Bianca Beauchamp
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"Create your own visual style ... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others." Orson Welles
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faces II
November 14th 2007 03:30
There’s the smile, the teeth, the eyes, the brows, there’s the chin, the dimples (or not), there’s the cheekbones, the lips, the ears, there’s the haircut, the frown, or perhaps the quizzical gaze, and then there’s the cheeky smirk.
The windows of the soul have a lot to do with a person’s facial appeal. So what happens when they’re not looking down the barrel of the lens? Does that elusiveness exhibit anything that detracts from the initial appeal? Does the lack of eye contact create a sense of mysterious allure?
Am I talking absolute rubbish? Probably … so I should shut up then. Let the faces do the talking. Peace out.
Puh-lenty more striking visages to come .... But in the meantime the fairest ones here for moi would be the classy elegance of Liz Taylor, original supermodel Ms Turlington, the demure beauty of "It" gal Clara Bow, the Phoenician perfection of Elana Drago, and the wide-eyed troubled stare of Peter Lorre. But hey, they're all captivating in their individual way.
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Posted By: Raoul Duke - Category: photography
sexy - feminine II
November 8th 2007 04:19
Once again though it’s not just the figure that commands the allure, or the clothing they wear, no matter how little. It’s the photography that ultimately influences the viewer as to whether they find a photograph of someone sexy or not. They not realise it, but the skin tones, the shadow of the figure’s curves, the light playing on their hair, these are all affected by the skills of the photographer, and if they’re not done right, someone whom normally might be deemed sexy might appear ordinary, or even bland.
When discussing the sexual allure of women in the eyes of red-blooded men, there's the argument of big breasts vs. medium breasts, big ass booty vs. slender hips and small buttocks, legs vs. tits vs. derriere ... Each to their own, I say. Me? I'm just a sucker for a pretty face, I guess.
At the end of the day sexiness is completely in the eye of the beholder. So, enough of the pontificating, let me share with you some more of my little eye.
Those pants of Holly's are very cool, but bring on summer I say! My lover has just bought I new black tie-up bikini, and I'm lookin' forward to a little beach action, where she can show off that shapely derriere of hers, and I can lay back and admire. These women and girls ain't got nuthin' on my butter-fly babe! But hey, if I had to choose, I'd say Brooke Valentine has some serious booty, Katie Fey makes a black wrap around look smokin', and Heidi Marie makes me jus' wanna rock and roll!
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beaches
October 31st 2007 05:57
In the meantime, I’ll say that I spent my childhood and adolescent years spending weeks and weeks at a time in the Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand during the summer school break. It helped having a father who was a drama school teacher, as his holidays coincided, so we were away for up to two months! It was bliss.
Well, enough of the fond memories from my youth and the fanciful dreams of my adult life. Here is a selection of beach pics. I couldn’t help but throw in a couple of the same beach, the photography demanded it. And it is the photography that counts in capturing the beauty of a beach. If it’s overcast, it’s all over.
Damn, I need to by lying on these beaches! Right now! But where does one start? I am lucky though, living in Sydney, Australia, there are some fabulous beaches around where I live in the Eastern suburbs ... But I gotta get my tanned ass back to Lonely Bay, or perhaps Waikiki ... Ipanema is alluring, I just wonder how much of distraction the local fare would be from the beach itself.
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wonders
October 12th 2007 01:28
Awe is a beautiful thing. What causes a person to gasp in astonishment or marvel with unbridled passion? It’s a combination of things: scope, scale, perspective, arrangement, feat, ingenuity … aesthetics, basically. These aesthetics might be bizarre, they might be beautiful. But they command out attention because we feel privileged to be able to witness them.
I do plan to visit some of these places soon though. So I can gaze in wonder and awe in close proximity. But for the meantime I have my life enriched vicariously through photography
Well, let’s see then. I’ve put together a selection of images that roughly capture what I feel to be wonders of the world; from nature, from the industrial world, from the ancient world, from the modern world, from Earth and from space.
Some of these are “traditional”, while others are a little more eclectic. Overall I’m sure the majority you’ll agree will have some kind of positive effect on your sense of wonder. Who knows, you might even see something there for the first time and actually find yourself thinking “Wow! That is extraordinary; I’ve never seen that before!”
Of course it would be most glorious to be able to witness these wonders in the flesh so to speak. However as I look at them again I find myself shamefully admitting that I have not seen any of these places or things for real, only in photographs. But hey, sometimes photography captures things even better than seeing them for real … but not very often.
Obviously they are all fantastic! I don't know which ones to pick as absolute favourites ... The footprint of the abominable snowman has always fascinated me, I believe in the yeti more so than sasquatch (bigfoot). The architectural marvels are always good to look at. But then nature's wonders, such as the highest waterfall in the world, Angel Falls, or the northern lights are breathtaking. Some would argue the moon landing is a hoax, but even so, it's the most impressive global deception I can think of, a truly marvellous lie!
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erotica
September 28th 2007 05:00
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sexy - feminine
August 24th 2007 03:25
Like I said in the first part, physical attraction is in the eye of the beholder, but there are definite factors which come into play when one is deciding what makes someone look sexy, desirable, alluring
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sexy - masculine
August 22nd 2007 02:36
But there are many other elements which help to define just how good looking and, more to the point, how sexy a person is. One of these is a person’s attitude which although somewhat elusive when one is being admiring from a far can be quite important to the overall vibe they give off, whether it be a moodiness, or a sense of danger, or perhaps a warm sensitive smile. Sometimes it can be a look of availability that adds to their libidinous charm, or the opposite, a steely gaze that says “What you lookin’ at? I ain’t your sex toy
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faces
August 17th 2007 01:56
Faces are, generally, what attracts us to another person. The face is what lures us in or distracts us. The eyes are called the windows of the soul. The shape of the nose, the way the lips curl, the edge of the chin, the prominence of the cheek, the colour of the skin … all of these elements add up to what the beholder finds either pleasing or displeasing to the eye
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sunsets
August 3rd 2007 02:32
But, appreciating a sunset for real is very different from enjoying a sunset from a distance. When I say “distance” what I actually mean is a photograph of a sunset. The image captured by a camera to be relished for years to come
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