An artistic approach is indeed what we took with Amara for her senior pictures and it turned into a really special session! Amara is a soft-spoken sweetheart, she’s a North Farmington Raider just like us and she looked adorable among the art at Danielle Peleg Art Gallery! We’ve known the Pelegs for a long long time and they have done an amazing job with their gallery in Keego Harbor on Orchard Lake Road. We are so thankful to them for the use of their gallery for Amara’s session and we love when seniors have ideas like this for their session! We were joined by her dad Michael and her mom Yarisha for these incredible portraits – let’s get to them!
An Artistic Approach With Amara
LOVE the photo through the sculpture….!!!
Here’s one up close and personal with the pretty colors behind our girl of the hour.
At this point it was time for an outfit change:
There was no shortage of pieces on display for Amara to connect with…
And we’ll leave you with one more:
Beautiful!!!
And there you have it – an artistic approach that yielded fantastic results! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Amara!
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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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If this session looks familiar to you it’s because Owen’s big bro Aiden was on this blog a couple years ago and Owen is also a Detroit Catholic Central Shamrock – except this time the sport is RUGBY! Owen and his mom (and our longtime friend) Kelly joined us for a great time at CC as well as a little time at the studio and we got some fantastic stuff…. Let’s take a look!
Owen Crushes It
We started on location at CC:
Home field advantage!
There’s really so much to work with for our Shamrocks on that beautiful campus… and we also have some fun behind the scenes first from Instagram:
This was one of our final fall sessions and we sure got some Pure Michigan feels going here…
One more from CC…
Looking good Owen!!!
At this point we headed back to the studio and here’s a little more behind the scenes from Facebook:
And we’ll leave you with this last LIT pic:
BOOM!
Great way to end it! Hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Owen!
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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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Anthony is awesome. We love this dude – not a shy young man by any stretch let’s say. This CC Shamrock has represented the studio as a spokesmodel for the class of 2024 and he’s done it in style so we were pumped for another go round over at the CC campus this time for his senior pics! His parents Lynne and John joined us for a day of fun so let’s get to some highlights!
Anthony Is Awesome
YES!!! And those fall colors man…. perfection.
We have some fun behind the scenes too first from Facebook:
The Catholic Central campus is beautiful and there is plenty to work with whether it’s a natural setting or some CC landmarks…
Here’s one at the grotto…
Looking good Anthony! Here’s a little more behind the scenes fun from Instagram:
And we’ll leave you with one more by the big CC logo out at the campus entrance:
Anthony is awesome indeed and so was his session! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!
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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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If you know you know with this kid. He’s funny – we had a blast with him! His grandmother actually set this up and came to the session for the studio part with her sister and then his parents came to the studio to go through the results. They are ALL a hoot. And frankly we can say this here that senior pictures were not really on Drake’s radar going into this, but he absolutely had fun and we laughed plenty with this class of 2024 Waterford Mott Corsair! Let’s get to the highlights!
Dude…..Drake Is Da Man
Drake’s got the milion-watt smile! Love the formal look in the studio and we often think this works really well on the grey paper background.
As does the casual look! What a stud.
At this point we went on location for a little fall color and we actually got some snow flurries!
And we’ll leave you with this one…
Crushed it.
Dude – we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with Drake! We’ll always remember this guy.
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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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Jonah makes his return to the blog and we’re pretty pleased to present these highlights of this dude. Jonah has been a fine representative of the class of 2024 for our studio as a spokesmodel and we were excited to get this West Bloomfield Laker in front of Ally’s camera again. This time we photographed at a private location and it was soooooo cool. We don’t have livestream behind the scenes for that reason, but we ain’t mad about it. Not even a little – we had a great time with Jonah and his parents Wendy and Howard and the results rock! Let’s get to it.
Jonah Makes His Return
Looking good Jonah!
The grounds at this place are spectacular – perfect to frame our guy…
As usual Jonah’s wardrobe was right on point as well…
Love the more formal look!
And we’ll leave you with one more:
Awesome. See what we mean? What a day, and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with Jonah!
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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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Brennan brings it indeed in these highlights from his recent senior session and we aren’t surprised… We’ve been photographing this dude for pretty much his whole life going back to family pics and his bar mitzvah (photographed by our awesome event photographer Angela) along with his older sis Riley for her senior pics, and so on and so on…..so we knew this would be a great time with Brennan and his mom Monique. We go wayyyyyyy back – they’re family really. So let’s get to some highlights!
Brennan Brings It
Let’s do the Detroit pics first:
STUD.
We also have some fun behind the scenes first from Instagram at the DIA:
We used a couple of our favorite “secret” doorways like the one above and this one hehe…
So cool!
Here’s a little more behind the scenes from Facebook downtown:
Back at the studio
Back at the studio we got some hockey and letterjacket shots – Brennan is a Walled Lake Northern Knight playing for the combined Walled Lake hockey squad.
Dude es en fuego.
And we’ll leave you with this one in the hoodie:
Great one to end on…
So there you have it – Brennan brings it and then we bring it to you! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!
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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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Senior pictures with Josh is our jam indeed when we have a perfect fall day to work with, and Josh is a legacy since we photographed big sis Kylie a couple years ago… This Class of 2024 Bloomfield Hills Blackhawk brought his A game (and his delightful mom Whitney) and off we went to Birmingham! Let’s get to some highlights:
Senior Pictures With Josh Is Our Jam
Ah that Pure Michigan feel!
We also have some fun behind the scenes first from Facebook:
Looking good Josh!!!
At this point we went downtown for the urban look…
And here’s the behind the scenes from that photo on Instagram!
GREAT one to end on… Nice work Josh – photographing Josh on a perfect fall day was our jam indeed 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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Lyndon is one impressive dude. For starters, this class of 2024 Hazel Park Viking student-athlete is a FIREFIGHTER! Yep – it’s one of the only programs like it for high schoolers to learn the firefighting trade – how cool is that? We’ve never had a senior with full firefighting gear in the studio and we were honored to be taking Lyndon’s portraits with his gear on. On top of this he’s just good – a nice outgoing sweetheart of a guy and we were happy to have him here with his foster parents Andrew and Ashley, whose engagement portraits we did years ago! So let’s get to some highlights…
Lyndon In The Limelight
First we have our guy in the studio here with a formal look:
Looking dapper!!!
Next Lyndon broke out the heavy gear and we have some behind the scenes from Facebook:
And the result!
How awesome is that????
Okay at this point we headed to Detroit so let’s take a look at a couple of those:
Nothing stops Detroit – or Lyndon.
We have some more behind the scenes as well from Instagram:
And we’ll leave you with this one with an amazing sky to wrap up an amazing day.
So there you have it! Lyndon in the limelight indeed – he absolutely deserves it! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with him!
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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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Talia returned to be in front of Ally’s camera once again as she did in fabulous fashion as a spokesmodel for the class of 2024 in the Spring! We took it up a notch this time for some true transcendence with Talia! The first basic definition of transcendence is “exceeding usual limits” and yeah – we did that. What a day in Detroit and Talia’s mom Karen joined us for the fun! Let’s get to the highlights…
Transcendence With Talia
See what we mean? Spectacular!
Here’s another from Eastern Market…
Looking good Talia! We also have some fun behind the scenes from Facebook and a Detroit Police officer even stopped to say hello:
Okay one more from Eastern Market – LOVE this color…
And then there’s this amazing one to end on…
Wow. Yep – transcendence with Talia no doubt. We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
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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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