Dana and Melvin’s family has changed since they were last here….. there are more of them and the kids are all so grown up!!! It’s been a long time and we were so happy to have them back – they had a short window together before some moved on to other endeavors, summer plans and the like, so this was a great snapshot in time (pun intended)! Much fun indeed and plenty of laughs during this session with the crew, so let’s get to it:
Super Seven
What a gorgeous group!!!
We also have some fun behind the scenes – great stuff here….lol
At this point we broke it up into some fun groupings and we’ll share a few of them here… Like, how about just the girls!
LOVELY LADIES!!!
Now it’s time for the DUDES:
Studs!!!
And now JUST the sibs all together….
Okay they are ADORABLE.
So much fun with the SUPER SEVEN! 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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College grad sessions come in three “flavors” you might say. Sometimes it’s just the individual college grad, sometimes it’s a crew of college grad friends, and sometimes it’s one grad with their family. We have to say each approach has their own merits and they are all a lot of fun for us. These highlights are of the grad-with-family variety and what a great family! The Sideratos family is a delight. Maria and Nick, with daughters Melina and Katie, and the man of the hour and a future veterinarian – Costa!
Costa Coasts Onward
Now “Costa coasts” isn’t meant to say he didn’t work hard, but we thought it had a fun ring to it for a young man who knows his calling and as animal lovers we love that he’s going to be a vet!
This family knows the score – Go Blue!
Going out with your school winning three straight conference championships and a national title is a pretty good way to go out…
From Michigan Stadium it was time to head to a couple other spots on campus…
This crew was having fun!
And one more close up of our guy:
That’s a confident and proud Wolverine!
And there you have it! Costa and his family are awesome and we’re honored to have them on our blog. 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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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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6 month sessions are so awesome… the personalities start to come out at this stage and Talia has a ton of it! She’s SO STINKING CUTE. We photographed her as a newborn and we photographed her mom Hannah as a high school senior back in the day – and we’re running out of superlatives for how happy it makes us to be doing this! Talia was here with Odie-The-Blue-Eyed-Corgi, Hannah, her dad Brandon and the grandparents from both sides. What a wonderful day. Let’s get to some highlights!!!
OMG. Talia is adorable…
We started the morning at the Franklin Cider Mill – home of the best cider in the game – with the whole crew!!!
Family is everything.
At this point we headed back to the studio and made Talia into a flower in a flower pot! We love flower pot babies!!!
Here’s some behind the scenes from Facebook:
And the result!
….and how about Talia’s little toes!!!
You’ll flip over this next one….
We can’t….. we just can’t….
Here’s some more behind the scenes of the action from Instagram:
And this is the END. Okay it’s the second tush photo but we couldn’t resist the pun.
Oy!!! Could she be more darling????
So there you have it. OMG sums it up and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Talia!
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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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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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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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We love restoring old photos that people bring us – the stories we learn and being able to give them new life when we bring back the detail in a faded memory is just so rewarding! This one was no exception.
When Diane brought this incredible 1922 photo (she’s pretty sure it was either ’22 or ’23) which included her dad and grandparents we were mesmerized. What a photo! But it was 100 years old and fading fast…
An Incredible Photo Restored From 1922
Here’s the story of the photo from Diane:
“These were immigrants who came here (legally-lol) for a better life from Crni Lug, Croatia in the early 1900’s. This picture was taken 1922-23 in Shingleton, Michigan. The bride and groom are Josephine (Stimac) and Frank Lisak. The couple with the baby carriage are Joseph and Antonia Stimac. The small boy in the carriage is my father Raymond. Antonia died a year later from tuberculosis. I received the picture which had been stored in a box for years.”
We are pretty pleased with the result – we were able to bring back most of the detail, clean up the damage and recover this incredible scene. Take a look…
Just a fantastic moment in time over a century ago – recovered and restored!
Check your closets and shoeboxes and bring your history our way!
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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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Family portraits are a lot of fun for us here at the studio, and Raechele and Tim’s crew were no exception! They were a delight to have here and their two sons Mercer and Ellis did a great job! Listen, we get it that young teenaged boys don’t necessarily dream about getting dressed up in suits to pose for photos, but these two were total gentlemen and they made the best of it! We had plenty of laughs and a generally great time. Everyone looked great and we’ve got some outstanding results to share!!!
Let’s get to it.
Raechele, Tim, Mercer and Ellis!
Let’s start with the whole group:
Yes! A classic portrait!
We also have a little behind the scenes fun from Facebook:
And now the happy couple:
We are fans.
Now we’ve got the dudes in the spotlight:
Handsome young men!
We’ll leave you with one more:
They crushed it!
So there you have it! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with Raechele, Tim, Mercer and Ellis!
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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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