Maternity Photography in Dallas–Fort Worth

I'm BK Bennett, and I photograph expectant mothers across Dallas–Fort Worth. This is the one session where the thing you are photographing keeps changing week to week, so the date matters more here than it does for anything else I shoot. Most people come out once the bump reads clearly in a frame and walking across a pasture is still easy. Leave it much later than that and the session turns into an endurance test in the Texas heat, which is a shame when the photos were supposed to be the calm part. I live in Greenville, just east of the metroplex, and I shoot out through DFW and the towns ringing it, so pick the field, the lake, or the patch of land that means something to you and I will come to it.

The gallery below is two sessions and one look. An expectant mother in a flowing sage halter dress and turquoise jewelry, photographed first in open pasture at golden hour and then beside a lake while the sky went pink. Her partner is in several of the frames in a felt cowboy hat, his hands over hers. A red velvet Victorian settee got hauled out into the middle of a dry field for the afternoon, which is the kind of trouble that pays for itself the second you see it in a photograph. Some frames are shot low from the grass so the skirt fills everything under the sky, and one is straight down with both of them lying in the pasture. All of it is outdoors and all of it is late in the day, because that is when this part of Texas stops looking washed out.

Nobody needs to be good at this, and almost nobody is. Being pregnant is a strange thing to be photographed in the middle of, and most people show up unsure what to do with their hands, which is my problem to solve and not yours. I direct the whole way through and I keep shooting between the poses, because the picture people end up hanging is usually one nobody was braced for. Wear something with weight and movement in it. Open wind does more for a long skirt than any amount of structure does, and a dress you can breathe in beats one that only looks good standing still. Boots work, bare feet work, and jewelry you already wear looks more like you than anything bought for the occasion. If you want your partner in the photos, bring them. If you would rather these be only yours, that is just as common.

Spring and fall are the easiest months to be outside for this, green pasture in one and gold in the other. July and August are survivable only at the very end of the day, and being heavily pregnant in that heat is the best argument there is for a sunset start. Winter pasture is bare and quiet, and some people want exactly that. A maternity session also tends to be the first of several. The baby arrives, and then there is a whole first year of it, which is on the baby and toddler page. Newborn and full family sessions are listed on the services page. Send me your due date and a rough idea of where you picture standing, and I will tell you how the land is likely to look by then.