The beautiful Miss E came into the studio to do a fun boudoir session for her special man who was off serving with the military overseas. She was so excited to do something special for him, and we had so much fun! She brought a girlfriend along with her for the shoot to encourage her and cheer her on. I think Miss E’s exact words were that she isn’t sexy at all. Uhm, I have no idea where she got that from, because she is stunning!

She brought along a jersey for his favorite football team, always a fun way to make it personal! She also brought her favorite lingerie and a pair of toe shoes! Ballet meets boudoir – excellent!

Thank you again, Miss E for being SO awesome to work with! I look forward to seeing you again soon! Maybe for the wedding day? (When her boyfriend got back stateside, he proposed!)

Considering doing a boudoir session? Be sure to get in on our Summer 2010 Specials!

Our last round of specials were so popular, we’re offering many of them again!

Know Someone Extra Nice? Give Them Something Naughty!
Sometimes you want it ALL. This collection includes all the pampering you deserve and more!
* 2-3 hour photo shoot at the studio, in your home, or at a hotel of your choice. * Up to 10 outfits!
* 10×10 or 8×8 coffee table album with leather cover and 30 pages. Album will feature the artistic layout of one image per page, showcasing your beauty!
* Options available to upgrade your album to the top of the line albums that we offer, and you can always add more pages to your book – be sure to check out the options at your session!
* DVD of all final images from your session with a print release, delivered with your album.
* The DVD will also include the 30 retouched image files featured in your album! You get it all!
The top of the line package, at a very special price! $900 (normally $1500)

Or if you prefer, you can choose from one of our two session options, select add-ons, and build your own collection!

Pretty, Pretty, Pictures Session! $350
2 hour photo shoot, up to 6 outfits plus the white sheet for those soft, intimate poses. (Value: $700)

Sweet & Sassy Session! $250
1 hour photo shoot, up to 3 outfits photographed, one of which can be just a white sheet. (Value: $350)

Now that we’ve taken the photographs, what would you like to do with them? Pick your Add-Ons!

20 page coffee table book – $150 – 10×10 in size, in our artistic layout of one image per page to showcase your beauty, with a leather cover in black, brown or red.
30 page coffee table book (because sometimes, 20 images isn’t enough!) – $250 – 10×10 in size, in our artistic layout of one image per page to showcase your beauty, with a leather cover in black, brown or red.
DVD of your choice of 12 images from the session – $100. Images are retouched high-resolution files with print release to make your own calendar or other project
DVD of all final images from your session – $100. Images are high-resolution files with a print release. (Note: no special extra polish retouching will be done to the images.)
You can always order prints from our secure Online Gallery as well!

Most sessions are available during the week, with limited weekend sessions available. 50% of your selected package price is due at the time of booking to hold your date; the balance is due 2 weeks before your session.
Prices do not include applicable sales tax.

Not limited to Houston sessions! – Live somewhere else? I would love to come visit you there. Travel costs vary, but I’m happy to consider *anything*! We need to talk! Have a few friends that would be interested in a shoot as well? Contact me and we can organize a boudoir party!

Already had your session but didn’t get a book at the time? You can get in on this special too! Just let us know!

Now that should help make things toasty!

See all the details about the Valentine’s Day Specials here and then contact us to set up your shoot!

Miss K is having a destination wedding at the end of the year, and decided to surprise her sweetie with a boudoir album full of awesome, yummy goodness! She was gracious enough to give me permission to share a few of our favorites! We did a session at the studio, and had such a great time!

In Miss K’s own words – from a comment she left over at the wedding photography site, “Christine just shot my boudoir shoot and it was AMAZING!!! She made me feel SO comfortable…and the pictures are beautiful; very “soft and sweet” yet sexy. Thanks Christine!!”

I just loved that she incorporated things that she knows he loves into the session. They are both fans of the Buffalo Bills, so she brought a jersey along, he loves the red shoes she is wearing, so she was sure to include them, and he plays soccer, so she brought a soccer jersey as well!

Aren’t those shoes awesome? They are her shoes for her wedding day! I love the purple – they are going to be such a gorgeous accent! Thank you again to Miss K for such an awesome, fun session!

Interested in doing a boudoir session? Be sure to check out our Holiday Specials! -and- if you book a date in 2009-2010 by Nov. 30, 2009 you will get an EXTRA $100 off the shoot! Ready to set it up? Contact me today!

