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Bay Area Children Urban Railroad Portraits : Finn and Delia down by the tracks

Now that the holiday rush is winding down, I finally have the chance to add some content to my blog!  I have had some great sessions in the past few months  - including this fun mini session with Finn and Delia down by the Railroad tracks.  Of course I choose non-operational railroad tracks, and then add a chair and some fun loving kids and sha-bang! We get some artsy, colorful, urban portraits capturing their personalities and their relationship.  I love the urban look for kids and their mom did a great job of choosing their clothes to create a coordinated casual but modern look. And Delia's little pink sequin shoes tied it all together! Here are a few of my favorites from the session...

San Francisco Bay Area Family Photographer : Portraits of Two Brothers

Aneesh contacted me because he wanted to have some modern professional portraits in the Bay Area done with his brother AJ before AJ left for the Air Force Academy.  He and his brother are very close, as is his whole family. He not only wanted the portraits for himself, but also as a gift for his parents and grand parents.  Wow, was I impressed with this young guy who intuitively understood the value of professional portraits.  So we set out to capture the two brothers both in a more traditional format as well as a more edgey, cool format to document the brothers, their relationship and meet the needs of all of the intended audience.  Aneesh and AJ were fantastic to work with - they are both huge soccer players so we had lots to talk about - and we got quite a range of images in one short, sweet hour. We started out in studio, then hit the streets near the studio for the urban look. Here are a few from the session...

 

Baby Boy Portraits - Blue Jeans and Bare Belly

What better to do on a rainy day but photograph a bubbling baby boy in the studio?

Even better yet - I got to see baby boy Noah at seven months who was just two weeks old when I did newborn portraits of him, and in the belly the first time I photographed him.  Now, Noah is a member of our popular Oh Baby! Club here at the studio which means I photograph him multiple times during his first fifteen months to document his development, personality, and mega-cuteness!  Getting to know babies and children over time and documenting them as they grow up is definitely one of the highlights of my career.

One of the studio sets we did during our session was blue jeans and bare belly with Mom playing a supporting role with her legs, feet and hands.  I am not big on props - I don't do cheesy - but I will often use parents as props as in these images below. Using parents as props also has the advantage of giving a size context to the baby as well as facilitating great expressions from the baby as they feel purty darn good with mom so close!  Here are some bubbling baby boy blue jean shots of the day...

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]!

Two Year Portrait Session - toddler boys and trucks and trains

Over the Holiday Break, I had the extreme pleasure of photographing my step-daughter and her son - aka my grandson - Kingston, who is two and a half years old.  They do not live in the Bay Area, so it is not often that we get to see them. Like many toddler boys his age, Kingston loves cars, trucks and trains - so our photography session was an urban portrait session at the old (abandoned) train tracks.  Along for the ride was his miniature car "McQueen" and Thomas the train, who appear in many of the portraits as well. I approach portrait sessions with toddlers like an adventure - if we make it fun and playful we are guaranteed to get great shots that really capture the essence of the child and the relationship with the parent. For these sessions the parents are an active part of the adventure who sometimes are in focus, sometimes not - but parents are such a big part of the toddlers world that they often are not themselves unless the parents are very close to them.  Using a lifestyle photography approach, it is a very busy session where the parent and child are actively engaged in playing together.   I like to make albums out of the sessions each year with my children and grandchildren, so of course I shot quite a bit of footage.   Here are some of my favorites of this little character Kingston - hopefully I am not too biased!

 

Vineyard Grape Fairy - one year portrait session

One of my recent favorites from a one year session at the family vineyard in Livermore - tutus and grape vines were a great inspiration to create this vineyard grape fairy shot. Adding a vintage feel in post-processing worked well.

We also hauled a couch out to the vineyard (thanks Jim!) and had some fun family portraits with the couch outdoors as well.  Here is one from the front of their holiday card...

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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Holiday Cut Off is November 13th!

The Holidays are Coming Fast!

It is that time of year again - when everything gets a little crazy at the studio with the holiday rush. We are actively shooting holiday family portraits sessions. Our official cut off this year is November 14th for sessions that are intended for holiday cards and holiday gifts - which will give us plenty of time to create our custom design cards and beautiful fine art prints and deliver them to you in time for you to get them out for the holidays. If you have not scheduled your fall family portrait session - we still have some openings, but they are going fast - so call the studio 510-748-8959 to  schedule.

More announcements to come for our Annual Toys for Tots Studio Day! Stay Tuned...

Tattoo Maternity Follow-up - the babies are here!

Here are a couple of pics to follow up from my maternity tattoo session with the newborn sessions...

One from a newborn photography session in the studio...Meet Trulee

And this one done as a natural light newborn session in the home - Meet Carter and Isiah