Yep it’s the thrill of the Chase (s)!!!!! We are big fans of this fam and Jordan was a spokesmodel for us a few years back so it was a thrill indeed to get them back to the studio for some delightful family portraits and they brought Gizmo the pup! Gizmo is awesome. Let’s get to some highlights!
The Thrill of the Chase(s)
Let’s start with the group:
Love it!
We also have some fun behind the scenes first with a JORDAN TAKEOVER of the Instagram… check it out!
And time for the happy couple Doug & Jessica (with Gizmo)!
At this point we switched to the white backdrop and we have more behind the scenes this time from Facebook!
And the family pic on white!
Oh, and one more bonus of Gizmo getting the spotlight!
HAHA!!!
Yes the thrill of the Chase(s)! A great time with them once again and we hope you enjoyed the highlights!
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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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This is starting to happen more and more but it will NEVER get “old.” We’re talking about former seniors having babies!!! Jeremy has always been one of our favorites and it’s no surprise that now his wifey Chella is too. They are a joy to be around and they are expecting – so we were honored to photograph their maternity session here at the studio and had a blast doing it. We’re thrilled to bring you the highlights!
(Soon to not only be) Jeremy & Chella
Chella looks so radiant! Ally thinks it’s a boy because Chella looks so beautiful (a girl would “steal” the beauty” lol)!
Time for Jeremy to jump in…
So much love!
And now for a smile from the happy parents-to-be:
Awesome.
And we’ll leave you with this silhouette:
These two will be amazing parents and we can’t wait to meet the baby! 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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How’s that for a title! Okay so we didn’t literally take over Louisville at Imaging USA 2024 but it’s about going in with that mindset and we crushed it. We brought the whole team – Doug, Ally, Angela and Michelle and we learned a ton, mingled with photographer friends old and new and we are pretty fired up to bring back that knowledge along with new equipment, techniques and materials for some new styles for our portraits!
*Side note: The formatting seems a little wonky on this blog post for some reason so there may be a couple of empty spaces you have to scroll past – don’t worry, there aren’t photos that aren’t showing up or anything.
Louisville Is A Cool City
We stayed right downtown and the Kentucky International Convention Center is a world class facility. Downtown is pretty clean and walkable – surprisingly we can’t say there was a ton of energy down there – not a lot of people or traffic downtown but it was nice. Here’s the view down market street from the hotel – keep in mind Doug took these photos with his iPhone – these are NOT professional photos lol…
Here we are at Heine Brothers’ Coffee with Metro Detroit photographer Sam Sarkis – one of the very best wedding photographers in the game. Always great to spend time with other photographers we respect to talk shop!
Imaging USA 2024!
This was the home screen of the app that would pop up on your smartphone when you launched it and the app was really well done with every piece of information you could want on every seminar, and you could pick the ones you wanted to attend to populate your calendar and review them as well. The entire center was decked out too… every wall and escalator with kiosks everywhere.
The keynote speaker was Victoria Labalme and she delivered a fantastic talk – very inspiring indeed. Many of the speakers throughout the conference were fabulous.
We did a little Facebook Livestream (of course) right as we entered the expo for the first time where we were able to chat with just about every vendor of note in the business…
What’s also kind of funny it that it was around this time that we were “featured” (haha) in Miller’s Lab’s reel on Instagram – a couple people noticed and messaged us about it!
One vendor we’ll highlight that we were REALLY impressed with was a company called Graphi Studio – we fell in love with some of their albums and we may just be offering some of them to you soon!!!
And that’s the thing…. there was SOOOO much to see.
Here we are with Tomayia Colvin who was one of the speakers – she may have been the best one at Imaging USA – wow. She’s based in Houston and she KNOWS her stuff.
Here is Ron Nichols presenting – he’s the owner of ProSelect which is the software we use for our ordering meetings that you’ve all seen. And boy are the new features coming to that exciting… Holy moly. We hung out with Ron for a while at a sports bar to watch the Lions game (although we don’t want to talk about that too much… 🙁).
So yeah…. in conclusion, we crushed it.
The closing party was lit, putting a nice final touch on the proceedings!
See! We TOLD you Frameable Faces TOOK OVER Louisville!!!! LOL!!!
And there you have it – a wonderful week at Imaging USA 2024 and we hope you enjoyed the recap!!!
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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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Hey everybody! Okay – so there has been so much going on here at the studio and in our lives, and while it may seem like there’s been a lull in the action it’s really been more like a duck who seems calm on the surface but is paddling like mad underneath. We’ve got BIG plans for 2024!
Plans For 2024
We thought it would be fun to let you in on some of the things we have on tap for the year – Frameable Faces related AND otherwise!
Imaging USA
We last went to Imaging USA in Nashville in 2010 – which is hard to believe… Imaging USA is an annual national photography convention through the PPA, and while we’ve always said we should get back to another one we’re finally doing it next weekend in Louisville! Last time we were at Imaging USA we did a little video recap to document our trip – it seems a bit crude to us now lol… but that was a great trip and we learned a ton.
