Nominate Your Loved One Contest

I want to wish the best of luck to everyone. Below are all the kids that were submitted by their loved ones for a chance to win $100 certificate to come in and have their portrait taken. Please vote the child you would like to see win and you would want to see more portraits of on my blog. Voting Ends on March 2nd, 2009. Winner will be announced March 3rd 2009. To make it more fun I will keep the results page open until February 28th, 09 then it will be hi dden for the last few days of the contest.

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Las Vegas WPPI Convention

I have been out of town at a photographers convention for about 4 days plus one day for sleeping at home and I am finally back today. Here are a couple of shots from Las Vegas. I got to learn new things of course I bought new things too and I cant wait to implement everything I learned. Check out my facebook profile to see all my adventures in Las Vegas.

A view from my hotel room at MGM Grand Hotel



Photo from the plane on the way back home. I stayed at the Green hotel :-) Yes this hotel is huge and I did LOTS of walking everywhere.

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Model Search is In the Full Swing

Click here to vote

Check out Jessica's portrait and vote for her she is 12 years old and she is just starting out with her modeling career. I think she has the most prettiest eyes. Vote for Jessica every vote counts.

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My Sons 4th Birthday

I finally made some time to go through and pick some pictures out for my sons slide show for his birthday that was back in December. We had two parties for him, this b-day party was the one on December 16th which was his actual birthday date. We had lots of fun playing and just enjoying the day.



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Baby Loves Disco February 2009

I had lots of fun at this February Baby Love Disco event. I was told that some of the 49'ers even made an appearance with their kids. There were about 400 people at this event. Lots of kids dancing and having fun.

To View the rest of the portraits from the night follow the instructions below:


1. Go to: http://greatfxportraits.com/photocart
2. Create an account - all you do is put your info in and set up a password
3. Log In
4. Find Your event the name is : "Baby Disco February 2009"
5. Click On It
6. Enter the event code for the library of portraits the event code is: 2009babylovesdisco

Indoor Session - Newark, Fremont, Bay Area Maternity Photographer

Early morning today I did a maternity session in the studio. This family was a lot of fun to work with. The mom let her son do hand prints on her belly with actual washable paint. That was lots of fun. Here are a few portraits from the session today.







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Indoor and Outdoor Session- Newark, Fremont, Bay Area Children Photographer

A couple days ago I did a session half in studio and the other half outside of the studio. Here are a couple of portraits from the session. :-)

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Announcing New Contest!

Who doesn’t love portraits?

Who doesn’t love free portraits?

Then you will love this contest!

Nominate someone you love for a Free Session. (Value $100)

To nominate someone, please e-mail me their photo to greatfxphotography@gmail.com Please include the child’s name and guardian phone number and e-mail. All contest entries will be posted on my blog and then I will have everyone vote on who you think should win the free session or who you want to see more portraits of on my blog. Contestants may be any age up to 18 years old.

You may submit entries from now until February 20th 2009. Voting will begin February 21st 2009 and go until March 1st 2009.

Winner will receive a free session with a $100 Gift Card for any products or prints from GreatFxPhotography.com Good Luck to Everyone.

Parents can nominate their own children. :-)


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Comcast 2009

Yesterday I photographed a Comcast party it was over at the Pleasanton Fairgrounds and this time I was told they seated about 1800 people. Check out the slide show of some of the images I did for them. Amos Productions did a great job with the lights and music. Earth Circus Productions did an amazing show for us all. Click here to view the slide show.

To View the rest of the portraits from the night follow the instructions below:


1. Go to: http://greatfxportraits.com/photocart
2. Create an account - all you do is put your info in and set up a password
3. Log In
4. Find Your event the name is : "Comcast 2009"
5. Click On It
6. Enter the event code for the library of portraits that was send out to you via e-mail by your party coordinator.

E-mail me at greatfxphotography@gmail.com if you did not receive your Event Code.


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More new props

I got in more new props check out some of these cool new blankets.



He loves his mommy look at that smile.


Looks so cozy this blanket is so soft.



He loves to kick his feet he was kicking away on this one.



I love this littel boys expression on this portrait. So cute!


Great New Background for 4th of July Portraits

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Boudoir Session- Newark, Fremont, Bay Area Boudoir Photographer

Yesterday I did a Boudoir Session. Chandra is doing these as a gift for her husband and she gave me permission to share a few portraits from the session with you guys. We did a lot of different outfits and different poses here in the studio. Here are a few that I know are OK to share for now.

8 week old Baby Girl

Check out a few portraits of this cute little girl. Se was very tired during the session so we got some cute yawns and some sleeping shots during this model session.

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Model Session for the Children Contest

Check out these fun portraits from a session I did a couple of days ago. This girl is super cute. I think she has what it takes to be a model. I love her face expressions. Good luck mom in picking out which one we are going to enter into the contest.

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Happy 1st Birthday Will- Bay Area, Newark, Fremont, Birthday Party Photographer

Yesterday I got to capture Wills's 1st birthday party. It was over at the Los Charros Restaurant in Mountain View . They had a balloon lady come and blow up balloons for all the kids and all the kids had a great time. Check out the slide show from Will's special day. Click here to view it.

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I finally got on facebook.com Here is my link to my profile.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Sylvia-Fife/1133491109

My Moms New Hair Cut

My mom spend 4 hours getting her hair re-colored, re-cut, conditioned basically she got the works done. So last night she came over to show me her new hair. I took a quick snapshot of her in the studio. Check out my moms new hair.

Cute Baby Girl - Bay Area, Union City, Newark, Fremont, newborn photographer

This little girl really let me do whatever I wanted. She was awake at first and was great at falling asleep. She let me do a few shots that normally with other baby's are a little challenging to do. Check out some fun new portraits I did of her a couple days ago with a new background I just got.

New Background and a Prop

Today I did a play session with this cute little boy. I got a few new things in and wanted to test them out. Thank you for letting me play. Here are a few portraits from today's session.



Got to love those expressions big brothers can make :-)


My Little Model for Today


Looking at mommy while I played with the light


I adjusted the colors on this one in post processing to give it a different look.


Big Smile

6 Month Portraits

I did a 6 month session of this little boy today. He is number 4 baby in this family and his mom was right when she told me he just doesn't stop smiling in front of the camera. Here are a few of my favorites from the session.








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Is your child America’s Cutest Kid?

Is your child America’s Cutest Kid?

I am participating in the National Charity Model Search to select “America’s Cutest Kid” and to raise funds for charity.

We’re looking for cute children ages 18 months to 14 years old to model for a portrait to be entered into the contest.

Models Search Special:
$75 entrance fee, which includes:

- 60 minute model session
- One Portrait Submitted to the National Gallery
- 8x12 Print of the Contest Entry
- Online Viewing Of all Portraits from the session

Finalists will be determined by online votes. Anyone may vote. Each vote is $1, and all proceeds from votes benefit the non-profit Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep. (NILMDTS.org)

Grand prize national winner will be determined from the 50 city finalists. Winners selected by photography and modeling industry experts.

If your child is selected the national winner, you’ll receive many prizes, including a $5,000 US Savings Bond and a Canon PowerShot G10 digital camera.

If you’re interested in entering your child(ren), please call me at 510-364-7737.

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