{"id":1040,"date":"2010-12-25T08:51:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T08:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2011-04-03T05:58:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T05:58:46","slug":"ecstatic-%e2%80%a2-michelle-%e2%80%a2-dance-pregnancy-portraiture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/25\/ecstatic-%e2%80%a2-michelle-%e2%80%a2-dance-pregnancy-portraiture\/","title":{"rendered":"ecstatic \u2022 michelle \u2022 dance &#038; pregnancy portraiture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to categorize these as both &#8220;dance&#8221; &amp; &#8220;pregnancy&#8221; portraiture, because they most definitely are! Michelle &amp; I have been friends since our days of dancing together at UCLA. We&#8217;ve known each other now more than half our lives, &amp; this last fall, we celebrated our 40th birthdays in November. And to make the occasion even more special, we were both also just 3 weeks apart in our last pregnancies, &amp; both expecting our third child. Michelle traveled down to LA to see me, &amp; we took the opportunity to do some pictures&#8211;of course! Michelle has been one of my muses since our college years&#8211;her beauty is unique, timeless, exotic, romantic, &amp; being a dancer, she moves with such grace &amp; ease. During our photo session, she embodied the ecstatic feeling of carrying life inside her&#8211;and here these pictures I think celebrate the dance of life&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1130107165_4hDMi-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1130107165_4hDMi-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1130107017_QpaZ6-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1130107017_QpaZ6-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1130107332_SWxwx-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1130107332_SWxwx-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1130107389_69D8P-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1130107389_69D8P-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1130106994_jUFra-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1130106994_jUFra-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1130107009_3VGFT-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1130107009_3VGFT-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1130107145_FvUPh-L-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1130107145_FvUPh-L-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1130107413_tihS3-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1130107413_tihS3-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1130106730_aTKTN-L-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1130106730_aTKTN-L-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1130108411_JMNPo-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/1130108411_JMNPo-L-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to categorize these as both &#8220;dance&#8221; &amp; &#8220;pregnancy&#8221; portraiture, because they most definitely are! Michelle &amp; I have been friends since our days of dancing together at UCLA. We&#8217;ve known each other now more than half our lives, &amp; this last fall, we celebrated our 40th birthdays in November. And to make the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,113,7,5,8],"tags":[18,10,33,28,25,20,110,19,12,112,111,108,35,27],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty-boudoir","category-dance","category-babies-children","category-pregnancy","category-studio","tag-awaiting","tag-babies","tag-black-white","tag-body","tag-dance","tag-pregnancy-posts","tag-babies-children","tag-maternity","tag-natural","tag-pregnancy","tag-studio","tag-family-session","tag-woman","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}