Baseball game

On Sunday we went to a Tacoma Rainiers baseball game which was lots of fun and also since we had awesome seats and it gave me some time to take some fun sports shots. Something I dont usually do. (we love to eat little casears pizza and the mascot was at the game! heheh)


Here are some of my favorites :)
Warming up
A pitch
the ball coming

A hit
A score
A batter

Book special

I want to try a new company for photobooks that I might want to use to sell to clients.

BUT i need some guinepigs out there :) FIVE to be exact. So once I get 5 books ordered, this special will be done. So email me ASAP if you are interested. angelamarvelphotography@gmail.com

The books would be 8x8 hardbound memory books, with 30 pages. I plan to custom make you a cover and backcover and use up to 30-40 of your images from your session.

I plan to charge $60 PLUS TAX for this special. I am offering them at this price so I can have some examples for my website and check out the quality and user interface. Plus play around with some of my ideas for photobooks. If it pans out and I like them I will be charging over $100 starting in 2009.

So you would like to be a guinepig and help me out. Email me for all the details.

Some extra info.....
To take part of this special, you need to have already had a session with me or book one with me that takes place no later then August 16th. All images in the book need to be images that I have taken but do not have to be all from one session if you would like me to use images from last year as well.

OK here are a few rough photo of what they will be similar too :)

Price Changes

If you look over my website I had to change all the prices because of a new tax law that took effect on July 1st. This changed the way I do business as I now have to charge tax based on where you live and not where I live, so it will be different for each session. So to help with this, I took all the taxes out of my prices and sales tax will now be applied in ADDITION to the prices on my website. On all products. Although not all products are fully updated, email me for the latest prices on anything as I am slowly updating the site and rather then have my website down for a few days I am just uploading page by page :)

Since I had to change my prices for this tax, I ended up changing a few prices as well. However most you will be paying the same as you would have back in June. I only raised prices on a few smaller session rates and my cards or just changed things to a round number. If you are already booked don’t worry, the prices you were quoted are still effective and taxes are already figured in. So no worries!

But I am going to take this time to let you know that starting January 1, 2009 I will be raising my prices pretty significantly and changing my packages. So if you are wanting to book a session at my current prices you will need to book a 2008 session.

I will also be posting in the next few weeks some Christmas specials I will be running in the month of October. I plan to run a few different ones so stayed tuned for details. I am working the final details out right now :)

My parents

They celebrated their 30 year wedding anniversary last month and i finally got around to taking some photos of them!

They are always my best subjects!

Our bedroom

Today is a post about me, not my business :)

Took some photos of Brett last week on our bed. I think its kinda interesting and thought it would be a fun blog topic to go over some of the things you see in the photo :)

First off the quilt behind the bed was given to us from my maid of honor for a wedding gift. She had a friend of hers make it. Its beautiful and we love it! thus it is displayed on the wall.

2) The afghan at the foot of the bed was made for our wedding by my cousins' grandmother who has passed away since then. We love it and is such a cherished item now.

3) The very back pillows have pillow cases I made just for decoration to match this ensemble.

4) very top right corner is a page I was published in a magazine, we have a turtle so i choose that particular one to display. You can see the entire shelf of magazines, two shelves from teh top that has all the magazines I have been published in.

5) Below that shelf is framed photos of both Chris and I from when we were toddlers.

6) very top of the bookcase by the published magazine is where we keep our cherished childhood bears. in this picture you can see my bear gigi that i have had since I was born. you can also see the cabbage patch doll that Chris bought me for our 5 year dating anniversary. I had never gotten one as a child and so Chris bought me one :) Chris has a few things up there too, they are just cut off by the photo edge.

7) Right next to that is a TINY purple turtle, you can barely see it, but its an inside joke between three friends of mine from high school. I wont go into the joke, but I still have mine and its put up there :)

8) Top shelf is where we keep all our religious materials, bibles, biblical books, study guides, etc

9) On that same shelf are pooh letter figurines that are "A" and "J", that is my nickname that my dad calls me. In fact if he calls me Angela is WAY too weird!

