Heirloom Portraiture

These three siblings have been frequent guests of our studio from the time they were small tots.  We just wanted to show you how important it is to have these special memories retained in an Heirloom portrait.  As you can see, little brother (the youngest), has shot up and now towers over his older sisters--their mom is thrilled to have their lives documented, so she never forgets.  And someday his children will treasure these images, too!   

Fun at ONE!

This little sweetie and his Dads came in for his one year birthday

session and we had such fun photographing them in the studio!  His willingness

to be attentive and to play peek-a-boo throughout the hour gave us these

fabulous images that they will treasure forever.  The little wisps in his hair

will be a memory very shortly, so we are thrilled to create these portraits for the family's home!    

Delicious

These two delicious siblings were the perfect models when they visited our studio.  They live in another state and when they come to visit their grandma, we are lucky enough to be able to photograph them.  Every stage of life is a milestone, but these young years, when they change so quickly, are the best time to document their growth and personalities! 

Oh That Face!!!

I have known this wide-eyed cutie's mom since she was 5 years old!!  We just had the pleasure of photographing her 2 year old daughter and it reminded me about the Circle of Life and how it will continue on forever.  How lucky we are that we can document this most important legacy--in the blink of an eye there will be another generation and this little girl will be all grown up--we are so pleased that her parents will always have this memory at this moment in time.     

So Adorable!

This adorable diva came for her first session at 8          months, about the time her older sister did several years ago.  In a few months we will be honored again to create portraits for her first birthday.  She smiled in every image with no prompting--a model in the making! 

Classic

We love the classic clothing of this little sweetie--the portrait, in black and white, could be from another era--it evokes the classic heirloom portraits of an earlier decade.  Creating images of our smiling and happy model was a pleasure!  Her grandma and parents were very pleased with the results.

Loyal Friend

This amazing, talented woman who opens her heart to all abandoned dogs, is the most able of dog trainers at the Ramapo Bergen Animal Refuge, Inc, no-kill shelter in Oakland.  She is also a dog-groomer who makes sure all the pups looks their best when people come to adopt.  This is one of three of her adopted dogs--when she saw him, she decided to get into rescuing and devoting her life to training others to do the same.