Guest Post by Autumn Adams.

As a photographer of weddings, maternity, senior portraits and whatever else comes my way, you have the pleasure of meeting a lot of people whose personalities cover a wide range.  As a friend of Jennifer Mobley (do-er of hair extraordinare for Seattle Boudoir Photography) for about 5 years now, I knew I was walking into an energy and fun filled experience when I went to photograph Seattle’s fabulous Boudoir Photography team, but man oh man…I got way more! 

You can’t help but automatically love everyone that makes up this team, and believe me, they love you right back.  The environment alone is very inspiring with huge windows, loads of natural light, exposed brick walls and then the lovely ladies and epic photographer, Phil Holden, seal the deal with their smiles, energy, sense of humor, artistic abilities and their professionalism.  They love what they do and it shows. 

I can’t wait to go back, whether it be for another project, or perhaps….to be the project. Here are just a few of the team photographs taken that day. 

Click on this video if you want to see some of the funny video outtakes from the session plus a few more photographs. 

Ms G went on to say  “Things with the birthday celebration and gift went really well.  I decided to give him the photos before dinner hoping to give him something to think about all evening.  I also put the black lingerie outfit [from the session] on and wore it under my dress the whole time too!  It was so much fun!!!  He loved the pictures and was very surprised.”   We have now met Mr G as he came back into the studio to look at all their photographs together and we are working with them to come up with some other ideas to display them, yeah!  

So – here he is, getting his wonderful birthday gift.  Thanks a lot, Merilee.

As part of the process we always have a bunch of outtakes of the team and tonight I thought I would post these, mostly of Merilee this time, with a brief cameo from Nicole.   Before each client comes on the different sets Merilee and I test and make any last minute adjustments to the lighting based on the outfits that clients are wearing and the mood we are going for.   Seeing as I’m typically behind the camera, I torture Merilee with her sitting, standing, climbing or her favorite laying down and ask her to pose for me.  And at times it gets a little silly as you can see from these – fun times for sure!

“HE LOVED THE PICTURES!!!!!  He couldn’t believe that I (Mrs. HATE having her picture taken) would do them.  He has told all his friends, coworkers, and even a few coffee stand girls about his gift.  He can’t wait to come back in and see more.  Thank you again for all that you guys did.  I am sending you the pics of his expression (sooooo funny).” 

And yep, you guessed it, here are the photos.  This is one happy birthday hubby!

Here is a quick blooper reel that I put together from the few clips that we didn’t use, if you have a spare minute and want a giggle hit the play button below.  

These were taken at our last promotional weekend in Seattle.  We chose to blur some the faces of the ladies as they haven’t yet given their guys the gifts, but these give you a sense of what it is like. This particular weekend we had the two Jen’s, Nicole, Phil and Merilee all working and taking care of our clients.   We just love our clients and can’t tell you how much fun we have.  These photographs taken by Merilee Jones. 

I was swapping email with Ms B who just returned from a romantic weekend away with her very lucky boyfriend.   She has visited our boudoir photography studio in Seattle for one of our fun sessions just before valentines day.   Her goal for her session was to create some beautiful and classy photographs to give boyfriend as a unique gift that they would both treasure for a very long time.  Not surprisely he completely loved the gift and was completely speechless when she gave it to him.   She told me it was ok that I post these two snaps that she took in their hotel room – isn’t love grand!