Sunday, May 31, 2009

Today is our 1st Birthday!!!



Exactly a year ago on May 31st, The Stork Studio had its first shoot. We invited a few close friends with children to a rented studio and shot all day (boy were we pooped after!). I remember the nervousness, the excitement and laughs we had that day. Stan and I were new to the whole experience and just had basic lights, we were feeling our way through each shoot and family but were so lucky to have had such great models and we came out with some pretty awesome shots, some of which still take our breath away today. I remember thinking that evening that I had no idea where this would lead us but I was willing to take a chance and just go with it. I remember praying and offering up this venture and just telling God that everything was in his hands from that point on.

The response in this past year has been a dream come true. The word of mouth and referrals have poured in and Stan and I are so thankful, and grateful for the hundreds of clients that we have had so far. Each time we shoot is a different experience and its in this experience - when we get the "feeling" (of having that perfect shot) that we are fulfilled.


Looking forward, we can only hope for the best. We don't know what the future holds for us except that God's in charge and that we love what we do and will keep doing it until we become - the #1 baby and maternity photographers in the country :)
Thank you once again to our very first clients last May 31st, 2008: Nikka, Paul and Tybalt, Monica and Santi, Noelle and Kai, Ninay, Bacchus and Jacobo, Andie, Steve and Ava, Marto, Denise, Aidan and Cody and lastly Leslie and Diego - without you we would not have come this far. Thank you!

Emily

Mother and Child bonding

I love Emily's blue eyes.

Mommy Beth is the coolest mom.

I find this so precious.

Here are the boys!



This family came to us a few months ago for some pregnancy photos of mom and her two boys Connor and Tyler - that shoot was a super enjoyable experience as we got to know each other and the boys were adorable. Little Emily was born soon after and they came back with the whole brood (with Dad this time too) and we had a great time taking their first family photos with the new special addition - Emily who has to most beautiful blue eyes. Family photography is important to Stan and me because kids do grow up to fast. We really aim to give families the kind of photos that they can keep for generations. This shoot was a lot of fun as usual, the two boys were wonderful big brothers and the closeness of the family really showed in their photos. Relationships with our clients are important to us and we try to really build good rapport with them. I feel like I'm so lucky to be taking their pictures...its as if they let us into their little cocoon if only for a couple of hours.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Morgan Ruth Hero




Paul and Nikka's little girl with big brother Tybalt. Nikka has been a long-time childhood friend and I'm so happy to have been able to take some of the first photos of her little daughter "Hero". What cool names they have for their kids!






Saturday, May 9, 2009

Happy Mother's Day!




To all the Wonderful Moms out there who have had sleepless nights, come armed with wet-ones, and a million kisses, tender touches and warm milk and cookies, who have read to us and sang to us, raised an eyebrow and defended us, who have bathed us and watched movies over and over with us, who loved us when we were naughty and love us to this day... this is for you (thank your Riya for sharing).

Shihab Nye, a poet, wrote down lines that her three year old had said growing up. 
she rolled them all together into this wonderful piece that makes motherhood indeed, priceless.

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Music lives inside my legs.
It's coming out when I talk.

I'm going to send my valentines
To people you don't even know.

Oatmeal cookies make my throat gallop.

Grown-ups keep their feet on the ground
When they swing. I hate that.

Look at those 2 o's with a smash in the middle—
That spells goodbye.

Don't ever say “purpose” again,
Let's throw that word out.

Don't talk big to me.
I'm carrying my box of faces.
If I want to change faces I will.

Yesterday faded
But tomorrow's in BOLD FACE.

When I grow up my old names
Will live in the house
Where we live now.
I'll come and visit them.

Only one of my eyes is tired.
The other eye and my body aren't.

Is it true that all metal was liquid first?
Does that mean if we bought our car earlier
They could have served it
In a cup?

There's a stopper in my arm
That's not going to let me grow any bigger.
I'll be like this always, small.

And I will be deep water too.
Wait. Just wait. How deep is the river?
Would it cover the tallest man with his hands in the air?

Your head is a souvenir.

When you were in New York I could see you
In real life walking in my mind.

I'll invite a bee to live in your shoe.
What if you found your shoe
Full of honey?

What if the clock said 6:92
Instead of 6:30? Would you be scared?

My tongue is the car wash
For the spoon.

Can noodles swim?

My toes are dictionaries.
Do you need any words?

From now on I'll only drink white milk
On January 26.

What does minus mean?
I never want to minus you.

Just think—no one has ever seen
Inside this peanut before!

It is hard being a person.

I do and don't love you—
Isn't that happiness?

--naomi shihab nye


** listen to her read it aloud: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/videoitem.html?id=163