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happy 2012! Hope you had a wonderful new year! Thought I would share a couple of these lovely keepsakes that came in before shipping them out to their respective owners.
One from my last shoot for this year. What could be a better way to end this year than document new life? This little guy was a little over two weeks old at the time of the photo and a really sweet little model. This was a family session as well and I will have more photos to share at a later date. Please keep an eye on Facebook for pictures as well.
As this year draws to end, I was to thank all our lovely clients, friends and well-wishers (if you missed the newsletter). Storybox Art has been fortunate to work with amazing families that love our art and provide the opportunity to create one-of-a-kind keepsakes. A sincere thank you for staying in touch. Wishing you and yours a very Happy New Year!
So soft and beautiful! Just lovely. 🙂
So beautiful and timeless – this would make a fabulous canvas! Custom art doesn’t get any more personal and perfect than this.
STUNNING! Gorgeous image in every way!
Awww, how adorable he is and so is this image.
What a gorgeous image and i love your processing on this. Beautiful!!
Absolutely gorgeous, Alpana. Love this.
So peaceful with a photograph of a sleepy little baby. Simply beautiful!
absolutely beautiful! so soft and peaceful!
In the heart of the world there is a place that holds the secret names of the rocks & the trees & all the children of the earth & around it gather women & men who hold it dear & each night they stand together to keep it safe for as long as it takes till morning comes & no matter what you have been told, this will always be so, in the heart of the world. ~ Storypeople
Hello hello! Haven’t had a chance to blog this lovely family session yet but wanted to share a few product photos of this one-of-a-kind custom designed keepsake Storybox. A beautiful at home and beach session with a variety of images for this memory box. Couldn’t resist sharing it!
We are winding down for the New Year and wrapping up with the last session in the coming week. Hope you are staying warm and toasty.
Abby’s mom had contacted me about a session over a year back. Finally, the stars aligned and we did their session on an overcast day back in November. Prior to our session, mom had told me a bit about Abby and her two sisters and I was excited to meet them. I was a bit nervous as well not having photographed anyone in a similar situation. Mom was open to going anywhere local she could navigate Abby’s wheelchair and I settled on a local park. Just as we got started the clouds rolled in at an inopportune time but we rolled with the punches and captured some moments of the family together. It was pretty amazing to see the love and affection the family had for one another. Hugs and kisses. There is so much unspoken in the way this family cared for each other. And mom being the pillar of strength navigating through the session with multitude of emotions. These pictures are a surprise present for dad for the holidays! Mom ordered a memory box that I hope to share in a few weeks after the holidays. Meanwhile, dad will be getting some favorite prints for the holidays.
I had asked mama if it was okay to share some info about Abby after getting some questions after a facebook photo share. This is what mom shared with me about her little girl. “She has a brain injury from an accident she experienced at age 4. We were in the hospital with her for 4 months, not knowing how severe the injury was and what the effects would be. The good news is that Abby remains medically healthy. She goes to school and really loves her teacher and the kids around her. She loves to watch movies and she just lights up when family and friends are around and playing with her. She’s just as social as she ever was!
Abby just had a surgery recently and has been in my thoughts. Hope she is recovering well and getting stronger each day!
What a beautiful gift you were able to give this family!
Beautiful images! LOve that last one on the bottom right! 🙂
THIS is what it’s all about – this family makes the extra effort needed to capture their beautiful children and their relationship in these gorgeous images that they will love forever! There are many families that don’t have these extra challenges and don’t make the time to do something so meaningful and important.
Ohhh sweet Abby…. my own daughter suffered a traumatic brain injury two years ago as well, and spent nearly 2 months in the hospital – 19 days in a coma, 5 surgeries, and a new prosthetic skull later, we are blessed to have our daughter still in our lives. These images are SO important and beautiful. Remember how lucky Abby is to have such a loving and strong family. She is beautiful and this family makes me smile 🙂
What a beautiful family and adorable little girl.
Love the happy joyous moments you were able to capture in this session.
Beautiful work Alpana. I love the connection you have captured here. Such great memories created.
