I had the distinct pleasure of starting a Babies First Year project with Melissa and her beautiful family. This is the first installment of the session: the maternity session. Since Melissa has two daughters, we decided to include them in the session as well.

I’m sure I don’t need to state the obvious, but Melissa’s little girls are absolutely ravishing! Just look at those eyes….they surely have their mom’s eyes and beauty! And Melissa had great energy and looked as fresh as a daisy at 8 months pregnant!

For those of you who aren’t familiar with our Babies First Year package, we offer a year long session, which is broken down into smaller sessions: maternity, newborn, 4 months, 8 months and 12 months. All of these magical moments are captured photographically and then custom designed into an heirloom album!

Look for our new portrait website launching soon! It will include our new galleries and plenty of information on our fantabulous Naples Babies First Year session!

Special thanks go out to Melissa, Emily, Kate and soon-to-arrive baby for letting me capture a bit of your family’s most perfect day!
~Astrid~

Tags: fine art pregnancy photography, maternity photography, maternity sessions, naples portraits by Astrid
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I’ve been going to rug-rat related classes all over Naples and one of my all time favorites is the Kindermusik classes at the Philharmonic. Bonnie is the director of education at the Phil and I had the pleasure of doing her maternity session along with some portraits of her and her husband. Oh, and yep! There’s an awesome portrait of their kitty, too.

Bonnie is not only a beautiful woman, but she has the most perfect baby bump I’ve ever photographed! Talk about glow…Bonnie, you make pregnancy look GREAT and so eays! Congratulations to both of you….and thanks for another perfect day!

Tags: fine art pregnancy photography, maternity photography by Astrid
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I’ve been so neglectful to my blog! I won’t bore you with all the details, but needless to say a totally full, rather, over-spilling, heaping plate full of work, sick little ones and a sick mom (STILL sick) has prevented me from blogging updated work.

I’ve finally sat down (on a Sunday no less) to post Krystal’s maternity shoot at my favorite Naples beach! My maternity and portrait side of the business has taken off and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it! I’ve always been a true portraitist at heart and it’s what I love to do…

Krystal looks absolutely lovely! She already had her little one so a big CONGRATULATIONS to her and her beautiful family! Baby and the whole clan are settling into their new home today, and I will be out there in the next few days (weather and Ike permitting) to capture the wee one!

I don’t know how Krystal does it! She has three little boys and when I photographed their family portrait at their home, she was the vision of a perfect mom! But it surely helps to have awesome little boys that behave. And Devon, Jerimiah, and Grant were three awesome troopers! I’ll be blogging those images later this week.

KUDOS to you mom, you go! Congratulations on having such a fantabulous family and congratulations on the newest edition! I can’t wait to meet him…

Tags: fine art pregnancy photography, maternity photography by Astrid
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