4 Glimpses

Tasnia Rahman studied by Tanvir Khan's camera eye.

classic Indian beauty of Nazia Mahmud by Tanvir Khan.

classic Indian beauty of Efa Tabassum captured by Tanvir Khan, 

wardrobe- Anokhi by Humaira Khan, hair by Sheema Heena. [2018]

classic Indian beauty of Samia Hossain Chandni 

taken by Tanvir Khan's camera. 

A Question leads to GROWTH.

 Women's Portraits Only (WPO

Fashion portrait of Anetta shot by Kenneth Lysgaard. [Nov. 2018]

"... There is softness to weigh in the presence of serenity and the brief feel of what within women draws men to their essence. The mystique of a woman can only be developed by the woman herself. The how is based on knowledge from a woman's elders..." 

It is, or for me, has always been a source of wonder the ways women convey complex forms of expression that have nothing to do with brute force, but with intangible elements that change the core of a man. Is it stillness, stillness within, or is it merely how the core of resistance is the blending of elements to understand and see the other?..."


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 
11/11/18 

Aws, 25, a former resident of Raqqa, Syria, used to be a member of the 

Khansaa Brigade, the Islamic State's female morality police. 

photo: Tara Todras-Whitehill for NY Times

I’ll love you forever
I’ll like you for always
As long as I’m living My baby you’ll be ❤️

Forever a Mama’s boy ❤️-

- Jessica Lynne

Jessica Lynne and her son early in the morning, 

August 8, 2018. 

"By definition, the term, Mama's boy, is a simple description of a boy's love for his mama. In his manhood that love creates value to this relationship. The boy becomes her great protector! In essence, a mother gives birth to her protection giving birth to a son!... 

Today, a lot of women believe they are the creation of their son into protectors. They aren't. That is the father's job. At some point, that energy can be provoked, not guided by fathers, or grandfathers, into something dark and resentful towards their mothers. American women, often, refute this out of pride and fear that men like me are right, and come to understand what we know the hard way!. . ." 


- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11/11/18 

TRIBUTE: Polish Photographers

Polish photographer, Bernard Piotr Bednorz‎ caught Monika one day in the month 

of May 2018 in a stillness within the woods near Jezioro Dłużec. 

Polish model Olga by Collin Ab. 

Instagram @studio_xxi
Nikon D810 70-200 f3.5

"From a distance the flow, the curves of her body play against the rigid lines behind her coils around the senses in a serpentine fashion. Don't know how. Something exists to beckon..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Polish photographer, Jacek Zamaro captured this moment in Poland. 2018.

TO WALK IN BEAUTY!

Mariusz Oparski Fotografia

Walking. Kornelia by Mariusz Oparski‎‎. (November 2018) 

Women's Portraits Only (WPO)

Touch. Feel. There is a quiet in Kornelia moving along within the stillness of the setting, or rising sun to pay attention to with all effort. This capacity: to move in stillness is essential to the warrior within and the poet appreciating it all! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 11/01/18 

Walking in the Fog shot by Kevin B. McCluskey.

Women's Portraits Only (WPO)

Intrigue

Women's Portraits Only (WPO)

photographer Mark Daughn said, "Have to say, I love this shoot! 

Tara Birdsong played the character to perfection!" [June 2018]

Photographer Mark Daughn's study of light upon Luana Lani with two lights, a honeycomb grid on the main with white light, and a second light behind and camera right with a red gel on a gridded head. This was set for one of his 2 day teaching workshops in LA. 

Photographer Mark Daughn of Shayla Love.

This image was all natural light with a gold reflector as fill, as a lot of you know I love natural light when it works! It worked for me this time and I love it.

Large window to camera left and reflector very close to model on camera right.

Shayla Love did a remarkable job conveying the attitude I was looking for.~ Mark Daughn June 5, 2018 

a delicate moment.

a moment. 

"... This one instant engaged all that was sensual and feeling an exposure to the authenticity of a soul vulnerable to what in this instance is an unknown! A woman's breasts touches the vibrancy of living forces like no other connector to what sustains life, and nothing is as opposed to abuse as the substance of spirit and health the breast understands as sexual stimuli." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 3/6/18

Opening up to Her

The Best Redheads

red haired Stella Cox.

red haired woman by Annie Leibovitz 

"Elegant she is in a way of understanding herself, and who she is becoming..."

