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Jules’s maternity shoot

Monica Dart — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:08:56 +0000

This blog post should have been posted already for my lovely friend and brilliant photographer Jules Morgan…but with the busy Christmas season it’s finally going up now! Thanks to photographer Ian Mitchinson for letting us use his ’secret’ location – love the old walls – felt like we were in another part of the world!

Jules is due this week so I’m so happy I could load this before ’sproketina-bump’ graces the world with her cuteness.

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Sue & Wayne’s maternity shoot

Monica Dart — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:48:58 +0000

Sue has been one of my best friends since high school, which is a very verrrrrrry long time ago. Her and hubby Wayne have a cute little daughter Grace who’s now three…and now they are expecting twin boys! They are going to have their hands full, but I think it’s exciting times ahead. I wanted to do a mix for Sue’s shoot – part maternity, part ‘boudoir‘-maternity. Sue loves antiques and all things arty, so I wanted to bring some of her personality into the shoot and show how being pregnant is actually quite sexy too!

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Lauren & Bryan’s Maternity shoot

Monica Dart — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:12:47 +0000

Lauren, Bryan, Jessie and Jack met up with me in Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap also known as the Malay Quarter, on a sunny Sunday morning. I thought it would be stunning for a shoot as the colourful houses and cobbled roads are so full of character and charm. We had a super relaxed morning ambling through the streets. This warm and lovely little family are so down-to-earth, they have made me want a little family of my own (even more). Jessie and Jack are two of the easiest & happiest children i’ve met in a long time – when I was photographing Lauren and Bryan, they entertained themselves or sat on the side to watch.

Lauren, at the time of the shoot in mid- April, was about 5 months pregnant…so she is due any day now! The last photo was taken recently – I popped by their house to do a few more as Lauren’s bump was much bigger.

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Jacqui & Warwick – Maternity shoot

Monica Dart — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:16:07 +0000

The day I photographed Jacqui and Warwick for their maternity shoot, all the elements were in our favour. They wanted something urban – wall signs, funky cargo crates, punchy colour, peeling paint… I arrived at Paarden Eiland a little earlier to scout out the surroundings and found ALL those things. The area was practically free of people and traffic as most of the warehouses closed for the weekend, so we had the whole area to ourselves. It was a very peaceful start to a Sunday – we’d drive a little, find a funky door and shoot, drive a bit more, find something else that looked interesting and shoot a little more. Thanks Jax and Warwick for just going with the flow! Looking forward to meeting little Sebastian.

Jacqui’s mom is from Scotland, so the Aberdeen sign was quite funny!

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Marelize & Mike’s maternity shoot at Jo’burg airport

Monica Dart — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:55:25 +0000

Marelize and I go back about a decade! We started our friendship in Cape Town and then she moved over to the UK to be with Mike. Soon after I ended up in London too and we continued our friendship there. I’d been in Jo’burg for a wedding and Marelize was due to give birth any moment….so the only time we could squeeze in a shoot was at Jo’burg airport before I headed back to Cape Town. We had literally 45 min. to shoot, then it was time to board! There were actually some cool spots at the airport – the underground parking had these awesome lights, and then the escalators came in handy too. I hope they can both forgive me for taking so long to upload my blog with some of their photo’s! sorry guys!!! I hope these were worth the wait.

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