Chauncie's Houston Bridal Portraits at Column A

Today is actually Chauncie's wedding day, so I can finally post her bridal portraits that we took last week at her wedding venue, Column A. Chauncie's hair and makeup were perfect for the look that she was going for: vintage glamor. After I finished editing and selecting my favorites for the blog, I noticed that most of my favorites were actually the black and white ones because of her hair style, which was very reminiscent of the 1950's. 

This one was my favorite from the shoot:

Here are a few others!

 

 

 

 Congratulations, Chauncie! Hope your wedding day is amazing!

To schedule bridal portraits, please contact me directly at sanam@sanamzaerphotography.com

Todd & Yessenia's Astros Engagement Session at Minute Maid Park!

So, when Yessenia first contacted me, she mentioned that they really wanted to do their engagement session at Minute Maid Park. Being from Boston and knowing absolutely nothing about baseball, I assumed it was just a random park in Houston. After a few more e-mail correspondences and a Doogle search, I realized that it was actually a baseball stadium (and that I need to learn more about the city I'm living in!)

I have been really excited about this engagement shoot because I absolutely love themed engagement shoots with props. Yessenia showed up with a full bag of props and was eager to use all of them. I had a hard time choosing my favorites from this engagement session, but here are a few!

Sam & Azadeh | Pregnant!

After almost three weeks of rescheduling because of the crazy rain that Houston has been getting, I was finally able to get together with Sam & Azadeh for their maternity shoot. I do most of my portrait shoots at sunset, but this time, the clouds decided that we were going to do our shoot under the hot sun at noon. I'm so glad we did them then though because it started pouring  rain on my drive home!

  

Photobombed by a duck!

Sam, make a peace offering to the duck.

Aiden's Piano Portraits

During my visit to Dallas, my friend allowed me to try a few more themed portrait sessions with her son. Our first set were the spaghetti portraits which you can find here. For this set of, instead of having him naked in a pot, I asked her to dress him up in a suit! The trick to taking these photos was to let him experience the piano for the first time on camera. Needless to say, he had a lot of fun :)

 

 

 

 

Aiden's Spaghetti Portraits

If you're read some of my other blog posts, you know that I spend a lot of time with baby Aiden. His mother, who is coincidentally also named Sanam, is a close friend of mine and we had often joked around for about putting him in a giant pot and pour spaghetti on his head. Today, we actually did it :) Enjoy! 

If you have any creative ideas for child portraits or would like to have a conversation about a possible creative photo shoot with your child, please e-mail me at sanam@sanamzaerphotography.com

 

 

Moving to San Fransisco!

My husband and I will be moving to Palo Alto, CA as of June 2013, but I will continue shooting in Houston, TX until then! If you are a San Fransisco bride, please contact me for 2013 dates! As always, I am available for travel to anywhere in the world. I'm just changing my home base :) 

I've also been traveling a lot lately and haven't had time to fully transfer all my photos to the blog. Hopefully that project will be finished in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for more pictures and blog posts!

Welcome to my new blog! Over the next few days, I will be transferring all of my pictures here from Facebook. Please bear with me :)