LITTLE STEPS: October 30, 2011

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Holiday gifts from Lara Alcantara Photography.

GIFT IDEA NUMBER 1

Hello all, I hope you are all doing well. Now that we are in November ( sooo fast!) We are all starting to think about holiday cards and gifts for the holidays. How about letting me tell you what I can offer to help you cross some things off your to-do-list this year.

First of all everything I can offer you is a piece of art, and what better gift than that???

This year Lara Alcantara Children's Photography has come up with gift certificates. You can buy a gift certificate for a loved one. This will be delivered in a beautifully printed envelope on time for the holidays. They range from $225-625. This may include a list of different packages. The list is a follows.

Short and sweet Session

. 40 min portrait session

.One location in Manhattan

. A CD with 20-30 high resolution images ready for print.

. $250 cash/ 275 Check

Family or Children's Portrait session ( Recession special)

. 1-1 1/2 hour portrait session

. Two locations within walking distance

. A CD with 30-40 high resolution images ready for print. No prints

. $350 cash/ $375 check

Petit Pois, newborn session

. 1/2 hour portrait session

. 20 high resolution images ready for print. No prints

. $ 300 Cash/ 325 check

Before and After session

. Two 1-2 hour sessions, one maternity and one newborn session

. 1 location

. 30- high resolution images ready for print of each session. No prints

. $400 cash/$425 Check

One special year

. Three 1-2 hour portrait sessions, within child's first year.

. 2 locations within walking distance

. 30 high resolution images ready for print from each session.

. Package print: 1 8X10,2 5X7, 10 4X6 prints

. $60 cash/ 625Check

Birthdays

. Up to 2 hours of shooting time Extra hours are charged additional.

. 100-200 high resolution images ready for print. No prints

. $375. extra hour is $75.

All photo shoots take place outdoors, at your home or at a location of your choice taking advantage of the natural light. There is a travel fee for locations outside of New York City.

Lara Alcantara-Lansberg

laraalcantarachildren.com

cel:646 234 3391

GIFT IDEA NUMBER 2

I have come up with other projects that may be of interest to you or to a loved one. One of them is a project I called "Steps"

This year for christmas I have started new set of images for parents that want to have a little piece of their children's baby years made into art. The process is simple. You find a pair of shoes that you find hard to part with and still have lying around the house. You send it to me, I photograph it with a very high resolution camera, making sure the little details are in the image,we chat and find a small phrase that you want on the bottom of the image that might sum up what they mean to you and to your child's development track. I print it on an archival 11X14 size paper and send it to you. It is a very beautiful and personal gift.

These for example are my daughter's first real shoes and if you notice you can even see the small marks of her 11 month old toes. She destroyed these shoes in the summer of 2008.

GIFT IDEA NUMBER 3

For all of those who's home used to be Caracas, Venezuela, I have a series I made of the Avila in various sizes for sale. They are editions of ten, still have at least 8 or 7 of each size left. Here are the images.

Small Size $300

Medium Size $ 400

Large Size Special order $ 500

Holiday Special with frame $ 700-1400

GIFT IDEA NUMBER 4

The last Holiday gift is the one and only Crib-a-Book, made and patented by yours truly. Which is the best way to have your bookworms keep some books by their bedside, a water bottle for midnight thirsts and maybe a flashlight like my Maia so when she is a little scared of the dark she can have a bit of light at reaching distance. Before the monsters in the closet get to her vast imagination. This hangs on the wall, or crib railing so your early waking toddler can be entertained for a while so you can get a bit more of sleep. Who wouldn't love you for that.

And so I have come to the end of all of my gifting ideas from Lara Alcantara Photography!!!!!!

If you have any questions or wish to order any of these items please contact me at laraalcantara@gmail.com or call me at cel: 646 2343391

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!

Hello guys, hope you are all doing well. I wanted to share with you a little bit of happiness going on in my life in New York City.

Besides it getting colder by the minute we had the start of the fun end of the year festivities! I love Halloween, I must say it has always been a fun thing for me. Living here in NYC you have to get creative and have lots of friends in different places. Now that Maia is three and a half, and going to school everyday I have made what I can call... the best group of friends ever. Last year I met the most amazing group of mama's around. We are very good at getting together not only with the kids but also getting together once or twice or even three times a month for drinks, movie nights and dinner.

This idea of getting together all the time has not only made us a closer group but also has made us better moms. Going out for drinks with the girls and talking about all kinds of things including the bad things, makes us get home feeling like we could live up to our own grand expectations of being great parents. Happy to be honest and not deny that we do chat about the hubbies too, and their little things that drives us nuts, or that melt our hearts. The kids also are a big part of our conversations, their phases of whining, bad eating days, sick days and most of all how to make them get through these without driving us up the wall.

I have to say, it just feels good getting things of your chest to other moms that have experienced the same and getting feedback on how to fix things. We all love our kids but its the reality that sometimes they drive us nuts and take us to the end of the quality of being patient, as bearing of provocation, anoyance, loss of temper, irritation or the like.

There are ways to keep it cool, and between all of us there is always someone that can help with the problem.

Yesterday for halloween we all got together, the kids dressed up and we all went to the Kips Bay towers for a halloween parade for the kids, glow sticks, trick or treating and apple juice. At the end our friend Thea and her man invited us over for drinks while all the kids just played in the room next door and we could sit relax and have a much needed glass of wine. I dressed up as Twiggy and my husband was Andy Warhol. It was so much fun!

here are some pics of our wonderful night.

I love you guys!