I’ve known Sydney (at a distance) for a very long time, so it was a pleasure to be able to photograph her special day. Since it’s a conservative temple, there’s no photography allowed on the sabbath when the actual bat mitzvah would be taking place. So, we faked it. Nevertheless, Sydney looked beautiful and I got to hear a little bit of her torah portion and meet the rest of her awesome family. I decided to break up the blog post into two parts, so stay tuned for the party part soon.

Long time bsquared clients who recently celebrated their only son’s Bar Mitzvah. I was so happy to be able to capture the service and a bit of the Oneg Shabbat following the service. Ryan (I believe) was the first Bar Mitzvah boy in their brand new temple building- which was beautiful and filled with light and love from his friends and family. And for unknown reasons, no matter when this family and I schedule their session it never fails to be the coldest day of the whole year. It was this day as well. At least we were indoors and we kept our streak alive.

Moving right along and sticking with the religious theme- from communions to bar mitzvah’s. Zach and family have been on my blog before (in fact, they are in my header slide show) and I’ve known mom since we were little so it was such a pleasure to photograph this momentous day for them! The “temple” is really a church but it is converted to a neutral setting for other events. Except the permanent stuff on the outside which we had a little fun with. Love these boys, so much fun and personality! Part 2- the party coming up soon. There was just too much good stuff to put in one blog post or you would’ve been here for a month.