{"id":1118,"date":"2008-08-15T15:51:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T22:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2008-08-15T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T22:51:43","slug":"denver-bat-mitzvah-photographer-leena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/denver-bat-mitzvah-photographer-leena\/","title":{"rendered":"denver bat mitzvah photographer &#124; leena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I had the honor of being the photographer for Leena&#8217;s Bat Mitzvah last weekend!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1120 aligncenter\" title=\"batmitsvah1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/batmitsvah1.jpg\" alt=\"event photographer colorado springs\" width=\"582\" height=\"802\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I wasn&#8217;t allowed to photograph the actual ceremony, so we faked it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1122\" title=\"batmitzvah2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/batmitzvah2.jpg\" alt=\"event photographer colorado springs\" width=\"582\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After the Bat Mitzvah, there was an incredible reception.\u00a0 The food alone was gorgeous!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1124\" title=\"batmitzvah5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/batmitzvah5.jpg\" alt=\"event photographer colorado\" width=\"582\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I kept hearing Leena&#8217;s guests say how cool it was that the butter was on a leaf, so of course I had to get a shot of it.\u00a0 (I should have included a gawking 13 year old, though!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1121\" title=\"batmitsvah4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/batmitsvah4.jpg\" alt=\"event photographer colorado \" width=\"582\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The DJ (who I knew from Andrea and Jason&#8217;s wedding just last month) had the teens charging up and down the dance floor:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1126\" title=\"batmitzvah7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/batmitzvah7.jpg\" alt=\"event photographer denver colorado\" width=\"782\" height=\"569\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They had two parties set up&#8211;the indoor one for the adults, and the pool party downstairs for the Leena and her friends (it had an ice cream bar&#8211;that totally beats air conditioning any day).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1123\" title=\"batmitzvah3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/batmitzvah3.jpg\" alt=\"event photographer colorado springs\" width=\"582\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The woman of the hour was tossed into the pool by her brother:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1125\" title=\"batmitzvah61\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/batmitzvah61.jpg\" alt=\"colorado springs event photographer\" width=\"582\" height=\"802\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And then the pool party began!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1127\" title=\"poolparty\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/poolparty.jpg\" alt=\"event photographer colorado springs\" width=\"798\" height=\"418\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the honor of being the photographer for Leena&#8217;s Bat Mitzvah last weekend! I wasn&#8217;t allowed to photograph the actual ceremony, so we faked it: After the Bat Mitzvah, there was an incredible reception.\u00a0 The food alone was gorgeous! I kept hearing Leena&#8217;s guests say how cool it was that the butter was on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[206,207],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eventphotographer","tag-bat-mitzvah","tag-event-photographer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}