BEAUTY(?) AND THE BEACH - #2

Here we see Joni feeling and looking very confident in her bikini, almost regal. All of the self-consciousness and nervousness that she experienced when she first entered the beach has disappeared. She is feeling and enjoying that inner tranquility and calm that a TG woman feels when she is dressed en femme. Indeed the only thing calmer than Joni in this photo is the Atlantic Ocean. Granted, the ocean is at a low tide, but one rarely sees the ocean looking so flat. The waves are minimal.

 

I like this photo for a lot of reasons including the lighting provided by the late afternoon sun and the patchy clouds in the background sky. The lighting and the clouds somehow combine to enhance the photo well beyond Joni's hands on hips pose. It just works! . . . But it wasn't by design.

 

One thing that went through my mind when Joni was entering the beach and then stripping down to her bikini earlier in the afternoon was how did genetic women feel on the beach or at a pool when they were wearing a bikini? Do they feel as self-conscious as Joni did? Especially if the woman is older and no longer has the girlish figure of their youth? (Like Joni!) I mean most women's sense of modesty would preclude them from being seen in public wearing nothing but a bra and panty, and I am sure they would feel very self-conscious and embarrassed if they were seen by strangers or friends/neighbors wearing just a bra and panty. Yet, how much different is wearing a two piece bathing suit, or a bikini for that matter, from wearing a bra and panty??? The coverage is just about the same. What is it about a two piece bathing suit that allows a woman to wear it in public on a beach or at a pool, when she would likely never go to the same places wearing only a bra and panty???

 

 

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