There’s a lot to be celebrating here at the moment! Sarah Raanan Photography launched in Israel in January and after 6 months, we are thriving. Yesterday we hit 350 fans and I promised everyone a competition when we hit 350. Before I announce the competition, I also am so happy to share with you that I have a new official member of the SRP team, Tali (Tali, I need to get you a headshot done asap!!)

Tali and I are hard at work planning the coming year and we have some amazing deals and events lined up for everyone!

Meanwhile, without further delay here is the competition. Read carefully….

I will be giving away a private 2 hour photography workshop for one lucky winner, cash value of 330 NIS. Learn how to use your camera properly and get a good grasp of the basics in this 2 hour intense photography workshop.

How to win :
1) follow us on twitter or tweet this~
“Check out the exciting private photography workshop giveaway on the Sarah Raanan Photography blog! http://www.sarahraanan.com/ ”
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3)  Subscribe to our newsletter here to get our blog updates directly to your inbox and be the first to hear about all the latest happenings at Sarah Raanan Photography! So many new and exciting things planned for the coming year…
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4) Take a look at past blog posts at  sarahraanan.com , find a post that you really love & spread some ‘commenting love’ below your chosen post :)

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5)  Finally, come back here to the blog to leave your comments telling us what you did! You can leave a separate comment about each thing you did. Limit of 4 entries per person.

The contest ends Monday June 28th at 9am Jerusalem time. The lucky winner will be announced some time on Monday. Good luck!

I had the pleasure of photographing this beautiful family before they returned to Sweden a few weeks ago. The Mandermans were with us for just 4 short months, during which time our daughters become such good friends. It was amazing to see them communicating with one only speaking Swedish and the other speaking English and basic Hebrew. By the end of the 4 months the two of them were communicating happily together in Hebrew. Oh to be 5 years old…

We met on the beach and very quickly saw that we needed to stay away from the water as Isaac is a seriously fast 1 year old who just kept heading for the sea!!

Our session was so much fun, and the images are totally awesome! I can’t wait to see you guys back here ASAP, we miss you!

So, if you remember, back in October I ran a competition to fill in an on-line survey and be entered into a prize draw to win a 450 NIS credit towards a family session. The lucky winner, Sabrina, was announced here and we finally got together for our session a couple of weeks ago.

Thank gd I am so busy with work at the moment that I was considering neglecting my blog for a while longer, but I couldnt let another day go by without blogging about these special women.

Sabrina and I met on September 1st, on our daughters’ first day at Gan. I took this photo with my phone on day 1, when it was time to come pick them up.

Instant bonding…

From the moment i met her, I was struck by how real and warm Sabrina is and how naturally beautiful too but I will get killed for saying that in public so i’ll leave it out :) So, it will come as no surprise that PPP she has 3 gorgeous, free spirited girls. And that I was so so excited when I drew her name in the prize draw

I always say that selecting images for my blog and Facebook is a hard task, so I wont repeat myself this time. I had such fun with them on the beach, they were amazing to work with (if you can call frolicking on the beach with 3 gorgeous girls ‘work’!)

I am so excited to see these images up in their new house! Thanks so much girlies for such an unforgettable session!

xxxxxx

I have been looking forward to this session for a while. I just knew it was going to be a lot of fun! Miss L is turning 12 and will be celebrating her Bat Mitzvah in a few weeks, so we all met up early one morning in park Raanana for an extended family photo session. It’s always really special to see how the children interact with each other, and with their grandparents and great grandparents! And look how well they co-ordinated their clothing is without looking all cutsie matchy :)

I am in the process of updating my website with some new images and there are some here that just HAVE to go into my galleries!! Like this one…

And this one…

and sooooo many more! love them!!

How gorgeous is Miss L in these photos?

Thank you family G for a lot of fun – I cant wait to get your order back and see the finish products!

Wow. what a session! It wasn’t easy choosing guys!! In just an hour, we captured so many great images and had so much fun doing it! Even Samson the dog was striking a pose by the end of it!

I really enjoyed meeting family C and observing the family dynamics. Four gorgeous children, all very close in age and very much a close unit. They have so much fun together. They are all very different personalities but each one of them was so friendly and open with me.

I think they especially enjoyed showing me their favorite things (and all taking turns taking my photo at the end of the session. Those photos will NOT be appearing here! I do love being BEHIND the camera :))

I saw some interesting family traditions – especially interesting was the bit where they all clambered on the car and Mr C drove the car forward. Apparently this happens a lot and i had no reason to panic and close my eyes in fear! :)

Enjoy these sneak peeks Family C – looking forward to showing you the rest!

I met up with these gorgeous guys yesterday in their local park…

I mentioned to their mum that her baby daughter may find herself with a little bit of a problem when she grows up and wants to start dating – i.e., her protective brothers! It was so amazing to see how much these boys doted on heir little sister, and how they take care of her spontaneously, without having to be asked/told!

I was also struck by how well behaved they were, again, no running around like a lunatic, we just hung out, and they listened to everything I said (can we bottle this and market it maybe?)

The session wasnt without action of course – we had the wet paint incident where all the benches in the park had been painted brown but the ‘wet paint’ sign had blown off the first row of benches, and mummy sat down on one of them….no, I didnt get a photo of that :) Nor did i get  photo of the loopy dog who escaped his owner and bounded towards Baby M (who was as cool as a cucumber and totally unfazed by the incident)

Little Baby M was a total star for the whole session actually- she woke up from  a nap a couple of minutes after i arrived, totally refreshed and ready to perform! Mum & boys made it so easy for me, entertaining her with bizarre animal/people noises (“how does a mad scientist go?” – thats a new one!)
It was great seeing you all, hope you enjoy the sneak peeks, cant wait to show you the full set next week!…..