SHE walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that 's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
- Lord Byron
It hasn't been a long while since I featured a Dmitry Maslof gallery, and I believe that he may soon be to Met-Art what Stefan Soell is to FEMJOY. His galleries often contain a lot of graceful nudes, something that I respect about any photographer.
However, he seems to be influenced by Met-Art's market demands as he's certainly has some erotic pictures or pictures that has a sole purpose of showing the model's genitalia, that's when I start having some problems with a photographer because that's where s/he starts to compromise his/her talent.
Anyone with a camera and a nude model can produce sexually arousing images, it's not a secret and there's nothing special about the product, even if it's a beautiful image it only serves one function and that's to arouse the viewer(and therefore to make him want to get out his credit card and to join the website, or at least that's how some marketing teams think), it's beauty becomes useless because the viewer probably is just after the sexual aspect, therefore the beauty in it doesn't really matter. If you want to produce an erotic gallery then you don't need to invest much in your equipment or waste your time picking up locations and the perfect time of the day for shooting, all you need is a sexually attractive model and a plain camera, and you will probably make the same amount of money, or even more.
So, what's the solution?, in my opinion it is to spend more time choosing the right images, being creative while creating beautiful images, and not caring about what marketing teams say. There are some websites out there that will want your tasteful non-sexual work, Body in Mind and FEMJOY just come to mind.
Anyway, here are some beautiful images that I managed to filter out of this Olga A set, I hope that you will like them.
There's something about Darina that makes her very charming. It may be her classic calm beauty or her attractive eyes. She's like that dream girl who suddenly appears in all her glory and alluring ethereal perfection, almost unreal but able to captivate for eons.
This gallery shows some picture from one of the great photo sets of Dmitry Maslof, he may not have a lot of galleries at Met-Art, but his talent is unbelievable. In this gallery he has used great lighting and simple settings to make Darina stand out, indeed that's all he needed to produce another one of his beautiful galleries.
We probably will see a lot of galleries by him at Met-Art soon and I am sure that he will be one of the top MetArt photographers in no time.
I hope that you will enjoy this wonderful gallery of Darina B by Dmitry Maslof.
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Beauty is eternal, that seems to be a clear message that's present in most of the images by the remarkable photographer Jilles Villeprat. By showing different works of art of nature he truly captivates the viewer's soul, almost overwhelming it by the beauty of those works.
You can rarely find an image of a beautiful woman, an amateur, who's sharing her beauty while blending in with her surroundings, but it's true of Jilles Villeprat's works. His photographs are beautiful because his his reverence for nature and for the human form is evident in every single image.
We always do wonder about the beauty of those mountains and boulders that have been carved by nature over hundreds and thousands of years. However, we often don't take the time to inspect and wonder about the beauty of the human form, which is another work of nature. Jilles Villeprat tries to establish the connection by showing both those masterpieces next to each other.
By featuring these images, I hope that you will be able to enjoy this beautiful combination and to be inspired by it.
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It's amazing how technology can influence and change the way with which art is produced. The quality of scanned images simply doesn't match the quality of digital images. Digital cameras have also enabled ordinary people to produce their own art without the need for anyone to take a look at their images.
This gallery comes from a personal collection of mine of Ronin's photographs. However, it's one of the galleries from the times when Met-Art wasn't what it is today, therefore the colors of the images are unfortunately not that outstanding and there's a film grain that can be noticed in some pictures. This made me feel the role of digital cameras in the production of modern artistic nudes, there's no need to have a darkroom in order to produce your own art.
Anyway, I hope that you will enjoy these images by Ronin from Met-Art.
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One of the many things that make art a superior form of self-expression is its ability to penetrate the minds, reaching deep down into the soul of the artist and revealing his/her vision of the world and the hidden beauty that s/he sees.
It's one of the reasons artists have been respected throughout the centuries; everyone knows who Wolfgang Mozart was, but few know who Adam Smith or Willem Einthoven were. Artists have an amazing ability of delving into the souls of their audience and inspiring them; we still can be inspired by Tchaikovsky's 5th and relate to it. It's this ability of communicating with the inner soul of other human beings through revealing some aspects of your soul that made artists often more well-known than scientists.
