TR Pics: A Red to his Bed

'I was captivated by his pale skin, skinny legs and the way his skin color and coloring sparkled in the summer sun. His freckles dove me crazy, and his nipples.... set against his white chest was my favorite place to 'sneak a glance' as I whizzed by on my mountain bike..'

The quote above is from a piece I wrote awhile ago about my first crush on a redhead.  His name was Colin and he and his large family lived around the corner from where I grew up.  Colin was straight, but didn't seem to mind when I would stop by when he was shooting hoops in his driveway.  He usually played shirtless, and I always slammed on the brakes when I was biking by.

I don't know if Colin was oblivious, or just didn't care that I would get off my bike, sit on the curb and chat him up, (aka ogle) while he played.  He was a few years older than me, and looking back, I think he liked the attention.  I was only a kid, but I knew enough to ask him just the right questions about himself to get him talking, laughing and telling stories.   Nothing ever happened, he soon got a girlfriend who took my place on the curb. 

Colin was the first redhead that  I really crushed over and it left an imprint.  He also helped form my fascination with gingers.  Now I know that not all redheads are from Ireland, although it is likely their heritage is Northern or Northwestern European, specifically from the British Isles, with a high probability of Celtic (Scottish, Irish, Welsh) or Viking/Nordic ancestry.  Red hair certainly exist beyond Europe, but there is higher concentration in these areas.

It is for this reason, when St. Patrick's Day was approaching, I asked Tom from TR Pics if he had any hot gingers in his archives that we could feature on the day.  Tom had to think it on, and sent on shots of a few auburn adonises for me to choose from.  Tom chucked when I chose Declan, who Tom describes as a bit of a reluctant redhead...

When Tom saw Declan's profile on a modeling site, Declan had listed his hair color as 'dark brown.'  As soon as Tom saw his images, he knew that a bit of a stretch.  If that hair color didn't give away his roots, his name certainly sealed the deal.  Declan is a fairly common Irish boy's name, meaning 'man of goodness, or man of prayer.'  Given how much he swore, Tom isn't sure there was much prayer going on, but Declan take a good shot.

Tricky Tom had another way of exposing the hot 'ginger' with one simple request. As he often does before a nude shoot, Tom asked Declan not to cut his hair or shave any part of his body before the shoot.  Surprise, surprise, when Declan slid off his undies, Declan's ginger hued pubes brightly glistened the second the studio's lights hit and bounced off them.

I guess we can understand Declan's red reluctance.  Although some  projects, (Red Hot) and photographers celebrate gorgeous gingers and ripped redheads, it's still a challenge for some to get work in the industry.  Still, although the hair on Declan's head can 'pass' for brown, his beard and his bush will always give him up.

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