Gigi came to my studio and said, “I know you shoot mostly yogis and dancers. I have never taken a yoga class or danced professionally. But I am in love with the photos you shot of two of my frien...
2021-11-11 09:02:23 +0000 UTC View Post
This interesting form is created when yogis do a pose called the rabbit pose. I have been mystified as to why it is called that. Searching for an answer I eventually found this explanation from Yog...
2021-11-11 09:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;
Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair;
A dancing shape, an image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
–– W. Wordsworth
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2021-11-11 08:58:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Mothers-to-be seem to carry this soft cloud of love enveloping them wherever they go. None more so than my dear friend Jen. I met her at my local Equinox gym, where she was in charge of the exercis...
2021-11-11 08:56:37 +0000 UTC View Post
“It’s in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me. “
...
2021-11-11 08:54:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Some consider it sinful
from the day it was born
Others pile austerities on it
damaging its form
But embrace this body
For it is the only temple
our divine soul resides in
till...
Sally is a dancer friend who became a yoga teacher. Each time we got together to shoot marketing photos for her, we would end up doing some art nudes too.
Her back is so flexible, she c...
2021-11-11 08:51:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
...
2021-11-11 08:49:36 +0000 UTC View Post
For Halloween I am sharing photos of a model, Mary Celeste, named after the most famous ghost ship in history.
Mary Celeste was a trade ship that left New York harbor century and half ago, an...
2021-10-31 20:30:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright
– from a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley...
2021-10-27 23:40:48 +0000 UTC View Post
We tremble at the half-forgotten sound.
The world is full of rude awakenings
And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground,
Yet still our human longing vainly clings
To a belief in be...
From the wreck of the past, which hath perish’d,
Thus much I at least may recall,
It hath taught me that what I most cherish’d
Deserved to be dearest of all:
In the desert a foun...
2021-10-25 06:05:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The yoga pose called “Wheel”, or “Upward Bow” (Urdhva Dhanurasana) is an energetic way to warm up our body in the mornings. We soon feel a fire in our arms, legs, abdomen, and spine. It is ...
2021-10-25 06:04:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love’s light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets ...
Dark Angel, with thine aching lust
To rid the world of penitence:
Malicious Angel, who still dost
My soul such subtile violence!
When music sounds, then changest thou
Its silver...
Lift me up
when I am down
See the best in me
that’s your gift I sorely miss
Give wings to my imagination
Inspire my soul
that’s your gift I miss
To understand
...
It is true
I was created in you.
It is also true
That you were created for me.
I owned your voice.
It was shaped and tuned to soothe me.
Your arms were molded
Into a cradle to ...
Two sturdy oaks I mean, which side by side,
Withstand the winter's storm,
And spite of wind and tide,
Grow up the meadow's pride,
For both are strong
Above they barely touch, ...
2021-10-17 06:20:53 +0000 UTC View Post
When buffeted and beaten by life’s storms,
When by the bitter cares of life oppressed,
I want no surer haven than your arms,
I want no sweeter heaven than your breast.
When over my...
2021-10-17 06:18:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memor...
The world, for me, and all the world can hold
Is circled by your arms; for me there lies,
Within the lights and shadows of your eyes,
The only beauty that is never old.
– from ...
2021-10-17 06:16:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Thine eyes glow’d in the glare
Of the moon’s dying light;
As a fen-fire’s beam
On a sluggish stream
Gleams dimly—so the moon shone there,
And it yellow’d the strings of thy...
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the c...
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by...
2021-10-12 23:35:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Your soul and mine have gone the way of life:—
The dusty road where toiled the elfin strife—
Your hand entwined this hand of mine in love,
Your heart induced to scorn the clouds above...
I taste a liquor never brewed --
From Tankards scooped in Pearl --
Not all the Vats upon the Rhine
Yield such an Alcohol!
Inebriate of Air -- am I --
And Debauchee of Dew --
Re...
Tell me,
Was Venus more beautiful
Than you are,
When she topped
The crinkled waves,
Drifting shoreward
On her plaited shell?
For me,
You stand poised
In the blue and b...
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
