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Sweet Love…

29 Tuesday Mar 2011

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Aaron Mann, beautiful, Beauty, Dorothy Parker, Fashion, Fashion Photography, Lai Man Cheung, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, postaweek 2011, sweet love, true love

© Lai Man Cheung Photography

I’ll be the way I was when I first met him. Then maybe he’ll like me again. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. – from the story A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker

We pine and opine about true love but very few of us have ever really experienced it.

Models: Lauren DiMarco and Aaron Mann

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Mitzpah…

15 Monday Nov 2010

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Antonio Genovia, beautiful, Beauty, Fashion Photography, Lauren DiMarco, Memoir, Mitzpah, Oleg Galagan, Omar Sharif, Photography, The Far Pavilions, Writing

© Antonio Genovia

Making love? It’s a communion with a woman. The bed is a holy table. There I find passion and purification. – Omar Sharif

Over the weekend I watched the TV mini series, The Far Pavilions, staring Ben Cross, Amy Irving, and Omar Sharif. Based on Mary Margaret Kaye’s 1978 novel of the same name, this epic romance was set in India during the British Raj or rule.

Early on in the story, the protagonist, Aston Pelham-Martyn (aka Ashok), received a gift of a mother-of-pearl charm from his childhood friend, Anjuli, a half-caste princess. Because he had nothing to offer her, he broke the trinket in half and gave her back a piece of it, promising to return one day and thus making it whole again.

The scene sparked the memory that I, too, had received half of an amulet many years ago. I rushed to my jewelry box and tucked away in a tiny velvet pouch was my part of a silver Mitzpah medallion. I could discern some of the words from Genesis on the back of it, “The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from the other.”

Receiving a Mitzpah in college was akin to a pre-engagement promise. There was an expectation that although we might go our separate ways for a time, we would one day be together again and so would the two pieces of our Mitzpah.

Unlike the characters in The Far Pavilions who, despite one obstacle after the other, succeeded in reuniting, our paths never crossed again. For me, the new-found Mitzpah now serves as a touchstone for many wonderful memories from years gone by.

My half of the Mitzpah.

Models – Lauren DiMarco & Oleg Galagan

Scripps Pier…

02 Saturday Oct 2010

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Douglas Thompson, Fashion Photography, Photography, San Diego, Scripps Beach, Scripps Pier

© Douglas Thompson

Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius

Scripps Beach near the Institute is one of my favorite beaches in the San Diego area. The underbelly of the pier fascinates me. Standing at the spot where the posts line up perfectly, the surf sounds seductive – like a Siren-song, and I am lured to the portal at the end of the pier and the sea beyond.

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Model – Lauren Currie

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Orange…

16 Thursday Sep 2010

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Dutch orange, Fashion Photography, Lauren DiMarco, Lydia Hudgens, Orange, Photography, Pumpkins

© Lydia Hudgens

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus

Autumn is my favorite season! Inspired by my glass pumpkin and the pumpkins in the fields and markets, I decided to inject some orange to my decor and wardrobe to spice things up for fall. First, I  planned to repaint my navajo white gallery wall with a rich earth tone. In the paint store I was drawn to color samples with lovely sounding names like Amontillado, Savannah, and Calliope, but finally settled on Chutney.

Being half Dutch, I had no choice but to wear orange at the World Cup Soccer events in San Francisco last June and July. In addition to the excitement of the games, the color orange made me feel energetic, invigorated, passionate, and sensual! Since then, I have chosen several accessories from the orange-red to orange-yellow and gold range to accent my wardrobe and have discovered that I have a penchant for that color!

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Half Moon Bay…

04 Saturday Sep 2010

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Anna Landa, Beach, beautiful, Beauty, Fashion Photography, Half Moon Bay, Heart, Isak Dinesen, Kelp, Lauren DiMarco, Photography

© Anna Landa

The cure for anything is salt – water, tears, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen

When I arrived in Half Moon Bay this morning it was shrouded in fog.

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Model – Lauren DiMarco

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