10) bottom two shelves are just random books that are not arranged nicely! LOL!

11) on the other side of the room you can see the bed brett slept in for the first 5 months that was purchase by above mentioned maid of honor :) seriously was a life saver, he LOVED that thing!

12) On the right side of the bed is Chris' nightstand. You can see a tiny little carmax jar. yup he cant go to bed without putting it on his lips! he also has a glass of water every night before bed, thus the big cup. and then his alarm clock cell phone and change are also there.

13) My night stand on the other side, has the lamp that use to be in our living room at our old place and the phone that i just love and then one of those giant remotes. I bought it for chris for christmas because i got tired of him always saying he cant find the remote. well the darn thing wont work with our tv, it will turn it on and off and change the volume, but only half the numbers work and the channel up and down doesnt so it just sits there :)

and Last: Our bed, we bought it October 2001, about 3 months after getting married on one of those 15 months no interest deals :)

So what can you not see in the photo?

*On the right side is where our pet turtle tommy is, the only funny story there is that Chris broke his tank when we moved into this house so its a nice new tank

*On the left side is where the rocking chair my mom used with me and gave me when brett was born

*also on teh left side is a wooden box that chris made me in 9th grade wood shop and gave to me for our first valentines day back in 1995 :)

*behind the camera is where our dresser with TV is. no story there :)

So this is our bedroom, for some reason when I posted this photo last week I just thought it was filled with "fun info" :)

I got a 40D!!!

I GOT A 40D last week!!! Yippea! i have been wanting this camera since Christmas and finally saved enough money for it. Cant wait to learn and use it.

So I thought I would write about all my cameras....

Here they all are [well actually there are still some missing - I have another minolta, another APS and a resusable underwater camera that I forgot to add this this picture, and then of course my moms digital that I use for all the videos you see on Brett's blog, but that is what I am using to take this photo :)].

Starting from the right you have my first "expensive" camera. Its an APS camera that I got from my parents for Christmas 1997. I dropped it and it broke. So I replaced it with a black APS camera which I no longer have, but used from September 1998 - November 2004.

The old minolta - we actually have two of these. The first one is my husband's fathers that hubby took wtih him when we got married in July 2001 and then in the Fall of 2002 I bought one off ebay, so for important photos I used this camera from July 2001-November 2004. Its fully manual, no auto setting of any kind and is how i learned about photography.

In November 2003 I bought that Vivatar digital camera. its a crappy digital, but my first digital camera. It can take some decent images actually but only outside in good light.

November 2004 is important because that is when I bought my first automatically SLR camera. The Canon Eos G2. I stopped using all other cameras at this point.

And my photography improved greatly. BUT then in August 2005 I got my Digital Rebel XT and that is what I have been using ever since, well ever since TODAY (I didnt use the camera over the 4th weekend)! And my photography took off once I had a Digital SLR camera. and now that I have a this even better prolike digital SLR rather then the amateur one, I cant wait to see where I will go from here.

Here I am with my stash :)

Fireworks!

Happy fourth!

We had fantastic seats at Celebration park to watch the fireworks last night. I am still looking over all the photos I took and will post some final photos later this week. But thought I would post two that I liked while I am going thru them.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday weekend!

LIGHTNING!!!

This is the 2nd night this week we got lightning! This time I was actually able to capture it. Nothing too fancy, I dont have anything out back of my house that would make a cool lightning shot :)

SPECIALS!!!!!

I am taking an additional 10% off my print prices and an additional 20% off enlargement prices!

40% off Storyboard prices!

BUT you must order by midnight July 2nd, so its short notice, but its a great deal if you would like to order some prints!

email me if you are interested: angelamarvelphotography@gmail.com

THEN
Extra July discount special:
You can order an 8x10 Digital File of a storyboard: $10
You would be able to print as many copies as you like and would be delivered to you on a CD.
Can order this storyboard special at any time during the month of July.
For examples of storyboards, go to this link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24418640@N05/sets/72157604063907247/show/