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Last year Erik photographed Kate and Travis’ wedding and when they got pregnant he was their go-to guy for their pre-baby session. And why wouldn’t he be? Erik is so incredibly talented- I just love how he sees life. Not only that- he is such a calming presence during a shoot, I love working along side his quiet genius and am always just blown away with what he produces.

Here is my interpretation of our tag-team style maternity session!

Now, one of the things I kind of insist on is the timing of our shoots: late afternoon or bust, baby! This gives you the opportunity to catch the changing light from later afternoon, to low and rich to dusk to sunset, to evening. Talk about natural light variety!

See what I’m saying?

Throw in a field and barn for good measure

Make that a RED old tyme barn please and thank you

I love how adventurous these guys were! This was pretty high up

See what I mean? They were probably communing with the tics here, but they were ALL over trying anything for a picture!!

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If Erik were a dog, he would be a yellow lab, right?? And who doesn’t LOVE labs??

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This concrete silo was rocking my world! Get it?

A little intimate portrait action

by an old tractor-ish trucky thing

I have run out of things to say. I won’t say buttery, I won’t reference popcorn, or anything that is epic or amazing. oops.

These colors make me feel nice. As a person.

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we had fun working this little nook

again with the color here, makes me all warm and fuzzy n stuff

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Mr. Maziarz working his Boda bag!! We use Boda bags exclusively at the studio here- I can’t say enough about them! You can click on the tile on the bottom of my site here to check them out!!

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Kate and Travis, thank you thank you thank you for such a great time and awesome cheese and dilly beans!!!! We can’t wait to meet your little girl!!

XXOO

Maternity sessions for me are starting to really become my ‘thing’ – in addition to weddings. My husband and I were talking about this today- about how to really make your mark on the world- and it got me thinking…. and I realized that making people feel beautiful is what I love to do. It applies to EVERY type of shoot I do, whether it’s weddings, or maternity or boudoir… and I came to the conclusion that these three types of shoots are exactly what that is about!

Feeling beautiful.

I walk around with a pair of extreme home makeover glasses on my eyes- meaning- just give me 10 minutes alone with you and my camera and I will show you what I see…. a beautiful person that’s either already there in full view or someone just lurking below the surface… Maybe it’s someone who never really saw themselves in that way before…maybe they have always wanted to be made to feel beautiful or sexy, but thought that no one could see that about them.

It’s like in the Wizard of Oz…when the house lands and Dorothy opens the door… and the world is in color…. I see you all in color!

OK, enough lovey dovey-ness! Without further delay…. this is what I came back with… after the house landed!

…she fit so nicely on my new couch, and so I went with it!!

my new favorite spot to photograph- the light here is all natural and simply radiant! Having a perfect pregnant lady here certainly doesn’t hurt either!

love the simplicity of this one

my son’s room came in pretty handy…. they are expecting a boy as well!

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this hallway was a nice spot to rest….I was laying down

I thought I was done shooting….and Katie had one more shot she was working on….and then I saw the light in here and … well… I couldn’t stop!! She is SO beautiful!!!

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LOVE this detail- and am so glad my scrabbly pocket door worked!

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WHATEVER DUDE!!!! I TOLD you I couldn’t stop shooting…!

One of my favorite parts of my studio is my bathroom- the two best parts? My 72″ soaking tub and the crazy chandelier that my friend Bethany gave me!

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Amber is due in about four weeks and she looks fantastic, radiant, and is sporting her pink streak in honor of the little baby girl she’s cooking up in her belly. Now I’ve been booking a lot of shoots lately pretty much ‘site unseen’ meaning that people are forgoing the need to meet me in person before hiring me! It’s pretty awesome, time saving and gives me a little bit of an element of surprise as to what to expect at our shoot. I. LOVED. IT!

Justin was so comfortable and seemed to just know what I was going for- he was a dream. And those dusky grey blue eyes? Gorgeous!! Add the spiky hair and skull sweatshirt? My kind of guy!!

Amber is my new poster child for my urban maternity shoots, I swear! She let me unleash all of these awesome images that I had locked in my brain for a long time, and I am so thankful to her and Justin for trusting me to just let me have my way- nasty old parking lot and all!! They did not even flinch at anything that I asked them to do….

So, thank you again for your trust in what I had stored away in my dusty old head!! You guys ROCKED IT!!!

I started off kind of engagement shoot style, and didn’t obsess about having to shoot Amber’s belly from the get go…it really let them loosen up and get a feel for what a spaz I can be when I am feeling it! I just could not hold my excitement in at seeing how they were in front of the camera…!

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These two had killer eyes, and I really had fun showcasing them. And the pink streak? What do YOU think? Yeah, home, freaking RUN

Textures and tummy = super yummy!

