Haute Momma {Updated Version}

{ THE UPDATED VERSION. I think we have covered all of our bases on the basic genres of maternity photography that exist in my head   Couture, Classic B&W & finally this weekend we crossed off the Sweet Romantic version in a field of sunflowers:)  Joey did great behind the camera, albeit he takes it WAY too seriously while totally lacking all directorial skills:) Give the man a paintbrush he thinks he’s Picasso, give the man a camera and he thinks he’s Yervant.  But we had fun with it!  And I confess….this is nothing to do with vanity or even so thoroughly documenting this beautiful stage in our lives, but very much a way for me to scratch that artist’s itch to play with these different looks and feels of the same subject & subject matter.  Like the college experiments I never got a chance to enjoy:) Good thing I’m a photographer and not a tattoo artist….I would not have an inch of skin left uncovered:) LOL.

……..All I can say is just you wait until this little boy is BORN!  Poor little guy has no idea he is about to be the most photographed child ever created:) Anyhoo…starting with the newest first, here are the latest editions. }

#3- (Series)…..these are the latest …the soft sweet romantic side of expecting. Location was a random patch of sunflower “weeds” just off Staples & Yorktown….right inbetween a housing division and a storage unit…proof it doesn’t take much to get a cool backdrop:)

 

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And HOT momma…..being pregnant in South Texas is only made possible by the blessing of air conditioning….without it I would be migrating somewhere COOLER!!!

So maternity leave (or the closest thing to it!) is finally upon me!  Time to enjoy the last 8 weeks of pregnancy and get ready for this baby!  No more long days on my feet shooting weddings, all I have left is a load of design work but that is easy peasy from the comfort of my computer chair:)

But for those of you who have been wondering what I am cooking up, ITS A BOY….and we can’t wait to meet him!  Of course like everything else I have to take the opportunity to document this momentous phase in my life….there are certainly more shoots to come as I take the opportunity to employ the realms of creativity on my own guinea pig self,  but for now here were the first attempts at my own maternity portraiture!   Hubby and I have a date this weekend to do the outdoor ones I am envisioning….we will see what comes from that:)

#1- Self-portrait….and an attempt at a more couture look .  I don’t have the makeup/hair or set as extreme as I REALLY want for the couture look…but this is a start:)  Let me just say SELF portraits while pregnant are no easy task

 2- My hubby’s contribution!  He’s not too bad behind the camera afterall:)