Marilyn at Malibu

Every morning I read Google News. One of my readers has noticed I am a seemingly a Trend Setter, being, folks are reading this blog, like what they see, and follow suit. I use the word “see” because you see many of the photographs I post in the “image” search. This leads to my stories that center around my sister’s and my autobiography ‘Capturing Beauty’. I no longer rue the day I did not purchase a good camera and start shooting my muse, Marilyn Godfrey on Santa Monica beach, where we spent our weekends since we were fifteen and sixteen.

Marilyn’s friend, the famous fashion photographer, Steven Silverstein, took photos of my first flame on Malibu beach, where Andre de Dienes captured Marilyn Monroe’s extraordinary beauty when she was nineteen. When I headed East with Rena, James, and Robert, I took out the back seat of my 1950 Dodge Coronet…