Photo with 1 note
Dazzledent at 2: #3 of my favorite posts from the last year. It’s a wonderful photograph, posted February 15th, but it was the caption that spoke to me: “I’ll keep you safe, you keep me wild.”
Photo with 1 note
Dazzledent at 2: #4 of my favorite posts from the last year. This was one of two matching images the photographer made of this woman. They were lovely, fleeting visions that will strike a chord with any man who has ever admired a naked woman in Nature. (August 21st.)
Photo with 3 notes
Dazzledent at 2: #5 of my favorite posts from the last year. Claudia Cardinale being Claudia Cardinale. (July 25th.)
Photo with 6 notes
Dazzledent at 2: #6 of my favorite posts from the last year. I think this image from April 27th conveys better than any other that I saw this year both the exquisite beauty and the deep mystery of D/s. Emotionally, it is awe-inspiring; I still grapple with that and I can appreciate the simultaneous opportunity and responsibility this man feels.
Photo with 2 notes
Dazzledent at 2: #7 of my favorite posts from the last year. I adored this image from the second I saw it. I would be hard pressed to think of another picture that captures such joi de vivre. We can easily imagine the sound of the rushing water and her laughter and the photographer, who was obviously enjoying himself, saying repeatedly “just one more, Monica..” We see clearly that he enjoys looking at her and we see just as clearly that she enjoys being looked at.
Photo with 28 notes
Dazzledent at 2: #8 of my favorite posts from the last year. I posted this on August 24th and have revisited it often since then. I simultaneously like the Earth Mother qualities of her body and the photographer’s obvious appreciation of those qualities. This is really a lovely image. Judging from the exceptional number of likes/reblogs, a large number of you agree with me.
Photo with 2 notes
Dazzledent at 2: #9 of my favorite posts from the last year. January 24: a naked woman with an ample derrière straddling something outdoors on a sunny day? I know, I know: I should apologize for being so predictable!
Photo with 1 note
Dazzledent at 2: #10 of my favorite posts from the last year. I thought that by now I surely had seen every photograph ever made of Jim Morrison so you can imagine my astonishment when this priceless image crossed my dash on February 23rd. The more I look at it, the more I see. That cop at the edge of the stage, for example. Has anyone ever interviewed any of the cops who got to see Doors performances at close range? They surely have unique and interesting stories to tell.
I would dearly love to associate a credit with this picture. Anybody know the photographer?
Photo with 3 notes
Dazzledent at 2: #11 of my favorite posts from the last year. I tried my damnedest not to start humming a certain Queen song when I saw this lovely picture on March 2nd.
It wasn’t easy.
Photo with 1 note
Dazzledent at 2: #12 of my favorite posts from the last year. I cannot remember the last time I was so moved by a news story about a child halfway around the globe. This is what I wrote on October 10th:
”You may well be looking at the most courageous person you will ever know, a fourteen-year-old girl from Pakistan. Her name is Malala Yousafzai. Yesterday, masked gunmen boarded a bus of terrified schoolchildren, singled her out, and shot her in the head. Her crime? She wanted to be a doctor and wrote, as an eleven-year-old, an anonymous blog for the BBC decrying the Taliban’s banning of the education of girls.
“She underwent a complex operation today in Peshwar to remove a bullet from her brain.
“I have to be honest with you; this remarkable young woman’s story really, really shook me. Amid all the frivolity that I post in this space, I am going to pause and pray to God for her recovery. I hope that you can join me in that.”
Update:
A few days later, Malala was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in England for treatment, where she stayed for several months. Her most recent surgery was in February. Malala has since become the youngest nominee for the Nobel Prize in history. In the April 29th issue of Time magazine, she was featured as one of “The 100 Most Influential People In The World”. She will speak at the United Nations on July 12, her 16th birthday. Diane Sawyer will conduct the first television interview with her, which will air in October. The same month, Little Brown will publish I Am Malala to mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting.
If you’re interested in furthering the cause of education for all girls, you can contribute to the Malala Fund at http://vitalvoices.org/global-initiatives/support-malala-fund .
Photo with 6 notes
Dazzledent at 2: #13 of my favorite posts from the last year. To tell you the truth, I don’t fully understand the fascination of a naked woman with a burning candle in her butt (and I had been thinking about it long before posting this image on the 19th of last month). It’s whimsical, certainly, which appeals to me. But there’s a certain element of danger (fire) and the possibility of some significant discomfort (hot wax dripping there!) so it pretty effectively immobilizes the model. How submissive! Perhaps it’s just that simple: put a burning taper in her butt and make the ultimate D/s photograph.
Clearly, some field research is in order. Stay tuned…
Photo with 3 notes
Dazzledent at 2; #14 of my favorites posts from the last year. Lovely setting, lovely colors, lovely ass, lovely tan lines. Plus, she’s reading a book. You just knew this image, from the 6th of August, was going to make the cut!
Photo with 3 notes
Dazzledent at 2; #15 of my favorite posts from the last year. This is from earlier this month (May 1st). Always endeavoring to be helpful, I informed followers that photographer Wolf Carubas was performing a public service, “illustrating how black lace panties should be worn. They are commonly —and improperly— worn stretched across the widest part of the hips.”
Photo with 2 notes
Dazzledent at 2; #16 of my favorite posts from the last year (June 20th). My guess is that they were enjoying a romantic vacation in New Orleans. I predicted that he would never forget what she was in that drink. (By the way, I have noticed that I originally posted this image reversed. It’s shown correctly here.)
Photo with 31 notes
Dazzledent at 2; #17 of my favorite posts from the last year. On August 6th I asked if anyone knew the identity of this model. She is Veronica Vanoza and if you ever wanted to see the dramatic effect that a change in hairstyle can make, put her name into Google Images and compare those “before” pictures with the ones made with her hair dramatically shorter at http://www.almightyzeus.com/babes/v/veronicavanoza/.
Page 1 of 438