Embracing Motherhood | Amber Tyler | Photographer | Genesee, ID

I had the honor of being the one to capture these beautiful moments between a mother and her Daughter. Bethany booked this session as a Mother's day gift for herself and wanted to make it special. It started out by having her make up done by our friend (and client of mine) Charlene. Charlene is an awesome make up artist and has the coolest accent because she is from Ireland. I love cool accents. Bethany's make up looked awesome and when she got to see herself when it was finished she said it was the first time she felt like she looked like a woman instead of looking so young. I could tell she felt great. After make up was done we started our adventure of a photo shoot.

I had decided I wanted to do the shoot up in Genesee, ID. where she was getting her make up done. I hadn't shot in this location before, but I thought it would be fun to just go around a find random locations to use. We started right across the street from Charlene's house, in a beautiful field. All of a sudden saw a man walking a dog coming up the road. The dog ran over to us, as happy as can be, and decided to- I kid you not- pee on the crate Bethany was sitting on! Thankfully she moved over in time and was able to avoid getting peed on...lol.. 

We then set out to find a location for the next part of our shoot.. This part was going to be more intimate so we needed to find something secluded. After driving around for about 10 minutes or so we found an opening in a fence to a field on the side of the road that would work perfectly. Bethany really wanted to capture some images of her breast feeding her baby girl, Sienna. She also expressed how good it feels to accept and love the body she has now that she is a mother. 

And of course, even on a quiet street that seems to have no traffic, we had many cars drive by and even a dust cropper (plane) flew over us! Thankfully we had plenty of blankets on hand to cover up with. 

The whole feel of this session was all about embracing motherhood and loving the body that you have been given and the changes that motherhood brings. Bethany had expressed that she used to have a lot of the same body image issues that a lot of women deal with, and that becoming a mother has helped her embrace her body and  now she has a new confidence that hasn't been there before.

Amber Tyler | Photographer | Portrait |