Vacation!

Vacation Time



Well gentle readers, I'm off to Cabos San Lucas with a buddy in a few days for a week of drinking and soaking up the sun.

Allowing for readjustment to the Canadian winter, I imagine the blog will be on hiatus until the second week of February.

I'll see you all in a couple weeks.

Hasta Luego!

Highly accomplished work by Italian fashion and beauty photographer Gabriele Rigon

Gabriele Rigon

This post thanks to reader Victor Martins

Monica Antonelli's "Human Stones Back to Life" series

Monimix

This link thanks to Eric K.

Speaking of photographer's blogs, since I own a couple of his photos of the above model, Nad Iksodas dropped me a note to tell me he'd posted some new images of her.

Nad Iksodas Blog

Master photographer Sam Haskins has just started a new blog. This one will be worth visiting if you are a fan of his work, or want to learn about this important photographer.

Sam Haskins Blog

You may also want to visit his offical website

JJ Andre

I was talking with JJ Andre earlier this week and he told me that he has just completely revamped his website with a new design, lots of new photos, and an exhaustive, illustrated, decade by decade analysis of his work over the past 50 years. Talk about a career in photographing the nude!

JJ Andre

Yan McLine

Unfortunately, since the site is in Russian, I can't tell you much about photographer Yan McLine except that his work is well worth a look.

Yan McLine

This link and many others thanks to our awesome co-editor Mariana

Moody fashion & beauty photography by German Saez

German Saez

This link thanks to reader Gerhard

Photo by Philippe Pache

artphotoblog is a newly minted art photography blog that looks like it's off to a promising start. This will bear keeping an eye on.

This link sent in by Pascal Renoux

Help a fellow reader out

Mystery Book

Here's your chance to help a fellow Art Nudes reader out. I received the following email the other day, and I don't have an answer to her question. Is this ringing any bells for any one?

"maybe you could help me out. I'm looking for a book of photography that i found about 5 years ago, or so. i thought it was a french photographer, but i may be wrong about his nationality. He published an entire book of his wife, mostly nude. I remember the photos, but i cannot seem to find this anywhere (or remember the exact title).

If you have any idea, please send me an email!
Thank you,

Harmonie"


**UPDATE**

OK everyone, I've heard back from Harmonie. She read through the comments and although it isn't his book Luba, the name Petter Hegre rang a bell for her and she found out that he did publish a book entitled My Wife, of pictures a woman who I can only assume was the pre-Luba Mrs. Hegre. This was the one she was looking for!

Thanks to all of you for wracking your brains, and especially to the anonymous poster who mentioned Hegre.

Here's the photoblog of Romanian photographer Cristian Crisbasan

Digital Sessions

Brooks Ayola is a professional photographer from California who has been a long time friend of this blog. While he doesn't post a lot of his nudes to his photoblog, he does post a broad range of his incredible work, and generously explains his lighting and techical information for each one. If you are looking to improve your work, I can't think of a better person to rip off... er, I mean learn from!

Brooks Ayola

Interesting photomanipulation work by Canadian Tom Gore. (Actually, this guy's practically a neighbour, we both live on the same idyllic Pacific isle.)

Tom Gore

This link sent in by Brooks. Thanks!

Art Nudes reader Stephen Haynes wrote to tell us that he's added a new page to his online portofolio.

Magic Flute Nudes

Interview with Michael

I was very honoured recently to be asked for an interview by the online magazine Contemporary Art Gallery to discuss my work as a photographer and as a blogger.

The interview just went online today. So if you're curious about me, or some of the thinking behind this site, check it out here.

Digitally manipulated work by Russian photographer Evir Bogdan

Evir Bogdan

Applied Arts Magazine

Applied Arts Magazine has announced their 16th Annual Call for Submissions for their Photo and Illustration awards. The link contains the details and last years winners.

Applied Arts Magazine

180 magazine

Call for Submissions



If any of you are looking for an opportunity to submit for an interesting sounding project, I recently received the following note from Kim Taylor, editor of 180 Magazine:

"I'd like to extend an invitation to you and your photographer blog
readers to submit their photographic comments on the topic of "Nude / Naked".

We would like two photographs from each photographer, one
illustrating each word in the topic, and a paragraph explaining their
position.

Many thanks and best wishes for a happy new year from 180 magazine."

180 magazine

Reader Profile



Canadian photographer and Art Nudes reader Steve Richard just earned himself a spot in my permanent links section with his sensational Table and Chair series.

Steve Richard

Classic figure studies by German photographer Thorsten Jankowski

unscharf.de

via: PleasureDome (Warning:Sound)

Nudes and Salvador Dali inspired digital manipulation by Russian photographer(s) Abulafia

ABULAFIA

Reader Profile


Whew! Now that I'm hammering out some of the kinks with the transfer, I can get back to posting photos!

Here's a nice portfolio of work by Belgian photographer and Art Nudes reader Jef Paepen

Jef Paepen

*UPDATE*

Thanks to some detective work and some rather frightening manipulation of the template coding, I've managed to get the archives links back!

Thanks to you all of you who wrote with your suggestions. Your willingness to help was a real encouragment!

Michael


Well, I've discovered the hard way that there is a downside to the new Blogger. Apparently a side-effect of the change over is the disappearance of 3 years worth of archived links!!!

I can still access the links via the administrative features of the blog, so they aren't gone completely, I just can't get them to reappear on the main page so all of you can see them.

Also, of interest to other bloggers only, the "BlogThis" shortcut doesn't work in the new Blogger. A major pain in the ass for regular posters like me.

I'll keep you all updated on development. If any of you know an answer to the invisible archives problem, PLEASE write me and let me know.

Happy 2007!

Happy 2007!

Hello Everyone. Welcome to a new year. I want to announce that Google has implemented a new version of Blogger that I've switched over to this morning. There are a few new features I'll be trying out, but hopefully it will be a largely invisible change for you readers.

One feature I'll be experimenting with is post labels, so you'll see new links below the posts which catergorize the posts. The labels will only apply to posts from 2007 forward though. There's just no way I'm going back and retrojigging 1000+ posts!

My biggest concern was losing all the comments, but they seem to have remained intact. If you notice any problems, please leave them in the comments or email me directly.

PICSESSIONS

Mexican photographer and Art Nudes reader German Armenta produces very fine male nudes.

German Armenta's PICSESSIONS