Tis the season!

Long time no see....Happy Holidays!

There have been many things that have been happening but I do plan once the computer has been set up and situated at home. I will have many photos to share.

Photos yet to come...

New York City trip in August

Wedding in October

And possibly more that will take place this month. All will be loaded in Janurary.

The beginning of the coming year will also mark the start of Shannon S Photography transformation to newer and greater things. Stay tuned for those changes. 2011 will be a large year, can not wait to see how it comes together!!

Beach Wedding

These are just a few of the photos taken at the last wedding I shot. Lucky for me I was able to take some photos on the beach! Enjoy!!!!

Half Way!! 6 Months!!

Time just flies on by.......Elijah is already 6 months. :) It is awesome to see the progression for me as a photographer how he takes to the camera and how we are able to sit him up for shots.

More More More....

Here is a few shots of another family. Their oldest little boy is soooo cute!

Catch up!!

Today is a catch up day on getting all photo contracts sitting done and ready to be handed out by the end of this weekend. So while I do that I plan on this odd off and on rainy day (I know it is August in central California, we are suppose to have days and days in a row of 100 degree days). I am going to be posting some high lights of photo shoots that I have done in the last month. :)

Here are photos of a co-worker I earlier did some maternity photos which you can see in earlier post. This is her entire family.

A Busy Busy Weekend!

Hi!!! This weekend will be a busy one with photos that I have taken in the last month, which has been crazy busy. In this last month I have photographed a wedding, 2 families, and little Elijah at 6 months. Also, I was able to visit New York City for my anniversary!! All these photos will be posted on my blog through out this weekend.

GREEN!

I am extremely excited! I have found a company that I am planning to have Shannon S Photography start working along with. The company is called Wild Magnolia Design. In the next couple of months plan on seeing the new products that I will be able to offer to everyone. They offer products that are eco-friendly and that is going to start being what Shannon S Photography is all about.

2010 the year of planning

Right now I am taking a marketing class. Love it and hate it. Love that information that I am gaining, I getting new ideas for my business that will offered to my customers. Hate it because instead of having the time to put them into action I am in class trying to earn that degree. I can not wait until next year when I should be done with my BA so I can focus more of my time to really start to provide you, yes you with great photos and new products

So this year is definitely is a year of re-planning, re-designing, and re-inventing. Re-cycling :) a word to share with you about a direction Shannon S. Photography will be moving towards.

I did though just photography a wedding in Watsonville, Ca located about 20 min south of Santa Cruz. It was wonderful, who could complain when you have the opportunity to photograph on the beach?! Once I load I will share some of the highlights of that day. :)

Henry Cowell State Park-Day with the dogs!!

I completely forgot! Last weekend I took both of my dogs on a little easy hike at Henry Cowell State Park and then finished off the day at Seacliff (one of my favorite dog friendly beaches). Our newest member of our family Goober I was worried that he would not enjoy the water. But once in he could not get enough. If it was up to him he would have stayed in the water the entire time at the beach. Now I can not wait to take him to the lake!!

WCC-Antioch Graduation 2010

Grads, Grads, Everywhere. Just finished another graduation but the Western Career College-Antioch Campus held in Brentwood, California at Liberty High School on 6/25/2010 at 6:30pm. Photos will be viewable on 6/28/2010 at:

www.shutterfly.com/pro/ShannonSPhotography/WCCAntioch2010

3 months already?!

It has been a couple weeks but I did find time in my busy summer schedule to take photos of Elijah who now is already the 3-4 months old. Crazy how time fly's by. Here are just some shots from that day. We plan to take photos at further locations especially now that he is getting older. The photo of Elijah and his older sister is extremely cute, one she will show off to his friends when he gets older. :) (isn't that what sisters are for?)

Can't wait for the 6-7 month mark!! It will be fall and that means great yellow, red, and brown foliage!

