Steve Maller Photography

Our Sam has joined a terrific basketball club called “Team Hoop” based in San Bruno, CA. It is an inspiring group of motivating people who seem to get great results from their boys and girls.

Their first official games of the year were today in Morgan Hill, and Sam’s 8th grade team went 2-0, despite a grueling, physical and nail-biting second game against a formidable opponent.

I’ve posted a gallery of photos from the first game here on my website. Check ’em out if you’re interested.

Go Team Hoop!

Well, you’ll just have to trust me on this one, but I did an extensive photoshoot today for babycenter which covered a whole bunch of their breastfeeding products. Our model and her daughter were awesome, and we all were thrilled with the photos we got. I spent quite a bit of time working on the setup and the lighting, and I think it worked well, don’t you?

This was actually the “comp” I showed the art director to explain the setup. She just about busted a gut.

This week’s photoshoot featured fashions for pregnant moms, t-shirts and other stuff for new dads and grandfathers, a bra fit guide for new moms, and a whole mess o’ really cute baby clothes.

And one of our star models was none other than my darling niece Anna. The little pipsqueak charmed everybody in my studio with her good nature, her great “looks”, and her wonderful results. I’m not kidding when I say this kid has talent.

We had a very, very busy day yesterday, but it was also very, very successful. We had a terrific crew (as usual!), our clients were helpful and positive, and our models were professional, beautiful, and endlessly patient. Today’s schedule calls for mostly kids and dads, so it’ll be entirely different approach, but hopefully every bit as successful.

As usual, kudos to Sara and Susie for your awesome efforts.

The boxes are (a little) unpacked, the gear is (mostly) organized, the studio is (somewhat) painted, the network is (kinda) up, and I’m (sorta) ready to rock and roll! But truth be told, were it not for all the hard work by Sara and Susie, I’d be dead meat right about now. I feel pretty good about opening our doors officially for the first studio shoot tomorrow morning.

Susie has racked the garments and ready or not, it’s show time.

Sara and I worked very hard yesterday, and while I was photographing Shai’s bat mitzvah, Sara continued to pull the studio together. Today she primed the cyc (a.k.a.: infinite wall) and finished building the desks up in the loft. Yippee!

Marnie’s celebrating her bat mitzvah in a couple weeks, and she had the distinction of being the first person I photographed at my new space. Actually it was exactly five hours after the moving van left! I photographed Marnie on the lawn outside my studio.

She and her parents are wonderful people, and I look forward to being entrusted with telling the story of their wonderful “simcha”.

Mazel tov to Marnie and her family!

After a couple years in my space on Burlingame Avenue, I am finally moving into a spacious, beautiful space on the other side of Burlingame off of Rollins Road.

Sara and I packed up the studio over the last few days, and the movers are coming first thing in the morning on Friday.

And our first photoshoot in the new space begins next Tuesday! Oy vey…

It was a whirlwind of art, food, wine and fond memories, and now we’re back home. Max and Sam enjoyed their time with their Grandma, Walter seems no worse for the wear, and Lara (our Italian exchange student) is a delightful, lyric addition to the usual goings on around here.

Thanks for all the well-wishes!

Edgar Degas made the original version of this sculpture, petite danseuse de 14 ans (“small dancer aged 14”),  in wax, and it was cast in bronze after his death. It is one of the multitude of treasures we beheld yesterday at the Musée d’Orsay here in Paris.