Samaha Photography Blog

I just had to share this new design layout for a square collage.  I love how it incorporates both vertical, horizontal AND square images into the same sleek collage!

I love when clients return to Samaha Photography year after year.  I have been photographing this little cutie since she was about 9 or 10 months old.   Her family has moved into a new home since our last session and it’s just beautiful.  I found so many lovely backdrops to use for “A”’s portraits.  I even found a hallway full of Samaha Photography portraits from our previous sessions and was just amazed at how much she has grown and changed since our last two sessions.  (Have I mentioned how much I love seeing the different ways you display your portraits?)

Little “A” has been one of my favorite little girls to photograph and this is one of my favorites from her latest session.

And of course….here are a few more…

I had the luck to meet another newborn this week.  This is little “D”.  His parents and big sister “C” welcomed him home about three weeks ago.  You can see that he is just as adorable as his big sister!

I am a reader or at least I used to be before I became a mother and before I started a photography business.  My entire life, I have always had a book in my hands.  I have stayed up late many a night just to find out how the story ends.  I have cried when many books finished because I would miss the characters that I had come to know through the author’s eyes and words. 

Lately, though, I have found that I am putting my love of books on the back burner.  It’s not that I don’t have the time for books, it’s just that I’m choosing to veg in front of the television or at the computer.  I want my children to grow up with the same love of reading that I have yet I wonder how can I expect them to love reading when they rarely see me reading?  

I’ve been part of a book club for the past year which has me reading again but I know that I could still read more.  So, I’ve decided to give myself a challenge….to read 25 books (or more) in the next 12 months.  It may not seem like much but in the past few years, I’ve probably averaged about 6-7 books a year.  I was going to challenge myself to 50 books (as I found on Shelfari) but decided that might be a bit ambitious…so 25 books it is.  That is an average of about 2 books per month.  

If you are so inclined, I invite you to join me in this challenge….let’s read 25 books by June 2010!  As I read each book, I’ll pop on here to give a quick review of the book.  

I’d love to hear from you whether you are joining the challenge or if you just have a book recommendation for me….be sure to leave a comment.  :)