Boudoir season is upon us! Not just Christmas, but all the way through Valentine’s Day! So I am kicking off the latest round of specials that will cover both! All sessions are available at your home, the hotel of your choice* -or- at the studio! These rates are good for shoots any time in 2009 -or- 2010!

All right, lets get to the good stuff!

Sweet & Sassy Session! $250
1 hour photo shoot, up to 3 outfits photographed, one of which can be just a white sheet. (Value: $350)

Pretty, Pretty, Pictures Session! $350
2 hour photo shoot, up to 6 outfits plus the white sheet for those soft, intimate poses. (Value: $700)

Now that we’ve taken the photographs, what would you like to do with them? Pick your Add-Ons!

Featured Add On: I Want to be a Calendar Girl! NEW for Holiday, 2009!
First we do the session – choose from either one above. Then you pick 12 images, I carefully retouch them, and we make a 2010 calendar for your sweetie! By the way, the calendar company lets you start with -any- month, so if you want to do this for Valentine’s Day, just start with February or March! Making it for a birthday gift or your wedding? Have the start date be later in the year!
Special Price: $100

We’ve Got What You Want! MORE Add Ons!

• 20 page coffee table book – $150 – 10×10 in size, in our artistic layout of one image per page to showcase your beauty, with a leather cover in black, brown or red.
• 30 page coffee table book (because sometimes, 20 images isn’t enough!) – $250 – 10×10 in size, in our artistic layout of one image per page to showcase your beauty, with a leather cover in black, brown or red.
• DVD of your choice of 12 images from the session – $100. Images are retouched high-resolution files with print release to make your own calendar or other project
• DVD of all final images from your session – $100. Images are high-resolution files with a print release. (Note: no special extra polish retouching will be done to the images.)
• You can always order prints from our secure Online Gallery as well!

Know Someone Extra Nice? Give Them Something Naughty!
Sometimes you want it ALL. This special has been *so* popular over the past year, we’ve decided to continue it!
1-2 hour photo shoot at the studio, in your home, or at a hotel of your choice.* No limit on the outfits you wear.
10×10 or 8×8 coffee table album with leather cover and 30 pages. Album will feature the artistic layout of one image per page, showcasing your beauty!
Options available to upgrade your album to the top of the line albums that we offer, and you can always add more pages to your book – be sure to check out the options at your session!
DVD of all final images from your session with a print release, delivered with your album.
The DVD will also include the 30 retouched image files featured in your album! You get it all!
The top of the line package, at a very special price! $900 (normally $1700 for weekdays, $1800 for weekend sessions!)

Most sessions are available during the week, with limited weekend sessions available. 50% of your selected package price is due at the time of booking to hold your date; the balance is due 1 week before your session.

Prices do not include applicable sales tax.
* Hotel and travel outside of the greater Houston area not included in fee.

Not limited to Houston sessions! – Live somewhere else? I would love to come visit you there. Travel costs vary, but I’m happy to consider *anything*! We need to talk! Have a few friends that would be interested in a shoot as well? Contact me and we can organize a boudoir party! Already in the works – a trip to Philadelphia in early 2010! Where else should I go? Just tell me!

Ready to book your session? Let me know!

I can’t WAIT to hear what you’re looking for!

In the past year of Boudoir sessions, I’ve discovered that some of my absolute favorite photos are the most simple, the most pure – ones that involve nothing more than a white sheet or towel. No outfits. Just beauty. (Makeup in the above photo by Jennifer Aronson.)

In honor of this, I’ve decided to add a White Sheet Session to my package lineup!

THE WHITE SHEET SESSION
1 hour photo shoot at the studio in the Heights. No outfits photographed – just a white sheet.
Your choice of one of the following:
20 page coffee table book, 8×10 or 10×10 in size, in our artistic layout of one image per page to showcase your beauty, with a leather cover; OR
DVD of all proofs from your session with a print release.** (Note: no special retouching will be done to the images.)
Options available to upgrade your album to the top of the line albums that we offer, to add more pages to your book, digital files of magazine retouched images or prints.
Special Price:
$400 for album -or- the DVD with print release (normally $800)
$500 for album -AND- the DVD with print release (normally $1000)

This is just in time for the Holiday 2009 boudoir season! Yes, I realize Christmas is 6 months away, but why not take advantage of that beach body you’ve been working on now? These specials are in effect until the end of September, 2009.

Read all the details below about ALL of the Boudoir Sessions options offered! Of course, you can opt to have the white sheet be one of your outfits if you choose to do one of our full sessions! Sessions are available during the week, with limited weekend sessions available. 50% of your selected package price is due at the time of booking to hold your date; the balance is due 1 week before your session.

