Sorry for my absence. I was off having a kid. Which hurt.
Now that pregnancy has finally ended, I’m embarking on the photographing-my-son-too-much journey. I purchased a Canon EOS-3 on Ebay so that my clichéd efforts can at least be memorialized on film. $150 for one of those things, and you can develop at CVS! What’s not to like?
Looking back, this is the only pregnant shot that did anything for me:
Pregnancy and baby pictures can go very wrong. Perhaps its the hormones which lead to very bad decisions.
Once the baby in the mirror becomes a reality, you have to choose how to memorialize it.
Turns out I like hipstamatic enough to use it for my major life moment. I wonder how this will read in the album in ten years.
I have no decent shots of myself looking maternal, but I did get a nice shot of a swell friend being a mother to my child. She looks much more pulled together than I did.
My favorite baby picture in recent memory is Torbjorn Rodland‘s. I had to pull three Blindspots down off the shelf to recall this image.
But he’s blonde and Nordic and perfect, so it was worth it.
Rodland also has a grasp on the finer points of motherhood. Do you think she really just had a baby? I doubt it. And that looks like a painful latch.
I will try my best not to bother you too much further with child imagery.
congrats!
Very, very funny. Have been missing your blogs.
Congratulations! And thanks for the hilarious photos.
It’s nice to have you posting again.
Now that you’re “one of us”, check out La familia abrazada on Flickr (if you haven’t already).
Felicidades.
Good to see you posting again.
Congratulations! And the pic with the giraffe is great!
(I also like the one with the melon and the gun, but I don’t know what it wants to tell me)
More from Henry please
Congratulations! My wife is due in three weeks, and I’ve spent the last nine months worrying–about important stuff, but also about how to document her pregnancy. We’ve settled on a minimal approach, with the occasional snapshot (not unlike the giraffe photo) and a few choice Polaroids. It seems like less may definitely be more in this regard. Although I’m regretting we didn’t do a watermelon/gun thing. There’s still time…
Congratulations Rachel! What a beautiful family.
Congratulations. Now resume posting and never leave us again.
(my wife is due in a week…time for some awkward family photos)
Congrats!! My wife and I are at 32 weeks. I keep on wondering when the adult will turn up to take care of things.
Congrats! What a cute family!
Awkward, yes, but the first of the AFPs you posted is strangely touching, in light of how pregnant women are so often “artfully” depicted in the nude. Kudos to the husband for taking the plunge and joining her. I don’t know if I would have posted that online anywhere, though.