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What an incredible day! Fourteen other photographers and I came together today to take some pictures just to make people feel good. And look at that. It made us feel good too.
The brainchild of celebrity photographer Jeremy Cowart, Help-Portrait is “a community of photographers, coming together across the world, to use their photography skills to give back to their local community. On or around December 12th, photographers around the world will be grabbing their cameras, finding people in need, and taking their picture. When the prints are ready, the photographs get delivered. Yep. It really is that easy.”
This Boston crew had an amazing shoot today at Germaine Lawrence, a residential treatment center for adolescent girls. We shot over 50 girls, aged 11-18, and though I don’t want to put any of the girls’ photos up here, here are a few I snapped of the crazy photographers and the setup there.
We set up four “stations” in the gym:
And the best part was the group of volunteer hair and makeup people (thanks to Empire School of Beauty in Warwick, RI) who came and did hair and makeup on all 50 girls! The aroma of hairspray wafted waaaaay down the hall :) But the girls really felt like rock stars. You could see it when they came for their photos – their eyes were twinkling.
Lisa grabbing some crazy shots of two of our fabulous volunteers (as we waited for hair and makeup on the girls… this stuff takes time, after all!):
See what I mean? You go there, hoping to make other people happy, and you just get happy yourself.
Meg getting a kick out of her subject:
A couple of the sweet photographers gave the girls a chance behind the lens, too – this girl has a future in fashion photography ahead of her…
Another switcheroo – photographer as subject:
It was not only an incredible day because the girls were so awesome, but it was also great to get to spend some time with like-minded photog peeps. This team of people has been meeting and planning this event for months now, and I can’t thank them enough for letting me join them after I wasn’t able to attend ANY of the planning meetings.
Great day, gorgeous photos – I’m so excited for the girls to get their prints (kindly donated by iPrintfromhome.com). I think they’re really going to love them.
This past Saturday was raining buckets, and I called these guys and said – I think we should do this after the holidays are over. It’s just too gross out, and I know O will have a better time if we can go outside. We went back and forth, and his mom told me she had the tree up… and wanted to get some xmas cards done… we’d already rescheduled due to weather a bunch of times this fall… so we went for it.
(By the way, what has been UP with our weekend weather this fall? Nuts!)
So when I hear that someone has their tree up, I picture nice twinkley lights as a background, but not really that much of an impact on my ambient light for the photos. I was so excited when I saw their funky white artificial tree – complete with super lighting! Look at this – my top pic for their xmas card shot this year:
This handsome boy is four this year – his fourth photoshoot with me. Wow, so big!
I couldn’t resist. Totally cheesy, I know. But I *LOVE* ;)
I love this, especially the glow from the tree on him:
Kooky kid :)
Han Solo’s holiday card picture (complete with matching Star Wars shirt in the bkgrd):
And anyone who follows my blog knows what a sucker I am for eyelashes.
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I can’t believe it took me this long to meet beautiful little girl E. I was so excited to meet her – her momma was my Student Advisor at Conn College when I was a freshman… I love being able to give back to people years later!
So although color is never my fave, I had to snap a few in color of baby E in her costume. Adorable pumpkin!
Those teenie toes:
Those teenie fingers:
Giggling with her daddy:
Gorgeous girl! Look at those eyes :)
The whole fam:
Smiles for mama:
Isn’t she such a tall girl? I’m partial to tall girls ;)
And JJ, I left this in color just for you. Those eyes are still blue like mama’s!
Love this yawning swaddle:
It was such a treat to meet your sweet girl and see the new house – thanks for having us!
So again this year I invited our neighbors over for a photoshoot in our backyard, to get excited for Halloween. I hate how the pictures we take on Halloween night need to use flash, so I like to get some great shots before the big night.
We were joined by…
A lovely mouse:
One of the monsters from Monsters Inc. I can’t remember the name of the monster! Cute nonetheless :)
A veterinarian:
A buzzy bee:
Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz:
A big sister bear:
And a little brother bear:
Buzz Lightyear and his twin brother Wall-E:
The cutest cow in the land:
Penguin sisters:
Hannah Montana, with her trusty wig and mic:
A pirate:
The vet checking out the cow:
Wow, the Statue of Liberty brought her homemade Chrysler Building!
A fire-breathing dragon:
Ariel:
And another wow – homemade Palace Guards!
So much fun to see all you guys. I love this time of year!
My cool actress sister’s show had a night off this weekend, so she hopped a plane from Washington for just one night to meet Sadie and see Annie. Annie was so proud to introduce her to her baby sister.
Here we are in week 3, and Annie’s still relishing her big sister role. Given the option, she’d kiss and hug “her baby” a zillion times a day. It’s a little exhausting, worrying she’s going to smoosh her, but pretty great at the same time :)
Ev’s loving being the dad of two girls:
And Sadie’s settling in to our family really well. She’s found her voice – gives us a good holler to tell us things, but she’s just such a cutie it’s hard to be frustrated:
We had fun at the Arnold Arboretum today – had to snap a daddy/Annie pic too…
We loved having AL visit – come back soon!
I’ll do one more Week 4 post next week – and then it’s back to work for me! June is actually fully booked at this point (although I have a waitlist for weekend appointments, and I think I might have one or two weekdays available, so let me know if you’re interested in those), and I’m taking July as another month of maternity leave… but if you’re interested in a summer shoot, let me know because August has lots of times still available!
You didn’t think I’d only post pictures from the first few days of Sadie’s life, did you? If only I’d had a blog back when Annie was born, I would have inundated the blogosphere with Annie pics.
