I was super excited to shoot the maternity portraits for Sarah and her family. If you look at Sarah’s blog you’ll see why. She has wonderful taste and her blog (Daffodil Designs) has so many great designs, inspirations and arts & crafts. You can visit it here. You can also see her gorgeous nursery pictures there!
Our session was fun and Hannah is quite a little character! She has much to teach her new baby sister.
After one very cold and windy session that we ended a little early because we were so cold Alyson, Scott and I met up at the Calgary Rowing Club to capture a few more images of Alyson’s baby bump. Alyson wanted to make double sure that she had her maternity portraits done because she has double the babies inside and that doesn’t happen every day. :) Thankfully the second day was much warmer and easier for everyone to stay warm and enjoy the maternity portraits. They welcomed two new babies in to the world this week so keep watching the blog for some images of their twins.
I met up with Jen and Gabe last week for maternity pictures before they meet their new little one on Friday. Gabe is the amazing photographer of perspectiveye. Doing portraits of his family was a little bit stressful for me. After all, not only is his work amazing but I’m so grateful for everything he has done for myself, my business and my skills as a photographer. I know I would not be where I am without he and Jen in my life.
Thankfully, I didn’t need to be stressed. Wait, I should rephrase that. I needed to be stressed before they arrived and I was scoping out the place for areas to shoot. I screamed and ran for my life when two overly large birds flew out from behind a fence I walked around. Partridges? Grouse? Do we have those here? After that, I threw a board in to the barn figuring if there were more birds inside they would fly out. I threw it, nothing happened. I wandered in, totally at ease and confident that my scare tactics had worked. Nope. Again, I found myself screaming and ducking so I didn’t get hit in the head by a bird. I must have looked ridiculous. I’m not even really a fraidy cat! I’ve been on farms all of my life. I’m tough, or so I thought. Anyway, Gabe and Jen were wonderful and took it easy on me. Probably because they saw in my face when they arrived that I had already been traumatized. I don’t know. :)
Aisha is such a cutie and had so much fun hanging out with her Mom and Dad and being tossed in the air while we waited and hoped for the sun to peek out (it didn’t). She is a little daredevil and almost gave me a heart attack. :) It is hard to imagine little Aisha as a big sister but she will be wonderful I’m sure.
David and Ingrid welcomed their new daughter in to the world just a week after we did their maternity pictures and I can’t wait to meet her. Ingrid said she kept telling the baby that she had to stay inside until the day after the session and then she could decide what day to make her appearance. :) Cute.
When I arrived they were making pancakes and little Bianca was enjoying some steamed milk in her own little mug. From there, I laughed as Bianca ran through the kitchen sneaking cookies from the drawer. Alessi (the dog) religiously followed her everywhere hoping for a bite… which of course she did get because Bianca loves to share. This picture makes me laugh because Alessi’s is licking her lips after a few little crumbs off the floor. I think she actually might like icecream a little bit better though.
See you soon guys. Enjoy your new little baby snuggles.
