There’s nothing like one of those special and memorable family events – milestones by which we mark the stages of our lives and celebrate together like a Bar Mitzvah! We have been honored to be a part of many of these since we brought our event photographer Angela on board, and Evrett’s Bar Mitzvah is no exception! We have some highlights to share from this awesome celebration!
Evrett’s Awesome Celebration
Let’s start with the man of the hour:
A fine looking young man!
Now how about a nice family photo:
Always a great occasion to get some great family portraits with everyone happy and looking so nice!
Tradition
Here we have a couple photos representing some of the Jewish traditions that go along with a Bar Mitzvah…
…and the party!!!
Think he was having fun? This is always a fun shot of the Bar Mitzvah boy up in the air, on top of the world during the traditional Hora dance!
And there you have it! We hope you enjoyed a few of the highlights of Evrett’s big day and the family’s awesome celebration!
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Mitchell is the man – we know he’s a great dude because he’s a year between our two kids and they both like him! Hehe… He’s also a North Farmington Raider like us and his dad so he’s got that going for him. Besides he’s been to our studio before with the whole fam and his parents Joy and Jeff came along on the session which we knew would be a good time. I’ve been saying this all summer and I’m always nervous that I’m going to jinx it, but with very few exceptions the conditions have been great for shooting outdoors – not too much rain and not too much heat, and Mitchell’s morning was perfect.
Mitchell Is The Man
We started on location as we always do for morning sessions and we headed just around the corner from the studio behind the Library and City Hall in West Bloomfield to get some nice natural settings. Here’s a full length on a foot bridge of our guy to start:
Looking good! Of course we have some fun behind the scenes action here with the replay of our YouTube Live broadcast – be sure to subscribe to our channel too!
Let’s take a look at one more closer up outdoors before we head back to the studio…
Nice!
At this point we headed back to the studio to get a few indoors, and when Mitchell posed for his yearbook shot Joy got a little choked up – we only made fun of her a little – haha! We see this all the time and as parents ourselves we get it believe me. Here’s a cool full length black and white pic:
Love that shot – it really came out great!
We also have some more behind the scenes – this time in the studio from the Facebook Live replay!
And one more shot from the studio on the white backdrop…
And there you have it! Mitchell is the man and we hope you enjoyed the highlights from our morning with him!
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Frameable Faces Photography is a small biz retail mom & pop shop of Doug&Ally Cohen located in the Orchard Mall in West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States Of America!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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Capturing Cara has become plenty fun for us here – she is a current spokesmodel for the class of 2018 so you may have seen her here before on her spokesmodel session, and she rocked her return! Cara’s brother Ben was a Frameable senior as well and parents Gina and Kenny round out a great family! Gina came on the session with us and we knew we’d be in for a fun time as long as the weather held up – for a while there the forecast wasn’t looking good but we lucked out! We headed down to the D and started out on Belle Isle…
Capturing Cara!
Here’s a spectacular shot of Cara with the Detroit River and the Renaissance Center in the background!
There are so many amazing spots on Belle Isle – here’s a little behind the scenes fun from our YouTube Live broadcast there!
…and one more shot before we focus on the Eastern Market area….
LOVE this with the yellow and black with Cara being framed by some yellow too!
At this point we headed over to the Eastern Market and Dequindre Cut to take advantage of the many murals and locations to work with there. Let’s start with Cara with a mural backdrop:
Loving it…
Let’s also see some more behind the scenes fun from our Facebook Live broadcast while we were down there!
And one more from this doorway we found – Cara was in the zone at this point – capturing Cara was a breeze!
A great day to be sure and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day capturing Cara!
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Frameable Faces Photography is a small biz retail mom & pop shop of Doug&Ally Cohen located in the Orchard Mall in West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States Of America!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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We are on a roll with those West Bloomfield Lakers right now and these sessions have been killer! But more importantly these seniors have been awesome and Justin is no exception. Justin brought the whole fam-tourage with him and everyone had fun. Actually Justin’s mom Christin had been to the studio for her own shots a while back so this was a fun reunion of sorts. Justin was still in the thick of preparing for the football season at “The Swamp” which is the nickname of the West Bloomfield football stadium and we had plans to get some football shots in since football is Justin’s jam – but more on that later….
Starting out in Pontiac…
We wanted to get some cool urban shots first so off to Pontiac we went and found a cool new spot we had never used before – it’s Justin’s spot now (we name new spots after the senior who pioneers it)!
Good lookin’ dude! Plus that lighting! We started in the evening and got some of that golden hour sun…
We also have some fun behind the scenes action from the live streaming we did during the session – first in Pontiac on Facebook Live:
We also grabbed this cool photo with the little mirror image reflection…
Back to the studio for some fire…
We love setting things on fire here as you may know… here’s the behind the scenes from the YouTube Live broadcast – be sure to subscribe to our channel if you visit!
