Dozens of women posed naked on their bicycles on a bridge over one of Amsterdam's historic canals on Sunday - a unique sight even in a city famed for its relaxed attitude toward nudity and sex.
They were among 2000 men and women who participated in a series of four nude group photos in the city in the early hours of the morning as part of the latest project of US photographer Spencer Tunick.
The first and largest composition was in a decidedly prosaic location: a parking garage on the outer ring of the city.
But what the location lacked in romance, it made up for in style.
Participants lined the railings of the garage's twin circular towers, creating a pattern of multicoloured stripes against the white building and an overcast sky.
The women on bikes were selected from the larger group and posed with their chins pointed triumphantly upward toward the sky.
Other compositions included a group of men posing together near the parking garage and a mixed group of men and women on another bridge.
Tunick, from Brooklyn, New York, has become famous for photographing thousands of naked people in public settings worldwide, from London and Vienna to Buenos Aires and Buffalo.
He set a record for naked photography with a photo of 18,000 people in the buff in Mexico City last month.
Photos from Sunday's session are being exhibited at an Amsterdam club.
From the Associated Press
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.jpg)  My respect goes out to those women - because presently it is as non-spring chilly in Amsterdam as it is here in Germany. I have been postponing my race training for Easter monday again and again because of the really cold and stormy weather. Looks like getting nak.., eh, getting onto your bike despite of the cold wind is easier if you are part of a huge group...
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