Good Golly Miss Dolly - promotional flyers!

So I have so much going on with my boudoir stuff right now, I just wanted to show one of my promotional flyers.
If you are in Sheffield, Barnsley, Leeds, Wakefield, Huddersfield or in fact most of Yorkshire you will have hopefully seen this advertising my boudoir photography.
Special thanks to my graphics wizard Kyle Wilkinson, who designed all my logo, branding and promotional materials. He is a genius. If you saw my attempts...well, it was embarrassing!
I actually have a funkier version hitting the streets soon, keep checking back. If you would like to go for a Good Golly, Miss Dolly boudoir shoot then be sure to contact me through my website or email me at info@dollyphotography.co.uk.

Our first wedding fair - at Brooklands Hotel!

Firstly many thanks to everyone who came on our boudoir stand at Brooklands Wedding Fair in Barnsley on Sunday.
Everyone - visitors and exhibitors - made us feel right at home for our debut. Our boudoir stand certainly was eye-catching. Hopefully if you were there you saw us and may be tempted to give our Good Golly, Miss Dolly boudoir packages a go!
Don't forget, we do hen parties too in some lush venues and our prices start from just £100.
Anyway, all that aside, I thought I would blog some pictures of our stand, so that I have a permenent record of Dolly's maiden voyage into the world of wedding fairs.

We stuck with our black and pink company colours, using basques and feather boas to add to the boudoir flavour...

And as a special welcome to all the new people we met, we had some custom made corset cookies to hand out!

If I met you on Sunday then thanks so much for your support - and I hope to be shooting you soon!
Keep checking back soon for some exciting promotional offers you won't want to miss out on!

Valentine's Day - and peas...

I have a deep-rooted hatred of peas. It stems back to childhood. When I was younger, I used to go to my Auntie Irene's for dinner, and she always, always cooked me peas because she mistakenly thought I liked them.
She made such a special effort to do them with every meal that I just didn't have the heart to tell her the truth.
I used every trick in the book. I used to hide them under my mashed potato, swig them down with coke hoping that if I swallowed them without chewing I could escape the taste. But, most often than not, I had to eat them. And smile while doing so...
As an adult, peas have no place in my life. It's become a bit of a standing joke. My in-laws all love peas. My husband eats frozen ones out of the bag (wierd I know); my brother in law sneaks them onto my plate when I am not looking, just to traumatise me.
You get the picture...
Fast forward to this morning - I sit down to open my little stack of Valentine's gifts from James and here: this is what I find.
I don't know where he found this tee-shirt but we had a right old laugh about it. A pea tee-shirt. Just perfect!
His plan had been to buy one for everyone in the family, so they could do their campaigning on Sundays! Give peas a chance? Not likely! But for once something pea-related made me smile!
Happy Valentine's Day James - and thankyou as always for making me smile.

Fran in the boudoir!

Fran is one of those sickening lucky people who just have the 'bones' for photography.
Her face is incredibly photogenic (though like every woman in the world she would likely disagree!)
Thanks Fran, for taking the time to pose for me and allowing me to show a glimpse of your hotness :-).
Don't forget, if you want to step into Dolly's Boudoir and be a Good Golly, Miss Dolly model yourself, then come to see us at the Brooklands Hotel Wedding Fair in Barnsley, I think it starts at 10am!

Louise in monochrome - my thoughts!

Okay, so...here's the thing. I am going to have to bend on the black and whites (for my boudoir work ONLY :-)!!)
As my blogreaders will know, I have a 'thing' with black and white. It is not my friend. It sneaks up on me when I am not looking and steals my favourite chocolate. It waits until I am out and deletes Project Runway from my Sky+. It makes inappropriate passes at my husband. We. Are. Not. On. Friendly. Terms.
I love my colour, cheerful, bright, happy colour. BUT I admit when I am wrong. To previously exclude black and white from my boudoir was a bit, well, ridiculous.
So, here's the thing. Me and Mono are going to relationship counselling. We are talking through our problems. We are putting ourselves on more amicable grounds...
Black and white does have a place in Dolly's Boudoir...and here is Louise in all her retro Hollywood glory to prove it.

Good Golly, Miss Dolly - it's Louise!

In preparation for my show at Brooklands Hotel in Barnsley I have been pushing forth on my boudoir work. Thankfully, it's a great time of year for this type of photography. With Valentine's Day creeping ever closer, it makes a surprising pressie for your other half!
Louise was another boudoir client kind enough to let me show some pictures from her shoot (this isn't essential, if you want to keep them to yourself, that's fine: I always ask consent before I blog!)
The light loves Louise, just check out her bone structure here. Wowzer!

Good Golly, Miss Dolly - it's Mary!

People take to boudoir photography in different ways - some are outright throwing themselves into it, others are a little more wary.
Mary brought a quietness to her shoot, a little shyness maybe but I think she looked amazing.
She had on the most beautiful dusty pink satin wrap and when I came to process it with my usual pop-your-eyeballs-out-of-your-head bright colour popping style, it just did not work.
So I tried something new, a little old-fashioned cross-processing technique that I think suits these photos, and Mary, down to the ground.
Many thanks to Mary for giving her permission to use this piccies on the world wide web - it's a brave thing to do so thankyou. Hopefully it will give more quieter ladies the confidence to say, 'let's have a go', themselves!


I so rarely do black and whites, but on the odd occasion a photo calls for it. This was one of them. I felt it had an arty 50s vibe that suited the old bw treatment.

What happens in Dolly's boudoir?

I have had a lot of ladies ask me what actually happens during a boudoir shoot.
Quite often, they fail to realise that - if they had any concerns about feeling daft or silly - they really should leave them at the door.
Before any shoot, I always have a little play with the space, figure out the best possible shapes and shots I can get...and I always practice on myself!
So, while you are comfortably having your makeup done, I am flinging myself around like a madwoman working out the angles.
And trust me, I look a fool. So there's no reason for people to feel awkward about it, cos I am there all the way : been there done it!
To illustrate here's what I mean. This is me at work. Check out how glam I am! I am a right state - we were snowed in, I had left my hair straighteners and make up at my mum-in-laws and my fashion statement is more lumberjack that Loubotin.
My husband, God love him, calls me Scarecrow...yes, I can see you nodding in agreement. So here I am, in all my curvy, spotty, none made-up stupidity to say to you ladies, come into my boudoir! Let's have fun! :-)




P.S. Remember, these are the prep shots! Watch this space for the 'real' pictures taken of the fabulous Nancy at this boudoir shoot, in conjuction with my guru Dave Sander, at 1Click Photography.