Artists often see beauty where others don't, they often then use the inspiration of this beauty to create their own beautiful masterpieces. Some of them can even make beauty in their vivid imagination and be inspired by it.
It's now quite clear why this set was called "Inner Soul" by Jilles Villeprat, his works are often very artistic: combining nature's art manifested in rocks and stream with the anthropoid beauty. He also adds some symbols in every picture which makes his works undoubtedly artistic.
I hope that you will enjoy this gallery of masterpieces by Jilles Villeprat.
There are certain qualities that a set must have in order to be an inspiring one. Everyone prefers certain things about a gallery or a photo shoot, but for me the main two things that I really appreciate about a gallery is outdoor locations and the models' beautiful smiles.
As a man who has spent his short life in cities it's quite understandable why I am so attracted to nature. In the cities and on T.V we often use the word nature to refer to purity and the things that aren't that manipulated by man. The public park isn't nature, it's the deserted forest or the empty field that can be considered nature.
A gallery that's shot outdoors doesn't only represent the purity of nature, it also represents the purity of the simple yet complex beautiful nature of the female beauty. Without any pollution brought about by the work of man.
It's easy to see how the location is greatly adding to the beauty of this gallery. Of course Olga A is the most beautiful thing about this gallery, but the lighting and the location are among the things that can make you tell the difference between a good gallery and a bad one.
Anyway, I hope that you will enjoy this gallery of Olga A in Presenting Olga by Dmitry Maslof.
Richard Murrian's style is marked with his ability to mix erotica with art. His works are often beautiful and inspiring. With his remarkable talent, and his beautiful models he has earned his reputation of being one of the best photographers online.
It's hard for a lot of photographers to be able to have the ability to mix elements of erotica and art together; I have seen a lot of strange works by various photographers who try to achieve this result but failed. Richard Murrian has become one of the most popular photographers online because he has a good ability of using the light to show the beauty of his models and because he has worked with various beautiful models. I do regret seeing his talent being used to produce more erotica these days than ever before, but it may be that he prefers this genre of photography or is unable to come up with a lot of innovative artistic galleries without including the sexual elements that are offered by erotica, it's really hard to tell.
His career started when he married his wife Nancy Murrian who soon became his first model, he honed his skills and then started producing galleries that were somewhat more artistic. After he started gaining popularity he started M-U-S-E which was only featuring his works and the works of his wife until recently. The models that he has worked with include Monika C, Nella, and Yanna(her modelling career started in his studio). His works have been featured at various websites including Met-Art, BodyInMind, and of course M-U-S-E.
In this set his style can be easily seen, he often uses shades of black and a soft background, this helps to shift the focus on the models beauty. The models always look good in his exquisite settings.
This lengthy praise of Richard Murrian's talent didn't make me forget the role of Monika C, the model contributes a great deal into the creation of a gallery. It's her willingness to share her beauty and her values that are reflected in the gallery that makes it beautiful.
In this gallery Monika looks tired, but this hasn't affected the quality of the gallery. She is looking as charming as ever. The look in her eyes was rather mysterious, it showed a great deal of self-confidence and a sense of dignified beauty, and as Dwayne Bell of BodyInMind has said in one of his articles, self-confidence is one of the critical inner beauty values that a woman exhibits. It shows her respect for her beauty and demands a similar respect from the viewer, those simple inner beauty values are the things that differentiate between a highly inspiring gallery and a base erotic one. Those values are often reflected on a woman's face and her posture; that's why I always include as many face-shots as possible. Those shots offer us a glimpse of a woman's soul and are essential in completing the wonderful experience that one gets from viewing every graceful picture.
I hope that you will enjoy this beautiful gallery of Monika C from Met-Art.
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There are a lot of elements in a gallery that make it beautiful, and those aren't just related to the camera model or the lighting used. It's more about the attitude of the photographer and what s/he's trying to achieve.
I find this gallery beautiful, the reasons are easy to enumerate; it's that I love the galleries which are shot in nature and I prefer amateur models to professional models.
The beauty about the galleries shot in nature is that they establish a connection between the benevolent all-giving pure nature and its finest product, female beauty. When those elements are combined they often produce glorious results that are indeed breathtaking and inspiring.
