allablur

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Effortlessly elegant!

Clearer directions than Google Maps might provide!

Exciting journey - enjoy!

Yes. And apologies for being here so little right now but it’s not to do with the lack of that feeling of liberation!

The colour is really cool and the way your hair is really cool too!

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Fundamentalists, not thinkers.

Thanks Claudia! 😊

All are interesting but this one for me works best!

Folds and creases (2005)
Although I took this image in Dec 2005 (with the others reposted below) I created the quartet as a standalone artwork in 2006. I spun each image by 90° because it was appropriate in that context.
This is as each alone should be.

#MaleNude #SelfPortrait #Photography #Art

Your self confidence, with or without clothes, is inspiring!

Four photos are laid out in a row. A naked man lie on a bed. In the fourth image, as light falls, representing dawn, he has a visible erection. For me, the subject here, there is no connection with what I may have been dreaming about and it most often that dream will be completely non-sexual. Sleep keeps the brain and body fit and this pleasant awakening appears to be part of that natural process.

From dusk to dawn (2005)
Three months on from that last post and, if nothing else on BlueSky, I want to keep this #retrospective thread moving. To make continuity easier, replies are turned off.😊
I think the concept is self explanatory - for guys this happens.

#selfportrait
#artnude
#malephysiology

I rather like the way that the mask blends in more in the black-and-white image. Makes it more real, and spookier!
And of course you are a fitting model in both.

Curiously I have just been reposted by an account called @wildaboutwomen28.bsky.social 😘

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Thank you Claudia. It was the second that I most wanted to post because it is a proper portrait. A little thing that I regret is not moving the plant from the window. 😎

When I signed off from BlueSky 2 months ago I mentioned that I was busy on Flickr - for there I feel more free to post the full range of my photography. I also did some creating in those 2 months, first for a while, a nod to my erotic self.
#selfportrait #malenude #monochrome #photography

Lurking is fine by me, I should lurk more!

A nice relaxed look and I do like the way that the tattoo is highlighted by the light

Hello! It’s good to see that you evidently are looking in here more than I have been!

Looking cool in this neckwear! 😍

I really like this. And the re-working even better!

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Another spontaneous mirror selfie.
Well, it was that on 4th July.

#mirror #selfie #naked #nude #male

Good morning mirror! (2025)

Spontaneously this morning…
hello again BlueSky!
(Not promising anything)

#mirror #selfie #selfportrait #nude #naked

Thanks for your message Claudia. I will not be leaving bluesky completely, and I am sure I will be posting more.
Your account remains one of the most refreshing that I have come across anywhere and you can be sure that I will be dipping in and out to check out your creative adventures!

Yes, Flickr can cost money* but I can safely backup all of my images there and the various privacy controls mean that I feel a lot more secure and can be more open in what I post.

*You can have free account which means that you can't post nudity, but can view the work of the talent that does. 😍

These things happen in waves so it probably will be a matter of time before I start ignoring people there and return here.
In the meantime, if you have a Flickr account then please give me a follow and please comment on a photo referencing Bluesky and I'll pick you up.

The reason* is... that I am incapable of dealing with more than one social media platform at once and having decided to reopen my Flickr Pro account www.flickr.com/people/allab...
Bluesky has been the casualty. Or more accurately, you who follow me here.

* why I've been absent here!