{ On Location } – Nags Head, North Carolina

At the end of May, our family traveled with 3 other families down to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for our summer vacation. While we were down there, Stein Photography took everyone down to the beach one evening for some group and family pictures. We had a great, and time down there. Below are some of photos from the family sessions. I will need to explain a bit about that first picture.

One of the families on the trip is expecting their second child in August and they wanted to use the beach trip for their maternity photo session. So there was an idea floating around between them and us about doing this type of belly shot with the Mom and Dad. Devon suggested that we add their daughter to the mix. The first photo in this post is the resulting image.

After we posted this image to our Facebook page, the mom here shared it on her Facebook page. Within about 5 days of her sharing this photo, it had been seen by 1,200,000 people. That’s right, 1.2 million people have seen this photo. It went ‘Viral’! We contacted local media about this Facebook phenomenon and we had the story in several forms of media over the last week. The Northern Virginia Daily Newspaper ran an article. TV3Winchester in Winchester, VA had a segment about it. Last but not least, this photo was featured on the Today Show with Kathy Lee and Regis Philbin. Regis was filling in for Hoda Kotb that day. You can view the segment here. Or you can watch the recap video we made about this photo.

What a whirlwind the last few weeks have been. We are grateful for all the positive feedback we have received and excited to see how fast our Facebook likes went up. The power of social media is amazing and you can never take it for granted.

Other photos from the maternity session can be seen here.