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BATH TIME

shani — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:18:36 +0000

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I really should be going to bed….

shani — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:39:52 +0000

I got back late from a wedding. I really should be going to bed….but I had to post this one little sneak peek… Share and Enjoy: No related posts. No related posts.

AS SEEN ON TV

shani — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:02:27 +0000

It’s scary to think that I can say “twenty years ago” but it’s really 17 years ago I was visiting my dear friends here in LA, before I moved here, and while here I attended a wedding at a beautiful Victorian building; The bride had lived in the apartment building co-op and I thought it [...] Related posts:

OPEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION

shani — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:51:55 +0000

It’s probably not the best of times to try to make a change- between kids being off from school or camp, and..actually that’s it. Kids being off from school pretty much brings everything to a halt. Getting some computer time is mainly thanks to my mom who’s playing with them in the other room, but [...] Related posts:

LAURA INGLES

shani — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:08:19 +0000

Have you ever watched “Little House on the Prairie” or are you too young to know? Well, it used to be one of the shows I used to watch growing up. I can’t say it was one of my favorite shows, becasue when I was growing up, it was one of the ONLY shows, so [...] Related posts:

PARTY TIME!!!!

shani — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:18:01 +0000

After all the preparation and anticipation, the big night, (and day) had finally arrived, and gone. MK did amazing at Temple, (or so I hear… I shot her there with her family, on a Tuesday , not to disturb the service on Saturday…) It was a fun party - M looked fantastic in her HOT [...] Related posts:

dance

shani — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:47:14 +0000

I remember my own ballet classes. I remember wanting to get older so I too could get beautiful point ballet shoes with a pink ribbon to tie up my legs. But I was tall, gawky, and just not very good, and just could not remember the French names of the moves. I quit, and then [...] No related posts.

go girl

shani — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:50:36 +0000

Tonight is MK’s Bat Mitzvah. Since we shot these in June, she’s been a way at camp …(OK, not the whole time…) Just long enough for her mom and I to decide together on which photos go into her SIGN IN/MEMORY book, that she will see tonight for the first time. I hope you loved [...] Related posts:

just a second

shani — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:35:36 +0000

This weekend I had the opportunity to shoot for and with Amanda Doublin, the fantabulous Amanda Doublin. For more than one reason. which I will list here. starting now. I met Amanda, what, about a year ago, on a couch at a photographer’s meeting in LA – we chatted briefly, exchanged cards, and when we [...] Related posts:

Second Shooter at Wedding

Dream Home

shani — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:20:03 +0000

I don’t know about you, but I love houses, I love seeing them inside and out. If I had more free time on Sundays I would probably tour the open houses that I drive by, but if I am not on my way to a job, I usually have a husband and two kids in [...] Related posts:

at home

Like Christmas in July

shani — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:18:44 +0000

It’s Summer, or “third” way through summer – as our official summer break goes till mid September (!!!!!!), so in the meantime kids are at camp, and LOVING it! Every day they come home with a new song (in their heart too) and teach it to us over dinner (if we sat and had an [...] Related posts:

Family

shani — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:09:23 +0000

Keren and I have been friends almost since the day I arrived in the states. Actually three months after I arrived. I was living with my friends at the time had arrived to leave the nest, move on and get a life. I didn’t know the city well, but I did know the beach, Venice [...] Related posts:

Editorial. Humorist. Modern

shani — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:25:03 +0000

So months and months ago I was hired with a few other wonderful photographers to work on the CRAVE LA book – It was a fun project to work on – I loved meeting creative, industrious,and mostly brave women all over the city- Women following their dreams and making things happen. I had featured some [...] Related posts:

Logan and Calladan-The Book

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS

shani — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:06:44 +0000

A long time ago, before I came to America (with nothing but $200 in my pocket and a dream…ok, it’s not exactly how it happened ) but anyway, long ago, during the summer before college, before I had a VCR, or DVR was even invented, I used to storm home from the scorching heat, just [...] Related posts:

DRIVE SAFELY

shani — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:23:47 +0000

Joshua’s mom has had some “bad luck” with photographers…I mean, tragedy hit the photographer before he delivered the photos, next, she had a photographer cancel, or more correctly – have to be away, and that’s when I stepped in to the picture with a promise to be there, on time, and make it to the [...] Related posts:

how’s the water?

shani — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:14:54 +0000

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at home

shani — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:59:59 +0000

I titled this post ”AT HOME” even though looking at the photos it doesn’t necessarily make sense. But for me it does. This is my dear friend, neighbor, and most importantly babysitter. And she has just returned from being away for a couple of years in which we missed her like hell. Not only becasue [...] Related posts:

The party studio

shani — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:42:44 +0000

Rumor has it, this was the BEST Bar Mitzvah party of the year…I was there, and I can say, it was pretty awesome! Besides the ROCKIN’ dance floor (not pictured here, I had set up studio in the corner and had the kids (yes, to me you’re still kids….) step in and get their photos [...] Related posts:

You’ve been schooled!

shani — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:02:42 +0000

For four years I had been going every day to the same school – first with Kyle and then Zoe joined in. Thursday is the last day I will be doing so. I can’t believe it’s an end of an era – I know I know….a beginning of a new one. As I write this [...] Related posts:

Wouldn’t it be nice if…

shani — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:04:47 +0000

When we were kids, we used to tell this joke, over and over again, that till this day has become part our cultural references; and it goes like this. A psychiatrist goes to visit the mental institute to see how the patients are doing. He sees them diving into the pool, yelling and generally looking [...] Related posts: