Hi..just wanted to share this beauty! I loved their outfits, the way they loved on each other and that sweet sweet baby they are waiting on! Cant wait to meet this little one :)

Abigail Joyce is a newborn photographer that travels to clients homes in the Chicagoland area and beyond. Abigail brings her props, backdrops, hats, headbands, crates, baskets, blankets and more to your session. Abigail customizes the session to your unique specifications and provides the care and safety that each newborn needs during this beautiful first week of life. Abigail takes her time posing the newborns with gentle hands and patience. Make sure you contact Abigail at least a month before your due date to ensure a newborn session with Abigail Joyce Photography!

Chicagoland Newborn & Baby Photographer | Newborn Photography | Chicago Maternity Photographer | Chicagoland Maternity Photographer | Chicago Family Photographer | Chicagoland Family Photographer

Chicago Children Photographer | Chicagoland Children Photographer

Abigail Joyce specializes in newborn, baby and family photographs. Abigail Joyce is based in the Chicagoland area and the Midwest.

Hinsdale, Western Springs, Burr Ridge, Clarendon Hills, Countryside, Elmhurst, Downers Grove, Glen Ellyn, Addison, Lagrange, Lagrange Park, Wheaton, Indian Head Park, Darien, Lisle, Woodridge, Naperville, Westchester, Brookfield, Hodgkins, Chicago, Oak Brook, and more. email: abigailjoycephoto@gmail.com for inquiries, scheduling, and confirmations

The Summer maternity photoshoot that took my breath away...

So you have heard me say this after every sunset maternity photoshoot, but I have the best job ever!

Yes, I know you have heard me say that in person during either a session or you have read it somewhere in my blog. I really do have the best job. During this maternity session specifically I met the most wonderful couple. Now I KNOW I have said that before...but its always true! Maybe I am just blessed with the most wonderful clients. I consider myself very lucky. But this session in particular was a real treat. If you look past the way the couple is impeccably dressed or the fact that they are both glowing and it makes me want to cry to see how happy they look.

The secret in these maternity photos are:

If you look past that, you see a couple that is awaiting twins. (yes twins!) and if you are me, you still hear their sweet conversations with one another during the session. And if you are me you listen to them and hear their life story (I ask a lot of questions during maternity sessions, sorry! :)...) You realize that this maternity session is just a glimpse into their sweet lives. That because of these pictures you get to freeze time. I get to make time stand still. I create lasting memories for families to look back on and remember "aww remember when you were pregnant with the twins? When life was calm and we were just waiting for them to arrive??" At least this is what I'll be thinking after my own maternity photoshoot;)

Maternity photography is a beautiful way to celebrate an amazing time in your life.

But it's special for me as well, I see your life in just a glimpse of what's really happening. I was in your life for such a small hour but it means more to me than you know. I study your warm smile and the way you and your husband look at one another. I see how much love their is between you both and it makes me happy. So thank you for just a glimpse, just that one hour of your life warmed my soul.

The maternity look:

I've been working with my maternity sessions to provide a very specific look. The romantic approach seems to be the best way to explain the style. It's combining the romance of the filmic look, the romance of sunsets and gold tones found in them, and the beauty in maternity photoshoots. You can check out another amazing maternity session that also captures this same look and another indoor maternity photoshoot that I also fell in love with!

The Changing Seasons | Chicago Maternity Photographer

I have contemplated moving more than ever this past year. My husband and I have been traveling back and forth to California often in the last couple of months and we have been more and more excited about planning a move or rather, dreaming of planning a move to the L.A. area. California offers so many beautiful landscapes, beautiful weather all year round and its a bigger city than Chicago. But Chicago offers things as well, and there are different reasons to stay here instead of moving. Chicago has a huge city of which I already have a good clientele basis from (Chicago, you have been good to me!) Chicago has a beautiful city skyline, which in my opinion is the best looking skyline in the United States. For those people reading this and thinking of another skyline thats better... come on, you are dreaming! Chicago also has beautiful changing seasons. Every three months my city has different weather and colored leaves. My year is ever changing and it keeps us photographers not only on our toes but keeps us intrigued. It also keeps us in business believe it or not. If I lived in L.A. I would not see as frequent of people wanting sessions multiple times in a year because not enough things are changing. L.A. is also crazy with traffic! But thats a whole other topic :) Now I know California has beautiful flowering fields and mountains and cliff sides, I know this and I am crazy with envy. If only I grew up in California, not only for my love of photography but also my love for hiking and being out in nature. I could sit and stare for hours at mountains.

