Maggie Messer Photography

11/29/2025

11/19/2025

Cynthia will tell you confidence isn't something you find. It's something you protect.

Cynthia describes herself as sensitive, gentle, and warm.

She has built a life that honors her body, her peace, and her joy.

What stands out most is her belief that confidence is a daily choice, something we practice and protect.

Her journey speaks to the woman who has lived, learned, and continued to rise.

The woman who knows beauty is no longer defined by age or perfection, but by wholeness and self-respect.

Which part of her story do you connect with most?
• Caring for your whole health
• Protecting your peace
• Seeing beauty through a new lens

📌 Share below one way you protect your peace these days.

As an Austin Studio Photographer, Maggie Messer Photography creates portraits that celebrate identity, confidence, and the stories women carry. Learn more about Glamour Portraits Austin at www.maggiemesser.com.

11/18/2025

What if the portrait you end up loving most…
is the one where you weren’t even trying?

This silhouette came from a single moment of natural movement,
no overthinking, no pressure…
just fabric catching the light and revealing something real.

That’s the beauty of a guided portrait experience.

You don’t need to know how to pose.
You don’t need to feel camera-ready.
You just show up.

I guide you the whole way.

If you’ve been craving portraits that feel artistic, intentional, and true to who you are, this is where your story begins.

Here’s what you can expect:
• A fully guided session
• Portraits created with purpose
• An experience that shifts how you see yourself (and stays with you long after)

📌 Explore Portrait Experiences at Maggie Messer Photography
📌Visit https://maggiemesser.com/

This artistic silhouette was created in my Lago Vista studio, serving the Central Texas & Austin market. Maggie Messer Photography specializes in glamour portraits, empowerment photography for women, and custom studio experiences.

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11/17/2025

She didn’t walk into the studio feeling confident. She walked out knowing she always had been.

Kristen’s journey is a reminder that confidence isn’t given to us, it’s something we grow into.

Her life has stretched her, shaped her, and revealed a strength she never expected.

In the studio, she allowed herself to pause, breathe, and honor the woman she has become. We had some good laughs too.

“Beauty is being enough, inside and out.” ~ Kristen

What this experience gave her:
• A renewed sense of grace
• Space to appreciate her journey
• A portrait that reflects her true beauty

📌 Save this post if these words speak to you.

Maggie Messer Photography is an Austin studio photographer who specializes in glamour portraits and empowerment photography for women.

Learn more about the 40 Over 40 Portrait Experience.

Link in Bio

11/14/2025

What happens when YOU realize you can still do something you once thought belonged only to your younger self?

For Pamela, that moment happened here.

After years of raising children, building a career, serving her country, and giving so much to others, she stepped into the studio wondering how this experience would feel now… in her 50s.

Her reaction says everything:
“I found all the things I didn’t like about myself first, but Maggie reminded me the portraits were beautiful. The photos were magnificent. I wanted to take more.”

That spark, the one that says “I can still do this”, is the magic that shifts everything.

Inside the 40 Over 40 Experience, you’ll feel:
• Supported every step
• Beautiful in ways you forgot
• Reconnected to the strongest parts of yourself

If this feels like the sign you’ve been waiting for… it probably is.

Click the link in bio to learn more about our 40 over 40 Portrait Experience.

Maggie Messer Photography creates empowering portrait experiences for women across the Austin area. As a leading Austin studio photographer specializing in glamour portraits, this signature experience is designed to help women reconnect with beauty, confidence, and identity. Details at www.maggiemesser.com

11/14/2025

Some women step into their 40s and realize, finally, that the expectations they were handed were never theirs to carry.

Monica calls her 40s a time of becoming “free on deeper levels than I ever thought possible,” choosing her voice, her truth, and her own definition of confidence.

If you’ve ever felt yourself shifting this way, questioning old rules, choosing what actually feels like you, finding beauty in your lived story, then you’re in good company.

This season isn’t about shrinking.
It’s about expanding.

If you identify with this season of life, tell me:
What’s one belief you’ve let go of after 40?

What Monica’s journey reflects:
• Living life on her own terms
• Rejecting outdated expectations
• Embracing confidence with honesty
Comment below and share your answer.

📸 Captured by Maggie Messer Photography in Lago Vista, Tx, an Austin Studio Photographer offering Glamour Portraits Austin and Empowerment Photography for Women.

Visit to learn more: https://maggiemesser.com/40-over-40-portrait-exhibition

11/12/2025

“If you know what happiness feels like, you can recreate it anytime you are ready.”

This line from Yecenia’s 40 Over 40 Portrait Experience stopped me in my tracks. She’s a woman who’s lived through life’s beauty and storms—and come out more radiant because of both.

After caring for her mother through cancer and learning to be her own advocate in the world, Yecenia found her inner freedom again—through movement, creativity, and self-expression. That’s what we wanted to capture in her portraits. A woman dancing—not to perform, but to feel.

She let herself be seen. And in doing so, she reminded us: confidence isn’t born from perfection. It’s born from presence, joy, and owning who you are.

✅ Freedom to feel
✅ Confidence that doesn’t waver
✅ Expression without apology

Portraits like these aren’t about looking beautiful—they’re about feeling powerful. If you’ve spent decades pouring into others, it’s time to give that love back to yourself.

There’s nothing more magnetic than a woman who knows herself.

Save this if you needed that reminder today—or tag a woman who inspires you to be more yourself.



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Maggie Messer Photography specializes in Glamour Portraits for women 40+ in the Austin, TX area.

Visit www.maggiemesser.com to explore the 40 Over 40 Experience.