Archive for October 28th, 2012

JPG mag ‘Breast, we need to support them’ 1st place contest winner

October 28, 2012

here is something i found in my mailbox from JPG  in the form as a rejection and to my pleasant surprise when i followed the link was to find my honey was the first place winner. woohoo

this is from mary’s blog ny metro  art scene

I’m a darn good photographer, at least I think so and so does JPG.  I can’t remember how long ago it was that I entered JPG’s “Breasts, We Need to Support Them” international juried competition but one of my images was awarded 1st place.  Whoo-hoo.  I had just closed my email when Jene went on his and said honey… your image was awarded first place.  I remained calm, cool and collected on the outside while doing the “happy dance” internally.

I went to bed with feelings of grandeur, maybe utter joy with a smattering of pride of acknowledgment would be more like it.  But it felt good.

(For those who don’t know that I finally dropped my ex’s name and took on my husband’s last name, sorry for any confusion…  Mary Durante Wehrhahn and Mary Durante Youtt are one in the same person, I assure you.)

Sunday, November 4th, my work will be exhibiting along with my husband’s (Jene Youtt) at The Monroe Center for the Arts,  720 Monroe Street, Hoboken,  NJ  from noon until 6pm.  Stop by… get a jump on some Holiday Shopping.   Give the gift of art…  It says a lot about you and the person you are giving it to.

Happy Day!

Mary   (www.mdyoutt.com)

trying something new for me, sensual couple shoot

October 28, 2012

the constant quest in my work is finding the right people to work with me, considering my limited budget, so what i find mostly are people just starting out who are willing to work for what i can afford. free is good but only worth what the value of the final product. sometimes the magic works sometimes it doesn’t. this couple was willing to experiment with me and since they are intimate what i was asking wasn’t much of a push, just basically be yourself with a tog in the room. doesn’t everyone have strobes flashing every once in a while concentrating on their partner. very natural setting.

i’ve no idea if this works more than my previous post where i am working on a different story. this setting isn’t what i preferred but it was where we were. i’d much rather had a living room or bedroom for a more natural feeling. from the lack of comments here considering the traffic on the site i don’t know what to think you think. so like most of life lived i am working in the dark.  i guess it’s appropriate since this is personal work. i am the one who needs to be happy and if i haven’t learned that by now i should just go off to a cave and sit down to rest.

embrace

there isn’t much i can say that doesn’t appear in these images they are posed from my suggestions. but mostly i tried to be a fly on the wall giving them a premise for them to work with and watched.

the double copyright is because i am working off their CD and running a action in PS because i didn’t want to resize the images. oh well lazy tog.  what i wanted to do with this session is explore the eroticism of a couple without being graphic or pornographic.

tenderness

touching tasting

 

tension

let us not forget we have a couple here so it’s time to see the other side of love

white thigh highs

and the final one here as she seems to really enjoy being touched

wonder what she’s thinking

who knows why people come to this site and see the images. do they all wear raincoats and sit in darken rooms? well as we wait for Sandy to come a calling we might be soon wearing raincoats ourselves. so before the power goes out i’ll post this then relax reading the sunday times and wonder who the hell are these people they are talking about. has the world gone to the dogs? i for one like dogs so maybe i should rephrase that to cats. dogs are more loving i think than cats who seem not to need very much from us. just my humble opinion.

so if i am able to record tenderness between people then i’ve been successful if not at least no one was harmed in the making of these images. i hope you my readers have enjoyed your valuable time spent here.

jene