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On an 80-degree Saturday in early January, the photographer Jason Henry showed up at a home near Tampa, Fla., on an assignment for The Times’s Food section and found one of his subjects, Jayson McMullen, sitting on the porch playing guitar and singing his heart out.

Mr. McMullen was also completely naked.

“As soon as I saw that, I knew it was going to be a great shoot,” Mr. Henry, 35, said.