I am honored that my photograph "Here Comes the Sun II" [link] has been included in the news submission "45 Sensual Photographs" [link] by .

I have often thought about the sensual in all things, and freely admit that for me it often involves food... that first gulp of hot coffee in the morning... the savory explosion of a perfectly-fried slice of bacon... a lightly salted raw oyster... the creamy yumminess of a spoonful of Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia. And then there's the music. The second movement of Beethoven's Violin Concerto... "Marco Polo" by Loreena McKennitt... David Gilmour's guitar solo in "Comfortably Numb"... the "Flower Duet" from "Lakme" by Delibes. And the natural world... the rising of the sun over the ocean (which never ceases to fascinate me or send me into a state of awe)... the quiet solitude of the forest... a gentle rain on a warm day that dampens and baptizes. We are surrounded by the sensual and so often we ignore it, or most unfortunately are numbed to it by the bombardment of other stimuli in our everyday lives.

Take a moment to seek out and be present to the sensual, and check out the other images in "45 Sensual Photographs" [link] as well as *MPhilipPhotography's gallery!

“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.”
- James Arthur Baldwin