Val McCormick Photography: Arabolos

I have always found genealogy research to be interesting. Who were my great grandparents? Where were they from? What were their stories? I recently photographed the Arabolos family reunion. Jenn coordinated this reunion and knew that this was an event to be treasured by generations to come. What a great move she made in hiring a professional photographer to document this event. Jenn did a wonderful job with coordinating this event. She was very organized with every detail and it definitely paid off.
Here are just a few teaser shots of the day. I will be posting a slide show soon with everyone's group shots so stay tuned for that.

The guest of honor Lillian and Edward.

Lillian had a great time viewing everyone's historic photographs and trying to figure out who was who.

Jenn organized a craft and activity area for the kids. They really had a great time creating sand art and playing an old time favorite; Twister.

Jenn and her lovely daughter.

Thank you everyone for allowing me to capture this day and a HUGE special thanks to Victoria Souza for referring Jenn to me.

14 comments:

www.fabuluxephotos.com said...: Nice Work As Always :); September 4, 2008 at 1:34 AM
Robert J. Trenske said...: Hey Val, these photos are great, really nice job. I really like the first one the one, she looks so happy...great job!; September 4, 2008 at 3:01 PM
Travis Flynn said...: That's a very nice large group portrait. It's very hard to arrange people so that it is both practical and interesting, but it seems you've done both here! :-); September 4, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Michael + Anna Costa Photographers said...: I love shots of the elder generation. It's amazing what many of them have been through & how much we can learn from them. It's also amazing how different the world is than from when they were young.; September 4, 2008 at 7:18 PM
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Anonymous said...: Val these are great! I love the first one - such a lovely portrait. Love the one of Jen & her daughter. great work as always! Looks like you had a fun day ; ); September 5, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Tiffany said...: These are so priceless!
Great shots!!; September 9, 2008 at 9:01 AM
OHANA PHOTOGRAPHERS said...: awesome! we love genealogy too! my aunt went as far as scotland to find info on our ancestors. i found out that some of our ancestors came over on the mayflower and my great great great great grandfather was abraham lincoln's law partner.; September 10, 2008 at 2:05 AM
Christopher said...: The 3rd shot is great. The BW makes it seem old and the memories seem to flow through the photograph.; September 11, 2008 at 6:42 AM
Tina Parsadanov said...: Nice job! Looks like a really fun time! Wowee that's a huge group photo!!!; September 11, 2008 at 12:23 PM
E. Broderick Photography said...: Whoa! You did an awesome job with that group photo! No small feat, my dear. Gorgeous portraits. I bet it was incredibly cool to be a part of this day. I'm sure your pictures will mean the world to them.

P.S. Love the "vintage" Twister game!; September 11, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Eric Foley said...: These are all awesome Val!!! They must be very happy! Nice work, see ya Wednesday.; September 14, 2008 at 1:22 AM
Bobby Earle said...: Wow! I love the idea of huge family reunions like that. They're going to love these :)

Bobby; September 17, 2008 at 1:07 AM
Michael + Anna Costa said...: I LOVE the family reunion! What a great thing to photography. Great work!

xo,
Anna; September 25, 2008 at 2:40 PM