I can not believe in a few short days it will be 2012; this year flew by so fast and I’m still in shock! It feels that every year as we grow older it goes faster, anyone else feel that way?

Even though it went by super fast, it was a great year. We had some of the most amazing clients this year and are so thankful that we were able to be a part of their lives!

We are heading up to the Mountains in a bit to enjoy the snow for New Years and I’m excited to spend some family time before the new year begins. It’s always good to look back and reflect on what the year has been like and then to look forward and plan for another great year. This next year will be filled with even more goodness as my family grows and my business grows. I look forward to 2012 with much anticipation and am so excited for all the amazing clients I will get to work with this next year.

Thank you for allowing me to be apart of such important memories.

Have an amazing New Year!

To Celebrate the New Year we thought it would be fun to do a 2011 Recap of all of our weddings and portraits we did this year. ENJOY!!

Throwing out some more High School Senior love!!

Ashley is actually from Michigan and goes up to school out there. Her family moved here this year and while she has decided to finish school up in Michigan, while she was here this summer she asked me to take her senior pictures.

She wanted something different, fashion, and something with the use of lights… we got it all and had a blast.

Ashley, you are gorgeous and I’m so glad we got to take these for you!

Jade’s session is one of my favorite all time sessions for high school seniors. Jade is super sweet, quiet, and a little reserved, but when we started taking pictures she completely surprised me. She came out of her shell and I was so impressed.

I love love love these images. Jade, you are GORGEOUS!!

There is no Favorite Friday today because I want to share more with you about High School Senior Photography and show you a little behind the scenes to my promo video.

First before we delve into behind the scenes, if you haven’t yet seen the video, you must!!

If you can’t see it below you can view it here:

www.kimberlyjarmanseniors.com

Also, before I start, I have to give HUGE props to the people who helped pull this together.

Serendipity Videography – For the amazing work they did on my promo piece. They are amazing in every way.

Sarah Sanmarco – The Queen of makeup. She is my go to girl when it comes to makeup because she does miracles

Taryn with Wish Salon – Her hair styles and creativity are amazing. She is my for sure go to hair girl!

*PS Both Taryn and Sarah are my “Senior Portrait” stylists, so if you want hair and makeup added to your pictures, they are your girls

Tricia Kraft with Stella & Dot – she provided the jewelry that all of us girls wore for the shoot and it is one of a kind amazing. If you are at all interested in seeing her stuff check out her facebook page.

Diana Carver – for taking such great behind the scenes footage… this is all her handy work and i’m so thankful for these pictures… so thanks girl!!

All the Models who helped out; Eve, Lauren, Hannah, Colin, Scottie, and Logan you did amazing. You gelled together so well and I think made some great friends along the way!

And Lastly, to Elise, my go to girl in the studio who helped put this whole thing together. Thank you girl, you are amazing me with what you are doing and i’m so appreciative of you!

 So, without further ado…. the behind the scenes pictures to the video.

We started at the studio and spent time prepping for the shoot. We all got hair and makeup done, styled our wardrobes, added finishing pieces with Stella & Dot Jewelry, and ate a little grub. 4 hours of prep and it was worth it!

Tricia, with Stella &  Dot, gave goody bags to all the models. Super fun and Cute!

We then headed out for the shoot, which included a lot of cameras (video and still). I was told to smile a lot… I guess when i’m shooting I concentrate really hard:)

While, I know I don’t pull it off like these kids do, I had to show them what I wanted.. they of course rocked it!

Jeff getting a little crazy action from me!!

Isn’t Serendipity just amazing?

A full day production and so worth it! I can’t wait to do our next one!! Until then keep passing on the senior site and video to all your friends! We want to photograph them!!!

www.kimberlyjarmanseniors.com

Since it is High School Senior week at Kimberly Jarman Photography, because of the launch of our new High School Senior Site : www.kimberlyjarmanseniors.com, I thought I would share a little bit about the model shoot that we recently did.

