Tag Archive: children

An emotional car shopping experience.

It’s that time. Time to buy a new vehicle. Ugh. I hate car shopping almost more than shopping for clothes; yuck! But alas, we’ve been caught in the “fleece cycle” of van leases and its time to escape.  I leave as much of it as I can to my wonderful husband, Brian, because, well, he…

A little announcement! Images by Anna is now Anna Mayer

No, there wasn’t a wedding, and I’m not running from the FBI. When we moved our family to Milwaukee a little over a year ago, we thought a lot about how we wanted to approach running a high-end custom photography business here as we have in the Bay Area.  Should we extend our California-based business, Images…

Project imperfection #2. Milwaukee & San Francisco family photography.

Post number two of my Project Imperfection. Click here, to see the story behind these images. Our new puppy, Oscar, who we brought into our over-stuffed, over-committed life, simply because we love our kids and well, we’re both suckers for dogs (Click here for the story on that insane move) . He LOVES to climb…

Project imperfection. Milwaukee & San Francisco Bay Area photography.

The number one, most frequent and wistful question I get from happy clients is this: “Do you just take a million fabulous photos of your own kids, all. the. time?” To which I must answer a sad, shameful, “No, not really.” We’ve all heard the saying “The cobbler’s children have no shoes.” Well, unfortunately, oftentimes,…

Sweet little siblings. San Jose kids photography.

Awww. How can you not just say “Awww” to an image like this one? I first photographed Big Sister when she was one year old, four years ago. She was as beautiful as can be back then, as she is now (although she’s certainly gotten busier!). It was fun to see her new little brother,…

A Fantastic Shoot with Some Mommy Bloggers & Their Beautiful Families

If you haven’t heard of the Silicon Valley Moms Blog you’ve been missing out! A couple of years ago I was a contributor to this great mommy resource and I still stop in to read the thoughts of some great mothers in Silicon Valley. This month I had the pleasure of working with a group…

The good life.

Now you can order this! We’ve gotten so much attention from this post, that we decided to launch a site where you can create your own, easy to install photo wall gallery! You can have us create an unframed photo gallery on Masonite, a metal gallery of squares and rectangles, or a group of canvases…

Day Three. Happy Halloween!

I’ve made it THREE days now. Can you belive it?! Today was more of a family day and I almost didn’t remember . . .  It was COLD here in Milwaukee today. The actual temp was 43 degrees but it was windy and the “feels like” temp was 33. It WAS very cold. My kiddos…

Aaaah. I just love this one.

Sometimes, when I sit down at my computer and peek at the images I captured at a session, I see an image that makes my heart skip a beat. This is one of those images. I just love what this image communicates. Of course, I love this family, too, which probably helps. I have enjoyed…

San Francisco family photography. Now THAT’S talent!

When my 3 year old, Lydie-bug saw this she said, “Gross, mommy! *I* use my fingers for that!!” LOL