As of January 2011, I have decided to restructure my business to allow me to return to school part-time and expand my focus to fine art. I will be accepting a limited number of portrait commissions each month, and priority will go to existing clients. If you are a new client and would like to be waitlisted, please fill out my contact form and include the month that you would like to book for, and I will send you an email when I open booking to new clients for that month.

Any questions?

xoxo,
Lilia

It is that time again – the time for us to get together and take pictures of you smooching on your sweetlings so that you can get those holiday and new years cards in the mail!! Here is the announcement goodie:

….and the written details, just in case you need to cut and paste to convince the sweetie to make the investment ;-):

WHO: Your ridiculously cute family and photographer Lilia Schwartz

WHAT: Limited edition holiday mini-sessions (up to 25 minutes of shooting time), an online proofing gallery of 10-15 images to choose from, one 11×14 print of your favorite image, AND your choice of one digital file OR twenty five custom holiday cards

WHEN: Saturday 11/6 at 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm, and 4:30 pm  and Saturday 11/13 at 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm, and 4:30 pm

WHERE: Saturday, 11/6 at a lovely garden in Palo Alto and Saturday, 11/13 at the red barn doors in Cupertino

HOW: Email lilia at babymoonphotography dot com to book. Cost is $235 plus tax, payable to hold your spot.

Please  do shoot me an email with your preferred time as soon as you know that you want to book – I have an intuition that the spots are going to go pretty fast!

xoxo,
Lilia

My work was featured on the cover of the May/June Natural Life magazine! You can read the full article here!

Wow!

xoxo,
Lilia

In honor of Mother’s Day and in celebration of mama-love, babymoon photography is doing a fabulous give-away – times TWO!

Win TWO family mini-session with photographer Lilia Schwartz — one for you, and one to give to a mama YOU love!

Each fabulous mama will get:

• one hour with photographer Lilia Schwartz at a Bay Area location. It could be your house, the park, your favorite ice-cream shop, even the beach!

• 10-15 digital images for printing at sizes up to 8×10

• a humungous 11×14 print of your favorite image!

The retail value of your two mama-love sessions is $1570!

How you get it:

Click here to sign up for the babymoon newsletter and then tell  a friend (or two or three) to increase your chances of winning!

Giveaway ends on Monday, May 10th at 10am. And please don’t worry: your email and other info will never ever EVER be sold, shared, traded, or otherwise abused!

The fine print: Sessions are for up to 5 immediate family members only. prizes are non-transferrable and have no cash value. sessions must take place on or before September 1st, 2010. Standard session contract and portfolio release must be signed. Images will be made available for personal, non-commercial use only. Sessions will take place in the San Francisco Bay Area (but if you are planning a vacation to the SF bay area in the specified time frame, feel free to enter!).

I’m going to be doing a rockin’ awesome giveaway this weekend…so check back for a chance to win a super amazing treat for your family (hint: it involves spending time with me…free! ;-)

xoxo,
Lilia

p.s. the above image would be my muse, and one of our first strawberries from the garden. Summer is almost here!! :-)

As someone who works with kids and families every day, it’s really important to me to give back to my community wherever I can, so when my friend Hoi asked that I consider doing some pro bono photography and design for a “Save Our Schools” campaign to raise funds for a local school district, I was in.

Here are some (ok, a bunch) of my favorite shots:

This one is in the postcard above, but I had to include it large, because I REALLY love it:

These kids had such amazing spirits, and I had a blast working (and playing) with them.

Good luck, TFIN!

xoxo,
Lilia

You can click here to download a PDF version of the mini-session announcement.  Slot availability updates will be posted on facebook

xoxo,
Lilia

So, it is no secret that I am extremely proud and grateful to have been involved with Full Circle Farm since the project was in the pre-proposal process. Nowadays, I maintain the farm’s flickr account, and try to do a walkabout in my role as official farmtographer at least a couple of times a month. So when Kiwi magazine wanted a picture to accompany their story on “Moms of the Revolution,” you can bet I jumped at the chance!  It is my first shot in a national publication, and it’s definitely a thrill!

xoxo,
Lilia

Hi gang,

I know it’s been awfully quiet around here, but I promise, I have lots and lots of pictures to share! :-) In the past two weeks, I have:

:: shot two maternity sessions and…

:: one family session, and…

:: photographed a major event at full circle farm, AND…

:: had my FIRST NATIONAL PUBLICATION (in all caps, because, well, NATIONAL!!) …I’m planning to blog it tomorrow, but pick up a copy of this month’s Kiwi magazine and flip to page 25 if you’re curious. :-), AAAND…

:: PACKED AND MOVED!!!!  (that’s in all caps with four exclamation points because, well, it’s MOVING!! (for the curious, we moved from the Sunnyvale side of the Mountain View/Sunnyvale border back to Mountain View).

I have learned that:

:: I have the best family and friends in the whole wide world

:: I have too much stuff, but that I *am* capable of getting rid of it!

:: seeing my work published never ever gets old

:: sunset at the farm is glorious (oh, wait, I already knew that ;-)

If you’re still curious about what I’m doing, here’s what’s coming up: I have 4 sessions to proof, and two to peek (one already peeked, and one I won’t be for privacy reasons) and a bunch of images from the farm to share, plus my own personal “ack! I need my camera now!!!” stuff ;-)…so lots of eye candy coming your way this week, I promise!

To my dear, patient clients – thank you so much for being so understanding as I get my life back out of boxes and ticking along again. Please do email or call me if you have any questions, as always!

I hope you enjoyed the above shots of my muse in her boxes…now, I am off to get a few more things ordered before it is time to head home!

xoxo
Lilia

p.s. I know it seems like it’s nuts to think of it, but my holiday deadline is coming up – sessions must take place by November 5th to have guaranteed holiday turnaround!  September is mostly filled up, with just a couple of slots left, and October going as well, so if you want holiday pictures, please fill out the contact form on my main site so’s I can get you scheduled! I will be announcing some limited edition holiday mini sessions to take place in October, and slots will likely go fast, so if you’re interested, please include a note  in the comments field so that I can add you to the interest list for those!

I am not ashamed to admit it. I drank the facebook koolade (ok, maybe a little ashamed. but, like, 0.973% little ;-)  

Seriously, though, more and more, I am finding myself adding additional sneak peek images to the faves album on my babymoon facebook page (because I humbly admit that I am a lazy blogger and it’s faster than creating a whole new post and hard coding the image urls because I can’t seem to get wordpress media browser to work without setting unreasonably liberal folder permissions on the server, but that’s probably waaaay more than you wanted to know ;-)…so, anyway, if you’re wanting even more images, or just want to say hi, please stop by. You can even add me as a fan page, so you’ll get a little heads up on your feed when I post new images (and cough::specials::cough).

Speaking of feeds, if you are a blog reader (which, you basically definitely are, since you’re reading this, so don’t even try to weasel out of it, because we have ways of making you talk (generally involving tickling (not to mention egregiously embedded paranthetical statements ;-))), and you’re not using Google reader (or another feed reader, but, honestly, I’m loving greader (as I like to call it, ’cause I like to save me some space on my bookmarks toolbar…and I don’t care who knows it :-), you should DEFINITELY check it out. You can even add  the RSS feeds for all your favorite etsy stores (in their very own folder) to know when they post new stuff – how evil is THAT?!?!

Anyway, this has been an image-free post (sacreligious, I know, but did you read the part about facebook?)…and I must sleep now! I will wake bright and early and get on my sneak peeking and processing for all the lovelies I shot this weekend…you know who you are.

xoxo,
Lilia