Andaleeb Lilley Photography

Seasonal photography offers

It's been a busy few weeks with a schools shoot, some more family shoots and lots of orders being processed.  The schools shoot was a lot of fun and we did all the individual shots of the children in a forest close to the school.  I now know which 11 year old boy has a girlfriend (ssshh..) and the fact that my brother was obsessed with Star Wars when we were younger certainly helped me with the 6 year olds! My favourite from the shoot was the unconventional group shot of the whole school when they were all told to tickle the person sitting next to them - I think the teachers enjoyed that one more than the children... 

It'll be a short post from me this time round due to deadlines so I am going to share a slideshow I produced recently for a family - until March 2011, a slideshow of your shoot is included in the shoot fee but after that date it will be a separate product on it's own or available with the purchase of a chunky canvas.  

http://video214.com/play/lZ3ty0AgmTE0Qn5YNjqE3Q/s/dark

... and I also wanted to let you know about several seasonal offers I have on at the moment... 

Snow Shoot Bookings... if you book a shoot in the snow with me this season, you will receive a complimentary acrylic desk top frame (15 x 20) which includes two images.  These make lovely gifts for offices and are worth CHF 195.  A  2-hour snowy portrait shoot costs CHF 250. 

Valentine's Couple Shoot ... this is a lovely gift experience for a couple where I join them for a "date" (don't worry, I keep out of the way...) We have a lot of fun on the 2 hour shoot and start off in a cafe, then do some window shopping, stop in the old town taking in some grafitti and go down to the lake. These shoots can take place anywhere which is special to you as a couple and there is no age limit! If you book a Valentine's shoot with me, you will receive a complimentary 60 x 40 aluminium-mounted print (worth CHF 225).  I am hoping to blog a couple's shoot I did recently so watch this space... 

Finally... February is of the course the month of love... and what better way to spoil yourself or your partner than with a boudoir shoot at the City Garden in Zug... these shoots are a pamper once-in-a-lifetime shoot experience.  The shoot involves champagne, your very own make up and hair stylist and a 2 hour shoot (you bring your own dresses and underwear).  At the end you leave with a gift bag and a date for an appointment to view the images at my studio.  Each shoot includes a slideshow of images to keep after the shoot.   These shoots take place on Saturdays at the City Garden and are CHF 900 but I am offering you this very special experience until the end of January for CHF 695.  Another blog post from a shoot to follow here too... 

 

Family Shoot with the Hazizas, Villette in Cham

I have been working on client orders all week and have several viewings coming up over the next month. ... and just a reminder on Christmas deadlines - all orders have to be with me by Friday 26th November to guarantee a Christmas delivery.  

I still have some slots for my one hour Christmas shoots (popular with clients who want images for christmas cards). These are one hour shoots in Zug with edited and processed images uploaded on an online gallery for selection purposes and three high resolution images are included in the fee of CHF 300. 

I will be giving a talk and presentation at a parents and teachers coffee morning at ISOCS (the International School of Central Switzerland) this week as well as meeting with the Development Office team at ISZL (International School of Zug and Luzern).  

I am going to leave with you some images from a shoot with a lovely French Canadian family in August. The Hazizas won a portrait shoot at the IMKC's Christmas party last year and we luckily scheduled the shoot on a sunny and warm day at Villette, taking some balloons down to the lake.  

 

I love this one of Sarah in black and white... as well as the one below! 

 

 

WWF 6th Sponsored Run Event Photos / WWF 6. Sponsorenlauf Event-Fotos

I have "adopted" the WWF (World Wildlife Federation) this year as the charity I follow and photograph for when needed, in particular the Central Switzerland section of the charity.

The sponsored run which took place at the Herti sports ground on 16 September was the second event I had photographed for WWF Schweiz. The first was their stand at the "O Sole Bio" market on a hot day in August in Zug when they were amongst other things, selling wooden bee hives - see link here if you would like to buy one for your garden. 

The sponsored run was to raise funds and awareness for the kingfisher and part of the proceeds will be used to support their habitat in Zug.  Several local schools joined in to run for the charity in the afternoon and adults and families took part in the evening.  Famous triathlete Brigitte McMahon was on hand to motivate her peers but couldn't take part in the planned warm-up due to injury.  The sponsored run was a huge success and to date has raised over CHF 27,000 for WWF Zug. 

