This is a beautiful new set from Body In Mind, which is accompanied by the following paragraph by Dwayne Bell:
"We at Body in Mind are always telling people that beauty can save the world. And we mean it. But rarely does a beauty come along who perfectly illustrates our point. How does it work? Simple. If you're a young man, and you're healthy and possess a normal sex drive, you will find Klaudia very beautiful, and you will begin to fantasize about her. If you have a mind you will fantasize not only about sex with her, but about having her as a girlfriend, about her falling in love with you and so on. And if you're a moral man, you will know that to make this happen you will have to earn it, you will have to impress her as much as she's impressed you. And to do that, you will have to do something great. That is how beauty will save the world. It makes intelligent, moral men great. Start saving yourself, and the world, today, at Body In Mind." - Dwayne Bell
While I have a lot of respect for Dwayne Bell and Body In Mind, I have to disagree with what he has said in the previous paragraph.
It may be true that this is how inspiration works for some people, I am not sure as this has never been the way in which I saw the power of beauty.
Young men aren't the only ones who admire beauty, there are a lot of older men who do appreciate this beauty as much as any young man or even better, as their own interpretation of the images comes from a long experience in life and not hormonal urges, which isn't the way with which all young men view those images.
Men fantasize about a lot of things, they may fantasize about celebrities or various women. While they may think that all those women are beautiful, it's not always so. Universal beauty transcends attraction or even fantasy, it may invoke the powers of imagination and the sense of morality that is present in all human beings, but it doesn't yield to basic instincts.
What a person described in that paragraph experiences is not beauty, it is a combination of greed and sexual desire, which should not undergo a process of rationalization in order to be considered normal or natural. I don't think that a lot of people have fantasized about having sex with a subject of a classical painting that contains a nude representation of female beauty.
Unfortunately, I feel that Dwayne is somehow endorsing this kind of possessive behavior. I don't really think that making Klaudia sound like a trophy or a material thing to be earned is the right way to talk about beauty or its ability to alleviate pain or inspire heroic actions. I somehow feel that this concept was infiltrated by the current consumption trends: you can earn whatever you want as long as you work for it.
This view is somehow self-centered and doesn't give Klaudia the appreciation she deserves. A person who forgets the gaze and the eyes for a woman's bosom loses a lot. Bosoms are shared by all women, they're something that is dictated by physiological processes, or in other words are purely physical. The beauty I see is deeper than that, even though a lot of it may be based on the imagination of certain traits and psychological qualities, it is far more complex than simple curves, and most importantly more unique.
Beauty belongs to the realm of the abstract, the elusive ethereal qualities of life that can positively influence our actions. Not the realm of mindless sexual impulses or sexual fantasies.
For instance, what mainly attracted me to this gallery was the gaze of Klaudia and her attitude. A power manifests itself in her dark lucid eyes that almost belongs to the world or mythical heroines, she looks as if she's determined to achieve something. Imagination takes it from there, what is it that she's trying to achieve? Is it the end of all wars? Is it an ultimate cure for cancer? Is it the end of suffering?
She then becomes a role model, a source of true inspiration. Her beauty to me is that she, at least in my head, is trying to save the world, trying to do what no other human being has dared to do, she wants to stop people from harming each other, she doesn't care about fame as long as she does the noble thing.
I am not saying that this is what every man sees. I can't claim to know how others view the world, but in all cases I hope that they're not seeing it in the way that Dwayne has described.
A door, a portal preceding a passage to the truth, to whoever you really are, to what you can achieve.
The light of your inner self is shining through the door, only the naked truth stands there awaiting your taking the right step inside and starting the journey of lifetime exploration. Reminding you that you're not a machine and that you can think for yourself.
While it may seem unlikely that an ordinary digital picture can help you achieve all of this, it's not true. There's a lot of work involved before you can stop seeing the bodies, especially that most of us has been taught to only see the outer shell, why?!
I have mentioned the reasons many times, but I will repeat them once again:
1- That view helps complete societies in exploiting women, how many references to heterosexual sex are there in a Hollywood movie? Why are some movie fans obsessed with the occasional "wardrobe malfunctions"?
2- It helps in increasing the wealth of some human beings(the widespread subspecies known as Homo avaricious).
3- Politicians and religious leaders(the two occupations are very similar) will always find something to blame for their failures, and you too will find something to blame for your own failures. This takes away the burden of having to converse with that critical "inner voice".
4- This helps in making you gradually obtain the concept of a "perfect body", and then spend thousands of hours talking to your wife/yourself about how you should look like and what you need to do in order to look like that.
