Eliza Supplies-A!
Next we headed to downtown Birmingham where we have some more behind the scenes from the Instagram LIVE:
Next we headed to downtown Birmingham where we have some more behind the scenes from the Instagram LIVE:
Photographing Jordan is our jam. We’ve gotten to do it a couple times now starting with her spokesmodel session back in April and it’s been a blast! She’s a total sweetheart and her parents are great too – Jessica and Doug both joined us for a perfect day in Birmingham for her senior session and we have highlights for you – they weren’t easy to pick….
This first photo is a new spot at Quarton Lake we hadn’t used before, so this pose on this rock will henceforth be known as “The Jordan”:
She ROCKED it.
We also have some behind the scenes fun from the day starting with the replay from Facebook Live:
Here’s one more from Quarton Lake – just a beautiful close up of Jordan!
…and one more livestream – this time it’s the replay of the Instagram LIVE:
At this point we headed over to downtown Birmingham to get a few urban looks and these are just fantastic:
Adorable – catching her in a bit of a mid-giggle!
And we’ll leave you with this one which is one of our favorite looks:
Yeah….everything about this session was just wonderful! Awesome results.
And there you have it – photographing Jordan is our jam indeed! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
Carli is cool, and yes she conquered and captivated on this wonderful senior picture session!!! Cool because she’s just adorable, smart and nice. Conquers because she stepped out of her comfort zone taking pics amongst the wildlife (including a couple of muskrats lol), and captivates because she totally crushed it! She looks great in these photos! We had so much fun with her and her mom Jenny – a perfect day with lots of laughs! Aside from the yearbook headshot we went completely on location and we are excited to share a few of these with you!
Going in chronological order we started with a bench by the water and this one just looks so good to us in black and white so we’ll start there:
We also have some fun behind the scenes from the day first with the replay from Facebook Live!
We had a couple of outfit changes, a few furry friends who visited and startled Carli’s mom Jenny a little – we love her by the way – and a little waiting for the sun to hit a meadow just the way we wanted it! Here’s a beautiful full length photo:
Love it!
Here’s more behind the scenes fun this time from our Instagram livestream:
We LOVE this one on the bridge…
Okay, she is stunning!
We’ll leave you with one more!
Beautiful!!! Carli conquers and captivates is an appropriate way to describe these photos indeed, and we hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her!
Highly awesome – yes indeed. A fitting description of this fab senior session with our latest senior Holly – a session that makes us wanna holla! Holly is a West Bloomfield Laker, a soccer player and an all around great girl – we really enjoyed her and her mom Nicole’s company for the perfect day we spent in Birmingham!
We focused this entire session on location in Birmingham and we couldn’t have asked for better weather!
Just beautiful!
We have some fun behind the scenes as we like to do as well – first from our live stream on Instagram:
Here’s one in a tree that we’ve used that we seem to be perfectly able to fit a senior in! Haha!
We also have more behind the scenes fun from Facebook:
And here is one with that outfit!
Holly looked amazing and the lush summer flowers and colors make for great sessions at Quarton Lake!
We’ll leave you with one more:
She’s adorable!
And there you have it! Now you see why Holly’s highly awesome session makes us wanna holla! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day with her and Nicole!
YES it’s time for the Class of 2020 Spokesmodel Panorama…..RAMA!!! This is our third annual post like this, and while these are NOT professional photos, they are a fun behind the scenes way of representing what we’ve been up to with our new crew over the last few months in panoramic style! I took these (Doug – not Ally) with my iPhone XR and we love to stack ’em up and give them their own blog post! Now that we’ve completed all of our 10 spokesmodel sessions we can start rolling these things out – so fun! And what a great crew we have this year….
Yes we went to some of the usual spots including studio sessions early when the weather was still freezing, but we also went to a few new ones including a couple locations in Ann Arbor and we also have spokesmodels from Clarkston High School and Ann Arbor Skyline this year! A first for us! So in no particular order, here is your class of 2020 panorama…..RAMA!!!
And there it is!!! The class of 2020 is HERE and we are so excited! We hope you enjoyed the panorama…..RAMA!!!
