallace M. Greensage. I enjoyed reading it. It’s not the genre I write (no fantasy, no scifi) but a real life, modern day story that could happen for real. We meet a couple who are strangers to nudism and who are on their vacation on a fictional island. The island is described very well – it made me want to move there and spend all my days at Barcelona Beach. As you might expect there’s some nudism involved in the story, and also mention of naked people like us and the things we don’t do (contrary to what textile lovers suspect us to do).
The story has a nice twist that has to do with a rather nasty man and his companions who make the vacation of the couple less fun than they had expected. Does it end well? I’ll leave that open so you can enjoy the story yourself.
My rating for this book: 4 stars out of 5.
You can find the e-book on Amazon and of course Amazon.co.uk.
Flu and the crazy ideas it gives me
Flu. It’s not funny.
A few weeks ago I was in the dumps because of our friend the flu. Felt horrible, awful, and didn’t get up for 5 days.
Of course I need to add here that I did not get a flu shot. I only got those twice and each time I got violently ill. Blaming the shots for that was a bad idea apparently, because this time I got seriously ill with the vicinity of a shot.
Crazy ideas.
Apparently my brain was in turmoil for a while during those first 5 days of badness. At some point – I don’t exactly recall when but that doesn’t matter – I almost woke up from an avalanche of images that had been churning through my head and that sort of gave me an idea for a new naturist story. I grabbed my notepad (always have one next to the bed) and scribbled down what I could remember of the idea. Then I collapsed into the void of the flu once again.
Historical fiction.
So far the books I wrote and am writing are in the fantasy and science fiction realm. I love those two genres and I think I can do them pretty well.
This new idea is in the Historical Fiction genre. For those who aren’t aware of what that it, historical fiction describes things from history (obviously). Usually it involves well known places or people. Think for instance of books about King Arthur, Jeanne d’Arc, a war, or perhaps even the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The story doesn’t have to deal with that actual event but the event can take place during the course of the story. It’s that easy to write historical fiction, but it also makes it difficult because you have to get the facts right. Anyone can believe a bug-eyed, yellow monster coming from Pluto to devour our clothes, but for instance claiming that Marilyn Monroe always appeared naked on the set of her films… most people know that’s not true.
The story in my head
The story I came up with in my flu-ridden dream doesn’t deal with any of those subjects. So far it doesn’t feel like a difficult or complicated story, more something light and easy; something short.
I am definitely going to develop that idea and see where it leads me (and you). So far the future of the story is still in veils, as is the naked lady on the right. She’s from the right era of my story, I think, so for a while I’ll keep her as the mascot for the new book.
I’ve never thought that I would ever find a way to write something in the historical fiction genre concerning nudism/naturism. No matter how this story will end up, I’m thrilled that something actually appeared for it.
I hope you’re having a great day. I’ll be writing.
Naked.
Paul.
Sunday Noon Nudist
Naked activities, and the garden looks all the better for it!