Boy does a year go by fast… this story is one of the more epic tales in Frameable Faces lore to be sure and we continue to tell it here. It started with an “emergency” maternity session phone call from Nick and Jen that you can read about here. Another photography studio’s mistake became the start of a friendship for us and some memorable moments with Jeralyn (who was once known lovingly in the Frameable Faces community as the “sharting baby” because of a hilarious little poop mishap during her newborn session that you can see and read about here)! Now Jeralyn is ONE and she returned to the studio for an adorable photo session from which we want to share a few images with you!
Jeralyn Is ONE!
So we have some great stuff to show you here. We love doing “baby plans” where our peeps come in for maternity, newborn, 6 month, and one year photos because we get to be a part of such a wonderful and exciting year, and then at the end we get to put together some stages – like a “watch me grow” storyboard! Like this:
Newborn, 6 months, and one year!!!
So much fun – perfectly displayed on a wall printed to 10″ x 30″ in a frame!
As for the rest of the one year session here are some of the other highlights…
How beautiful is she? Loving the hair… 🙂
Jeralyn also likes blocks. Who doesn’t like blocks?
Actually props in general are fun…
We also have some fun behind the scenes (of course)… let’s start with the replay from Facebook Live:
At this point we broke out the sari that we used for all three sessions as you saw above in the storyboard – so pretty as the backdrop for this adorable close up!
LOVE the thumb…
What’s great about our Periscope replay is often when people say you should photograph the parents being silly trying to get the kids to smile……well we got Jen at the beginning of this broadcast. Haha! If you want to join in the fun on Periscope download the app and follow us at @FrameableFaces here or if you just want to check it out from Twitter you can do that here.
Doug&Allywith Jeralyn for her ONE YEAR photos!!! This is pure happy. https://t.co/CtXjqEU7cp
The last thing we’ll leave you with you could say is the coup de grâce from this session…
Just all around cuteness with the one year expressions! So yes Jeralyn is ONE and it really has been a delightful year photographing her! We hope you enjoyed the highlights!!!
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We are loving Lauren’s likeness in Detroit! Actually I think we’re just loving it on our blog period – Lauren continues to prove why we are so excited about our class of 2018 spokesmodel crew! She came highly recommended and we could tell why the moment she and her mom Gabrielle walked into the studio. We just totally connected with them right away and that’s really how it’s been so far with this group. We were giddy about getting her in front of Ally’s camera and this session was scheduled to take place a couple days after we discovered the Michigan Building downtown with one of our current seniors. There was much more we wanted to explore down there as well as getting over to the Eastern Market for some murals so we had a great plan since Detroit has become more and more popular for senior sessions with the city’s much heralded comeback.
Loving Lauren’s Likeness…
As I mentioned our first stop was at the Michigan Building where we got a pretty cool angle of the amazing and decaying ceiling as a backdrop to our girl – check it out:
So cool!
As always we have some behind the scenes fun for you to show a little bit of the session and how we captured some of these photos. First we have the Periscope replay – if you want to join in the fun at @FrameableFaces on the app you can do that here or if you simply want to check out the broadcasts from Twitter you can do that too.
We also wanted to get over to Eastern Market and do a little mural exploring – these have also become very popular for our seniors in Detroit. We just love being down there – Detroit is so cool…
Lauren is looking great – ripped jeans are a cool look in the city too!
Let’s look at a little more behind the scenes fun, this time from Facebook Live:
Here is a look at a couple more photos… First we’ll show one more from a mural at Eastern Market:
And lastly here’s a closer photo with this half crop… also a very popular shot with various walls for us:
So yeah… we were loving Lauren’s likeness in Detroit and we hope you enjoyed the highlights! We can’t wait to get her back into the studio for her senior portraits soon! We’ll leave you with the fun Snapchat story from the day!
