• children & families

    the stal family

    A brand new to bsquared family who I was very excited to take pictures of. They braved a pretty windy and overcast (and even a little chilly) evening at the beach to get some family pictures.

    Gorgeous- and an excellent poser too!Love this one.Handsome boy. Dad almost didn’t make it (I’m still not sure that he’s glad he did. You all know how the dads/husbands just looooove the picture taking process) but took the train from the city into Long Beach and a cab to Pt. Lookout. Now that’s dedication!And this one? Well, she was challenging to get pictures of but when it was good, it was great!!So great meeting you! Thanks for the great beach shoot. 

  • personal

    7 for Sunday

    Haven’t done one of these in a while (again) so thought I’d throw one together for your viewing/reading pleasure. At least I hope it’s pleasurable. There will be a definite lull in personal posts over the next few months, but then there will probably be a completely nauseating amount of personal posts in the slow months of Dec-March. Ok, and please note that the pictures in this post have pretty much nothing to do with the post.

    1. Everyone is doing GREAT at school- big boys at Middle School, Timmy in Kindergarten. Everyone is so happy with their teachers, friends in their classes, the big boys have the whole middle school navigation and locker thing down, Timmy’s having a blast with his BFF’s in class everyday (maybe too much fun- I’ve heard they had to seperate them a few times already for talking too much!)  And while I’m missing them so much during the day (especially Timmy cause I’m so used to having him around all the time) I am plowing thru editing all of my shoots and not staying up until 3am.

    2. The big boys got custom Oakley’s for their birthday. So cool. But so annoyed by the camera.

    3. When we went to the Giants game a few weeks ago (yeah, I know…pictures on that coming too) when we were leaving the parking lot and passing the Izod Center, they had Justin Beiber dates on the calendar. So John starts screaming in the highest and loudest voice he can manage “OMG JUSTIN BEEEEEEEEEEIBER”. To say the boys were unpleased would be slightly understating it. It was truly awesome.
    4. Being sick just sucks. Especially with 7 shoots this weekend. Pushing thru with help from Motrin. And help from my very, very, VERY nice friends Suzanne who picked me up sushi after I whined about being sick and wanting it for dinner on Facebook, and to Beth for picking me up Carvel. Still felt like crap, but at least was happy and loved!5. Closed down the beach locker yesterday. That sucks too. So hard to admit that summer is over but that pretty much covers it. 6. One of the college football ‘experts’ or whatever you call them is saying maybe it’ll be Miami vs. Florida at the Orange Bowl. For which we already have tickets. That? That would NOT suck. Well, it wouldn’t suck if Miami won. Keeping fingers crossed for that. And Robin promised she’d fly down to go with us if Miami is playing. Go ‘Canes!!!7. After watching the VMA’s last weekend, I have a new favorite. Florence + the Machine. Damn, the girl can sing. And it was painfully obvious that most of the ‘performers’ on the VMA’s really cannot sing. At all. I did a lot of cringing that night but can say that the dancing was awesome.  Ok, off to a zillion shoots today. Wish me luck and tissues.

  • children & families

    the leef family

    Please excuse the minimal narrative today- I’m both sick and way behind on editing.

    You may recognize both parts of this family from previous blog posts, and some of you may recognize “Miss Judy” from her music together classes and her jujewels photo jewelery.

    The whole gang: brothers and sisters, and cousins too.

    Hope you like your photos Judy and G. It was a fun morning!

  • children & families

    the gilm family

    The sister of a good friend of mine and her family. This shoot was a looooong time in coming, we had it booked a year ago but rain and bad weather kept us from it. And rescheduling with this family isn’t easy as they are coming all the way from South Jersey. So so glad the weather cooperated this year and we had a great beach shoot! I guess sometimes you just have to be patient (which is definitely not my strong point!) But the wait was so worth it- they are gorgeous!!

    Could that blue wall look any better with her beautiful blue eyes??Sand angels! Upside down and backwards, but he still has wings!You just don’t even want to know what I had to do to get these smiles… So glad we got the shoot in this year and hope you think it was worth the wait too!

  • children & families

    the coli family

    Yesterday’s post was a woman who had taken my scrapbook class a looooong time ago, well, as fate would have it, today’s post also includes another friend who took my scrapbook class. Weird how the world works, huh? Anyway, when K asked me to do a shoot for her and her son to give as a gift to her husband, I was more than happy to do it. I’ve met her awesome son J a few times over the years and he always seemed like a great kid. Well, now I know for sure that he’s better than great and I loved photographing him.

    Oh, his cell phone must be blowing up daily with calls and texts from all the girlies.

    He so has that look. And believe me, he works the charm just as well as he works that smile.  Oh, and he’s a black belt in Karate too. But no one is above the annoyances of mom! Or the love.  Thanks to both of you for a super fun shoot. See you at graduation in June!!