Category: Creative Experiences & Behind the Image

  • Our 51st Wedding Anniversary

    Our 51st Wedding Anniversary

    That was Sunday, Sept 13. (Yes, every 7 years we have a Friday the 13 anniversary, fun, right?) I was 20 when I married Jan. Did not even own a camera then. Three years later, I borrowed hers to start a distracting hobby from my 24/7 job. I started photographing women.  In 1980, Inner Spirit…

  • 6 Women Become a Fire Breathing Dragon

    6 Women Become a Fire Breathing Dragon

    The Fire Breathing Dragon, one of my most ambitious projects. I will take you behind the scenes.  Sean Avram, an internationally recognized body painter, was in Calgary on a teaching gig.  He was fresh off the Skin Wars Reality TV show. He shared how he had been eliminated the day before the multi-model painting challenge.…

  • Chandra and The Playful Tiger: A Calgary Portrait Session

    Chandra and The Playful Tiger: A Calgary Portrait Session

    Can you imagine the rush of a tiger walking between your spiked high heels? Feeling that feline fur slide across your calf? In my Calgary Boudoir Photography Studio was Tasha, a tiger cub, with Chandra, a wonderfully free-spirited woman. Tasha was around two months old, looking fierce in this photograph, but she was really a…

  • The Cowgirl Spirit Entwines with Our Inner Spirit!

    The Cowgirl Spirit Entwines with Our Inner Spirit!

    When Calgary celebrates our western heritage with the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth, cowgirls show up in cowboy hats, jean jackets, and ridin’ boots. Some even have spurs. I’m not sure you can call these boudoir photo sessions. But they do. There are the girls, women, who ride, rope ‘n race. They are unbridled and…

  • Reflections Journal May, 28

    Reflections Journal May, 28

    Our Latest Reflections Journal entry is out. You can read at. https://bit.ly/Reflections2026-05-28 Mark shares about Angie’s Boudoir Yoga session. Breaks the “gotta wear. lingerie if it’s Boudoir.) rule. This is a different story about expressing your inner vision. The second story has a hidden heart in the image. Look for it, let us know if…

  • Angie IS Yoga Fluid – Yes, Yoga Can Be Boudoir

    Angie IS Yoga Fluid – Yes, Yoga Can Be Boudoir

    One pose flowed into the next with such ease that I often found myself lowering the camera for a moment just to watch. Some people strike poses. Angie inhabits them. She has never been a model. As a lifetime fitness devotee and trainer, she has been on stage. As a trainer, she demonstrates. She has…

  • Reflections Journal May 8

    Reflections Journal May 8

    Our latest Journal entry is out. You can see it here- https://bit.ly/Reflections2026-05-09 Includes a story about a woman hitting a 50th milestone. Her memory anchor is a milk throw session. powerful images with a delightful story. Mark shares his big awards night, his own anchor. Winning a major trophy and the journey his image took…

  • Path to Glory – My Big Wins

    Path to Glory – My Big Wins

    Award banquets are thrilling, nerve-racking affairs. Especially when you’re a finalist at the Professional Photographers of Canada Image Salon. And this time, more honours were coming than I even knew about. I felt that same electric feeling back in 1986 when I won my first Figure Study award. It was my first awards night and…

  • Why We Offer Body Fire, Body Paint & Shibari (And Why Women Love Them)

    Why We Offer Body Fire, Body Paint & Shibari (And Why Women Love Them)

    Unpacking the creative empowerment behind these unforgettable experiences. Flames race down your legs, sweep across your bum, and rise up to your shoulder blades. You are looking at the camera so you can’t see them—and oddly, the heat is barely felt. The flames leap three to four feet above your body, alive and bright, dancing…

  • Mark Wins Big!

    Mark Wins Big!

    Five judges stare at an image that just materialized on the carefully colour calibrated monitor. In the dark room behind them, a silent audience of hopeful photographers watch their backs.  Zoom was sharing this image and the faces of the five highly decorated, national print judges.  56% of all the images judged today, would not…