585 Magazine - Getting its Fierce on for January!

I'm having a lovely holiday with my best friend Lisa, our four kiddos are giggling over music in the background, and my love is at my side (if Lisa likes him, he's in like Flynn ;)). It's all pretty much perfect, couldn't possibly get better, right? Wrong! Lisa gets a text from one of her friends 'Tell Teri I need to do one of her sessions after seeing her article in 585!' YES! I've been patiently (maybe not so patiently) waiting for this issue to come out.

A little background into this story: I had a fantastic writer come into my studio and do a session. She wrote about her experience and Jane Farr, Editor-in-Chief loved the article, so we were a go! Then came the task of choosing images to use. I have so many gorgeous women entrust me with helping them Find Their Fierce! I was thrilled with the number of clients who were willing to have their images used in a local article. Each of these women, who had come to me with a bit of trepidation, found after their session that they LOVED the way they looked. They had found their fierce, and believe me, no one can take that away from them. 

'Find Your Fierce!' You'll see that over and over again on my website, on my Facebook page, you'll hear it from me when I speak. I am a huge fan of women finding their fierce, in whatever way works for them. I also believe a Boudoir Session is one of the most cathartic, self loving ways to find your own fierce, embracing the beauty and sexuality that is you. During your session you are pampered by my fantastic hair and makeup artist, Valerie Schaubroeck. Then we move on to your session creating gorgeous images of you while you are reminded that you are, without a doubt a gorgeous, sensual, powerful, and fierce woman. 

Embrace this year as YOUR year to Find Your Fierce. If you need a bit more convincing, read the 585 article and find a better understanding of what a Boudoir Session can mean to you.

Find the full article here: 585 Magazine - In the bedroom

Find Ciao Bella Boudoir (and your fierce) here: Ciao Bella Boudoir

Of course, not all of the gorgeous women who were happy to share their Ciao Bella Boudoir images of them Finding Their Fierce were in the article, so I'm sharing this image here and telling you -

Find Your Fierce!

Make this year the year you celebrate you. The year you fully realize how beautiful, powerful and sexy you are. The year you decide that only you are the perfect awesomeness that is exactly, perfectly, FIERCELY you!

Oh, and for the record, Lisa likes my love, so this year is not only going to be fierce, but also filled with love. Happy New Year all my fierce lovelies! May your 2016 be amazing!

Finding MY Fierce!

Yes, I too need to periodically find my fierce, remind myself of that deep seeded ferocity which I know is there, but sometimes seem to misplace. I have to remind myself of who I am and what I want. I need to reinvent myself, find my ground and hold it.

The first place I started to work on that was with my website. My website has not represented me for a bit now. It was lovely, and showed lovely images, but it didn't feel Fierce. And no, my website is not who I am, but it's definitely a reflection of me. So I've been working hard along side my amazing web guy, Josh Currier of Neon Thoughts to recreate my site and have it reflect me and what I believe in. I believe in YOU! I believe in your ferocity. I believe that every woman deserves to be able to walk into a room and feel confident in who she is. I want to help you remind yourself of that. You have it in you, you may just need to find where you have hidden it. I'd love to help you do just that.

Check out my new site! Ciao Bella Boudoir

I will also be starting to speak about Boudoir Photography and finding your fierce this April. I am so excited to start this new adventure!

And one final way I've pushed myself was to submit to a print competition. What I love about print competitions is that these are not based on how pretty your model is, but in the technical merit of the image. I chose a black and white, high key image. My model was of course lovely. The gorgeous Marie sat for me. She is perfection and certainly has the ferocity I admire. But to  get the tones as they needed t be, the posing just right and the edit perfect, that takes skill. So much of my work is never seen. I submitted my work and waited. We went to the WPPI conference in Las Vegas, a photographer's conference where the judging would take place. The day arrived when the images that won would be put on display. I was so nervous walking around, looking at all the work. I rounded a corner and there she was. My Marie, with a silver ribbon. Holy crap! Seriously! It was such a HUGE honor to see that! To receive such validation from an incredibly talented group of world renowned photographers is beyond words.

So here she is, Miss Marie, looking fierce and lovely.

Branding and providing the best for my clients

They're here! I'm so happy with my new flash drives for my Boudoir clients! When you purchase my largest package (which most of my clients are doing! :)) you receive your files on a USB for personal use along with your gorgeous 10x10 Art Album. These are so perfect! Sending one out today, delivering another at the end of the week. I'm looking forward to feedback from my ladies!

These come from Photo Flash Drive. Their variety is fantastic!

The beauty of a mother rivals the beauty of mother nature. I love photographing mothers, especially when their little one is still safely harbored within their womb. The love, joy and connection a woman feels with the child in her womb is undeniable and undeniably beautiful. It brings a glow to every woman I've known while she was pregnant. To be able to photograph a woman while she's busy creating life is a complete honor. I was able to do that recently with a gorgeous woman I have had the pleasure of knowing now for about 5 years. I've watched her grow into a gorgeous, strong woman, who will be an amazing mother to the son she's currently carrying. I look forward to meeting him in a couple of months! I was able to do this session on A's land that she and her partner recently purchased. What an amazing backdrop to help create gorgeous portraits!

