Before becoming a professional photographer I used to work in a very busy maternity ward where I was surrounded by bumps, new mums and babies…I guess this could be someone’s idea of hell but I absolutely loved it. Having met so many new mums and mums to be over the years, and of course being a mum myself, when Nikita approached and asked us if we would like do a maternity shoot with her we obviously jumped at the chance. Pregnancy is such a special time, it goes so quickly and before you know it you’re holding your bundle of joy and the months of being pregnant seem to be a distant memory.

We arranged to meet Nikita and Terry on a glorious sunny Sunday afternoon in a local woodland, which gave us the perfect opportunity to frame Nikita in the foliage, and the nearby orchard gave some lovely leading lines and vanishing perspectives to pose the couple. Originally Nikita had said she would quite like to pose in water, but the river turned out to be down quite a steep bank and was covered in duck weed! Nobody was that keen to abseil down so we decided it probably was for the best to give this a miss THIS TIME (in case it accelerated the appearance of their baby)!

As Woz has already shown in our previous blog, we took along the Intrepid large format camera and the new Instant Back, which helped get everyone in the mood for photos - it’s fun to set up this type of camera in public, and we got quite a few walkers stopping by to see what was going on.

These two were incredible sports despite Nikita being about to pop and obviously refusing to abseil into the river! Nikita bought along her mum’s beautiful red velvet cloak which was worn by her mum at her wedding - it was such a special and fun day spent with these two lovely peeps.

Their gorgeous baby boy was born only a week or so later so thank goodness we managed to get the shoot done in time! Massive congratulations guys!