I never dreamed that I would photograph myself naked, then post iton the Internet. That was ... until T.N. asked for a naked photo. I'm not ashamed of being naked but like most people ... ahhhh ... I didn't think I did much for a camera plus, I still have a sense of being NAKED in front of the world, which is different than nude.Anyhow, the only thing I remember from childhood is that. I wanted everyone to be naked, my dad, mom, neighbor, etc. I suppose in that sense I might have been a little off center. My friends,where dreaming about 10 speed bikes, rifles, and marbles; for those of you under thirty, they are little glass balls, we'd flip around in dirt circle,but they where toys for us. I never dreamt of a sugar plum fairy, having xray vision or wanting to be a torch. My dream was to be "without clothes".I have a few friends who date back to the day when my age was in single digits, that when I try to play down nudity I hear, You Never Wore clothes! Remember when you did this, that, or jumped into a pool naked, and freaked everyone out, I don't remeber that one, just the one in the Caribbean when I jumped off the ship naked. It didn't matter I couldn't swim, the water was appealing, so, I took off the duds and went in. I remember that one because, every hand on deck, jumped in to get me. Now, that I've, hummmm come out again. My close friends never know what to expect when they visit, so if they bring anyone along, they've been fore warned. But, I don't want to spend hours talking about youth or how nude I can be. If you are a nudist, you know it.So ... that brings me to where I am now.Similarly, to most nudist, I traveled the Caribbean, New Jersey and Virgina, all the normal touristy nude places, drove from Dallas Tx to Houston in a convertible naked but I always felt alone in my nakedness. I had no friends that I knew where nudist, unless they didn't tell. My wife followed me for a while, but then she gave up. The kids, well, they didn't care, still don't, they warn their friends, but won't go naked unless they can't find a towel after a shower.So for years, I stayed to myself, loosing "nudity hope" thinking that, perhaps it was a loooooong phase. Until about five years ago, when I happened to be fumbling around on Yahoo 360, and found a nudist, who proudly said it, a nudist with pictures with links to other nudist, and God fobid, Africian American nudist. I felt as though someone stuck me in the ass with big pin and woke me up but it, was just what I needed to become alive. Yayyyyyy! ... I contacted them, and we've been friends since.Nudist people are among the best people, well, most ... Some nudies live double lives, otherwise those of us who understand how it feels to have air, sun surround our bodies ... have a superglue bond that only we know about, it's a nudist thing, and to explain the Y to people who don't ... well ... I'd rather be enjoying it, then trying to do so.My friends at T.N. I've gone full circle, on/off/on but I'm back into what I enjoy most ~~~ only this time I have company.Thanks. This is me. I'm 57. I'm into Photography, computers and cars, the rest, you know already.