{"id":58021,"date":"2021-02-09T14:43:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-779029-2652717.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=58021"},"modified":"2024-04-26T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T21:04:06","slug":"calgary-intimate-portraits-sarah-pukin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahpukin.com\/calgary-intimate-portraits-sarah-pukin\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Intimate Portraits – Sarah Pukin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Calgary Intimate Portraits – Photography for this empowered babes 30th Birthday!<\/h2>\nAs you know, I love talking about how, through my photography I empower women. I am inspired by others and LOVE when my babes embrace their insecurities and just allow themselves to be themselves.\n\nI can not tell you how many hours I have spent rolling my eyes at the image some social media is giving out to so many people.\n

Instagram is fake! Be real!<\/h2>\nI keep seeing posts on instagram with “before” and “afters” of people being themselves and than a highly edited version of themselves – making their noses smaller, shrinking their bodies to be 40 lbs smaller or even making their eyes bigger.\u00a0Aka heavy photoshopped vs not at all.\n\nYet these same people still post themselves heavily photoshopped 99.9999% of the time. Ye,s it is good to show people you photoshop your images and edit every mark that makes you an individual right out of the image and turns you into some kind of cookie cutter human.\n\nBut because people say “oh hey this is actually what I look like” is some kind of perhaps pat on the back.\n

Be authentic and be empowered!<\/h2>\nFurthermore, let me tell you Ladies and Gents and my L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ community of amazing humans, you don’t need to be some kind of blurred human you can be you and be absolutely beautiful.\n\nIn fact in my work I only edit out: cuts, bruises everything else is what I classify as a special request. No I’m not going to remove your scars (unless you ask) and no I don’t think they take away from how beautiful you are in your Calgary Intimate Portraits.\n

Scars make you even more beautiful. I promise!<\/h2>\nI actually have a bunch of scars and I have never not liked them. Even my melted skin area on my arm where when I was in Junior High I decided to skateboard down the back ramp at Anderson train station (if you’re not familiar with this train station well its got a super steep ramp that ends in a makeshift path with a lot of gravel – the wheels of my friends skateboard caught the gravel and I slid across it – melting my skin to the ground. Good times). And that’s on being in Junior High trying to impress boys.\n\nWhen I take images of myself I don’t edit them – why? because I am not about to tell myself that the edited version of myself is better than the real authentic version of myself. I personally enjoy the hole on my forehead where when I was little I scratched a chicken pox until it left a fun little scar that make up likes to get trapped in. These little differences are what makes us who we are.\n\nSo now that you all know about my random scars and my reinforced view on beauty standards in social media I bring you to this amazing human who decided to give herself a Calgary intimate portraits photo shoot for her thirtieth Birthday gift to herself!\n\nIn short I 100% suggest that for any reason whatsoever you gift yourself photos like these! She looks amazing and I can’t express enough how much fun I had creating these images for her to look back on and feel hella empowered by!\n\nWho’s with me?\n

Want to book your Calgary Intimate Portraits? Contact me here<\/a>!<\/h2>\n