Not limited to Houston sessions! – Live somewhere else? I would love to come visit you there. Travel costs vary, but I’m happy to consider *anything*! We need to talk! Have a few friends that would be interested in a shoot as well? Contact me and we can organize a boudoir party!

I will be traveling to Atlanta, Georgia and Savannah, Georgia in late June, and New Orleans, Louisiana in mid-August – let me know if you would like to set up a session in one of these cities while I’m there!

Some of our other specials have been so popular, we’ve decided to continue them!

Know Someone Extra Nice? Give Them Something Naughty!
1-2 hour photo shoot at the studio, in your home, or at a hotel of your choice.*
10×10 or 8×8 coffee table album with leather cover and 30 pages. Album will feature the artistic layout of one image per page, showcasing your beauty!
Options available to upgrade your album to the top of the line albums that we offer, and you can always add more pages to your book – be sure to check out the options at your session!
DVD of all proofs from your session with a print release, delivered with your album.**
The DVD will also include the 30 retouched image files featured in your album.***
The top of the line package, at a very special price! $900 (normally $1700 for weekdays, $1800 for weekend sessions!)

Feeling crafty?
Maybe you’re super crafty, and you prefer to make your own book of photographs? Then this one is for you!
1-2 hour photo shoot at the studio, in your home, or a hotel of your choice. 3-5 Outfits.*
DVD of all proofs from your session with a print release**, delivered 2 weeks after you select the 20 images for special retouching!
Yes, you read that right – you select 20 images, and I’ll do all the special retouching magic to them and include them on your DVD!***
Special price: $700 (normally up to $1400.)

Pretty, Pretty Pictures!
1-2 hour photo shoot at the studio, in your home, or at a hotel of your choice. 2-4 Outfits*
Your choice of one of the following:
20 page coffee table book, 10×10 or 8×8 in size, and with a leather cover; OR
20 5×7 or 8×10 fine art prints; OR
DVD of all proofs from your session with a print release.** (Note: no special retouching will be done to the images.)
Options available to upgrade your album to the top of the line albums that we offer, and you can always add more pages to your book – be sure to check out the options at your session!-
Special Price:
$600 for Album -or- Prints -or- DVD (normally up to $975.)
$700 for Album -or- Prints -and- DVD (normally up to $1250.)

Prices do not include applicable sales tax.
* Hotel and travel outside of the greater Houston area not included in fee.
** Full proof DVDs are available for sale at an a la carte price of $300.
*** Once you select the images to have retouched, it will take up to 2 weeks to prepare the DVD of files for you.

Please note: It can take up to 2-3 weeks for the proofing of a session, and once images are selected for printing, it can take up to 2-3 weeks for delivery of albums, prints or DVDs. Be sure to plan accordingly! Rush times are available, please check to make sure I can make your date and inquire about the Rush delivery rate.

Holiday Deadlines: The session deadline for guaranteed for Christmas delivery is Thursday, November 19, and all orders must be received by December 5, 2009 for the holiday deadline. Orders placed between December 6 and December 12 will incur a 50% rush fee. Orders placed after December 13 can not be guaranteed for Christmas delivery.

I’ve been offering boudoir sessions for eight months now, and in that time I’ve had a lot of sessions that are somehow related to babies — several of my clients have talked about how they are trying to get pregnant. One of my clients was just a few days pregnant when we did her session – she didn’t even know it yet. Ms. E came to me shortly after she found out she was pregnant and asked if she could do a boudoir session because she wanted to capture how she looked before her baby was born.

I immediately asked her if she would be willing to pose for me when she was closer to her due date, and I was thrilled when she agreed! For a long time, I didn’t get maternity photography. Why would anyone want that? Then I realized, in part thanks to my AMAZING boudoir clients, that every single woman is beautiful. Pregnant women truly do radiate a special light though. They are just stunning.

Ms. E called me when she reached the 30 week mark and we set up a session time. It worked out that the only day that we were both free was right after the open house this weekend, so we pulled out all the stops on Sunday and did our shoot.

We had such a great time. I joked that in the future, I need to set up a “Bootie to Belly to Baby” package, photographing boudoir through maternity and then the newborn session too. Oh, who am I kidding – it wasn’t a joke. I’ve already got dibs on her newborn photos! I can’t wait for the baby to arrive in a few weeks! (You’ll have to watch for her over on the regular blog.)

