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$95 Fall Mini Sessions are Here!

 
Mini Sessions - $95 for three weeks in November!


Available for weekday sessions Monday 11/1 through Wednesday 11/24, book your 30 minute mini session for either in studio or on location near the studio for $95.

Mini Sessions are perfect for creating unforgettable holiday gifts and artistic holiday cards! Your choice of in the Alameda studio or on location near the studio featuring urban, woodsy or bay beachy - we can find something that matches your style for custom portraits of you and yours.

Mini Sessions include a phone consult to discuss location, clothing, people in session, as well as a 60 minute post-consultation in the studio with Anna to view the images and place your order. Post-consults for mini sessions are available weekday afternoons, Wednesday evenings and some Sunday evenings. All post consults and orders must be completed by Friday 12/3/10 for Christmas Delivery.

Call the studio to book your session at 510-748-8959 or email Anna at [email protected] to get on the calendar. Limited Availability - monday through friday between 9am and 5pm - 11/1 through 11/24 - sign up asap for your best time!

Holiday Happenings

Holiday Giving - Toys for Tots
Bring a Toy - Get a Facebook File!
This year instead of having one day for the Toys for Tots, we will honor the spirit of giving throughout November. All clients who bring a new toy valued at $25 or more to the studio (unwrapped) for their Post-consultation will receive a facebook file of one of their ordered files as a thank you from the studio. While you are at it - click here to FIND US ON FACEBOOK

Don’t do facebook? Bring a new toy valued at $25 to your post consultationfor your November session and we will give you a set of wallets from one of your ordered images!

 

 Holiday Specials

Along with some special holiday deals on old favorites like framed triptych’s and image folios, we have new products – sleek  & solid story panels for the shelf or wall, way cool metal prints, new session box or albums, and great new holiday templates for vintage or modern holiday cards at a great price.

Check out our Holiday Specials Here

 

Holiday Deadlines

Our official cut off this year is November 24th 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.

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.

Modern, Fresh & Colorful - Mini Sessions for Spring are Here

Your Spring Break is Coming Early... $95 for Fresh & Colorful Spring Mini Sessions - offered in studio and on location! Become a Facebook Fan and you could win a Free Spring Mini Session... Spring Mini Studio Sessions on Saturday, April 3 $95 for a 20 minute session includes 1 5x7 and 1 facebook image (from 1 pose). Great for a short, sweet portrait of the kids in their Spring Best or a fresh picture for your social network profiles. Pets and babies are welcome! Wanna take it outside? Outdoor Spring Mini Sessions are available Weekdays for Spring Break! $95 for a 30 minute Spring Mini Session in or near Alameda. Beach, Forest, Park, Garden, Train Tracks, Mosaics, Urban Industrial - they are all available in or near Alameda. Includes one facebook image. Great for a more custom designed, action packed session using natural light. Available Tuesday through Friday 9am to 4pm: March 28th through April 2nd and April 6th through April 9th. Limited times are available for Spring Mini Sessions - call the studio at 510-748-8959 or email [email protected] to book your time. $95 Mini Session fee is due at time of booking. All sessions include a one hour post consultation in studio 7 to 10 days after your session to view your images and place your order. Some weekend and evening appointments are available for post-consultations. ----------------------------- Find us on Facebook! Become a Fan and you could get your Spring Mini Session fee for free... Anna Myers Photography - Modern Portraits in the SF Bay Area is on facebook. BECOME A FAN and stay up to date with upcoming events, contests and sneak peeks at recent sessions. AND we will randomly choose one fan at the end of March to receive a free spring mini session (value $95) with Anna Myers - your choice of studio or location. Must be local to Bay Area, CA to win ;)

The Sweetest Valentine's Gift - Love Books are a Hit!

Wow! We have had so much fun with our Love Book sessions the past two weeks! Clients came prepared with their quotes by choosing from a list or creating their own. They selected a style of book which we based the background color and clothing around. Then we had a short, creative session at my photography studio in Alameda to capture the images to put with the quotes. After the session, they chose their images from an online gallery for their book and we assembled the quotes with the images into a *sweet* valentine's love book. And the results are Fabulous! I only wish I could see the faces of the people who are receiving these love books as Valentine's Gifts. 

For those of you that still want to get in on the fun - you can give the Love Book as a gift session and book on Valentine's Day as long as the session is scheduled on a weekday (9am to 4pm) in February. Click here to see the original post for the sweet deal!

Here are some sample pages from a few of the books...

   

 

February Special - Four Weekend Portrait Sessions on Sale

Just in time for Valentine's Day, for two weekends in February I am offering a limited number of weekend sessions at the weekday session rate - wooo hooo! That is a savings of $200! But only four sessions are offered at this special price!

This makes a perfect surprise gift for Valentine's weekend, or we can put together a gift certificate to give on Valentine's Day for the session the following weekend.   Family, couples, teens, boudoir, maternity, newborn - even pets are welcome!
Studio Sessions $195
Location Sessions $245
SF Beach Sessions $295

We only have 4 sessions available at this special price for any of the following days:
Saturday 2/13
Sunday 2/14
Saturday 2/20
Sunday 2/21

These sessions will go fast - email [email protected], or call the studio on weekdays at 510-748-8959.

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]!

Senior Session Special with Anna Myers

Book your senior session by Feb 15th and get 24 free wallets and one facebook file!

 

It is that time of year again! Time for this year's Juniors - aka next years Seniors - to get their Senior Portraits done. Book now and get your 24 wallets and facebook file - along with these special session rates...

Sessions are Tuesday thru Friday:

Mini Studio Session [30 minutes – 2 outfits] $125

Urban Location Session [60 minutes – 3 outfits]  $245

Studio + Urban Location Session [90 min – up to 5 outfits] $295

Call the studio at 510-748-8959 to book your session or email [email protected] or text 510-376-3962.