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As ‘Boudoir Photography’ becomes more and more popular as a gift from new brides to their grooms, it seems that loves young dream are not the only ones posing for saucy images to keep the home fires burning!  The art of tasteful photography, of ladies in sexy lingerie in an intimate setting, seems to be undergoing a complete transformation as studios fill up with bookings from all manner of new clients.

From the weight loss ladies who want to celebrate their new shape and show off their new bodies to their partners, to ladies trying to keep a spark in their relationship, boudoir photographers have never had it so good it seems!

That is according to one Cape Town photographer, namely David Lazarus, who happily accepts requests to take pictures of a whole multitude of women – engaged, married or single.

He openly states that “…..the usual type are single women looking for something to make them feel pretty and good about themselves, and then there are the ones who are about to get married and ones that have long-term boyfriends and want to keep the fires burning.”

He further goes on to suggest that this type of photography is also popular with groups of girls and its totally about women celebrating the beauty of being confidant in their own skin whatever size or shape they may be.

Virtually all images taken in boudoir photography are retouched before presenting the final versions to the client and more often than not, a client will select a chosen number of images and these will be edited to perfection and provide a wonderful memory to both herself and all she chooses to share her wonderful photos with.

My own digital photo album only seems to begin around 2006.  I am not sure if I was just a late entrant to arrive on the digital camera scene but for me, I owned my first super basic, digital camera at that point having previously been a very loyal ‘click and wait for the surprise pictures’ kind of girl!

For someone who regularly likes to snap away at even the purring of my pet cat, I am surprised I took quite so long to reach the dizzy heights of this new fangled technology.  But once bitten, there was no return and I now don’t go anywhere without my little digital camera in my purse, always just a click away from coming into its own and recording even the most uninteresting of events. 

It makes its entrance on every family holiday, much to the dismay of my teenage children, but in spite of their moans and groans, they are always the first to love looking back at the first images I have on my computer from 5 years ago!

We also still fondly reminisce at all the endless pages of photo albums we have stashed away in the upstairs back bedroom with great delight, but I so wish these photos were also digital and easily re-printable and readily on my computer for the DVD slideshow technology that is now available.  One thing is for certain, and that is, that capturing memories for looking back on as we get older, is something we all love to do whatever age we seem to be.