Maternity Shoot with Imagination

I wanted to do something different. I wanted to capture a maternity photo shoot that was inspirational, thoughtful, and imaginative. At the same time these images should be above all tasteful. and beautiful and pure. These are commonly the thoughts that travel around my brain when I am creating a photo shoot for a mother to be.

For Shelly and Marc, this Mommy and Daddy to be... I had thought of taking their colorful and uplifting personalities and translating that into real timeless almost artful images that tell a bit of a story. Too many times I've seen maternity images that capture a moment perfectly, yet seem to fall off a cliff, or fall short of true story telling. Sometimes you have to push your creativity further, outside your comfort zone.

This time I wanted to see if building atmosphere's and environments around the subject would engage a more emotional response. In this case, Shelly and Mark were super in front of the camera. Their dedication to each moment was 110% and it helped make every single one of these images work. At the end, I felt very confident that we would come away with a collection of images that would almost look like a storyboard pieced together to tell a Fairy Tale.

Fairy Tales played a big part in my childhood growing up and will play an equally large part in my young son's childhood as well. So it felt wonderful to give a little bit of those moments of myself to someone else who would enjoy them. I am talking about my son, but also Shelly and Marc. God Bless Shelly and Marc and you both will no doubt be amazing parents.