Maternity Photos Round 2

I am not a patient person by nature. Oh sure, I can be patient sometimes, but more often than not it's something I struggle with. So I had my maternity photos taken (or at least some of the photos I wanted to get done) but then I had to wait for her to edit them and send me my proofs of them.... oh how difficult waiting can be. Finally, I broke down. I had an afternoon without any mandatory plans and decided I would just set up my tripod and take some of my own. Let me tell you, the idea seemed so much easier than it actually was.

First I had to clear a space to work in- okay, that really wasn't very hard. Then I pulled out my props, outfits, tripod, camera remote, and backdrops. Also, not to hard....

Finally came the time for me to get into my first pose, take the picture via remote, get up and check the picture to see if I was in the right place or not, and then try to get back into my EXACT pose so I could adjust the picture as I was needing (ie, didn't get my whole body in the frame). THAT was the hard part. The whole thing took a few hours to do (that's several hours more than I was expecting), not even counting my clean up time.

I had printed out a list of photos I liked, about 16 in all, and tried to duplicate them myself. Honestly, I really had no such luck. I did however get a few pictures that I like, even if they are a bit risky, it was one more thing that was really important for me to do in my first pregnancy that otherwise was not going to happen. There is only a very limited amount of time you can actually do maternity photos. Too early and your stomach is too small, too late, and it's too big (or plagued by stretch marks... Thankfully, I got mine in JUST in time to beat the marks that pregnancy tends to leave behind.

Maternity Photos Round 1

A weeks back (May 18th, actually) I did a maternity photo shoot with an amateur photographer. I found her on craigslist offering a free session and took her up on it. My mother was convinced I was driving out to a serial killers house where they were going to cut me open and steal my baby... Cliff wasn't thrilled with the idea either (especially when I got there and told him it was in the middle of nowhere-all the better to hide my body, he said) but I gave him all the information I had and called him before and after so he wouldn't worry. Just for the record, if I had not seen this persons work for several weeks (if not months) in a row (meaning if it WAS a serial killer they had been doing it totally undetected for a good long while now and probably deserved another victim if they really were that good) and well constructed web site I probably wouldn't have gone either... but that's neither here nor there. Anyway, I got there and spent an hour with her taking almost 100 pictures with her. Out of my gas and time I was able to walk away with a CD of about 5 pictures that I really liked creating a nice record of my belly. Not bad for free.

First Den Meeting

Alex has been in the cub scouts for about a month now and last night was his first den meeting. We got a visit from Officer Dan who talked about stranger danger, staying safe, and even showed us his motorcycle. It was highly entertaining. Following that we had hot dogs and smores... what a night :)