by Mushroom

Created on: June 10, 2009   Last Updated: June 14, 2009

The 2008 calendar of photographs by Saxa Saudkova was sent to me as a Christmas present by my lady penfriend from the Czech Republic. I can understand why these rude but funny photographs were thought to be my ideal Christmas present. However, I shall only describe three of these photographs because some people might find some of the other scenes distasteful.

Being an unemployed decorator at that time I could share Pavlina's sense of humour by the images I saw on January's shady photograph. There is a rear view of a naked man and the naked woman is wearing an apron, she is standing on a chair and he is standing on a pair of step ladders cleaning the wall with a sponge. The woman is bending down taking a cloth from a plastic paint bucket, but the image of the implements they are both using are blurred. She has a nice rounded bottom, he has long hairy legs and is wearing a party hat made from a page of a folded newspaper.

February's black and white photograph is more subtle and her excellent pose took pride of place on my wall because of the amount of time the pose must have taken to perfect. The pose is of a woman sitting back on the side of a wooden chair, her long slender legs are held up in a diagonal position together with her arms which are placed either side of a large harp. Her head is lent backwards with her eyes closed which enhances the dreamy image of her pose, while her fingers are plucking the strings to her harp. The atmosphere is further enhanced by the large looming shadow of the harp on the wall. Stemming from her belly her long dress has been opened at its front allowing the bulk of the material of her dress to flow to the floor. Her long hair flowing down her back is followed by her dress seen dangling to the floor, together with her out stretched arms and legs which gives her pose a beautiful symmetry. I conclude by adding that if she didn't have a harp between her legs a broomstick would be just as appropriate.

Other than the cover of the calendar March had the only coloured photograph that year. The photograph is of a rear view of a naked woman holding the end of a long length of material. She is standing on the edge of a grassy hill top over looking a mixed landscape, the middle ground of which has an array of factories. At the back of the factories there is a river divided into two by a long narrow island. In the middle distance and amid the blue, green and purple haze there appears to be a church tower or a castle keep. Beneath the photograph there is a ring drawn round the date of the twenty second marking my penfriend's birthday.

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