Self Satisfaction: Factor of Happiness

One of the factor of happiness is self satisfaction. I highly look into this matter because with self satisfaction, one fulfill his own desire to certain things that he passionate the most. Some people even have weird crave of satisfaction in order to be happy. Along searching for information to complete Critical Literacy ( assignment 1) I found out that there are also people who love to capture nude photography.

DON KIESTER PHOTOGRAPHER
About the photographer:
Don Kiester has spent more than 25 years as a nature, portrait and fine art (female nude) photographer.
Don began his photography career while still in high school, and continued while an engineering student at Oklahoma State University. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering at OSU, Don continued his photography education by attending the Mel Newsom School of Fine Art Photography in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and graduated the TCC photography school in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Don studied all aspects of portraiture, including posing, lighting techniques and the intricate science of modern photographic processing and photographic equipment. One of the specialties of the Newsom School was the photographic technique used for fine art glamour and nude photography.

Don studied the most successful lighting methods used for fine art nude portraiture, and in the studio, specializes in Rembrandt and Butterfly lighting. Don has also developed his own successful methods for outdoor photography of the nude using natural light. The significance of this is that many photographers find it difficult to manage proper lighting using outdoor ambient light while doing glamour nudes. Much of Don’s recent nude work is natural-light outdoor portraiture.

As Don continues with his photography, he has included a school for those wishing to learn the successful techniques that Don has used in his work.

Why he choose nude photography?
Don believes that the human nude is one of the most beautiful subjects for artistic expression. Don does not aspire to the common cultural belief that the human nude is shameful. Don believes that “body shame” is an invention of modern cultural beliefs, and that simple nudity is not automatically sexual in nature.

Don believes that nudity in fine art photography can be sensual in a positive and beautiful way. Mankind has loved the human nude as beautiful art since cave dwellers learned to mix paint from minerals in the soil. Don believes the human nude is beautiful, and he continues to create the highest quality artistic nude portraiture possible.

Hence, this is his opinion and with this fine art he committed for years, it satisfied him and make him happy.

*there is no pictures for his artwork because it is too explicit*


Some sculptors do have the same passion as Don's.


Below are a few of the example of nude sculptures that has been built.

Gigantic male sculpture: Replica of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s David

White Bonded Marble Aphrodite