Golden Hour Mountain Maternity | Banff Maternity Photographer | Lace & Locket Photo

This gorgeous human being decided that on her way to come meet me in Banff for her Mountain Maternity session, it would be a good time to take a tumble down a stair or three……..Right after S.Kay Makeup Artist left, after dolling up this beauty, she tripped and smacked her face. She showed up with a sore ankle, and a swollen eye!! Obviously I was more concerned about if she was ok, and had she not even told me her eye was swollen I don’t think I would have even noticed!

She didn’t even care that she was bumped and a little bruised, she just wanted to do her photos, and she ABSOLUTELY NAILED THEM. LOOK AT THIS STUNNER. She brought this gown with her, and the colour was stunning. Between the sky and the water, it couldn’t have been more perfect.

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From our starting place, where we shot the blue dress, we went up the mountain to a field and did an outfit change. When E picked this dress, she wasn’t sure it would go with her skin tone but asked me to bring it anyways so she could at least look at it.

I’d say it’s her colour. In fact, it’s SO her colour that we chose to use it for some of her sweet baby’s newborn portraits, that I’ll show in a later post. Can’t wait!

We then went to the top of the mountain for some extra sexy maternity portraits, won’t be including those in this post, haha!

Summer Mountain Maternity Session | Lace & Locket Photo | Banff, Alberta, Canada | Calgary Mountain Maternity Photographer

Tealyn came to me with her first babe back in 2018 when we did her first maternity session at the gorgeous Saskatoon Farm just south of Calgary. I try to plan Spring garden greenhouse maternity specials each year if it works out and these were the first ones that I had done! It was hot, beautiful and so much fun! I had hired a makeup artist to work with that day and do these ladies’ makeup and make them feel like queens! It was such a perfect day.

Right off the bat we did a set of photos with their sweet toddler because as we all know, they don’t like to hang out for long! She was shy at first but warmed right up!

Two years later we chose to do Tealyn’s session in the mountains and I had a very specific vision for it. Tealyn got her hair & makeup done by the incredible Sarah with S.Kay Makeup Artistry. As if her first session wasn’t perfect enough we created some absolute magic that day as well. We did two locations close together because if you’re driving an hour out, I want to make sure that you are having an incredible experience AND a good variety in your maternity session.

Next we focused on Mama and made her feel like a Q U E E N . The contrast of her gorgeous red hair against a white gown and the gorgeous mountain backdrop was exactly what I had envisioned when I was thinking up her session. Tealyn gave both the makeup artist and myself full creative reign which is always so much fun!

Next we went just up the road for a little bit of a change in scenery. When choosing locations for maternity sessions I make sure of two things : It’s easy terrain for a pregnant person and not far from where we park so that if a client needs to take a break, warm up, cool down, sit for a few minutes, EAT A SNACK, we are not far from all of those things; AND TWO there is another view or element close by to be able to give a good set of variety in the client’s gallery. This is definitely one of those spots.

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All gowns from this session are available for use in my Client Closet.
Check out more of the makeup artists’ work on her Instagram.
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