It is not a secret that I adore fields. I can pretty much shoot in them until I am blue in the face…and love every minute of it. Lately I have had tons of maternity clients…who all want to shoot in my fields. I can’t say I blame them, if I was prego again I would do the same thing. The fields look great, they are light, glowy, feminine and romantic.
But as a “creative” I get bored. Especially when it is the same type of client in the same type of location, over and over. So a few weeks ago, I was driving around town and the river caught my eye and instant visions of a maternity down by the river started to fill my brain. I had several maternity clients on the books and I eagerly began emailing them suggesting the river as a location, even bribing them with half field locations, half river in case they did not like the river images. Just so I could play. Finally after several “No’s”, I finally got someone interested and the session gave me a photographer high like I haven’t had in a while. Sadly we were quite rushed. The client was stuck in traffic and the area we parked had a closing time that we had to beat, so we shot all the outfits in less than 1 hour. Regardless, I am thrilled…I just can’t wait to go back and try the rest of the ideas I have day dreamed about.
This client also wins my unofficial Maternity Client of the Year Award :). Although the water looks shallow, we had to endure very rough rocks, slippery rocks, currents, deep water, goose poo and much more for this session. She deserves major Kuddos for not only being stunning, but for also being so super cool with doing anything I asked of her!
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