My name is Katherine, I’m 28, and I’m from Slovenia. This story happened in Croatia, near Prizna, where my husband and I were spending a few days on vacation.

One evening, we came back to the room after the sea, opened some wine, and started flipping through TV channels. By chance, we landed on an erotic channel. At first, we laughed. Then, for some reason, we didn’t switch away. We sat next to each other, pretending it was just a joke, but we both felt that the mood had changed.

And suddenly I said:

“Why don’t we have photos like that?”

My husband asked:

“What kind?”

“Ours. Beautiful. Naked. Not exactly like that, but just to see ourselves from the outside.”

He laughed, but he clearly liked the idea.

The next day, he actually bought a small camera with a remote control. And that scared me a little. It’s one thing to say something like that after wine in the evening. It’s another thing when someone comes back in the morning with a camera and says, “Well, director, shall we go?”

We found an almost empty cove near Prizna. Rocks, clear water, sun, and almost nobody around. My husband set the camera on a tripod, checked the frame, ran back and forth, and I stood there in my swimsuit thinking: “You suggested it yourself — don’t back out now.”

First, I took off the top. Then I laughed for a long time and said I looked silly. My husband said I looked great. Then I took off the bottom of my swimsuit — and immediately felt very embarrassed.

Only my husband was nearby, and there were almost no people around, but the camera was standing right in front of us. And for some reason, that was the most exciting part.

The first shots were awkward. I didn’t know where to put my hands. I kept covering myself, laughing, and asking him to delete the photo. My husband was not exactly a calm photographer either — he was nervous too, he just pretended everything was under control.

Then we started joking around, and everything became easier.

We stopped trying to make a “perfect erotic photo shoot” and just played. I lay on the towel, he pressed the remote. Then we sat together and tried to fit into the frame. Then I took the remote and told him he knew nothing about angles. He took it back and called himself the main cameraman.

We fought over the remote like children. And those funny, crooked, alive photos ended up becoming our favorites.

After a while, I almost stopped thinking about the fact that I was naked. At first, nudity was the main event. Then it simply became part of the day. We sunbathed, hugged, sat by the water, laughed, checked the photos, and pressed the remote again.

Sometimes embarrassment returned — especially when I heard a boat somewhere far away or remembered that the camera was capturing everything. But that embarrassment no longer scared me. It only made the moment sharper.

And yes, it was very exciting. Not like a movie, but in a real way: the sea, the sun, naked skin, my husband’s gaze, and the feeling that this was our little secret.

That evening, we returned to the hotel, opened wine, and started looking through the photos. We didn’t need the TV anymore.

Some shots we deleted right away. Some made us laugh. Some made us go quiet for a moment. Because there we were — not perfect, not staged, but real. Funny, shy, naked, happy.

For the first time, I looked at my photos and thought not about flaws, but about the moment. About how I laughed. About how my husband looked at me. About how I covered myself at first, and then stopped.

For me, it turned out to be not only about sex, although there was plenty of sensuality in it. It was about trust. About play. About freedom from constant control.

We thought we would just take a couple of bold photos.

Instead, we got a day we still remember with a smile.