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We took the show on the road for the Frameable Faces Spring Tour 2017 and it was an amazing odyssey through the deep South of America! The trip took us over 4000 miles through seven states, three Civil War Battlefields, two college football stadiums, encounters with alligators, sharks, deer, roosters, tortoises, salamanders, and various other wildlife, two photo sessions, friends, family, and a whole lot more…!
The Frameable Faces Spring Tour 2017!
Our basic route!
We Periscoped, Tweeted, Snapchatted, and photographed our way around this amazing country and we loved it. So let’s recap in order – hope you enjoy reliving the tour with us!
Here’s where it all starts – we were so excited…. hehe.
A rocky start…
Day 1 was brutal. We wanted to leave at 3 and didn’t get on the road until 4:30. Okay fine – that’s not unusual, but it took us TWO hours to get to the Ohio border which should only take an hour. There was awful traffic and the weather was horrible, in fact it poured sheets of rain almost the whole way to Chattanooga with major thunderstorms. So I white knuckled it with my eyes burning doing about 50 MPH most of the way and we didn’t get in until 3:30AM. Ugh. But even though Ally, Lacey and I (not Tony) have switched to a plant-based diet we suspended that for our traditional first meal at Skyline Chili along the way…
5-Way Chili!!!
We got a slow start the next day obviously, and we made it down to Gainesville, FL the second night to stay with our friend Cathy Hackl and her family – we’ve known Cathy almost 2 years now from Periscope and we’ve hung out together in Northern Michigan, California and Florida – we did family portraits for her before and those highlights are here on the blog.
Here’s the first Periscope broadcast of the trip just checking in with our peeps from the road in Georgia on the way to Gainesville – Ally handled the broadcast while I kept focused on the road… If you don’t have Periscope yet you can download it and follow us at @frameablefaces at this link.
We had a nice visit and Cathy took us over to the University of Florida campus the next morning to check out the campus and “The Swamp” – their football stadium which was pretty cool. We Periscoped from the stadium as well!
From there we headed down to Delray Beach on Saturday where my parents stay for the winter and we had a couple of great days down there with them, but not before a quick stop in Kissimmee to see Scott and Kristi – aka @FloridaPlunge on Periscope. Check out their website FLORIDAPLUNGE.com!
Scott & Kristi – @FloridaPlunge!
In Delray Beach we visited with cousins and friends, got a little sunburned on the beach (ouch) and took a little drive over to Alligator Alley on I-75 to look for gators which we did the last time we were down there too… This time we only saw a few in the first few minutes of the Periscope we did…
Wednesday Morning we woke up and got on the road down to see my old college teammate Steve and his wife Amy, their daughter Jamie, and their various pets…. The drive alone down to the Keys is spectacular and we Periscoped part of it once again with Ally manning the iPhone and me doing the driving!
We stopped along the way in Tavernier to grab a key lime pie at the Blonde Giraffe – best key lime pie in the Keys! We snapchatted the pie (which as a side note you can see at the end of this post).
Once we arrived at Steve’s house we settled in for a couple days of eating stone crab claws, lobster, cobia, and barrel fish – so delicious…. We were also happy to see Peanut – Steve’s pet tortoise…. He was tiny last time we saw him – maybe the size of a basketball. He’s grown quite a bit…
Steve helping Tony feed peanut in 2005
Here’s a short clip of when Peanut walked over to say hello (he actually scared the crap out of me a few minutes before this)…
Here’s an extended Periscope replay of Peanut chowing down on some salad.
We went back down to Key West on Friday morning for a snorkel adventure where we saw a 5 foot nurse shark!!! I bought a waterproof case for my iPhone but found it way too difficult to manage especially with an iPhone 7 because of the “taptic engine” button that wouldn’t work through the plastic… so I have no photos underwater. But that’s okay – it was amazing. We saw plenty of ocean life including a huge grouper, colorful coral and plenty of other fish at the reef in addition to the shark.
