Spirit Session| Writer Christine Chitnis

While at Squam Art Workshops I had the chance to do photograph some wonderful artists.

The first I will share with you is a Maternity Photo session I had with writer Christine Chitnis. Christine and I met last year at the Fall session of SAW, and I was so excited when she contacted me about doing a session this Spring.

Christine is a wonderful writer and photographer. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband and keeps a fabulous blog Lavender and Limes, that has “Whimsical musings from the everyday life of a writer, wife, crafter, gardener and chicken wrangler!” Recently she wrote a wonderful post about a trip to the vineyards in Northern Michigan, another with a gorgeous mood board she has put together for the nursery and she even has a post about making fresh strawberry shortcake!

If you feel like taking a little break in your day you should head over to her blog and see what she is up to. She is a very interesting person and she even has many of her published articles available to read on her website (I haven’t seen this before and I think it is brilliant!).

Christine and I  arranged to have our session on Friday afternoon. Before we started with the photos we headed to one of the docks, to sit and talk for a bit. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about how she and her husband met, how she got into writing and how her experience at Squam has inspired her work.  My photo sessions are aimed at capturing people at their most comfortable, so spending time getting to know one another is an important part of my process. After we got to visit for a while we headed to a few paths in the woods on the RDC campus and then hopped in the car and drove to a field of buttercups I had passed earlier in the day.

As we started to head out into the field we noticed that the spittle bugs were out in full force. It immediately brought back a recent book Trey and I rented from the library that told us that spittle bugs make their bubbles by pooping them out. Poor Christine suffered from the lack I sometimes have in filtering my thoughts, and had this gross fact brought to her attention right as she was being covered with spittle. Thank goodness she was a trooper and stuck it out, because we got wonderful images in that field!

Christine is a beautiful person inside and out.

This makes it into my top five favorite adult portraits ever.

Look at that gorgeous bump!

Thank you Christine for working with me, it was delightful!