Portraits by Angie Lane Celebrate Life Blog

I will be out of town from Tuesday, December 1 through Monday, December 7. I will return all calls on December 8 after I return. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!! Just a reminder, all orders must be placed by December 8 in order to be back before Christmas. Frame orders will have a rush fee applied to the order if they are needed by Christmas.

This session was so fun! Dad was so cute with the baby (even though she had a bit of an accident on him!) These pictures were done for the Skin to Skin campaign for St. Joseph’s.

I’ve been working with St. Joseph’s hospital over the last several months on a project promoting skin to skin interaction with newborn babies. If you’ve had a baby recently at St. Joseph’s, you may have seen the finished product hanging in the labor and delivery area. Next time you’re there, check it out!

OK, I finally jumped on the bandwagon (after several months of gentle ridicule from friends!) and am on Facebook! Now that I’ve finally set it up, it looks like lots of fun. I don’t know what took me so long! It’s easy to find me — just click on the link in my menu and it will take you strait to my page (if it doesn’t work, please let me know!) See you there!

I will be on vacation from Wednesday, July 1 through Wednesday, July 8. I’m not sure how the cell coverage will be, so leave me a message and I’ll try to get back to you if I can. I won’t have access to email, so I will return emails when I get back.

I did a little mini-photoshoot of Kayla over the weekend. I just wanted to get a few fun, creative pictures right at sunset with a bunch of lens flare. We got to the spot about 3 minutes before the sun went below the trees so we had to work FAST! But we got a few shots that I love.

Since I focused on girls last week, I thought it was only fair to do a feature on boys clothes. With boys a lot of classic items look great like cargo pants/shorts, jeans, Converse shoes and hats. Layered shirts look awesome. Stay tuned for next week — I’m going to start doing some features on clothes that look great at the beach! Even though I’m not planning to do my beach sessions until October, now is a great time to find clothes in the stores that look great at the beach.

I am so excited to unveil my new blog! Take a look around and check out all the new features! In the menu above, you can click on the link for “Categories” and then select any category you would like to view — such as country sessions, urban session, etc., and all of the posts with information or images on those sessions will come up. You can also search for a specific post by entering a term in the “search” box. 

And best of all — you can now sign up for blog updates by clicking on the “Subscribe” button above. When the new pages comes up, click on the link for “Get Portraits by Angie Lane Celebrate Life Blog delivered by email” (it’s located in the box in the upper right corner with the headline “Subscribe Now!). You will receive an email with a link that you need to click to confirm your subscription and voila! You’ll get updates automatically! This is important because I will be having specials that are only available to blog readers — and you don’t want to miss them!

I will also have several new features on my blog including photography tips, specials, information on limited edition sessions, contests and what I call “Fashion Fridays” — a compilation of outfits that I think work great for photographs.

So for my first contest — sign up to receive updates and then write a comment in the “Comments” section below this post and let me know you signed up (be sure to give me some contact information so I can notify you if you win!). On Saturday I will randomly choose a name from the list of subscribers and who ever wins, will get a free spa treatment at Serenity MedSpa in Lodi (the owner Elizabeth is FANTASTIC!). The value of the treatment is $199!

Well I am definitely looking forward to coming home from this trip and staying home for a while! It seems like I've been on so many trips lately (even though they're short). Anyway, I will be out of town starting tomorrow (Thursday, April 23) through Saturday, May 2. I will have my cell phone with me and I will try to return calls when I can. I will not have access to my email so I will reply to any email when I return.

I am constantly striving to be the best photographer I can be and part of what helps me do this is my commitment to continuing education in my field. Last weekend I had the fabulous opportunity to attend a workshop with a handful of other photographers (some came from as far as Puerto Rico!) with Skye Hardwick — one of the leading children's photographers in the country. It was awesome and I have tons of new ideas and I met some really great photographers in the process. On Saturday we went out on the streets of Sacramento and photographed some little models — here are a few of the shots I took.