Funny too because Frameable Faces was really still a fledgling studio in the grand scheme of things…
This time is going to be way different.
For starters we are going with the dream team from our preschool division Angela and Michelle! You know Angela as our event photographer for many years which she still is, but last year she was joined by Michelle here in launching our schools division for day care centers and nursery schools and the two of them are doing an amazing job! More on them soon with a separate tab here on the site with their bios and more info, so stay tuned (we got a bit behind on that). Neither of them have been to Imaging so this feels like a next chapter in the growth of the studio and we are thrilled! It feels like coming full circle a bit and now we’re “grizzled veterans” with a long running and successful studio with a wonderful community, thriving at our beloved home of 15 years now – Orchard Mall!
The Usual but a bit more…
As much as things may change many things remain the same and that is our love of high school senior photos – so we’re assembling our new Class of 2025 (how is that possible) spokesmodel crew – a couple are already on board and we are so excited to start photographing them! But another thing has happened that has steadily grown that we love that we might not have seen coming 10 or even 5 years ago and that’s COLLEGE senior pics! Okay they’re not quite the same as high school senior pics but boy are they a blast.
When spring rolls around we are finding ourselves in Ann Arbor, East Lansing and hopefully elsewhere in the future bopping around campus usually with a crew of friends in their caps and gowns or fun college gear…..and quite often champagne lol. So that’s another thing we get to look forward to these days which is a recent development. And of course we still photograph plenty of corporate headshots, families and newborns. Including newborns of our former seniors – that’s also a newer development!!! Talk about full circle and surreal….
Other updates with the fam
Doug is still jamming in his band Vintage Playboy and the next gig is on April 13th at the B1 Tavern in Keego Harbor – come on out and jam! The B1 Tavern actually has really good food – not just bar food – so come early, eat and make a night out of it!
Doug also still has digital marketing clients with his company M10 Social – if you haven’t been to the website Doug has added a lot to it. There are now THREE blogs there! The M10 Blog for Doug’s thoughts, tips and news in the digital marketing space and social media. Doug’s Music Snobbery where Doug reviews albums, concerts, album rankings, band profiles and lots of other stuff. His Prince album ranking is the second ranked one just behind Spin Magazine! Lastly is Doug’s History Blog – you know he’s a history freak and there are a bunch of photos there from roadtrips to battlefields, president’s homes, national parks and much more – including our epic family western road trip last year where we hit NINE National Parks, THREE president’s homes and more.
We also moved last summer – back to Farmington Hills and we love our new place. Lacey is in Brooklyn having finished up her M.F.A. in creative writing at Long Island University and you can visit her website at www.laceycohen.com! Tony graduated from MSU and moved home and what is he doing you ask…..?
It’s Detroit Jerky Time!
We bought a company called Detroit Jerky! It’s a plant-based jerky – vegan, cruelty free and gluten free and we are so excited to get that going – so we’ve been pretty busy needless to say. Tony is the CJO (Chief Jerky Officer) and we’ll be working out of the Proud Mitten Shared Kitchen in Plymouth. We expect to be in production and selling jerky sometime in March if all goes according to plan. Visit the website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn! It’s delicious – you’ll love it.
Whew! That’s about it for the moment – and that’s plenty. We are so excited for 2024 and we look forward to seeing all of you this year!
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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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Get the Doug&Ally Morning Show PODCAST at the following links!!!
We love professional headshots here at the studio because we often get to help someone launch a new business, begin a new position, get honored with an award, get out there on the market (if you get our drift), or simply update their online presence – but regardless of the reason it’s always fun! We have a few recent headshots to share with you here – one on the grey background and two on white, but we have plenty of options depending on what is required, and remember – if your car is older than your headshot you NEED a new one! Hehe…
Marcie
Marcie is the new Regional President-Elect for Hadassah and she’s pretty excited for her new leadership role! She’s perfect for it – we’ve known Marcie for years now and she’s a delight. Congrats Marcie!
Brooke
Brooke Allen is adorable – and you may know her voice from the last 5 years she spent on WWJ 950 – August 31st was her last day on the air and we are excited to follow her next endeavor! We first met Brooke when she interviewed us for the West Bloomfield Civic Center TV show The Splash 4 years ago and we’ve collaborated with her a couple times since – we love Brooke! You can follow her on Instagram!
Jessica
Last but certainly not least is Jessica Seman whom we just met when she became a client for this headshot! She’s a doll – she’s starting a business consulting biz and is in the process of launching her website as we speak!!!
And there you have it! Hope you enjoyed seeing these headlining headshots and learning about these ladies! And of course, give us a shout if YOU need an updated headshot!
