It’s my party - let’s do what we want | Shreveport boudoir photographer, Leslie Whitaker

Ashley was coming to visit, just like she does every summer. I’ve known Ash almost my whole life. She probably been the one constant thing aside from my kin. I can remember back when we were probably about 7 years old, she lived in the same neighborhood as us and she’d come down to play or i’d play at her house. I have scars on my knees from the summer we learned to roller blade. I can’t remember her house in Pearl, but I remember her house in Rhode Island. She moved when we were both 9 years old, our birthdays are 4 days a part. Our mothers dressed us the same, I remember that vividly.

We spent the better part of the summer of 1994 in Rhode Island. My parents had just separated and my mom packed us up in our green dodge caravan and hightailed it out of Mississippi. Camille was her closet friend, Ashley’s mom. Isn’t it weird the things you remember from your childhood. I remember some of the oddest things.

Anyway, i’ve known Ashley forever, basically my whole life. I take her birthday Portraits every year, we're a little extra that way. Ash saw this idea on pinterest, bought a million yards of tulle at joanne’s and we fashioned it into a dress -sorta. 😅 we brought the wine from home and my makeup artist did Ashley's hair and makeup. And it’s all PERFECTION.

Myself, I love a good throat hold. I just think a photo like this is so dang sexy.

Myself, I love a good throat hold. I just think a photo like this is so dang sexy.

Ashley is so unapologetically herself,  and that’s the best part of her. She ain’t changin for Noone… we’re too old now anyway.

Ashley is so unapologetically herself, and that’s the best part of her. She ain’t changin for Noone… we’re too old now anyway.

I have no idea what we will do next summer, but I can’t wait to find out. 😉


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