I prefer amateur models to professional models because an amateur model is often more spontaneous than a professional model, this spontaneity means a lot. Also, there's a good chance that an amateur model will give us a glance of how the situation would be like if women were given the freedom to share their heavenly beauty with the rest of the world, professional models sometimes make certain poses that may be suggestive or not natural. In my world of ideas spontaneous means free, while artificial means ugly.
I hope that you will enjoy the beauty of those wonderful models in this gallery by Ronin from Met-Art.
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There's a lot of beauty in this world that needs talented photographers to capture it. This beauty includes the beauty of mother nature and the beauty of the bodies that we are always are trying to hide. I am glad that now the technology provides the freedom required for the production of such beautiful works.
This world is very beautiful, there's no doubt about that. The ugliness is brought about by the evil and corruption that's created by some misguided human beings. The pristine Mother Nature is never ugly. Just look at everything around us(please exclude all the human made cities, I am talking about the forests, the colorful birds, the beautiful animals, and the things that you will normally see in the Amazon rain forest). Even the harsh Australian deserts are beautiful, there's a sense of purity that you can see in those sands and the random arrangement of the rocks, the harsh deserts of Greenland are also very pure. We can't deny the existence of all that beauty, we just forget about it in our daily lives in our crowded cities.
The worst thing of all is that we forget that beauty of ourselves. We're beautiful, but we are ashamed of our bodies and how we look like. We always look for extraneous objects and ornaments to try to make ourselves "look better", even in some nations some women who are wearing several layers of make-up appear on the television daily, some women suffer in high heels because they think they make them more attractive. We forget that purity and simplicity are the ultimate forms of beauty that are preferred by many. The insecurities and the false beliefs that our cultures make us have simply make us forget who we truly are.
I belief that one of the worst things that some modern cultures inculcate into the minds of those who belong to them is the philosophy of body shame. Even if you're a religious Christian man there's nothing against pure nudity as long as lust isn't involved, and isn't this what the artistic and nonsexual representations of nudity are about?, if it doesn't come from the religion then it comes from the culture, and we know that cultural laws aren't always right. Even the modern European and American cultures were one day(and some are still, but are slowly changing) misogynistic.
The claims that are made against nudity include:
1- Nudity is about sexuality.
2- Nudity isn't appropriate for minors to see.
3- Nudity is wrong(if a claim isn't supported by reasons then it's a false one).
Nudity certainly isn't about sexuality, one doesn't become sexually excited when s/he sees Titian's Danae or Bouguereau's Baigneuse, s/he doesn't also get sexually excited while strolling in Paris' streets and inspecting the sculptures. There are a lot of non-sexual nudes out there, it all really depends on the attitude of the viewer, but even that attitude is created when that person has been living a life of body shame. When one sees nudity as a natural part of life one learns that nudity is very separate from sexuality, and therefore the first claim is a false one.
Some minors are raised up in nudist households where social nudity is tolerated, and if you make a Google search about the subject you will find a lot of good resources about that argument. However, if you want to know the conclusion of most of those websites, then it's that the minors who are brought up in an environment where nudity is acceptable and not viewed as a shameful thing aren't as preoccupied with sex as their average counterparts who are brought up in non-nudist households, are more comfortable about the changes that are associated with puberty, aren't regular consumers of pornography, and are more open about sexuality. The second claim is proved to be false.
The third claim is false because it simply states no reasons, I have already mentioned that Christianity has nothing against nudity.
The strange body shame that some people have is mainly a cultural concept, thinking about it in a society where nudity is accepted then most of marketing agents will be unemployed. The relationship that's established between nudity and sex in some cultures is very beneficial to those who want to sell their products; a lot of Hollywood movies have references to sex and nudity scenes to gain popularity, the commercials of companies that sell cosmetic products are always trying to convince you that you won't be attractive without their products. Those commercials make you feel unattractive and unhealthy, they will try to make you feel that you won't be complete without their products. So, it's a beneficial thing for the media, I don't really wonder why this body shame is supported by them.
In conclusion, beauty is everywhere but we shouldn't forget that we are beautiful as well. We should remember to pause for a little while everyday to appreciate beauty, whether that may be the beauty of nature, the beauty of nude bodies, or any kind of beauty. It's good and helps us carry on with our daily lives.
I hope that you will enjoy this Met-Art gallery by Ronin.
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