Paulo Jordao Photography - BLOG

Most of people know me as Wedding and Portrait Photographer, but I also have Bachelor in Physical Education and Master Degree in Sports and Training.

As a parent of a 6 years old boy and as a soccer coach, I want my son to keep practicing soccer during the summer vacation.

Some parents have asked me if I would coach their child too, and I thought it would be a great idea if we could get together and practice at least once a week.

Our training sessions will be held every Wednesday from 5:30pm to 7:00pm (June, July and August - City of Hollywood, Florida).

CLICK HERE for more details.

Kindergarten poem - BabyBrother…

This week I had the honor shooting a family portrait session at Jaime Camara Jr. and Maria Alice’s ranch (an amazing place with features more impressive than most houses that I know). Jaime and Maria Alice are one the most respected couples of the State of Goias and Brazil.

I started the family portrait session at 5:00 pm, and shot until their son lost interest helping me. LOL! But, I had more than 90 minutes with Marcelo, Fernanda and their son, Francisco, and we had so many great shots that it was hard to select only few images to post here.

After the session, I stayed there to shoot  Larissa’s birthday party (Jaime and Maria Alice’s daughter). Larissa, Juliano (her husband) and Felipe (her son) are a great example of a beautiful Brazilian family.

It was a very selective party for her family and closest friends, and everybody were very casual and friendly.

I want to enjoy this post to thank Larissa for having me at her wonderful birthday, and also congratulate her on her pregnancy.

Since I couldn’t bring all my gear from USA to Brazil, I did my best to work with as much available light as possible.

Here are few samples of that day…

Yesterday, I had a great experience shooting here, in Fort Lauderdale , FL. The weather was perfect and I couldn’t wish for a better model to shoot.

Josh, is a ten years old young man with a very promising career into the modeling and acting industry. Handsome and with a great smile, Josh made my work a lot easier and with some increadible results.

I also need to thank Josh’s dad and mom to be there supporting and motivating him all the time.

I am also blessed to have a great wife (one the best Photo Stylist of USA Esat Coast) that was there helping me with the lighting, props and styling (It doesn’t hurt to have a great Photo Stylist helping you once a while - LOL). If you need to contact her, here is her Photo Stylist Website

If you need a Professional Photographer in Fort lauderdale or Miami area, CLICK HERE

Here are some of Josh’s images from our Photo Shoot yesterday.

 I was raised Catholic, and even if I don’t practice my religion as much as I should, I still like Christmas Time.

For me, the best thing about Christmas is that most of people enjoy more their friends and family this time of the year and that for few weeks, during the month of December, people come at you with open hearts smiling and wishing you Merry Christmas.

But this was before I came to America.

This December, I celebrate exactly 10 years since I first came to Florida - USA.

I was lucky enough to watch at first sight the beauty of Las Olas Boulevard Christmas Lights and the beautiful people walking at the streets.

After that I noticed that people would approach me wishing me Happy Holidays and not Merry Christmas. It took a long time to understand why people were doing that - in my mind, a holiday without a name does not have a meaning.

On 4^th of July, you say “Happy 4^th of July” - On Thanksgiving, you say “Happy Thanksgiving” - so… Why that on Christmas, people were wishing me Happy Holidays and not Merry Christmas?

I understand that you might not share the same religion or believes, but when you wish me Happy Holidays, I certainly don’t feel as special as when you wish me Merry Christmas (for me Happy Holidays mean “Happy Commercial Shopping Time”) .

And if you are Jewish, I would prefer you wishing me Happy Hanukkah, because Hanukkah means something important to you as much as Christmas is to me.

So for this Christmas I will wish you MERRY CHRISTMAS and I will be ok if you turn back to me and wish me HAPPY HANUKKAH.

Merry Christmas to All!

Paulo

Today the PPGF Association (Photographers) had a great family barbecue at John U. Lloyd Beach State Park. Ok… It was more a Picnic than a barbecue, but since we are in America… let’s say that it was a barbecue. OK?

Everything was perfect; a lot of people from our association showed up with their families. My wife and my son (Peggy and Ryan) came with me, so we could have some good time together.

As I said, everything was great; good food, great people and a perfect weather. What else can you ask for?

Here are some more pictures of our beautiful day. Enjoy it!

That is it… I hope you have enjoyed.

Please, leave some comment below. Thanks!!!

Once again is Father’s Day.

Sure I have been celebrating Father’s day since I was born, but I was celebrating it from other perspective (as the son). And by the way… In Brazil, we celebrate Father’s Day on “Second Sunday of August”.

Four years ago father’s Day started having a completely different meaning to me… Ryan was born in MAY of 2004, and a month latter I was celebrating my FIRST OFFICIAL FATHER’S DAY.

I don’t want to take to much of your time explaining how great my life has been this last four years, or how proud I feel seen Ryan growing up to be the extraordinary person that he is (at least through my eyes). I would have to write a book just to describe my last four years of fatherhood, but instead I wanted to show you only the beginning… and maybe you can understand what runs inside my heart!!!

Please whatch the video (Ryan’s First Year - around 10 minutes long) and Multiply my feelings X 100 times :-)

Click on this Picture to watch the show!!!

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Today was the last day of the Power Lab, a FREE Bible Summer Camp that my son Ryan was going for this last whole week.

They had a great program and I was very impressed with the program and all the decorations that they created for this Power Lab. I was so impressed that I offered my services to come on their last day and take some pictures for them, so they can use the pictures to promote the next Power Lab.