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 2/2/18 

"Red haired woman's sublime movement almost imperceptible by a roving eye speaks quiet to the spirit..." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 2/2/18




(R.A.G.E.) Redheads Against Going Extinct

"Red hair, like Millie MacIntosh, sets black dresses off distinctively against pale skin, and a delicate body frame indicative of the Irish women. . ." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

3 women 3 poems.

Nyla Puller soft in her movements...

Sponsor: Met - Art

Wine sipped in the quiet of an evening Susie is enjoying settles the body's vibration with quiet thoughts and quiet dreams!

Vulnerable she is, but Kendra is a mature woman who has seen her depth grow through trail and error of ways and thoughts! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 1/14/18

short story.

Serena Penaloz seated in color. Oct. 27, 2014.

[This] sepia woman's perfect touch to the senses in this black polka dot mesh bra and knickers set with silk satin suspender belt melted away resistance to charm, delight, and allure. The whisper to follow was from the recipient of her attention... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 5/7/18

Waking Softly.

Soft delicate women can recondition a man's harsh disposition for a time, but that is unnecessary work. Women should simply prepare for the mate. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

"Sophistication and maturity are a combination marriages need for each other."
- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

Studied Stillness.

Xanny naked in white sheets 2

white cloth wrapped around Isabeli Fontana's body by Vincent Peters

Do I Don't I.

Redheaded Goddesses 

red haired woman's subtle beauty of face and eyes captured by a master photographer, alexander mihailov

John Leonard, a retired man That can be a problem.. I married a beautiful woman once, and every time I left her alone for a minute, the men where round her like flies, ... but I knew it was me she loved so really I didn't mind too much..

Jenn Lawson said,

Men can't help flirting with unavailable women; it's the challenge they like. It's also testing her loyalty...they just might be able to 'tap' that at least once. When they realize they can't, it pisses them off


I said, Jenn Lawson, well said. Men like that are a danger to those who spurned them.

Well, John that is an expected reality. The depth of the relationship, the man and the woman are determinatives in an unknown. It is a complex math attraction, loyalty, love and commitment. The equation is based in integrity and strength of character, will and the dream of who one is in their lifetime. .. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories






a Black man's dream come to light by Patina Edochié



 

 

Strength of Character



Intensity

 

Similar BEAUTY

Maitrieya Sandness' face.

Monica Bellucci covered with caviar by Fabrizio Ferri

 

More to understand.

Elegant and sophisticated European women strolling in a city somewhere

in Europe arrest the eye, stun the senses leaving us feeling awe.

- Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

11.21.16  

"It is a work of art being feminine, being a bit aloof without putting off the advances to come by fear. Womanhood has an inward need for sophistication. At some point development from girl to woman and woman to lady agrees with this subtle notion just beneath the surface...". - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 11.21.16

Soft Dreams



Dani Daniels' perfect form



soft poignant touch of words

 

letter of a thought towards Zingoma

"... exquisite, but fragile beauty has its place within the soul. Who will protect it? At the least, who will respect its place, and beyond that level of awareness who will cherish fragile beauty and find ways to honor it above the cruel intentions of people who are destroyers. By nature the fragile entombed within beauty is strong, becomes strong, is desperately weak, or finds strength in its identity the way it is preserved, understood, held, or perceived.

 

Is frailty precious? Does its value sustain its existence, or fear of losing make it more special? It is much like loving a person who cannot except love for themselves from one who loves the 'who' of their essence. This relationship between the strength of beauty and the fragility of essence is the tension between Life and Death. It is the link between existence and knowing to live. It is frailty, strength, beauty and value holding inner worlds together. If you respect anything respect this teaching!"

 

 ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9.16.15

 

 



Emilia Clarke's exquisite but fragile beauty !!!!

 

the MOOD

"In the will of man there is a power of longing which turns the mist in ourselves into sun." 

- Kahlil Gibran 

Elina C. 

"Beauty reveals herself to us as she sits on the throne of glory; but we approach her in the name of Lust, snatch off her crown of purity, and pollute her garment with our evil-doing."

~ Kahlil Gibran