WCC-Stockton 2010

Yesterday was Western Career College-Stockton Campus graduation. I had planned for me and my assistant to have matching shirts with Shannon S. Photography on them but the iron on transfer had a different plan. The Friday before the graduation ceremony I had created a simple design to iron on the shirts that I had purchased earlier that week. I placed the iron on transfer into the printer went to my computer pressed print, then a crazy sound came from my printer. The iron on transfer wrapped itself around one of the drums/roll and because the iron on is, lets say sort of rubbery. Every time we tried to pull it out, the "paper" would just stretch. :(

So though that didn't work out my assistant and I still looked great (that's us at the end of the ceremony) in our plan black button up shirts. New plan until I can really afford embroidering the name will creating name badges. I really believe it is important to look the part and with another graduation coming up that is one item that must be completed off my list of things to do. The badge will allow us to actually wear other color button up shirts depending on wear we will happen to be shooting at.

Now it is just loading the photos and getting them ready to view for tomorrow. Then next will the WCC-Antioch Campus on 6/25/2010!

SHIRTS!!!!

With a graduation coming soon I have finally decided to put together shirts with Shannon S Photography on them. I am super excited and can not wait to be able to wear them this weekend. I will have soon a photo of me and my assistant with our new gear.

Antioch WCC Graduation

Hi everyone! I have been asked to just take the photos for the Western Career College- Antioch Campus at the actual ceremony. Students like before will be able to view and purchase their photos online. The most important part of that is that they will be able to share with their family members that were not able to attend their graduation. I will have the sites the students will be able to visit soon. The students will also be able to know at the graduation when they will be able to view their photos online. :)

This will actually be the last time that Western Career College will have a graduation under that name, they will be changing their name to Carrington College California as of July 1, 2010. I will be using the WCC as their school name, this will hopefully help for students to remember their name being that they had know WCC as WCC.

Western Career College-Stockton Graduation 2010

I am totally excited to have to chance to take photos of the graduates from Western Career College-Stockton Campus. Soon I will be putting together the site name for the graduates to be able to view and order their photography of the day. More to follow.......

Sacramento Engagements!!

I had the opportunity to take engagement photos in Sacramento. There are some really great locations in Sacramento. They are such a great couple I can not wait to photograph their wedding coming in July. Here are some of the photos of that day.

Give a day. Get a day!

I want to encourage everyone to take the time to volunteer! I was able to help clean up in the elephant exhibit at the Oakland Zoo and after enjoyed the rest of the day at their zoo. It is now something I plan on doing at least twice a year helping at the zoo and adding other ways to volunteer as well. SOOOOOOO....................................

Continue to advertise

Just created an ad to show up on the side bar on Facebook. This is the year to get my name out. I also just signed up for WedPlan, Great site for engaged couples to searched for vendors all over.

Spring = New Beginnings

It must be the season, I have many friends that have just had their baby or are expecting. Here is Maria, she is expecting her little boy Angel in about a month.

Newborn

I was lucky to have great friends that allowed me to interrupt their

first week with their first child Elijah. He is barely a week old. I wanted to keep things simple no flash just a more relaxed clean feel. I plan on working with them in taking photos through out his next year so ideas are rolling.

Stock photos

Though school has been taken a lot of time I plan on expanding. I had planned on being apart of iStock, but really haven't really followed through. So this year I plan on being apart of many stock sites and really see what comes of it. Again always excited!

New year!!!

Hey everyone, I can not even believe that it is already going to be March. What have I been doing these 2 months? I am not sure.....No I have just been busy with school. I hate to say but the photography has been outweighed on importance by school and personal life. But that will change again as we come up to spring.

This weekend I will be taking photos of a friends and their newborn baby. I am truly excited about it, and I'll post them as soon! I also have engagement photos coming up at the end of the month at the State Capital. It will be nice to get back to doing what I truly love.

I always think every year you should have a game plan or a goal you set for yourself to reach. You should always have goals in general but set one that you know you can actually do to visually see at the end of the year that accomplishment. So I had to think of what I wanted to see accomplished this year for my photography busniess. This year I plan of pay to be apart of more wedding social network, I love photographing weddings.

Now that the holidays are behind us it is not time to kick in gear and start greasing the wheels and get this thing rolling.