I've heard it said that once a secret was known by two people it is no longer a secret. This aside on Saturday I photographed an event that had been kept secret from two people for over two months, even though the party guest list was over 38 people.
The party was a 110 birthday party. While no one at the party was even over 90 the two guests of honor, Chauntel's mom and dad, now have a combined age of 110. The party featured M and M's in their favorite colors that said "Happy Birthday" and "110".
Chauntel had me take pictures of everyone to put with cards they would write for the birthday guests. When photographing them I learned that Penny's favorite pic of two of her children was of them looking out at Disneyland, one in which you could only see their backs. So I recreated the moment, even taking into account the height difference that had existed before.
Tom and Penny thought they were just going out to a nice dinner with a few family members at Dominics in South San Francisco. Dinner turned into a real family affair when a screen was drawn showing everyone who had come out to help them celebrate their birthdays. It was obvious that no one had let the cat out of the bag.
After a great meal, a chocolate cake (made by all the kids of the family was brought to them).
One of their presents even involved me, the family portrait I had taken of their family in March.
As the evening came to a close there was time to get one last informal portrait of Ian, who upside down, didn't run from the camera.
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