This past weekend I met up with Lenita Larsson, Helle Carlstedt and Therese Larsson for a pole dance photoshoot by the Blue Lagoon in Ekerö located about an hours drive away from central Stockholm. Lenita and Helle are running the Vida Pole studio in Stockholm, and they brought along a portable pole that we could place on any flat surface. Of course, just placing it on any flat surface would have been too easy, so Lenita suggested we could try to place it in the water.
Remember the thing about needing a flat surface? Well it turns out most sand beaches have a bit of a slope. Here Lanita is trying to dig the pole legs deeper into the sand.Success! The pole seems stable enough! Lenita Larsson trying out the balance, while avoiding all some big fish.Helle Carlstedt on the pole. This was a slippery affair, but after a few tries, a towel and some magic anti-water bottle it worked.Lenita with her pink cape, superwoman style.Therese Larsson, Lenita Larsson and Helle CarlstedtTherese Larsson on the pole. By being lower on the pole Therese and the reflection got closer to one another.Therese Larsson defying gravity. She had to hang there in a shoulder mount for a while so that the ripples in the water would settle.Therese Larsson doing an Extended Butterfly. Since we had an overcast day I decided to turn a few of the photos black and white.Helle Carlstedt. Here I was experimenting with a lower contrast and a slightly blue-green-greyish tone.Helle Carlstedt doing a Handspring. We did not have the lagoon all by ourselves, so had to photoshop out some people that had a picnic in the background.Helle Carlstedt doing a ButterflyTherese LarssonTherese Larsson in a Cross Ankle ReleaseTherese Larsson and Helle Carlstedt improvising some two people pole poses.We finally remembered we had brought some props to play with. Here is Therese Larsson doing her best Merry Poppins imitation.
This was a really fun photoshoot. We had originally planned to do it in the evening, but the weather gods decided to change the sunny forecast to rain. The cloud cover meant that we had softer shadows. Stay tuned for more pole dancing photos in the future, and if you are interested in taking up pole dancing in Stockholm have a look at Vida Pole.
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