A woman who is approaching middle age often begins to worry whether she is still attractive to the opposite sex. Even if she is married, she still wants to receive admiring glances when she walks into the supermarket or tries on a new pair of shoes and the day they don’t come is the day she will start to hide herself away into dowdy clothes and swap the bikini for a one piece swim suit and a sarong.

What many women don’t realise is that men of all ages often prefer a more mature woman. They have more curves, more warmth and more sensuality. Years of experience will have taught the skill of make-up and how to dress in a way that emphasises the best features. Compare this to a girl in her teens or early twenties who still hasn’t learned how to correctly apply make up and most of all hasn’t learned how to receive a compliment.

A man in his fifties can still make it as prime minister or head an international corporation. His mature looks and touch of grey in the hair will indicate that he has made it to the top so why should this be any different for the opposite sex?

As a photographer, I have come to appreciate the beauty of the mature woman and photograph them often. I’ll know that their make up will be applied correctly and they will have learned their best features. Above all, they won’t have the insecurity of youth and won’t be rushing to the make up table every few minutes to touch up the lipstick.

I recently began photographing Dee, who is 48 and lives in England. She is now very happily settled in her second marriage and with her children grown up, has decided to start on a new career. Admittedly, it’s not every woman of that age who would decide that modeling would be the perfect choice, but her husband has given her total support and loves to see the results. Dee believes it’s also considerably improved her love life and often takes her husband when she is buying new outfits for the shoots. Dee says “It would be very easy for a woman of my age to settle for what I’ve got and of course I could sling on any old clothes and not bother to coordinate my underwear but modeling has made me think about what I wear and how I look all the time. When ever I go out now, I imagine I’m in front of the camera and I’ve found that I get more attention and more compliments than I ever did before”

Dee has recently launched her own website which is attracting visitors from all over the world. “I did have my doubts about appearing naked at first,” she says, “I obviously don’t have the figure of a twenty year old any more, but I get so many compliments from visitors that I know I’m doing the right thing.”