I am making an exception by adding I Shot Myself galleries to Graceful Nudes. They are artistic in nature, but it's art of a different type. This type of art doesn't include complex photography techniques or processing, and there are no models in the galleries.
I know that it may sound strange, but you need to remember that it's hard to define the boundaries of art. Art isn't just produced in studios or by photographers who have read many lighting techniques books, it can be produced by ordinary people and that's what I Shot Myself is really about. Ordinary, beautiful, and brave women who share their beauty through their art by making self-portraits of themselves.
The fact that there's no stranger taking photographs of them makes them all very comfortable and certainly adds an extraordinary amount of intimacy to their photographs. You can feel their senses and emotions in every image. Their works truly show the freedom that nudity give them, which is a remarkable thing, few photographers can capture the emotions of their models, but when the photographer is photographing herself it becomes a different story.
Women from everywhere around the world contribute to this creative and indeed innovative project. The images those women create may be slightly sexual in nature, but it's positive sexuality that they depict. There's no photographer who's telling them to expose certain parts of their bodies for the sake of the members of the website that has hired this photographer, those are women who are open-minded and positive about their bodies who want to show you from a different perspective.
In conclusion, even though I Shot Myself is a website that's quite different from anything that you see here, it still is a website whose galleries are very inspiring and creative.
I hope that you will like this gallery from I Shot Myself by Kisha.
Masha is the beautiful name of many charming ladies. It is a Russian name which shows the true bravery of Russian women who are never too afraid to share their beauty.
This gallery, or today's MPL update, is one of the many galleries at MPL that follow the "nude girl in nature" theme, but this gallery is exceptional in that Masha adds her own touch and style to the gallery. There are several images that show you that she's truly having fun and not trying to look like she's having fun., this authenticity is very important as it adds a lot of meanings to every image in this gallery including freedom, purity, and nature's art.
I hope that you will enjoy this MPL gallery of Masha.
You may remember Maria from her Code Red gallery that I have posted a couple of days ago. This time she's in a beautiful simple nudes gallery in nature. What I like about the galleries that are shot in nature is the sense of freedom and empowerment that they convey and the plethora of meanings that they carry. This combination also succeeds at showing that nudity is really about purity and not obscenity.
The last picture in the gallery is a very inspiring one. I love the pictures at which the model is jumping as they take the gallery to a completely different level. Being in the air is also a symbol of freedom (frei wie ein Vogel), it all reminds you that there's nothing wrong with beautiful and inspiring nudes of beautiful girls who are enjoying their freedom.
I hope that you will enjoy this gallery of Maria from MPL-Studios.
Amina seems to be one of Max Asolo's top models, I have seen her at several websites including Pretty Nudes and Body In Mind. It doesn't surprise me when he is able to produce those beautiful images with her. However, I would really appreciate seeing her smile. The gallery somewhat looks too formal.
The sunlight being reflected on the foliage creates a wonderful effect that's giving this gallery its beauty, the green color is the color of nature, and this fact alone makes this gallery look very natural. I just didn't like the poses at which Amina's leg was placed on a tree. It's not that they have made the pictures explicit, but I believe that those poses don't add anything to the gallery and therefore could have been eliminated easily.
I hope that you will enjoy this gallery of Alina G by Max Asolo.
MPL Studios has a lot of beautiful galleries, even though this Russian website is mainly erotic in nature they do produce some beautiful galleries which are graceful from time to time, and once those not-so-great images are discarded those galleries become as wonderful as any other beautiful gallery by any other great photographer. I just wish they did list the names of their photographers as this would make it easier to choose the galleries which reflect the personal touch of the photographer and seek more galleries from that photographer.
There's another gallery of Lidiya here on Graceful Nudes which is easily accessible by clicking her name in the left panel under the "Sort by: Models" panel, and if you look at both galleries you will feel truly enchanted by her pure and innocent delightfulness. I guess that she must be a charming and charismatic person in real life as she has always been free and unafraid in front of the camera. She's never too shy to show her smile, and few models truly know how to smile in front of the camera when it's their first gallery.
I hope that you will enjoy this MPL Studios gallery of Lidiya in Rhythm.
The best thing about Abby Winters is their main message which is that ordinary girls are beautiful too. They're basically trying to undo the damaging effects of pornography on the image of women and their sexuality. The emotions of the models are never understated even in their most explicit galleries, they will never make the model make fake her emotions or to exaggerate them. The smiles are always genuine and the beauty of their models is always shown. I believe that all of these characteristics of all of the Abby Winters galleries are the reason they are so different and successful.
