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Landscape by Mother Nature
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Category Archives: Male Images
Pick-up Trucks, Honky-Tonks & Cold Beer
Up Close With Edward Po … aka AragonPrime
Here is a man that I have become quite fond of in a short time. Don’t ask me why. Maybe because something comes through his personable face. Maybe because his photographs reveal an interesting man. Maybe because we have walked down some of the same roads during our decades of life. I’ll never meet him because he lives too far away. But one thing I can do is imagine the great friendship he and I might otherwise have.
Edward is an “amateur” photographer. You might think “highly skilled” photographer would be a better way to put it after looking at his stunning work.
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We bantered about the condition of our asses, mine being so much less photogenic than his. But then he’s out taking pictures while I sit on mine writing all day, which probably explains it.
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Is it the pose that makes this photograph so appealing? Is it the natural lighting Edward has captured? Those things are certainly part of it. But it’s also the the male beauty, the man at one with his body and with Mother Earth. It’s the subtle suggestion that it’s the simple things in life that count.
Here Edward is having fun experimenting with pixel manipulation. He told me his Photoshop skills are not great. Like me, he doesn’t have the patience.
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The male form in silhouette. The model: Edward Po. The mood: intoxicating … at least for those who know how to appreciate it. How many men half his age would envy his body?
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A winter day in upstate New York. A man alone in a hot tub, contemplating, so it would seem, the gift of life, captured for posterity by an “amateur” photographer. I personally would call him a thoughtful and imaginative photographer. What Edward is showing us is nudity is natural. He’s showing us that it’s okay to be in touch with your body and enjoy living in it.
During the course of our email discussions, Edward said this: “I love the capture of the play of light and shadows, as well as capturing the human form – male or female. I use myself as model most of the time as I am available and cheap and willing to put up with a demanding photographer.”
So you may wonder why I call Edward Po an intriguing man … this photograph helps explain it. When I saw it, my imagination ran amuck. Though he probably did all of this alone, I pictured two men painting each other, then photographing the results. Continue reading
The Male Chest … Part Three
Anything Yours Can Do . . .
On the small side of average? Don’t fret … you’re no different than half the men on the planet.
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Bodypix … Photography by Tom Clark
There are photographers that have a gift for putting us in touch with the sensuality inherent in men and the beauty of the male form. They understand raw masculine emotion stripped of autocratic indoctrinations and frivolous material pursuits. They breathe with such creativity, they see things the rest of us can’t, then they capture it on film. Artists such as Robert Siegelman, Terry Cyr, Alejandro Caspe, and of course Jim Ferringer comes to mind. Tom Clark ranks among them.
Tom has led an eclectic, interesting life. He grew up in Rome, where art and an appreciation for the human form are part of everyday life. As a kid, traveling throughout Europe with his family, he had the habit of capturing images with his Kodak. Later, while giving piano lessons and studying music, he realized his love for photography was more than a hobby. There was only one thing to do: pack up, move to southern California, invest in some first class photographic equipment and get started. The rest is history. Tom is currently adventuring in Utah.
Click here to visit Tom’s website, to see more or buy a print.
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Model Kevin Lawrence from the Mulholland Series
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Hung Naturally
How do politicians like this get elected?
DENVER — Circumcisions would again receive state funding under a proposal introduced by several Colorado lawmakers.
The bill would allow Medicaid to again cover circumcisions. The procedure was dropped from Medicaid last year as a money-saving move. Several states have stopped covering circumcisions amid concerns that they’re not medically necessary. Colorado projected that it would save about $186,500 a year if it stopped covering circumcisions.
Colorado’s bill was proposed Thursday (1-19-12) by several Democrats. It awaits a hearing in the Senate.
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Note from Martin:
Those of us that have been circumcised, to some degree, have accepted it, albeit grudgingly. Circumcision is not natural. It’s not the way we were born. I’m usually not so opinionated on subjects that are considered subjective, but this issue is not subjective, it is wrong to cut off part of a male infant’s penis. There is simply no religious or medical reason that justifies violating a newborn’s human rights.
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Men Outdoors … Chapter Seven
A Camera & a Man … Minus Clothes
On the photo sharing site he uses, he goes by the moniker Panding. Whether that’s just a moniker, his name, or simply a word that he likes, I can’t tell you. What I can tell you is: If Mother Nature was a Socialist, we would all look like this.
But Mother Nature is not a Socialist. She’s not even a Capitalist … most of us can’t even aspire to such a striking body. Mother Nature is an Autocrat … she just randomly houses our souls in what can only be described as public housing, then brings us into this world and says: “That’s what you get. Take it or leave it. Now get busy growing old.”
Panding isn’t your average model, wrought with an over-abundance of perfectly honed muscle. He doesn’t have that look how sexy I am look. He looks normal, a genuine nice guy. Of course he’s shaped well, but to look at him is to like him, to want to get to know him. He has that kind of demeanor.
What a natural pose. You wonder what he’s looking at. Is it a building, a sunrise, or is it another person? Are they looking back at him? Is it a man or a woman? Are they as beautiful as him?
Maybe you are as intrigued by men that take pictures of themselves as I am. There is something about it that suggests this is an enlightened man. There is something about it that says he would make an interesting soul mate.
Today, January 23, five days after I posted this piece, Panding contacted me. As it turns out, that is not his name … it’s Stephan, and he is indeed a genuine nice guy, not to mention an intriguing man. Panding stands for Peace Through Understanding.
What follows are his own words.
“Some people find it really odd that I’m so frank about showing myself in the nude. But for me it never has been a big deal, just something natural. Most of that comes from a liberal European upbringing I guess. Germans tend to be very easygoing about being nude. Just come to the lakes around Berlin in summer time.” Continue reading
