We won Wedding Wire Bride’s Choice Awards for 2012

{Greensboro,NC} – January 23, 2012 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce Christi Austin Photography has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Photography! The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, Christi Austin Photography was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients. Christi Austin Photography is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year. “WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Christi Austin Photography for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.” We are happy to announce that Christi Austin Photography is one of the very best Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012. For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at http://www.weddingwire.com/biz/christi-austin-photography-greensboro/8db3afdf0d890c52.html. To learn more about the Bride’s Choice Awards™, please visit www.WeddingWire.com. About WeddingWire, Inc. WeddingWire™, the nation’s leading marketplace serving the $70 billion wedding industry, is the only online wedding planning resource designed to empower both engaged couples and wedding professionals. For engaged couples, WeddingWire offers the ability to search, compare and book over 200,000 reviewed wedding vendors, from wedding venues to wedding photographers. WeddingWire also offers a comprehensive suite of online planning tools for weddings, including wedding websites and wedding checklists, all at no charge. For wedding professionals, WeddingWire is the only all-in-one marketing platform for businesses online and on-the-go. WeddingWire offers one simple solution to build a professional network, improve search visibility, manage social media and reach mobile consumers. Businesses that advertise with WeddingWire appear on WeddingWire.com, ProjectWedding.com and other leading sites, including MarthaStewartWeddings.com (NYSE: MSO), Brides.com and Weddingbee.com. ###

The Photoshop Lie

Ok now that I have your interest…this new digital age we’re in allows for lots of FABULOUS things like head swaps, eye enhancement, taking weight off etc in your photos. What I would like to touch on today is Boudoir Photography. As women we all look at movie stars and magazines and long for that ever so slender, feminine muscular cover model look. Well as a boudoir photographer who has worked with TONS of women I can personally attest to what you see is NOT what you get. Now please don’t get me wrong, I love my clients and there is nothing wrong with their bodies. We are all beautiful but the image that the media puts out there is wrong and I want to address this. We ALL have flaws and things we don’t like so don’t beat yourself up. Your man loves you for YOU! Does he think Adriana Lima is hot…of course BUT did you see her pre fashion show diet & exercise program she goes on? Personal trainer, a gallon of water a day and 9 days before the show NO solid food. This isn’t healthy on any kind of level but I’m sure she’s paid really, really well to endure the agony for a month or soicon smile The Photoshop Lie

 

Here’s a before and after photoshop pic, as you can see this girl is in GREAT shape but still had to have work done.

Here’s a video of some retouching- before and after

And this one is SUPER shocking, who knew?

 

 

 

Charlotte | Roanoke Photographer

Charlotte is another baby planner. She’s soooo cute I could just eat her upicon smile Charlotte | Roanoke Photographer

 

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Another Baby Planner 9 month session

Isn’t Tyler adorable? I can’t believe his next baby planner session will be when he’s ONE! Wow time just flies!IMG 0617 Another Baby Planner 9 month sessionIMG 0642 Another Baby Planner 9 month sessionIMG 0657 Another Baby Planner 9 month session

Baby B.

I was so happy to meet Baby B. I photographed his parents wedding and really LOVE seeing their sweet baby!

 

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