They are trying to change the common misconceptions about female sexuality and to change the double standards that the society has against the beauty of the females and their freedom. They are trying to remove the false values that are disseminated by the unethical and misleading pornographic websites that are very disrespectful and humiliating. A woman shouldn't be free of any body hair in order to be beautiful, she doesn't have to have breast implants in order to be beautiful, she doesn't have to have a 5 years experience in modelling in order to be beautiful, she doesn't have to be shot by a veteran photographer of artistic nudity in order to be beautiful, she doesn't have to make those fake disgracious faces in order to be beautiful, she doesn't have to have 0% body fat in order to be beautiful, she doesn't have to go to the gym for 2 hours everyday in order to be beautiful. All she needs to be beautiful on Abby Winters is to be herself, with all of her fantasies, with her own personality, and with her own emotions. These are the reasons I have never had a bad feeling posting a link to Abby Winters here on Graceful Nudes even though they have a lot of explicit and sexual galleries on their website, because they do everything with respect to their models and to the viewer's intelligence.
I really love this gallery. And before describing my own feelings about the gallery I will paraphrase what is said at AbbyWinters.com about this gallery.
The main inspiration behind the creation of this gallery is a mythical creature called the 'Selkie' or the 'Silkie' in the Irish, Icelandic, and Scottish mythology. These creatures can change from the seal form to the human form after shedding their pelt to reveal the most beautiful woman that is known to man. A human who loves a selkie must hide or burn her seal skin that she has shed in order to prevent her from returning to the sea as if she finds her seal skin she will be forced to return back to the sea and to leave her lovelorn human husband and she will also be prevented from making any contact with human beings for seven years. This was the main mythological story behind the creation of this beautiful gallery.
It's amazing how a simply mythological story about a beautiful creature can survive for so many years and to result in the creation of such beautiful works of art. It's also a fascinating thing as such a story can be combined with the beautiful imagery to make you have an untellable experience, just like the classic paintings that depict battles or scenes from the classical mythology.
I did love this gallery because Isabel is very natural and amazingly alluring, the location is wonderful and the lighting is simply great. Isabel isn't afraid to smile and her uninhibited soul really does permeate every single image. I can only say that it's like nothing I have seen before.
This gallery truly shows what can be done when you know how to show the real beauty of your models and being brave about doing so. It's indeed the ultimate beauty and grace.
I hope that you will enjoy this wonderful Abby Winters gallery.
This is a gallery by the renowned Chris Ruegge, he is clearly a master of lighting and his fascination with the female form can be easily seen through his works. I still remember his gallery of Ivette at Body In Mind which did show the charm of the female form just like this gallery.
The main reason I chose this gallery was because it could gracefully highlight the heavenly curves of the beautiful female form of Linda. If I were to judge, I would say that this is one of the most tasteful galleries that I have seen on Body In Mind.
I hope that you will enjoy this graceful gallery of Linda in Liquid from Body In Mind.
I chose this gallery because it's not a typical Stefan Soell gallery, this time Alison is clearly having fun being there and the gallery somewhat lacks the rigorous settings of nude photography and the artificial poses were kept to a minimum. I believe that all of these things has lead to the creation of a wonderful gallery.
Alison is also another reason behind my choice of this gallery, she may be underweight but she has a certain grace that deserves admiration. She is in my opinion one of Stefan Soell's best models and I am really proud to add this gallery of her here.
I hope that you will enjoy this wonderful gallery of Alison from FEMJOY.
What I really respect about MPL is that they do present some artistic galleries from time to time. They have never claimed to be a website that produces pure artistic galleries, on the contrary, they do say that they produce erotic imagery and some artistic galleries. I also do respect their uniqueness, you can tell that something is wrong when all of the galleries that are produced by every nudity-related website out there look the same. It's mainly a problem with the approach as all the websites try to imitate each other to attract the same users. While with MPL you find that most of their galleries are quite unique and innovative, even their erotic ones. A quick glance at their updates page give you an idea about what they produce and how they produce it. Their galleries may not be suitable for me, but I do respect their approach to the subject of nudity.
I did choose this gallery because its cover has attracted me. black is one of my favorite colors and the covers did show the majesty and beauty of the divine female body. After clicking I didn't regret it as I have found some great pictures. I did notice some minor problems though. The first of them is the inability to balance the light and shadows to capture Maria's facial beauty and concentrating on her physical beauty instead, this is a mix of art and erotica that doesn't really match the mood of the gallery. Some pictures did achieve the perfect balance while others just couldn't do this. The results are still very inspiring after being able to concentrate on the whole image rather than the highlighted body parts, and that's why I am adding this gallery to Graceful Nudes.
I am sorry once again about the unstable rate of updates, I will maintain the constant stream of updates soon. I have been very busy lately.
Anyway, I do hope that you will enjoy this gallery from MPL Studios.
The main reason I am adding this gallery to Graceful Nudes is that it contains two images that are truly artistic. Unfortunately, a lot of galleries seem to have only a scarce number of graceful images, and this gallery was the same. There were a lot of images which were infested by erotica that I have removed. I have only left the acceptable images and those two images that I have mentioned earlier.
I hope that you will enjoy this gallery of Desiree by Arev.
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