Maleficent: Queen of beauty, power and sex appeal.

I adore Maleficent. She's my favorite fairytale queen. Seeing the movie trailers has inspired me to want to do a shoot for quite some time. I had a wonderful model in mind, Harsiese. She was in the process of taking her hair to a lovely shade of silver, so we waited until that was done. I needed a dress worthy of Maleficent, Khaos By Design had the perfect dress for me, along with gorgeous necklaces. Valerie Schaubroeck created the gorgeous hair design and Nicole Barry did Maleficent's makeup. Michael Hanlon, my partner in crime, was my lighting assistant and master of the smoke. It was amazing collaborating with such a fantastic team! I only have one teaser for you for now. The rest will come soon. Thank you to my inspired team for helping me see this vision come to life!

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.

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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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YES! Oh YES! ;)

OK, I know it's not pc to toot one's own horn, but I feel good! As a matter of fact, I feel GREAT! This month is my birthday month. My 43rd birthday month, to be exact. I've known people who freaked out when they turned 30, I didn't. I thoroughly enjoyed it, honestly. I've known people who REALLY freaked out at 40. Again, didn't really bother me. 43? That one seemed a little rougher. Maybe it's the increased frequency with which I have to visit my favorite stylist: Valerie Schaubroeck to get my white stripe back to my 'natural' shades of red and violet ;). Maybe it's the weather. But at the beginning of birthday month (yes, I celebrate birthday month!) I was, for a lack of better terms, 'feeling my age'. So I'm doing a few things to remedy that. I'm drinking more...water, that is. I love coffee, I love to run around like mad, I love staying busy. Combine all those things and one forgets to hydrate. So now I have a lovely pitcher of water with cucumber and lemon to drink all day. It's pretty and it makes me feel better.

The other thing I did? Well, if you're going to talk the talk, you damn well best walk that walk! I'm constantly telling women that they need to do a Boudoir session for themselves! I have had many clients come to me to do a session for their significant other. By the time they leave the studio, they are feeling EMPOWERED! They feel strong, they feel beautiful, and they definitely feel sexy! They now realize the importance of that session for THEM. The opportunity came for me to do that for myself when Troy Smith from Subculture Magazine asked me to submit photos and a quick blurb. Being a Boudoir photographer, I could not simply send in a nice head shot. So, Michael Hanlon (my consummate partner in crime, business, life and love) helped me out a bit. Aaaannnnnddd, we submitted this:

OH YES! Take THAT 43! ;) That felt GOOD! Seriously ladies, I am not superficial, I don't walk around thinking 'Shit, I'm hot', but that photo? Oh yes. I feel it! I needed that little boost. I deserved that little boost! We all do!

So what exactly are you waiting for? Permission? Here it is, I give you permission to celebrate YOU! Do it! A Ciao Bella Boudoir session is exactly what the doctor ordered. ;) YES! Oh YES!

A bit of Hollywood Glamour with a very modern girl...

Bonnie is definitely a beautiful, powerful, sexy woman. She embodies all of the grace of any Hollywood starlet you can conjure up: Lillian Gish, Marleen Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Jane Russell; she just has it. We were thrilled that Bonnie was available to work with us and got started planning the Hanlon-Fiske Studios, INC old Hollywood style shoot with wedding dresses from Heart to Heart Bridal.

As always, Valerie Schaubroeck did the makeup and honestly, I think she knocked it out of the park with this one! I'm looking forward to our upcoming Ciao Bella Boudoir sessions not only here, but in NYC as well.

We are all thrilled with the results and think you will be as well.

On another note, we (Hanlon Weddings) love that we have the space and gear available to offer a shoot like this to any of our brides. While the 'Bridal Shoot' is not as popular here in New York, it's something Mike and I love! We've had couples do 'Day After' sessions as well which is another way to get more amazing images of just the two of you!

Ciao Bella!