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Earlier today we asked you to share photos of your little ones enjoying the spring weather for our latest cover photo on Facebook. And while we could only choose one winner, we couldn’t help but kvell over all your adorable kids, so here’s a slideshow featuring them all. Enjoy, and happy spring!
Monday’s post from Sarah Tuttle-Singer, “We Need to Quit Telling Lies on Facebook,” has officially gone viral. With 76,000 Facebook likes (ironic?) and 5o0 comments and counting, it’s been a thrill to see so many people relate to this post about the realities of parenting. We asked readers to send in their own pictures and stories for our #NoMoreFakebook campaign, and below you’ll find them. It’s not all pretty, and it’s certainly not all ideal, but it’s all very real. Share your own #NoMoreFakebook stories on our Facebook wall or on Twitter and join the phenomenon!
Blair Young: Nourishing our toddler with cheese steaks and mayonnaise. She also tasted red dye #3 well before turning 2:
Hey, Stacey here! Great tip for you: Don’t forget about the other important people in your little one’s life. When I look back at my childhood photos I don’t have a ton of images with my grandparents, or aunts, uncles, or even close family friends. They tend to be forgotten in the heat of the picture-taking moment.
I’m not saying stop focusing only on the immediate family unit which yes, is important…BUT if you have grandparents who are close to your kiddos or that YOU are close with, you should make sure to take the time to include them in your photos so that when your babes are big and grown they can look back and see that those other family members and how they took part in their lives.
The photos themselves don’t need to be anything amazing. Just something sweet and simple to document the time together. Here are some examples of my favorite “extras,” some taken of my own little girl and her important people, and some of my clients and all the wonderful, other people who love and adore their little ones!
A nice group shot
American Gothic plus one
Don't forget the aunties!
A classic grandparent shot
Courtesy of Stacey Ilyse.
Hey, I’m Stacey, a mom to my crazy drama queen little girl, Remy, who is almost (gasp!) 1 year old! I also happen to be a professional photographer. The lovely ladies at Kveller have so kindly brought me on board to share tips, inspiration, guidance, and more during your adventures in photographing your kiddos. I specialize in weddings and also, my passion, lifestyle family/children photography. Feel free to check out my work here.
In the meantime, have you ever wondered what the right kind of camera would be for your photo taking needs? Here are my suggestions, based purely on my preference (i.e. nobody’s paying me to say it).
I recommend two different cameras, both made by Canon. Read the rest of this entry →
The NY Times–a little late to the game–has identified the birth photography trend. Apparently, this is breaking news, yet I’ve seen pictures posted on Facebook of almost every little family I know expanding. No blood. No vaginas. No nudity. In actuality, I think the only news worthy part is that “birth photography” has become yet another thing for vendors to capitalize on as expectant parents are already stone-faced looking through the endless aisles of a certain baby super store. Read the rest of this entry →
Our little Molly, officially a woman.
One thing we haven’t talked a whole lot about on Kveller is the quintessential milestone of a young Jewish person’s life: the bar/bat mitzvah. Alina just opened the floodgates with her post about deciding to not throw her son a standard bar mitzvah. On the other side of the spectrum, Kveller’s editorial assistant Molly just uncovered a number of pictures from her own bat mitzvah that are… how do we put this… absolutely amazing?
And now we want to see some of your pictures. The good, the bad, the over-the-top. Did your party have a theme? Were you sporting a sharp power suit? Was your whole family forced to hug in front a professional photographer? Read the rest of this entry →
This was our second year of collecting adorable photos of your kids in Purim costumes, and man, we love it! Thanks to all of you who sent in photos–and feel free to send more and we’ll add them (just email info@kveller.com).
And now that we’re done with Purim, it’s on to Passover. Don’t forget to take those cute shots of kids eating matzah!
Is it just us, or has this year’s Hanukkah been particularly awesome? For all of the frantic shopping and potato grating and fire hazards, we’re pretty sad that the Festival of Lights ends tonight.
But we won’t cry too much, since our lovely readers sent in so many amazing photos of their families celebrating Hanukkah. Check out the slideshow below, and then search through your own camera, because it’s not too late to add your snapshots to the collection. Just send in your photos to info@kveller.com, and we’ll add them to the slideshow here.
We hope you enjoy the pictures, and one last time, happy Hanukkah!
Say cheese!
We don’t know about you, but all of our Facebook newsfeeds are blowing up with pictures of kids and babies lighting menorahs, or being held near menorahs very carefully. And frankly, they’re all adorable. This got us thinking, and we decided we’d love to see what kind of Hanukkah celebrations YOU all are doing.
If you’d like to share some of your favorite family photos from Hanukkah so far, send them over to info@kveller.com and we’ll put together a nice slideshow on the site in the near future. Kids playing dreidel? Kits eating latkes? Kids opening presents? Send, send, send!
**This is sort of obvious, but we have to say it: By sending us your pictures, you’re giving us permission to use the pictures on our site.**
As evidenced to the right, searching for Jewish pictures on stock photography websites can be frustrating, if not outright laughable. Our “parent” website MyJewishLearning has had it up to here with phony, staged pictures of Jewish people doing Jewish things, so they’re making a plea to the real Jewish families out there. That’s where you come in.
MyJewishLearning is currently holding a photo contest asking for pictures of real families celebrating Rosh Hashanah. This could mean photos of your kids dipping apples into honey, or the whole family sitting down to a meal. However you celebrate, we would like to see it. The person who submits the best photograph will win an Amazon gift card and have their picture featured prominently on MyJewishLearning. The fame! The glory!
So start clicking through your Facebook albums (or photo albums, for those of you who are so 2003), and add your favorite Rosh Hashanah pics to the contest Flickr pool.
Read full contest guidelines here.
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Kvell, verb `k'vell
To burst with pride, as over one's child
Kveller, noun `k'vell-er
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