I love this guy!!!

(and apparently he loves puppies.)

We just recently launched a bunch of new websites that do a much better job showing off our photos.
Our main site (www.arisingimages.com) is still the main hub, but it splits off into our new wedding site (www.arisingweddings.com), our new high school senior site (www.arisingseniors.com), our new babies site (www.arisingbabies.com), and our new kids site (www.arisingkids.com). We really felt that our website is one of the first points of contact for a lot of our clients so we wanted to have an impactful website that showed large photos with fitting music. We’re very excited to have this completed.

Yesterday afternoon my good friend Frank Lombardo who is a photographer did some family photos with us. It was really run, he took pics, we took pics, and we were all coming up with ideas…it was a good time!! Here’s a link for the slideshow:

http://www.arisingimages.com/miscellaneous/personal/mukherjee_20080127/

Here are a few favs:

Every year Cheridys mom gets us together to take photos for her Christmas card. This year we waited for little Mayz to be born so he could be included too.

One of the traditions is to do what we call a “big head” photo where we mess with everyones picture using Photoshop.

We did our first photo shoot with Mayz this evening so I just wanted to post a few of our favorites:

I just had to post a photo of his crazy monkey toes!!

Mayz Mukherjee was born on Thanksgiving Day 11-22-2007 at 1:37 pm. He is 8 lbs, 11 oz and 21 inches long.

Here’s one of mama and Mayz snuggling together

Here are a few photos of him just minutes after birth:

Well, this morning Cheridy’s water broke, so we’re currently in the hospital and waiting for this show to get on the road!!
This morning her contractions were very even at about 5-6 minutes apart, but now (9 hours later), they’re very uneven and coming from 30 seconds apart to 10 minutes apart and some are lasting 30 seconds and others are lasting 5 minutes. It’s very weird. Either way, the doc makes it sound like we’re going to be here for a long time. Right now, we’re just passing the time. We spent the first few hours coming up with baby names, then visiting with my parents, then sleeping a bit, then watching tv.
We have a really nice room with a nice view over a golf course. Cheridy has a great adjustable bed which she can move around to get into different positions to help her stay comfortable. There is also a couch and few comfy chairs, so we really have a nice room which is great. There is even wireless internet in the room which is fantastic!
So far, her contractions haven’t been painful which is good, but at this point, I think it might be better just to get it over with.

Here’s Cheridy feeling pretty good:

While I was gone on my trip out east this week, I got to visit up with my friends Joel and Rachel Hartter who just moved to New Hampshire a couple weeks ago. Joel is a good friend of mine from back in the day at the University of Michigan….we worked together in the International Studies office as we both had a heart for overseas travel/study. We became really good friends and have stayed in contact over the years. Joel has quit the engineering world to pursue a career in teaching at a University out there. He is also doing a lot of work out in Uganda as part of his research and is in the process of starting a non-profit organization to start libraries in impoverished regions. I’ll post more info about that once it’s available. Joel and Ray just a baby 9 weeks ago and you can see more about them on Joel’s blog:

http://3jandray.blogspot.com/

Here are a few pics I took of baby Jude while visiting with them:

This afternoon we had the privilege to shoot Doug and Cynthia’s newborn baby. We shot their wedding a couple years ago so it was great to see them again…this time with a new bundle of joy!!

This afternoon we did our second annual shoot with Fallon. Last year when she came, she cried almost the whole time. This time, she was much better and we were able to capture a lot of her different expressions.

This afternoon we got to do some baby pics with little Chumani. She’s a funny little one. The best way to make her smile was to let her play with your cell phone!

This morning I spent some time doing some updates to our portraits website. One of the things that I did is make some new slideshows for the different types of portraits we do. You can view those slideshows by clicking the play button below the respective show.

Babies

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Kids

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Engagements

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High School Seniors

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