Black Ink Photography | Montreal Boudoir Photography

I’m so excited! I’m going to be heading down to Boston in September to take photos at Bride Thriller.

Brides. Hundreds of Brides. Dancing to Thriller. In the streets of Boston!

Can you think of anything more fun?
Yes. Doing this in Montreal! Perhaps in 2011…

Bride Thriller is a fund raising event. All brides participating are asked to bring a donation of a canned or boxed item, which will be given to the Greater Boston Food Bank. If you are interested in being one of the brides (only requirement is a white/off white dress), sign up on the website!

More on this as we get closer to the day.

And to make this complete, a picture from a trash the dress session. Not everyone will go this far (chocolate & tomato juice rendered the dress unusable ever again), but “trash the dress” sessions are a fun way to get more wear out of your dress. I’d love to take photos of bride in her dress jumping into a swimming pool! Or at Oka beach.

Trash the Dress, Montreal Style

I know a few photographers read this blog (hi!), so I just wanted to mention that I recently attended an online webinar on photography of special kids. The webinar focused on the unique needs of children with special needs. The organization also offers longer workshops and gives accreditation. There is autism in my family, so this is an important topic to me.

If you would like more information about the organization and the services they offer, please check out their website.

Burlesque and boudoir are very different. Burlesque is all about the show and performance, while boudoir is more intimate. More personal. However, both celebrate women and their bodies, and a boudoir session can always include a touch of the burlesque.

Last year, I had the opportunity to shoot Montreal’s top burlesque performer, Scarlett James. It was a treat. With every move that she made, you could tell she was a performer and very aware of her audience (the camera in this case).

When I was little, I saw the musical Gypsy and fell in love with Gypsy Rose Lee. My sister and I would act out/dance out/sing out the songs from the show, even though we didn’t really know what we were singing about. Later, I became “acquainted” with Mae West, anther strong woman who celebrated her body. I loved the humour these two women projected and the acceptance of who they were. I also loved the tease: the hints, subtlety and mystery. (Although Mae West could be very in your face at times! )

If you would like to experience a little bit of burlesque, go see the Grand Burlesque show at Club Soda on Saturday (March 6th). You’ll be in for a treat!

Here are a couple of images from my shoot with Scarlett. These were taken in studio.

Sebastien is a Montreal and destination wedding photographer, who has lived in Montreal for just over a year (calling the Gatineau home before Montreal). Obviously not a boudoir photo shoot , we met up in Downtown Montreal to take some photos. Sebastien was kind enough to let me experiment with a few shots. I love the look of this shot…just the hint of him outlined in the dark. But it wouldn’t have worked without the funky white glasses! Got to love them. And let’s call him dark, handsome and mysterious.

And if you would like to see Sebastien on the other side of the camera, check out his site .

I hope you had a good one. We had some ups and downs…such is family life. But it ended with gold! We were so excited to see Alexandre Bilodeau capture the gold for the moguls. I even pulled my kids out of bed to watch. And my throat is still sore from screaming.

I absolutely love designing cards, and here are two images I used in my kids’ cards this year.

I have been busy working on some commercial photography work. Some of which I cannot post, but I hope to post some of the images. I’d love to share with you.

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Gio contacted me because he needed some shots for his modeling portfolio. We worked “on location” (our location being downtown). I prefer working on location.

The next two are so fun! Imagine a shoot with a teenager, or someone in their early twenties, in this kind of environment. In the US, they shoot fun pictures to celebrate high school graduation. I’d love to shoot photos like this to highlight the style and glamour of Montreal’s youth! Can also work with younger kids…kids with attitude!

This photo is more of corporate environment head shot, but with a grungy feel (I can do the clean shoots, but this is the look we wanted).

Tristan is another model I worked with, but in studio. As I mentioned, I prefer environmental on-location shots, but do have a studio available if needed. These are natural light shots…so not using flash, instead, working with the ambient light.

Next post, I’ll have women and girls.

I’m donating all sales from my Red Bubble account to Haiti relief. You can purchase cards or prints of some of my favourite non-people photos. These are floral and landscape photos I have taken around Montreal, the Eastern Townships (Lennoxville, Knowlton and Bolton Centre), as well as other places throughout the world. I like to travel.

And it is video time. These are just a few of the images. Again, there is music so you may want to mute if it isn’t your thing.

Go here (printing is in the US):
Art Prints

**And if you want prints, but don’t want to purchase from the States, please contact me directly with the image and size you would like.

I got to take {T}’s photo in December as a special surprise holiday present for her fiance. I wasn’t there when he opened the presents, but he made *my* day by sending me updates via email. Thanks {P}! Check it out…

Images set to music, which means if you have music running on your computer, you might want to turn it off. Or it you don’t like music, you might want to mute.

{T} also actively promotes the bone marrow registry throughout Montreal and the rest of the world. The chance of finding the right match can be very high, and the number of people registered is still far too low. You can help. Register today. To register, you provide a sample either through a swab or a blood test (depends on where you live). If you are a match, and the timing isn’t right for you, you can refuse. But if you accept, and give a donation that may save a life, the pain is minimal. The rumors about the pain levels are just rumors.

For more information and to find a registry, visit (link will take you off this site):
Heal Emru