JOURNAL

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 […]

I’m very excited to share with you all my first fashion editorial that was published by Institute Magazine.  In addition to photographing portraits and weddings, one of my goals this year was to expand my creativity into the fashion world and I can not be more happy that my first editorial “The Mane Attraction” was […]

 I absolutely love when I can photograph the all-American family, and the Gravley family was just that group.  Helmed by the matriarch Michelle, she maintains her feminity amongst the bevy of male energy she is surrounded by on a daily basis with husband Derek, high-school senior Billy, and youngsters Brennan and Dylan.   During our […]