CARACAS, VENEZUELA AHHHHHH...

I just got home on Friday night. I am staying at my moms house, which to me is the most beautiful house on the planet. I woke up this morning and I got to see the tropical rain falling on this movie like garden. The smell of wet grass, with the sounds of the crickets is just a memory of when I was a child and woke up to this every morning and didn't ever think I would miss it this much. A slice of white hand made venezuelan cheese and an arepa, delicious corn flour patties. Welcome home is all I hear.

PHOTO SESSIONS FOR 2011!

Photo packages

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

. $375

Extra hour is $75.

Petit Pois, newborn session

. 1/2 hour portrait session

. 20 high resolution images ready for print. No prints

. $ 250

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

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. No prints. ONe gallery board matted with one of each shoot.

. $575

Birthdays

. 1 1/2 hours of shooting time Extra hours are charged additional.

. 100-200 high resolution images ready for print. No prints. One matted image of your choice 4X6, or one 8x10 print no matt.

. $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.

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Lara Alcantara Photography
646-234-3391
laraalcantarachildren.com

LITTLE STEPS: CONNECTED OUR IPAD TO THE TV!

LITTLE STEPS: CONNECTED OUR IPAD TO THE TV!: "We have decided to get rid of cable, not only because we think its expensive but also because we never use it. Maia is the only person to us..."

A VIDEO TO LEARN CONNECT YOUR IPAD TO YOUR TV

Things you need:

Apple Ipad Dock Connector to VGA cable, VGA monitor cable and Audio cable.

This goes in the PC in on your TV, to the apple VGA cable.
This one goes to the Ipad. That is your VIDEO stuff all connected
This is the cable for the audio. It looks like this on both ends. One goes into the audio headphone jack next to the PC in cable on your TV and into the headphone jack of the IPad. Put your tv on VGA and thats it!

Here is a short video to show you how.

CONNECTED OUR IPAD TO THE TV!

We have decided to get rid of cable, not only because we think its expensive but also because we never use it. Maia is the only person to use the cable in this house once a day for an hour. So it was decided that we should not have it. We have an ipad and thought maybe we can get some things online and have Maia watch it on the TV from the IPad. So we went to BEST BUY and got all the cables to make the connection. We bought an Audio cable and VGA cable. Followed the instructions and Voila! I will post a video in a little bit! It was so easy and such a success!

HALLACAS FOR DINNER

Hallacas are a traditional dish that venezuelans have a custom to eat during christmas. Usually families spend between two and three days preparing everything for the day that all the ingredients are put together. First you have to make the "relleno o sancocho" wish is a huge melting pot of all kinds of things from pork to beef and chicken, Vegetables, almonds, olives and the most important thing is the amazing "masa" which is the corn based dough that covers it all up. Families get together and the youngest ones are sat at the table so they can put almonds and olives in. everyone has a task. Also the "hojas de Platano" the plantain leaves are prepared in a way to make them cover up over the mas with the relleno, tied up with a string and boiled for the first time. Here is a picture of my last hallaca of this year until christmas 2011.

It was sooooo delicious!

WARM VACATION DAYS ARE OVER FOR NOW.

WE ARE BACK IN THE CITY AND ITS ALREADY SNOWING! MAIA WAS VERY EXCITED TO SEE THE SNOW FALLING AND COVERING OUR TERRACE IN WHITE! SHE CALLS THE SNOW SNOWMEN. JAJAJA SHE SAID TO ME TODAY CAN WE GO SLEDDING??? I SAID OF COURSE! LETS GO! HERE ARE SOME PICS OF US A FEW DAYS AGO AND TODAY! HUGE CHANGE OF WEATHER. ALSO I HAVE TO THINK OF SOMETHING NICE AND WARM TO COOK TONIGHT. MAYBE SOME RISOTTO? ILL LET YOU KNOW.