The Maternity Photos
Good people of Internetland, are you ready for this? No. There's no way you could be ready for this.
Last week, our good friend Katie helped us realize a dream. She took some highly amusing maternity photos for us. (You may remember Katie's photographic talent and sense of humor from an earlier post.) I'm not even sure exactly how the idea for this collaboration came about, but it was definitely the product of numerous conversations regarding people's thoughts about adoption, birth, pregnancy, women, and families. The idea also evolved from conversations poking fun at signs like this and this.
Notice how that first lady appears to have stuck a nice, round basketball under her dress? And that second one is clearly a dude holding a beach ball. A saintly beach ball at that.
We decided to stage some hyper-sentimental pregnancy photos to mark this very special time in our lives. After spending quite some time sifting through various websites for inspiration, we created these:
When you've got the giggles under control, you can read Katie's much more thoughtful explanation of this project here.
Sunday, May 02, 2010
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8 comments:
I'm serious. Go to awkwardfamilyphotos.com. They have a whole section of bizarre pregnancy pics. I can't believe you kept a straight face!
FANTASTIC!
and hello??!! Xander has some GUNS! Wow. Wasn't expecting that at all.
Hee hee! I love how there's now Team Xander's Guns.
Classic. These are great. I especially enjoyed the photo elapse of the beach ball inflating.
I love it!
This may be one of the funniest things I've ever seen! What a great/funny/outrageous idea. Those pregnancy photos always crack me up (and really annoy me). I love the heart hands on the beach ball.
Twins! Congratulations!
This is maybe the most awesome thing I've ever seen. Ever. I yelled at Ted to come here, and I read out loud your friend's post and we just died laughing. You guys are awesome. Makes me pissed at myself that I didn't think of doing this.
I know this comment is more than a year too late, but still: congrats and I love the goofiness of this. As a fellow twin mother who was made to feel like a circus freak by general public through the last month of my pregnancy, I think these photos are great!
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