Richard Yates Photography: Third set of images

New home for my "Intimate" images.

Hello!

This is the new home of my "Intimate Male" gallery. I have found that these types of artistic shots are not for everyone who visit my Website or my Facebook page and so I moved them here.

I try to make these images tasteful while at the same time erotic. I have found it to be a fine line between "Intimate/Erotic" and "Pornographic" and one that I think I am balancing on quite well. My intent is to show viewers intimate, erotic images without being pornographic. Again, a fine line.

Please feel free to let me know if you think I am crossing over to the "Porn" side. I really have no desire, nor intent to do that!

If your here than you have either stumbled upon it or like to see the creative and beautiful photos that are produced.

Either way, I hope that you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed taking them!

-Rich

By now I am starting to feel more comfortable and confident in the images that I have been capturing.

The work is starting to become a bit more "Artistic."

The first type of prop I chose to use was a long length of chain. I've seen this used in a lot of photos from other photographers and they always had a "Fetish/Bondage" feel to me. I didn't want that same look. Chains to me represent strength. I think I captured that in the below images.

Here is another Model that came in for a photo shoot that I decided to use the chains on. He had this amazing tattoo that said "Love" right below his navel. I'm not sure why he choose that for a tattoo and I should have asked him. His personality was so kind and gentle that in my own mind "Love" must have been a very strong emotion for him which lead me to think "He is chained to Love". I tried to capture that in the image below.