Anna's Blog

One Year Portrait Session in the Rose Garden

Once babies are just starting to walk - usually around one year - natural light photography sessions outdoor are a great choice. For little girls you can't beat a lovely garden for a beautiful background. In the Bay Area we have several great choices for Photography Sessions in Rose gardens including the Berkeley Rose Garden, the Oakland Rose Garden and several in San Jose.

I met Avena to photograph her in Oakland for her first portrait session! Avena is a clever, funny, charming little girl with a heart winning smile.  Here are some of my favorites from the session.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We [HEART] Our Customers!

Anna Myers joins Pippen Hill for Park St Customer Appreciation Day - October 17th in Alameda

Sign up for Holiday Specials with Alameda's Premier Baby and Children's Photographer Anna Myers at Pippen Hill on Saturday October 17th. Meet Anna and sign up for Super Holiday Specials available to Pippen Hill Customers First! You must come into Pippen Hill to get these specials...

Pippen Hill is located at 1356 Park St, Alameda, CA 94501-4542
Anna will be in the store from 10am to 5pm.
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Sign-up for Toys for Tots Studio Day on Saturday 11/14 : 15 minute studio sessions - great for the holidays! $50 session fee due at sign up which will be credited towards prints when you bring a new toy valued at $25 to the session for Toys for Tots 

Special on Fall Sessions - get on the calendar for a fall session to occur by 11/13 and get 20% off of fall session fees and 30 slimline holiday cards. Session fee must be paid in full at sign up.

10% off of gift certificates for Anna Myers Photography purchased at Customer Appreciation Day

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Kate - Urban Toddler Portraits

Had a fun toddler portrait session with Kate exploring some newly found urban locations close to the studio. Here is a funky little video of some of the images...

Abigail and the Blowing Flower - Location Portraits with 2 year olds

I love location sessions with toddlers!  Not only is natural light photography of children a fantastic way to capture their spirit, it also allows for movement, play and exploration.  I recently had a very fun toddler photography session with Abigail at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.  We played in the ferns and found some blowing flowers along the way - here are some of my favorites of Abigail and the blowing flower...

Halloween Portraits with Anna Myers - Making a Difference with Operation Smile

This year we have something special for Halloween - professional Halloween studio  portraits!  Every October we work to raise money for the wonderful organization, Operation Smile (www.operationsmile.org), and this year we will be doing a Open House Fund raising event at the studio on Friday, October 31st from 10am to 3pm.  Bring your baby, pet, family and friends to the studio for your halloween portrait in costume - no need to sign up, just show up between 10am and 3pm.  Details are in the flyer for the event (click on the image to view it bigger):

Newborn Twins and Big Sister - Photography Session Celebrating 100 days

Celebrating a baby's 100 day birthday (Baek-il) is a tradition in Korean culture, and Mimi had me come to the house to photograph her beautiful twin girls along with her spunky 4 year old daughter. The twins were actually 103 days, but having everyone available for the newborn family photography session was more important in the long run than the 3 extra days.  The baby's are fraternal twins (can you tell which is which?) and I was actually able to tell them apart after just a few minutes.  These darling girls were very smiley, even though it was a sweltering hot day in San Francisco.  Their big sister is an enchanting child with a wonderful imagination.  She is very proud of her baby's. Mimi loves black&whites, so we planned the session to create great black&white prints to add on to their existing body of black and white fine art family prints.  Here are some of my favorites from the session...
 

 

Lifestyle Photography Session at Grandma's House

It was time for new photos of the grandchildren with Katie - I just love working with this woman!  She is so animated with her grandkids that we always have a wonderfully fun session - filled with laughter and great expressions.  Katie loves a more casual, lifestyle photography look for modern children's portraits that are natural and timeless - so we did the session at her beautiful home and backyard with the two girls who are sisters and their boy cousin.  Here are some of my favorites from the session...
   

 

 

Sweet Sister Session - Artistic Children's Photography

This was a recent fun sibling photography session with sisters Bridgette and Jess up in the redwoods of Oakland in the East Bay at Joaquin Miller Park.  Even though there are four years between them, these two are very close, and very funny together.  You can see how connected and bonded they are throughout the images.  It was a treat to document their relationship with natural light children's photography.
 

LOVE this one.

Natural Light 4 Nights Seminar at Anna Myers Studio

On Tuesday Night, I had 15 photographers come to my studio for a presentation and class on Photographing Children in Natural Light.  I was asked to teach the program for a 4 Night Series by my Professional Photography Group - PPBGA. We met in the studio for a while, where I showed a slideshow of my work focused on natural lifestyle photography of newborns, babies, children, teens and families  I also had my good friends and fellow photographers Jeanne DePolo, Stefanie Herzer and Kimberly Sayre there to help me (Thanks Girls!), as well as my Studio Manager Nicole - who helps me always and in all ways :D

After the slideshow, we hit the streets outside of the studio at around 7:00pm for some hands on natural light photography in the urban industrial area near my studio with three models - Sula (24), my glamorous oldest daughter, and two of Nicole's three daughters - Abbie (12) and Chloe (8).  Working with reflectors, gobos and diffusers, we broke up into groups and each group had a model to work with.  Most of the photographers who attend the 4 nights are new to the subject at hand - so our focus was learning how to look for good available light and when to add light with reflectors and subtract light with gobos or diffusers.  The class was a big success - and here are a few images sent in from the class members... Stefanie Herzer (first three), Kim Sayre(fourth)
    

and finally Patricia Finn - who sent me this image of a woman she took a picture of the next day when she was in a restuarant and still thinking about the class - and noticed this beautiful light on this lady, and took this picture. And that is what it is all about - looking for the light where ever you are.  Go Patricia!