This last weekend of summer officially kicked off my busy fall portrait season! I photographed 35 families in two days! I absolutely passed out on Sunday. I could barely make it to bed fast enough! It was exhausting physically and mentally. I do not recommend doing this many portrait sessions in one weekend! Thankfully I got lucky and had beautiful weather!
Saturday I had the family portrait sessions at the New Canaan Nature Center but Sunday they were at my home studio in Wilton. I am sure some of them were hesitant to come here but it worked out great! I actually love the light that I get in my yard and I know it so well. I know just where to pose my clients for the best light! We got some beautiful images! I am editing them this week and then have another 20 clients this coming weekend (and more after that)! Here is one family (from two weeks ago). The light is just perfect! Of course they are a beautiful family so that helps! How cute are these kids!
This is from a 20 minute mini session! We can do a lot in 20 minutes in my yard! We can even get a lot in 15. It all depends on the kids and how cooperative they are feeling at the moment! From a typical mini session I will show anywhere from 10 to 40 images, all depends on how it goes! We all know how that is as parents! This family was super cooperative and ready for their session. I LOVE the shades of blue that mom picked. Look at how dad's shirt combines the colors of both children's shirts. Very impressive wardrobe planning JT! They go so well with the green grass and trees! We had so much fun!
5 River Road
Wilton, CT 06897 US
When: Thursday, September 24, 6:30PM to 8:00PM
Phone: 203-210-7222
krik-it and Moments By Andrea Photography will be rolling out the red carpet to present the photos created during our fall fashion shoot with our client's kids! They had so much fun being models for a day! Now it is time to reveal their portraits up on the walls of the store! We will have a slideshow going of the images as well!
Refreshments will be served and great prizes will be raffled off such as gift certificates to local stores, toys from Melissa and Doug, and a portrait session from Andrea!
Shop that night at krik-it and receive 25% off your entire purchase of regular-priced clothing! This discount is for everyone that attends so tell your friends!
Well, School is almost here and so is family portrait time! I will be photographing about 120 families this Fall in two elementary schools in New Canaan. This is in addition to my regular clients so I think I should be about 200 + total in about 10 weeks (mostly the 8 weekends) by myself!!! For those of you that are my highschool friends, THIS is why I am missing my 20th reunion!!! It's going to be crazy!
Here are a few images from my first group of mini sessions for one of the elementary schools! It rained, of course so half of them were inside my studio with the white backdrop!I have a feeling this is going to happen a lot! These are just a few images from three of the families. There are more families but as I have said before, getting images on here isn't easy for some reason!! I will get more!
OMG! I am so exhausted and it isn't even my "busy season" yet! What?! OK, we had a hugely successful Modeling Event at krik-it clothes for kids in Wilton Center! I got together with the store owners and decided it would be fun to have our clients model the stores new fall clothing line. I thought one day, maybe 10 - 15 families would be good! We ended up booking two days and about 40 families! Not to mention the 30+ families on the waiting list! This was not something any photographer in their right mind would attempt but hey, I'm far from sane so why not!
Rosanna & Melissa (the owners) picked out fun matching outfits for the kids (sibling sets included) and I set up a studio in the store and photographed all 100+ kids! They had a blast! We have some really cute kids around here! I've been too busy with other bookings to get to these images yet so I'm not putting many up. Not the mention the fact that my blog does not make it easy to post images! It is driving me crazy! This is why I don't blog very often! I need an easier system for blogging (and lots of other things in my life)!!! Don't we all!?
Anyway, here are two ADORABLE images! There are MANY more but the rest will NOT BE ONLINE until we have our big premier at the store! Stay tuned for the date and time! We plan to have an early evening of desert, raffle prizes, and a display of all the children in their best pictures! All the cuties, their families and friends will be invited! It's going to be so cute! I can't take it!
A beautiful family, a lovely beach, kind of hard to not make great pictures! This was my first time at this beach! The mom was right! It was beautiful! One of CT's hidden treasures!
Wait up!! The life of a girl with two big brothers!
oments by Andrea is a professional portrait studio located in Wilton, CT in lower Fairfield County, Connecticut, near New York. Owned and operated by Andrea Topalian, a professional portrait artist specializing in family photography including maternity portraits, newborn and baby photos, high school senior portraits, as well as candid portraits of children of all ages. Andrea’s Precious Moments Club is a popular baby portrait club that documents the important stages of a baby’s growth: newborn, six months and one year.
Moments by Andrea Photography offers both on-location and studio sessions (indoor/outdoor). She serves such Connecticut towns as Wilton, New Canaan, Norwalk, Ridgefield, Darien, Westport, Stamford, Redding, Weston, Greenwich, Old Greenwich, Fairfield, Trumbull, and Southport. She also has clients in Westchester County, NY and other parts of New York State close to Connecticut.
Andrea’s work is in especially high demand in the fall for family portraits and pictures of children and pets for holiday pictures! Her clients use these family pictures in their custom holiday cards, created by Andrea.
In addition to family portraits, newborns photography, and her popular baby portrait plan, Andrea also offers other photography services. Realtors, actors, and other professionals call upon Andrea to create headshots and other images for their portfolios, promotional pieces and websites. Andrea is also available to photograph small events such as bar mitzvahs, communions and corporate events.
Andrea is a member of the (PPA) Professional Photographers of America as well as the (CTPPA) Connecticut Professional Photographers Association.
This is from a 20 minute mini session! We can do a lot in 20 minutes in my yard! We can even get a lot in 15. It all depends on the kids and how cooperative they are feeling at the moment! From a typical mini session I will show anywhere from 10 to 40 images, all depends on how it goes! We all know how that is as parents! This family was super cooperative and ready for their session. I LOVE the shades of blue that mom picked. Look at how dad's shirt combines the colors of both children's shirts. Very impressive wardrobe planning JT! They go so well with the green grass and trees! We had so much fun! 
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oments by Andrea is a professional portrait studio located in Wilton, CT in lower Fairfield County, Connecticut, near New York. Owned and operated by Andrea Topalian, a professional portrait artist specializing in family photography including maternity portraits, newborn and baby photos, high school senior portraits, as well as candid portraits of children of all ages. Andrea’s Precious Moments Club is a popular baby portrait club that documents the important stages of a baby’s growth: newborn, six months and one year. 