I photographed three sessions that piggybacked a couple of guys needing high school senior yearbook pictures with a woman updating her head shots.
Until the actual, consistent spring weather moves in I’m happy my studio is available for indoor sessions.
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Anyone who “owns” an animal knows full well the animal is the true owner.
Bad weather walks, expensive food and vet bills, middle of the night wet nose in the ear are all par for the course.
The obvious other side of the coin is the companionship, unconditional love, sheer fun and the inevitable statement “Sorry, I can’t move… there’s a cat on me”.
Back in the mid 1960s I lived in a 5th floor 2 room walk-up apartment in the East Village in New York City with my then wife, a cat, two Afghan Hounds and a rescued Great Dane so I get it!
These photos are a combination of my son’s dog just prior to a much needed clipping and a pair of customer’s dogs.. all photographed in my studio with a brief burn off some energy break in the snow.
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A while ago I donated a gift certificate for a one hour session to a worthy cause and this family bid and won the session.
Their story of coming to this country was very interesting and the session was quite rewarding!
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This week’s post highlights two headshot sessions.
The first was for a gentleman who came in for a quick session. His wife accompanied him and when we were done I convinced her to get in front of the camera despite her protestations that she didn’t photograph well and her hair and makeup had not been done at all.
I actually love it when I get someone who says they don’t photograph well as in many cases they turn out to be my best shots. I love this one!!! Her natural intelligence and charm just came across perfectly.
The accompanying couple of headshots were from another session and in a very nice small world moment it turned out the woman went to high school with my son, who is now in his late 40s.
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This dad and his two sons came into the studio for a family session to update the one we did in a park last year.
No surprise, the boys have grown and, as before, we had a fun session.
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If you’ve been following my blog posts you know I have been sharing the backlog of warm fall weather photo sessions. I met with this great family on a warm day in mid November just before the winter chill set in.
They were the last family group photographed outside in 2023.. Had a great session and it was a perfect day to wind up the season.
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More from the last of the warmer weather.
This couple had me photograph them and their pup last year and came back for a one year redo.
The header photo is an after/before and it’s amazing how much he’s grown.
I’ve enabled a new pets and people web page and am posting the link below. Please feel free to visit.
https://www.ssphotographic.com/pets-people-and-animals
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This is the third yearly session with this family and, once again, this little charmer lived up to expectations!
Her previous wonder woman costume was a blog post favorite and this year with two looks was even better.
From princess to military she was superb at both.
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Those of you following these blog posts know I have a huge backlog of outside session photos to post but this week I want to share the last of the senior sessions and a headshot session in my studio.
The young man shown here was photographed at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business from which he’s graduating. He is personable and bright.. a good combination for a great future.
The gentleman shown in the headshot section is a return customer updating his files as it’s been a few years since our last session. He’s a super guy and it was good to reconnect.
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I was so jammed this fall that I still have a store of outside sessions to post here.. this is another one!
This great family returned for another fall session at Ann Arbor’s County Farm Park.
The boys have grown and it’s fun to be part of a family story.
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2023 went by in a flash for me!
I’m grateful for the wonderful people who supported my business and on this, literally the eve of a new year, I’m excited and also a bit apprehensive at the changes yet to come.
The header photo is from my metal print collection (more about that in next week’s blog post) and I also launched an Etsy shop featuring items printed with my sunset series carried over from the metal print gallery, also to be featured next week.
Sadly, as it seems to be every year, there is much pain in the world and I wish that magic wand I envision were real so I could magically solve every problem.
Barring that I wish you all a happy new year for 2024 filled with wonder, love, health and good fortune.
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With Christmas day literally arriving momentarily I’m still milking the last of the warm weather photo shoots for these posts.
It was a very busy senior season and this very sharp (and very tall) young man and I met at Ypsilanti’s Depot town and Riverside park for an hour to capture these photos, then making a short trip to his church to finish with a change to his scout uniform.. a very influential part of his life.
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I’m sharing another of the warm weather senior sessions, this one at Ypsilanti’s Depot Town and Riverside Park with a quick trip to my studio for some yearbook photos.
For a while I was photographing seven day weeks and one or two sessions daily so these posts are a look back at the fall weather.
This young man is a football player and looks every bit the part! Another fun session.
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I’ve been sharing some of the last of the good weather sessions.
As the fall season for senior sessions progressed we got lucky with weather cooperating to give us the opportunity to come up with some like the one here.
I photographed this young man on site at Ann Arbor’s Huron High School on a chilly day with clouds and sun mixed as the rain held off. We then drove to my studio for some yearbook photos.
Also I am including some head shot photo results from a couple of business sessions, also in my studio.
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This is another of the series of senior sessions while we were enjoying good weather.
We met at Ypsilanti’s Depot Town and Riverside Park for this young man’s session. He’s a good guy with a great future.
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It was a nice breezy late afternoon at a local farm pumpkin field and apple orchard when I met this delightful couple to photograph them and their two dogs.
Both of them are pickup truck and dog people and this was the making for a country music song minus the sad ending!
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During some of the last of the really good weather this young woman and I met at Ypsilanti’s Depot Town and Riverside Park for a photo session.
Great weather, great subject and a nice Farmers Market morning all came together for a fun session.
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Last week’s blog post was part one of a two part session.
These photos were taken at the University of Michigan Law Quad on a chilly day. Again, this young woman’s mother is a contemporary of my daughter and I’ve known her since she was a teen. It’s been fun to photograph HER daughter.
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This Senior’s mother is a contemporary of my daughter and it was fun to photographer HER daughter.
We had plans to do a second session (which is now in line to be posted soon).
This was one of the last warm days and part of the shoot was in a meadow that was mosquito central.. Part of the Ann Arbor Arboretum.
She was a trooper and we both survived the afternoon with a minimum of bites.
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It’s been a while since I posted since I’ve been going from famine to feast.
September was scary slow and then the realization that time was passing and senior sessions and yearbook photos were due hit the parental radar and I was photographing back to back sessions.
I’m just digging myself out now and back to sharing some of those sessions, this one being taken at one of my favorite local settings, Ypsilanti’s Depot Town and Riverside Park.
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