Crystal had emailed me a long while back about shooting her maternity pics! I rely heavily on my clients to scout out their locations & they know this in advance when they book me. It gets too easy as a photographer to just take clients to the exact same spot & shoot & use it over & over. There’s no fun in that! I scout new spots if I have spare time but rarely use them more than a handful of times unless there are just no other options. When a client finds their special spot, especially if it’s somewhere I’ve never shot at before, I don’t jank their spot for my next shoot. That’s not fair when they’ve put in so much time & effort to find a spot & often have had to ask permission to use it! So if you book me, I definitely give you ideas & try to help you think of a cool spot, but do ask that you be on the lookout too! It makes your shoot that much more special to you when you’ve found a kick ass spot!

What I love about Crystal is that not only did she scout while pregnant, but she took pics & put them in a Word document with notes & what time she took the pic so I could see what the sun looked like! OMG can you say AWESOME! She’s already done this for her next shoot in a couple of months! I’ve now done 2 other shoots for her since this one but wanted to share these first before I share the others!

So when she sent the locations & her ideas I was in LOVE! Cotton fields, barns, junk, & old houses…anything country & rustic! And of course we had to include Sam, their sweet dog!

Rustic maternity shoot in barn.

Maternity photography inside barn

Look at that belly bump & 2 more months to go! :D Outdoor country maternity shoot

Rustic maternity shoot inside barn

Maternity photography outdoors

Country maternity shoot

Maternity shoot inside old houseThis one was my fave & the one she ended up getting for her print! LOVE old houses! I like to imagine the people who might have lived in them & the stories the house would tell if it could talk!

Old house photography

I loved this black/white cause it felt a lil spooky & it was October after all!Maternity shoot inside old house

Pet photography

Geez there were these things that people call “tagalongs” that were stuck to our clothes! Like an insanely ridiculous amount of them! I picked those things off my clothes & shoes for DAYS! I even found some of them months after this! They literally “tagalong” & don’t want to go anywhere!
Outdoor country maternity photoshoot

Sam posed so perfectly! Couldn’t have asked for more!Maternity shoot with silos

Cotton field maternity photoshoot

Antique quilt prop in maternity shoot

Old house with cotton field maternity shoot

Up next on the blog tomorrow is the baby’s newborn pics! She came almost 2 months after shooting these! I know then that Crystal was ready for her to be here already! Now that she’s here she’s sad time is flying by so quickly! Can’t believe she’s already 2 months old Crystal! Many thanks to you & Gavin & Sam!

So glad I was able to document this special time for y’all & to have documented a few more since!

Love you all! :D

xoxo

amy