With the New Year only days away, it is the perfect time to post images of another pending arrival. Along with the New Year, Rob and Danielle, and their families, will be celebrating the birth of their first child! I am so delighted that they asked me to capture maternity images of them. Full disclosure, although I photographed hundreds of children, families and people…this is my first official maternity session. I do have photographs of my wife from the days when we were doing our best to populate the planet (we had four children under the age of 5, before we were 30!), but those were family photographs, shot in our first apartment with my Nikon F100 film SLR camera, using available light, a 50mm f/1.8 lens and captured on Kodak 400TMAX film. Fast forward to two weeks ago….Rob and Danielle’s images were captured in a well appointed studio, with a Nikon D3 DSLR camera, a Profoto light setup and three of Nikon’s latest and greatest lenses.
It simply doesn’t seem that long ago that I was photographing their wedding day at a beautiful vineyard in southern Virginia, but now Rob and Danielle are about to be parents and I’m thrilled to play a part in documenting that experience for two of our very favorite people! Here are a few of my favorite images from my inaugural maternity photography session, with Rob and Danielle and a player to be named later.
Happy New Year!
by Neil
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