One of my favorite groups of people to photography is High School Seniors. There is something about Seniors that I just love!! They are willing to do something different and think outside of the box. They usually have a blast during the session and are so excited for the final pictures. They really want to look amazing and show their friends something different and unique. That’s what I love! They are willing to dream and come up with something totally different than their friends have.

I’m so excited to announce that we are bumping up our High School Senior Photography and hoping to do many more sessions with Seniors. We just created a new website to show off all of the amazing seniors we’ve photographed and we’ve announced our “Casting Call” model program on our website as well, which is geared toward Juniors who want us to photograph them for their senior pictures! With the model program it includes a chance to be featured on our website through video and photography, as well as a chance to be win national recognition as an actual senior model through the Senior Portrait Artists convention every year.

I wanted to share with you our new site and then this week we are going to highlight a little more about what our “senior experience” is like!

Check out our new site at WWW.KIMBERLYJARMANSENIORS.COM

Below are some screen shots of the new site!!

Our intro page is a gallery of our favorite images throughout the last few years. We have Softball players, baseball players, firetrucks, piano’s out in the desert, and so much more.

We are SOOOO Thankful to Serendipity Videography for putting together this amazing video of one of our “model shoots”. I wanted to show everyone the experience that you have with us as your photographer in a different type of way. Click the video below to go to our website and see the actual video.

Our “Casting Call” is highlighted on the website as well. This is geared toward High School Juniors, who want to help promote our studio and in return get some amazing deals on senior pictures!

We’ve also featured some of our favorite sessions in the “Featured Seniors” section.

We’ve included some of our favorite tips and secrets to get great pictures!

Lastly, there is a new feature on our website that allows you to view all of our latest blog posts and twitter feeds and connect with us on facebook! We love social media and want to share with you all the things going on here!

Again, check out the new website! Let us know what you think!

 WWW.KIMBERLYJARMANSENIORS.COM

If you are interested in having us photograph your senior pictures just give us a call at 480.203.1090 or email us at inquiry @ kimberlyjarman.com!

I just found out that Sam and Leor’s engagement session was just featured on Phoenix Bride and Groom’s blog.

You can view the feature here.

It was such a great engagement session and we had a blast!

It also featured an amazing Save the Date Video from Serendipity Videography.

Thanks Phoenix Bride and Groom for featuring this session!

On Tuesday I sat at my apple computer waiting patiently for the announcement of the new Iphone to come out. Well I guess not really patiently, if you were my husband or Elise (my office assistant) you would have known that I was a wreck. I couldn’t wait for the new announcement of the new iphone because i’m a diehard apple fan and when I hear of new gadgets coming out from apple I always want one (also, I do still have the 3Gs and am dying for a new phone). I desperately sat at my computer trying to find a live feed to the keynote from apple and it took about an hour for me to finally realize that I was going to have to be stuck with a blog that was going to give me minute by minute updates and then a live stream of a group of people talking about the blog. So for an hour and a half I listened and continually pressed refresh on the blog so that I could hear the news. I was ecstatic when I finally heard that preorders for the new 4S start on friday and I in an instant emailed the business team at the Chandler apple store to inquire about what I need to do to get one first!! Yes, i’m going to be one of those people this time around.

I wasn’t always this way, but about 10 years ago my life changed when I started working for a company who introduced me to the world of apple (Thanks Dan Smith). It was then that I realized that PC’s would no longer cut it, that I had to get an apple. And once I did I was sold. I never looked back. I bought EVERYTHING apple…. EVERYTHING. The other day my husband and I were in the apple store buying my ipad (which I’m addicted to) and he made a comment that I have one of everything in the apple store. I laughed and said, no I don’t that’s crazy…. and then I started looking around and realized that actually he is right. I’m pretty sure that I do have one of everything in that store as far as computers and gadgets go… wow, I’m really an apple freak aren’t I?

The keynote this time around was a little strange because the man behind all of my madness, Steve Jobs, wasn’t at all involved with the announcements. Everyone was commenting on it and while I didn’t think too much of it, it did feel a little strange. Steve has always been there with product launches, so I think everyone was sad to realize that he really wasn’t involved as much anymore. When Steve Jobs stepped down a few months ago of course everyone was worried of what was going to become of Apple. He told everyone that when he couldn’t do his job anymore he knew he’d have to step down and seeing video’s of him only confirmed that he was getting sick, so I think we were all very saddened by the news. However, I think that most people, me included, just figured he was going to take some time away and relax.

