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Bergen County Christmas mini sessions are here!

My first round of Holiday Mini sessions this week was tons of fun! All sessions for this week including Saturday November 18th are sold out but I have a couple of spots available for next week and MIGHT open another weekend date (December 2nd) if there is enough interest.

Remember you get a mini session and one digital image for FREE when you book a new children or family session for 2018. If you need a reminder about these sessions include you can get it here.

If you prefer to get a holiday mini session a la carte I’ve got two options for you:

Studio Mini Session with 5 Images
This option includes a 30 min studio session for your kids (no family pictures) and 5 fully edited high resolution digital images. The price for this all inclusive package is $450 for a weekday session.

Studio Mini Session with 10 Images
This option includes a 30 min studio session and 10 fully edited high resolution digital images. With this option we can take family photos as well – in addition to pictures of your kids. The price for this all inclusive package is $750 for a weekday session.

So if you want to book a session holiday mini session reach out to me ASAP!

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HUGE Industry Recognition | Award Winning Photographer

I am back from my great European adventure (Sicily and Malta were awesome and deserve a dedicated blog post, which will see the light of day eventually) – and while I was away I got some great news. One of my images got a merit award at the International Image Competition held by NAPCP (National Association of Professional Children Photographers)! This is a very well regarded photography competition with literally thousands of professional images submitted from all over the world so receiving this award is a HUGE honor! And the fact that both of my girls are in this award winning picture makes it even more special!:)

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Fun Bergen County extended family photo session with long time clients | Ridgewood photographer

You know what they say – “man plans, God Laughs?” That is what happened with this Ridgewood family photo session with one of my oldest clients. For their extended family session (they had family visiting from out of country and wanted to get images of everybody together) we thought that it would be nice to split the session into two: we would start downtown with a session with the immediate family of three – Mom, Dad and one of my favorite girls in the world – G.and and then head over to their house for the extended family portion of a photo shoot. Well that’s not how it worked out (we’ve got a smoked chicken to blame for that!) and instead we ended up photographing four girls downtown. It was definitely a different session from what we had it mind but probably a more fun one – there was lots of hugging and laughing and jumping and ice cream eating:)

and then we did go back to their Ridgewood home for the second part of the photoshoot – and there was more hugging and laughing and even some pool diving:)

I am seriously very lucky to have such amazing clients – who come back to me year after year after year, allow me to watch their kids grow from adorable toddlers to beautiful girls (and boys), who laugh with me and give me hugs when I need them.

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Bergen county family photo session

Last time I photograph this Ridgewood family was a few years ago – it was so great seeing them again. I was completely amazed at how much older the girls got (from adorable little girls they are way on her way to turning into beautiful young ladies) – yet the parents somehow managed to look younger than ever!:)

You may know this about me – I absolutely LOVE color – all my personal photo shoots are full of colorful outfits. And when my clients share my love of color it makes me super happy. So you can imagine how THRILLED I was when this Mom showed me her awesome colorful jacket and said that she wanted to use it for the pictures. We picked out amazing mustard pants for her husband from his closet – and he totally ROCKED them! Add cool outfits for the girls with cute accessories and we were set for the session.

As I do for a lot of my Signature Photo session clients, we split up the session between their beautiful Ridgewood home (their backyard is absolutely stunning!) and downtown Ridgewood. I love having family sessions at peoples homes – I think that capturing the place you live in images is really priceless and years down the road you will love having these images. Besides, where else would you feel more ‘at home’ then … at your home?:)

And downtown Ridgewood is one of my favorite places in Bergen County for family photo sessions . It is such a quaint little town (I had clients from the city come here for sessions!) and if you live here it makes it even more special having a photo shoot done there – I did it for my own family session a few years ago. I did not realize this about Ridgewood till I went location scouting but it is full of really cool urban spots that photograph really well and it makes a perfect backdrop for family photos.And after you are done with your photoshoot you have plenty of wonderful restaurants to go to to celebrate an end of a great family photo session, which is what these guys did:)

Live Love Laugh Photos is an award-winning Bergen County family photographer with a photography studio located in Ridgewood New Jersey. If you are interested in family photos this fall look no further and reach out to us to schedule your family or children photo session.

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Embracing chaos that is a big family | Bergen county extended family photo session

What do you get when you have a wonderful couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, their two beautiful grown up daughters with spouses and 5 grandkids ranging from not even two to eight years old? You get lots of running and laughing and tickling and jumping and butterfly searching and hugging and kissing – in other words you get loud messy loving happy CHAOS! And I absolutely LOVE it! This family reminds me so my of my own – I also have a sister and between two of us we have five kids. And whenever we get together at our parents house it is just as loud and loving as it these guys were!

This session was a 50th anniversary gift for my the Grandparents and I honestly think (other than an awesome trip somewhere exotic) this is the best anniversary gift I can think of. I think I may need to arrange a big family photo session for my own parents 50th anniversary! And I hope that I will be so lucky to get to celebrate my own 50th anniversary and that my own kids will arrange an awesome photographer to come and take pictures of all of us:)

But back to this session… We did this photoshoot at the family’s home in Allendale, Bergen County – this is the house where both sisters grew up and I think it was so special doing their session there. The Grandma (who looks amazing by the way!) said that she wanted posed portrait of all five grandkids together and normally it would not be an issue but three of these kids just travelled all the way from Maryland and the other two – from New York City. They were all rallied up and excited to see each other and having them stand perfectly still and posed was somewhat of a challenge. The daughters were somewhat skeptical about getting posed pictures of all the grandkids but being a professional that I am, we were able to do that. But their favorite picture with the grandchildren was this one – to me it embodies chaos that is life with small children and when this Grandma saw it she said that it was just perfect because it captured exactly what their family was!:) And to me, always striving to capture authentic images, there is no higher compliment!