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Keeping up with the boudoir photography trends

Keeping up with the boudoir photography trends

Having a boudoir business that is staying ahead of the trends takes a constant creative approach. It also requires a deep passion for appreciating art and always looking at new ways of seeing things. Trends make us think, trends inspire and motivate our creativity,...

How to channel your inner muse during the intimate shoot

How to channel your inner muse during the intimate shoot

A muse is it an archetypal goddess both beautiful and terrible…raining her inspiration on mere mortals and taking it away at the slightest misdemeanor? Or the gentle voice inside you that urges you to act when you behold vistas that affect your mind and soul? No...

How to choose the best boudoir photographer for your boudoir shoot?

How to choose the best boudoir photographer for your boudoir shoot?

The question often goes unasked, especially for those embarking on their first foray into this captivating world of boudoir photography. Most individuals find themselves immersed in introspection, searching for their reasons to step into the studio and undergo a...

Find your sweet spot, every woman has one

Find your sweet spot, every woman has one

What it you like most about yourself? Your eyes, your lips, your sculpted legs? It’s easy to pick one thing that you like. It’s probably just as easy to pick something you don’t like. Your special blend of flaws and best features are what makes your body unique, but...

Tasteful boudoir photography: The magic is in the details

Tasteful boudoir photography: The magic is in the details

Some photographers say that your facial expression is the most important part of the boudoir photo. And while we agree that your face can make or break the picture, there is so much more at play. Your body language, lighting, outfits...to name a few. And in some...

Obsessions: Living them out in the boudoir

Obsessions: Living them out in the boudoir

Mason Cooley was right when he said the only way to cure an obsession is to get another. And I personally feel that our obsessions define who we become in life. Mine was to capture beautiful and passionate moments with gorgeous women in their glorious best, for each...

Selling $2000 an up: How to make the sale in your photography business

Selling $2000 an up: How to make the sale in your photography business

When I made my first $2000 it changed my life forever and I couldn’t believe how easy it was and how difficult I made it in my mind, now it’s just another day. How did this take me so long? How could I have undervaluing myself for so many years and why didn’t my fancy...

Behind The Scenes | Boudoir Posing

Behind The Scenes | Boudoir Posing

Don't know anything about boudoir posing? No problem! By the time we are done with your shoot, you'll be movin, grovin and proving to yourself that you too can take sexy, risqué and drop dead beautiful photos.  Maybe it's the confidence I've built with the 20 plus...

You can never be too young for nude photography

You can never be too young for nude photography

Are Nudes at 19 too young? Today is a very special day! Today I celebrate one of my favorite humans in the world. Jayda came into our lives 22 years ago when my very close cousin Taryn was only 16 years old. I was 18 and off to collage, so sadly I didn't get to spend...

How do you treat yo’self?

How do you treat yo’self?

How do you treat yo’self? Do you love flowers in your office? A fine bottle of Scotch? I am partial to  fancy candles in vintage jars, red wine, and some bomb ass take out!  I'd almost always say a bath, but sadly I don't have one at this moment. That said, I miss the...

What Gets You Feeling Creative?

What Gets You Feeling Creative?

We're all like Stella right now, just trying to get our groove back. Everyday seems different as far how creative I feel and unless I maintain my morning routine of writing, working out, and meditation, I find it much harder to get into my creative groove.   What...

Self Love Is The Sword

Self Love Is The Sword

Self love is the sword that will always win the war Over the last few month I've ben very quite trying to get a hold on the kaleidoscope of emotions running through my head during the day.  I've been feeling all my feelings, spending a lot of time solitude.  I've just...

Setting up your boudoir clients for success

Setting up your boudoir clients for success

In this weeks boudoir photo tips I'd love to discuss one of my favorites and really one of the most important steps in setting up your boudoir clients for success. As a photographer you are probably an incredibly visual person. In the initial consultation with a...

Boudoir State of Mind – Why It’s Ok to Ask for Help

Boudoir State of Mind – Why It’s Ok to Ask for Help

Today A Boudoir State of Mind is Daily releasing the grip of shame the past has on us and embracing that we all need a little help. Lovely ladies of the world, play along with me for one second.  Pinch yourself.  Go ahead, it’s ok, just do it.  Whether you actually...

Release your attachment to form

Release your attachment to form

All structures are unstable. I find myself always coming back to this statement.  Letting go of the attachment to form is the beginning of creating the unlimited reality you wish for. I think now more than ever there is so much fear of the unknown. So many of us have...

Boudoir Photography Tips For Success

Boudoir Photography Tips For Success

The Importance of Pricing in Photography Cue Rant...It’s a new RAGE! Everyone wants to be a Photographer and everyone thinks they can! Some think all you need is a decent camera, some nifty filters, and a big youtube or Ig fan page and BAM you’ve made it.  For those...