Last night as I was driving to the Diamondbacks baseball game (another one of my obsessions), something flickered across my iphone screen about Steve Jobs, I went to read it but messed it up somehow and wasn’t able to see what it said. I had made the comment to my husband, but we just figured that it was something about the iphone 4s. We got to the game and jumped right into the craziness of everything. It was an amazing game with a grand slam to start off everything and more and more excited fans jumping all around! About half way into the game I got a twitter from Grace Ormonde that said that Steve Jobs would be missed. WHAT? I quickly jumped on the internet and read the news that Steve Jobs had passed away that day and was in shock. Although I didn’t know Steve Jobs personally he personally has affected so many areas of my life.

Today when I woke up and was driving Kailee to school I was listening to the news and all the amazing things people were saying about this man. He was a visionary who jumped in hand first and changed the way we all live. His computers, gadgets, and ideas infiltrate our daily lives. He was a man who dreamed and did things. He looked at life one day at a time and made sure that each day counted.

I normally don’t write up blog posts like this, but today I felt like I needed to thank him and honor him for the things that he did to make our lives better. So, Steve, thank you! You will be dearly missed by many all over the world.

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You don’t want to miss this opportunity! Read below to see how you can win Lady Antebellum tickets and score some amazing photography with Kimberly Jarman. It’s a win/win situation, so make sure you take advantage of this now before it’s too late!

Fine Print: All mini sessions will receive 1 entry, full portrait sessions 2 entries, and weddings will receive 3 enties. You must pay your reservation fee & book your session date during the dates above, previous weddings and sessions do not count. To reserve your session you must pay a reservation fee of $350, which will be applied to your session and any prints you purchase. You can book your session anytime between September 21st and May 31, 2012. First come first serve on dates. Portrait sessions are booked Wednesday – Friday’s and weddings can be booked any time of the  year (available dates).

Winner Will be announced the week of November 17th, so keep that thursday open just in case!

Contact Kimberly at inquiry@kimberlyjarman.com to reserve your session or call 480.203.1090

I love it when I get surprises!!! The other day I received an email from Carl at Princess Bride Video letting me know he was putting together a special “surprise” for me!

When I received my surprise I was so thrilled! A promo video for me that he put together to highlight a wedding that we had recently worked on together.

I loved seeing what he came up with and am so grateful!

Thank you to Carl for the video and also to Jesse and Ryan for saying such wonderful things about me!!

To view more of Jesse and Ryan’s wonderful day click here.

Kimberly Jarman Photography from Carl Anderson on Vimeo.

Being published is so so SO exciting! Back in September we shot one of our most beloved couples at the Four Seasons and they had made Scottsdale their destination wedding spot, lucky for us, flying in family from New York, Connecicut, and the entire groom’s side from England!

 Laurie and Daniel are just about two of the kindest, most fun people we’ve been lucky enough to meet, and shooting their gorgeous wedding was a dream, so it’s only icing on this already wonderful cake that Travel to I Do  featured this wedding, and our work, on their blog this week!

Please check out the posting, and we were told that if we receive more than 20 comments, we’ll be pushed up to their “featured wedding” slot! So……..type something people!  Hope you all enjoy the pictures as much as we enjoyed taking them!

Yay!  One of our absolute favorite weddings, and couples!, Amber and Aaron’s gorgeous day at The Hotel Vally Ho, was published today on Junebug Weddings, Real Wedding Blog!

We are so honored to be featured on this site, and so happy that this beautiful day is being made public!

We worked with an amazing team of vendors for this event, and we’re so happy everyone is being featured for this incredible day.

Check out their entire day here!

A big thank you to Junebug Weddings, for including us on their blog today!

Hi loveys!

Sooooo we are super-duper mega-uber psyched and excited to be named one of the studios in the Arizona Foothills Magazine Best of Our Valley contest for Best Photographer for Weddings AND Portraits!  We would love to receive your votes and if you have a moment, please click the link and vote for Kimberly Jarman Photography!

If you feel like voting every single day, we fully support those urges, and would give you a big hug after you did each one if you wanted to drive over to receive the hug.  Seriously, anytime you want to vote and be hugged, you just come on over   Either way, WE think we’re the best studio in the Valley, so if you agree, click away!  And…as always…thank you!