After more key lime pie (on a stick) at Kermit’s we headed back to Steve’s for a brief hangout and group shot before we said goodbye…
To Pensacola…
The drive up to Pensacola from Delray Beach is a haul… but we got up early and arrived in the late afternoon for a photo session with our friend Nelma, her husband Alfie and their sweet little one Lydia! We’ll save that Periscope for the separate blog post of her sneak peeks but in the meantime here’s a couple tidbits – a panorama I grabbed with my iPhone of Ally photographing them in Plaza Ferdinand VII (more on that below in the snap story)….
….and here is a little behind the scenes collage we posted on Instagram.
We stayed with our cousins Daria and David in Pensacola and the following morning (Sunday) we drove first to Mobile to visit a certain Sock friend of ours….
Definitely one of the most fun Periscopes we’ve ever done! We had a great visit with Jason and Amanda (Sock Cop hangs out with them from time to time… lol)!
On to Biloxi…
From there we drove to Biloxi, MS to do a photo session with another friend we met through Periscope – Lana and her (now) hubby Chase! You can see the sneak peeks and read all about that at this link, and in the meantime here is the behind the scenes collage we posted from that session on Instagram…
We stuck around for an extra day in Pensacola and celebrated Passover with our cousins so with the extra time we went over to the Gulf Islands National Seashore where the beaches are gorgeous and where you can take a walk through Fort Pickens which the Union controlled throughout the Civil War.
White sands….
I think this panorama that I took of Fort Pickens is pretty cool….
Starting the long trek home…
We headed out on Tuesday morning towards Mississippi bound for Hattiesburg and Vicksburg. We made a stop at Southern Miss University to visit our friends the Hopsons – Jay is the head coach for the Golden Eagles and we hadn’t seen them since his 2 years coaching the linebackers at Michigan. We had been through Hattiesburg once before on a road trip, the campus is really nice and their stadium “The Rock” is very cool.
From there we raced to Vicksburg National Military Park to check out the battlefield before it got too late…..and it was kinda too late – to drive the park anyway. But we were able to walk a few miles of it and it is really impressive.
Vicksburg Great Redoubt
Michigan Monument at Vicksburg
From there we drove all the way up the Mississippi Delta on Highway 61 to Memphis where we spent the night. If you ever make that drive from Vicksburg MAKE SURE you have gas…. there are zero gas stations for about an hour. Heck there’s almost zero civilization for about an hour…
After a yummy breakfast at Staks Pancake Kitchen with one of Lacey’s friends in Memphis the next morning we made the final leg of the drive back to home sweet home but not without a stop first at Parker’s Crossroads Battlefield in Tennessee….
Hallowed Ground of the Parkers Crossroads Battlefield
….and a stop to visit with one of our favorite seniors of all time Kim (who was also an intern for us) in Nashville where she has been working since finishing her undergraduate studies at Vanderbilt!
And with one more stop to visit another one of Lacey’s friends in Louisville, we headed all the way back home. Home sweet home, in our own beds, exhausted and fulfilled by our Spring Tour 2017 – an incredible odyssey through a large swath of the USA that we’ll never forget!!! We hoped you enjoyed the recap and we’ll leave you with the entire snap story from the trip – additional photos and fun with all the geofilters intact!
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Biloxi Bride has a nice ring to it and we love Lana – we have for a while even before we met her in person! We met Lana through Periscope, a live streaming app owned by Twitter that we’ve been broadcasting on since 2015. To say that this app changed our lives would be an understatement and these photos are further proof – heck we’ve blogged about it enough that if you’ve been following us at all over the last couple years you know this already…
Meanwhile when we first saw the handle of @thelittlemilfmaid pop up on the app we had to chuckle a little. And it turned out to be Lana – a gorgeous little fireball with a cute little boy and a fascinating life as a dancer in New Orleans with plenty of tales of her own on the app. We connected with her and became fast friends, and she even shipped us some delicious chicory coffee from NOLA – YUM! She had been saying for a while that she wanted to have us take pictures of her someday and we thought that would be so much fun to do! Well the opportunity finally presented itself…
Here’s one to start with of the happy couple!
