Raahi turns three !

The mellow sun streamed through the bare trees and cast gentle shadows in the parking lot of the YMCA at Newcastle. There was a nip in the weather. We saw excited kids in their jackets, bundled up and running in to the building to get to Raahi’s party. The YMCA …

Rishaan’s 1st Birthday

A rainy Seattle afternoon gave way to much fanfare and celebration of little baby boy, Rishaan. He turned one after all! Mommy, Shaily and Papa, Rajat pulled out all the stops. The walls told pictorial stories of the beautiful first year of baby Rishaan and a placard reminded us of …

Shoham’s Annaprashan

On a damp Northwest afternoon, the Redmond community center was abuzz with parents, uncles and aunts, cousins and friends helping out to decorate for Shoham’s rice ceremony. Also known as ‘annaprashan’, it is the first time a baby makes his transition from a liquid diet to solids. ‘Anna’ meaning grain …

Turning over a colored leaf !

Autumn has been hard to find this year thanks to the long and hot summer we’ve had in Seattle! When Sweta and Prakash told us that they wanted to do a fall shoot, we started looking out for appropriate locations. Either we’ve had rainy days or the fall colors weren’t …

A hundred days of summer

This year in Seattle, we’ve been blessed with a beautiful summer. Some might even argue, we’ve had too much of it and as true as that may be, nobody can argue how good the warm sun feels! On a beautiful late summer afternoon, when the Northwest should’ve already been cooling …

KT & Parry’s Pregnancy Shoot

‘At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities’. – Jean Houston A couple of weeks ago, we spent an incredibly fun and energetic evening with Ketika and Paresh in the Kirkland neighborhood parks. This exuberant and fun-loving couple is expecting their very first …

The Little Mermaid Turns Five !

When we reached the venue, the birthday decorations were still going up. A shy little girl stood in the corner while her parents, grandparents and uncles and aunts buzzed around trying to get the venue ready before her friends arrived. You could almost feel her saying, ‘Are we there yet?’. …