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pilates meets a trainer
I’m sure you’ll remember my shoots for both Denise at Fit4Life Pilates & Wellness and for Jess at SheehanByrne Fitness. Well, I decided they should be friends and introduced them and they kinda took it from there. They wanted to get a feel for how the other works, learning new techniques, etc. So I stopped in and photographed it. Here are the results, with Jess even wearing pants from Denise’s store, DeeAthletic. Oh, and the tiny dancer Gabby (who I also introduced to Denise and now she and her mom both train with Denise at least 2x a week) was just finishing up her session so I asked her to do something “dancy” for me.
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kristen’s sweet 16 on the beach
To celebrate Kristen, her parents rented a house on Fire Island and had all her besties out for the weekend. The beach shoot was so much fun for me, we had perfect conditions and they were all so adorable, sweet and fun to shoot! I discovered that Kristen can really fly which I didn’t know even though I’ve been photographing her for like 12 or so years! I know there’s picture overload but I couldn’t choose!
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tiny dancer at sunset
This is actually part of a family session (i’ll post that tomorrow) but I had to make a post just for Gabby and her amazing ballet. If you are a bsquared follower, I hope you’ll remember some of her past photos and her being in THE Nutcracker at Lincoln Center twice. She’s now aged out of Nutcracker (I’m so sad!! But I guess if there’s a good year for that its 2020 since there will be no ballet season anyway) and will continue to dance at NYCB for the next few years hopefully, until they decide if she can be part of the company at 17 or 18. In the meantime, I’ll be asking to photograph her again so I can get my dance fix in.
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charlotte {tiny dancer}
My cousin Charlotte (I’d have to ask my sister in law who is the expert on the “level” of cousins, but she’s busy and i don’t want to bother her, so we’ll just say cousin.) just had her first of two virtual dance recitals yesterday for her dance studio, Miss Colleen’s. Her mom asked me to come do a little photoshoot of her in her costumes and make up after the online recital. Not only to commemorate the day and outfits, but because just like everyone else this poor girl has had her fair share of disappointments and cancellations due to the stupid Covid19. No school, no friends, no playdates, no in-person dance class, no recital on stage, no communion, no communion party or dress. No nothing. And apparently she started crying after the online recital because she misses her friends and dancing with them in real life. Just add it to the list of everything else that breaks your heart lately. I hope the session and the pictures cheer her up some, it was fun for me too.
