Last night, in a crowded bar in Bethesda, eight lifelong baseball fans sat around a table and divided up our Nationals season tickets. It's an annual rite of spring, this doling out of parking passes and drawing of numbers from a hat. But it always reminds me that spring is officially here, regardless what the calendar says officially.

Our schedule goes very quickly from a sleepy winter's pace to non-stop shoots around Washington. But before we steamroll into spring, we wanted to take a moment and look back at some of favorite pictures from this past fall's portrait season. In the craziness around the holidays, these shoots never seem to make it onto the blog. But as with history, we believe it's always worthwhile to look backwards before marching forward. 

We're busy booking spring and summer commissions now. This little gallery shows what we do here at Matt Mendelsohn photography: no white backdrops, no Little Lord Fauntleroy dressing up, and no matching white shirts. We promise!

Please email us at info@mattmendelsohn.com to schedule your portrait.

A few things to remember:

Portrait sittings are $525. We offer 5 x 7 and 8 x 10 gift prints, as well as our legendary (at least we think so!) Mprints for larger sizes. Mprints are fiber-based, signed and dated prints which should be framed and hung on a wall. We offer framing services and are happy to help.

We believe strongly--more than ever, actually--that photography is a gift we leave to our children. In an age of camera phones and point-and-shoot cameras, it's important to keep future generations in mind. 

And now, some pictures...