Ever wonder why we think of nature as a woman? Master photographer Kеn Bаrtlе is one of those reasons. One of the most common and popular settings for the beauty of the female form is nature herself. Since ancient times, man has populated the trees, streams, waterfalls, and meadows of his world with goddesses, nymphs and she-spirits. Kеn Bаrtlе has caught them on film. Like nature, the female form seems inexhaustable, infinite in complexity and full of surprising delights. It catches one's eye like the sun on a cloudy day, like any undiscovered country it seduces even the saltiest sailor, it blows one's troubles away as effortlessly as any playful breeze, it calms one like the surface of a still pond, a pond which on closer inspection dances with life both on the surface and under it. And naked, ahhh naked, female beauty is as timelessly, perfectly and ingeniously formed as rock sculpture, soft but hard, lithe yet unyielding, pretty and heroic, as deep as bottomless ocean ravines, as majestic as the ponderous towers of mountains, and as promising as the first morning. One never tires of the beauty of nature, as one never tires of the beauty of woman. Perhaps this is why nature itself is thought of as a she, a mother, a woman, a female: Mоthеr Eаrth, Mоthеr Nаtυrе, Mоthеr Cоυntry, and so on. It is hard to tell which is the mother and which the child in the images of Kеn Bаrtlе. Female beauty has always been the main muse of even the most acetic artists. The great Spanish poets were fond of comparing the properties of the world to those of the female body, and it's easy to see why. Salmon colored mare's tales wafting over a cerulean sky remind one of a woman's hair playing softly on her sun-kissed cheek, sand dunes jutt out of the desert like a reclining nude, and female beauty itself meanders in and out of the bodies and faces of the women in your life like a stream winding through time. Kеn Bаrtlе knows them all. Like nature, the female form seems inexhaustable. But also like nature, it does not yield its secrets easily. Thus it has remained one of the most enduring mysteries known to man. It takes a special kind of man, a beauty explorer, or a beauty scientist to capture those moments when a woman's beauty rises to challenge and harmonize with the beauty of nature. Kеn Bаrtlе touches these harmonies with deft flutist's fingers. We cross the most dangerous continents, navigate salt-scorched seas and scale frozen slivers of mountains all for the beauty of a woman - not the other way around. In fact, the beauty of woman is the only thing known by man to rival the beauty of nature herself. But female beauty always wins. In fact, in the photos of Kеn Bаrtlе, as in life, we see that the beauty of nature is the beauty of women.
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