Photos/Video: This Woman Sat for Her Pregnancy Photo Shoot With 20,000 Bees
Bringing your life's passion into a pregnancy photoshoot seems like a good idea. But what if your passion is honeybees?
Emily Mueller, of Akron, Ohio, runs Mueller Honey Bee
with her husband, Ryan. The company rescues unwanted bees from around
Ohio and provides them with a comfortable, well-maintained hive, then
sells them to anyone interested in becoming a beekeeper. For her
pregnancy shoot, she went to friend and photographer Kendrah Damis with an idea: how about shooting with 20,000 swarming bees?
“I am a pretty calm person so not too much gets me overly reactive,”
says Damis. “I wasn’t scared, just a little uneasy having them buzzing
around me and landing on me.” To get the bees comfortable and unlikely
to sting, she waited until they’d eaten more than their normal share of
food, making them both sluggish and making stinging physically difficult
due to their full bellies. (It’s sort of the same idea as when you eat
so much that something as simple as bending over to tie your shoes seems
difficult.)
Mueller held the colony’s queen in a small cage in her hand, which
enticed the bees to come settle on and around her.
The photo shoot went off safely, and hopefully now the newest Mueller
baby—this will be the fourth—will know from birth that bees are friends,
not foes.
Here’s a brief video
of how that went:
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