Sarah Raanan Photography » Beach http://sarahraanan.com/blog Sarah Raanan is a natural lifestyle photographer serving Teaneck, Bergenfield, New Milford, Englewood and all the surrounding cities. She specializes in newborns, babies, children and families. She creates black and white and color fine art images. Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:48:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 “Every time I close my eyes I see my name in shining lights”… http://sarahraanan.com/blog/2011/every-time-i-close-my-eyes-i-see-my-name-in-shining-lights/ http://sarahraanan.com/blog/2011/every-time-i-close-my-eyes-i-see-my-name-in-shining-lights/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:48:48 +0000 sarah http://sarahraanan.com/blog/?p=764 I was really looking forward to my session with this family, and they didnt disappoint me! I knew this was going to be a high energy session (so much so that I took a little nap in the afternoon to recharge!) and that I would have full permission to use the images on my blog/Facebook/marketing materials, the more exposure the better!!

So here you are Goffsteins, shining lights, fame, the lot…

This is one of my favourites – I think its such a great capture of Suzy and Joyce’s personalities..

Hard to believe that this girl thinks that I need to work on her images in Photoshop – Joy is incredibly photogenic and I haven’t TOUCHED this image!! and I will not be doing ANY Photoshop work on her. As Kellie Pickler sings “dont you know youre beautiful!?”

I love this one of Danny; the quiet, pensive one of the bunch (there had to be ONE!!) Love the freckles and that incredible auburn hair!

Eyal – he just couldnt wait to get into the water! he was so comfortable in front of the camera, quite a ham, but I really like this candid capture of him while he was in the middle of talking…BTW, seriously good hair genes going on here Suzy!!

Leo, the Cheeky Chipmunk as Suzy called him, caught him mid refill whilst blowing bubbles on the beach at sunset {sigh – can I just add that I love my job?}

This group photo went ridiculously well!! no-one killed each other or walked off in a strop. Love it in black & white!

Ok, lastly, I know my friends will make fun of me for saying this, but this has to be my new favorite sibling image! Do you know how hard it is to get everyone together, happy, smiling, looking at me and looking good!?! I’m so proud of this one…

Had a great time guys – when we doing it all again?! :)

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I was warned beforehand that getting a photo of the 3 of them together was going to be a challenge, as was getting them all to co operate and generally stay still. Well, i love a challenge, and who says they need to stay still?! :)

Delicious kids, lots of fun and sooooo good to catch up with old friends after all these years and see them all as a family, very special. I love my job.

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There are so many shots here that I love – everyone really got in to the session and had fun with it (even mum & dad managed to enjoy themselves with a water fight in the sea!)

I totally failed in trying to narrow the images down to a top ten  – so here’s my top 17 :) You can click on each image to enlarge it….

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I went down to the beach to check out the area a few hours before we were due to meet. I was greeted by what looked like fog, only it was 23℃ outside, so why on earth would there be fog!? Anyway, never mind that, how on earth was i meant to get my images of the children frolicking on the beach with a thick mist surrounding the whole beach area! I grabbed some poor, innocent bystander next to me and ask ed him what on earth it was, what it thought it was doing appearing on the day i had a shoot scheduled, and when it was planning on disappearing! This very kind man assured me that it was some kind of weird mist from the sea  & that it would all be cleared up as soon as the sun was out for a few hours.

Thankfully he was spot on, and by the time we got down to the beach, the weather was just great! The kids were really fabulous – we spent 2 hours on the beach and they only really collapsed at sunset :) And look what we got….

Cartwheels…

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Giggles…

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Embraces…

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Upside-down-ness…

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Guitar coolness…

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Pure fun…

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Gazing out to sea…

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but I have to end somewhere! Guys, you were all complete rockstars, and I had a LOT of fun with you! Thank you!

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