Thought Investigation

We navigate this world with extreme levels of emotion and intuition. 

The human mind is extraordinary. 

However, left to its own devices, its primary concern is survival. Happiness is secondary, if even a priority at all. 

Which is unfortunate for us, because our goal is no longer to just survive but to also thrive. Surviving doesn’t equal happiness, so we must press deeper. 

It is very possible that the things you believe about your world and everything in it are incorrect or skewed, at the very least imbalanced. It is affected by your culture, your upbringing, and everything around you. It is very curious to me that so many of us never stop to investigate our thoughts. 

It seems absurd, our thoughts are our thoughts. They can’t be wrong, can they?

Have you ever judged someone or something right away, and then learned more about it and realized your assessment couldn’t have been more wrong?

How many times do we do this? 

How wrong can we be about ourselves?

So many women make sweeping declarations to me, they’re awkward, unphotogenic, their nose is too something, their thighs are something else. 

Have you ever investigated those thoughts? If you think your nose is wrong, that means you have a belief that noses *should* look like something else. But if you look around, is that true? Is there a way that noses *should* look, or is there a million different noses among you?

How about bodies? Your body is all wrong, isn’t it? How do you know? You must believe bodies should look like something. Bodies shouldn’t have cellulite, right? Is that true? In your experience, do bodies have cellulite? Of course they do. And they also don’t. Both are true.

Does hating your body change your cellulite? 

Does living in misery make your body whatever fantastical idea of a body you have conjured up?

It surely doesn’t. Reality is reality. Reality is here and now. To hate what is here and now is lunacy. It exists. Your feelings towards it won’t change it one way or another. The only thing that changes is how you feel about what is happening. 

And I’ll leave you with this. 

What is more effective, war or peace?

Then why are you waging war on yourself expecting change, when you really long for peace?

Welcome To My World....

Hello, hello. I’m Christie, the hand behind the trigger and the voice behind the brand.

Welcome to my world and ultimately the entire contents of my brain. What I share here is authentically me, I don’t have much of a choice to be honest, I only have one speed.

I am an artist, but that’s only part of it. I’m obsessed with the depths of the human experience– the journey a person goes on in their lifetime, partly a physical journey and partly a journey of the mind. Unraveling insecurities, concepts of the world around them, perceptions of experiences and the process within.

This art, photography, is the vessel. It’s the way I am able to open my mind and reveal what’s inside. It’s a gift I never take for granted. This gift, the ability to literally show you what I see, is something I believe only a photographer has. Perhaps a skilled artist can as well, but when I pick up that camera I am literally and physically able to capture what my mind sees when I see you. I use lighting to capture an emotion that isn’t a tangible element. Every single detail is for that purpose, to use the tangible to capture the intangible.

There’s so much more to you than your insecurities. There’s so much more to you than the things that have bogged you down, suffocating you and lying to you. The darkness of our minds knows no bounds, it will fester and take hold until you feel like you have lost control. If this gift can have even a fraction of an impact on such things, I will continue until I can no longer hold my camera.

I hope you are relentless in your pursuit of healing. Whatever you are healing from; trauma, self doubt, insecurities, anxiety, depression… I hope you seek victory. I hope I get to meet you on that journey and share in your stories along the way.

And.

I hope I get to capture such a bold and courageous woman.

Celebrating the big session giveaway winner!

My beautiful giveaway winner came in yesterday and WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW. @sam_amerman absolutely crushed it, did she not??!

The whole session we focused on embracing the soft with the bold as we always do but it was really at the forefront of our minds.

Sometimes the wardrobe is just as important as everything else. This pink sweater felt so soft and delicate yet her tattoos and confidence add to the dimension and depth that is femininity in itself.

We are complex, we are bold and we are soft, we are strong, we are emotional, we are loving, we set boundaries. These things can all exist at once and all I ever want to do is capture all the complexities that live inside you.

When you book a boudoir session, take all of these things into account when shopping for your wardrobe. What pieces bring out the different parts of you? The texture of a sweater against the smoothness of your skin, the pale pink color subtly living in cohesion with your skin’s undertones and yet in contrast with your long, dark hair. Each outfit helps us tell the story of who you are.

Each woman enters my studio at a different place in her self love journey. Some are at the beginning, stumbling on baby deer legs into a future where they can finally embrace who they are. Some come to me towards the end, celebrating the laborious journey of learning to love themselves and actually sitting in the truth that they are worthy. Wherever you’re at in your journey, that’s where I meet you. This session either sheds light on a piece of you that has been living in the dark for too long or it confirms that what you’ve been working towards all along is worth celebrating.

“Ahh I did it!”

“One of the best experiences of my whole life!” - Sam A.