Whats wrong with the watercolor one? Is there something Im not seeing?

Some of these are T-R-A-S-H-Y!

Aww… well, as I told a friend today, I think the best way to commemorate your pregnancy is just through the normal candid shots you’d take when out with friends, at your shower, etc. But, to each his own!

‘Grassy’ looks like the mom from Home Improvement. Maybe she’s got Jonathan Taylor Thomas in there!

I don’t think that one’s trashy, but I do find it awkward. I didn’t bill these as the 25 trashiest. I think the whole “praying to the goddess that is my baby mama” pose that so many pregnancy portraits employ is bizarre at best.

ok you act like these woman should be ashamed of being pregnant,well i think that the couples looks so very cute.dont be ashamed of what you look like we are all beautiful in some ones eyes

Okay I really like the jack o latern one and the Magic Mirror made me tear up a bit, but the others are truely horrible. THe ones of the teenagers make my heart hurt.

I am 17 and have a 15month old child. He is a happy healthy boy who is given everything he could need or want. His father is 23 and we are wonderful parents. We did not get pregnant to be part of a “fad”. Yes, we failed to have “safe sex” but we took on the responsibilities and love every minute of it. I’m a senior in high school & woll be graduating this spring then attending college. You shouldn’t talk about teen girls with children as a whole. There are definitely many that shouldnt raise children. But there are alot of adult women who most definitely shouldn’t either. “Before you criticize our generation, remember who raised it.”

the guy holding the gun with his overweight pregnant wife is disturbing
I am pregnant and do no have a belly that looks that gross sorry but I not show off stretch marks that hideous Im thankful not to have them but still and the gun, WTF is with the gun???

are people honestly okay with a couple posing with booze in their hands and the pregnant woman drinking it???? how is that acceptable, the woman should be ashamed. I dont drink during pregnancy

I’m totally going to plank like that when I get big!

As a photographer, I have seen many gorgeous pregnancy shots. However, sometimes it’s the parents who provide the bizarre element, like the guns or booze. On the one hand the photographer is being paid to take the images that the couple/woman wants, but there is something to be said when the image turns out so awkward. There some say that you have in how the images turn out, but the primary people involved with what props go into the picture is almost entirely up to those in the image itself. We, as photographers, have little to say as to what people want to use in their portraits, but seriously some of the poses were awkward and I would flat out refuse to take a picture of a pregnant woman with alcohol. That has never mixed and I don’t think it should be even joked about.

I wish my ex would have been proud enough to have a picture with me pregnant. he said I was fat & ugly so he wanted no pictures of the two of us (or even me alone) when I was pregnant. Yes, some of these are a bit weird & awkward. But obviously both parties wanted to be there & we should be applauding the emotion behind the pics rather than the ill-conceived ideas of a few.