Thank you A for entrusting me with such an amazing moment in your life. Much love!

Celebrating a Woman's Beauty and Power with a Gorgeous Blonde

She sent me a message asking "Should I keep my hair natural and wild or tame it?" My answer was natural and wild, of course! We get wrapped up everyday in what is ideal for everyone else, but forget to consider what is ideal for us? What makes YOU feel beautiful, what makes YOU feel powerful? The sexiness that will shine from every pore of your being comes from those two feelings. A woman empowered by her own beauty and power will empower those around her, she does not need to be told she is 'sexy' by anyone else or on anyone else's terms. My goal with every one of my sessions is to help each woman realize her beauty, her power and to leave her session with those feelings. I want every woman to know those feelings and carry them with her out into the world.

This woman? She came to me already there, already full of her own power and beauty. It was a complete pleasure working with her. I fed off her energy and she off mine. There is nothing like it in the world: two creative souls working together to create magic. Miss Fredua was a natural, wild beauty and it was my pleasure creating gorgeous images with her!

What makes you feel beautiful, powerful and sexy? A session at Ciao Bella Boudoir may be just what you need. ;)

Celebrating Beauty...

I'm a day late on National Women's Day, but this image is one I adore. It's from a recent shoot with one of my favorite models, Marie Vaccarello. She is absolutely gorgeous, inside and out. She represents a strong woman, a woman with confidence and beauty, a woman with intelligence and kindness. She represents everything a woman should be. There are more images from this session to follow, but I wanted to post one to celebrate all women. We as women need to learn to celebrate ourselves, our very essence, every day. You, yes you, are beautiful, powerful and sexy! Embrace it. Makeup for this shoot was by Ashley Luna. Copyright of all images are expressly those of Teri Fiske of Hanlon-Fiske Studios, INC.

Now for something a little different. ;)

You know that I get to shoot gorgeous women, beautiful babies and stunning weddings, but this week I had the pleasure of working with a lovely male model (and one of my favorite muses, Miss Bonnie). This was a blast! So here's a little bit of eye candy for all of you gorgeous women. Enjoy!

Alex was a blast to work with and quite a natural model. I'm looking forward to working more with him in the future.

All images copyright of Teri Fiske, Hanlon-Fiske Studios, INC, Ciao Bella Boudoir

Beauty in mommas, babies and gorgeous beauties who graced my studio...

I have had the pleasure of photographing amazing mommas, babies and beauties of late. I am always honored that such beautiful people trust me both for themselves, and their babies. Remember to celebrate your beauty and all the beauty that surrounds you every day.

We'll start with beautiful Miss K and her happy baby. Miss K has found the beauty in life and has learned to celebrate it with her daughter every day. She is making her family incredibly proud.

Then Mr. O and his family came in to see me in his first week. He was so serene the entire session. What a gorgeous boy!

And finally, a little sex power to round out my month! Goodness Miss J is a stunner! She is 5'11" and wore 4 inch heels. I love this girl! She exemplifies my tag line of 'Beautiful, Powerful AND Sexy! She embraces how amazing she is and it's palpable! I'm looking forward to more shoots like these.

My absolute favorite, seriously, this is so gorgeous, so mysterious, love everything about this. :)

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Stretch Your Wings. A Little Fun in the Studio

As an owner of a photography business, 95% of what we do is running our business, 5% is shooting. And of that 5% we are almost 100% shooting for clients. So once in a blue moon, we like to have some fun and shoot just for ourselves. This last shoot involved our lovely and talented model: Kimberly Anne, the always amazing makeup artist Nicole Barry, my partner in crime, best friend and co-owner of Hanlon-Fiske Studios: Michael Hanlon and last but certainly not least, our fantastic, talented and always lovely friend Tomas Flint of Tomas Flint Photographers. We had a blast, we played with lights, we got our creative on!

I hope you enjoy checking these out as much as we enjoyed creating them!

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Showing some love...

The first love I'm showing is to one of my AMAZING stylists: Valerie Schaubroeck. Click on her name to check out her fantastic blog. She does lash extensions now! May have to pamper myself one of these days with some. :) Yes, we should all pamper ourselves periodically!

Now some love to my other AMAZING stylist: Sara Lovell. Love that Sara's profile pic on that link is one I took for her Boudoir Session! :) Sara colors my hair as well. If you've seen my color, you know she rocks it out!

Finally some love for my other half, my other job, Photographer at Hanlon Weddings, along side photographer extraordinaire and fantastic friend (is it a job when you get to hang out with friends all day? ;)) Michael Hanlon. I'm including a pic from one of our recent engagement sessions. Yup, you are ridiculously fun to work with, Mr.Hanlon.

Here some of my favorites from that session. I do so love that magical evening light and two people in love.

I've said it before, I'll say it again ~ I simply have the best job. Love, love, love. :)