Posts Tagged ‘breastfeeding picture book’

August is National Breastfeeding Month (and August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week for a double helping) and because I do a lot of breastfeeding portraits, both as portraits and in my personal, more arty, work, and because I haven’t had a blog contest in a while it’s time to have one.

I will use the wonders of random.org, which generates a number random enough to suit (we’ll not get into the vagaries of getting a truly random number) to give away one of my breastfeeding board books including shipping as long as I’m only shipping within the continental United States. Live far away and win? You can either have me ship it to a friend in the continental US or I’ll find out the actual shipping cost for you. There will also be some runners up, who will get breastfeeding magnets.

How do you enter, you ask? So easy.

* 1 entry per comment on this post (1 comment per person, please)
* 1 entry per link back, not counting tweets (as many link backs as you’d like, as long as they come from different URLs)
* 1 entry per tweet with a link

I’ll close comments on August 31st, post the big winner, and email all the winners to get their addresses. Voila. I said it was easy.

(I’ve realized that Facebook doesn’t generate a “there was a link from here” comment for whatever twisted reason of Internet logic so if you do post on Facebook please leave a separate comment telling me that. Blogs, websites, these things all generate a “this post was mentioned on….” but not Facebook. Why? Why?)

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I nursed my twins until they were 3 and a half. I’m a member of La Leche League, though I’ve never gone to a meeting (when I needed the support I was too tired and when I didn’t I was too busy.) I put together a breastfeeding picture book I’ll never make any money from because it annoyed me that the breastfeeding picture books for toddlers I could find were all so dreadful. Finally, I have an entire gallery of breastfeeding images on my main web site. I’ve had people suggest, both directly to me and in more general conversations about marketing portrait photography, that breastfeeding images shouldn’t be included in portfolios. They put people off, especially toddler images, is the suggestion.

What do you think?

breastfeeding portraits by stacie turner photography

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This little guy has met my camera before. I did his newborn portraits when he was three weeks old; usually you want to do newborn pictures before the baby is two weeks old because they stop curling up to sleep and are more interested in looking around and stretching out their feet by three weeks but this guy was the most cooperative newborn shoot one could hope for. That has not changed. Generally breastfeeding portraits are simple with children under three months but older babies pull off a lot to look around. This guy was mostly about the eating, though he worked in some leg stretches at the same time for a little multi-tasking.

ct breastfeeding picture by stacie turner photography

I’ll be showing a lot of these breastfeeding portraits at the Connecticut La Leche League conference in April so be sure to stop by my table and flip through the albums (and pick up a copy of the breastfeeding picture book while you’re there – my little labor of love.)

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I spent the weekend at the Connecticut La Leche League conference taking pictures and selling my breastfeeding picture book and shot a bunch of gorgeous women and children. The conference was fabulous but exhausting; I got to see many old friends and make many new ones. This particular cutie is an old favorite of mine; I shot her when she was an itty bitty thing and I simply cannot believe she is not a newborn anymore.

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Well, I’d hoped to have it ready by January but you know how life is with toddler twins. BUT, the breastfeeding picture book is now ready. It is 12 “sides” (meaning 6 pages including the cover) and a board book ready for the determined hands of the youngest readers. It’s also, all modesty aside, gorgeous. This is mostly because of the absurdly beautiful models I wrangled (their mothers were pretty attractive too…)

You can order the book online HERE.

Turner Cover

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