What We Can Do Can Be Done.

Balloon Ark created by my cousin, Marcia Liggett at First Church of God, for Amber's Amazing Balloons. Sept. 9, 2018, which is her daughter's business. Amber, a new college graduate in grad. school right now, has been in business since elementary school. It is a successful business. 

Parenting is an art. In today's climate it isn't acted out this way. With so much of American thought and practice as parents under duress one would logically believe it not possible given the wealth and advantages of this culture. For people whose ancestors are indigenous to this land, and from the Land of the Blacks there are ancient ways of being a parent, and a part of community that is foreign to European thought, belief and practice. This is important to fathom because the fact is white Americans have created chaos where they know order belongs. Why they do this instinctually requires deep study.

I mention this in the context of acknowledging my cousin Maria Liggett, and her husband, Lamont, who have retained and mastered an ancient way of raising and developing their children that outsizes the puny thought process common in American life that develops the lowest impulses within children from suicide to gang warfare and truancy. How a nation underserves its children is based on the belief systems held during the long periods of European life in their Dark Ages.

They raised their children in a white community on purpose in Western Pennsylvania, which is significant because the climate there is seeped in the self-destructive dynamics of racism, as a social construct. The two of them set their standards of expectation high, and humbly influenced a white town towards a higher awareness outside of, and away from the primitive outlines they feel special within as 'superiors'. Their two children had struggles within what is typical of white American resistance to the challenges to their assertions of superiority in terms of intelligence, capacity to learn and exceed. The two children started and developed business in elementary school that have grown. The boy, Rob, has a successful photography business. He is in high school. His sister, Amber's balloon business afforded her opportunities too numerous to mention in the small space of an article.

The point is one of excellence. It is not a target point of the majority. For those on this trajectory there is a special consideration: they will find a way to learn the secrets and the techniques of the best from the best of the best. The rest?

Well. . .


- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
 [September 8, 2018]

EYE on the Dark Hue.

Roland Dawson took this picture of Ilahaya Brianna Archangel 

in the spirit of the "Queen of the Damned" movie. Body paint by Black Night Nero. (2018).

Jonica Steward by Roland Dawson. The theme is #denimanddiamonds. (2018).

Model, Nadia by Roland Dawson 

taken at Thomas Imagery studio in August 2018.

Unbelief in the strength of women is founded on a concept of an overextended version of male superiority that suffers under the glare of our women, who know better. In the context of Black American history the strength of concepts from matrilineal societies hold Black families intact. Today, all the factors that debilitated the new Africans in the Americas were challenged by the old, strong traditions from the Land of the Blacks!...

I make this point because the power of this image brings this to the forefront. The strength Black American women have needs to be respected, understood, deciphered and held against the wisdom depths of our Ancestors, who understood in depths we, as a People, have long forgotten! This photograph, Roland, has those powers. So much of your work toys with the loins, but on a deeper level the high intelligence of your work is invigorating because it has a basis in a connection with who you are, and where you come from in the Ancestral Realms. I know this is a lot to discern and discuss about photography, but Black Americans cannot help but evoke thoughts and reactions this profound. It is part of the genius we come from, and revisit!... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8/28/18 

Gorgeously Nelly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania taken 

by Roland Dawson. [Feb. 2018]

Roland Dawson, you have done quite the impressive introspective photo sessions centered around, and about Gorgeously Nelly. Quite the thoughtful and fun approaches you use.

Again, I love what you do and enjoy the stimulation of thoughts, and emotions in your views...

It is intriguing the trend, this century, of women hiding their eyes with color. Perhaps, it is a reaction to predatory ways of young cats not listening, but acting as if they listen. Eyes do not need to hide, if prospective boyfriends, or husbands know how to read and see. That is quite the combination: thinking and observation. The better part of fatherhood teaches what is understood as responsibility. "It is all in the eyes." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/03/18

Ken Marcus, a MASTER

Photographer, Ken Marcus.

"All these years I have admired your work, not realizing you evoke and come from feelings levels deep in the sensory worlds of belief, non-belief, exploration, and realizations beyond 'what is there'! There are responsibilities to have in this field of endeavor you move with like a mysterious and serious seer. . .

