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To find baby photos like this slightly disturbing?

89 replies

Porkster · 15/01/2013 23:20

Hmm

They look so unnatural; the babies have obviously been manhandled into many of these 'cute' poses. I'm seeing more and more of these - newborn on its front, supposedly propping its head up with its hand, usually with a ghastly colour popped flower stuck on its head.

Just bleurgh.

And fecking DM was only link I could get to work.

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Catchingmockingbirds · 16/01/2013 11:54

Yanbu, creepy pictures...

CatPussRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 16/01/2013 12:02

I want the knitting pattern for that monkey nut!

squoosh · 16/01/2013 12:04

I think they are mega creepy.

Bleurgh.

Thumbwitch · 16/01/2013 12:09

I quite like some of them, especially the one in the slipper that looks like a peanut - but agree that some of them are too unnaturally posed.
I do actually love Anne Geddes though and have her 2013 calendar that was linked to up-thread - but then we do have our own baby at the moment, so DS1 is quite happy comparing the AG babies with ours and deciding which is cuter (so far DS2 is winning quite a lot of the time! Grin)

squoosh · 16/01/2013 12:12

Anne Geddes photos truly are the stuff of nightmares. Terrible, horrifying nightmares.

katykuns · 16/01/2013 12:14

I find some of them distinctly unsettling. The over-staged poses bear an unfortunate resemblance to Victorian post-mortem photography.

Sorry, I have to agree with pandemoniaa on this one. Super creepy. Harmless though.

Lafaminute · 16/01/2013 12:18

YANBU! They're freaky looking and there is something kind of dead looking about the babies. They disturb me too.

CatPussRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 16/01/2013 12:50

Ive just had a browse through Anne Geddes' website. I actually really like a lot of them. Some are twee, but some are incredibly beautiful.

KoalaTale · 16/01/2013 13:00

Yanbu, looks very contrived and unnatural. I'd much rather have my home shots :)

Otheregos · 16/01/2013 13:49

Yabu they are cute IMO

AnyaKnowIt · 16/01/2013 13:51

They scare me Blush

BanghamTheDirtyScone · 16/01/2013 13:53

I don't like them - apart from the monkey nut one, that is quite cool and looks comfortable.

Putting a child in a stoneware fruit bowl or a basket is unkind. It must be uncomfortable.

I don't like the kind of precocious thing they have going on with the folded arms in the first one either. It's a baby, leave it alone.

Pickles101 · 16/01/2013 14:33

Oh thank GOD I'm not the only one, I despise this style of 'photography'.
YANBU OP, hideous & v. creepy.

KellyElly · 16/01/2013 15:05

They look pretty cute to me.

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