Welcome to Beyond the Mask Photography, a branch of Call the Shots Photography. Beyond the mask is all about women, no matter what age you are.
My main focus for the past few years has been photographing pets. Animals hold a very special place in my heart.
While I love animals, I also truly enjoy photographing women and young ladies. I absolutely love hearing everyone’s story. I have met so many amazing women and young ladies over the past 6 years.
This journey is also a personal one for me. Like so many others, I was bullied as a child. It was so bad that for many years I did not have any friends at all. I was always on the heavier side. I did not have witty comebacks to combat the awful words slung at me. I was shy to top it all off.
Don’t get me wrong, I did have a few wonderful friends when I was younger. Some of them are still my friends to this day. Your childhood shapes who you are as an adult. It is part of what you see about yourself. However, you are no longer that child! You may still feel the shadows of the pain you were caused, but you have the power to see that you are now a grownup, in a grown-up world. You are beautiful! You are Amazing! You are incredible! No one can take that from you!
I wish it was as easy as all that. I still struggle with this every day. Many of you do too. We can take comfort though, that none of us are alone. Our society is finally starting to make amends to the damage it has caused, but it still largely tells us that to be beautiful and loved, you must be a size 0 with perfect hair, perfect skin, perfect teeth, etc. This simply is not true. Some of the most beautiful women I have ever met were well above a size 14. These women were confident, radiant, happy, friendly, loving, witty, giving, and on and on and on. And so are you! You have it inside yourself!
Through beyond the Mask it is my goal to help you feel beautiful, confident, incredible, happy, feminine, sexy, whatever you want to feel! Because you already are!
You do not need to lose those last 10 pounds. If you are absolutely set on it, then set yourself a time limit. If you do not lose those few pounds by that date, have your photos taken anyway. Do you know how many years I have been telling myself I want to lose weight, then I’ll have photos taken? Then I’ll do this, then I’ll do that. Guess what. I lost 25 pounds 10 years ago. I felt amazing. i was in no way skinny, but I had so much more energy. I gained it all back over the course of 4 years. Now I’m back to square one. I didn’t have photos taken when I had lost that weight. But no matter what weight I am at I am still me! my family and friends love me no matter what I look like on the outside. They think I’m beautiful whether I am 50 pounds heavier or 20 pounds lighter. It doesn’t make a difference to them. And it doesn’t make a difference to your friends and family either!
I want to hear your story! Everyone deserves to have photographs of themselves to remember forever. Right now. No more excuses! Send me an email. Introduce yourself. I’d love to have you over to my studio for a cup of coffee, or wine! I love to get to know my clients. They aren’t just my clients, they are some of my very good friends!
katrinacall@aol.com
