New studio means I need new products for my walls!

Canvas, Prints, Albums

As with all photographers my style had changed in the last year. I wanted fresh meat.....umm clients to put on the walls!

I hopped on Facebook and posted a model search for bellies. Success!

I had almost forty women respond. I sent each of them a long list of ideas I had been wanting to shoot.

Almost ALL of them came back with the same two sentences.

1) We would like to do the ice cream shoot! - completely get that it is a hundred degrees out!

2) We do not want to show our bellies.

I was a little shocked. All but two women said they would not shoot with their stomach exposed.

That knocked out a lot of list ideas!

Kristine was one of the two women who agreed to.

Can you also get your child up super early and have her fed and out of the house and wear clothes that will be ruined forever at a ghastly hour in the morning so I can catch good light?

Yep.

I was not sure how this would go. Her daughter Debbie is at that age most photographers fear. Young enough to not listen, old enough to run very fast!

She could of not slept well last night, it could be too early, she could want to stay at the playground right next to us instead of shoot, she could not want to get anything on her hands......so many ifs. None of that mattered!

Bob Ross would have been proud of her!

I was in stitches! This little wisp of a girl was a most ardent and serious painter and even did her own belly to match Mommy's.

As the sun started to rise hotter in the sky. Mom and Daughter whipped on their sunglasses and strutted down the street like they were wearing Lagerfeld instead of Pollack. 

The quizzical stares of drivers and giggles from neighbors did not phase these two and I gained mad love for the duo!

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