This image may possibly be one of the strongest images I have created in months.

I do not know why its so striking and at the same time unnerving, as well as beautifully erotic, as well as pedestrian all at the same time.

It just is

BLACK STRAP

THE CENSORED WOMAN

Ellis H Swain takes you deep into the dark recesses of how unwarranted censorship can damage the sensibilities of anyone with common sense.

Displaying a radical (and almost ridiculous) form of censorship, this novel shows just how far someone might go to control what you see, read, and hear, and more importantly control what you think.

This image has been censored by the author.

The parts of the woman's body deemed illegal to see have been removed from this image.

MOXTER

Now this is a fine how do you do that?

Celebrating a Muse.. a BIG THANK YOU

While going through some of my older folders, I found some of my first shots with Tiffany from as far back as 2007.

In the summer of 2007 she wanted to explore the realm of modeling and photograph as part of her ever growing passion and desire to express herself.

She knew what she wanted, and how to express it and she chose me to help her do just that. I could see a spark in her that I had not seen before, and was glad to help her as her photographer and artist. Looking back, I have come to realize just how much of an impact she had on my work. I didn't know then that this artist and subject relationship would grow into an amazing and beautiful collaboration.

Tiffany Inspired

Little did she know how much her energy and passion for life inspired me, or how her enthusiasm delighted me, and that her beauty and natural passionate nature captivated me. Her freedom and forms of expression gave me the confidence to explore different ideas and extremes of my photographical art.

Over the years, she would come to be the most influential and have the most impact on not only my photographic career, but my personal life as well. We became friends. Unbeknownst to her, it was her inspiration, and her passion, that would spur me, inspire me and help me become an accomplished photographer of the fine female form in all its many passions.

Now... Her image… her face…. her beauty is the corner stone of my website www.radactphoto.com and the fulcrum of most of my work in multiple photography genres. It is rare when an artist finds such an inspiration, and sometimes we forget to give them due credit as well as thanks.

I consider myself umong the luck and privileged to have photographed her. 

So, I would like to give a BIG THANK YOU  to Tiffany for being a muse, and a fantastic model for my work. 

Thank you Tiffany. You are the best.

PHOTO of the WEEK

PHOTO of the WEEK

this weeks photo of the week
Its all about the light

Why Photography

Doctors say that we remember things as still images in our brain. Perhaps that is the power that photography wields over us. When we see a photograph for the first time, it is a memory that we have never had, or even more powerful, it is someone else’s memory that they have shared with us. Even if it is manipulated, color corrected, black and white, and tonally balanced or darkened or lightened… it is still a memory we have never had, and it is somewhat of a connective, and spiritual experience. 


Now, after doing photography as an art form for the past 10 years or so, I have come full circle. It has been an amazing transformation with in my self and an amazing transformation in my artistic style and vision. It was a slow rebirth into this world of photography, but I am so very glad, and grateful that this path has laid itself open to me, and I am pleased that I have accepted it and embraced it. If anyone of you was to know my stubborn character when it comes to my art and my artistic ways, you might even say it was a miracle.


In my work, what I would do mainly, is take shots of a girl or subject, and use the shots exclusively to make fantasy fantastical artistic creation, such as Angles, or Mermaids , Fairies and Trolls, or some other type of surreal, and unreal photographical art. The same for a tree or a landscape or anything that I shot. The intent was only just to bring back the image, and use it as elements of a larger creation, or to manipulate the photo so drastically that it had only the slightest resemblance to the actual shot. I thought I was creating ART. I was creating art, and that is a good thing, and the art was good and entertaining and provocative and people loved it, hated it, and thought about it. However, something else was underneath all of that, and it slowly began to surface. 


As time passed, I began to see the photograph itself for the artistic beauty that it actually was. I began to see light and shadow in different ways. I began to look at the smallest details and think… “That would make a great photo”. I began to see things as if they where black and white. I could look at a color photo and in my mind see the tonal ranges as if it was black and white. I claimed it was the years I spent doing pen and ink drawing that was the cause of this. I claimed it was my years of drawing and painting in traditional art forms that was only being enhanced by photography. I was wrong.
the photos was the art, and photography was the medium.


This was a bit of knowledge a lot of people already new, and I had a feeling it was true. It just took me 30 years to figure it out. Most of us have heard the old saying that every cell in the body is changed over a period of seven years. I guess it has taken me a bit longer to cycle through. It has been more than worth it.


So... why Photography. Because it is my art form.




Shane