Web friends, you must all know by now that I LOVE photographing babies, mostly because I just love them. But never until now, have I had the chance to photograph twins. When stephanie contacted me, I was thrilled. I did, however, wonder if it would be a huge time commitment to get 2 babies to go through all the ritual of my poses. But it turned out to be one of the easiest shoot ever, they were both angels, and slept pretty much through it all. There were plenty of loving arms to hold them. It could also be that they had a sleepless night before, and when I came to their house, maybe it was finally time for them to rest. (Note to self: maybe I should suggest to parents in the future to keep their little ones up all night?) Either way, it was a delight to photograph them and meet this beautiful, blessed family. Be prepared they’re just the cutest and sweetest babies!
Meet Colby on the left and Alec on the right.

It’s so cute, it looks like Alec is wispering something to Colby.

Finally, I committed to putting together a slideshow from my trip to Venice, under Yervant’s mentoring.
I will keep some fond memories from the romantic city, the new friends and the lessons from world wide renown photographer.

I’m just returning home from a 4 days escapade to New York with Henry. He started running for marathons 2 years ago, with originally for goal to qualify to participate in the Boston marathon. He has been dedicated to a strict training regimen and has surpassed his highest ambition. At the same time his goals are shifting and he raises the bar for himself after each competition. This time, hoping to set a personal record at around 3:23, he surprised himself with an amazing time of 3:12. Of course, now a sub 3 hours doesn’t seem impossible and is probably on his mind for his next challenge…
We traveled with a wonderful group of friends, all runner athletes and enjoyed some delicious meals in trendy restaurants. I also had the pleasure to spend a day with most fascinating Brooke Parkhurst. She was just back from a long book signing tour across the country promoting her book “Belle in the Big Apple”. A native of Pensacola, she’s a celebrity back home. I was so impressed by all her accomplishments at such an early stage in her life, by her delightful personality and wits. She’s still in her twenties, and just engaged to a charming and successful chef (also from Pensacola!). This beautiful couple have a bright future ahead of them and it was such a treat to get to know them. And now, I am dying to go to the bookstore, get Brooke’s novel and spend some quality time reading it.

The night before the big race, we all gathered in Paul’s suite, the guys have this ritual to prepare for the big day. Everything has to be just right. Here, Brian helps with a knot in Paul’s back (as I once heard a massage lady say: “no pain no gain”).

Sunday morning, they left very early for the event, and I stayed up working on my computer. I was absorbed in photoshop, when a light caught my attention to my side, and I turned to see this beautiful sunrise out of our hotel window. It was a bit tricky to get this shot, as the window partially opened, but I really wanted to save the moment.

Marilson Gomes Dos Santos finished first at 2:08:43

Paula Radcliff won the women division with a time of 2:23:56

Henry, just a few yards from the finishing line. Looking good!

Brian Spencer, so excited to have spotted us in the bleachers. Brian ran with Henry, his pace is usually a lot faster, but he is still recovering from surgery 6 weeks ago, and it’s truly extraordinary he could perform so well.

Our trio back at the hotel after the marathon. Happy fellows. Paul Epstein of Running Wild, who also achieve his personal best record with a time of 2 hours and 47 minutes!!! (for a distance of 26.2 miles, unbelievable!) He finished 300 overall (there was a total of 40000 participants). We are so lucky in Pensacola to have such an inspirational runner.

Oh my! Little Emma has grown, you might remember her newborn pictures
It just seemed like yesterday to me. This family is so sweet, and big brother Brian was very patient through the session, even though he had a cool play date waiting for him to go to.

Emma’s mom had this beautiful dress for her to wear, one of those we just have to buy, but we only get to put on a couple of times. I’m glad we have some pictures with it.

I love those big blue eyes!!

It’s been a really busy weekend. The good kind of busy. It started with second shooting a beautiful wedding for Patsy Brown on Friday. Then it was all family time, I took the girls to the pumpkin patch to choose our jack-o-lanterns, where I manage to take a few pictures. We didn’t celebrate Halloween in France when I was a child, and I have years of excitement to catch up with! This is one of my favorite holidays here (actually there are many more, as an America there are plenty of celebrations), and I love all the fall colors, the kids are always so happy to choose pumpkins, it all makes for great images…

We’ve come a long way… they weren’t always so thrilled to see me with my camera.

