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Sexy Bridal Garters
Get inspired! Here's some great ideas for brides to spruce up the garter that (hopefully) gets taken off with teeth. It's also a fantastic idea for boudoir shoots. Very sexy!
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Savannah Romance
I celebrated my Valentine's Day in Downtown Savannah photographing lovebirds and capturing bits of romance.
This is my favorite result of a very sweet couple I had the pleasure to work with. They may have had a passerby audience (those are always fun), and felt a bit funny when I asked them to flirt up a bit (not always easy with a camera pointed at you) but I'm sure Feb. 2010 is one Valentine's Day they won't forget, especially with this photo in their life album. I enjoyed watching them laugh.
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Wedding Style Magazine on Boudoir
Here's a fantastic article in Wedding Style Magazine this month about bridal boudoir ("contents",page 190). I agree with photographer Michael Cook that "...the appeal of the image is to show something, but not everything, leaving something for the imagination." That's the point of boudoir and the kind of erotic imagery I photograph.
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Why Bridal Boudoir?
I find brides have the perfect opportunity to offer a very different kind of private gift on the wedding day.
A bride is in the prime of her exploration with love and the erotic. Creating beautiful images of herself is just one more step into immersing in the beauty of “a woman in love”, both her self-love and that to her husband.
He’ll treasure the images because she did it for him. She'll treasure them because she looks fantastic. It’s a private gift from woman to man, a different way to share love.
Of course, boudoir shouldn't be exclusive to brides only. It's open ... Read More
Could You "Do Boudoir?" 5 Common Fears
Five Fears Women have about Boudoir Photography
1. “I’m too fat.” Actually, a woman is herself and the sooner she begins to love her body for the shape it takes the more empowered she’ll feel. I’ve photographed Twiggy models and listened to them complain they’re “fat”. It’s subjective. Larger women can be sexy too! Just view my "erotic/boudoir" portfolio!
2. “Isn’t that like porn?” If porn is defined as an image of sensuality, eroticism and beauty, then I suppose it is. Otherwise, no it’s nothing like porn. Boudoir is erotic art.
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About Boudoir & Erotic Photography
I don’t like the term "boudoir" very much. It’s clichéd and somewhat limiting and the modern woman isn’t. I prefer the term "erotic" when defining sexy and sensual photography. Erotic has more freedom of definition and vision.
Every woman is different with respect to how she feels about her body and erotic essence and I intently photograph her specific level of eroticism and sensuality. If a woman is moved by her photographic transformation from "normal" to sensual, beautiful and erotic, then I know I genuinely succeeded and that's my little dopamine fix.
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Showing in NYC!
A fantastic opportunity came to me and I'm thrilled to share that I'm a contributor to the upcoming A Book About Death art exhibit at Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in New York City.
Hundreds of artists create a "wall of death" populated by arranged postcards. Visit A Book About Death to view this sensational art concept!
EXHIBITION AT THE EMILY HARVEY FOUNDATION GALLERY IN NEW YORK CITY. OPENING: THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2009. EXHIBITION: 10 - 22 SEPTEMBER 2009. OPENING : 7:30 - 11 ... Read More
Photo Session in Progress
Sometimes it's interesting to be the onlooker and see what happens behind the scenes of making a great shot.
This is me at work in Lahr, Germany with model Dejana. She was a newbie but great to work with.
These days I don't have a studio but travel with my equipment to clients instead. I like it better that way. It's easier to get to know the person and the envirnoment a client chooses has a lot of effect on the artistry that comes out from the photographer side of me.
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Artistry of Femininity...and shoes!
True femininity seems a dying womanly art, particularly within the oceans of classic feminism. Susan Brownmiller in her 1984 book, Femininity, describes it’s essence as “romantic sentiment, a nostalgic tradition of imposed limitations”. Twenty-four years later, I say femininity’s essence is an expressionistic art form, a romantic tradition of unlimited freedom to the woman who knows how to play with its potential.
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