- New post up at http://whollymatrimony.com – and as an added bonus? A coupon code for Fluff Paper goodness – http://www.shopfluff.com – too! #
- Upgrading my GrandCentral.com number to Google Voice. Annoying that none of the people I put in the old address book didn’t migrate. Grr. #
- If you want to attend the http://FastTrackPhotographer.com workshop in May in Houston and you want a discount code, let me know! #
Month: March 2009
Tweets for 2009-03-25…
- My friend have serious injury so I decided to write this because people should know that they may need legal help from David Blackwell Law – Personal Injury Cases if someone have caused them serious injury.
- http://twitpic.com/2f8fn – @gwentown’s book in the wild at Barnes & Noble. Just there on table of good books to read! #
- Uploading photos from the Indian wedding I shot last summer for @genehiga at Holly Farms in Carmel, California. LOVE all the colors! #
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Everyone is Beautiful…
As women, we’ve all become too conditioned to not see ourselves as beautiful, and it is a sad thing. All of us – every single one – has a wealth of beauty. Most of us have just taught ourselves to ignore it and only pick on our own faults.
I have discovered an amazing power when I do boudoir photography sessions. I can make women see their true beauty. Almost every woman starts the session nervous, worried about her own personal flaws. By the end, after a lot of laughter and silliness (because every session is better with laughter!), every single client has told me how empowered she feels. How beautiful she feels. How excited she is about the previews I’ve shown her on the camera.
Many of my clients (but not all!) have done sessions originally as a gift for someone else. In the end, they all take away a gift for themselves too.
I think this would happen outside of boudoir sessions as well – I’ve been trying to encourage women to come in for an empowering portrait session even if they don’t want a boudoir session. Something to celebrate their beauty. Something to make them feel strong.
We are all way too hard on ourselves. Everyone IS beautiful.
Thank you to Katherine Center for the link to the video and the inspiration to write the post. I look forward to reading your book!
What do you find beautiful about yourself? (Hard question, isn’t it? It shouldn’t be that way.)
Tweets for 2009-03-24…
- It is so hard to take the high road some days. I’m trying, really trying – but feel like I’m on a steep cliff and going to fall low. Ugh. #
- And then I get the email that ShootQ has an iPhone app now, and I feel all giddy and warm and fuzzy. YEAH!!!! ShootQ! iPhone! Yeah!!! #
- Just had to check the date for Jason’s graduation in 2010 to make sure I didn’t book a wedding that weekend. HOW did he get so old??? Wow. #
- Twitterer? Check. Photographer? Check. Following @twitphotog – check. Joined the Flickr group: http://tinyurl.com/dbjl8a – check. #
- Sign up NOW for the Fast Track Photographer HOUSTON workshop! May 20-21 http://tr.im/hIaz – save $100 using code christinehookup_workshop #
- Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #photography #weddingphotographer #socialmedia #
- Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #photographer #knitter #knitting #
- My iPhone is going to need to be charged soon – I keep playing in the ShootQ iPhone app because it is so awesome. LOVE! Thanks @shootq! #
- Since today is gush about ShootQ.com day, you know who else it might be really awesome for? Wedding Planners! Would be curious if any try it #
- RT @jsfilms Check out how fun @josevilla workshops are http://joelserratofilms.bigfolioblog.com/ – LOVE the video! Eee!!! #
I missed the plain, simple white design of fabulousness by Derek Powazek. So I switched back. The other one was pretty and colorful, but this one just feels like a better gathering of all my web stuff in one place.
I’m going back to blogging here when I post photos on the wedding photography and the boudoir photography site as well.
Speaking of changes … have you seen Proposal 2.0? All about the schmoopy love, The Boy is proposing online to MommiePie. I discovered all of it thanks to The Bloggess.
Wait! Wait! Breaking news! In the time it took me to start writing this post, MommiePie *found* the proposal. Her response?
OH. MY. GOD.
I really should be leaving some hugely profound comment here, knowing this post will be recorded and kept forever, but all I can come up with is …
YES.
YES.
YES!!!
If I could get the letters any bigger I would! If there were audio, you’d hear me laughing.
If there were video, you’d see me smiling from ear to ear.
I love you, I love you, I LOVE YOU Dave.
Yep. Soulmate.
Awwwwww…
I was going to link to what I posted when Mike & I got engaged — but I can’t find it online! I can’t believe I didn’t actually blog about it. I’m stunned! He took me back to Kavah Kane’s, where we first met thanks to an H-Town Blogs event that he organized, which I cancelled everything else to go to because Pixeldiva Ann had been asking me for at least a year while he lived in London and came back to Houston to visit if I had actually met him yet. (That might be the longest run-on sentence ever.) Anyways … he took me back to the place where we met on New Year’s Eve, after coordinating it all with Jason while I was at work that day. He got down on one knee, and said words I don’t remember but were really sweet and had to do with spending our lives together. I said yes. The rest is history!
Ah, sweet love…

Samantha & Ben’s Mr & Mrs Session – one of my recent client shoots. You can just feel the love when they are around!