Lake District Maternity Photography | Jo and Rich
Who the HELL Let Me Do a MATERNITY SHOOT? ~ Part 2
When you think of the Lake District you think of idyllic countryside, jaw dropping landscapes & all those epic feels. What you don’t think of is a living room floor, a heap of fruit, an arsehole of a cat (Jo’s words not mine) & some next level weird double exposures. When Jo Greenfield first contacted me to do her maternity shoot jeez I knew right away we were gonna have an absolute laugh. At one point on Instagram Jo shared the hashtag #prayforryan as I apparently wasn’t ready for the weirdness to ensue. But I’m Shutter Go Click baby & weird is my middle frickin name. (Actually it’s Charles but sssssh)
Not long after a couple of people realised Jo had only booked me after seeing a maternity shoot I did a little while back where I had double exposed a cat inside the mum to be’s pregnant belly. The hashtag soon changed to #prayforjo & holy moly did they need to do that.
Firstly I have to say wow Jo & Rich's home was bloody beautiful. If someone said what would be your ideal house to photograph in I’m not sure it would be much different from theirs. Not only that but I can’t even begin to say how bloody magnificent these two humans were to be around in every way. Heavily pregnant Jo was literally game for anything & within about 20 minutes was laid on the floor with me on a ladder surrounded by all kinds of stuff I found around the house. All that with no pre planning of what we were going to take too haha. #prayforjo
After taking some badass bump pics we headed out into a nearby field to feed some cows with the biggest tongues I ever did see. Paige was so excited as a cow was pretty much the final animal she had left on her “must stroke” list & it was so moooving to see (Dad jokes)
From there we headed down the winding roads to the nearby coastline of Morecambe Bay & finally captured some of those epic landscapes this part of the world is known for. I mean the seas almost lake right?
& so ends the tale of the second maternity shoot I’ve ever done. Part two in the “Who the Hell let me do a maternity”series. Will there be a third? You decide...
A huge thank you to Jo & Rich for simply being some of the most awesome humans I’ve ever had the fortune of photographing. Jo is also a bloody amazing photographer in her own right. It blows my mind that I’ve had the privilege of taking pictures of so many other creatives this year.
Long may it continue.
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