Let me know if you would like to book a maternity session with a little boudoir flare!

I always try to find something that will make us laugh at our boudoir session. I have my arsenal of stupid jokes – I can never remember jokes, so the ones I do remember are all very lame and therefore hysterical. Fortunately, Mrs. L liked to laugh just as much as I did, so we had *so* much fun at her session!

She opted to do her session at her house, so we could incorporate things from their everyday life into the shoot. It was a ton of fun! Especially when we started imagining what the neighbors must be thinking if they were looking through the windows. I end up standing on things to get higher angles, laying on the floor – whatever it takes to get the shot. Combine that with a lot of lingerie? Yeah, the laughter is pretty much guaranteed!

People often ask me if their photos have to be up on the blog. It absolutely is not a requirement for any session that I shoot — and every photo that I post here I post only with permission. Mrs. L didn’t want any photos that showed her face to be shared on the site, which I completely respect. She did approve these photos though!

More photos from Mrs. L’s session coming tomorrow!

Good news! Good news!!! GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!! (That is me, shouting it from the rooftops!)

After what is a rather long, boring story, I’ve made the decision to take over the ENTIRE building where my studio is located at in the Heights! The whole thing! I’ll be working on adding new vignettes for photo shoots, and maybe even props we can use over the next few months – in addition to the ones that are already set up. Wheeeeee! I’m so EXCITED!!!

The holiday special packages were SO popular, I’ve decided to continue them to celebrate the studio expansion! So here they are so you can check them out!

These packages are good until April 30, 2009 – so book your session right away! (You can book a session for any time in 2009 at these rates!) I’m always happy to discuss a custom package for you — let me know if there is something special you have in mind!

Sessions are available during the week, with limited weekend sessions available. 50% of your selected package price is due at the time of booking to hold your date; the balance is due 1 week before your session.

Boudoir sessions make the perfect gift for your wedding day, your anniversary, or just because! With Valentine’s Day around the corner, how can you resist?

Not limited to Houston sessions! – Live somewhere else? I would love to come visit you there. Travel costs vary, but I’m happy to consider *anything*! We need to talk! Have a few friends that would be interested in a shoot as well? Contact me and we can organize a boudoir party!

Know Someone Extra Nice? Give Them Something Naughty!

• 1-2 hour photo shoot at the studio, in your home, or at a hotel of your choice.*
• 10×10 or 8×8 coffee table album with leather cover and 30 pages. Album will feature the artistic layout of one image per page, showcasing your beauty!
• DVD of all proofs from your session with a print release, delivered with your album.**
• The DVD will also include the 30 retouched image files featured in your album.***

The top of the line package, at a very special price! $900 (normally $1700 for weekdays, $1800 for weekend sessions!)

Feeling crafty?
Maybe you’re super crafty, and you prefer to make your own book of photographs? Then this one is for you!

• 1-2 hour photo shoot at the studio, in your home, or a hotel of your choice.*
• DVD of all proofs from your session with a print release**, delivered 2 weeks after you select the 20 images for special retouching!
• Yes, you read that right – you select 20 images, and I’ll do all the special retouching magic to them and include them on your DVD!***

Special price: $700 (normally up to $1400.)

Pretty, Pretty Pictures!

• 1-2 hour photo shoot at the studio, in your home, or at a hotel of your choice.*
• Your choice of one of the following:
• 20 page coffee table book, 10×10 or 8×8 in size, and with a leather cover; OR
• 20 5×7 or 8×10 fine art prints; OR
• DVD of all proofs from your session with a print release.** (Note: no special retouching will be done to the images.)

Special Price: $500 (normally up to $975.)

Simple & Sweet

• 1 hour photo shoot at the studio in the Heights. (1-2 outfits)
• DVD of 10 retouched images of your choice with a print release.***
• Option to purchase albums or prints at a 20% discount off of the normal price.

Special Price: $300 (normally up to $700)

Prices do not include applicable sales tax.

* Hotel and travel outside of the greater Houston area not included in fee.
** Full proof DVDs are not normally available for sale — so this is a very special holiday treat!
*** Once you select the images to have retouched, it will take up to 2 weeks to prepare the DVD of files for you.

Please note: It can take up to 2-3 weeks for the proofing of a session, and once images are selected for printing, it can take up to 2-3 weeks for delivery of albums, prints or DVDs. Be sure to plan accordingly! Rush times are available, please check to make sure I can make your date!