Maternity Shoot part deux

Since work was cancelled for all government offices yesterday while hubby was working from home and on a special non-working holiday, we decided to stage part deux of my maternity shoot. The first part was during my friend's wedding while for part three, hubby wants to take pictures of me against the Christmas lights in Trinoma. We'll see if we still have time for that one as I'll be 37 weeks tomorrow. :P

I scoured Google for inspiration and here are two of my favorites. Bought a cheapo white curtain for this silhouette shot.

Nekkid belly shot. We bought the metal decal (?) from Dimensione I think before I got pregnant. We just put it up recently because there are tacks behind the metal and the thing is meant to be put on wood or cork and we have no place for it. I was even thinking of selling it. Then, hubby accidentally snapped off one of the tacks so he proceeded to remove all the tacks and duct-taped the words to our concrete wall. Hubby really wanted this shot because it took us four years to have our baby. Okay, I better stop before I start crying. :P

 

35 Weeks

Last Sunday, we attended the wedding of one of my high school friends, the last in our group of girls to get married. Hubby and I have been talking about doing my maternity shoot but since we're almost always doing something during the week-ends, we haven't gotten around to doing it.

Since I was all made up and dressed up for the wedding, we did our shoot in Ayala Westgrove while the couple was doing their couple portraits heehee. Buti na lang the reception is in Alabang pa, so we had about an hour. Since hubby was taking the pics, I was left to direct myself and didn't bring any props. Just me and my bump. Here's one of my favorites that I converted to black and white:

I also want to do some candid-white-shirt-in-bed shots, but we'll see if we still have time. I can't do nekkid close up belly shots though. For the most part of the pregnancy, my bump has stayed smooth. But I think a month ago, I developed pimple-like bumps on my belly, breast and nape. EEEK. And dark armpits. DOUBLE EEEK. Then just a week ago, I saw two lightning-like stretch marks near my belly button. Sigh. Battle scars.