Get to know me better through your questions

  • I typically ask that a client brings a duffel of clothing, jeans, heels, blouses, t-shirts, pants, shorts etc. It’s okay if you don’t think it’s sexy, because when it comes to shooting I can make pretty much anything look sexy.

    I know life sometimes gets in the way and you may need some help with wardrobe and that is why I have a client closet.

  • I know and understand that every woman is different and that how she was raised, or the culture she grew up in or trauma that she faced may mean that nudity or lingerie isn’t something she is accustomed to showing or wearing. I am known for making a dress shirt and jeans sexy, and with my background in fashion photography I can make you look amazing in almost anything.

    That’s why my shoots are the length they are, some women have opened up and wanted to try something new, while others just dip their toes. I won’t force you but I’ll nudge, and sometimes the nudge is all you need to find a new part of who you are. Just be you and let me show you how sexy something can be.

  • The greatest thing about working with me is my years of honed talent at dressing women and the wardrobe that has been accumulated whether it’s items that were given to me or stuff that I’ve bought.

    You can bring some of your favorite clothing items, or a whole suitcase of clothing and heels, and I’ll mix and match it with what's in the wardrobe closet and you’ll look like a million dollars. You might be stuck in a loop of dressing the same way for years, and someone like me will come along and put you in something that you never thought you’d look amazing in.

  • Think of me like your obgyn, I’ve seen it all and been close to areas that some women are okay with me being close to photograph. You can wear as much as you are comfortable with or wear as little as you want.

    I do encourage you to step out of your comfort zone. Be that as it may, I’ve seen it all and it doesn’t faze me in the slightest. Nudity is a natural state; some are just more comfortable showing it off then others.

    However it’s not required nor imposed that you are naked for the session, just tell me what you are okay with and I’ll understand and respect it.

What to Wear

  • I’ve photographed 19 year olds fresh out of high school and moms around 40 and 45, to me age is just a number, it’s not about your age it’s how you feel.

  • I'll tell you what I tell other women, Honey you are sexy,

    I get and understand, birth control and your time of the month leads to weight gain, mental health can add weight or even make you think you need to lose it. I know it’s hard to say this to yourself, but just stop! By comparing yourself to the images you see on social media and the advice you’ve been given online and in person it's not healthy. I can work with what I’ve been given.

  • I like to point out that some of the most amazing people are shy women. They have harnessed a raw visceral internalized sensuality that often blooms and blossoms when they step in front of a lens. Trust the process.

  • This comes down to my experience and the way I shoot.

    I use shadows, manipulate lighting and the way the camera functions. I know what works and what doesn’t work for my style. I keep it simple to make the shoot less of an effort.

    I’ve spent years working around trauma victims and people with mental health disorders and I know for some just getting lipstick, foundation and a line of mascara is enough of a challenge. By keeping this style of makeup I can use shadows without altering your facial shape.

  • Take a leap of faith and understand, someone like me doesn’t come with you to every event and moment in your life where you are being photographed to tell you move over here because the light is better, pull your shoulders back and drop a shoulder you’ll look better, turn this way and look here. So you always get an awkward image in selfies and photos from others that make you feel like being photographed isn’t for you.

  • Since 2011 this is what you can expect working with me.

    The first thirty minutes are going to be like your very first prom, or your very first house party or first time you ever entered a club or bringing your first child home. You don’t know what to do, where to go, what to do, etc etc. by the first hour you’ll be relaxing, getting into the groove and finding a rhythm. By the time hour 3 rolls around you are in the groove, you’re laughing, enjoying yourself, mingling, you throw your hair left then right, your face is enigmatic, you're pulling the shirt this way and that, you're like a supermodel on a cloud.

    Then it ends and the endorphins are dying and you are wondering is that it. Is that all? Where did the time go?

Personal Apperance

  • Because of the nature of what it is that I do, I don’t typically like to have someone else dictate the choices of someone’s life experiences.

    However, if you feel that a session with me will greatly impact the person you’d like to gift a session to, I ask that you contact me directly and explain why they deserve a session with me. Please do not demand or manipulate them into working with me. I have seen first hand how impactful workig with me is, so I love elevating a woman and reminding her of how amazing she is as a human being.

  • I have given the most amazing sessions to past models and clients when it’s just the two of us.

    This has been a norm and a staple of working with me for over ten years. I understand the hesitation and desire for having a friend, but like the japanese saying we all have three faces, the one we show to the world, the one we show to our friends and family and the face we never show and that's our truest self.

    Because I want who you are not what your friend sees, I have a private session, no one but you and me, policy.

  • You’ve seen it advertised, boudoir photographers offering 30 to 45 minute sessions, or a 1 hour shoot.

    These types of time frames work for these photographers as they are accustomed to getting you into the pose and shooting the image, sometimes plying you with a mimosa to let your inhibitions down and open up.

    While they do make each session unique for you there is less of your personality in the image and more of a “commercial” aspect. I have spent over 10 years shooting at minimum 3 hour shoots and given phenomenal results, because the client is able to relax and let her guard down and be herself sometimes forgetting that I’m even shooting, often surprised at how fast the time has gone.

  • Ever since I attended my first open group meet for creatives, I've chosen to work more with women who’ve never had their photo taken or who only work with me.

    I enjoy working with non models over models because it’s something of a challenge every time. I can use this pose on this person but I have to change it for this person, I can’t do this because it looks awkward.

    I work with each person individually and work hard to not shove you in a box, I encourage you with compliments and even my blurts of amazement over an image are genuinely and impactful.

  • This one should have been broken just by looking at my portfolio. I stopped shooting in a studio environment because it challenged me as a photographer, over the years I slowly started introducing shooting boudoir and artistic nudes in nature and in abandoned places.

    Please also know I don’t shoot boudoir, I shoot intimate portraits so a bed or a bedroom is just an additional space to create within.

  • Yes it can be but let me change your viewpoint,:

    You get what you pay for. You can spend less and get a dollar store experience that you’ll be okay with for life and it will sour your attitude, or you can spend like it’s your last day on earth and you’ll get a lavious experience that you will cherish and relish for years on down the road and want to tell your friends about.

    I charge my worth because what I offer is not about giving back images, or sexy women or making money to fund my personal life.

    You are paying for a human connection and meeting someone who cares about your mental health and helping you overcome adversity or a roadblock and seeing yourself in a way that you didn’t see possible. You are buying an experience to work with someone who can make a woman with low self esteem find their worth and realize they are a human being and don’t have to let their mental health take their life.

  • True there are women who do this once for themselves, but In my years as a modeling and fashion photographer, I can not count on my hands the amount of people I haven worked with multiple times over who come back to work with me because of how I make them feel on camera and in person.

    I know I'm not for everyone, but the connections I’ve made and the people I’ve impacted are the people who continue to come back and ask for more.

The Session Itself

  • You don’t have to give these images out, if you go into the shoot thinking these are for my special someone you are going to be overthinking yourself while shooting,

    instead do your session for yourself, do this as a treat for yourself, watch what happens when you see yourself in a way you’ve never thought you would see yourself. If you want to share these you can. But don’t put that pressure on yourself.

    I also don’t post alot of my images, I have a portfolio of 15k images, I share only what the client wants me to share.

  • Because of my shoot style, I am known to give my images back within a 48 hour period. I’m able to do this because I shoot nearly 98% of my work in the camera itself. Most of the time all I adjust in post are minor lighting errors and composition adjustments.

  • Every photographer has different standards of beauty, every client has their own standard of beauty brought on by sociocultural norms and even mental health traumas, and in today’s realm of instafiltering and AI we have lost touch of what’s truly beautiful about a woman and even more beautiful and sexy about a mother.

    I stopped editing my photography nearly 8 years ago and started learning my camera, learning about the person I’m working with and I started embracing a raw pure beauty standard.

    With great effect and even multiple comments about how beautiful clients and models have felt after seeing my images, I’ve decided to stay with it.

    (it also stems from an article I once read about a husband upset at the edited images of his wife after a session because the photographer removed what was sexy to him about her)

Post Session

  • I get it, you think your family will never approve, people will judge me.

    Let me stop you right there with a beautiful saying, a caged bird never knows freedom.

    No one needs to know, you don’t have to share or advertise. Most importantly, working with me isn’t about approval from anyone, it’s about you and only you, it’s about unleashing a goddess that is beautiful and amazing who's been hidden because of various reasons.

  • I will admit there are many photographers who are fashion, modeling and boudoir photographers that overstep and oversexualize women, and many more who take advantage of the ill informed.

    That is not what my work is about and I strive to not do this. Society has done wonders to rip women six ways to heaven to devalue her being and her self worth, and I don’t see that it’s that challenging to bring a little joy and happiness into a woman’s life and show her how amazing she is.

    My images may look sexy but that's what I bring out in the person. Remember this is about you, not them.

  • Unfortunately I’ve heard this many times and it’s unfortunate they don’t understand how special and unique an opportunity is for you to feel amazing, sexy and confident. You are your own person, with your own emotional needs. I respect the nature of your relationship but YOU as my client are my only priority and my person of concern. I said it previously but a caged bird never knows freedom.

    It’s time to stop validating your opinion of yourself based upon what others want you to feel and start a journey of self validation.

Outsider Approval