JOURNAL

I was chatting with my assistant Marissa yesterday over lunch after we had finished 3 shoots.  We were talking about fun stuff like music, movies and tv shows.  Marissa also shared with me some of the ideas for shoots she has and I encouraged her to pursue them and if there was anything I could […]

You may recall that about a year and a half ago I photographed the symphonic metal band Ashentide in Los Angeles.  Here’s a quick link to the blog post of the images from that photo shoot.  Since then, they’ve welcomed some new band members so this past weekend I was again down in Los Angeles […]

What a complete honor.  Just yesterday the popular wedding blog Style Unveiled featured the wedding I photographed of JD & Terri in Bend, Oregon.  You may recall JD & Terri’s engagement session I photographed in Phoenix, and the post I wrote highlighting their wedding, and now their wedding was featured with some great ideas for […]

I am so thankful.  I feel so blessed and could not have asked for a better team for this project.  As I had posted here on my TeamUSA photo shoot with Autumn, I was lucky enough to receive an email from Institute Magazine offering another editorial publication.  Wow, I never would have imagined it, but […]

I recently came across this TED talk posted on twitter by a fellow photographer.  It’s title first caught my attention, and once the speaker started her talk, I knew this was something I would want to share.  Eloquently shared by retoucher Becci Manson, she shares how her and other retouchers around the world donated their […]

The Summer 2012 Olympics are in a couple of days and I can not wait to see all the events, athletes and hear the Star Spangled Banner over and over again in celebration of US gold medal wins.  As a kid I often thought I would one day represent the USA in either figure skating […]

The entire Shalimar Studios family is sending out a big congratulations to Cody and Tiffany on the birth of their son Elijah!  I had the pleasure of photographing Tiffany's maternity session and now can't wait to photograph Elijah for his newborn session.  I just love those wrinkly, little heart theives.  Unilt I photograph Elijah in […]