And now, since her sister has just tons of pictures from her early days, I had to snap a few today while her big sister was at school. Look at those big eyes!
And looking lovingly up at her dad:
Showing us her Obama “bump”:
Look at those rolls, already!
Wait a minute, is she smiling, and only 11 days old? To be fair, it’s not exactly something that happens often yet, but I’m so excited the shutter clicked when it did. And, she’s obviously brilliant.
Last but not least – tiny toes. Next week I’ll include her big sister again, but wanted to focus on the little girl by herself a bit here.
So if you get my newsletter, you know about my client Mollygoggles, who makes these fantastic baseball-themed sweaters. I did a “call” for Red Sox/Yankee sweater models about a month or so ago, and had an incredible response… over 80 children’s parents wrote me back and said their children would love to help us model these sweaters. It was a nice problem to have, and luckily I left it to Kati at Mollygoggles to choose her models.
After a couple of rainouts, we ended up with a gorgeous morning today, and a pile of fantastic kids showed up to smile, play and model their little hearts out:
Love this brother/sister combo:
And I think this is my favorite sweater – it makes me want a little boy!
Isn’t the back of the sweater adorable, too?
Actually, all the sweaters are kind of fabulous, and the kids brought them to life so much:
Can’t beat sliding pics:
And look at this sweet one:
Our cartigan models did such a good job:
And big girls with adorable smiles:
And big sisters look fantastic in pink versions:
And this gorgeous girl was such a sport… she was willing to model the enemy’s sweater, and even look cute doing it:
And this beauty didn’t mind spending time in Yankees garb at all – wouldja believe we have Yankees fans here in Boston? Ah, it’s OK, we love them anyway!
You guys were wonderful, fabulous, perfect models, thanks so much for coming out this morning. I have to force myself to put these pictures away for a week or two and finish up some other work, but as soon as they’re all ready I’ll send you an email. Thanks again!
I had an incredible day today as my daughter’s nursery school’s photographer – the kids were fantastic. And of course my favorite pictures are the crazy-faced ones. Had to do a little collage because they made me smile so much…
Thanks for a great day, guys! All the photos will be ready by the end of next week.
We had about twenty cuties from my street in Milton (yes, we love our neighborhood – it’s kidfest) come over for costume photos today.
We had so many fantastic costumes – we had some construction workers:
My girlie as a turtle:
And of course two Disney princesses stopped by:
Annie and her friend (from the top picture) did a switcheroo – she wanted to try the contruction worker look… perhaps if this had been her real costume we would have gone with pants, too… oh well.
And a gorgeous astronaut:
No party is complete without a Buzz Lightyear:
And a homemade giant squid costume – so cool!
A tiny little chickie:
And Snow White, playing Peek-a-boo:
A charm school witch:
A grinning little puppy dog:
And the firefighter look was popular with both boys:
And girls alike:
We had a Nemo and a Count Dracula:
Isn’t this Nemo costume cool from the back? Another homemade one.
And the Count, doing his best pose:
Supergirl thought I was a little silly:
Had to get a devil/angel shot, of course:
A Backyardigan, of course – Tyrone:
And last but not least, peace out! Forgive me if I didn’t post one of your little cutie – all the pics will be ready ASAP.
A couple of weeks ago, three cousins, all with birthdays a few weeks from each other, turned one. I’ve said it before, but I find that birthday parties are best photographed in color. So although I usually love b&w best… here are some color party shots. The families enjoyed some delicious food:
And they were lucky enough to kick off their 2nd year of life with some of the most gorgeous cupcakes I’ve ever seen! (And I just found out their mom is a pro – here’s a link to her cupcake company.)
And then the three birthday cuties enjoyed their cupcakes:
There was the first lovely 1 year old L:
With her twin older sister and brother:
And the second beautiful birthday girl, A:
And the third handsome birthday boy, J:
And everybody enjoyed the bounce house. Thanks for having me, guys. All your photos are almost finished!
I’ve been taking pictures of these guys for a couple of years now, and I was honored to be asked to take photos at their youngest daughter’s Baby Naming on the Cape last weekend. As I’ve mentioned before, I find that childrens’ parties just cry out for color photos – hence the color shots you see here. Little B was an absolute dream for the whole party:
Her big brother J tried out the waterslide before the rest of the revelers arrived:
Fun inside the bounce house:
B with her grandma during the ceremony:
Delicious eats:
And this is one of my favorite shots of the day. Two cuties hiding up in the waterslide having a private giggle:
It’s really impossible not to get fantastic pictures at a really fun party like this!
And one more shot with the gorgeous 13 month old girl of the day. Thanks again for having me. Your photos are just about ready!
The Heart Gallery is an exhibit of portraits of children in the state’s foster care system in need of adoption. Since 2005, 75 percent of the children who’ve been featured are now with safe, permanent, adoptive families.
So, as you might be able to guess, I spent Sunday morning at a fantastic 1st birthday party – everyone had tons of fun. I’ve been taking pictures of this family for years now, and I was honored to have been asked to join them at this rockin’ celebration.
There are tons of photos I still need to go through from the party, so it’ll be late next week before I finish them all up for you, but I’ll let you know as soon as they’re ready.
Thanks so much for including me, I loved being part of your celebration, and can’t wait to show you all the pictures!
This little guy has three older brothers, but mom brought him in for my Jimmy Fund Studio day all by himself. I love this shot with mom’s cool zebra shoes and her bright green shirt, not to mention the best rolls and squishy legs…
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