Here we are about to leave with our prize pumpkins. They weren’t the biggest, but still heavy enough to have me nervous the girls might drop them, and the whole things shatter…

Then we went to a wonderful children Halloween party. It is always so much fun to see everyone’s costumes, there were some cute Yogi toddlers, adorable wonder-woman… I have the hardest time holding a conversation there, because I’m so busy taking it all in. We stayed till the end, and the night was pretty dark by the time we started heading to our car. I had to run to catch up with Henry, and took one of the worst fall in history. I’m sure it all happened in a split second, but as I realized I had lost my footing, I had enough time to go through many thoughts: “Oh man, I’m going to eat the pavement, this one is going to leave a MARK, it’s going to hurt real bad, MY CAMERA!!! SAVE THE CAMERA!!!” I tried my best to spare my right side, and I was sprawled on the ground, after flying in the air. Thank God it was dark, because after my camera, my main concern was that nobody saw the embarrassing fall. I got up real quick, caught up with the rest of my crew, and have been hurting since then (24 hours ago!!) I’m happy to report that my camera was successfully protected as my left side took the blunt of the fall, and only has a little scratch. Whereas I’ve lost a lot of skin in many different areas of my body. I guess Meg’s Hannah Montana blond wig gave sufficient padding to the camera tucked in my purse. I made a little drawing: all the purple arrows point to my many scratches (it’s a mystery to me how I manage to hit so many places in just one fall?):

Nothing like a little pain to remind you how lucky we are on any giving day, when we think things are just plain.
We finished the weekend with a picnic on the beach, enjoying this awesome weather, and finding loads of beautiful shells.

It’s almost Christmas season again! Every year I get a lot of Christmas cards requests and soon it’s a a rush against time to have everyone set up. After the holidays I always promise myself to be better prepared the next time around. I’m finally trying something new, which will hopefully work out for all. I’m offering these mini sessions, tentative dates: Monday Oct 27, and Tuesday Oct 29, possibly more depending on the response I’ll get.
How it works:

I will be in the Pensacola downtown area, with plenty of nice architecture, textures..

• They will last half an hour only
• For groups of 6 (can add more family members for $15 each)
• You’ll have an on line gallery of your images for 14 days
• You’ll get 50 custom design cards printed (both sides) on pearl, art, or linen paper 
• The session are $275 for 50 5×7 flat cards, and $365 for 50 5×7 folded cards.
• You’ll also get 10% off on any order of pictures from the session

I have been working on many many different templates to use for your holiday cards.  There are plenty to choose from.  Fallowing are just a few sample.  I can make few changes, like add extra pictures into the templates, depending on the numbers of changes, I will charge extra.  Of course, it’s possible to purchase more cards, by increments of 25.

If you’re interested, please contact me by email (arielle@ariellelanghorne.com) or call me (850-341-8135).  I suspect the spots will fill out pretty quick, and although I’ll be glad to schedule extra days for the mini sessions, time is of the essence and by the first week of November it will be too late. 

Hi there,
Well, I’m back home and it always takes a few days to get my feet back on the ground. It’s wonderful to be back with the kiddos and Henry, I missed everyone, but I must say that aside from the HUGE leap in improving my skills each workshops gives me, they’re also quite a treat for me. I get a chance to be just me, for a short time nobody is depending on me (no children to take to school, no grocery shopping, no laundry, no mail to deal with.. you get it), but I get to do something that I LOVE, I get a chance to improve, I meet a new community of photography fanatics, and it’s so enriching. I come back each time a happier person, so full of energy to promote my business, a boost of confidence in my talent, and plenty of new tips to better my skills.
Today, I’m only posting pictures from the first day of the workshop in Venice. We were really supposed to just observe Yervant, but you can’t hold back photographers when they see the picture, the light, when all the elements are just there for a good image. And here, of course, with Yervant directing the couple, orchestrating the pose, the use of light… it was just too tempting, this is what we looked like:

By standers really wondered what was happening, was this a famous couple surrounded by an army of paparazzi?, shouldn’t they also take a few snapshots even if they didn’t recognize the famous couple? Maybe a movie?
Thanks to our models: Esther and Erico

