How A Woman Sees Herself.

Valerie Baber said, "He wants me to wear this dress again, but I told him he'd have to work for it. He loved that I gave him a challenge. Ladies, value what they value. Make them earn it." (April 2018)

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

FOUR in a MIRROR.

Ethiopian woman of the Borana people.

European Playboy model, Angie, is an ideal dreamt into presence!

Esha Gupta is an Indian film actress, model, and former Miss India International of 2007. 

Erykah Badu's hat cocked ace deuce & a quarter.

photo by Rober Kisby on Getty Images. 2011.

Before the decadence of this season begins consider. . .

Freedom. Kendra Cantara, a Playboy centerfold.

"Being and feeling free are two things, at once the same! Sometimes." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/28/18 

"...The innocence of her soft gentle form of refreshing beauty is refreshing. It belongs in a society disrespectful of who 'She' is to humanity. But, that is dangerous." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/28/18

DISCOVERY

"A beautiful woman easily wearing khaki skinny pants accentuated by a khaki turtle neck with a trench coat looped over her clasped hands speaks to the fall season. But, what is intriguing about women are the assumptions they embody. In each grouping by race are assumptions that support the feeling of being strong. In each soul is a necessity. How it is discovered makes way for long discussions about being essential in life."  - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories [June 12, 2017]

Abby Parece, Playboy model in the sunshine of February 27, 2017.

Abby Parece, Playboy model in the sunshine of February 2017!

High intelligence, an aphrodisiac, calms and stirs simultaneously in women the way a gathering of storm clouds doesn't become a threat until thunder roars! - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 9/22/17

a RACE Matter in History.

"Beau Hesling has been a dream over Black women. It is not a place for a Black man to aspire, but the feeling of being special transcends something Black women hold in contempt!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2/3/18

''' the deep sense of a woman's need for a man inside of her resides with the equal capacity to love, to endure, to care or not care. Those powerful choices can run a gauntlet through a man's soul! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2/3/18

SEEING ABOVE

Aggressive woman at the ready! Leaping from one extreme to another, white women have gone out of the way to be measured by men as equals to the exclusion of their essence. This radical change is perceived as progress. Unable to find medium places to balance from the perspective of being women, white women became combative and allowed themselves to be redefined by men, medically, physically, psychologically and spiritually. Now, the spiritual part is the crucial part, the difficult part because their culture used God as a commodity. He was interchangeable. This rendered relationship with God impossible, at best, because the dispute was whether he passed the litmus test of their intellects! Just like their men, they feel the center of the world, existence revolves around them.  

How, other women dealt with this paradigm is the source of their angst. During birth this is passed down to their children. This is how we know these things in our bones.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

June 12, 2017

Abby Parece, a former Playboy model, advised: "Don't be an eye candy, be soul fool!

She is asking for the heart of an idea to be opened!" - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

In the context of viewing beautiful women it is natural for some men to relax into introspection, for others it just seems to be an opportunity to say something corny they believe might impress a woman out of giving them sex. But, looking into women's eyes it is hard for a mystic to not see the divine within a woman because the memories of being cared for in their mother's womb are not the exotic garden, but the making of a soul, and the exchange between souls (mother and son) as holy communion. That holiness is a mirror one cannot afford to dismiss when girl watching.

One cat, Willie T. Stoddard pointed out while looking closely at Playboy model, Abby Parece: "In Mahayana Buddhism, this idea was extended to assert that Buddhas exist in a purified sphere of realization that reflects their blissful, enlightened perception of reality. Free of all ignorance, aggression, and attachment, this environment is called a pure land or Buddha-realm."

This high thinking escapes crude men and ruthless women, who attract these type of cats. The small reserve of men pondering these landscapes easily see where these musings come from and the links between sexual appeal and high spirituality are simply too obvious. The young cats reading this should be excited with the opening of their consciousness, and take a moment to engage the words of gratitude with their new awakening. Young men need the older cats who know these things to guide their thoughts and actions towards pure states of being to clarify the purpose for living.

Yesterday, after a sweat lodge ceremony talking with a mother of three daughters about the sacredness of being a woman, and a mother the long subject came up about her being ready as a Sacred Mother to have a son, one day and a husband to pair with on a Sacred Path, in ways that would outshine 'mere expectations'. It led to hard talk about absent fathers, and what they feel in their souls separated from their children for whatever reasons for long time periods, that often lead to never. Hearing the man's side told is one thing and hearing women react to what men won't share with women is hard because the missing components of the coming together father and child need, and the communities need are: initiation, a re-established Elder practices, and reconnection with the Ancestors, on a daily basis.

Women need hope that a man is being prepared to serve high purposes in life. Men need to be prepared for such tasks in the union of marriage; not marriage American style, but the style sacredness requires of Sacred Souls.

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

[June 12, 2017]