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    Hi my name is Schona, I am an on location custom portrait photographer for Longview (WA) & Kelso Washington including the surrounding areas. I specialize in High School Seniors, Engagements, Weddings and Boudoir. Here on my blog you will find my most recent work, specials and personal stuff like pictures of my friends and family and whatever else I can dig up.

    I love being in front of the camera just as much as being behind it so enjoy my ever changing Bio pics. :) I hope you get to know me a little bit more with each visit.


    A little info on Me:

    I love Jesus-I love My hubby-I adore my kids-I enjoy my job-I prefer natural light-I am a tea drinker-I watch musicals-I like spending time with my friends-I am into drawing-I scrapbook-I sing karaoke-I love music-I love to take self portraits-I am goofy-I am ticklish-I drive a Ford-I really enjoy meeting new people-I use Professional Canon gear

    Call me at 360-957-5918 or email me at schonakesslerphotography@yahoo.com

    I look forward to hearing from you soon.


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I Heart Faces – Jump for Joy – Week 10 Photography Challenge

March 9, 2010 As Seen In Castle Rock Senior Photographer~ Kelso WA Photographer~ Personal~ seniors

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So here we are at week 10 already. I am loving finding photos to fit the weekly theme over at the  I heart Faces blog. Sometimes I re-edit the challege photo and sometimes I leave it how it is in my archives. This one I left alone and didn’t do any changes to it. This is one of my Senior girls from last year. We did her senior portrait session in Downtown Longview,WA and on the outskirts at Willow Grove. We had a bunch of fun and I was proud to show her and her mom her awesome photos afterwards.

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If you want to see more amazing photos for this challenge click on the camera icon above to go to the blog. Comments are always welcome below.

 Thanks for looking!

 

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Castle Rock, Washington (WA) Seniors and Food! – Info for locals

March 9, 2010 As Seen In Castle Rock Senior Photographer~ Kelso WA Photographer~ Personal~ longview wa photographer~ news~ seniors

I am currently looking for a Castle Rock High School Senior to be my 2010 Senior Rep. If you know a Senior who hasn’t gotten their Senior Portraits done yet send them my way! They will get major discounts and free stuff if they are picked to be my Castle Rock Senior Rep.   Have them send me an email to schonakesslerphotography@yahoo.com if they are interested! Or they can call me at 957-5918.

So I was dropping my soon to be seven year old off at school today in Castle Rock, WA and decided to take a quick peak at the little shops in their downtown area. I always want to drive slow past them but someone always comes out of nowhere and is behind me….well today the same thing happened again and I decided to pull over to look. I stopped in front of an empty space but right next to it I saw this little cafe. On the sidewalk sign I saw the words Potato soup and I knew I had to go and check it out.:). So I walked into Lacey Rha’s Cafe at 32 Cowlitz St. W. Castle Rock. Right away I notcied the sign that said there was Free Wi-Fi available to their valued customers and I had wished I had my laptop with me. I walked to the counter and ordered a bowl of potato soup and while waiting I looked at all of the great photos on the wall from the Castle Rock area back in the early 1900’s. It’s so neat to see how things were back then…I just wish more people had smiles for the camera. lol. Well I enjoyed my soup and it was gone before I knew it…I ordered a Strawberry Kiwi Italian Cream Soda and was on my way. I did pick up a takeout menu and everything looks so delicious. I will surely be making my way back down there soon! *Note to self bring laptop.

I could imagine this would be a great place to hang out with friends and to get away for a bit. With the free wi-fi you can have lunch and do some work or some play.:)

So here is the address again in case you want to go check it out!

Lacey Rha’s Cafe

 32 Cowlitz St. W. Castle Rock

The hours are Monday – Saturday 8am – 5pm

Phone is 360-274-5360

If you go in there tell them I sent you!

 

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Kiarra – Mark Morris 2010 Senior

March 7, 2010 As Seen In longview wa photographer~ portraits~ seniors

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Kiarra and her mom for her class of 2010 senior portrait session. We met up at Bob’s in downtown Longview,WA since it’s a great place in the middle of the downtown area. We totally lucked out with the goregous weather today…I didn’t even need my sweater and that is major because I am always cold.:)

Kiarra is planning on going to college locally at LCC for two years and I am betting her mom is glad she will be close. We walked around downtown for her portrait session and then we went down to the banks of the river and the old Kelso Waterstation to get some more great photographs. I really enjoyed my time and hope Kiarra and her mom did too.

So here is the preview I promised…I love doing Senior Portraits because they love funky processing that makes the photos really stand out. Hope you like them feel free to leave a comment for Kiarra below the photos. Thanks.

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Barlow Girl in Concert – Vancouver Washington Band Photographer

March 6, 2010 As Seen In longview wa photographer

So here is Barlow Girl!

I have always wanted to see Barlow Girl in concert so I jumped at the chance last week while they were only an hour away down in Vancouver which just happens to be my hometown. They were awesome in concert and did not disappoint. I just wish it lasted longer…any my camera battery too! lol

 I listen to Way FM on 90.3 FM and love to hear when cool bands and artists are making their way to the Pacific Northwest. I really enjoy photographing the bands while I am there listening…but I guess that’s what a lot of photographers do. My camera is pretty much connected to me 24/7. lol. To read more about the night go down to my first post on the concert to get the 411.:)Enjoy the photos because I sure enjoyed the show!

 

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Stellar Kart in Concert – Vancouver, WA Musician Photographer

March 5, 2010 As Seen In Personal~ longview wa photographer

Sunday the 27th was a busy day for me but full of fun. I started the day with the “B” family which in all reality turned out to be the “R & B” family since the couple don’t share the same last name. (She must have liked hers more lol) As you can see in the post 2 below this one we went to Clatskanie, OR for their family session. Well Clatskanie is about a 20 minute drive from my house then we went to the little beach on the Columbia river across from Willow Grove in Longview,WA to end the session.

 I had planned on going to this big concert that night but didn’t get a sitter for my kids till that day so it was all very quickly figured out what we were going to do. I rushed to Longview and got us food from Burger King and my hubby met me at Safeway in Kelso, WA to carpool down to Vancouver for the concert. It was all so unorganized I didn’t even know where the church was that we were driving to.:)I called my friend and fellow photographer Amanda when we hit Vancouver and she quickly googled the church and got us directions. Thanks Amanda! Well we were going to see Vota, Stellar Kart and Barlow Girl but because we were about 40 minutes late we missed Vota so that was a bummer. We did get there apparently right after Stellar Kart hit the stage and we went up to the balcony for a better view. I was so glad to have borrowed the 70-200 2.8 L lens from my brother for the concert and it worked out perfectly.

Unfortunately I went to start taking pictures of Stellar Kart and noticed my battery was blinking red. Oh no I thought how can this be? I have NEVER ran out of battery power…not even through 6 hour weddings. Well I remembered that batteries drain much faster when out in the cold and since I was out in the 60 degree weather the 3 hours before, that is what caused it. I was so bummed…I only snapped like 7 pics of Stellar Kart because I wanted to save some juice for Barlow Girl. Stellar Kart was awesome and I had wished I had my 7 year old with me because they sing her favorite song: You got me and Jesus.

Well here is one photo of the Band. Hope you enjoy it! Barlow Girl pictures to follow. Thanks for reading!

 

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