Erin Wallis Photography Blog

The thing I love about a maternity session with a first time momma, is that everything is unknown.
That feeling that you want to control things, but you can’t. You don’t. You want to know when the baby will come, what the baby will look like, whose eyes? lips? You are praying for a healthy baby, a good birth. You are afraid of the unknown and terrified of not being good enough. You are expecting the worst, the best… the most. You have no idea what is about to happen. You are uncomfortable, like, seriously uncomfortable. You have gone through so much growing this baby and you have no idea, that the best really is yet to come. Or at least, that is how I was.

What I love about maternity sessions is that through the photos, you are transported outside of your own discomfort and fear, and are somewhere on the outside, looking in at the most glorious parts. The way you grew that baby. The way your body grew the eyes you are yet to know, the feet that will touch the earth, the hands that will draw all over your bathtub with crayons, the mouth that will say the whole alphabet at 21 months. The way you didn’t know how to grow vital organs, but you did it anyways. The way you did your very best, even when you were convinced that you weren’t.

The thing I love about a maternity session is that it is true love, struggle, devotion and unconditional love… celebrated.
All you ladies growing people… You go girls. You grow those babies, you eat that chocolate, you cry, you laugh, you pee 25 times a night, you online shop, you cut your hair, you get a pedicure, and you celebrate you. Because you are awesome. Growing people is no small matter, and YOU should be celebrated.

Can’t wait to share Bridget and Jeremy’s beautiful baby photos {check back on Monday}.
Their New Years baby Ben, has already arrived. {and he is INCREDIBLE}
for now… here is their maternity session with their gorgeous Newfoundland pup Maggie.
xo

I love photographing families. I also love photographing families outside in Campbell River, and everywhere on Vancouver Island. There are endless possibilities.
I love getting to know their personalities and how they all connect with each other. It also snaps me into realizing that one day, I will likely be just like each and every mom I photograph. Standing back and smiling at her children. Knowing that indescribable love that comes along with raising people. Looking at the face of your daughter who has grown up, is growing up… remembering them as baby’s, infants… toddlers. I refer to it often, but one of my favorite quotes from a beautiful client a few years ago sticks with me still. As a parent “we all just wish for a little more time.”
Such a beautiful family. Full of laughter and quirks and outfit changes in the field in the chilly December air.
It truly was, my pleasure.

Maternity sessions rank pretty high with me. I love them.
Lately, I’ve been really loving sessions in my lovely clients homes. So personal, so comfortable and the potential for unique images is inspiring.
I also love pregnancy craving stories. Like really love them. One friend kept sponges in her pocket, another scratched soap obsessively, another sampled dirt, I ate thousands of oranges and Tiffany can’t get enough grapefruits. Like, drools when she thinks of them. I love it. So naturally, we had to have a few of her favorite fruits with us for their adorable session. Little Hudson and I couldn’t get enough of the “night time”… “morning” pretend sleeping game, and their session couldn’t possibly have been any more awesome.
Tiffany is also an amazing dietician with an essential healthy food blog, where she wrote this about our session “I owe her a huge thank you for letting me step out of the daily slog of late pregnancy and see it through her eyes and for what it really is…a big, beautiful miracle.” Amen sister. It really is a big, beautiful miracle, and I’m so excited to be able to be a part of your journey as a family. I cherish our sessions.
I am beyond thrilled to meet their new little man.

(just a side note… whenever you see BOLD print on my blog there is always a link to something awesome, by clicking on the bold print!)

In 2011 I was blessed to cross paths with some incredibly beautiful women growing some pretty incredible people.
Vancouver Island was the perfect backdrop for some of my favorite outdoor maternity images of 2011. (many of which I haven’t even had a chance to blog about yet!)
Do you have favorites?? I’d love to know which maternity session loved the most!
Thanks so much for stopping by.
xo

To have a family. To be a family. Such a precious gift.
May we all soak up every. single. remarkable moment.
“Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
-Lao Tzu