Why I Only Shoot Boudoir

I needed the spark back. I had been shooting families and weddings for years, I had four kids of my own, and I was losing my drive. Photography had to mean something to me or I did not want to do it at all.

My sister in law, who is also a photographer, suggested boudoir. I did a weekend of minis just for fun, not expecting much. And it changed everything.

There was a woman that weekend who I knew well. I had photographed her wedding and I was her birth photographer when she delivered her last child. She was a mom of three going through one of the hardest seasons of her life. And I watched her walk into that session carrying all of it, all the weight of everything life had thrown at her, and somewhere in those few hours I watched her find herself again. The real her. The woman who had been buried under all of it.

She loved the work so much that she came back and became my assistant. That is what boudoir does to people.

I never looked back.

Here is the part I do not talk about enough. I am not just a photographer who chose a niche. I am a woman who needed this work as much as my clients do.

I have been a mom since I was 18. Before my husband I survived abusive relationships and situations that left me not knowing who I was anymore. I lost myself. I struggled with my weight my whole life. I lost touch with being a woman, a beautiful woman, someone worth seeing. I stopped seeing myself too.

When I stand behind that camera and I watch a woman come alive, when I turn that screen around and see her face change because she finally sees what I see, it does not just fill her up. It fills me up too. Every single time.

That is why I only shoot boudoir. Not because it is a smart business decision. Not because it photographs well. Because it is the only work I have ever done that gives something real back to everyone in the room, including me.

If you have ever felt invisible, if you have ever stopped recognizing yourself, if you have ever needed someone to just show you who you actually are, that is exactly who I built this studio for.

Come see what I see.