Anyway, I don’t want to get to much in details here… I just want to show you few pictures that I took there.

Here they are:

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Thanks!

Today was a great day… I took Ryan to his first Tennis Class in the morning and latter Peggy wanted to have some pictures done so she could send them to her agent in Boston. She wanted some very casual pictures with some kid and a set of clothes from Old Navy (who better for the job than our son RYAN)

Here are few shots… I will post a slide show with more pictures tomorrow. OK?

And here is Peggy’s Website!

Enjoy it!!!

As I promised you few days ago, I would post some pictures of my 3 days vacation at Disney World.

Few months ago, I had to go to Orlando to a Videographer’s Convention, and I enjoyed the occasion to bring Peggy and Ryan along. I was going to my classes and they bought a 4 days PASS to Disney. At the time, they just used 2 passes and they would have to use the other 2 passes the next 6 months.

After Simon’s Bar Mitzvah (2weeks ago), we decided that would be the perfect time to have a little vacation.

OK!!! LETS GO TO DISNEY…

I thought that because all the kids are still in School, it would be perfect to go there on a week day (Thursday and Friday). Does anybody work? How about the economy?

For me, it was a huge surprise that the MGM and Magic Kingdom had that many people in. It was not as bad as Christmas time (believe me), but it did have a lot of people walking around. You will see one of the pictures that I took from one of the rides saying “wait time - 70 minutes”. Can you imagine stay in line for that long? In each park would have 2 or 3 rides that you would have to wait at least 60 minutes in line.

Just one more thing before I show you the pictures…

I AM GLAD THAT I AM BACK…

Wow… I need to apologize to my readers for these many days without a post…

One week ago I shot  Simon’s Bar Mitzvah, created two collages with few of the good pictures that I selected and uploaded all the pictures to my PICTAGE account. After that I thought that I deserved few days off, so I got my wife and son and drove to Orlando for a three days vacation.

I took some nice pictures of Disney and all around… let me download them and I will show you latter. OK?

Today I will be shooting a Engagement Session at Vizcaya and latter I will be shooting a Boudoir Session.

As you can see I have a full SUNDAY ahead.

I will keep you posted. OK?

I wanted to upload some pictures on my last post, but I didn’t have a subject to shoot other than my son, and he was not on the mood. So I took just these two shots.

That was in my TV room with a little light coming from a french door on his right hand side (camera settings: NO FLASH - AV - f/1.4 - 1/30s - ISO 100)

At night, just before we went to take a shower, he was goofing around wearing my tennis shoes and using my socks as gloves. So I grabbed the camera and took some more shots.

I decided that I would shoot with the same conditions as I do when I shoot my indoor events using my Canon 580EX II Speedlite TTL Shoe Mount Flash  + THE LIGHTSPHERE from Gary Fong. NOW, the camera setting was on MANUAL - f/1.6 - 1/80s - ISO 100 (PS- On most of my indoor events I shoot ISO 400).

Today it was the “Trophy Day” at Dania Optimist Club. This means that today was the last day of the baseball season.

The people responsible for the organization of the teams, uniform, snacks and today’s great party “Trophy Day”, did a great job. We had three huge bouncing houses for the kids, plus hot-dogs, hamburgers, drinks, deserts, etc…

At the end, was the time to give the trophy to the little athletes. What a great Trophy that they got this year.

The baseball season will happen next year again, but in few months the Dania Optimist Club will start their Soccer season.

I can’t wait to see my little athlete playing soccer.

P.S. - GOOD NEWS… All the pictures are already available on Pictage Website. If you would like to see and/or purchase all the pictures taken at the “TROPHY DAY”, please ”Click Here” .

I know that maybe where you live the weather might be a little different from here, but what would you do to celebrate Mother’s Day when is a beautiful 96* outside?

Peggy’s Parents Came from South Carolina for my son’s birthday and to celebrate mother’s day here, and after the Birthday (SATURDAY)… we were all exhausted (Click here to check all the pictures - PICTAGE).

So Sunday morning we were all inside the house asking each other about what we would do to celebrate Mother’s day. That’s when the idea of going to the beach and having some lunch around there came up.

Here are some pictures of our day.

P.S. Since I am the Photographer… guess the only person that does not show on these pictures!!!

We all went for a nice lunch at Oasis Cafe (Fort Lauderdale Beach)

At the end of the day we enjoyed the beach for a while

Ryan loves the beach

Jennifer and Peggy having a portrait with Dad and Mom

Happy Mother’s Day!

Today is my son’s birthday, but is also mother’s day. So My wife and I decided to celebrate Ryan’s birthday yesterday, so today we could focus more on mother’s day.

Ryan just turned 4 years old. We always celebrate his birthday in our house. So we have to organize the backyard, clean the house, take care of the garden, paint the deck, etc… To say the truth, It is a realy hard work just for a birthday, and we do that every single year.

But now, the party is gone and we have one year to rest until Ryan’s next birthday . I just want to wish him a Happy Birthday and show you few of the pictures that I took yesterday.

If you want to see all the pictures, please CLICK HERE.

Here, Ryan is hugging few of his friends ( most of his friends are girls )

          Few other friends…

          The kids enjoying outside activities

          Peggy’s parents and her sister Jeniffer

          My cosing Edson with his wife and daughter

          Peggy and her best friend Rosana

          These ones are For the moms… Happy Mother’s Day!

          Here is Ryan… The birthday boy!!!

          Happy Birthday Ryan!!!