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About Amy Schuff Photography

Welcome to my photoblog! Here is the place where I share the things I love, the pictures I take and the many things that swirl around my head all day! This blog chronicles my life, my endeavors as Amy Schuff Photography and the trials, joys and laughter that happens around me every day. I love my family and my home, people are constantly buzzing in and out, it is (very!) loud and I adore the light that pours into our beloved sunroom. Thank you for stopping by, I hope you feel the Light while you are here.

Archive: June, 2010



So happy for her…
♥ Sacramento wedding & engagement photographer

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

My baby cousin got married (see her engagement photos here!)

Well…she isn’t a baby…she is a beautiful, smart, opera singer! She choose the greatest guy and their wedding was a perfect example of their personalities. They had a photo booth, individual cakes on each table, lots of flowers and lots of family! I didn’t photograph their wedding, but of course I brought my camera! My two little girls were a part of the flower girl crew :) They were little princesses! I took way too many photos of princess Liliana…she melted my heart!

Until the photographer has his photos ready for her, here’s a preview of Kristin’s special day.

One of my favorite shots ever! Kristin had an eyelash emergency and big sister went to the rescue…as dad looks on in total and utter amazement!

Congratulations Kristin & Garrett! We love you two!

Are you an engaged couple, a couple in love or a family just crazy about being family?

Book an Impress Photo Session to be held on July 10th!

Also, if you are interested in Amy Schuff capturing your wedding, please contact me for full rates and details.

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From start to finish…
♥ Sacramento engagement and wedding photographer

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

I met up with Rosie & Brad early this morning in Old Sacramento.  The light this morning in Old Sac was just amazing, it was quiet and it felt like we had the whole western town to ourselves.

Rosie & Brad are getting married in September at the beautiful Richardson Springs, in Chico. I’ll be photographing their wedding and I am very excited about it! They are friends of ours from when we lived in Chico a few years ago, Rosie traveled to Guatemala the same time we did and babysat our kids (before we had Lily!) so we could go on dates in Antigua.

I love how Rosie & Brad are just starting out their life together and yet they look so comfortable, so at ease with each other. You could see how Brad will take care of her, how much he values her, and how she already looks at him with respect and as the head of their household. This couple is in love, so beautiful, so sweet and caring of each other and I couldn’t wait to share these photos with you…

This is literally one of the very first photos I took of them….

And this is the very last….

Are you an engaged couple, a couple in love or a family just crazy about being family?

Book an Impress Photo Session to be held on July 10th!

Also, if you are interested in Amy Schuff capturing your wedding, please contact me for full rates and details.

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Impress Photo Sessions…
♥ Sacramento family & child photographer

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

I am so excited to announce a brand new development for Amy Schuff Photography.

Sessions will now be split into two separate kinds of experiences. I now offer either Classic Photo Sessions or Impress Photo Sessions. A Classic is a normal, full Amy Schuff Photography experience that I have been happily offering and enjoying for the past few years.

Impress Photo Sessions are a flat fee, no hassle, fun, stress free, mini session.

The main difference between Impress and Classic is that the images on your Impress Session CD are not fully retouched.

Here are some examples of Digital Negatives and Fully Retouched Photographs:

Dates for Impress Photo Sessions are once a month and determined when and where, by me, before hand. Each session will be about 30-45 minutes long. My goal is to take as many photographs of you as possible in our time together. After the session, I’ll delete blurry photos or any with closed eyes, but then you get the rest! You’ll receive at least 20 images, usually many, many more.

Impress photo session are for:

  • Families of 4 members or less (larger families please contact me.)
  • Engaged couples
  • Couples in love
  • Pets
  • 1st birthday, 16th birthday or a milestone
  • Siblings
  • Picture of the Grandkids
  • Christmas card photo
  • Photographers always behind the lens
  • or maybe you haven’t had family photos taken in years!

There are so many more reasons to take part in an Impress photo session. You decide!

About two weeks after our Impress session you’ll receive a CD with your images, then you can feel free to print them when and were you choose! I will provide a digital negative printing kit to help guide you in the absolute best way to print your photos.