….and here is the fiery result!
Justin’s Jam
Night time sessions are rare for us but sometimes they can be so cool! We headed over to the Swamp where you can see #32 flying around getting it done for those Lakers this fall! A little off camera flash and a stationary FJ Westcott Ice Light and voila!!!
How cool is that? An awesome session all the way around – we hope you enjoyed the highlights of Justin’s jam!
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Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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Yes we are huge fans of Lauren and her mom Gabrielle, and it’s been so much fun having Lauren represent our studio as a spokesmodel for the class of 2018! Her spokesmodel session was truly epic and we spent much of it in Detroit at the old Michigan Building and around Eastern Market. It was one of those sessions that sticks out for sure – just awesome. So we had a slight dilemma – we loved exploring around Detroit and they wanted to go back for Lauren’s senior session. Hey we’re always up for a Detroit session since there is so much going on down there and so many amazing places to shoot. The question was could we possibly top what we already did down there? Hmmmmm…. Could we reach an even higher level with Lauren?
Reaching an even higher level with Lauren…
Ally predicted that we would indeed be able to kick it up yet another notch. And frankly I was confident too – we usually do. We suggested Belle Isle which hadn’t been on Lauren’s radar but she trusted us. Besides there was a little discussion around whether a beach shot might be nice – we had never used the Belle Isle Beach. So we set out with plenty of possibility and adventure in the air and the results? Well…… see for yourself.
Great one to start with right? Love the framing of our girl with the vines!
We also have plenty of behind the scenes fun as usual with some live broadcast replays (excuse my raggedy voice – I was recovering from being pretty well under the weather for a few days). First we went live on YouTube. If you want to tune in to other broadcasts be sure to hit the red subscribe button at our channel!
We ended up spending a ton of time on Belle Isle – some shots at the fountain, a few at the willow tree above, and a few over by the conservatory including this colorful one with all the pretty flowers surrounding Lauren!
I also had a little fun of my own with the pano feature on my iPhone – just for fun here is one at the conservatory that I thought was kind of cool…
AMATEUR iPhone panoramic photo for fun!
Next we headed around to the other side of the island to the beach which we pretty much had to ourselves and this turned out to be a great call! Here is the fun behind the scenes Facebook Live broadcast replay where Gabrielle even took over for a few minutes as guest host as I struggled a little with the wind trying to reflect some light on our subject!
And here is one of the fantastic results. LOVE this of Lauren…
So yeah…. awesome stuff at Belle Isle! But we weren’t done….
To The Belt!
The Belt is a very cool alley in downtown Detroit where we’ve taken photos several times and Lauren had her eye on it so we headed over there for a few and we found this ultra cool art gallery there. They let us come right in and shoot, and sometimes these unplanned things prove to be major highlights! I took another pano while Ally was setting this one up…
Another AMATEUR iPhone panoramic photo for fun!
And here is the result!!!
Wow right???
What a day – we actually finished it up with lunch at Johnny Noodle King and it was the perfect end to a day we won’t soon forget as we indeed reached a higher level with Lauren in our Detroit return! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day!
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Frameable Faces Photography is a small biz retail mom & pop shop of Doug&Ally Cohen located in the Orchard Mall in West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States Of America!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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How to build a senior….. Hmmmmm. Well we’d start with some nice, add some smart, toss in a dose of passion, maybe some good looks (but that’s an optional ingredient), and we’d wrap it in a great family before we pop it in the oven to bake. And hey look! It appears we would build Nick! Nick is a guy you just want to be around – just an all around good dude who is smart and dedicated as all get out to his twin passions baseball and football which he plans to play one of at the next level. Heck he took one (?) day off transitioning from one to the other as he readies himself for his senior season as a captain at West Bloomfield playing in “The Swamp” (more on that later). Actually you may remember Nick from his spokesmodel session and you may even remember his sister Emma who was a Frameable senior too! What a great family – and mom Teresa is a delight too – she even reprised her role briefly guest hosting some of the behind the scenes live streaming (more on that later too hehe)! So let’s get to it.
We Would Build Nick
It was nice to be able to get outside in the nice weather for a change with our guy since the last time we were on location with Nick he was being pelted by snow! We focused first in downtown Birmingham for a few urban shots which came out really cool:
Great shot! Very cool little stairwell we found…
We also have plenty of behind the scenes fun as usual… first we went live on Facebook – don’t miss Nick’s awesome sign off at the end… hehe…..
Okay let’s take a look at a couple more photos from the city…
Plenty of walls and cool surfaces to use in Birmingham and Nick was prepared with the full pop up wardrobe suitcase for a few outfit changes.
Just chillin’…
To The Swamp!
