Fortune has been on my side in showering me with the opportunity to meet and photograph women of unusual beauty. I can remember three in particular. The first was my wife Rosemary. I saw her (walking away) in Mexico City leaving a school where she taught English (and so did I but I had never seen her until that moment). What I saw was perfectly straight,  very long blonde hair, a micro mini-skirt and the most beautiful legs I had ever seen (before that they were my mother's fine legs).

A second woman I also saw from the rear. She was at a Ballet BC rehearsal. This was a woman with dark hair in a bun (a dancer what do you expect?). She was waddling away from me most gracefully (imagine a duck from the Paris Opera Ballet). I touched her shoulder. She turned around and I asked her who she was. "I am Sandrine Cassini. I am new here. I started at the Paris Opera Ballet when I was 14."

A third was and is Kethryn Petersen who walks gracefully and most straight. But then how would you explain this shot? 


References in classic literature (Web Page here to view in context)

Well, if we've lost the road we must find it,' said Nikita curtly, and getting out and stepping lightly on his pigeon-toed feet he started once more going about on the snow.

Keggs was a man--one must use that word, though it seems grossly inadequate--of medium height, pigeon-toed at the base, bulgy half-way up, and bald at the apex.

HERE was Burnley's pigeon-toed but enormously effective Leighton James.

Leighton the day for left-back's namesakes

Skeletal, almost pigeon-toed in its awkwardness, it looks unassuming, but in 2006 its introduction was a design achievement.

the daughter begins to walk, it is apparent that she ambles pigeon-toed.