Monday Muse: Phoebe Boswell

Monday Muse: Phoebe Boswell

Phoebe Boswell is a Kenyon British Artist that creates immersive installations and large bodies of work. I was drawn immediately to her unique methods of pencil on paper, subject matter and the feeling of love, support, teamwork, community, challenges, fragility,...

Monday Muse: Wangechi Mutu

Monday Muse: Wangechi Mutu

I'm so very excited to introduce Wangechi Mutu for this weeks Monday Muse.  As a boudoir photographer that only focuses on creating art with women, I was immediately drawn to her sparkling, liquid, colorful, erotic, highly unique collages, drawings, sculptures and...

Boudoir Photography Tips: More Than Poses

Boudoir Photography Tips: More Than Poses

MORE THAN POSES - TUESDAY BOUDOIR TIPS - MAKING IT EFFORTLESS My mission and intention is to not only make art my boudoir clients art they will love  and cherish for a lifetime, but to make the clients standing in front of me move with more confidence and ease than...

Monday Muse: Alyssa Monks

Monday Muse: Alyssa Monks

Alyssa Monks and her beautiful world! This morning scrolling through my phone I stumbled on a screen shot of her. I have no idea how I found her, but Alyssa's work has captured my heart. After listening to her video about what creating and art is to her, I felt as...

Monday Muse: Autumn Sky

Monday Muse: Autumn Sky

I discovered Autumn Sky though my new favorite oracle deck, Sacred Rebels, by Alana Fairchild. Mesmerized by every single painting of hers, I could sit study them for hours. Her imagination is that of other worlds and she is clearly tapped into something much bigger...

Fine Art Intimates – Step out of your box

Fine Art Intimates – Step out of your box

It's time to get out of the box you're in. My focus is on the transformative experience Boudoir Photography offers.  It’s not about snapping scantily clad women with clichéd “come hither” looks and stock poses.  I believe a Boudoir session is collaboration between...

Inspiring Boudoir Tips: Shine On, Be You

Inspiring Boudoir Tips: Shine On, Be You

It is time for you to play big friends. I want you to become passionately curious about always diving deeper into you, and why you create. What makes you shine bright, and be you? I want you to allow the child inside you to run wild, and free. I want you to be a...

Monday Muse: Anna Razumovskaya

Monday Muse: Anna Razumovskaya

Anna Razumovskaya is my new obsession. Lately I've been really inspired learn how to paint. being that I have been unable to shoot in 7 weeks now I seem to have all this time to focus on new things. Over the last few weeks I've been looking into a lot of painters that...

Are you passionately curious?

Are you passionately curious?

Are you passionately curious? How are you Fueling The Fire Whether you are a newbie or a seasoned pro your work should always be changing and evolving. I am always trying to outdo and top my last shoot. If you are anything like me or really any artist, you surely have...

Monday Muse: Lillian Bassman

Monday Muse: Lillian Bassman

Monday Muse : Inspirational Woman of the Week Lillian Bassman I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world - Lillian Bassman One of the lesser known but still incredibly influential fashion photographers of the 20th century,...

How to Take a Great Selfie: 5 Tips for Capturing Your Sexy Body

How to Take a Great Selfie: 5 Tips for Capturing Your Sexy Body

Forget the Duck lips, and while we’re at it, forget everything you’ve heard before concerning how to take a great selfie! Here are some tips to really help you take the best selfie, and show off just how damn good you look. 1. Self-Timer What? You mean I don’t have to...

I do naughty nicely

I do naughty nicely

Half of me is filled with bursting words and the other half is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour love into everything. I want to live in the rush of primal, intuitive decision, yet also sit and contemplate, breathe, feel everything....

 The Original Gangsters of Boudoir

 The Original Gangsters of Boudoir

The Original Gangsters of Boudoir - A mini history lesson  How did this all begin you ask?  Who are The Original Gangsters of Boudoir? It’s important to know a little history right? An understanding of the thought leaders and movements that came before us that paved...

Boudoir During Covid

Boudoir During Covid

As humans we've had to overcome many challenges and countless sacrifices. In each generation has something to overcome and luckily for most of us, we've had it pretty easy.  NEVER is history have we had to come together to one fight one common enemy at the same time....

Finding Balance in Uncertain Times

Finding Balance in Uncertain Times

Hey Beautiful friends Finding Balance in uncertain Times has taken a minute. I jumped off the cliff, then dove into the deep end and sat in the darkness there for a while thinking about what I could create in a space where time and deadlines didn't exist. As I sat in...

Boudoir Photography Tips: The Preparation

Boudoir Photography Tips: The Preparation

The Preparation Preparation creates the opportunity for success! Never underestimate the power of solid preparation. Every woman, every session is unique and your preparation starts the moment your client contacts you for a session. You are a creative professional....

