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Jayme F - These are absolutely beautiful and soulful. Loved looking at every single one!

Yvonne - Beautiful. You can tell this family has a lot of fun together.

Lina - Beautiful, and so sweet. Love it!

Clarice - These family shots are awesome!

Christy Johnson - What a beautiful story these images tell. Beautiful!

alej keigan - so gorgeous and airy – beautiful shots of a beautiful family!

Heather Puett - These are great. Looks like a lot of fun!

meeting don foster II

Thursday, June 21, 2012

A few days back I had shared a little about meting Don Foster. Don Foster has been battling a rare form of pancreatic cancer with his wife Karen by his side. Recently, he sent me a couple of newspaper articles with more of his story here and here. Don has been in a clinical trial at Stanford University Medical Center which helped the tumor in his pancreas to shrink by 50% following which he underwent an intensive surgery to free his pancreas of cancer. However, he still has tumors on his liver that require treatment on an ongoing basis.

My thoughts are with my friend Kerry who was the inspiration behind this photo session. She is hosting an event to release purple balloons on June 23rd to raise awareness of this silent killer. If you can please support the event and/or donate a small amount to PCUK (Pancreatic Cancer UK) or PANCAN (Pancreatic Cancer Action Network).

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Yvonne - Beautiful images and so touching.

Lina - Beautiful, and so sweet. Good luck on this journey to him and his family.

meeting don foster

Monday, June 18, 2012

When I first met Don and his sweet wife Karen, I knew right away that they are pretty special people. Don thanked me sincerely several times for my time in doing their photo session. I have photographed several charity sessions but this has to be the one that touched my heart. I have to say the privilege was all mine. I was doing this photo session to honor my friend Kerry’s husband Noel that passed away with pancreatic cancer. I had offered to do a fund-raiser for Kerry, however she asked me to donate a photo session to a family with a loved one with pancreatic cancer. Through her connections at the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, I was put in touch with Don for the photo session. And it couldn’t have been for a better person.

When you meet Don you can hardly tell he is a sick man. He has a positive attitude attitude and an amazing personality. Don has a rare form of pancreatic cancer that is inoperable since it has metastasized to his liver. He has been undergoing treatment at Stanford for the past few years and been responding to it. Please do keep him in your thoughts and prayers for a positive outcome and continued response to the treatment. Also, please check out the PANCAN at the link above to support them and bring awareness to their work.

Here is a little preview from our time together. There will be more to share along with his story once I have a chance to process the images.

hong kong on a sight-seeing bus

Friday, June 15, 2012

f 100 | Ilford HP5

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Kirsty - How did I not see these before? My favourite place in the whole wide world – and you make it look just as HK is.. grainy and a little dirty and yet full of life and hustle and bustle, even in black and white…

wee little gabby

Thursday, June 7, 2012

I had an opportunity to capture little Gabby’s newborn portraits with her mom and dad back in April. Am working on their baby album and thought I would share some of the poignant moments from our time together. There are a few more on Facebook from the sneak peek if you would like to check them out.

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Jayme F. - These are wonderful. I love how real and the completely down to earth feel of each one.

Corey Sewell - These are absolutely beautiful, Alpana! I adore each and every one!

Jessica Washburn - Just darling! I love the images in the crib:).

Heather Puett - She is perfectly beautiful!

Christy Johnson - Just so beautiful and real! Love!

Anna-Karin - Beautiful newborn baby! I love that you were able to capture some of her with both her parents. Such a special fast fleeting time well documented by you!

Renee Giugliano Photography - So adorable! Love the b/w images!

alej keigan - what a sweetie – love these!

Clarice - What a cute little baby! You captured great memories for the parents!

Chrisite - These are so precious, I just adore the soft sweetness in your images. Congrats to the parents on their gorgeous new baby!

Jesikka High - Beautiful!!! 🙂

Yvonne - LOVE! Adorable life captured.

mumbai seen through a holga

Monday, June 4, 2012

A few photos taken with Holga, a toy camera in the Tardeo area of Mumbai during my trip this February.

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Magali - These are fabulous! Love all the double exposures. 🙂
I just used a Holga in Mumbai once at a workshop & I’m been dying to buy one, but for now I find 120 quite expensive as compared to my dear 35mm.

Pamn - You are so talented! Love these.

alpana - Thanks Magali and Pam! It is like a nice little surprise as you don’t know what you are going to end up with.

Renee Giugliano Photography - These are awesome! Love them all!

Corey Sewell - Absolutely stunning images, Alpana! Love them!

alej keigan - how fun – very intriguing shots!

Christy Johnson - Absolutely gorgeous!!

Jessica Washburn - Love these!

Heather Puett - Very unique and beautiful!

Anna-Karin - Aww these are so great! I love seeing these documented through your point of view. Great work as always Alpana!

Yvonne - Love these! Very creative.

Lina - Beautiful and inspirational.

hello, almost summer!

Monday, June 4, 2012

Am hoping for some warm weather and sunshine soon. It has been a while since I posted or blogged any of the past sessions. I have been busy catching up with work + life since I got back from India. We have had a fun and busy baseball season and I have been going a bit nuts looking for a new car. Yay! I finally did get a new car – a Honda CRV. Have had it for all of two days and my little man seems to like it quite a bit. His favorite feature is the DVD which will let him watch movies on long trips. And me… umm, hello, heated seats! I could not be happier and so will my cold self + rear end:-)

Thought I would pop up and post a recent photo of a sweet little four year old. He was sitting on his mama’s lap when I took this photo. Love his happy little face that you can see out here too! If you are interested in a family or kids photo session please email me through the contact page of the blog. I have a few week days open in the week of June 18th!

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