Redondo Beach Bat Mitzvah | Jewish Community Center

We returned recently to the Redondo Beach Jewish Community Center for portraits of Danit, prior to her Redondo Beach Bat Mitzvah, scheduled for this weekend. The JCC is one of the most beautiful temples in town, with loads of natural window light that we love to work with. (Just check out the above portrait of Danit to see what we mean.)
We also enjoyed going outside the temple, right in front, for these natural light portraits of Danit and her joyful younger sister as well.


We look forward to meeting up with the family again this weekend for the big event!

Lana's Bat Mitzvah Video Montage by Graham & Graham

Here's the "director's cut," version (a shorter, 2.5 minute video) of one of our all-time favorite Bat Mitzvah video montages. It's from Lana's Redondo Beach Bat Mitzvah at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. We see more movie parodies in our future. Enjoy!

Redondo Beach Bat Mitzvah | Crowne Plaza | batmitzvahphotographer.com

Saturday it was finally Lana's turn. Lana made her majestic grand entrance to her rocking Bat Mitzvah party at the Crowne Plaza in Redondo Beach, with over 300 guests sharing the love.

It was the third simcha for the Granow clan, and we have been honored to be there for all three.

It was also Lana's third time on the Hora chair. See below for her 2007 and 2005 moments.

One highlight is always the Havdalah ceremony, as staged by the clergy at Manhattan Beach's Congregation Tikvat Jacob. We love photographing it in natural, colorful candle light.


The party was put on by master party planning service In Any Event, and Robin Crevelt. Love that color! DJ Mark Ray had the audience up and moving all night. We produced the montage, which we'll post here soon.

Mazel tov, Lana!

Redondo Beach Bat Mitzvah Video | Temple Menorah

Here's a fun little video highlight from Alexandra's recent Bat Mitzvah at Temple Menorah of Redondo Beach. Conor Morris produced this for us and did a fabulous job.

Redondo Beach Bat Mitzvah | Temple Menorah

The lovely Alex was called to the torah at Temple Menorah last weekend. We're huge fans of natural, window light portraits, and it's not every day we get to make use of natural light inside a synagogue. But we found a special place at Redondo Beach's Temple Menorah to acheive it, and we're sure happy with the results. Mazel Tov, Alex!

Manhattan Beach Bar/Bat Mitzvah Showcase

Attention b'nai mitzvah families: our friends at Nina Bracker Events have put together a comprehensive one-stop shopping event where you can meet with photographers (that's us!), DJs, party planners, venues and entertainers.
The Bar/Bat Mitzvah Showcase will be held at Manhattan Beach's Raleigh Studios on the New York Street backlot on September 14th, from 1 to 3.
We'll be there with special prizes and discounts for our Congregation Tikvat Jacob, Temple Menorah Redondo Beach and Redondo Beach Jewish Community Center families. Be sure to stop by and say hi!

Redondo Beach Crowne Plaza Bat Mitzvah

Here's Emma at her Redondo Beach Crowne Plaza bat mitzvah. The actual service was held in a conference room, adjoining the bigger ballroom for the party. We'll post pictures from the party next.