Become More Confident, Because Confidence is Sexy

Become More Confident, Because Confidence is Sexy

You watch him walk into the room. Shoulders back, head held high, large smile on his face as he greets the people he passes by. He’s not the most handsome person you’ve ever seen, but there’s something about him that makes you want to know him. That something is the...

How to build a boudoir photography brand no one can compete with!

How to build a boudoir photography brand no one can compete with!

Have you ever wondered how you can build a brand around your photography. business? Where’s your island? How big is it? Who do you want to go there? What food do you serve? Cocktails? Make my mouth water! What fun things are there to do? How do you feel when you go...

Boudoir Photography Tips: All shapes and sizes are beautiful

Boudoir Photography Tips: All shapes and sizes are beautiful

Every woman is a goddess but thanks to our culture and its narrow parameters of what beautiful is supposed to be, many women don’t realize just how incredible they are. Every woman has a sweet spot. Though the media often teaches women to pick out their flaws, it is...

5 Ways to Love Your Body

5 Ways to Love Your Body

Our bodies go through many phases. From childhood to adulthood to old age, we often don’t learn to appreciate its beauty and power until it’s too late. Below are five ways for you to take care of and to learn to love your body sooner rather than later. 1. ExerciseTake...

Is self love necessary? How self love and acceptance change lives

Is self love necessary? How self love and acceptance change lives

Dear You, make peace with the woman in the mirror and watch the reflection change!  It’s easy to say “love yourself”.  But in all my years as a boudoir photographer and an aspiring dancer, I have never really found someone who said the path to self love and acceptance...

3 things you just have to know before stepping into a boudoir shoot

3 things you just have to know before stepping into a boudoir shoot

I have been doing this for a very long time and if I learnt one thing in my 10+ years of boudoir photography, it's that the experience counts. Big time. I do feel I am equipped to pitch in with my two shiny cents.  People know I am vocal about my appreciation for the...

Sometimes It’s Ok to Put Yourself First

Sometimes It’s Ok to Put Yourself First

By putting yourself first, you automatically exhibit self-respect – and when you exhibit self-respect, others begin to respect you. You deserve to put yourself first, and you deserve respect. When others see that you treat yourself well, they are sure to follow suit....

The Importance of Building a Photo Community

The Importance of Building a Photo Community

You have immense creative talent, energy, and determination. You are following your passion and believe that it’s only a matter of time before you achieve your dreams. Then all of a sudden you run into a brick wall.  You’ve done all the right things, read the right...

Law of Attraction: The Importance of a Vision Board

Law of Attraction: The Importance of a Vision Board

The Law of Attraction simply stated is that your thoughts determine your reality. Everything in this life is energy, including your thoughts, especially your thoughts. If you spend time focusing on negative things, then you’ll find yourself surrounded by negativity....

How to Take a Great Selfie

How to Take a Great Selfie

You are a wonderful creature, and sometimes you just need to share that fact. When there’s no one else to take your picture, and help you show the world (or that special someone) just how good you look, you have to do it yourself. But how do you capture the moment,...

Epic decade starts with living a life fully self expressed

Epic decade starts with living a life fully self expressed

It’s something we all want right?! Living a life fully self-expressed can come easy to some and extremely hard for most. Getting back to our child like carefree mind can be challenging especially if going back to those times cause you pain and bring back emotions that...

Human beings are visually stimulated creatures. Seeing is believing

Human beings are visually stimulated creatures. Seeing is believing

You know how in movies you’ll sometimes see someone babbling, because they’re flustered and nervous by the presence of another person, and the other person, without saying a word, will simply step forward and silence the babbling person with a kiss. And something...

Boudoir Photography Tips: Fun with Props

Boudoir Photography Tips: Fun with Props

Let’s face it, props can easily ruin a photo, transforming it into something kitschy and horrid in no time at all. Sometimes things just don’t work, and going with what’s simple and elegant is often all you need. But, when done well, props can be super fun, a slight...

Keeping it Sexy: Give him a taste of your naughty side

Keeping it Sexy: Give him a taste of your naughty side

Have you ever spent a long amount of time away from your special someone? I’m not talking about a girl’s night or a weekend out of town on business. I’m talking about weeks that drag into months. For some people, these months even turn into years. You might wonder how...

This could be you…

Just absolutely awesome! Marisa is truly talented and such is a great person. She made my first experience doing a boudoir photoshoot super comfortable and fun. Before even meeting Marisa she was so helpful with contacting me via email with tips for the shoot, recommendations for lingerie, etc. We even spoke over the phone to get to know one another. All I can say is Marisa is wonderful and I hope to work with her again. I truly enjoyed my time spent with her. -Annie