Yes, she DID totally climb up onto this wall for this shot…she was such an adventurous subject so naturally we got along swimmingly!

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Vines, cuddling, and even a brick wall. Yes I know I have admitted publicly that I kind of have an aversion to brick. But this combo was perfect- it had style

They were so natural together they needed SO little direction from me

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Justin’s skull sweatshirt was MONEY

Meet my new favorite doorway! The light here was out of control. I love Hartford!!

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Nooks and crannies abound- and despite the super chilly temps, we toughed it out

Now here I started off going for a shadow shot, and while I did get some images I enjoy I looked up and saw Amber looking like this and was like DANG (graham) and kind of tricked her into not realizing I was actually shooting her….love, love love!!!

Hartford was Heckle-Ville for me from this point on! My GOD people felt the need to give me their two cents on what I was doing, it was comical! OK, maybe it was because I was laying in the middle of the street in traffic making a pregnant woman freeze but whatever, we did it for art!! Right Amber?

I know, I know, I kept getting all engagement shoot on my self over here!! But I really dig this one

There was a WHOLE lotta yelling at this point! Robert Norman would have loved to have seen me at this point! Not to mention that Hartford’s finest pulls up to the light and a la Mike Romano, gets all funky on their copper loud speaker and…..HECKLES ME!!! It made us laugh, for sure!

But seriously? Can she BE any cuter?

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One of my many favorites of the day…I love every little thing going on in this shot!

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Amber and Justin, thank you thank you thank you for one of the most fun shoots I have had- my body ached after our shoot from all of the laughing and adrenaline rushes I got from sheer excitement! A BIG thank you to Katie Slater for coming along and helping out, you were wonderful!!!

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As many of you may already know my big guy Mike is expecting a baby in September. Now when I found out that Kim was pregnant from that very second on I KNEW that I was going to do something super special and super top-secret for Mike. That was WAAAAYYY back in January, so I have been keeping this from Mike for a looong time and I was about ready to burst with excitement I just couldn’t wait for it!

Not sure if you notice or not but I tend to get a little excited about shoots….

So Kim and I planned our super top-secret rendezvous to take place in the beginning of July at Watch Hill- Mike and I had just shot our clients Jen & Paul there and I was just in love with the late afternoon light and the beach and the waves and the lighthouse and cool little duney-hoo ha fence and the life guard chair… little did Mike know how hard I was scoping for locations each time we went out on an e shoot!

I had Kim bring several different changes of clothes and some baby pictures of her and Mike and some other fun things for our shoot. We had so much fun and were just so pumped to pull one over on the ever-observant Mike Romano! It is almost impossible to do and it all almost came crashing down but I did some tricky verbal maneuvering and saved the surprise in the end!

I gave Mike and Kim their book yesterday and just got all choked up (but I did not weep, surprisingly Robert Norman!!! ) just watching them look over their book. The looks on their faces said it all for me, and most importantly I know how much Mike appreciates it.

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Well Big Guy, here’s to you becoming a Daddy. I know you are going to be a big softie who is just going to do anything for your little boy…!

I love you guys!!!

Now as soon as I saw those cute plaid shorts on Mike’s blog I was hoping she would bring them to our shoot! How bad-a$$ is she? Yeah, I’m pregnant but I am CUTE!!

I was really loving these facing the ocean shots. Yes, I know it is not hitting you over the head that she is pregnant but that’s OK!

I know how my boy loves his reflection shots so I knew I had to rock some. I also Love love love them and it was fun to shoot a different perspective of a maternity shot

I knew I wanted to use this fence and really like the way that Kim is leaning on it!

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I had asked her to bring some blue clothes or accessories since she is having a boy and I am all about gender stereotyping early on! The blue dress blue sky blonde hair combo is really pretty!

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I love the next series here- the light was just awesome

This may be my favorite shot of the whole shoot…. there is just something about it- the color, the way her toe is really delicately pointed, I think it all just works

I also love this shot- it feels very fashiony but comfortable
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Yeah, I am sure I broke some unspoken beach law by hopping over but I did NOT go into the dunes! I just wanted to shoot through the fence and frame Kim. Is that so wrong?


I love this kind of ‘maternity shoot rule’ breaking shot here- I know these are imagined rules that I am making up but I felt like I had to have the belly outlined all nice and here I just blew it out! I love it. I also like how the fence is all subtle along the bottom edge of the frame and by shooting wide open I helped fuzz it out nicely

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I shot this from the life guard chair

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come on! These Robeez are so freaking CUTE!!

This is them checking out the book! I think Kim likes it, right? Now if you look hard enough you can see a bit of a smile on Mike’s face!!!