Your Body 2nd Trimester
Documenting the BUMP
Take photos you’ll love looking at with tips from the pros
by Lora Shinn
When I was pregnant, every photo of me magically
doubled my chins, made me look sickly pale, and caught
me with food spilled down my shirt. So when a camera
appeared, I disappeared—behind plants, around corners, or into the
pages of a book.
But don’t let that stop you. Pregnancy is actually the perfect time
to bust out the camera! No matter how bloated or pasty you feel right
now, you’ll someday treasure the pics you snapped while expecting.
Christy Broyles of Dallas had the right attitude. She treated her
pregnancy as an event worth documenting. Broyles was so excited
about the project that she let her husband snap shots monthly, on
the same day as her ob/gyn appointment: one with her shirt up, one
with it down. “I’m a very sentimental person,” Broyles says. “Even if I
didn’t like my body, it’s part of my experience of becoming a mom.”
Photographer Jennifer George, author of The Art of Pregnancy
Photography, agrees. “One of the most important things a woman can
do for herself is to be photographed when she is pregnant,” George
says. “One day she will want to look back and see herself at that
wonderful transition time.”
Not everyone can hire a hair stylist, a makeup artist, and Annie
Leibovitz, but with these pro tips, you can create beautiful pregnancy
photography at home.
