Here we have a lovely lady that came into the studio recently who was just a couple of weeks away from the birth of their first baby. We sat down in the presentation room on Thursday last week to review the proofs with them and this was one of my favorites from the collection. To me this captures the anticipation of pregnancy with the expectant mother looking down and at that moment feeling the baby move in her belly.  This is their first child and they don’t know the sex which is a little unusual these days.  So exciting for them.

Jenny came into the studio on Friday for her second maternity session.   She first visited the photography studio back in November and we had decided to do a second session to capture the growth of the belly as her pregnancy involved.  Right now she is about five-six weeks away from her due date and everything is going very well. The session was very relaxed, Jenny brought some breakfast snacks as we did start out early that day!

Although this is such an obviously thing to say, it’s incredible to see the amount of change that has happened with the belly in the last three months.   It’s hard not to get excited as you see how happy they are with the pending arrival of their first child and I feel very honored that I get to capture some of that onto film.   Here are a few of my favorites from Friday, in part chosen to show the large amount of change from last time that’s shown here.  I do love the ‘baby’ photograph above! 

I have been working with my friend Melvin Powel who is an excellent film and video maker to create some video’s for my photography business.  I already have lots of text on both my main web site and this blog about my approach to photography and what makes our studio unique, but as a visual artist I very much believe that video is a good way to convey my message in a compelling way. 

This is the first of hopefully many video’s that we will be producing together.  We are working with the wonderful folks from Mixpo that provide an excellent platform for small business’s wanting to create their own videoad and its their solution that is hosting this. Just click on the image below to start the video.  

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Last weekend I was asked to photograph Melanie’s baby shower in preparation for the upcoming birth of their twins.  As you can imagine with a large population of ladies, many of them already mothers in attendance it was a totally fun afternoon with lots of animated conversation on motherhood amongst other topics.  Torri of A La Republica fame was running all the catering and put on a fabulous spread of delightful treats for everyone.   Here we have Melanie, left with her good friend Sarah hanging out on the porch deck. 

Last weekend Jenny came over for a few hours so we could work on her first maternity session.  Her and husband Steve have just moved back to Seattle after spending a few years away and are settling back into Seattle just as other changes are happening - their first child.  We have spoken a bunch over the last couple of months and decided that they wanted to do one initial photography session just as Jenny was starting to show and then another one in the New Year closer to the birth.  This way we could show the incredible growth that happens especially during the last couple of months.   The session was a lot of fun with us working though a bunch of ideas, some more artist and classic and others just plan fun.

A couple of quick previews here. I’m looking forward to seeing them both again in the New Year for their second session.