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03 JunChanelle’s Story: Facing a C-Section in the Caribbean
At our last NCT class before giving birth, our teacher took us through the procedure for a Caesarean section: what happens, who’s in the room, etc. She even showed us pictures. Chanelle doesn’t have the benefit of NCT classes in…
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23 MayHappy birthday, Baby!
Wow. I can’t believe it’s been two years of motherhood – two years of raising our beautiful Baby. For her second birthday, we thought it would be fun to do a little shoot with Baby recreating the Lift from Dirty…
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07 MayReasons why my daughter is crying
Everybody is talking about crying babies and it’s all thanks to Greg Pembroke, who started to record the reasons his son was crying on Facebook. This then evolved into a Tumblr site, Reasons My Son is Crying, and then it…
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04 AprSpaghetti Baby
Sometimes, it’s moments like these that are the most precious. Moments when Baby is just taking delight in something as simple as eating spaghetti and I’m taking delight in something as simple as watching her. It reminds me that it…
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27 MarChanelle’s Story: Buying for baby in the Caribbean
Remember the pre-baby shopping frenzy? Towards the end of my pregnancy, I was receiving courier deliveries multiple times per day. Well, now imagine going through that on a remote tropical island where baby items are substantially marked up and deliveries…
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06 FebThe Best Mother’s Day Gift
On Sunday morning, I looked at myself in the mirror. “Urgh,” I thought. “Another 15 pounds need to go.” Generally I have a rule of avoiding eye contact with all the body enhancements provided by age, pregnancy and my love…
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05 FebChanelle’s Story: Having a Baby in the Caribbean
On I Carried a Watermelon, we love to highlight the stories of fellow photographers on their journey to motherhood, like with the now famous Nicola’s Story. My good friend and fellow photographer, Chanelle Segerius-Bruce, recently made a big change in…
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22 JanSamsung Galaxy Weeks 5-6
For Weeks 5 and 6, I concentrated on portraiture with the Samsung Galaxy, playing with the Beauty Face mode. In this mode, the camera automatically smoothes out the skin to reduce any blemishes. It seeks out the flesh tones in…
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15 JanPhotographing your child in the snow
You can smell it in the air; our first snowstorm of the season is just around the corner. I’m really looking forward to photographing our clients’ children (and my own daughter) in the snow, but here are some tips to…
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15 JanSamsung Galaxy: Weeks 3-4
Happy New Year and welcome to my first Samsung Galaxy Camera post of 2013! Frankly, it’s been hard to get some quality time with the camera lately. The weather over Christmas was gray, rainy and uninspiring. Also, I was very…
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About me
Julia Boggio is a professional photographer, writer and recent mother. In 2007, she and her husband James put their Dirty Dancing first dance up on You Tube to share with friends back in America (18 months after they actually married in 2005). Two days later, they were featured in the Metro, followed closely by appearances on ITV news, Richard & Judy, and BBC News as well as articles in newspapers across the world. They were also flown out to Chicago to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where Julia realised every woman’s dream and danced with Patrick Swayze himself. This blog is the story of what happened next.
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