Jenny and I met a few years ago and then a couple years ago her then coworkers gifted her with a pregnancy shoot with me. We totally hit it off and became friends. I adore this gal. Jenny is about as sweet and sassy as they come all in one beautiful package. I've been able to photograph Jaxson before and he is such a cutie. Being able to photograph Jenny's second pregnancy meant the world to me and I'm so happy we were able to make this shoot happen even when LIFE seemed determined to get in the way!
The first setback was the weather. Our intended date was going to be RAINED on and there was only ONE day that worked for both our schedules to reschedule it on. Another FREEZING cold day. But we decided to deal with the ridiculously cold air (hovering around 38 degrees) in exchange for not having the images at all!
The, we get to our destination, downtown Capitola, and the wonky stormy weather was creating havoc on the beach. As in, there was NO BEACH. It was completely submerged under water. I have NEVER seen that happen there and it was so disconcerting. Not only that, it threw a wrench in our "let's do pictures on the beach and under the pier" shots we wanted to do.....yeah, no underwater housing unit on this camera.....
So, we go to plan B and decide to take pictures along the colorful houses that are near the beach, which are, by the way, protected by a low cement wall. As we walk down there we are suddenly attacked by a swarm of bugs (what!?) and as we are walking out of there we notice a FREAKISH set of MONGOSO waves heading out way. Jenny grabs Jaxson and we start RUNNING. We barely got out of that area before the waves went crashing OVER the cement wall and up against the houses. Yeah, I'm serious. THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED!!! SO, um, plan B is out the window at this point....
Plan C is to go on top of the pier. We settle in to get started and next thing you know the waves are crashing up and AGAINST the pier. Lordy. The water did eventually recede for a few minutes allowing us a handful of silhouette shots near the top end of the beach but we didn't stick around to see if the "killer waves" would return....
Plan C was to basically just walk away from the entire beachfront area!!! HA!
So between everything going nothing as we had planned, we still managed some pretty darn awesome images and I attribute that entirely to the fact that Jenny looks gorgeous no matter WHAT. That girl WORKS the camera. She makes me happy. :)
Oh, and I should mention that Jenny H. is a FANTASTIC esthetician! She ROCKS. You can find her at Simply Skin Salon in Santa Cruz. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!
Jenny and Ryan, I am so happy for you guys to be adding to your family. Jaxson is going to be an incredible big brother!!
ENJOY your sneak peek!