Thanks all for your comments! Sophie, I am sorry to hear about your daughter and amazing to hear her story of pulling through.
these are just beautiful. i love the processing and the emotion you’ve captured. I especially love the last image. <3
Beautiful work for a beautiful family!
what a lovely lovely family! Your images are a beautiful gift to them and I can feel how much they love being together. Perfect!
this brought tears to my eyes because of the LOVE you can see in that family. so beautiful in every way, they all have such gorgeous eyes- you captured this family beautifully.
What a lovely family session. Their love and connection really shine through every image.
What lovely images, I love how you have captured the emotion of this family.
My mission is to create an album from the pictures of our trip to India last year. Personal projects have taken a backseat and I finally got inspired to work on them for the blog carousel with some talented photographer friends this month. The theme is “texture” and with my love of all things old I thought I would work on one of the images from this series. The series was photographed at Cafe Britannia in Mumbai. Britannia is a popular Irani restaurant located in an charming business neighborhood in the city. I loved this place with its paint-peeling walls, vaulted ceilings, homey atmosphere, and most of all the adorable 88 year old owner Boman Irani that came around to chat with the patrons at the restaurant. He had a story to tell and share pictures from the days of the British in India to a letter from Queen Elizabeth. And his son, Afshin was kind enough to let me take photos thanks to my brother Abodh’s connection with him.
Only the top image has a texture play (as it takes some time to manipulate the image). The image is compiled with a couple of textures I photographed in India as well and manipulated in Photoshop. I thought the story wouldn’t be complete if I only posted a single image 🙂 and the images are so rich with texture even without my play on it. Besides it got me working on the rest of the images for the album. At the bottom of the post I will share the textures used for the image above. Back the carousel entries…be sure to journey on to the next carousel entry by Corey, Atlanta children’s photographer.
Boman Irani holding paper with Queen Elizabeth story
Below are the two textures used in creating the first image in this post. If you would like to play with them yourself, drop me a line with your email and I will send them your way! One of my favorites textured images is this holiday card from last year.
These are beautiful, Alpana! Love all of the details found in these and your play with textures in that first one is awesome!
these are all amazing!! love every single one!
These are so gorgeous! They make me want to go to that restaurant. I love that you shared all of them, as they really all do have their own texture even without a texture overlay. Beautiful.
My heart stopped when I saw the first one – that is seriously an award winner!
Not only are these photographs so well thought out and beautiful pieces of art on their own, they are going to be an amazing storybook of memories for your son. Your use of added texture is so perfect.
What a great post Alpana!! Tell such a great story…Lauri is right…such amazing inherent texture in each one!! Great job!
[…] I visited India in 2010, I photographed my son in this fabulous little Irani cafe called Cafe Brittania. And then the visit prior at this other Irani Cafe. You can probably sense my love for old Parsi […]
A few impromptu photos of the cousins with my little man during our recent visit to the Marin Headlands after a stop at Muir Woods. The kids spent a little time being silly, laughing, and letting me take a few photos in this lovely meadow. These photos are a mix of digital and film that I have been exploring for personal work. Brings back memories of my good old days of shooting film back in college and through art school when there was no digital camera. The last image is a cameo appearance of me with my family that my sister-in-law was kind enough to take after setting up my camera for her.
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Oh WOW! You got an early present! What fantastic happy captures, every mom’s dream!
this one cracks me up…
Mysterio has been known to predict your child’s future but the sky is the limit for this sweet little newborn baby boy with the most amazing family. The above photos were taken at little Will’s newborn photo session in San Francisco. Big sister played a starring role as well and was especially helpful in trying to get the little man to smile. I so love the photo of her arms around Will cradling his face. Also, amazing to see her growing up since the last time I saw her for her eight month photos with her family. Thanks for letting me document your precious memories!
So fun and modern! Love the light, airy, and happy feel to these – every image made me smile!
So fresh and happy! I love them all!
I love the light – these are just gorgeous!
SO CUTE! Love the bowler prediction t-shirt! These are gorgeous!
Lovely newborn portraits. Love that big sister was already caring for her little brother! So sweet…
So sweet! I think the little girl cracking up is adorable! Love the light in all of these…
Gorgeous really truly simply gorgeous!
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Sophie Crew - Gorgeous!! What beautiful products!