The point I am trying to make but failing to do so, is that Chicago is a wonderful city and has a lot to offer for us photographers. Sometimes it doesn't seem like it, because of all of these darn corn fields we have in Illinois, but we make do with creeks, forest preserves, tall grassy fields and random wild flower fields (though they sometimes seem sparse)

So we don't have mountains, big deal.. (no really though, can we do something about that?) We in the midwest have the most gorgeous of fall and spring seasons. Summer always catches me off guard by the wild flowers and I always fall back in love with the sheer simplicity of all things green in the summer. And then there is the dreaded winter that, I guess people don't realize, can be the most enchanting of photos when done the right way.

So there you have it, Chicago is perfect.

xoxo,

Abigail Joyce

Abigail Joyce is a newborn photographer that travels to clients homes in the Chicagoland area and beyond. Abigail brings her props, backdrops, hats, headbands, crates, baskets, blankets and more to your session. Abigail customizes the session to your unique specifications and provides the care and safety that each newborn needs during this beautiful first week of life. Abigail takes her time posing the newborns with gentle hands and patience. Make sure you contact Abigail at least a month before your due date to ensure a newborn session with Abigail Joyce Photography!

Chicagoland Newborn & Baby Photographer | Newborn Photography | Chicago Maternity Photographer | Chicagoland Maternity Photographer | Chicago Family Photographer | Chicagoland Family Photographer

Chicago Children Photographer | Chicagoland Children Photographer

Abigail Joyce specializes in newborn, baby and family photographs. Abigail Joyce is based in the Chicagoland area and the Midwest.

Hinsdale, Western Springs, Burr Ridge, Clarendon Hills, Countryside, Elmhurst, Downers Grove, Glen Ellyn, Addison, Lagrange, Lagrange Park, Wheaton, Indian Head Park, Darien, Lisle, Woodridge, Naperville, Westchester, Brookfield, Hodgkins, Chicago, Oak Brook, and more. email: abigailjoycephoto@gmail.com for inquiries, scheduling, and confirmations

Summer | Chicagoland Maternity Photographer

Not only does it feel like summer with these warm temperatures and humid rainy days but it looks like summer! And not only by the green grass and summer outfits but my very wonderful clients name is Summer as well. (Hehe)

I got to know this beautiful family just last weekend as they are about to double in children :) with another girl on the way!  So big congratulations to this family! I can't wait to meet with them in about a month once their little one arrives. The best part about my job/ reason #495081 : My maternity sessions are  usually the beginning of a wonderful journey together! They lead to newborn sessions and some lead to 6 month sessions and 1 year sessions. I have even met with some clients over the years with 2 & 3 year sessions <3 My job is amazing. I get to embark on a journey behind the lens and see families double in size. I see children grow and I get to see the same little ones go from sleepy newborns to giggly toddlers.  (It also doesn't hurt that I add all my clients on Facebook and get to see them grow up as well from videos, posts, etc!)

And its one of my favorite parts of my job :)

-Abigail Joyce

In Bloom | Chicago Maternity Photographer | Abigail Joyce Photography

Thanks for reading your Chicago maternity photographer's blog, I've been working hard on sharing and submitting my work for you wonderful people.

This was such a fun maternity session, oh how I loved it! I am obsessed with her dress <3

In my personal life...this semester of school is officially over! I have never been so relieved for a semester to be over. And I am pretty sure it will be even sweeter when I'm officially done with school altogether.

Now I get to totally focus on my wedding which on August 16, the honeymoon and moving into a new place!!

And editing all of these sweet maternity and newborn sessions :)

xoxo -Abigail Joyce

Chicagoland Newborn & Baby Photographer |  Newborn Photography | Chicago Maternity Photographer | Chicagoland Maternity Photographer

Abigail Joyce specializes in newborn and maternity photography. Abigail Joyce is based in the Chicago and the surrounding areas.

Abigail provides maternity photography to Hinsdale, Western Springs, Burr Ridge, Clarendon Hills, Countryside, Elmhurst, Downers Grove, Glen Ellyn, Addison, Lagrange, Lagrange Park, Wheaton,