Mauritius Honeymoon Photographer
A Dark & Stormy Honeymoon Session
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It’s a long and twisty story which involves the birth of a baby, a couple on honeymoon and a hurricane-like storm - which all converged on the same day!
In addition to being a Mauritius photographer, I’m also a trained birth doula (a woman who helps and comforts another woman in childbirth) and birth photographer. I was a doula and photographer for the birth of Lindsay’s first baby and she called me again as soon as she got a positive test asking if I could be a doula for her second baby. Luck would have it that the baby decided to arrive on the same day I had a shoot scheduled for Daria and Hugo On honeymoon From Sweden. Luckily, it all worked out, down to the very last minute, and I was able to make it to Daria and Hugo in the North just in time after the birth of the baby (I did have my lovely friend photographer Natalie on standby as a back up just in case).
I called Daria on my way. "How's the weather up there?" I asked. "It looks like a hurricane outside," she replied. I said, "Well, I'm on my way!" I arrived in the pouring rain and we got started. We shot in sheltered places at first and during brief times of no rain, but lots of wind, we shot away and embraced the wind. Daria and Hugo couldn't have been sweeter or more fun to work with. Or more gorgeous and in love. Just look at them! They were adventurous and trusted me, even when I suggested they climb on wet rocks. We laughed a lot! This day was much more memorable than a perfect blue sky day. And it reminded me of this:
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
-Vivian Greene”