At this point it was time to head over to WBHS – to “The Swamp” where they had just finished installing the brand new turf at the stadium which does indeed include the words “The Swamp” written across the turf on the home sideline! They have a pretty rowdy and dedicated student section at the home football games! We went live on YouTube for this segment (I didn’t realize I had my screen lock on at the beginning – but that’s LIVE – you just go with it). The “Teresa Takeover” happens around the 6 minute mark!
And here is an awesome shot of Nick on the very field he and his Laker teammates plan to dominate this fall!
So there you have it! Nick’s session rocked and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him! If we were going to build a senior from scratch we would definitely build Nick!
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Frameable Faces Photography is a small biz retail mom & pop shop of Doug&Ally Cohen located in the Orchard Mall in West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States Of America!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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Sometimes life happens – things get crazy, you’re raising kids and it’s the glorious chaos of life, right? Heba is a perfect example of this with the story of this session – first let’s just say at the end of the day she has 4 amazing kids and just an overall fabulous Frameable family! 4 kids ranging from 15 to 3 – which we know ain’t always easy, but judging by the results we have to give it up to her and Vinny – they are pulling it off in style. Meanwhile Heba stopped in here a year ago to plan a family session and then it didn’t happen – like the first sentence I typed above life happened! We had almost forgotten about her – almost. But when she popped back in with a huge friendly smile asking “remember me?” I absolutely did and we were thrilled that she came back! Her little man was turning 3 and the timing was good for them to get this scheduled. So without further adieu let’s take a look – we’re going to present these a little differently than we usually would because we LOVE the 4 close ups of the children which Heba will be displaying in her home along with the family portrait!
Fabulous Frameable Family!
Let’s start with the traditional family portrait – what a gorgeous crew. The little guy and I bonded – we were giving each other “two thumbs up” to get ready for each shot and he was a total pro – and I gotta tell you, not all 3 year olds are the easiest to photograph, but we usually can get it done and with this little one there was no problem.
So here is the Fabulous Frameable Family:
….and here are the children in order from oldest to youngest with matching close crop black and white portraits! Love these.
Stunning right? We really enjoyed having this crew in the studio, and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with them!
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Frameable Faces Photography is a small biz retail mom & pop shop of Doug&Ally Cohen located in the Orchard Mall in West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States Of America!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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Sammy is a future chef in the making – the dude can create some serious culinary concoctions and he knows quality when he tastes it so you know if he has any say at all in the menu at his bar mitzvah that it’s gonna be gooooooood – a scrumptious soirée! And in this case the food didn’t disappoint! We know because we were there – as guests, because Sammy is our nephew! Ally did indeed take a few photos at the weekday service at Adat Shalom Synagogue which we’ll share here, but the bulk of these highlights come from the event and is the work of our fantastic event photographer Angela! Let’s start with a few photos from the small chapel earlier in the week at shul.
What a legacy…
Sammy’s great grandfather was the cantor at Adat Shalom for many years so it was very special for Sammy to carry on that tradition as the first of his generation within that family to become a Bar Mitzvah. Here are a few highlights as Sammy leads the service and does the name proud:
Sammy reads from the Torah
Sammy with his dad and maternal grandfather putting on tefillin
Sammy and his parents receive a blessing from the Rabbi
Let’s get to the Scrumptious Soirée!
The party was held at the Royal Oak Farmer’s Market – a great wide open space for a bash! The food was off the charts with Asian, Mexican, and Israeli stations for food and everyone had a blast – I know we did! Sammy had a ton of fun on his big day for sure.
The Whole Scene!
Sammy gets a lift during the traditional Hora Dance!
Haha – think he was enjoying this?
Sammy with his peeps
The Bar Mitzvah Stud
That’s a great shot by Angela of Sammy!
The Happy Family!
Sammy kicks back and takes it in
“Then and Now” Sammy!
What is hilarious about that shot is Sammy is recreating the big photo that was taken by Ally when Sammy was only 2!
Stacy & Jason get to relax and enjoy the celebration!
We love that last shot – the way Angela framed Stacy and Jason with all the celebratory raised glasses is perfect! All in all it was a day and a night to remember at Sammy’s Scrumptious Soirée! We hope you enjoyed the highlights!
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Frameable Faces Photography
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Frameable Faces Photography is a small biz retail mom & pop shop of Doug&Ally Cohen located in the Orchard Mall in West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States Of America!
Being “Frameable” is an attitude, a community, a way of life – a life you would want to celebrate and display on your walls for all to see! Tell us… ARE YOU FRAMEABLE?
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Think he was having fun? This is always a fun shot of the Bar Mitzvah boy up in the air, on top of the world during the traditional Hora dance!
Love that shot – it really came out great!
And there you have it! Mitchell is the man and we hope you enjoyed the highlights from our morning with him!
