Raintree Studios

11/18/2025

EDIT: Still a few openings for Friday & Saturday after Thanksgiving. Grab one while you can!

AUTUMN: The best time for a family portrait! The leaves are turning, the weather is great and so predictable! How long has it been since your last family portrait? Too long? Yep.

Grab this opportunity to book a family portrait now, and have them ready for Holiday giving. Kids coming home for Thanksgiving? Book now while appointments are still available. Your family can be photographed in my studio in Alameda, or at another location that compliments your lifestyle.

Your one hour session is just $250, and includes a $150 credit toward the portraits you will want to proudly display and as gifts for family members and friends.

I have proudly served families in Alameda for fifty years; let me serve yours, too. Too soon you'll be thankful you have these portraits to keep your memories alive.

Al Wright Raintree Studios
[email protected]
510 521-4900
www.RaintreeStudios.com

11/04/2025

** Self promo Monday **
AUTUMN: The best time for a family portrait! The leaves are turning, the weather is great and so predictable! How long has it been since your last family portrait? Too long? Yep.

Grab this opportunity to book a family portrait now, and have them ready for Holiday giving. Kids coming home for Thanksgiving? Book now while appointments are still available.Your family can be photographed in my studio in Alameda, or at another location that compliments your lifestyle.

Your one hour session is just $250, and includes a $150 credit toward the portraits you will want to proudly display and as gifts for family members and friends.

I have proudly served families in Alameda for fifty years; let me serve yours, too. You'll be thankful you have these portraits to keep your memories alive.

Al Wright Raintree Studios
[email protected]
510 521-4900
www.RaintreeStudios.com

09/16/2025

THE WITCHING SEASON IS ALMOST UPON US! Want to get in touch with your Dark Side? DM me with a current selfie and a compelling reason to choose YOU for modeling in an Annie Leibovitz Vanity Fair styled creative Dark Angel photoshoot.

If you are the lucky angel chosen, you will get the complete ROCKSTAR treatment- planning and wardrobe consultation, hair and make up, the styled photo shoot, my expertise in posing and lighting you to show your best (or darkest?) side, a good time, and a print of your favorite image for free- all included. Hey, not feeling the Dark Side so much? Hit me with your OWN idea then! Feel free to tag a friend that could use this, too.
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A division of Raintree Studios, serving Alameda for 50 years.
Al Wright - [email protected]

09/16/2025

AUTUMN: The best time for a family portrait! The leaves are turning, the weather is great and so predictable! How long has it been since your last family portrait? Too long? Yep.

Grab this opportunity to book a family portrait now, and have them ready for Holiday giving. Kids coming home for Thanksgiving? Book now while appointments are still available.Your family can be photographed in my studio in Alameda, or at another location that compliments your lifestyle.

Your one hour session is just $250, and includes a $150 credit toward the portraits you will want to proudly display and as gifts for family members and friends.

I have proudly served families in Alameda for fifty years; let me serve yours, too. You'll be thankful you have these portraits to keep your memories alive.

Al Wright Raintree Studios
[email protected]
510 521-4900
www.RaintreeStudios.com

02/25/2025

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY: March 8. Has the current political climate got you down? Book a Bold & Beautiful Woman portrait session for yourself that will celebrate, memorialize, and remind you of your beauty, your strength, and build your confidence. This is more than just a photo shoot. This is a journey of re-discovering and re-affirming the strong, passionate and confident woman you are. When the Patriarchy gets you down, imagine having a portrait of yourself displayed in your home that you could look at to remind yourself of your power, your agency, your beauty!

INCLUDES: professional make up and hair, planning session, two hours of photography time, my expertise in lighting and posing you to ensure you look your best, and your personal Image Reveal Session.

$210 for the session, but for the first three of you to book a session, I'll also give you a credit of $100 to use toward your purchase of images. And, I will be reserving time to do a few sessions at no charge for certain women that could really appreciate a morale boost right now. If this is you, contact me privately and tell me why you need this in your life right now.

Call or email Al Wright today:
Bold and Beautiful Women, a division of Raintree Studios
https://www.raintreestudios.com/bold-and-beautiful-women/
[email protected]
(510) 521-4900

09/20/2024

This is a fascinating look at the process of creating a seasonal campaign for the House of Oscar de la Renta. It includes every facet from original ideas to rough and final drafts of each piece, how and where the materials are acquired, finishing, fitting, and photographing each piece, then the final exhibition in the windows of their retail establishments world wide. Have a look.

Oscar de la Renta presents ‘A Sense of Beauty,' a documentary film exploring the development of Pre-Fall 2024. Honored House codes echo as generations of col...

08/02/2024

FROM KQED in 2020: "The black and white photo challenge started as a way for women to raise their voice. To stand in solidarity with the women we have lost. To show that one day, it could be their picture that is plastered across news outlets." The challenge was originally meant to call attention to the obscene trend in Turkey and other middle eastern countries for femicide. With women in the US being under constant attack by the misogynistic republic party and their faux christian disciples and literally being stripped of their rights, it seems appropriate for women to use black and white images in protest of those that would make women mere property of the patriarchy that would take over our nation.

If you are concerned as I am of the probability of the wrong person, the wrong party taking control of our government come November, then I invite you to help me create a series of black and white images of women just like you who are a stand for democracy, women's rights, equity and equality. My intention is not to take pretty, glamorous portraits of you, but to capture the raw emotion, the uncertainty, anger, fear, despair, determination you are feeling.

I will be posting these images on my Instagram and Face Book feeds, and maybe we'll even get to display them as a gallery in a local venue. Are you up to it? These will be very short 15 minute sessions. You come dressed as you wish to be presented, bring your feels, your outrage, and be prepared to project that in your images. You'll receive low res images for posting on your own social media, and I'll get your permission to post your images online.

I am charging nothing for this. It's my way of pushing back against The Monster. If you think as I do that Kamala Harris is our best hope at the moment, make a donation to her campaign. Call me, Dm me, post here, ask me questions. LET'S DO IT!

Raintree Studios
https://www.instagram.com/boldandbeautifulwomenalameda/
(510) 521-4900
[email protected]

03/22/2024

Where am I?

02/04/2024

Waiting for Ryan’s solo show to begin. The anticipation is palpable!