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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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What a day we had with Kaitlin! Forecast was slightly dicey but we were pretty sure it was going to be clear when we were on location and sure enough the conditions were perfect for this rising Walled Lake Northern Knight of the class of 2024! This is kinda part 1 only because her twin brother Justin will be appearing here with his own session in the fall – he joined us for some of this so their parents could have a few of them together, but they are also getting their own days in the sun – so to speak hehe… Kaitlin gets the pretty and Justin gets the city! So let’s get to why the kudos for Kaitlin are justified shall we?
Kudos for Kaitlin
We had plenty of laughs as well on this day and mom Stacey joined us – she’s a delight. But for all of the talk of weather we actually started in the studio for the yearbook pic and a few more poses so we’ll start there:
She’s adorable!
Okay let’s head outside to the Bham.
What a pic!!!
We also have some fun behind the scenes first from Facebook:
Time for another outfit change – our seniors can change their outfits as many times as they like really – somewhere between 4-6 outfits is typically the sweet spot.
Love the colors and Kaitlin was having fun! Let’s check out one more behind the scenes this time from Instagram:
So yep – kudos for Kaitlin indeed – she slayed and we had a great time. We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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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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Bringing home the class of 2024 senior spokesmodel crew with the dudes! Anthony crushed it – you might even say he was on FIRE!!! We weren’t surprised – Anthony is a great kid and we go wayyyyyy back with his parents. His dad John and Doug were football teammates at Michigan so we’re talking 35 years… pretty surreal to have Anthony here representing the Catholic Central Shamrocks for our spokesmodel team! His mom Lynne joined us at the studio for these epic photos – let’s get to them…
Fiery Antics With Anthony
Anthony is a student athlete and he works hard at his craft whether on the gridiron or in the shot put and discus circles (and especially in the weight room) and we wanted to capture that grit and badassery so….
Like we said…..dude was on FIRE!!!
Here’s some fun behind the scenes as well first from Facebook:
After the flames died down we got to the business of capturing more angles of our guy’s personality of which he has plenty!
Looking great!
Smiling Shamrock!
We also changed backdrops to get a few on the white – our seniors typically try out plenty of different looks, backdrops, and locations too! Here’s some more behind the scenes from Instagram:
And we’ll leave you with this result on the white…
Awesome!
Anthony killed it! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our session with him and we can’t wait for the class of 2024! It’s practically here….
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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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Building Entrepreneurship is a BBYO program that we have been involved with over the years – it returned last year in Detroit after a little hiatus and we were honored to participate! BBYO is the leading pluralistic Jewish teen movement aspiring to involve more Jewish teens in more meaningful Jewish experiences, and both of our kids were very active in it while they were in high school. We love to give back and anytime we can tell our story and mentor young people about business and careers we are game! This year they came to us here at the studio and we were thrilled to host them!
Building Entrepreneurship 2023!
As we’ve said before we think it’s important to get young people to start thinking about viewing the world from a business standpoint – even if it’s just in terms of following their passions and looking at the social media platforms they are already on from a marketing and career standpoint. Follow the brands and professions you like on Instagram for example in addition to your friends! See how they operate, how they communicate to their communities. It’s easy to learn plenty even if you aren’t sure what you want to do with your life! The girls asked some great questions and some of them are clearly already thinking about their futures.
We have a little fun behind the scenes from Facebook:
After we told the story of Frameable Faces with some tips about how we grew the business and some advice mixed in we took a couple of fun group photos and put together this fun composite!
We loved hosting Building Entrepreneurship 2023 and we look forward to being a part of this wonderful program again next year!
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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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Alright Alex! This kid has talent, style and swagger! He brought his sax and played for us in the studio on his senior session and he crushed it in Detroit as well – what a day! We had a blast with this class of 2023 West Bloomfield Laker and his delightful mom Michelle! We started out in the studio and that’s where we’ll start with the highlights…
Alright Alex
So cool – check out the performance from the livestream below on Facebook!
And we’ll leave you with this one – we all decided that this could be Alex’s first album cover!
Alright Alex indeed!!!
And there you have it – we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our awesome day with this guy!
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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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Rose makes her second appearance on the blog in (appropriately) a GARDEN, and she showed up all those other flowers there – they didn’t stand a chance. Rose is a class of 2023 spokesmodel for us and a senior at Walled Lake Northern, and we love her. Her mom Sharyn and dad Alan joined us for a memorable day with great weather for the encore and she slayed the game which was not surprising, so let’s get to some highlights!
Rose Shows Up The Other Flowers
This was a brand new spot for us – let us know if you’re interested in using it – it will pretty much always be Rose’s since she was first…
Gorgeous!!!!!!
And a shout out to our neighbors down the hall The Beauty Lounge for Rose’s hair and makeup…
We also have some fun behind the scenes first from Facebook:
Okay wow…
And wow again – we love this photo – something about the little lean in her pose and that awesome smile.
A little more behind the scenes fun this time from Instagram…
And we’ll leave you with this one – as we said, the flowers didn’t stand a chance. Hehe…
LOVE!
And there you have it – a fabulous flowery day with a Rose – our Rose! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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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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