Estefania didn’t want to choose between Colorado and the studio, so she didn’t.

We shot it on Portra 400 medium format film alongside plenty of digital. Film is the add-on I reach for when a session is this cinematic; the grain does something no preset can fake, and nobody else in Colorado maternity offers it. The studio made the set builds possible, and the film page shows what Portra does to skin and light.

Lily came to the studio with a concept I loved immediately: clean, playful, straight out of a '90s Gap ad. She brought her husband and her daughter, and the three of them leaned all the way in.

Slim sunglasses, a swish of motion blur, and a 34-week belly leading the frame like it owned the studio. It did. This is a session that every mama deserves.

Alexandra at 34 weeks. Lace, gold light, and a Denver studio session that leaned bold from the first frame.

Stella returned for her second pregnancy session. The frames show the difference between first-time and second-time motherhood.

Lou's second pregnancy got the session her first didn't. Soft light, calm pacing, the kind of frames that hold up.

Emma came in confident and stayed there. A Denver studio session where the direction came from her as much as from me.

Aryn's session moved from clean editorial frames into fabric, fan, and color. Classic to creative in one room.

Working with a working model means the brief is to make portraits. Christiana came ready, and the session went straight to icon.

Anna runs Strong Core Mamas. A collaboration session on what strength looks like across pregnancy, not just in the third trimester.

Claire's session leaned warm. Soft light shaped to flatter, fabric to flow, paced slow enough to let presence land.

Katie's 2021 session leaned timeless. Studio frames built to outlast the trends of the year I made them in.

Katie's session ran calm and warm. Studio frames built to feel intimate without ever feeling staged.

Notes on nude maternity portraiture. How I run the session, what the frame shows, and where the line is between fine art and provocation.

Pro climber Alex Puccio at the Denver studio. The climbing body becomes the carrying body, same calm intensity.

Jameka at 39 weeks. A Denver studio session at the edge of labor, paced calm and built to honor that exact moment.

Alexandra Lewis anchors the news at 9NEWS. Twenty years on camera will do something for a person: fifteen minutes into her maternity session, my studio felt like her second set.

Caitlin's session leaned goddess. Flowing fabric, sculpted light, classical posing, frames built timeless.

Brooklin returned for a second pregnancy session. Two pregnancies, two years, same room. The contrast reads.