Click here for Best Photographer-Portraits!

Click here for Best Photographer- Weddings!

xoxoxooxxo

I hope by now you aren’t all sick of all of our posts about the MS Silent Auction, because there are only 2 days left and we have a LONG Way to go!!! My goal is to raise $3000 from the silent auction that will go towards helping find a cure for MS. As i’m talking more and more about MS i’m finding more people who have been affected by this horrible disease. Recently I just learned that one of my brides best friends and also one of our clients have been diagnosed with this disease and it has truly affected their lives. When people first hear that they have MS it seems hopeless, but there is hope and there is support out there! This walk is a way to show people that we support them and also a way to raise money to help them fight!

I would love to hear from all of you if you know of someone who has this disease and how this has affected their lives. Please feel free to comment and share your stories. I would love to share more of them with our readers on Wednesday (our last day of the auction).

If you have not yet joined the auction, please do! There are some great things on bid right now and sadly right now there aren’t many bids. I’m hoping that we can raise more money from the wonderful items that people bidded!!!

Wing a $20 Mojo’s Gift Card

That being said, I have to thank Mojo Yougurt (my favorite Frojo store), who has donated some gift cards to the cause. As an incentive we are going to be giving away a $20 gift card today and tomorrow for anyone who joins the bidding war!!! All you have to do is log in and bid today and tomorrow. Every time you bid on an item each day you will be entered into the drawing one time, so the more you bid, the more entries you will get. You can also gain entries by twittering or sharing on your facebook about the auction, just be sure to tag me @kimberlyjarman (on twitter) and  Kimberly ‘Kahn’ Jarman (on facebook). For every time you post about the auction and link the auction website below you will also be entered into the drawing. Please don’t be shy and bid away!!!!

I would love us to raise another $1000 by Wednesday if possible, so please pass on this information to your friends.

Go to this link to start the auction bidding:

As always, thank you for your generosity, so far we have made over $1000 and I’m in awe of your generosity!! I thank you for joining me in this cause!!

Ok, let’s talk about the people we work with often that are donating to this amazing cause!

Mary Jordan

Could we love Mary more?  Or say more about her awesome-ness?  Probably not.  Mary is one of the sweetest, funniest, kindest, and most talented people we know, and we’re completely honored that she is choosing to be a member of our team.  We are also completely honored and touched that she is donating a portrait session on location, as well as a $200 credit toward prints to our cause.  To see more about Mary, please take a look at her link, and thank you Mary!  You’re amazing!

Paper Mango

This stuff is amazing!  Paper Mango is one of our most favorite and beloved companies to work with, and it should be your next favorite new thing.  Creating the most unique and adorable paper products including custom invitations, holiday cards, and everything else you might need, Paper Mango is a freakishly cool venture.  Besides being mega-hip, Paper Mango is donating so generously, $200 toward custom invitations to any event you might be planning!  Thank you so much, friend!

Matage Custom Framing

It says a lot when a photographer has a certain framer they favor and prefer to work with, and for us that amazing force is Matage Custom Framing.  We work pretty much exclusively with Rob Brinton, owner and operator of Matage and you can see his work hanging all over our studio.  Not only does he figure out exactly what each client or studio portrait need, but he works with your budgetary concerns and your time constraints with total ease.  Always on time, always friendly, always turning out work we are excited to hang on our studio walls, Matage Custom Framing is worthy of the most beautiful pictures.  To add more accolades to this very deserving company, Matage has now donated two $100 gift certifcates toward framing.  Thanks so much, friend!

Cabinet Concepts

A few months ago we got a new neighbor, Cabinet Concepts, and immediately we liked them very much, they’re super cool guys.  Then, as time went on and their shop started forming and being built up, we have been completely impressed with their talent, hard work, and beautiful cabinetry.  Their studio is gorgeous and they’ve really created an amazing space next door.  As we’ve gotten to know the gentlemen behind the work, we learned that there is a deep love of precious gemstones and an extensive jewelry collection.  Imagine our happiness and surprise when they offered up a beautiful ruby ring valued at over $4,000 for our silent auction!  Thank you, neighbors!

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Go to this link to start the auction bidding:

As many times as we can say it, thank you so much, friends!

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