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Chasing Butterflies at The Herbfarm

Daria Schubert — Wed, 22 May 2013 00:05:04 +0000

I spent my afternoon chasing butterflies and flowers at The Herbfarm last week. What a delight for the senses! Amazing smells from the herbs and edible plants not to mention the lilac. But the most delightful part was watching a gorgeous swallowtail butterfly dine on the nectar from the beautiful lilac bushes. And the colors did not disappoint! The soft, light purple of the lilac perfectly complimented the pale, dusty yellow of the butterfly’s wings.

Want to see more? Go to my photosite.

Love it? Visit The Herbfarm next time you’re south of Woodinville. It’s between The Hollywood Hill School House and Chateau Ste. Michelle winery. The gardens are open to the public.

I spent a few hours soaking up the delicious sunshine while the flowers and fountains provided an extraordinary palette of colors for my lens.

Peacock Fancy

Daria Schubert — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:37:17 +0000

I recently started a new part-time job at Chateau Ste. Michelle winery in Woodinville. While the wines and people are wonderful, my favorite part is walking through the glorious grounds as I come to and from work. Besides all the fabulous flowers, there is one pretty peacock who has been elusive to me, until yesterday. My friends and I met at the winery on a day off and took photos of so many beautiful flowers and enjoyed the garden tour with Master Gardener, Ann Hunt. At the conclusion of the enlightening tour, we were greeted in the parking lot by none other than the famed peacock, Bugsy. I spent the next hour or two with my lens glued to him. What fun! I hope you enjoy taking in my images of him as much as did capturing them. What a sweet guy that Bugsy is. I also think I discovered how he came by the name. He loves to eat bugs, be it from the air, on the ground, in the the ground or off the grill of the nearest car.

Want to see more peacock photos from my afternoon with Bugsy? Go here!

Tulip Fiesta

Daria Schubert — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:53:40 +0000

My, oh my, what a wonderful day we had at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival! The weather was the best ever, sunny and temps in the 60s. None of the bracing wind that usually accompanies the blooming of the tulips just an occasional light breeze. Enjoy my daffodil and tulip captures below. These and more flower photos from the day are available as prints and cards on my photo site.

Want more? I have a bunch more fabulous flower photos from the Tulip Festival on my photo site. Available for purchase as wall art, notecards and everything in between. Enjoy!

Walls Full of My Flower Photos

Daria Schubert — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:25:45 +0000

Last night I hung my first show! My floral portraits look fantastic on the spring green walls of Kaffeeklatsch. I hope you can drop by during the next 5 weeks and see them. And please do come in on Wednesday, April 24th for my Artist’s Reception. I’d love to see you and show you my photos! Thank you to all my friends who have supported me in making the transition from a hobby to a career in photography.

Daria Schubert’s Spring Collection 2013 • Floral Portrait Show

See you on the 24th from 4-6pm in Lake City!

Great Year for Wild Hockey

Daria Schubert — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 02:29:42 +0000

My daughter has been playing hockey for the WWFHA Washington Wild for 7 years, growing every step of the way. I’ve been on the outside, but part of the team in a way too. I wasn’t involved at all the first few years but started doing brochures and a website for them several years ago. My passion for girls hockey has grown right along side my love of photography. This season I not only redid their website in WordPress, I also designed a new logo, one logo for all the teams and the association. It was such a thrill to document the tryouts with my photos, all the girls wearing the new jerseys with my logo and later see them in warm-ups and sweatshirts with the logo I designed for them. The girls excitement and enthusiasm is infectious! We had so much fun making a video this year.

As the season came to a close I created a few more pieces, business cards for all the board members and individualized 4″ photo cubes as a momento for all the girls on Jasmine’s team. How fun it was to see their faces as they opened them simultaneously as they discovered each one was different, customized with my best photos of them, alone, with their besties and all their teammates.

The icing on the cake was seeing my jerseys accompany the 19U Rep team to Nationals in San Jose this weekend. The Wild played great and did us proud, making it to the quarter finals with 2 shutouts to their credit. Let’s go Wild!

Click here to see their site I designed and maintain.

Making and keeping friends

Daria Schubert — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:05:19 +0000

Besides providing exercise, focus and cultivating determination, the greatest benefit of our daughter playing on a team is the friendships. That goes for her parents too! We all had another great weekend together; watching the girls play hockey, eating and enjoying each other’s company. And, I admit it, the photo opportunities abound!

Dog Days of Winter

Daria Schubert — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:28:49 +0000

I love dogs. And cats. And all animals, really. I had the opportunity to capture a few photos of the sweet dog, Mav (short for Maverick). We enjoyed a few lovely minutes of mutual appreciation. Hope you do too!

A Joyous Portrait Session

Daria Schubert — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:23:08 +0000

Joyce and I met on an island far, far away, geographically and chronologically. We met scuba diving off Roatan, a little island in the Caribbean off the coast of Honduras before my daughter was born. We quickly found out we lived only a few miles apart! Joyce has been “doing” my hair ever since. “Doing” has changed from cut to perm to cut and color. She’s always done a great job! And I’ve created her logos and business cards over the years. This week, she asked me to take a headshot of her. We had such a fun time parading around her salon trying out the lighting and posing opportunities. I’m happy to report, we made some great photos too! Mostly of Joyce. But we were having so much fun that at the end she asked if she could take a photo of me! May all my photo shoots be so fun!

Cookies & Cream Cupcake Birthday Celebration

Daria Schubert — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:59:26 +0000

Today is my daughter’s seventeenth birthday. I like to celebrate big occasions with food. Here’s to Jasmine’s sweet seventeen!

Quartered Oreos

Half an Oreo with filling in the bottom of each cupcake liner

Cream together butter and sugar

Beat in the egg whites

Fold quartered Oreos into the batter

Bake until golden

Cool in cupcake pan for 10 minutes then on wire rack unti completely cooled

Frost with cream cheese frosting

Decorate with halved Oreos and enjoy

Big thanks to Annie for the recipe! And to Beantown Baker for all the tips!

Village Life Ad in Saturday Seattle Times

Daria Schubert — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:13:37 +0000

This week, I worked on several projects for Village Life. You can see one of them in the Saturday Seattle Times NewHomes Saturday section. It’s a 10×20 inch purple ad for Village Life Communities. Concept, layout and copywriting and the bold color-selection were all my responsibility. Such a fun project!

I also completed a few other projects for Village Life this week:

I designed this flyer for Village Life for their Fall Harvest Festival at their Bear Creek development.

I created this price list and update it weekly for Village Life.