Change is good!!!

September 10, 2009 | Filed Under cuteness, life, news | Leave a Comment

Mountain View child portraits

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!

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May 31, 2009 | Filed Under news | Leave a Comment

Hi gang,

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

…still exciting! :-)

April 5, 2009 | Filed Under life, news | Leave a Comment

…another publication, this time in the Silicon Valley edition of Bay Area Parent, on their page of earth day events!

Sunnyvale child's portrait published in Bay Area Parent

Hope to see many friends at this year’s free Earth Day festival on April 19th! More details here…and you can add it to your calendar and invite friends via facebook or Upcoming!

xoxo,
Lilia

Nope…not getting old!

April 4, 2009 | Filed Under life, news | 2 Comments

So, I must start this post of with a disclaimer: I am a lazy product photographer. So, can we just stipluate that right now, and get on with the actual purpose of this post, namely, me TOTALLY PLOTZING over the sight of my work in print?!?!

Thank you! :-)

So, as those of you who have been reading my ramblings of late may have noticed, I’m really passionate about the mission of the Children & Nature Network, and just the importance of people, especially kids, having the freedom and space to be outside in an unstructured way…I think it keeps us human beings sane, and connected, and it recharges some important wells in our souls.

So when Mary from the Bay Area CINC collaborative asked me if I had some work that I would be willing to allow them to use in their publications, I was overjoyed…and that led to this post, and aforementioned plotzing…all over this: