14 April 2006

A model for a day

Anne takes to her new role - model
© Greenpeace

Today we received an email with a request for pictures of one of the Dutch volunteers. They were needed for a glossy magazine. Well, I'm the only Dutch volunteer here now and I'm definitively not a model. In daily life I'm a boatbuilder which is just slightly different and let's say that make-up is a word that is not to be found in my dictionary.

But we had to act quickly because it was urgent and the sun was already setting, so I was told to comb my hair and put a clean Greenpeace t-shirt on. I had to at least try to look like a model. Luckily I just had a swim to get rid of that sweaty feeling.

Another shot for the glossies
© Greenpeace

Fiona, the photographer told me to go out to the lake in a canoe. Then it was possible to get the great scenery of Papua New Guinea in the pictures. I don't think I need to mention how unstable the canoes are. I sat down in the canoe, just to make sure I would make it out to the middle of the lake without getting soaked or flipping it over.

The local people stand up in the boat, which is certainly the most difficult way to paddle a canoe. But I made it without too much difficulty. Fiona came out in another boat and asked me to do all these different poses. "No, you are frowning…", "Can you hold that?", "When I count to three, smile", and so on. Well I was frowning because I was staring into the sun. And of course you can't hold a canoe still when it is drifting…

I got used to modelling and the job ended up fine. We both had a good laugh about the whole thing. Now we have some glossy pictures of a not very model-like Dutch Greenpeace volunteer. Tomorrow we are going to fell a tree to build a new canoe. That's more like it ;-)

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