Maternity photos! No, no, not Lena. Still a little while before we start thinking about having children. All this talk of global financial collapse, "zombie banks" and the such has scared us away from the idea for the time being. There are other people out there; however, who got pregnant before things really got super bad, and there appears to be a market for photos of these people. Or at least, they've been burning up our phone since we did our first one back last Fall.

Since this is a new market for us, each time we do a shoot we try out a new concept. In the photos below, we brought some cloth we found on sale at Hancock fabric store. One thing I really like about shoots like this one is how creative we can be. Just like in fashion shoots, you can really break the lighting 'rules' in pregnancy shoots and get away with it (as long as the photos look good, of course). So these shoots are rich learning experiences for us as well as a chance to break out of the box and stretch our creative muscles. Enjoy!

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I'll take a break from blogging about Venezuela (not that I'm doing a lot of THAT because I'm slammed) to post a couple of photos from yesterday when it snowed about 4 inches on Atlanta. It melted, and the sad children of Atlanta had to go to school Monday. But for us adults, it was a pleasant reminder of nature's existence in our lives. Lena and I saw this beautiful male cardinal picking berries from the tree in front of our window. Harder to see (and thus photograph) was his well-camouflaged female on a branch a few feet away. The other photo is just a slice of life photo that somehow worked. If you look closely, you can see a cross-hatch pattern made by our window screen.

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