This Maternity Photographer Arguably Got the Best Shot We’ve Seen in a Long Time

By now we’ve all seen about a million photos of this week’s solar eclipse. Eclipse fatigue! But y’all gotta check out this mom-to-be’s maternity session that was shot during the eclipse. It’s unique, and damn if the photos aren’t amazing.

Nichole Carver, a 33-weeks-pregnant woman from Georgia, wanted to do something unique for her last maternity session. “This is our last planned pregnancy as we have experienced the joys of birthing two healthy children and the sadness of loss after delivering my second child,” Nichole said to Fox 5 News in Atlanta.

Carver also had the perfect person to help her pull off the shoot ”” her mother-in-law Lisa Cruikshank, who is a professional photographer. Cruikshank and Carver decided to have the maternity session at Carters Dam in Chatsworth, GA, where the eclipse would be at 99.1% totality.

With the moon traveling fast, Cruikshank only had a few minutes to capture the perfect shot.

And boy, did she thanks to the solar eclipse.

<”” Click to see the stunning photo ””>

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Image: Instagram / @stillpearlphotography

Cruikshank told Romper, “I didn’t have a solar filter for my lens, so I was struggling holding my glasses over my lens and trying not to look at the sun.”

The final photo DID require a bit of trickery. Because of the sun’s location in the sky, Cruikshank couldn’t capture her daughter-in-law and the sun in the same shot. Instead, she took a separate photo of each, then merged the two together.

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Image: Lisa Cruikshank / Still Pearl Photography

Even the images that don’t feature the sun and moon are fantastic.

solar eclipse maternity shot
Image: Lisa Cruikshank / Still Pearl Photography
solar eclipse maternity shot
Image: Lisa Cruikshank / Still Pearl Photography

Carver and Cruikshank are stunned by the reaction the maternity shoot has received. Carver told BuzzFeed that they “never in a million years expected the idea or photo to take off like it has.”

But of course, Carver is absolutely thrilled with the final result. “It is a piece of art, and it took a lot of work to get the photo in just a few short seconds. In my opinion, she (Cruikshank) hung the moon with this photo.”

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(Image: Instagram / @stillpearlphotography)

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