CBCA Jr/Sr Banquet 2011

In May of 2011 I had the opportunity to shoot the Junior/Senior Banquet for Central Baptist Christian Academy. It was held at South New Milford Baptist Church in the gymnasium. The junior class (and family) worked hard to get the gym decorated and looking beautiful. They did a wonderful job. The colors were black and purple. Here are a few decorations from the banquet and the invitations that the Junior class made.

These great stars were hanging from the ceiling. (not sure how the logo got rotated on the image)

The centerpieces on the table.

This was the backdrop that we created for the formal shots of the Juniors and the Seniors.

This is Hope, she is the junior who contacted me to shoot the formals for them. I thought that she would be one of the formals that I would share with everyone as she was my contact person. She had a great dress too!

Here is another junior girl, Ashley, that I thought I would share with you. Loved this dress too!

Here is Mollie and her date to the banquet. Mollie was a 2011 Senior and she was one of the seniors that I did photos for. You can see them here: http://kgrussellphotography.blogspot.com/2011/02/mollie-2011-senior.html.

I have to say that I think red is here color, she looks great.

One of the last formals that I shot was of all the Junior girls. We did a nice formal smiling one and then a fun one. I thought that I would share the silly one with everyone.

I had fun shooting the banquet for the CBCA juniors and seniors. Thanks for allowing me to create this memory for you!

Amanda is 2!

I have been shooting Amanda since she was just 3 months old. It has been a great experience watching and capturing her grow. She turned 2 in January and I met up with them to shoot these photos in early March.
She has become very smart and knows that when I show up at her house it is time for the camera to come out. I got my work out at these shoot chasing her around the house. But we got a lot of great images. Some were not planned and a few of them are the ones that I chose to share with everyone.

It is not easy to convince a 2 yr old to stand and hold that #2, but finally we got one.

LOVE this one! How sweet she looks here being a "mommy" with her doll.

Yep, I love toes, well little people toes any way and you gotta love the toes curled around the bar.

This image with the pink feather was not planned. We were trying to get her attention back and this feather fell off my boa and we started blowing back and forth to each other. She was having so much fun with it. I grabbed the camera back up while she was trying to catch and blow the feather back.

Thank you Carrie and John for allowing me to watch your little Amanda grow these last 2 yrs. I can not wait to get to shoot her 3 year photos next. It will be here before we know it. (Literally, know because it has taken me forever to get these posted).

Meet Rory

I had the pleasure to shoot this great dog for a great couple. My only wish was that I was shooting Rory for a different reason. Rory was getting sick and they were getting close to having to put him down. Tina and Mike wanted some photos of them with Rory and some alone. She was not interested at first and did not like the flash, but we finally coaxed her into cooperating. We were even able to get the guinea pigs in the shoot as well.

I am glad that we did that because shortly after they put Rory down Cinnamon got sick too. They lost Rory and Cinnamon in a very short period of time. I am just glad that I was able to give Tina and Mike a few great photos of their beloved pets.

Tina told me that she was very happy with this image because you can see a little bit of the sparkle in Rory's eyes. You can see the difference from this photo and the first photo. The first one Rory there is sadness in the eyes and this one you can see the sparkle.

This image was actually one of the first ones taken while trying to coax Rory into the idea of the shoot.

Rory with Butterscotch (the lighter guinea pig) and Cinnamon (who has a bad hair day every day, this was told to my daughter while we were there to inform her who was who)

I LOVE this photo. Rory relaxed and "smiled" a little while laying nicely with the guinea pigs.

Eating their favorite snacks... Cheerios!

This one is great because Butterscotch is "talking" and Cinnamon is looking at the camera.

Thank you, Tina & Mike for letting me come into your home and give you the images of the memory of your beloved pets that will last you your life time!