We have done Frameable Flashbacks before where we check in with a former Frameable senior but this is the first time we’ve ever done a sports update with all of them! We hope to make this a recurring thing as we follow the careers of these inspiring young student athletes! We got the idea because this year we had a big run on athletes in the class of 2019 and we were thinking how cool it will be to follow their exploits at the next level. But that got us thinking about all the other athletes we’ve had come through the studio who had great college sports careers already or who are currently getting it done now, so we thought this would be fun to highlight them! Note: We did NOT take these sports photos – we have credited them to the appropriate websites from the schools.
Let’s go back a ways to some of our seniors who have already finished their careers starting with Jarred Bratley!
That’s Jarred above with the long hair running cross country for the Michigan Wolverines! He graduated from Bloomfield Hills Andover and had a nice career at Michigan including Academic All-Big Ten honors. What a great family, and his mom Elise would always come by the studio and keep us updated! Jarred is going to be a doctor too.
Next we have Hallee Kansman who played soccer at Eastern Michigan!
Hallee comes from a soccer family and we’ve known her mom for ages – so not to be outdone, her brother Kyle who was a spokesmodel for us played at Alma and earned all-conference honors there! Both Kansmans played their high school soccer at North Farmington!
Way to go Kyle!
Next up is David Attenson who played football at Northwood – we remember cracking up on his senior session with a couple of intentionally goofy photos for fun! David graduated from Bloomfield Hills Lahser.
He looks ready to rock in that photo!
Oh and let’s stay with Northwood with current player and son of Doug’s former Michigan teammate Doug Skene, Nathan Skene! He’s a tight end up there and doing a great job!
It’s cool to see the next generation getting it done. Nathan’s sister Madelin is about to start her freshman season at U of M Dearborn as well so we hope to have some updates from her soon too!
Next up is Jack Wangler who played wide receiver at Michigan – that’s Jack #16 on the left!
We’ve known the Wanglers for years and did senior pictures for three of the sibs as well as some great family photos. Jack’s dad John played quarterback at Michigan back in the day with Doug’s older brother Jeff so we go way back. We still talk about the laugh we had on Jack’s session when an older lady peaked her head in the door to say how good looking he was… hehe… Jack has graduated and just came in recently for a headshot for his new job!
Once again we have a sibling student athlete with Jack’s brother Jared who just finished his career at Michigan this past season and he scored a sweet touchdown this year against Maryland! Both of these guys played their high school ball at Warren DeLaSalle.
That’s Jared #5 celebrating his TD! Our first “night time bleacher shot” was done with Jared and it still hangs in one of our windows!
Next we have Kayla Cornett from Birmingham Groves who after starting at Macomb Community College has just signed to continue her career at Madonna University!
Love that girl and we’re excited for her!
Next we have Jubilee Jackson who was a spokesmodel for us and graduated from Bloomfield Hills High School.
Jubilee played lacrosse for a season at Hope College – she’s one of a kind that one…. love her!
Next up is our nephew Jake Cohen who has been playing football at Wooster in Ohio!
That’s Jake #43 and Jake graduated from North Farmington. Unfortunately Jake had a really bad knee injury this past fall but up until that point he was having a really nice career starting at linebacker for the Fighting Scots!
Sticking with Wooster we go to double threat Akwia Tilton who plays basketball AND runs track for the Scots!
Wow! Now that’s impressive. Akwia attended Roeper High School.
And yet one more at Wooster! Anabel Faigin is a West Bloomfield grad and is a cheerleader at Wooster!
That’s Anabel on the right in the second row!
Staying in Ohio we have Jake Rubin who is playing soccer for Wittenburg College!
Jake attended Walled Lake Central and we just photographed his class of 2019 brother Josh!
Sticking with soccer for a sec we go to Centre College where Abby Hegarty is a defender for the Colonels!
That’s Abby above wearing #26!
Next is Marquian Johnson who played high school ball at Clawson and had a couple of great seasons playing wide receiver for Saginaw Valley State!
Another great kid with a wonderful mom Brenda!
Next up is Scotty Grant who is playing baseball at Albion – another one with a younger brother we photographed this year from Orchard Lake St. Mary’s!
Scotty reminded us of our Tony a little when we photographed him – before he grew his hair long of course… lol!
Last but not least is Nick Seidel who captained his West Bloomfield Lakers to the state championship game his senior year. Nick was a spokesmodel for us as was his older sister Emma! We love this family and Nick is a great kid.
Nick is currently playing football at Johns Hopkins and that’s him in black and blue #43! He had a fantastic freshman season and helped the Blue Jays get to the playoffs!
