It is summer, and Holly Gibbons is feeling every last degree of it. She settles into an ornate carved dark-wood chair in the sun-drenched garden, all warm golden light and lush tropical greenery, wearing a gold bikini that catches the sunshine and throws it right back. Her long blonde hair tumbles over her shoulders and a delicate belly ring winks in the heat, and she stretches her long legs out with the complete satisfaction of a woman who was made for warm weather and good light. Taking pictures of this woman, as Hayley is very happy to confirm, is quite the treat. You will love them just as much.
The gold bikini top comes undone in the warmth of the afternoon, and what follows is a glorious, sun-kissed strip that moves from the carved garden chair to the warm terracotta floor and back again, Holly posing against the cascading green plants with the natural ease of someone entirely at home in her own spectacular skin. By the time the last of the gold has been set aside, she is beautifully, completely bare in the sunshine, the most dazzling thing in a garden that is itself already rather lovely.