Ashley S., Class of 2011 || Casa Roble Orangevale Senior Photographer

Words cannot express how much I loved shooting with this girl. This was my last shoot while I was living in Monterey. I did her Senior Ball Pictures last month, and her mom liked them so much that she called me for a semi-impromptu senior portrait session, and they came all the way from Orangevale out to Monterey for a freakin' amazing shoot! 


Ashley and her mom were just so much fun. They are the kind of people that I feel like I could totally hang out with any time and have fun with. We went all over the place on this portrait session. We started in downtown Carmel, where we found some fabulous shopping and gorgeous flowers. We sat down at a cute little cafe and had sandwiches and pastries for lunch. We watched some old guys play chess and talked about Ashley's senior project (hot yoga! Yowza!). Some European women pointed and laughed at me as I rolled around on the ground to get different angles with my camera. If they thought I looked funny now, they should have seen me doing the same thing when I was six months pregnant!

Then we headed down to Garapatta State Park for these beautiful, rural shots that we got of her in her prom dress. She was such a good sport when I was making her walk through all the pokey thistles in sandals to get to just the right patch of tall grass and weeds. 

And here comes my favorite part of the whole dang shoot. That's right, folks. She wore her prom dress IN THE OCEAN! Now THAT is how you get your money's worth out of your $300 prom dress.

Ooooooooh, I shall miss Monterey!

Morgan Werner Photography is BACK in SACRAMENTO! || Sacramento Senior Photographer

I am SO happy to be back in Sacramento! This wasn't something we were planning, but my husband, Brett, had a fantastic job opportunity that he just couldn't pass up, so we're back! We'll miss our friends and the beach in Monterey, but it feels so good, so right, to be back here in Sacramento. The funny thing was that while we were living in Monterey, I only had a small handful of local clients. Most of what you see on my blog, website, and Facebook is from my Sacramento network of clients. I tried so hard in Monterey, but I just couldn't generate business there if my life depended on it. But here, in the City of Trees (you have no idea how much I got tired of Monterey pines and cypress trees), I have all my family and long-time friends. I have unlimited networking opportunities here so I'm planning to make my business go big this year.

I have so many ideas that I want to try here and I am ready to dive into the high school community head first! I'm SOOOO excited to go to practically ALL my brothers' football games! I've got a brother on JV at Casa Roble and a brother at American River College. Football season shall be rich this year! I'm going to get Bobo a shirt or onesie with each of my brothers' jersey numbers on them. He's gonna be so cute!

I have so much marketing and planning to do. I have my 2012 Senior Spokesmodels for Casa Roble already (even though they don't know yet... hehe... I guess I should email them, huh? Life gets crazy when you decide to move in a week), but now I will be actively looking for Senior Spokesmodels at all the schools in the area: Folsom High School, Granite Bay High School, Bella Vista High School, Rocklin High School, Oakmont High School, Foothills High School, Oak Ridge High School, Vista Del Lago High School, Woodcreek High School, Del Campo High School, Del Oro High School, Rio Americano High School, and El Camino High School. Did I forget anyone? Well if I did, I want Spokesmodels at those schools too! Ok ok ok... I'll stop plugging my 2012 Senior Spokesmodel program... hehe...

Tomorrow, I get to show you Ashley...

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Coming to Casa Roble's Senior Ball! || Orangevale, Folsom Senior Photographer

PROM 2011

THIS SATURDAY!

I decided kinda last minute to make a quick trip up to Sacramento for Casa Roble High School's Senior Ball since my big/little brother, Houston, is going with a totally darling date. I can't miss that! This is going to be so fun.

After doing this last year with nine couples, I've simplified the process and ironed out the kinks. This year there will be no appointment necessary - we'll take your pictures on a first come, first serve basis. Just come when you're ready for pictures and we'll take you as you arrive! Here are all the particulars:

$50 per couple

5 poses on a disc

(you can print them anywhere you want)

And that's it!

No confusion, no decisions to make, no fluff.

And you'll have the best prom pictures in the whole school.

We'll be meeting in Old Folsom, starting at 4 pm, the exact location to be announced. I'm going to find the location on Saturday morning after I get to the area. I'll be looking for somewhere with lots of texture and nice light, and minimal crowds. Once I figure out exactly where we'll be, I'll send out a text message to a few of the people who's phone numbers I have and they'll spread it around. If you aren't part of Houston or Katie's group, send me an email (morgan@morganwerner.com) or message me on Facebook to let me know you're coming so that I can make sure you know where we're meeting.

Aaaaaaaanyway, I'll see you on Saturday afternoon!

How to get free senior portraits! | Monterey Carmel Sacramento Senior Photographer

Are you...

sassy

bold

adventurous

trendy

trend-setting

outgoing

witty

confident

graduating in 2012

?

We’re looking for our 2012 Senior Spokesmodels!

These are the perks:

• A FREE senior portrait session
• Rep cards to pass out to your friends to direct them to your own mini-website to showcase all your fabulous photos
• Free Facebook images
• $75 credit to get you started on your print order

How it works:

Use Facebook, your mini-website, and your rep cards to tell your friends all about Morgan Werner Photography so that they can have senior portraits as awesome as yours! The catch is that at least three of your friends must book their senior portraits with us by October, 2011, or the $200 session fee will be due. BUT – for every friend of yours who books with me, I’ll give you $20!

We'd like to find at least two spokesmodels in the Monterey Bay area and two in the Sacramento area. We will be accepting applications until June 30.

Click HERE to apply...

Alyssa | Lincoln, Monterey, Carmel Senior Photographer

Alyssa is a friend of my brother's, and I was tickled to death when she asked me to help her update her modeling portfolio. She was such a sweetheart. We had so much fun exploring old Lincoln and making friends with some bikers! Hopefully we'll get some Alyssa sightings in commercials soon!

I'm baaaaack!

I'm back from maternity leave (but still at the mercy of Bobo) and better than ever! I'm ready to shoot, and my calendar for this spring is pretty open still. Contact me soon for your senior portraits, engagement session, or wedding day!

Posts without pictures are dumb. Here's a cute one of Bobo for your viewing pleasure, compliments of Susanne Ashby Photography. (I know, I know, he's the cutest baby you've ever seen. Tell me something I don't hear every day. ;-P )

Lauren || Monterey Senior Photographer

I freakin LOVE this chick! She has such a perfect mix of sass and class. Lauren is one of my favorite girls at church (I have about 20 favorite girls, since I used to be a leader in our Young Women group), so I was THRILLED when she asked me to do her senior portraits!

We started out with an edgy, grungy warehouse in Fort Ord in Marina.





Then, we headed to Carmel-by-the-Sea for these gorgeous villiage shots. Carmel is such a fun place to shoot in because every time I go there, I find another awesome nook or cranny for taking pictures. I've lived here in the Monterey Bay for over two years now, and can you believe that I JUST recently discovered the Anthropologie store right in Carmel Plaza? Think of all the shopping I could have been doing over the past couple years! (My husband, Brett, is probably wishing I still didn't know about that store... it's not exactly a bargain store...) Trouble, I'm tellin' ya.





To finish off the session, we went to Carmel Highlands for this awesome, rural spot. I love old stuff. I love texture and overgrowth. And check out the sky we scored with! I rarely get awesome skies on my shooting days, so this sky with the awesome clouds was so fun to give my polarizing filter a little exercise on. And then, the wind started blowing, bringing out Lauren's supermodel persona.





Gawgeous, darling! Good luck with the rest of your senior year! Love ya!