I am in Venice, learning with worldwide renown , Yervant from Australia. He is simply put a master photographer, a pioneer in digital wedding photography, setter of all the trends.
The location, the most romantic city ever, is unlike anyplace I’ve ever visited. It’s a photographer’s dream, not only the light is magical everywhere, but you are surrounded by perfect architecture, textures, colors… The models provided for us are gorgeous, wearing some amazing gowns from australians fashion designers. The weather couldn’t be better, I’m in photographer’s heaven! The group attending is fantastic, and Yervant with his wife Anie are wonderful hosts. Words can not describe how ecstatic I am. I feel truly blessed to have a husband so encouraging, allowing me to fallow my dream, he’s back home taking care of our children, and I’m pursuing my passion, always in quest of new inspiration and to better my skills.
A teaser picture, taken on her first day, set up by Yervant:

Meet sweet little Violet, she was an angel during our session. I think she probably wished I could leave her alone, so she could finally rest, but she did great.

I love that smile,

Babies are so “bendable”,

She was desperately looking for her thumb, … not quite there, almost..

I’m a little behind on blogging and this morning I woke up determined to not allow myself to let the day go by without catching up some. I may not write too much, because now that I’ve spend so much time on selecting and editing the pictures, there is little time left to prepare dinner, help with homework, give baths…
I’ve been a very lucky girl lately, traveling a lot, committed to improve my skills in photography. I went to Scott Robert’s workshop in London in August, and just 3 weeks later attended his next class in Paris (I just can’t resist a trip back home). Scott never ceases to impress me, he gives his students his best. He goes beyond professional and everyone who has participated in one of his workshops leaves with a “life-changing” kind of experience. There is some sort of magic, some bond that forms between all the members of the group, that I believe is the result of Scott’s “innerlight”.  Just about everyone returns, we call it to “join the Scott Robert wagon”, and he becomes our mentor.

Amber was there to learn, but lucky for us, she was also willing to be a model.  She could pose, than be in full photographer mode, and has made some beautiful images during this trip.  In fact everyone did, it is so inspiring to see everyone’s work (Scott, http://www.scottrobertjournal.com/, should have a link with all attendees blog addresses)

Jeanna, was an other of our photographer-models

The group. We went back to the “Chateau de Maisons-Laffitte”, and spend the day inside and in the castle’s park, a photographer’s dream backdrop. This place holds a very special place in my heart as 13 years ago I was married to Henry there, hmm, it feels like yesterday…
This is at the end of the day, enjoying some delicious sandwich, and chocolates.

One the first day, we bought tickets to the double-deck buses, to do some sight seeing. The weather couldn’t have been nicer.
The Arc de Triomphe,

Lyssa, from Canada, full of energy and enthusiasm, one of the students. This workshop moved her so, when it was over she realized she had to fallow her dream, she called her boss back home, her travel agent, and arranged to attend now (just 2 weeks later) Scott’s Next level workshop in Spain!!

The Paris town house,

I think everyone recognizes one of our landmarks..

The picture on the right (Amber with her husband) was set up by Scott.

The Sacre Coeur, has a magnificent view of Paris. There are always many entertainers on the steps leading to the church, and painters on a beautiful typical “place” further up.

This guy could do neat things with his “diabolo” (sorry I don’t know the english word, it’s 2 sticks connected by a cord, on which you throw this hour glass shape thing.., I’m afraid I’m not to good at explaining this). And he had a cool glass ball trick, he could roll it over his shoulders and arms. What I liked about it is that you could see the sacre coeur in it, almost like a fortune teller crystal ball.

We were very lucky to have “Le Grand Colbert”, a famous brasserie in Paris, to ourselves a whole afternoon to shoot our models. This is where Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson reunite in Paris, in the movie: “Something’s Gotta Give”

Thanks Janna for being so patient with me that day, I hope life in England is treating you well.

Gurm and Ray set up these next 2 shots.

Shortly after we took these pictures, a voice on the speaker system reminded us to please refrain from touching the furniture and chairs… this shot was originally set up by Amber, and once I saw it on the back of a camera, I had to get one like it,

This shot was Scott’s vision, he orchestrated it. It’s a beautiful pose.

The picture on the right, of Amber in the window is also one directed by Scott,

Vanessa in the classic Paris shot,