A LITTLE ABOUT ANGELA
the PHOTOGRAPHER
With twelve+ years of professional experience Angela Callisto specializes in custom newborn, maternity, baby milestone, high school senior & family photography in the buffalo and wny area. In her dedicated studio, located in Clarence NY, Angela has photographed hundreds of newborns & countess milestone sessions. Also, sunset golden hour family sessions on location through the spring, summer and fall months.
Angela focuses on both posed and natural set ups for her newborn work – a style that has evolved over the years and will continue to. Angela knows that each newborn, baby and family is unique and she strives to capture more moments than poses. The connection between families of all ages and the sweet details of each stage.
Angela knows choosing a photographer that will fit with your family – your expectations – can be a hard task. You a making an investment into capturing moments that pass so quickly. Please feel free to browse the site, take a look at some of the gallery sections, to get an overall feel for Angela’s work. And do not hesitate to contact her for more information on any of the packages offered.
It is Angela’s wish that you not just come to her for photographs, but for memories frozen in time, and friendships. She very much loves to watch your families grow – to watch your children grow – and to be able to continue to capture all of your moments.
the BLOGGER
Writing is something Angela has always loved to do. Whether it be a social media post, a letter, journaling, and more. Time after time, year after year, post after post, people would say "you NEED A BLOG". She tried multiple times to figure out her niche, a website, the title.... all of it was always a stumbling block for her until one day she decided, her niche was anything she wrote that helped at least one person, her website and title name, well, it was just herself.
So, here we are, merging all of Angela's worlds and creative outlets together in one space.
You won't find much in the blogLetter about photography.
Her writing is a style of her own, she writes how she speaks and you may just catch a swear word or two in there when her statements truly NEED them to get the point across.
Let's face it, the world is crazy these days, people need an outlet, people need to start supporting each other, as mothers, wives, husbands, friends, moms, communities, we all need to lean on each other and help each other out. Whether thats talking about the stress, talking about our kids on social media and how we can stay on top of the ever changing platforms to keep them safe, the latest and greatest floor cleaner to make everyone's lives a little easier, or the tough stuff no one says out loud.
the MOM. the "WIFE". the NANA.
As the mother of two children, a boy and a girl, spanning in age 10.5 years apart, Angela is no novice at the crazy mom filled days of babies, toddlerhood, teenagers and parenting an adult (the one she says is the absolute hardest stage of parenting).
When her daughter was little and her son just a freshmen in high school, she was the owner and operator of a full service salon, working long hours and often felt as though she was, "missing it all". She took a leap of faith after building her photography business for a little over a year and decided to sell the salon and dive into photography full time. "Full time" looked a whole lot different with photography. For many years she ONLY photographed in the studio, setting her hours to be able to drop her kids at school, not miss sporting events ever again, doing all of her editing long after they went to bed. It wasn't unusual to see her sharing photos on social media in the wee hours. What she lacked in sleep, she made up for in time with her kiddos. Then entered direct sales and she was able to not only spend even more time at home, but work from literally, anywhere, while supporting her family.
the "WIFE" is in quotes cause, well, over two decades together and, not legally married. They figure, if it's not broken, why fix it. They do not feel we need a piece of paper to hold us together. They do that, on their own.
And, the Nana, yes, she is a grandmother to an absolutely gorgeous and perfect little boy.
She attributes, not looking like she could be a grandmother, to good skin care aaaaaand.... some botox ;)
the MONAT MARKET PARTNER
After a wildly successful seven year stint with a different company, before social selling was cool, Angela found herself looking for a new home when she no longer aligned with that company. She truly believes in the direct sales model and has experienced first hand how incredibly life changing it can be. She didn't want to leave the model, she just knew it was time to move on. So, in 2020 when the world was already crazy, she did just that.
She had been using MONAT's haircare for a couple of years by then, when they launched their skincare it was a game changer for her 40 something skin. What started as simply continuing to share the things she loved, grew into a new direct sales partnership for her.
While she mainly shares all of the details in her private facebook group, you will find her also sharing on her instagram pages and her blog.
Angela truly feels MONAT as a company, the products, her team and environment are an incredible opportunity for women and men to be able to not only use amazing products, but share them and supplement their income from the comfort of, well, wherever they are at the moment.