Carstens Family Shoot
Tag: Kids
Summer Family Shoot
Glentana Family shoot
“Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” ―Elliot Erwitt
Family photo shoot is a great tradition.
Photographing this beautiful family is turning into a tradition: from pregnancy with their first child to big busy family with two kids. It is exciting to watch Viljoen family grow and to capture their journey.
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Family photo shoot as a tradition.
Mossel Bay Family Photoshoot
A photograph is a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.
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Extended Family
Extended family photo shoots can be real fun. Thank you Human family for making my job exciting.
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Forest Photo Walk
Photographs are return tickets to moments otherwise gone. Foresty family photo shoot with very special people. Happy to share Zonjee family photo walk on one of the trails outside George, Garden Route South Africa.
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Birth of Ethan De La Croix
Birth Photography. It is raw. It is real. It is emotional. It is beautiful. It is life arriving right in front of you. I felt at owe watching De La Croix family birthing their baby boy Ethan.
Yes, it is a family affair. Dad was helping his wife through all her waves of contractions, catching his own son and cutting his cord. 6 year old sister was hugging mommy’s tummy to help her with pain, jumping out of excitement on arrival of her brother and hugging everyone around of happiness.
And mother was breathing through every contraction which came closer and closer and eventually hit one on top of another. She birthed her son with no painkillers. Surrounded by family she welcomed baby boy she carried for so many months under her heart. Melissa cried from happiness of finally meeting Ethhan and knowing that the worst is over. In fact everyone was crying, including me. As I have just witnessed something so powerful, beautiful and inspiring.
Once again I can see that birthing your child at home is a real VIP experience of births. Comfort of your own home, everyone you love are around, no random people or check ups, freedom of movement, no interventions, no unnecessary medication, delayed cord clamping, and midwife or doula at your own disposal to help you at any moment.
Photographing birth made me feel so humble, as I have witnessed life at its grand arrival.
Jenya Zhivaleva Photography www. yourfotostory.com
Birthing mama Melissa De La Croix – check out her page to hear her own birth story.
Doula – Heidi van Zyl
George – South Africa – 2019
Garden Route Birth Photography
Birth Photography – Welcome Ethan De La Croix
Birth Photography. It is raw. It is real. It is emotional. It is beautiful. It is life arriving right in front of you. I felt at owe watching De La Croix family birthing their baby boy Ethan.
Yes, it is a family affair. Dad was helping his wife through all her waves of contractions, catching his own son and cutting his cord. 6 year old sister was hugging mommy’s tummy to help her with pain, jumping out of excitement on arrival of her brother and hugging everyone around of happiness.
And mother was breathing through every contraction which came closer and closer and eventually hit one on top of another. She birthed her son with no painkillers. Surrounded by family she welcomed baby boy she carried for so many months under her heart. Melissa cried from happiness of finally meeting Ethhan and knowing that the worst is over. In fact everyone was crying, including me. As I have just witnessed something so powerful, beautiful and inspiring.
Once again I can see that birthing your child at home is a real VIP experience of births. Comfort of your own home, everyone you love are around, no random people or check ups, freedom of movement, no interventions, no unnecessary medication, delayed cord clamping, and midwife or doula at your own disposal to help you at any moment.
Photographing birth made me feel so humble, as I have witnessed life at its grand arrival.
Jenya Zhivaleva Photography www. yourfotostory.com
Birthing mama Melissa De La Croix – check out her page to hear her own birth story.
Doula – Heidi van Zyl
George – South Africa – 2019
Garden Route Birth Photography
Maternity: Human Family
I always feel so privileged to photograph these special family stories. By now this baby bump is a beautiful little girl who is busy getting to know her family.
Jenya Zhivaleva Photography - Garden Route. South Africa. 