Hannah's Portrait Session - Rocket Fizz Candy Shop - Woodland Hills

In a few minutes I'll be posting a sneak preview of photos from Hannah's Bat Mitzvah, but I first wanted to share some of the photos from her Portrait Session.

Remember, the portrait sessions I shoot for Bar & Bat Mitzvah are designed to match the theme of the event and/or to show the personality of Bar/Bat Mitzvah boy or girl. Hannah had a candy theme and we were fortunate enough to photograph in the Rocket Fizz Candy Store in Woodland Hills. Hannah is a very sweet, fun loving girl, and we definitely captured that. I think the most fun we had with this shoot was when I had Hannah throw taffy into the air over and over again. Enjoy!

Jake & Jenna's B'nai Mitzvah

A lot of work went into Jake & Jenna's B'nai Mitzvah. You should have seen the binder in which, Jill, their mom, was keeping everything. What's great is that I was able to help with everything from invitations, to candy bars, to banners and more. Their portrait session for their sign-in books resulted in some amazing photos (I'll post some soon). And since there was a music theme for the B'nai Mitzvah, we kept true to that with everything we put together and mixed in Jake's interest in Basketball and Jenna's interest in dance.

I was very honored to photograph for their family as I've known them for years. The entire day was fill with a lot of love. Here's just a sampling of what I captured. Congratulations Jake, Jenna, Jill, and Dan!

Baby Joseph

One of my main goals is to become a lifetime photographer. That is to say, I not only want to be the one to photograph your wedding, I want you to call me for any of your photography needs throughout your life. With Matt & Nicole I've started to do just that. I photographed their wedding last year and was very excited when I heard Nicole was pregnant with their first child and wanted me to photograph for them. I present to you, Baby Joseph Peter Marshall, born just one day before their 1 year wedding anniversary!

Matt & Nicole are big sports fans, so we made sure to incorporated a bit of that into these photos. One photo not shown here is Joseph surrounded by clothing and items from 5 sports teams and a shirt from Matt's alma mater, UCLA. My fiance, Julia, even found a marbled, "Dodger Blue" fabric that we photographed with.

I just order a couple of new products for Matt & Nicole, a 4x6 Baby Book and a set of Accordion Mini Books. I'll post some photos once I receive them. While designing the books, Nicole requested I use the photo of the teddy bear below on one of the covers. It turns out she was given this bear when she was 4-years-old! (Glad I photographed a few things around the nursery.)

We've already talked about photographing Joseph at one-year-old. I can't wait!