Amanda & Jeff | Virginia Maternity Portraits
- Mikayla Thorn
- Apr 7, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 9, 2021
I've been photographing Amanda throughout her journey with infertility. I started photographing her when she reached out for some portraits repping some of her favorite PCOS Awareness t-shirts back in April 2020!
Spring forward about a year to November 2020. Amanda reached out to inform me that they were PREGNANT! I was ecstatic!! After hearing so much about the struggle that women with PCOS have to go through, I was so happy to hear these two sweet humans finally got what they have worked towards for so long!
Of course, we had to include the medicine bottles & countless needles she had to use to self-administer her infertility treatment!
This session was used for their pregnancy announcement!
Then we met again for another "fully pregnant" session in March of 2021. Amanda was about 33 weeks pregnant here. She made sure I knew: we could go anywhere & do anything because she would "do whatever it takes for some epic shots". Now that's some music to my ears, but I didn't want to do anything too crazy because I actually like Amanda anddd also didn't want to deliver her baby on the side of the mountain LOL. Sooo we chose a beautiful walking trail for their sunset session!
We snuck away to one more location to finish up their session. Since I knew Amanda was down for anything- I wanted to take advantage and put her flowy white dress in some water!
Amanda is always so easy to work with...Jeff on the other hand hahaha ;) lol. Let's just say Jeff likes to give me a little bit more editing than usual. This lovely "hand signal" was for no one other than me for telling Jeff to stand up straight.
I'm so blessed to create relationships with clients. I've been photographing this couple for so many important seasons of their lives. I'm thankful they put their trust in me, my skill, and my creative visions! Blessed is an understatement!
-Mikayla
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