Recent Adventures at alyson levy PHOTOGRAPHY
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Portland Maternity Photography
I photographed Julie and Jared’s wedding last year, and we’re already meeting up for some lovely fall golden-hour maternity photos! Very exciting. One of my favorite parts of this job is getting to see these amazing milestones in people’s lives and watch their families grow. . .
This is a first for me: two lovely maternity sessions with two lovely sisters in two short weeks! I had a fantastic time with Holly’s sister Leia and her family just a few weeks ago, so I was really excited to meet up with Holly and Jake in Portland’s gorgeous Cathedral Park. Portland treated us to a beautiful spring-like February afternoon and I got to take pictures of these two being adorable. So lots of winning, is what I’m saying.
I love it when my wedding photography clients call me for maternity and baby sessions! So lovely to meet up with Adam and Anne at her family's vineyard where I photographed their wedding a year earlier. Hooray for adorable, growing families!
I’m going to lay these cards on the table right here — the photograph above was accomplished with equal parts luck and doggy bribery. Sure, a glowing, photogenic expectant mother and an adorable dog sound like a recipe for automatic success, but if you’ve ever tried to get pictures with your pet, you know that this is not always the case. Certain stars have to align, and I’m sure glad they did.
As for the rest of the shoot, it was hard to go wrong with this amount of cute all in the same room (or yard, as it were). Full disclosure: Brigitte found the idea for the basketball photos on Pinterest and loved them, so we made them happen, with the clever addition of Eric’s old-school Celtics jacket from when he was a kid. Stay tuned for newborn photos (I’m sure there’ll be even more cute to come!)
For Jenny and Alden, this session was about capturing a moment in time just before their lives changed in a big way. I love how these images manage to convey their love and affection for each other, as well as a feeling of excitement and anticipation for baby’s arrival. (I’m especially fond of the last image — standing amidst the clutter of an unfinished nursery, two people solidly together and so clearly in love.) My hope is that over the years, my clients will look back at photos I’ve taken for them and will find clear memories of important parts of their family’s story, and be glad that they took the time to stop and capture those moments.
Melissa was my very first maternity photography client, and I couldn’t have asked for a better one. Not only is she gorgeous and glowing and amazingly strong, but she was extra patient with me while I figured out how to get the best poses and angles for those great belly pictures. Maternity photography draws on skills I’ve honed in other kinds of people photography: it’s like wedding and engagement photography in that it’s about capturing a relationship and a moment in time, it’s like boudoir photography in that it’s very much about the human form, and in that your subject probably hasn’t done it before and needs a lot of guidance to feel comfortable in front of the camera, and it’s like fashion photography in that the mom-to-be conveys confidence and, ideally, a kind of glamour. It’s a fantastic and rewarding to combine these challenges in to one photo session. And then it’s extra fun, of course, when you get to come back and take photos with the new baby (more on that later…)!
