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Modern Maternity Photography in Red Deer

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The beauty of motherhood is on the horizon.

What you really want is to take a deep breath and inhale this moment, to capture this memory and keep it for all time. With a maternity shoot, you can do exactly that.

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The emotional landscape of pregnancy is powerful and overwhelming - we’re here to help you harness it.

In a time of immense change, it can be a great comfort to be reminded that while everything seems different and your world is transforming, you continue to exist as the vibrant and dynamic, confident and capable person you have always been.

Your pregnancy photoshoot serves as a beautiful act of self-recognition and celebration that can help you to integrate your perception of yourself now with the changes you’re experiencing. Your maternity photos can honour the woman you are and the journey that has brought you to this moment while celebrating both the new life growing within you and the new chapter this stage represents.

After taking the time to honour yourself and express your enduring love for your coming child, you’ll feel supported, nurtured, and empowered to take on whatever comes next.

Book your Modern Motherhood Experience Maternity photo shoot in our Red Deer studio today.

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Professional maternity photos in our Red Deer, Alberta studio. Serving Central Alberta and beyond.

Ready to see yourself in the way you’ve always wanted to be seen?

Pregnancy is a unique time during which we feel allowed and even expected to show up in front of the camera. Why not do it in a way that feels genuinely you?

Through building a relationship, we’ll collaboratively design a custom maternity photoshoot experience that you’ll remember forever, complete with a stunning album or huge piece of wall art as a lifelong reminder of the woman you are right now, and the woman you’re growing into.

As a maternity photographer serving Red Deer and Central Alberta, I believe you deserve to feel important, ethereal, and irreplaceable. You deserve a maternity photo shoot experience that leaves you feeling empowered and connected to yourself and your growing child. You deserve heirloom artwork that will serve as a lifelong reminder of the kind of love you can’t put into words.

Your Modern Motherhood Portrait Experience includes:

  • Maternity Photoshoot Session Planning and Design

  • Wardrobe and Styling Consultation

  • Professional Hair and Makeup Artistry in Studio

  • Portrait session in our downtown Red Deer studio with complete guidance on posing and expression

  • Private design consultation to choose your favourite artwork and album photographs

  • $500 to spend on anything you would like to order

$690

All artwork and albums purchased separately. Typically, clients order an assortment of custom wall art and bespoke albums and spend anywhere from $1700 and up.

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  • Young pregnant woman with long hair cascading over her shoulder, draped in white gauze fabric, her hand over her heart.
  • Young pregnant woman stands confidently with wet hair and wrapped in wet gauze
  • Young pregnant woman smiles at the camera. Her hair is wet and she is leaning on a stool.
  • Young pregnant woman stands serenely with hand over heart as she gazes into the camera.
  • Black and white portrait of a woman with medium-length wavy hair, gazing at the camera, with an off-shoulder top slipping down to reveal her shoulder and pregnant belly, taken in studio in Red Deer.
  • A black and white portrait of a pregnant woman with wavy hair, looking directly at the camera, wearing a textured knit blanket draped over her shoulders taken in a Red Deer photo studio
  • A pregnant woman lying in water surrounded by floating flowers, wearing a white dress with her eyes closed by Red Deer maternity photographer Carmen MacDonald
  • A pregnant woman with wavy hair blowing in the wind, eyes closed, wearing a strapless navy blue dress, gently holding her belly with one hand, against a dark gray background by Red Deer maternity photographer.
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  • Black and white portrait of a pregnant woman wearing a flower crown and a long dress, looking down with a serene expression.
  • A pregnant woman in a white dress holding her belly with both hands.
  • A pregnant woman with wavy brown hair, wearing ripped jeans, poses with her arms crossed over her chest against a plain gray background.
  • A pregnant woman with blonde hair is lying on her side in water, surrounded by floating flowers, with her eyes closed and wearing a sheer, beige dress.
  • Young pregnant woman stands with hands clenched over heart, flowers clutched over bosom. She is wrapped in a fabric skirt.