Happy Halloween!

... from "Laura Ingalls" and "Firefighter T.



This morning we awoke to chilling temperatures in the mid-20's! BURRRR... When I looked out the window I saw frost blanketing all things outdoors and a slight fog to the air. The kids said, "look mom it snowed!" I had to tell them it was just frost. And so, when I took our daughter to school (it was almost 9am) it was just 31-degrees! Winter isn't too far off from us now. It's a perfect Autumn day! I am enjoying the frost. I had to scrape the ice off my windshield this morning! Time to winterize and get the snowtires on this coming month.

Have a Spooktacular day!

Florida "R" Family

Another family session during my recent visit to Florida! My sister-in-law found this beautiful location for us complete with this fabulous white home (seen in background) and mature trees with hanging spanish moss. Yum! What a location, waterfront and all. Meet the "R" family. What an adorable family! It was such a pleasure to meet them. With limited time, the sun sets early these days (geeze!), we moved around this park capturing some of their fun personalities. Here are some of my faves from the shoot.

Thanks for posing for me "R" family! Your photos are ready in your private online viewing gallery on my website.

Florida "M." Family

My family and I recently traveled to Florida for an 11-day visit with family. It was so much fun and great to be in 80-90 degree temperatures. While visiting family we were introduced to some of their friends and neighbors and scheduled some mini-shoots with them. This family was a pleasure to work with and so happy and sweet together. I enjoyed it very much and hope they like their pictures as much as I do. Thanks so much for posing for me! Stay tuned for more pictures and another photo shoot shots coming this week. =) For now, here is a sneak peek at their proofs.

Introducing..........

,,,MY NEW WEBSITE!

http://www.angelaschwartzphotography.com/

It's finally here! What took me nearly two-months of research, reading, planning, building, rebuilding, ordering, more building, design work and style, and more redesigning to finally happy with the design and now launching the site live! Few, I get exhausted just reviewing the process. But needless to say, I'm so thrilled with the results. I'm so excited to share them with you all. I invite you to drop by my virtual storefront for a self-guided tour of the great unveiling of ANGELA!

And of course I'd love to know what you think. Try out the new "contact me" section and send me your thoughts, "way-to-go's", or "this stinks my photos aren't in your portfolio". =) And if you aren't in my portfolio, you should be! I will be scheduling sessions after October 25th.

seagull delight

Today we have wind, stormy clouds, rain and even some hail. While out and about running errands we headed for the harbor for some inspiration for my class assignment. Yup, I'm taking another photography class. This weekly focus is action shots. When we drove into this mostly vacant harborside parking lot we noticed this lone vehicle with a man tossing bread to a sea of seagulls! They were swarming all over the place in flight and darting to and fro for a shot at snatching up the beloved bread. I instructed hubby to stop our vehicle and I held out my camera and started shooting. What fun! The seagulls saw us and thought we had food too and soon enough started trickling over to our vehicle. Sadly, we had very few food scraps (darnit, usually the kids leave something on the floor!). Well, after about 5 - 10 minutes the gentleman in the vehicle had had enough and drove over to us and he said he had some bread remaining if we wanted some. And we gladly accepted his offering. Two full loafs of bread and a kind thank you with a smile later and we were feeding the birds! Well, we (my hubby and son) and I was behind the camera firing away hoping to capture their acrobatic feeding frenzy! It was high action and they were darting here and there and soon were on the vehicle. It was exciting! My adrenaline was pumping and I was all jazzed up. It was 20-30minutes of excitment and about a 100 shots or so later. These are my top four picks. What a generous and kind man to share his daily ritual with offerings with us. We really appreciated it and if there was some way to get him a photo I would gladly offer him a print of him in action. Maybe someday. For now, Thank you, to a generous fellow.


I took many shots to get this one just right. They were catching the bread in the air! Now that's some serious coordination. Amazing flyers.

Stormy weather yields some awesome dramatic lighting and sky. Here the bird is illuminated against a dark sky and stands out in a somewhat 3D effect. LOVE that! Getting those birds into the light was a huge challenge that as you can see paid off with persistance and best of all patience.

I should have framed this shot in black so that you can see the sea of milky white clouds here. Hmm... maybe Ill change my template for showing. I just love this. It is not desirable to have the same color against the same color background but I'm totally weird, and love it! I just love the milky subtle graces. It feels coastal to me. =)

Thanks for stopping by!

Firefighter in Training!

My new toy came. A really nice prime lens. =)*
Had to try it out. And what luck! The downpour opened up to a few dramatic sunbreaks and so little T and I ran out and played some with my new glass. Here he is wearing his halloween/dressup firefighter attire. It is the neatest firefighter outfit I've ever seen. It's so real looking. Anyway, he loves it and it makes him smile! As we walked around the yard he came across Grandpa's ladder and so he started climbing it, just like the firefighters do. And what a photo op for me!!!! You can see the rest. Yum! The pics are virtually unedited! Oh the color... oh the clairty. YUM! I'm loving my new glass.

All Smiles