Welcome to the brand spankin' new Worthington Photography Blog! We are Sam and Mel, a husband-wife photography team based in the "rivah city" of Richmond, Virginia. We hope you'll come on in, sit a spell, and browse through Mel's journal of our most recent shoots and adventures. If you wish to reminisce, you can still access posts from our old blog here. Enjoy!
Numero trois is up for the reading! Check it out…
A big thanks to Courtney Spencer of Little White Book for inviting me to write this spot, it was fun to be a guest blogger. And thanks to all who read the series, I hope that it was helpful. Cheers!
Amelia Cate is just a bigger, more adorable version of the cupie doll she was at three months. OK, maybe “cupie doll” is the wrong comparison because she’s not the least bit creepy, just a sweet and gorgeous girl. And besides, she’s sprouting teeth, can sit up and she showed me how well she eats bananas…a lot has changed!
Most of the pictures are the result of Aimee and Randy trying their best to rouse a smile out of Amelia Cate, who was not in the mood to give them away for free. Not that I minded, I think her moody pouts are every bit as endearing. I loved the resulting pictures of a family playing together on an ordinary, rainy Monday afternoon.
I did learn a great lesson in parenting from Aimee and Randy: the value of a sense of humor…
I love this shot… its foreshadows the pre-teenage years when everything your parents do is embarrassing. We have to enjoy babyhood while it lasts because they can’t avoid our kisses…
Here’s a slideshow of the session and if you would like to view the online gallery, click here. Our next shoot isn’t too far off, I think she’ll be crawling soon…
Here’s Part 2 on The Little White Book, look out for Part 3 next week! And be sure to check out Courtney’s post on tenting one of Richmond’s most prominent landmarks, the Carillon. I think this is a brilliant idea and would love to see an adventurous couple make it a reality… Oh, and if we fit all the criteria for being the right photographer for you, hire us to shoot it! 
These pics are so overdue, its not even funny. I’m a slacker when it comes to taking pictures of our personal life and even worse about sharing them with anyone. You can either be behind the camera as an observer or in front of it as a participant. When it comes to my niece Jordan, its obvious that I would rather hold her than my camera: these are the most recent photos I have taken and she was only 2 weeks old! (We’re closing in on 8 now). I’m hoping that this post will light a fire under my rear because she is already such a different kid from these newborn photos:
Jordan has a great “grumpy” face as she demonstrates here with Daddy Brian:
Jordan is in the 95% percentile on height, she’s super long (surprise, surprise). Check out the flippers on this kid…
She’s super aware most of the time, she loves to be held so that she can look out at everyone else. And of course she’s an angel when she sleeps:
One February 15th, just three weeks after we welcomed Jordan to the world, one of my closest friends gave birth to a baby girl, Leela Devi Patel. I traveled to DC to spend time when Leela first came home and took some pics while she was just a few days old. 2009 is turning out to be the year of the some V.I.Bs (very important babies) in our lives.
Unlike Jordan, Leela is a major snoozer…Dina actually has to wake her up during the night for feedings! I love how she positions her feet together so perfectly like a little yoga baby:
She even slept through a diaper change and outfit change during one of Mel Mahsi’s photo sessions…
Dina got this pic of Leela and I with my camera, I love it so much:
I will post more pics of Leela joined by her family soon…
