I’m taking the photos at Amit’s barmitzvah in a few weeks time, and in preparation, I met him and his family at the Johannesburg Zoo this afternoon for his portrait photoshoot.  These portrait shoots are done quite a while in advance of the actual mitzvah so that the photobook can be designed and printed.

I’ve been a bad daily photographer, and I’ve been far too busy to pick up my camera much this week, so I have to cheat and show you a photo from a few weeks ago.  You haven’t seen this particular image yet, but I just love it! I took it during Gerda’s family shoot, and I love the light through the grass and the angle of her body and… just everything about this photo.

In other news, I’ve hopefully got some exciting news to tell you all in a few days about my photography workshop, and in addition, I’ve decided that my blog needs a revamp so I’m getting a new logo designed and I’ve been hunting for a new blog layout… busy busy busy!!

I took delivery of my first album this afternoon, and I’m so very pleased with it.  Adina‘s mom ordered it and it contains all the photos from her batmitzvah portrait session as well as photos from every year of her life. It’s a book containing very many memories.

It’s a leather bound book, only 15X20 cm, and the 15 pages are printed on boarded matt photo paper.

I really hunted high and low for a good photobook supplier, and I’m quite happy now.  They have quite a big range of books and the quality seems fabulous.  And it only took 7 days to print, thankfully, because the book is needed this weekend by the family.

See the full set of 2010 photo-a-day photos on my Project 365 Flickr Set.