Bless you, I do." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 1/18/19



Erotic Glamour Art, Fetish and Nature Nude Photos from World Renown Photographer Ken Marcus of Hollywood, California, USA

We are ringing out January gloriously courtesy of 12 Glamour Art, Fetish and Nature Nude images from Hollywood, California Photographer Ken Marcus.

Ken has for over 30 years been producing award-winning photographs of the world’s most beautiful women.

Perhaps you were at one of his seminars?   Through the years, Ken has given back by conducting hundreds of workshops, seminars and lectures on the fine art of glamour and nude photography and has instructed thousands of photographers throughout in the US, Europe, Australia, Asia, and South America.

His work runs the full spectrum on into beautifully well done erotic fetish photos, some samples of which are included here.

Ken’s works have been featured world-wide and are regularly to be found in the finest Galleries, Museums, Magazines and Books.

You may well know his work from Playboy, Penthouse, Muscle & Fitness or countless other magazines. 

Ken’s first interests in photography began by age 5.

By age 12, Ken was the youngest student studying under Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park.

You can see Ansel’s influence in a number of Ken’s Black and White Yosemite figure studies.   More on Yosemite later… 

Photographer Ken Marcus. Yosemite National Park Nude Male as Atlas with Boulder.

Ken attended Art Center College of Design and Brooks Institute of Photography while also continuing on his studies with Ansel Adams for 13 years.

By age 17 Ken had started his own photography business, Ken Marcus Studios, Inc., and has been a freelance photographer ever since.

Ken Marcus Studios, Inc., has since produced thousands of national advertisements, celebrity posters, calendars and album covers for editorial, commercial, and entertainment use for both domestic and international clients.

When Ken hit 23, Ken his interests shifted from nature to au natural, nudes that is…

Yay!

Many of us began to see Ken’s work at this time as he began shooting for Bob Guccione’s Penthouse Magazine as their first American photographer.

Three years later he was the main centerfold photographer for Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Magazine.

While working with Playboy, Ken produced hundreds of glamour editorials, calendars, covers and Playmate layouts.

After 11 years shoot for the ‘Big Bunny’, Ken was again shooting for Penthouse.

For the next 10 years, he shot editorials and covers as well for Muscle & Fitness Magazine where he photographed some of the world’s top bodybuilders and fitness models. 

Body Builder Male and Female Nude on Top of Large Boulder by Ken Marcus

Very busy during this time, Ken was selected as the ‘Artist in Residence’ at the Yosemite National Park Museum where his Nudes in Nature series still exists as part of their permanent photographic collection and some examples of which we are viewing here today.

Ken is currently involved in shooting and producing images for his website.

His most recent works revolve around themes of bondage, fetish and other erotic situations.

He is now most interested in working with erotic models, ballet dancers, contortionists, body builders, performance artists, athletes and others that involved in body modification, artistic self-expression and/or alternative lifestyles… Still my hero.

You a big fan of Ken’s yet?

Check out more of his expanding body of work by Click Here.

Images © Ken Marcus Studios

For a listing of Photographers Profiled on GlamourPhotography.co,
 click here. Posted on January 31, 2011Author YucelCategories Portfolio

2 Different Times.

Krystle Lov'e.and Roland Dawson, the model and the photographer. January 2019.

"There is devotion to light by spiritually attuned people, and there is devotion to one's craft, and the attention one gives the details of being creative is the return to the origins of why creative people teach the crude to see better!" It amazes me how you consistently make this point in your work, Mr. Dawson!! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories January 11, 2019 

Tintype photograph of two men. 

TWO INDIAN MEN

It was late in the 1890's. Not to long in the country above our little town my brother and I sat for this tintype. We'd been cattle rustlers with four gringos, who took off after the roundup and caught. We escaped. 



We thought we could be better men, so we took our money to buy new clothes and shave. We didn't look like this after hiding from the authorities. A few weeks had passed by, and we got to a town without the lawmen figuring where we hid. This looks not like us then. A few years later Juan, on the left found his wife in the town near the town we left her in, and she had had two children, who weren't his. . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1/16/19