Approximately six months before her birthday, Alexandra (Sandy) reached out to me with a clear desire of gifting herself a boudoir session to celebrate her 40th birthday. During our creative and preparation stage of her boudoir session, I asked her, what are you looking to discover about yourself during and/or after your session? and she answered, “celebrating being comfortable in my own skin.”

When I first received an inquiry from Celina at the beginning of 2019 and after not hearing back from her for months, I would have never thought that later in the year she would be reaching out again to finally book her boudoir session with me. During our call, one of the things she said to me was “I want to do this photoshoot where I see myself not as a mother or a wife, but as a woman…”

Here’s a little secret, I LOVE creating by the water. With water, we nurture, pray, cleanse, and soothe. Those are just merely a few of the things water represent. Water is life. I have always found our relationship with water so mesmerizing, especially for Women. So every season shooting a boudoir session near the water is, somewhat, soul healing.

Today is my mother’s birthday. Her name is Maria Alexandra. She is an incredible Woman and today I want to share a piece of her with you through my portraits of her. South Florida Portrait Photographer, Denice Lachapelle.

Believe it or not, this boudoir session of Kelly was my first ever boudoir body study captured in 35mm film, and it was published in an online boudoir journal that was founded by the incredible Martiza Tobon (who later became a dear friend of mine) called Boudoir Collective. Thank goodness for my dear friends…

Happy New Year. Being that this is my first journal post in 2020, it seems fitting to start with those words.

I wanted to start my first journal entry of 2020 by going back to the principles I embedded early on in my work, simplicity. By no means simplicity is simple…