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Alameda Dog Photographer : Winners for Puparazzi Portraits with Anna Myers and the East Bay SPCA

We are still working with the East Bay SPCA to get the winners posted on their site, but here are the results of the east bay dog portrait contest !

AND THE WINNERS ARE...

Favorite Big Dog and Overall Top Dog goes to Jack. Jack will be featured on the cover of the East Bay SPCA Newsletter as well as on the front page of the East Bay SPCA website.   All of the other winners and runners up listed below will be featured on the East Bay SPCA website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Close in voting for favorite big dog were Charlotte (Jack's Best Friend) and the very handsome Kiska :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Favorite Small Dog went to the darling Ellie:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Dressed Dog went to Joe with a close runner up as Sadie:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Looking Dog went to Sterling: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Favorite Dog went to Bluesie with the runner up as Suzie:

East Bay Dog Portraits : View Photos from the East Bay SPCA Puparazzi Portraits Event with Anna Myers

Well it took me a while to edit down the hundreds of images that I took the day of the event, but I finally got them edited, sorted and uploaded for all to see and vote on. I have to admit that these dogs had me laughing as I edited away because they are such characters! 

The online event can be found here: Puparazzi Portraits with Anna Myers

You can view and vote for dogs in the contests to help choose Best Dressed Dog, Favorite Small Dog and more. Winners of the contest will be featured on the East Bay SPCA website, and the TOP DOG will grace the cover of the next SPCA Newsletter :)

Here are a few of my personal favorites for the blog...

   

Bay Area Dog Photographer - Get your Modern Dog Portraits and Support the East Bay SPCA

Join Anna Myers Photography for Puparazzi Portraits - supporting the East Bay SPCA on Sunday June 13th at Jack London Square!

Come have your dog photographed by Bay Area pet photographer Anna Myers at the Puparazzi Portraits event at Jack London Square on Sunday, June 13th - and your dog could be a star on the East Bay SPCA’s website and newsletter, Animal Friends!

The proceeds of your $20 session fee will go entirely to support the East Bay SPCA and secures your ten-minute portrait session with Anna Myers Photography. Specially priced images will be available online to purchase as prints or digital downloads starting at $35. Each dog can be entered into up to 3 contests which include Biggest Dog, Senior Dog, Smallest Dog, Ugliest dog, Best Groomed Dog and Best Dressed Dog. Contest voting will take place online – so get your friends and family ready to vote for your dog! The winner for each contest will be featured on the home page of the East Bay SPCA, and the dog with the most votes overall - the Top Dog - will be featured on the cover of the East Bay SPCA newsletter Animal Friends!

Sessions are by appointment only. The $20 session fee is due at sign up time to secure your spot. 

Click HERE to schedule your Puparazzi Portrait appointment

NOTE: if you are bringing more than one dog, please schedule a session for each if you want a portrait of them individually and want them entered into one or more contests. We WILL photograph them together as well. If you are bringing more than one dog and ONLY want a portrait of them together just schedule one appointment.

Humans are welcome in the pics with the dogs too! But we will need a solo pic of each dog for contest entry.

Hope to see you at Jack London Square for Puparazzi Portraits on Sunday, June 13th!
Come join in the fun, support the wonderful work of the East Bay SPCA and your dog could be on the cover of the East Bay SPCA Newsletter!

This special event is made possible by Anna Myers Photography, Jack London Square and the East Bay SPCA.

San Francisco Bay Area Pet and People Photographer | Serenading Kelev

This was a fun session - two musicians and their dog.  I always encourage people to include their families in the session, and honestly dogs are a big part of many of our families - so I say let's include them in at least some of the photos!  Studio portraits of dogs is always fun, but add in some fancy duds, a flute and a violin and I was having a blast! Here are some pics from the session...

Bay Area Teen Photographer - Brick Warehouse for Senior Portrait Sessions

Just found a cool new location for portraits today! I love old brick, and this place has loads of it. Industrial windows, old brick - can be a very cool place for senior sessions, family portraits - even pet portraits as shown here. In fact I am so tickled about finding this place, I will give a FREE URBAN SENIOR SESSION to the first HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR OR JUNIOR that contacts me to book a weekday urban senior session that will include this cool brick warehouse in Alameda ($325 value - up to 2 hour weekday after school session with as many clothing changes as you can fit into that time - 4? 5? 6? Includes one facebook file.). Session must occur in April 2010. Now let's see if anyone is paying attention...

East Bay Alameda Dog Photographer - Puppy Love

Today I photographed one of my Oh Baby! Club babies at 9 months with his adorable chihuahua Goucho and new 10 week old Maltese puppy, Trudy.  OMG - Trudy is the most adorable little ball of fluff you could ever hold in your hand (no offense Goucho).  And at two pounds she fits right in your hand! It was very hard to give her back.  I wanted to capture some pics of the puppy by herself to show her size. So I put a smallish lily in with her for context. But Trudy was smitten with that lily and was sure it was something to eat. She would not let that flower out of her mouth.  So here is Trudy with her lily.

