We love Ann Arbor and we love the opportunity (and the excuse) to hang out up there anytime – especially to photograph a delightful family like this one with two Wolverine boys! A great day for Going Blue! Let’s get to a few highlights:
Going Blue in Ann Arbor
We actually started out with the family in traditional dress which always makes for some beautiful colors in a great family portrait:
Classic!!!
The crew changed outfits for the next few and here’s where the “Going Blue” doesn’t just mean the blue in Michigan’s maize and blue, but this coordinated look in the various blues for all 4 of them – we love this:
We also have some fun behind the scenes from Facebook:
Here’s one at a different spot on campus of the adorable couple…
And we wrapped it up at the Big House – Michigan Stadium! Here’s one of the bros:
Hail to the Sinhas!
What a fantastic day – we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our photos of this family!
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We had an incredible day in Ann Arbor with our Lacey and 15 of her housemates who are all graduating this Spring from the University of Michigan! We have photographed high school seniors up on campus before but this was a first for us and we have two more groups coming up for sessions just like this one!
Meanwhile these girls and this graduating class as a whole has been through plenty with the pandemic. Lots of uncertainty, lots of virtual classes, lots of adapting and overcoming, and as you’ll see because it comes through in these photos, they did just that. They are all proud and resilient Wolverines and we’re especially proud to call our Lacey one of them – especially one of this crew! This was a real treat for us to spend the day with them capturing them in their caps and gowns and their maize and blue! A day we’ll never forget, and we have the fun highlights here for you! GO BLUE!
It’s Great To Be A Michigan Wolverine
We started at the Law Quad which is a very popular spot for obvious reasons – the architecture and the whole look is spectacular.
What a crew!
We took a ton of photos and we also livestreamed a little – here’s some behind the scenes from Facebook Live!
One more from the same spot all in the pastel dresses – such a great look!
We also took individual photos like this one of our Lacey!
We are so proud of her!!!!
Okay at this point we headed over to Michigan Stadium after a change of outfits for a few pics and some fun at the Big House!
So much fun, and now it was time to break out the champagne and smoke bombs……
Haha!!!🥂
LOVE.
Next stop – the Student Union and we have a little more behind the scenes this time from Instagram Live!
Last stop – the house – also known as “BIG BLUE”!!!
Wow. What a journey for us, these girls, and their families! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of such a special day for us! Leaders and best. FOREVER GO BLUE!!! 〽️💙💛
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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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Kendall kills it – in more ways than one! For starters she’s an accomplished volleyball player, so kills in volleyball are important – a kill is an attack that results in an immediate point or side out, and so we attacked this spokesmodel session with gusto! And yes, she killed it. Kendall will be playing volleyball at Michigan and Michigan is our shared connection. You see, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree as Kendall’s dad Vada (may he rest in peace) was my friend and teammate on the football team at Michigan so having Kendall in the fold representing our studio as the first spokesmodel we’ve ever had at Ann Arbor Skyline High School is really special for us.
Kendall Kills It
We met Kendall and her mom Sarah (who Ally knew from a previous life in finance before Ally and I and Sarah and Vada got together which is pretty cool) up in Ann Arbor on a perfect Saturday for the session but actually two nights before that they came to the studio for our spokesmodel party where we did a few studio pics so let’s start with one of those:
Love the simple white backdrop with the simple white tank… Kendall looks fantastic!
To Ann Arbor…
Now let’s visit a few of the Ann Arbor images a couple days later where as I said before we had a perfect day! As a side note this is very typical for our senior sessions where we take some photos in the studio as well as on location. We started in the Arb where the peonies were in full bloom so it was actually pretty crowded. So we took a few photos by the flowers but shortly after we found a great spot on one of the trails:
I’m guessing we’ll be using that spot again…
We also have some fun behind the scenes from the day – first from the replay of the livestream we did on Instagram:
We also headed over to the law quad on campus which is really a beautiful setting and we used a couple different spots – here’s Kendall under one of the archway entrances to the courtyard:
And here’s the behind the scenes action on that photo from Facebook Live!
At this point we left the campus to get some photos at a couple of parks and while we usually include 4 photos in these posts we’re including an extra here since Kendall’s session is the last of our Class of 2020 spokesmodels, our first from Ann Arbor Skyline, and – well…..there were just too many good ones not to share an extra!
Love that bridge and how Kendall’s tank top pops right off of it while still almost matching it…
And we’ll leave you with this one, which might very well be our favorite of the day:
What a classic photo!!!! Classic beauty!
And there you have it – Kendall kills it indeed! We loved our day with them and we can’t wait to get Kendall in front of Ally’s camera again. For those of you who have been following along we hope you’ve enjoyed our class of 2020 crew and we can’t wait to start photographing the sessions for the upcoming seniors!!!
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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!
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Yes there is plenty of evidence of Emily being exceptional – not just on her senior session in case the title is misleading, because we’ve known this for a while. Really since the first time we met her and throughout her time representing the studio as a spokesmodel for the class of 2018! Plus she’s a North Farmington Raider which always helps, but she’s no ordinary Raider, she’s an accomplished musician and student athlete! She’s a total character as well so really she’s the whole package and we are huge fans!
Emily Being Exceptional
With Emily we traveled to Ann Arbor and spent the morning photographing on and around the U of M campus which obviously has lots of great spots, and her mom Jen joined – we always have a great time together with them! We’ll start with this one:
Stunningly beautiful!
Now there’s a little story with that one… we had a bit of an emergency situation with a big fat bumblebee who was hanging around in the flowers that decided to hitch a ride in Emily’s beautiful long hair and come along in the car…. let’s just say Emily was a little startled when she discovered Mr. Bumblebee. Holy moly…. haha! But Emily’s a trooper and she survived! Lol…
Meanwhile we do have some behind the scenes from our day – not of the bee but of the bee-yoo-tee. See what I did there? First with the replay of our Facebook Live broadcast:
Here are a couple more where we explored and took advantage of textures and architecture on campus:
Framed nicely with the full length shot!
Here’s some more behind the scenes fun from the YouTube Live replay:
And now with the close up…
Emily being exceptional indeed!
At this point after a delicious vegan lunch at The Lunch Room where our Lacey met up with us as well we headed back to the studio in West Bloomfield to get a couple more photos including some focus on volleyball – and this next photo is LIT…. We usually play with fire on the black backdrop but this one on the grey is just awesome…
A great one to finish on! So as you can see there was plenty of evidence of Emily being exceptional and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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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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Love that bridge and how Kendall’s tank top pops right off of it while still almost matching it…
What a classic photo!!!! Classic beauty!