5- You can always pay money for porn producers, there are huge amounts of money involved.
6- You have the freedom to treat women the way you want to.
7- Women won't be able to have any voices when everyone's too busy fantasizing about what their clothes cover.
8- You can always be a slave to your sexual urges.
There's a lot more, but I will probably mention them later.
I find it highly offensive and even disgusting when I realize that some people will never be able to get past Tracy's body. It's hard to miss the beauty in the pictures, but somehow they have learned to be too distracted by the shallow anatomy.
I don't rate this gallery as one of Body in Mind's best galleries, Tracy has a lot of make-up on(If it's her choice then I respect that, but we should be able to dissociate between hazardous chemicals and beauty). The gallery isn't that monotonous, but doesn't offer the variety of innovative images that I have come to expect from Body in Mind, nonetheless I did appreciate the overall idea behind the gallery and didn't want you to miss it.
Think, respect, be inspired!
Nudity will destroy the world. This statement is very true, and I definitely agree with it. However, before thinking that I have lost my mind please read on to hear my explanation.
I have often heard this sentence throughout my life, it's one of the prevalent ideas in any conservative household. I took it for granted, but I still believe in it. Yes, I do spread nudity and beauty...do I want our world to be destroyed?
Let me first paraphrase what that sentence means to me. Nudity will destroy the world as we know it, we all know the power and the inspiration of beautiful and tasteful nudes. As Dwayne Bell has argued many times, beauty rouses human ethics. Many have argued that an ethical society will be harmonious.
The world that we live in may suffer from corruption and a general lack of ethical conduct, greed in our consumer societies is literally consuming every good value that we have, it's about who can control his greed and who can not. I imagine it like a battle between your good side(ethics) and the bad one(greed), greed has a lot of powerful weapons in our modern world and that's why it reigns. However, if tasteful nudes can empower our good side and help us in surmounting the difficulties of our lives we shall be able to lead an ethical life.
Once ethics have this amazing power, the world as we know it will change, thus it will be destroyed....for good.
Never underestimate the power of tasteful nudes like those of Klaudia from Body In Mind.
Make your good side win!
I wonder about the reason that has attracted me to this gallery. Klaudia is beautiful, the lighting is good, and Chris Ruegge is one of the masters of nude photography, but I still am not able to pinpoint the exact reason I find this gallery that attractive or even why I have decided to add it to Graceful Nudes.
I am quite sure that the reason isn't Klaudia's perfect body as I rarely choose a gallery because the model has a beautiful body, but it may be her face: it looks very familiar and there's this gentle beauty in it that makes you feel that you've admired Klaudia for years. It's a shame that we forget how powerful the model's facial beauty can be.
Anyway, The reason behind my addition of this gallery may not be that clear to me, but I am sure that you will enjoy this beautiful Body In Mind gallery by Chris Ruegge.
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.
Body In Mind sometimes features truly beautiful and inspiring galleries and I feel that some of their galleries could have used some more attention. The problem isn't with their highly-skilled photographers or their heavenly beautiful models, I believe the problem lies in the instructions they give to the photographers, this gallery is beautiful. But, there are some negative things about it, the most noticeable of them is what seems to be a problem with Tracy's right eye and the make-up. I can't really think of any woman who sun tans with make-up on. Women are supposed to enjoy nudity as a way of escaping the prevalent lies about beauty in our modern world, showing the innate beauty everyone has.
I personally prefer the shape of the female bodies because they aren't as muscular as male ones (most male models are body builders) and because of the attractiveness and the beauty of the female form. I enjoy the beauty of the model not because she's skinny or because she looks like a super model, I enjoy it because it presents a natural form of beauty, but when the natural look of the model is tainted with excessive make-up or any extraneous element the images become quite distracting. This is one of the reasons I prefer simple nudes to super nudes, they are more simple and more natural.
I will ignore my partisan inclinations towards simple nudes for a while and concentrate on highlighting the positive things about this gallery. First, it's a gallery by Chris Ruegge who's a renowned photographer known for producing beautiful nudes, Tracy is beautiful in the most graceful of ways, the location is good, there are no people around which makes the model feel more relaxed(I have an impression that she wasn't that relaxed at the time of this photo shoot), and it was shot outdoors (leaving an impression of the model feeling free). The last few images are better even though they aren't that innovative, I don't see the point behind making the model stand on some grass and shooting her.