Awwww so sweet!
The Frameable Faces Spring Tour 2017!
We had been talking about taking a road trip during spring break to see family and friends, and we knew that not only did we have some friends we met through Periscope along the way, but that some of them had been saying for some time that they would love to do a photo session with us if only we were closer! We put the word out that we were coming South and Lana along with our friend Nelma in Pensacola (blog post coming soon) both said “we’re in” for photos! The Frameable Faces Spring Tour 2017 started to take shape (blog post coming on that too). We had it all planned out to do an afternoon session in Biloxi with Lana and her fiancé Chase who are also expecting! Lana was around 6 months pregnant for this shoot and you would barely know it. They are going to be a perfect blended fam – Chase has kids of his own, and Lana’s little guy Channing and her mom Angela (both of whom we also know from Periscope) actually came by to hang out on the session and we had so much fun. What’s cool about Periscope is 9 times out of 10 when someone is broadcasting live you get to see who they really are – it’s not usually super rehearsed and Lana is no exception – she’s cray cray in the very best way way – a true delight!
Meanwhile here is the behind the scenes broadcast we did live on – you guessed it – Periscope. You can download the app and join in the fun on our future broadcasts at @FrameableFaces here or you can also check them out from twitter here.
As you can see in the broadcast we did some photographing at the Hurricane Katrina Memorial – a sobering spot marked by a beautiful mural. Biloxi was hit extremely hard by the hurricane and the resiliency of the community was on display everywhere you looked – we were impressed with the cool little coastal city. Here’s one of our resulting photos at that spot:
Love that pose!
Chase meanwhile is a bit of a jack of all trades – he repairs iPhones and is an MMA fighter, so don’t mess with him. Hehe…
We moved around town for a few shots and finished at a park close to the Biloxi lighthouse for these last two:
Biloxi Bride
We should also mention a fun little footnote…. these were originally planned as engagement photos, but these two decided to change gears and get married less than a week after our session! So they’re already married!!! Lana has already been a Biloxi Bride and the next photo is a perfect happily ever after to finish on!
So there you have it – a Biloxi Bride and her beau with a baby on the way! We hope you enjoyed our first ever photo session in Mississippi with this wonderful couple!
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We nominate Nick to be next! We knew we were going to nominate him for a while since his sister Emma was a spokesmodel for us and we love these guys! Emma even came along with their mom Teresa for the session and it was just like old times!
Meanwhile Nick is a bad dude – he’s a nice guy, smart, a heck of an athlete and just really an all around winner. He’s been a delight to have around already and a great representative of our studio! He is a football and baseball player and has plans to compete at the next level, so we had plans to incorporate the sports into the session because we love to show off the fun approach we often take with our student athletes for senior sessions!
We Nominate Nick…
We started out on location on a mid-March day that saw Metro Detroit get a nice snow dump which actually made for a nice opportunity for winter shots since it wasn’t really that cold. Here’s a full length shot…
Pretty cool huh?
Here’s another one a little bit closer up with a half crop of our guy:
What a stud.
Of course we also have plenty of behind the scenes starting with the replay of our Periscope broadcast where Nick got some snow dropped on his head and took some good natured ribbing from the audience! Haha… You can follow us and join in the fun on Periscope at this link or tune in on Twitter at this link.
At this point it was time to get back indoors for the studio shots…
As you know we like to play with fire here….
We also have a replay from the behind the scenes broadcast on Facebook Live in the studio for you…
We have one more from the studio for you for now… not to be outdone by our other senior spokesmodel football player Olivia, here’s a fierce one to end on!
We will leave you with the Snapchat story which is always fun – you should follow us there too and snap us back from time to time at this link!
And there you have it! You can see why we nominate Nick and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day! Hopefully this gives you yet another taste of what options we have for senior pictures for guys!
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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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Lauren is looking great – ripped jeans are a cool look in the city too!
