dont smile now - Shani Barel - Tarzana Kids photography

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 like [...] Related posts:

Saturday Night is right! (around the corner)

shani — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:34:26 +0000

I’m sure you remember them from a few weeks back, getting ready for a c-e-l-e-b-r-a-t-i-o-n…. (go ahead, mock me, I don’t care) And we’re ready to party!!!! That’s it, the moment we’ve all been waiting for is finally here- coming this Saturday, S and A are TEENS, real ones, and they have the party to prove [...] Related posts:

There’s love in the air

shani — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:24:04 +0000

Michele and Gary are sweet, smart, (super smart), good looking, young and in looove! They also just came back from a honeymoon in Hawaii, and I suspect it will go o n for a while…it has been such a pleasure working with them on their engagement shoot, and printing their sign-in book that I absolutely [...] Related posts:

i love san francisco

shani — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:30:05 +0000

I Love San Francisco, despite the cold, the wind and the hills and the fact that’s it a 6 hour drive from LA…. A couple of weeks ago, I gave myself a Mother’s Day gift- A weekend away from the kids!!!! Just kidding…I did spend a coupleof days in SF, and had a fabulous time. I drove [...] Related posts:

Octomom

shani — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:00:45 +0000

Honestly, even after watching the Nadya Suleman AKA Octomom on Oprah, I still don’t know how she’s doing it, and why. Not that she really has a choice now…. I have 2 children, and I knew as I was having them that I was never going to be one of those Super Moms that can [...] Related posts:

S and A

shani — Wed, 05 May 2010 09:24:24 +0000

I’ve known these kids since they were 3 years old. In fact I used to babysit them, just like their mother babysat me. The circle of life that is. And now I have a couple of those myself, and soon enough they will be babysitting mine! Until then, they’re too busy enjoying life and preparing [...] Related posts:

he asked for it

shani — Mon, 03 May 2010 04:17:26 +0000

I swear, it wasn’t me, or us, or anyone but him. He wanted his hair cut, I didn’t, at least not yet. Come summer, the real summer, I am the first to support the loss of heavy sweaty, getting in the eyes, wash every day hair, but I was trying to hang on to it [...] Related posts:

Cutting Back

american girl

shani — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:35:14 +0000

Time flies when you’re having fun, and as everyone around me celebrates their 5th birthday I realize, you know, that I’m not getting any younger, and more importantly, I have my own daughter’s party to plan…..I should ask Sophia’s mom for help because she always plans fantastic girls’ parties! And what fun it was- you [...] Related posts:

Paris, je t’aime

shani — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:36:52 +0000

Just across the street from the LA landmark that is the Farmer’s Market, is a hidden away treasure that is more like a porthole to another continent- the old land, Europe, or more specifically, France. Once you step across the entry way, you’ll find yourself in the flea market in the south of Paris, Porte [...] Related posts:

WALLPAPER

shani — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:49:30 +0000

You might think your grandma’s kitchen wallpaper from 1971 is making a comeback and that if you moved in there you would totally keep it…but seriously,(Don’t) AND that is not what Tracy Hiner of Black Crow Studios is talking about when she designs, and I quote :Black Crow Studios is a custom wallpaper company that [...] Related posts:

it was a cold foggy night…

shani — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:58:04 +0000

It was a really foggy day, really! Luckily, up on the cliff, there’s a lighthouse to lead the boats safely to shore. Just like Michele and Gary are the light and vessel of each other….ok, yes, I can be sentimental too, and I’ll tell you what, spending the morning with the loving people will do [...] Related posts:

Saturday Night is right! (around the corner)

sneak peaking toms

shani — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:29:26 +0000

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