Seasonal Boudoir
Springtime at a mountain lake.
I was just going back through my catalogue of photos, looking for images of my parents.
There are not a lot of photos of my parents, compared to the sheer volume of images I’ve taken, and—rather foolishly, I am realizing—haven’t tagged the images with keywords like “dad”, and, only in certain cases, have called the folder “pictures of mom”, or something meaningful like that.
So I’m doing a crawl through 200,000 images in my library (and those are just the keepers), looking for the occasions where they pop up, typically around holidays (Christmas, Easter), or randomly, mixed in with other photos I’ve taken.
Summer on the river.
And as I’ve been scrolling, I keep coming across people that I’ve photographed, and my heart breaks a little, because I never got a chance to shoot with them again.
If you saw my post on how photography is a shared intimacy between artist and subject, you’ll know that part of what makes what I do special, at least to my clients, is that I try and capture who they are. I don’t try and stick them into some pre-defined idea of what is or isn’t beautiful, instead, I try and draw their inner beauty out, through a smile, a laugh, a look of pleasure or power.
But relationships are developed over time, and who people are change over time. I may capture who they were at that moment in their life, but each moment, they change. They are different. While that moment was and remains a special moment, there are other moments, equally as special, that deserve to be captured.
Moving forward, I want to start offering people the chance to capture multiple moments. I’m starting by offering seasonal portraits: spring, summer, autumn and winter. These can be indoor or outdoor sessions, but you’ll not notice the seasons if you shoot indoors.
Down by a different river in the autumn.
When shooting outdoors, you are at the mercy of the elements, but that’s part of the fun. The challenge. The experience. Yes, it’s easy to get a pretty picture on a pretty day, but on a day when it is blustery and storming? You can get some dramatic, interesting pictures.
Of course, there’s always the option of moving the session if the weather is bad, but it would have to be really bad to scare me off. Then again, I’m not the one hanging about in my frilly nothings at -20.
Outdoors at -20. Yes. It was cold. But it was worth it.
So for 2023, I will be offering Seasonal Boudoir sessions. We will shoot four times over the year: spring, summer, autumn, winter.
To find out more, send me a note, or fill out our no-commitment consultation form. Make sure to mention you’re interested in the Seasonal Boudoir series.