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St. Louis MO Maternity & Newborn Photographer | Chicago Belly

Sep

16

This beautiful new mom called me to see if I would photographer her belly in Chicago. I mean HELLO! Yes. Of COURSE I will! I used to live in Chicago prior to moving to St. Louis. I used to shoot on the beach down at Montrose Harbor and North Ave. Beach ALL the time. I miss the beach SO much! But when I lived in Chicago, I had never photographed a BELLY on the beach.

This shoot ALMOST did not happen. I made a full weeks trip out of this session and a booked a ton of beach shoots. Her shoot was scheuled for Friday and I had to head back to St. Louis on Saturday. The entire week was supposed to be beautiful. What would you know, Friday all of a sudden decided to have massive storms that afternoon. ALSO, the Taste of Chicago was going on, making that area super difficult to get to. I told Regina.  Ok girlie. Let’s wait it out and see what happens. It was storming into the sunset so we called it. THEN, all of a sudden (I was an hour away) I heard it had stopped raining downtown. I know, because I used to live there, that the sky over the lake is insane after storms. So I told her to get her preggo bootie over to the beach and I would see her in an hour. The sun was supposed to set in 60 minutes but we only needed a few shots, and night shots would be A-MA-ZING. So, I flew down there. I mean drove efficiently ;).  We got our pink sky. Our epic water shots and our Chicago night skyline. Im a little bit obsessed.  All of these shots happened AT sunset or after. I had a few people email me after seeing them on Facebook. The skies looked like this in real life 🙂  Nothing was added.  For those who are curious 🙂

Yes, I am a St. Louis newborn and family photographer, but I make occasional trips up to my old stomping grounds. Love Chicago!

 

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Emily Lucarz Photography specializes in newborn, child, baby, maternity, family and senior photography in Saint Louis, Missouri and surrounding areas.

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  1. Melissa says:

    Hi! I am totally in love this with shoot. I am a new photographer and have a maternity shoot coming up. I love the ones with the skyline light up behind them. Would you mind sharing your settings/lighting situation? I absolutely love this. I would be forever grateful for any advice as lightening is new to me, but it love the look as sunset. Thank you!

    Melissa
    Mel.alicea@yahoo.com

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