Edmonton Boudoir Photography has been proud to be featured in the following ways:

Alberta Primetime TV - January 2011 (coming up!)

Edmonton Journal Article - July 5, 2010

CBC Radio - One of Edmonton Top 10 Sexiest Things! July 2010

St. Albert Gazette Article - 2009

EDMONTON JOURNAL ARTICLE

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonton/Boudoir photo shoots rage/3235834/story.html

And the article in full:

Boudoir photo shoots all the rage

RISQUE SETTING APPEALS TO MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN AS MUCH AS BRIDES

BY JENNIFER FONG, EDMONTON JOURNAL JULY 5, 2010

Lisa Holmes takes %u201Cboudoir%u201D photos of a woman. Holmes says the sexy photo sessions are a booming business.

Photograph by: Greg Southam, The Journal, Edmonton Journal

EDMONTON %u2013 For their wedding, Erin is giving her fiance a little black book.

Phone numbers, of course, would not be appropriate for a married man; instead, the volume will contain glamour shots of his soon-to-be wife lounging in lacy lingerie and not much else.

Erin posed for the photos Sunday at a local bed and breakfast. Her hair tousled and her lips a shimmery rouge, the slender 26-year-old worked it on a double bed, sex written all over her.

Erin, who withheld her last name to preserve the racy surprise for her fiance, was one of three women who sat down for Sunday%u2019s %u201Cmarathon%u201D boudoir photography shoot with Lisa Holmes of Edmonton Boudoir Photography.

Boudoir, where women pose for a set of provocative photos, is a fast-growing market in the photography industry, said Holmes. It%u2019s become so lucrative the former wedding photographer now specializes only in this niche.

%u201CI%u2019ve given up doing families and weddings %u2026 because (boudoir) is such a popular thing right now,%u201D said Holmes, who started Edmonton Boudoir Photography in January 2009 with fellow photographer Rebecca McKay.

At the time, she said, %u201Cthere weren%u2019t many people in Edmonton that did it. Now it%u2019s pretty crazy. There%u2019s boudoir photographers everywhere.%u201D

Holmes and McKay do marathon sessions several times a year, accommodating up to 15 women each time. Some are themed; in March their clients posed as pin-up models. They also offer private sessions by appointment.

At each marathon, freelance makeup artist Rebecca Nantel and hairstylist Kathy Lieske get clients dolled up for their hour-long shoots.

Props, ranging from bras to boas, are available for those who don%u2019t already have a vision in mind. The package costs $300.

Developing the photos, either into an album or as a collection of digital files, is extra.

Erin has wanted to pose for a boudoir session for some time. The timing now is right, she said, with her August wedding just around the corner and her military fiance%u2019s recent return from Afghanistan.

%u201CHe%u2019s going to love it,%u201D she said. %u201CAnd it%u2019s kinda a gift for myself, really, because I don%u2019t get to do anything like this (normally).%u201D

The mother of a 14-month-old child described herself as a %u201Cjeans and T-shirt kind of girl%u201D but on Sunday, Erin went for a %u201Cbedroom look %u2014 a Maxim magazine cover,%u201D she said with a laugh.

Holmes estimates that about 40 per cent of her clientele are over 45 years old, while many others are young brides.

%u201CWe%u2019ve had a lot of military wives whose husbands are still serving so they send (the albums) overseas,%u201D she said. %u201CWe had a lady that came in just before she was going in for a mastectomy. She wanted some pictures of how she looked now before she went in for her operation. Or people celebrating weight loss %u2014 they%u2019ll use this as their goal.%u201D

Winter is a popular time for boudoir, said Holmes. %u201CWe had to do two extra marathons in January for all of the business we got for Valentine%u2019s Day this year.%u201D

The rise of boudoir, she mused, may be linked to how comfortable people feel with themselves these days, in our high-tech world where everything is shared. For those less at ease, it can be transformative.

%u201CTo do boudoir, it%u2019s a big risk. You have to come in here and have some self-confidence,%u201D said Holmes. %u201CWe want it to be about empowering women and celebrating beauty, making people feel beautiful inside.%u201D

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