We LOVE high school seniors and I really want to do more of senior photography, but it’s really hard to let high school seniors know that they don’t have to necessarily use the photographer that the school makes them go to for the yearbook as their senior photographer. They have options. Yes, most schools do require that they have to go get that one picture done, but you aren’t required to buy anything. Since most people don’t know about this, we have to somehow get the word out there! Thus comes our Casting Call Model Program.

What is the Casting Call?

We get a lot of questions on what the casting call is. Basically it’s geared toward high school juniors.  We ask juniors to come to us towards the end of their junior year. We enter them into our model program and they get a ton of discounts for their senior pictures and free stuff. We take pictures of them during the summer before their junior year and then again the spring of their senior year. The catch is that they have to promote us throughout their senior year to all of their friends. The more friends that have us do their senior pictures, the more free things they get!! It’s a win win for everyone involved!

Group Model Shoot

Part of the casting call model program is the combined model shoot. This usually takes place the summer before our models senior year and is the first session they will do with us. It’s here that we take pictures of them individually, which are the pictures they will show their friends to get them to also have us take their senior pictures, and also how we get our marketing materials for our website and promotional items.   We go somewhere fun and have a blast taking individual pictures as well as group pictures. It’s a total experience and will give our models a good idea of what it is like to have their pictures done with us.

Below are some of our pictures from our last group model shoot. We did these around the studio and had hair & makeup there for all the models, plus afterwards we ate pizza and looked at the pictures. It was a ton of fun.

These guys did such an amazing job and had a blast doing it. Ask any one of them and they will tell you that it was a great experience and they would do it again in a heart beat! They looked amazing too and rocked the camera!

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!

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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

There are a few things things that have been on my list to photograph for some time now and when Sydney asked me to take her senior pictures and told me she was a softball player I about died!!! I have always wanted to photograph a high school softball player. I played college softball and love love love the sport. I miss it so much and have always wanted to create some really unique and amazing images of a softball player, so truly I was in heaven!

I also learned that Sydney played piano and both piano and softball were really important to her, so the first day we met we came up with some really fun and neat ideas for her senior session! I can tell you that I was NOT disappointed, Sydney pulled it all off and these are some of my favorite images ever!

The Class of 2011 has graduated already and are moving on towards amazing things, but now starts the class of 2012, so if any of you almost seniors out there are in need of senior pictures, give me a call… Senior sessions are some of my very favorite!

With all that being said, here is the gorgeous and uber talented Sydney!

This was a test shot, turned into something very very cool!! LOVE how we captured set up and the boyfriend!

Love the personality shining out!

And onto the softball pictures! We lit the entire thing and I LOVE how it turned out!

Thanks Sydney for allowing me to be a part of such an amazing part of your life!! Good luck with everything!

I think that I am truly the luckiest photographer on the planet. I mean who else gets to photograph red headed beauties for a living?

Macy…. what to say about Macy. I love her. She’s awesome and phenomenal and truly an amazing girl. We had so much fun trouncing around finding new spots to do pictures and she was willing to do ANYTHING, including walk barefoot on some pretty sharp rocks. But the coolest thing we did, was drag a grand piano out into the desert. Yup, Macy and her mom were pretty excited when I came up with the idea and were right on it, including hiring movers to come and move the piano to the “perfect” location. You see, Macy is a PHENOMENAL Pianist. She played for me and my jaw dropped. Her music is passionate and breathtaking and gives real goosebumps!!!

I’m pretty much in love with this session and with high school seniors in general, so I thought I would share a few of my absolute favorites!!

A HUGE congrats to you Macy. You are going to have an amazing time up in Chicagoland!!

(Big Trumpet Sound inserted here)…. can you say soooo cool!!!

To finish the blog post, here is a very cool video of some of Macy’s Favorites.

Macy | Class of 2010 from Kimberly Jarman on Vimeo.