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Lifestyle Maternity Portraits

February 18, 2010

I am guessing that many of my readers will recognize this couple. If not, you need to get to Crossroads Community Church in Morrison!  I had the honor of taking their maternity portraits this week. I have to say they are so much fun that I spent about as much time laughing as I did taking photographs (admittedly I had to a scrap a couple of shots because I was laughing too much to hold the camera still).  The baby that will join this couple in the next few weeks is one of the luckiest babies alive. I can’t wait to meet him!

Since they were looking for relaxed images in their gorgeous historic home, we played a lot with natural light:

from a lot of angles…

They are such a happy couple, and so blessed, and they deserve every bit of it.

A couple of snuggle shots:

Here’s the WHOLE family:

Then, we headed up to the nursery and took some shots there, where I captured my favorite image:

along with a few other fun shots:

There is something I really like about this one. I usually prefer maternity images in black and white, but this one I was feeling the color version more:

Stay tuned…you will be seeing more of these two + one in March!

Oh my goodness, this little princess was gorgeous and so easy to photograph!

This little princess is not even a week old yet. After about two weeks (less for full-term babies), newborns’ facial features begin to change and they lose their curliness, so I was so excited to take portraits of this little one in all of her newborn loveliness!

I always make room in my schedule to make sure I can capture newborn photos at just the right time! They are done at the clients’ home, and I bring minimal equipment: a beanbag, a reflector, some blankets, and my camera bag. I do keep a light in the car in case we can’t find a good window, but usually I don’t have to use that.