That’s it for now – we can’t wait to include Grace, Anika, Meg, Josh and Morgan as soon as they go off to Florida, North Carolina, Central Michigan, Spring Arbor & Utica to play track, tennis, field hockey, soccer and hockey! We have also created a Twitter list of all of the current teams that have Frameables on the roster – you can follow that list HERE!
We love our seniors as you know, and we’re always really impressed with seniors who take the initiative to call the studio themselves and set up their own session! This is not a knock on the seniors whose parents make the call, but we love when we can hear the confidence and eloquence of a young person who can handle themselves so well right off the bat! This was the case with Anika, and that first impression was just the tip of the iceberg. She is such a sweetheart! Anika is also the number 1 ranked tennis player in the state of Michigan and is leaving this month to embark on her journey to play tennis at the University of North Carolina! Doug’s Godfather played football at UNC back in the 50’s so we’ve always had a slight affinity for the Carolina Blue and White and now we’ll have a personal connection there with someone whose career we are excited to follow!
As for her senior session it was one to remember – both her parents Pat and Sushma joined us for her day and they are both delightful – we had a lot of fun – and the photos? Just awesome – an ACE of a session for sure and you could say we “LOVE” this girl – see what we did there? Let’s get to the highlights!
We’ll start in the studio on the black…
Beautiful!
We played around with the white background too – so many options and it has been hard to narrow these down for this blog post… In the meantime we have some fun behind the scenes first from the replay of the Facebook Live broadcast in the studio:
At this point we headed out to the tennis courts for some location photos and we had some really cool Michigan fall colors in the background for a tennis setting which was pretty neat as Anika donned some UNC gear:
Servin’ and slayin’….
We also have some behind the scenes fun from the tennis court at West Bloomfield High School from our Instagram livestream – take a look:
From there we headed over to Birmingham and these next two are both closeups but they’re just too good – so instead of choosing we’re leaving you with these two… one on the dock at Quarton Lake:
And one with a change of wardrobe and a natural background – awesome!!!
Anika served up an ACE of a session indeed, she’s got the ADVANTAGE for life, and we LOVE her for sure! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our time with her!
A couple times per year we have a senior who requests a session at the Franklin Cider Mill where you can find the yummiest cider and the yummiest donuts! It’s a tradition for many around here in Metro Detroit at this time of year, and having fun with Tori and her mom Lora also has been a recurring theme itself this year since we had an epic spokesmodel session last time in Pontiac! We knew this one would be awesome too!
We’ll focus on the photos from Franklin here, starting with this one of Tori showing off a little ‘tude in the best way!
One of our faves for sure!
We also have some fun behind the scenes from our day with the replay of our Facebook Live broadcast!
At this point we changed outfits and Tori rocked her new Montcler hat – Tori always rocks the hats!
So CUTE!
Oh and how about this one…. a playful image with those awesome donuts we mentioned earlier…
She is adorable.
We’ll leave you with one more with a little pop of flowery color…
And there you have it – what a great day at the cider mill! Love the results and we love Tori! We hope you enjoyed the highlights of our day!
Okay so there’s no such thing really as a “jump shot” in photography terminology. We technically don’t even use the word “shots” often, preferring to call them “photos”. However in this case we’ll make an exception because a “jump shot” IS a basketball term, Jada is a hoopster, and she makes us want to jump (for joy of course) when we have her in the studio, so “jump shots with Jada” it is! Jada’s mom Glenda is a delight as well and we were really happy they picked us!
Jada plays guard for the West Bloomfield Lakers and we love photographing athletes so we planned a few photos in her uniform, but before we get to those we played around with multiple colors and outfits all in the studio which is a lot of fun – it gives us a chance to kind of stretch out and experiment a little without having to get going outside at some point:
Okay, she’s adorable…
We also have plenty of fun behind the scenes action – first with the replay of the Facebook LIVE video:
Love that gold… next we moved to the red background with the red couch for this “BOSS” photo…
Just slaying the camera there… OWNING it!!!
Next we brought out the black backdrop and this combo just worked!
Gorgeous.
Now it was time to get out the Laker gear and get some FIRE going… We have some behind the scenes of the hoops photos with the flaming ball too that we streamed on Instagram – don’t try this at home you crazy kids….
And the fiery result:
So cool!!! We loved our jump shots with Jada and we hope you liked the highlights of our day with her!