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!

Baby "E"

 Fran's grandson arrived in December 2010. They were here for a visit sooner after and we met up to do a photo shoot with him. We also did some of him with his cousin in their Yankees gear.

I was so excited to do this shoot as all of my newborn and baby shoots have been of girls and I was finally getting to shoot a baby boy. Don't get me wrong I love to shoot all my toddler boys but to have a baby boy in front of the camera was a pleasure.

What a way to start off the shoot with some baby toes.

I could not decide between these two images. Some tongue sticking out and a great big smile!

Here is baby "E" with his cousin Ashley. We were having some trouble keeping baby "E" happy at this point and he finally crashed. The Yankee photos were for Grandma Fran for her birthday.

Love this one of him fast asleep. What do you think of how I put the color back into the ball and his shirt so that the Yankees stands out?

A new prop and the first time I got to use it. And of course the toes had to peek through.

I brought along my little red Coca-Cola wagon thinking that he would fit perfect inside it. As you can tell he was a little long then I was thinking he would be. But I was so glad to be able to use it in this shoot.

Thank you Stephanie and Fran for letting me shoot this cutie pie. I look forward to the next time I get to have him in front of my lens. I can not believe that he will be ONE soon. maybe they will be back for a visit and I can do some around that time. Thanks to Ashely too for being a good sport.

Happy 30th Birthday!

Well the day has finally arrived, my sister Becky has reached 30!! She has had an over whelming road to this birthday, but she has been a fighter and has made it hear safe and sound. Looking through the photos that I have taken in 2011 I have realized that there are lots of snap shots of Becky's 2 boys and none of her. This of course to due to her medical condition and the boys spending some time with Aunt Trisha.

So, what do I have to say to that? I think that Becky is need of her very own photo shoot. So what do you say sister? Are you ready to get in front of my camera by your self?

Any way enjoy a photo of her with her family and one of her with her husband, Rob.

Love you lots, Becky and hope that you had a wonderful day!

2011 Shoots

I have finally gotten to them... At 1:10 am on Monday morning, Halloween, I am finally get some of my shoots from this year ready to post. With working so much and the kids activities I am going to try and get a shoot posted every few days so that I can get caught up.

So enjoy my 2011 shoots so far...

The cold has arrived and there has already been some snow, start thinking about getting some family photos done. Not really feeling up to the family shoot this year, then think about getting some of the kids done. I have great IDEAS for the Holiday season. Send me an email and we will get a date booked. kgrussellphoto@yahoo.com

I have also been playing with some new word style and colors for my logo. So I thought that I would try them out on a few of the shoots and then decide which one I love the best. You can also post your opinions to help me decide.

Holiday 2010

Here are a few photos that I took of the kids during Christmas break 2010.

For his school photo he wore this same outfit, minus the tie, with a blue and black ground as well. I was a little upset because I wanted the tie included in the photo because it brought the colors all together. So I made him put the clothes on with the tie so I could get the photo how I wanted it. I know, I know what a mean mommy right?

Showing off a new outfit with the new shades. He also wearing red Converse sneakers, they were just cut out of this shot.

In her Christmas dress, with some Christmas props.

This sled was her daddy's when he was little. I found it in the basement and had him bring it up and clean it up to use in winter shoots.

Sitting with a great smile with her Christmas gift, Build a Bear Clarice. We took her up and she got to make her before Christmas for her gift from her Aunt.

The Vanderlindes

Oopps...
I came across one more shoot from 2010. This is my sister and her family. Believe it or not it was hard to get the boys to sit together and look at the book and not me, but I have to say that this first photo of them is pretty convincing that they are actually reading the book together.

Rocky was even more difficult to get him to sit still for this photo. It took a few tries but we got it!

Here are 2 of the whole family. One with out Rocky and one with. As you can tell he did not want to sit with them for the photo.

Have to say that it is pretty sad that it is almost time to be shooting their Christmas photos again and I am just sharing them with you all. Oh well better late then never!