{"id":12188,"date":"2017-02-04T08:22:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T13:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=12188"},"modified":"2017-02-04T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T13:22:25","slug":"before-and-after-a-fun-maternity-and-newborn-photo-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2017\/02\/04\/before-and-after-a-fun-maternity-and-newborn-photo-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Before and after: A fun maternity and newborn photo shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">L<\/span>ast autumn, one of the final photo shoots I did before the wind turned bitter and the snow started to fall was a maternity session with a friend and former colleague at the Lime Kiln Trail. It turned out to be one of my favourite sessions of the year, and not just because of my deep affection for the subjects. It was a beautiful afternoon out with a gorgeous couple, and we had a lot of fun together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/31888923913\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Autumn maternity photography in Ottawa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/377\/31888923913_a4e5e11667_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Autumn maternity photos by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/32660738026\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Autumn maternity photography in Ottawa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/472\/32660738026_5f13b5a321_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Autumn maternity photos by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Yes, they really are as sweet as they look. Seriously.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/31888923353\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Autumn maternity photography in Ottawa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/600\/31888923353_ffd10250da_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Autumn maternity photos by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/32660739236\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Autumn maternity photography in Ottawa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/683\/32660739236_09f0cf89b5_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Autumn maternity photos by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their beautiful baby girl arrived over the holidays, and last weekend I was able to pay a visit with my camera and tell the story of a quiet Saturday afternoon at home with a new baby. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/32701366945\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Newborn storytelling photography by Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/702\/32701366945_7fe5581e5d_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Portrait of a sleeping baby by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/32701367595\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Newborn storytelling photography by Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/391\/32701367595_68c6c9254d_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Portrait of a young family by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/32579148021\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Newborn storytelling photography by Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/484\/32579148021_2b963d4633_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Daddy kissing baby by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you pause to catch your breath after all that adorableness. I mean seriously!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/32579147651\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"HNewborn storytelling photography by Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/734\/32579147651_480a38a331_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Family portrait with pet cat by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/32701367245\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Newborn storytelling photography by Danielle Donders\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/282\/32701367245_58db9f7b09_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Family portrait with pet cat by Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those last two are definitely my favourites of the day, but I honestly can&#8217;t decide between the black and white yawn, or that compelling green stare of derision. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last autumn, one of the final photo shoots I did before the wind turned bitter and the snow started to fall was a maternity session with a friend and former colleague at the Lime Kiln Trail. It turned out to be one of my favourite sessions of the year, and not just because of my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2017\/02\/04\/before-and-after-a-fun-maternity-and-newborn-photo-shoot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Before and after: A fun maternity and newborn photo shoot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothership-photography","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12190,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12188\/revisions\/12190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}