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Livia and Philip’s Maternity Session

June 2, 2022

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This is such a special session for me because it’s the fourth time I got to photograph these two! I’ve known Livia for years (we used to work together at Anthropologie). They got engaged and brought me on as their wedding photographer just before the pandemic hit. We did their engagement session in Miami and then about a month later Livia contacted me to do an eloped session for them, because they didn’t want to wait until 2021 to actually be married. In August 2021 they finally got to say “I do” at Villa Woodbine in Miami. I am overjoyed to have been with them through all these beautiful milestones and now they have just welcomed their first baby, a little boy named Luca, into the world. Congratulations you guys (4x over!!) I cannot wait to meet the little guy one day soon!

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Photographed on a Mamiya AFD II with Fuji 400h film. Processed by PhotoVision.

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