Big city Boudoir!! Chicago PUBLIC hotel.

I couldn't have asked for a better stage for our first destination boudoir experience. The hotel was impressive. The design approach was exactly in my taste; white walls, beige carpet, white bedding, white curtains and giant floor-to-ceiling windows. But more important than the room, my clients were awesome! We jammed to old school madonna, had champagne and ate fruit and thoroughly enjoyed girl time. At the end when Justin came to help carry down their 'luggage' it was like none of us wanted to stop chatting.

There is just something iconic, something a little nostalgic about prancing around in stilettos and high-end lingerie in a swanky hotel while drinking bubbly in the middle of the afternoon. It has a way of bringing a girl back down to her roots, and connecting her with herself and her femininity...and we all felt it.

Or maybe it was just me. It's what I love most about a boudoir session. It's a special way of capturing a well-written page of your story. In a way only an iconic woman can understand. The likes of Audrey and Coco, Marilyn and Grace...you know they enjoyed a smoke, in their lingerie, in the window of their hotel a time or two.

Here they are folks, Grace, Marilyn, Coco and Audrey...straight to you from the Public Hotel, Chicago.

 It's a beautiful Tuesday, right!!!

Beauty for a reason.

It's great to look beautiful, but FEELING beautiful...well that's a different story. Every now and then I get the pleasure of photographing a client who's reason for booking me is unique and emotional. This was the case with this Boudoir client.
She'd recently made some drastic changes in her life, received bad news after bad news and was feeling much less than beautiful. Being a mother, a wife, a housekeeper, a carpool driver, a career woman among many other things had left her with little time to treat herself. This session signified a change. She'd started on a new path, towards a brighter part of life. She finally FELT beautiful and I think we can all agree she sure looked BEAUTIFUL!!

Enjoy!

There is still time to book a boudoir session and get your album AROUND Valentine's Day! If you're interested, please contact me!! Check tomorrow's post for other Valentine's day gift and date ideas!!

Satin and lace...

I love LOVE LOVE a good boudoir session! Especially when the outfits, the details and the lighting all jive and make for one creamy, sultry shot!! I can't share all of these, but here are a few clips from one of my latest sessions. This lovely lady was such a doll. I couldn't have asked for an easier shoot that day!!

Body as art...

The human body has been an art form for centuries. To me, as an artist of many different mediums; that hasn't changed. These images are meant to capture the shape and contour, and the symbolic 'curves' of the female body, not to objectify or demoralize the act of wearing lingerie. These images to me showcase natural beauty, a vulnerability and a passion about the subject that could only be seen in the privacy of a woman's boudoir.