More information on their events (in German) can be found at WWF Zug. 

I have attached some images from the event below and many more can be found at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/106724137614493837141/WWFSponsorenlaufSeptember2010# 

The warm-up for the schools begins... 

 

Bands were used to keep track of the laps covered 

The adults and families were on good form later that evening...

The big panda got jumped on a lot after the race... 

This family had made kingfisher T-shirts especially for the race.

Brigitte McMahon was there to cheer on the families and adults but had to sit out due to injury.

Re-elected Rupan Sivaganesan from the Green Party was on hand collecting signatures for a petition and there were several councillors who took part in the sponsored run.  

Congratulations to everyone who took part and to the team and volunteers at WWF Zug. 

 

Back to School...

... or rather starting school as has our daughter Annelies - its been a month now since she started "Kindergarten" and her Swiss German is coming along rather nicely as is her "not-so-nice" vocabulary ... 

Below are some shots I took of her on her first day. There of two which are taken in our conservatory and are typical shots I would take when photographing individual children at schools and this is something I am now offering to schools and nurseries.  I offer four different shots of each child for parents to choose from and there are several print packages available.  If you run a school or nursery and would like to find out more about schools photography options, please contact me on info@andaleeblilley.ch or call 079 654 4115. 

... and just before the month is out, here is another shot of Annelies on the front cover of September's The New Stork Times - an English parenting magazine in Switzerland.  This was taken in what is fondly known as the Bunny Park in our household near Ealing in West London although I haven't spotted bunnies there in a long time - Annelies spent most of the summer honing her climbing skills with a nervous mum waiting to catch her below... 

Several family shoots coming up over the next blog posts so stay tuned :-) or subscribe on the left of the blog to receive any updates straight into your inbox. 

 

 

Complimentary shoot giveaway tonight at ZIBF

I will be at the Zug International Business Forum tonight and am giving away the raffle prize tonight - a complimentary portrait or corporate shoot so make sure you fill out your profile to get your name in the hat... and for those of you looking for my website, it's www.andaleeblilley.ch. 

... and I am of course hoping the weather improves rapidly as I have a family shoot in Cham tomorrow, a pregnancy shoot in Luzern on Saturday and a dogs shoot on Tuesday as well as group class photographs on Wed/Thurs at Stepping Stones in Baar. Now where are my running shoes... 

International School of Zug and Luzern Gala Images

I have had a week of corporate shoots for websites which has been a lot of fun, especially now the weather is so nice for shooting outdoors and I will be featuring images from some of these soon.   I wanted to remind you too that I will be exhibiting at the Expat Expo in Cham again this sunday so if you've always been interested in having a shoot, come along and have a chat and I can tell you more about how I work - details under: www.expat-expo.info

Today I wanted to post some images of the ISZL gala event I shot at the end of February.  I set up a studio setting for the formal shots of guests and before and after, I shot images of the event itself. It was a fun evening and I would like to thank the committee for their help on their night.  If you attended the gala and would like to book a shoot with me, don't forget I have pledged to donate 25 CHF to the Fund for Excellence for every shoot booked before the end of May 2010.  I am available for other corporate event photography so please do not hesitate to contact me to discuss.  I couldn't resist putting in a few of Meryl (hope she won't mind!) who became very attached to one of her friends... 

 

Some detail shots of the night... 

... the flowers by Alois Hermann

... various donated auction prizes 

 
       
 
 

... the atmosphere 

 

 
 

... the food at the Casino

 

... more atmospheric shots

 

and the Sprüngli dessert buffet...mmmm
    

ISZL Gala Update

The ISZL Gala Dinner Event was a huge success in Zug on Saturday night and welcomed over 200 guests through Casino's doors. I was there to capture the atmosphere of the event and to photograph guests in their black tie and ball dress finery.  For those of you who were at the event, the images will be up on the online gallery on FRIDAY at the very latest - if you need the password, just email me and I will send all the details to you. With Mother's Day just around the corner, these can make great gifts... I will also be posting up some of the event itself sometime this week as am now busy processing all the images.  

I would also like to let parents of ISZL know that I recently joined the Experience Card Programme at the school so please see the list for further details of the discount offered on my portrait shoots. 

It's a short blog post from me this week as I have a lot of images to get through and my comedy nights this week to prepare for, so enjoy the images online and the 5% discount on images purchased applies until Wednesday 10 March.