As an extra bonus, all Impress Photo Session clients will receive an 8×10 of their favorite photo, fully retouched. This is in addition to a CD of at least 20 digital files.


I am offering the first Impress Photo Session at an introductory price of only $199. This is over half off what future Impress sessions will be priced at! I encourage you, if you desire professional photographs, do not miss out on this first Impress session date. I promise you, this will sell out extremely quick!

The first Impress photo session will be on Saturday, July 10th! The introductory price of $199 is reserved for the first Impress photo session date only. After July 10th, Impress photo sessions will be priced at $450 (which is still a significant savings over a Classic Session.)

For this first Impress date, we will be hanging out in Old Sacramento, one of my favorite places to be! Old Sacramento is full of great buildings, textures and even some grassy areas. It is safe for little ones and still fun and funky for an edgy couple.

To take advantage of the best light in Old Sacramento and because it is getting HOT here in Sacramento, these are the available Impress Photo Session times:

8am
8:45am
9:30am
10:15am
5pm
5:45pm
6:30pm
7:15pm  Booked!

Follow this link to reserve an Impress Photo Session!

Can you tell I am excited about this? I really hope those of you who have wanted to book a session with me, but were unable to do so for some reason or another can take advantage of this. If you know me at all, you know that my HEART is for families to have professional photographs of themselves, their kids, their memories…hanging everywhere in their homes. That is what I want for you…

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MWAC….
♥ Sacramento photography workshop

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

MWAC = Mom With A Camera

That is pretty much all I am…a mom with a camera. My camera might have a few more settings than yours, but that doesn’t matter one tiny bit. I love my kids. I love photography. I love making memories. Therefore…I’m a MWAC.

I’ve been getting a lot of questions and comments from other MWAC’s regarding their cameras and just wanting to learn more. I wish I could magically impart all the knowledge I have about using my camera just straight into your brain! I am not professionally trained, so I know there is soooo much that I have to learn about photography. But for now, I’m ok with the pictures I present and every day I am trying to better myself and learn more. I want to learn…that makes my heart fully connected with yours.

I have been tossing around the idea of giving a day or weekend workshop, just for MWAC’s like me who just want to take better pictures with their cameras. I’ve been talking with a friend about maybe collaborating with me. All of us at the workshop could just talk and talk and use each other as models and serve a nice lunch…maybe go out for coffee afterwards and keep talking about what we want in life and how we want to grow as moms and as photographers.

If this is something that you would be interested in, please email me at amy@amyschuffphotography.com. I would love to hear your feedback. What would you like to learn? What topics would you like covered? This workshop would be geared towards the beginning to intermediate photographer, so what tidbits would you want to know that at the end of our time together, you felt like you could take better photos of your kids?

So contact me through this link or send me an email, you can also contact me through my facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/amyschuffphotography

I look forward to hearing your comments! I think if we had enough interest we maybe could plan a workshop for this winter?? Let’s see :)

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Happy Father’s Day…

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

I am blessed to have this man as the father of my kids. There is so much I appreciate about my husband, absolutely #1 on the list that he is an

amazing,
loving,
gentle father.
He’s slow to anger,
abundant in praise,
generous with his hugs.

He is not spiteful,
never attacking with his words,
and he is constantly looking for the Lord’s will for our family.

He loves to worship and bring glory to God and not himself. I’m happy to be able to praise on him a little bit because he never praises himself.

He is not a perfect man…but he’s perfect for us.

Happy Father’s Day Jeremy.

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Camping Compromise…
♥ Sacramento child & family photographer

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Tidbit #345 about Amy… I do not prefer to camp. I apologize to all the hard core campers out there (my in laws!) but its not for me. We were supposed to go camping at Lake Tahoe this week but the kids got the flu, and it was going to be like…70 million degrees below zero out there (no exaggeration!) and another thing I don’t do is cold weather. To be fair though, Jeremy, Lily & I were going to spend the night at his Aunts house and the older kids were going to camp…so I guess I wasn’t going to go camping at all.

