Mi Amiga Favorita – Portraits and Greeting Cards

9 Jan

We are living within about an hour of my childhood hometown. One of the biggest perks included with that is the opportunity to see my best friend since childhood on an almost routine basis. She recently moved back to Alabama from stints in New York and Chile and she brought with her a beautiful family! It helps that her boys are both under four and makes for a nice pow wow when we all get together with my rambunctious sons!

One of the things I love to do with the portraits I’ve taken is to create cards or portrait books. Christmas cards are my favorite and my BFF was game when I proposed the idea as a little Christmas present. We rounded up the boys in her basement and I fired away. My homemade backdrop didn’t work out as planned so we solved that problem by going black and white. I think subconciously I had the inspiration for their photos from some groovy paintings she picked up recently at a garage sale. The two paintings remind me of era of the fifties or sixties. They are dark and dimly lit and are of a matador and a lady. Our photo session tended to have a bit of that Spanish flair, especially the photos of just the husband and wife.

Quite fun!