Boudoir

I have always loved the moment when you capture a beautiful image of a person and being able to turn the camera round and genuinely say, 'Look at you! You're absolutely gorgeous!' and it's such a lovely moment to be able to share between you and the person in front of the camera. A lot of the times the person is nervous to begin with and has usually just told me, 'I don't look good in photos' or 'I don't feel good about myself today' and seeing that reaction as they see how they've just photographed, and seeing those defences come down through the rest of the time in front of the lens is just a really really lovely experience for me to have.

Over the past 5 months I've been working at exploring a new side to my business. And to be honest it's had it's moments where I've thought that it wouldn't work out and I've come away from a practice shoot thinking I could have done better. And then I'd empty the camera and see some golden shots that I'd have to be insane not to love. 

I've showed different types of people some of the sessions and got feedback along the way, continually looking at how I could be better so all of these shoots were works in progress. But despite that, these are some of my absolute faves so far...

These four beautiful women allowed me to come into their homes and photograph them and I want to say a major thank you to each of you. All of them nervous (one even had a few sneaky glasses of wine before I got there but I wont say who ;) and even one who had her friend in the room with her so she wouldn't be as nervous. All of them said that they weren't sure they'd be able to provide the shots I was after and my response was that as long as you can move you can be photographed, so while it may not be noticed at first there was a lot of rolling, dancing, spinning and hair flicks going on behind the scenes ;) Such good fun!

I'd love to hear what you all think!

xox