But because my in laws love me so much, that was their compromise for me. They love me enough to not ask me to sleep outside in a tent with bugs, dirt and bugs. I know I can’t avoid camping for the rest of my life though, my husband loves it and so do my kids. I will have to take that plunge…and I will…because I love them and want to do what they love.

Compromise…that dreaded word that has slowly picked and pulled every square inch of my body. One leg stretched to the left, one arm so far out I think it might snap. Compromise…that as a baby 20 year old pulled me away from my family and drove me across the country to make a life among strangers. It pulled me again and again until the life I thought I was compromising…didn’t appeal to me anymore. I didn’t have to compromise anything…this is where I wanted to be.

Psalm 37:4 “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” He desires to give us what our hearts desire…and listen closely…if we hang on to every word He says…our desires will strangely and wonderfully match up with His. Suddenly there is no compromising…or else it doesn’t feel that way. I love Him. He loves me. He loves to Camp. I Love to Camp. Or something like that…. :) (Hey! Jesus camped all the time right?? )

This was a couple weeks ago when we met up with the Grandparents for a fun BBQ at their campsite out at Folsom Lake. It was the weekend of my birthday and Mom made me a carrot cake…oh my goodness I wish I would have taken a picture of that! I had it for breakfast the next day.

Apparently they had questions…

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Summer Newsletter…
♥ Sacramento family and child photographer

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Tomorrow I’m sending out my very first Amy Schuff Photography Newsletter. The reason for sending out a newsletter, is that I offer special deals and promotions to all newsletter recipients before I announce them on my blog!

In this newsletter, I’m announcing my brand new mini sessions called “Impress Photo Sessions”! I’ve wanted to offer mini sessions for so long now to meet a need among Sacramento families. Well now I am…and I could not be more excited!

Follow this link to sign up for the newsletter! It is going out tomorrow!!

My sweet baby…she’s so happy about the Impress Photo Sessions…(HA!!) This is the first smile I got out of her all day, the flu has been going around our house!

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Email Issues…

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

I’m having big email/server issues! If you have emailed me in the past 72 hours and have not received a response, please do me a favor and email me again. I apologize for the inconvenience…and for not returning your emails like a considerate person usually does…it’s not my fault…or maybe it is…either way…email me again :)

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Awards…
♥ Sacramento child photographer

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

My big girl is now a 2nd grader. She cried huge alligator tears about not seeing her friends over the summer. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that she may never see some of those friends again if they choose to enroll in a different school. Life is full of rollercoasters and emotional trials…seeing those wet drops flow down her face was more than I could handle. Her award at school was specifically for her “huge personality”. Yes…that’s my girl. Other children got achievement awards, leadership awards or most improved…my girl got the personality award. I sincerely could not be prouder.

It made me think…what award do I feel I would get? Transported back into the 1st grade, I probably would have gotten the “most shy” or the “longest hair” or something like that :) Now…as I sit, learning life lessons from the Ultimate Teacher….what do I feel I deserve?

Some days I feel I don’t deserve any awards, at least not good ones. Maybe the worst mother award, or the lamest cook or the award for going the longest without washing her hair. Could you imagine? A sweet Kindergarten teacher handing out the “worst listener” award to one of her innocent, gentle spirited students. Unthinkable… Yet I (we) have no problem accepting imaginary awards for terrible things that we do. In reality, I am still that small, shy, super long haired, brown eyed little girl….looking for the attention of a job well done.

In the eyes of my Father I am that little girl…

The award goes to Amy for:

loving her kids so much it hurts

doing the best she can to meet the needs of her husband

nursing her vomity son back to health with super hugs and wet washcloths

being a child of God

being absolutely nothing

being Amy

Because in reality…I don’t deserve any awards. None. Not one. But because of what He did for me a bazillion years ago…I get to reap the benefits of His job well done.

Fill in the blank….the award goes to (state your name) for being (state your name).

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Complete…
♥ Sacramento birth & newborn photographer

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

One fun, energetic big sis + one gentle, sweet little sis + one brand new, precious baby brother = a family perfectly and utterly complete.

I felt so honored to be able to capture their amazing life changing day.

{If you desire to have your birth experience captured, please follow this link for more information.}

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