Bay Area Pet Photographer - A day with the dogs (and cat) at the East Bay SPCA

Things are tough these days, so when I was looking for a new charity to work with this year - there were so many to choose from!  But I started reflecting on how my life has changed after adopting our dog Ginger from the East Bay SPCA eight months ago, and it made me realize that a pet adds so much happiness to your life that even in these challenging economic times, a pet is well worth the investment.  I have several EXCITING events in the planning stages with this wonderful organization, but to start out I spent part of a day photographing some very deserving animals to hopefully improve their chances of finding  good homes.  All of the dogs were involved in a cool program called TLC (Teaching Love and Compassion) which matches up kids in a local middle school with the dogs to train and love - but not necessarily adopt.  Now they are graduating and wanted to have a good photo to give to their new friends.  I worked with one of their awesome dog trainers, Ellen, and photographed all seven of the TLC dogs as well as one wonderful older cat in need of a loving home. All of the dogs had to have their leashes on for the photos  - but natural light pet photography along with some tasty treats still made for some engaging images.

All of these dogs were great fun to work with and spend time with - they are each such characters and will make great pets for the right match. To find out more about their ages, breeds and personalities, you can contact the SPCA in Oakland to go meet these animals to see if you are a good fit. All of them except pow wow were available for adoption as of yesterday.  For the record - if anyone brings Nicholas any where near my thirteen year daughter - the dog will never make it out of her arms again. He is a little teddy bear in a dog form!  Although she would love to adopt any and all of these dogs if she could - which is why she will not be my assistant any time soon for this project!

(TIP - Click on any of the images to see it larger)

Super Duper Love Sale - Love in 2010, or Lovin' 2010!

Having just come back from a lovely holiday break, we are ready to jump in and get this Decade Started!  In preparation for Valentines Day we have a Lovely Special!

The Love Book

One of our most popular products is our albums – so we came up with a way to offer a special Valentines album at a Great Price that will be Priceless to whoever is the lucky recipient. The album is our ever-so-popular 8x8 coffee table book with your choice from several Valentines themes, INCLUDING your choice of Love Quotes or YOUR OWN CUSTOM Love Quotes. The Love Book can be used for Babies, Kids, Pets, *Boudoir*, even Maternity! 
Or grab someone you adore and come into the studio together - mommy and me, best friends, star-struck lovers - Bring on the Love! Now we know that some people are great at writing quotes, but for those of you that need some help we have a list that you can choose your favorites from.  And for those of you with KIDS – we have an EXTRA SPECIAL way of dong the quotes – we give you a set of questions for the child to answer and the question along with child’s answers are included in the book next to each image. How cute is that?

So here is the deal – for $295 you get a 30 minute weekday session with Anna, an 8x8 Love Quotes book with 6 images from the session and your chosen quotes or you child’s quotes. To make it EXTRA EASY, you bring your quotes with you to the session, and then after the session the images will be uploaded to a 3-day online gallery for you to select the 6 images, then we put it all together and ship your book to you! Additional pages/images can be added to the book for $50 each. Then you will have a fantastic custom Love book to give that special someone for Valentines Day!  But here is the catch – in order to have the books ready in time, we are only offering the Love Book Sessions between 9am and 4:30pm Jan 19th – Jan 22nd, and Jan 25th – Jan 29th .  Full payment of the $295 is due at the time of sign up for your session. 

And talk about EASY – as a special add on you can get your own unique, personalized set of 25 Valentine’s Day Cards + 1 Facebook image for $99!  Now that is some Super Duper Love! 

Call the studio at 510-748-8959 to book your session or email [email protected]!

Another Brown Eyed Girl Joins the Family...

We have a new addition to our family this year, and believe it or not it has taken me some time to get some good pics of her! Yes, we adopted a red and white border collie from the East Bay SPCA  in Oakland and named her Ginger.  She is officially my thirteen year old's dog, but she is taken care of by all.  She is extremely smart, very social and sweet, and even a bit sassy, which is why her full name is 'Ginger Sassafras Myers'.  She is camera shy which is why it took me a while for her to get used to cameras enough for me to get some pics that show her personality. 

We are now officially a dog family - getting up before the sun to walk her through the neighborhoods for her morning walk, always having poop bags in one pocket and grain free treats in the other and my trusty iphone which has a great flashlight feature when you need to look for things in the dark - yes we have officially joined the community of dog owners. Some of our favorite spots for dog adventures are Pt Isabel, Berkeley Marina, Crissy Fields, Skyline Gate in the Oakland Hills and Muir Woods Beach.  Ginger is a border collie - and will not chase balls, but instead takes her work very seriously of herding dogs that are chasing balls. In her eyes we are all sheep to be herded and tended, but she takes good care of us. Here are some debut photos of our newest brown eyed girl in the family in her first holiday session...