The gallery is beautiful, but if you work at BiM, please tell your boss that the whole point of the images shouldn't be to depict the nude female form, but rather to combine the beauty of the female form with a lot of other elements to produce inspiring galleries. Remember, there's a very thin line between good nudes and pornographic nudes.
OK, I can hear some of you thinking, if he doesn't like this gallery that much then why is he adding it?! I am adding this gallery because it's beautiful, I tend to exaggerate the negative points about a gallery when I feel that it could have featured images which are of a better quality if those little extraneous details were removed. Make-up reminds me of the world of glamour, which isn't quite compatible with tasteful nudes. I am one of those who believe that fashion can be the biggest enemy of true beauty, combining some fashion elements with your pictures can produce good results(e.g Brigham Field), but it doesn't always produce beautiful results.
Anyway, I hope that you will enjoy this gallery of Tracy from BodyInMind.
There are a lot of things that I respect about Body In Mind, and one of those things is the graceful way with which they show their models. They actually do spend a lot of time with their models and they know how to make a model have fun in front of the camera without feeling vulnerable. I believe this is one of the reasons their galleries are that beautiful, you just can't make a person you know look bad and you just can't objectify him/her when you don't treat him/her as an object.
For example, in the description of this gallery they say "He learned there's a lot going on behind Ivette's beautiful blue eyes. She's not only gorgeous but intelligent; quiet but ambitious." -Body In Mind, You can understand now why their galleries are never disrespectful and why they don't do a lot of unnecessary close-ups, getting close to the model doesn't mean putting your camera lens 2 centimeters away from their bodies, it means taking the time to understand their desires, dreams, and fantasies.
I hope that you will have a lot of fun viewing this marvellous gallery from BodyInMind.
More Marketa Belonoha Galleries
Marketa Belonoha is one of the most graceful models on-line. She has worked with a lot of different websites and she can be seen at all the nude art websites. Her galleries are always graceful and her magnificent presence adds a lot of meaning to each image in which she appears.
Here's the description of this gallery provided by BodyInMind:
"We often get asked what is the difference between 'super nudes' and 'simple nudes'. This gallery of super nudes of Marketa Belonoha by Chris Ruegge shows it. Super nudes are like erotic glamor photos without the sex. Simple nudes are like outdoor porn without the sex. Both super nudes and simple nudes focus on beauty, not sex, but simple nudes are pretty much limited to girls smiling in fields, without much thought to the other things you find in super nudes such as dramatic poses, composition, lighting, colours, interesting locations or the model's other qualities such as intelligence, confidence, bravery etc. Often simple nudes will add combed hair, or interesting settings or poses, etc. because these values make more beauty. This makes simple nudes into super nudes. The more values you superimpose on a photo, the more beauty there is. Super nudes add lots of values; simple nudes add only a couple. This makes super nudes simply more beautiful."
I certainly disagree of a lot of these claims, I support super nudes and simple nudes. However, attacking simple nudes and calling it too simple tells me that the author is messing the whole point of simple nudes. The quality of the gallery produced isn't by the different elements you use in your images or even the beauty of it. It's by the meaning this gallery delivers, sometimes seeing a model enjoying her freedom indoors is good, but when the model is outdoors it all changes, she becomes a part of nature and she embraces it. Simple nudes hate beds because they can be considered as a hidden sexual message, the point is to inspire the visitor and make him become inspired by the beauty he's seeing. I agree with the simple nudes movement that some elements added to the galleries can just destroy them instead of adding to them. It's like having all different sorts of beverages and mixing them together, sometimes the mix will taste good even though you have only combined two of those beverages instead of making a mega cocktail whose final destination is going to be the kitchen sink, it's not the number of beverages you used to make your cocktail, it's how your cocktail tastes like.
I hope that you will enjoy this Marketa Belonoha gallery from BodyInMind.
Enjoy!
The wood in this gallery makes it very classy, and gives it a spirit of professionalism and respect. The gallery made me feel that I was sitting in a closed office.
I hope that you will like this Body In Mind gallery of Tracy.
Enjoy!
The odds would have it that every once in a while - not often - everything comes together in a way that can only be described as 'perfect'. Such is the case with our latest series of photos of Tracy created by chief BiM photographer Chris Ruegge. The natural light streaming in through a huge open window was perfect. The subtle colours in the background were perfect complimentaries in a sultry tone. And of course the model, Tracy, was perfect, perfect proportions, perfect curves, perfect spirit of quiet pride and natural confidence, perfectly pretty even without any make-up. This is the rarest kind of beauty there is - perfect beauty. In fact, it's photos like these that remind us what beauty is after all: perfection in physical form.
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