salina: one year old
May 3, 2012 | Filed Under baby, portraits | 1 Comment
i had the pleasure of meeting little salina and her family a few weeks ago to take some portraits at one of my favorite spots, brookside gardens in wheaton, maryland. i’m all about babies these days, myself, with my newest hitting six months this weekend (!!!) so i had a blast watching this sweet baby girl exploring the beautiful gardens and interacting with people and plants in her own curious way. thanks so much to salina and her family for giving me the opportunity to capture these memories for you!
rashad & sana: cherry blossom portraits
April 12, 2012 | Filed Under portraits | 14 Comments
i didn’t think it was possible to photograph a more adorably in-love couple than rashad and sana at their walima last june, until i photographed rashad and sana several months later – that is, a few weeks ago, under the cherry blossoms in D.C. on a beautiful sunday afternoon. these two are so incredibly photogenic already, it’s just icing on my photographer’s cake to be able to capture a bit of the love that’s so radiant between them – especially in afternoon light like this!
rashad and sana, thanks again for the idea of switching from the gardens to D.C., for all the great posing ideas, and for struggling through all the traffic and walking so far to meet me out there. i think it was worth it! :)
nadiya & khuram: wedding
January 30, 2012 | Filed Under wedding posts | 25 Comments
i can’t tell you how excited i was to start my new year off with nadiya and khuram’s wedding! i’ve known nadiya online for a little while now and we have a lot of friends in common – both “IRL” and on facebook :). she is herself an artist and photographer – a beautiful soul inside and out – so was truly honored that she asked me to take some pictures at her wedding! it turns out also that i only had a few degrees separation from khuram, too – he’s the cousin of a friend of mine, and knows my own family (previously unknown to me though!) anyway – held at the nur center in falls church, virginia, their ceremony was beautifully simple, bringing together nadiya and khuram’s families and closest friends to celebrate with them. thanks so much, both of you, for letting me be a part of this!
aamina & ibrahim: aqiqa
January 29, 2012 | Filed Under baby, friends | Leave a Comment
sara and i go about ten years back, to when we were both students at college park. we still live close by each other, but after marriage and first kids, have found it harder to keep in touch face-to-face. so it was a crazy surprise when she facebook chatted me one day late last summer (2011) and each of us suddenly found out the other was pregnant – both due in november!
however, sara was actually expecting twins! as twins often do, they came a little early – aamina and ibrahim, welcomed home by their insanely adorable two-year-old sister mariam. by the time the twins’ aqiqah (traditional islamic head-shaving ceremony) was planned for january, i was so excited to have recovered enough from my own childbirth to be able to photograph the event. in fact, the aqiqah was the first night i had taken zayd out of the home to someone’s house for an evening – and he didn’t cry once! at three months, the twins already had such distinct personalities – hope these come through in the pictures!
so – hooray for babies, and for picking up the camera professionally again seven weeks postpartum :)
