While carefully watching the weather I met this couple in a local park for a late afternoon session.
We were lucky to have periods of clearing overcast and made use of the sun to record this slice of time.
I also played around with a background change in Photoshop… not masterful but fun as you can see in the composite.
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Blessed lately with mostly good weather this family took advantage of a sunny day to meet me in a local park to capture a slice in time with their two girls.
Nice day, nice family, nice session to share here.
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This extended family had not been in the same place at the same time for a while and the planned get together finally happened on a nice day in a lakeside park.
Photographing nine people, two of them youngsters, is a bit tricky but this went off without a hitch due to the great family dynamics.
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People who own horses are a breed unto themselves. It takes dedication and the commitment necessary to have a large animal be a part of your life. Boarding, medical care, feeding and the time spent emotionally supporting and bonding with an animal that large is a full time job.
Manny is a Percheron. Originally bred as war horses, Percherons today are often seen as draft horses and when standing next to Manny I’m always in awe as to his size. They’re generally 64 to 68 inches tall and often upwards of 2,000 pounds. It’s a good thing he’s a very gentle giant.
I’ve know Manny’s owners for years and have documented their relationship with him a number of times. He’s getting older and it was a beautiful day so we met to get another session done.
Later in the week I met with a construction group, one I’ve trusted with not only my kitchen remodel but with the huge job of restoring my studio after a massive flood when a storm caused a two foot sewage backup and the place was trashed.
We met at Riverside Park in Ypsilanti to photograph the business owner and his crew.
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Combine a beautiful early summer day with a family who loves to have fun and you get the recipe for a successful family session. We met at a local Ann Arbor park and laughed our way through the morning… great people, great session.
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We’d scheduled this day for a senior session and were watching the weather which cooperated splendidly.
Our setting was Ypsilanti’s Depot Town and Riverside Park, a favorite location and captured the culmination of this young woman’s High School experience.
Later in the week I had a visitor to my renovated studio for a head shot session. Fun session shown below.
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This family was ready for a full session with everyone grouped as well as individual photos piggybacked with some photos of their daughter wearing her cap and gown.
We had fun and got the slice of time documented.
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After a long, wet and dreary spring season the day was bright and warm for this family’s session at Ypsilanti’s Depot Town and Riverside Park.
The aim was to capture each member of the family as well as all of them together piggybacked with some senior photos for the young man, recently turned 18 and on the next step in his educational journey.
We utilized a number of locations within easy walking distance and it was mission accomplished.
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With senior sessions starting to be photographed I met with these two young women in the studio.
One just finishing high school and the other I had previously photographed for her bachelor’s degree, now documenting her master’s. We’re looking forward to the next step for both of them.
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When I started this current iteration of my photography business the first step was acquiring my LLC license and initial equipment, a sizable investment.
The immediate next step was to develop a website to showcase my work. I had been asking friends to come in and pose for me in my living room as I still did not have a studio space so I had a fairly good selection of portraits and headshots as well as some examples of real estate listing photos to showcase.
I liked the navigation on the first site but never cared for the way mixed vertical and horizontal images displayed. Nothing I tried eliminated the clunky format and it finally became obvious a total new template was in order.
This past week has been an exercise in frustration finally culminating in a new version of my site incorporating a format displaying photos shown larger and tiled side by side in both formats, not scattered over the page in a haphazard patchwork.
I did have to give up the navigation in favor of a small three bar menu icon at the top left corner of the page.. no way to use the one I liked but a compromise I was forced to make in order to get the visuals I wanted.
I’ll rotate out the cover photo periodically.. currently it’s one I have on the site as well as for sale on my metal print site https://ssphotometalprint.com/
Thanks to everyone who has been along with and supportive of my efforts… greatly and humbly appreciated!
While plans are being implemented to add more dedicate graphic content to the Metal Print site I received some interest in these from previous posts so all are now available on the site.
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Sliding ever so slowly into spring, business is picking up and while there’s still time I just added some more photographs to my metal print sales website. All of these are from archives and this year my mission is to add a number of images specifically aimed at large format prints. While these can also be custom ordered in standard surfaces as well as acrylic they are available in metal at the link directly below. Clicking on the link will take you from this site to the website.
https://ssphotometalprint.com/
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Two real estate agents, one experienced and one just starting out, came in for headshots.
At the start of the year the real estate market is shaping up to be as odd and interesting as 2021. While I am not an agent I am an affiliate member of the local board as a photographer and photograph a good number of real estate listings.
Self promotion is key and it was fun to assist agents at both ends of the career spectrum.
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The year’s starting out with requests for studio sessions to escape our very cold days of late.
These brothers were in for portraits on a chilly Saturday morning the results of which are shown below.
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I was photographing a senior session during the summer at Depot Town and Riverside Park in Ypsilanti, MI when I spotted this woman and her sister walking in the park.
I approached her later and asked if she would be interested in coming into my studio for a session. She agreed and came in a few weeks later with her brother (jokingly, her “bodyguard”).
Her naturally dramatic look combined with excellent makeup made for a great session.
Both she and her brother were delightful and were naturals in front of the camera.
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As we move into the new year it’s been most difficult maintaining connections.
Holiday parties have resulted in multiple viral infections even within my own circle of family and friends while many of us have put off visits to relatives in vulnerable age groups. The bright side is we still crave that closeness and find comfort in affirming family support.
I don’t want to start out negatively so am posting two of the family groups who visited me between Christmas and the New Year. My own family is spread across the country so being in the studio seeing the great interactions between these family members was a great way to celebrate the season.
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Rather than write content here the length of War and Peace let’s just agree it’s been another tough year for us all.
Needless to say Covid and now, Omicron is still causing huge disruptions and tragic losses for many families, my extended one included.
Piggyback that with the catastrophic flooding of my studio (documented in some of the composites in this blog post) along with many of my neighbors’ homes I’m happy to see 2021 go and hope better for us all in 2022.
On the other hand I got to photograph many people and families one of which is here in the photos taken this year to follow up on the same type of session last holiday season.. great family and a pleasure to have into the rebuilt studio.
My plan in 2022 is to offer additional styles and techniques in my portraits.. new tools on order and due to be delivered any day.
Also I’m launching a new initiative to make large format metal prints available by the end of the first quarter of the year.
So, thank you for the support offered by clients, friends and family… Best wishes for a wonderful rest of the year and a great 2022.
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This one goes back a few months when the mother of a young woman and her brother I’d previously photographed came into the studio for her session… Great fun!
The gentleman in the accompanying before/after photos had me document him during the initial Covid period when he had neither shaved nor cut his hair.. then came back for a follow up after everything hit the barbershop floor. He’s an interesting guy and we traded stories.
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As the weather gets colder my studio has been heating up.
A young woman came in for senior/yearbook photos, a man for photos prior to his wedding to share with the families and a woman for photos for her father, all shown in the composites below.
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With the weather getting colder and our first snow of the season come and gone it’s back to inside sessions…. and one holdover from the beach.
Senior photo season is drawing to a close and I photographed this young man with his award medals for track achievements prominently displayed.
The woman shown here needed some updated photos for business and we also played with a few shots using her gown as a prop.
The last series are from my annual visit to Saugatuck. I photograph the sunset every year at Oval Beach facing west to Lake Michigan and while there I also photograph random beach goers. This couple was there late in the day and the lighting was great. They willingly posed and gave me permission to share.
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