With all the photo booth trends, filters and selfies abounding in modern photography, we understand that Los Angeles families are also looking for traditional Bar and Bat Mitzvah portraits that will look elegant in an album or up on the mantle in their homes. One of the essential photos of any Bar or Bat mitzvah shoot is one like this, of the parents and child in front of the Aron Hakodesh, or the Ark where the Torah is kept. We love the cozy loving embrace this family shares, not only with one another but also with the Torah itself, held in the grasp of both the father and daughter because that Torah is heavy. Just as the Ark faces Jerusalem, this family is facing a bright future, hopefully filled with many more simchot, or happy occasions, to come.