• birthdays,  bsquared business,  christenings

    2012 in numbers & a winner chosen

    My annual end of the year wrap up for 2012. In the numbers. But first, two pictures of what I’ll be working on first when I get home from vacation.

    Little Mr. Max’s 1st birthday portraits (big thanks to Shira at ShiraZ photography for the studio for the morning). I photographed Max’s newborn session earlier in the year after an unexpected delay to his real newborn session. And now he’s one. Crazy how fast this year went.

    And as my very last session of the year (well, not counting the shoot I did for my own boys on the beach in Florida for our belated New Years cards that will be sent out…soon) was beautiful baby Ava’s Christening. You can see her newborn shoot here.

    Ok, onto the year in numbers…

    I photographed 133 sessions in 2012, including 10 newborns, 5 weddings, and one 50th wedding anniversary. No wonder I’m so tired!

    Thank you all for your business, your friendship, your trust in me to capture the most important people to you. For the emails, the gifts, the support, the babysitting, reading the blog, commenting on facebook posts, and all the love you are always sending my way! Wouldn’t be here without all of you and I promise you I won’t ever forget that!!

    I blogged 261 times. Thats a lot of words. Maybe I should shut up?

    And sadly, I took hardly any personal photos in 2012 that weren’t from my iPhone. I’m going to try really hard to take more personal pictures in 2013 on the real camera (but the big boys are so not going to appreciate this goal- they are DONE with pictures unless there are BIG bribes involved or it’s of them playing baseball). But maybe with the new puppy and Timmy I’ll still have a few willing subjects. It’s kinda pathetic that the reason I don’t take more personal pictures is because I know I’ll just have to edit them and I’m always just editing clients. Gotta try harder to take my own pictures.

    And finally, the winner for the free bsquared mini session(for reaching 1,000 fans on the bsquared facebook page- which is now up to 1100) is: DONNA FARRELL – OCTOBER 12, 2012 – 1:01 PM

    I have never had a session but have had a photography lesson with you! You are so talented and so much fun! Would love to have a great picture of my family. I don’t have one nice shot of my husband and I with our beautiful son….who is 8!

    Congrats to you Donna! Can’t wait to photograph your family. I’ll email you with details.

    Don’t forget to nominate a friend or family member for a free bsquared mini “Sandy Session”. You can find the details here: Sandy Sessions. I’ll choose 2 winners from the nomiations for a session in Jan-Mar 2013.

    Happy New Year!!! xoxo

     

     

  • children & families

    the owen family

    Another Central Park mini session from the late fall that I’m just getting around to blogging now. Sorry for the delay Mar!

    Gorgeous family with another on the way really soon. I keep begging to be let into the delivery room to photograph the birth, but no luck as of yet…

    These two are almost outtake photos but they make me smile so. Especially the one on the right where poor Daddy’s face is getting mangled.Can’t wait to photograph the newest addition!! If he or she is anything like these two it’s going to be so fun to do!

  • baseball,  personal,  travel

    trip to atlanta

    So this trip was back in June. Yes, June. That should explain why I wasn’t able to send any Christmas cards this year. Too busy with work to edit any personal photos much.

    To continue on with our baseball stadium tour, we visited Atlanta for a long weekend. Luckily, our good friends Celeste, Ryan and Peyton live there & our other friends Laura & Matt live not too far away. Laura was in town with her boys anyway so we were able to meet up with them as well.

    I didn’t really take many pictures (maybe cause I knew I would just have to edit them!) but here’s what there was. And not one picture of me with Celeste. Bummer.

    The kids on the way into the Aquarium.

    And then before the game. Timmy let Pey go first to make sure it was safe. Then he got a tomahawk.Love these girls so! And their mom too, even if there are no pictures. 

  • children & families,  elf on the shelf

    the schm family

    Definitely a favorite session for this year, just for the fun factor alone. So I know many of you were disappointed that Bob (our elf on the shelf) didn’t make a blog appearance this year, but here he is! Mom had a great idea for the session and wanted their elf in it but she forgot him at home so there was a last minute emergency run to my house to pick up Bob!

    Such handsome boys…

    Bob is always watching. So if you’re naughty……you better start being nice.And we ended the shoot with a little dancing Gangnam style.

  • bsquared business,  children & families

    the boeh family

    Took a day off from blogging now that I’m on vacation but back to business as usual today. Had a great first day on vacation. It was a balmy 80 degrees with plenty of sunshine, an hour + massage, lunch at Roman’s on the beach, hanging by the pool with the boys, reading, going for a run/walk, dinner at Padrino’s (our favorite Cuban place) and some yummy dessert. Hate all you want- I’ve been waiting all year for this vacation!!

    Had a great session with these lovely ladies a while ago and finally getting to blog them.

    Don’t forget there is still time to nominate a family for a free “Sandy Session”. You can find all the details here. Skip down to #6 for details on the free Sandy sessions. Hope to hear from you, and please feel free to share on Facebook or with anyone you know who might be interested.