Now that the 2012 Holidays are over and all gifts are given, I can safely post some of my favorite Client Holiday Photographs from this season – some of which were surprise gifts! (I love helping make Christmas special with the the most perfect gift of a photograph!)
To start, I will share a little bit about my family traditions & holiday memories.
This year I hosted my first Christmas! …and I bought my first tree! (a real one, that of course didn’t smell like pine, so I tricked everyone by buying pine scented candles, haha) I cooked all the food, made all of the appetizers, etc. and learned once again that I am more and more like my mother – I cook for twice as many people as needed! Thanks for that one, mom!
I think this officially makes me a grown-up, huh?!
The tradition we have on Christmas morning is a longstanding one – mimosa’s and cinnamon buns at mom’s house. This year was like every other – cinnamon buns were burnt to perfection. Apparently, it’s not Christmas unless we burn the breakfast – no matter how closely we watch that oven it never fails!
Enough about me. Here’s the good stuff!
Each year I have many clients that request me to photograph their family for their holiday cards. This year was no different.
*I started photographing a little late though and had to turn down clients – lesson learned: promote this service prior to Thanksgiving in the year 2013 😉
The clients I did photograph for were absolutely perfect, though.
Meet my dear friends, the Walkers. We had a blast shooting these love filled candid photographs in the backyard as well as a local park. In my opinion, the familiar, simple backgrounds almost always work best.
Aren’t these boots just way too cute??
And these adorable little ones are clients I’ve photographed for a whole bunch.
I love this family! They are so sweet, very supportive and full of love. This years photo shoot had its challenges, but overall they came out great! This group shot was a surprise gift for a family member. How perfect!
We even spent some time outside, getting a few candid shots of the kids playing.
My favorite holiday endeavor this year though, was a NYC fashion based scavenger hunt, as I like to call it. Someone emailed me requesting that I photograph the Fashion Ave sign as well as 6 stores that were all significant to his girlfriend. This was going to be a Christmas present to top all others! As I know almost nothing about fashion, reading the list of stores seemed like gibberish. Henri Bendel?? What is that?! As I soon found out though, it’s the coolest store EVER!
My boyfriend, acting as photo assistant (and a damn good one, too!) and I ventured into NYC via train on a busy Saturday morning and spent all day carefully photographing each store with my camera on a tripod taking up just about half the sidewalk space. We photographed Henri Bendel, Harry Winston, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Tiffanys, Sax and of course, the Fashion Avenue sign.
In post, I created three collages that combined elements of each store & had them printed 12″ x 1 2″. They turned out GORGEOUS! Since this was a surprise gift as well I haven’t mentioned it at all, but am now very excited to unveil my work.
I hope that everyone enjoyed their holidays! I know I sure did.
Much love & Many thanks to all of the beautiful people who have supported me in this amazing adventure of beginning my own photography business.
