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lawyers
Did some headshots recently for a project John and his partners are working on. They needed some updated pictures of them for some material a client will be handing out. Took Timmy along and went to their office with the camera and the kid (figured Timmy might be able to make them smile a little- he did, but not for the pictures).
John:
Kevin:
Brian:
The three of them:
Ok, so the question is, which version of John do you want representing you in court? The serious one above, or the angry or crazy versions below?: (by the way, the one on the right is the face he most often has on)
And this is probably why he has that face:
And apparently, he cleaned his desk before I came over. What you can’t see are the piles of papers on the floor and on the 4 chairs where I was standing to take the pictures. But then….everything was good.
Hope everyone has a productive day so your desk dosen’t look like this too.
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the crow family
This family has quickly become one of my most favorite to photograph. Not only are the kids sweet, good looking, and photogenic, but Mom and I think the same. There’s a lot of “ahhh…just leave it like that. That’s what he/she is all about right now” when it comes to thumb sucking, face making, etc…the lack of “perfection” during shoots- which ends up being actually perfect. Love that about them.
We crammed this shoot in on a Monday morning and let the big kids miss a little school for about an hour (well, the biggest boy was really the only one missing a little school, the little girl goes to preschool) and Daddy went into work a little on the late side. We had rescheduled a few times due to rain and other circumstances so I think we were all happy (well, Mommy and I anyway) to finally get this shoot done. So thank you to the whole family for working this shoot into your Monday schedule!
The kids are seriously great! Mr. T is such a good kid and we talked some about baseball and the myriad of other sports that he plays. He was patient and great with me and his siblings, and oh so polite.
Little Miss Z is such a little pip. She had a card that she made for me all ready when I walked in the door. Ummm, can you say LOVE?? She’s fiercely into the thumb so you will see that reflected in some of the pictures. And apparently the scrunched nose with mischevious eye twinkle is totally HER. Glad I caught it and that Mommy enjoys that I did!
The majority of the purpose of the shoot was to document the 6 month mark for the baby. So after Daddy left for work, Mr. T went to school, and grandma took Miss Z to the library, mommy and I got to work with the baby. The baby of yummy basket sitting, feet grabbing, chunky all over, leaning to the side, huge toothless grin giving, round peach fuzz headed, twinkly eye deliciousness?? Yeah, that baby.
Uh huh….I told ya. YummyDeliciousness he is.
Hope you enjoy all the pictures, Crow family. To see all of the images from the shoot, please click HERE.
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the gove family
This adorable little family from out in Brooklyn came to me by way of the roma family, who’s pictures I took a few weeks back. The shoot was a surprise gift for daddy for an early Fathers Day present. (love that)
So I saddled up and headed out to Brooklyn (yay for GPS) and spent a really fun afternoon with this great family walking down to Prospect Park and then all around it.
Their little girl was such a sweetie. She was full of energy and fun and smarts. She reminded me so much of Timmy’s best girl Olivia when she was 2 (so much so that I almost called her Olivia a number of times, and so much so that I had Olivia’s mom come look at the pictures on the computer while I was editing and even she was amazed about how much Miss N looks like Olivia).
The neighborhood was so great– photo ops galore. And the park…how I love Prospect Park. I recently learned that it was designed by the same people who designed Central Park. No wonder I like it so much.
I knew we would get along just fine when I saw daddy’s shoes! (so had to do the family feet shot on a Brooklyn street!)
The weather had been touch and go all day and it started raining JUST as I left their apartment to head back to my car. We lucked out. And I even found the cutest little kids clothing shop and stopped in to buy Timmy a few cute dress up things. A successful day all around!
Hope you enjoy the photos!! To see all of the images from this session, please click HERE.
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the d’amb communion
This is my very good friend G, and her husband and son. G and I used to work together at the shoe company another lifetime ago. I was so happy when she asked me to take S’s pictures on his communion day. But there were lots of warnings for me on how S didn’t like pictures and wouldn’t smile for me at all. Well, it was only partially true.
I got to the church early and caught him on line waiting to go into the mass. Smiles.
There were no pictures allowed in the church, so fast forward to outside shots immediately following the mass and some shots with extended family. Smiles.
Then onto a pretty park nearby for the family shots and portraits. No smiles. No eyecontact. Only pouting despite my best efforts and offers of gum and a million dollars. Which lasted only for a little while and then some shy, begrudging smiles.
I mean seriously, climbing a cool tree in your communion suit and playing around with your mom and dad in a park that was empty– how could you not smile?
Showing me his moves.
Mom & Dad are pretty hot themselves.
So really, despite a little speed bump, it was mostly all smiles afterall. Hope you like the pictures G & A– I had so much fun taking them. To see all of the images from this shoot, please click HERE.
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5 (+3) for Friday
1. This, I believe, might be a record week with 11 (yes, 11) shoots! Can you say swamped?? I haven’t been to bed before 2:30am all week. I’m so tired that I totally slept thru the alarm clock today. Thankfully, John was working from home today and took the boys to school for me. Timmy kept sleeping too, until about 9:20am, so he was a little late to preschool. I guess we all needed the extra rest.
2. The big boys are getting so….well, so big. There are conversations started with “Well, frankly….” and “To tell you the truth…”. They started wearing deoderant this week, and let me tell you they really NEEDED it. They’ve recently moved from that “wet dog/boy” smell, to that taco chip smell to full on B.O. Ugh. They asked John if he thought a lot of kids in 4th grade wore deoderant. John’s reply was something to the effect of “not as many as your teachers would probably like”. But we are all much happier now that they have started doing a swipe each night before bed.
3. John’s leaving with the big boys, Uncle That Guy and two of his boys today for a trip up to Boston to see the Red Sox play tonight. Just one overnight, but it should be fun for them. Timmy will help me hold down the fort here and have “playdates” (read: babysitting) with Andi and Grandma/Hakka while I work tonight and tommorrow. And an actual playdate with Jack (his BFF) this morning. I thought he had school today. Apparently not.
4. Shooting the band tonight at Parkside Lounge in NYC. Here’s a few shots from a fundraiser in Oceanside last weekend that they played at. And my friend Ivy working the fundraiser. Can’t wait til her wedding next month!!! Being a guest and photographer- so excited!!
5. I’ve been walking every day to try to lose some weight and get in some kind of shape. Not enjoying it, but doing it. Have to look good for my big 40th birthday bash in September! The ipod (that I stole from John a loooong time ago) is helping. Sitting is much better still.
6. My new 50mm 1.2L lens came late yesterday. I had a shoot last night at a wedding rehearsal dinner so only got to use it for a few shots, but it will get a big workout this weekend with the 9 remaining shoots for the week. So far, LOVE it. It’s delish.
7. Some shots from Visitors Day last week. John was able to make it last minute (the boys were very happy about that) and Grandma & Hakka came along too which the boys were also thrilled about! We even all went out to lunch together. The theme this year was Science and the 4th graders all did a “How To” project. Jack’s was an astronomy project on how to find constellations in the winter sky. Patrick’s was how to take a digital picture. And there were songs with sign language with the 1st graders (so cute). All the 4th graders also worked on electrically wired houses that they decorated and wired themselves. The room lights really worked! Some of the other kids projects pictured below too…
8. My most favorite pasta restaurant in Long Beach (Steven’s Pasta) burned to the ground this week. I’m devastated. I’ve been going there since the late 80’s for dinner, and then it turned into John & my date night place. And now of course I’m craving it like crazy. No word that I’ve heard yet on rebuilding or relocating or anything. So sad.
Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend. Client posts to resume on Monday (that’s the plan anyway). See you then!