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  • THE BLOG OF KIMBERLY JARMAN PHOTOGRAPHY

  • ABOUT THE STUDIO

    The Kimberly Jarman Photography Studio specializes in Portrait and Wedding Photography. We are located in the historic district of Downtown Mesa, but are willing to travel all over the world. We have been photographing Weddings and Portraits for over 13 years and have won numerous awards for our photography.

    We love weddings, as well as we love working with High School Seniors, Families, Models for fashion photography, and fitness style shoots, as well as many other types of photography.

  • Winner of "Best Photographer" 2012 by Arizona Bride Magazine
    Winner of "Best Photographer" 2011 by Arizona Bride Magazine
    Winner of "Brides Choice Awards" by WeddingWire. 2009, 2010, 2011
    Invited to join the Platinum List of "Wedding Style Magazine" by Grace Ormonde 2011
    Featured on the Cover of Arizona Weddings Magazines 2011

    Kimberly Jarman's images have been featured in Arizona Weddings Magazine, Arizona Bride Magazine, The Wedding Chronicle, Phoenix Bride and Groom, Destination I Do, Haute Living Magazine, June Bug Weddings, Elizabeth Anne Designs, and several industry blog sites.

Email: it will be the death of me, i’m sure. – posted by kimberly

It’s true, Email is going to be the death of me. I promise it is. You are going to find me one day flattened out somewhere by the weight of all things email.

I’m sitting here today working on emails and realizing that it’s never ending and I truly need an entire week to do nothing but email. As I was doing this I thought I needed a  little break and should blog about my email sorrows. So, that being said, here is finally a blog from me, Kimberly Jarman, on something other than pictures:)

Email. What was life like before email? Do you remember? It seems like so long ago, but I do remember somewhat.

I remember that I used to write letters. I had pen pals, well maybe not pen pals, but boys that I had met at summer camp and became “friends” with. We would write back and forth to each other every week or so and sometimes the letters would be 15 pages long. I think once email came around that’s when those letters stopped.

I remember that I would call friends and chat with them for hours. Now my best friends don’t hear from me on the phone.

I remember that I would read a book. I would sit down and read a book for hours. I would light candles, turn on music, and lay on my couch and read. (now I listen to audio books while I work).

Oh the good ole days when there weren’t cell phones, iphones, email, blogs, internet, email… back when life was slower.

Please don’t get me wrong. Now that I have it I will never go without it. I LOVE my iphone more than most probably do. I LOVE the newest tech gadget. I LOVE email. I HATE talking on the phone. I LOVE the technical advances that all this has brought, I just can’t keep up with it all and sometimes I wish I could go back to the days when it was a little less chaotic.

Now my life consists of 50-100 emails a day on top of running a business, working on client projects, answering phones, being a wife, being a mom, being a boss, and random other acts that must be accomplished through the day. It’s amazing how much life changes in such small periods of time.

I’m fully admitting to all of you that, while I do run a succesful business and try to offer the best customer service, i’m horrible at email. I really try. I try to answer every email as soon as I get it, but it weighs me down, I take a break, and then they are still there shouting respond, respond, respond… I want an answer right now…. come on, answer me!!! So, right now i’ve been answering emails for 5 hours. That’s all i’ve done, is sit down and answer emails from the top to the bottom. Sadly, as I answer one and file it away another one appears and then I answer that and another one appears again! I’m getting through them slowly, but surely. I will do it!!

So, now that you’ve read all of this you are wondering, ok Kim, what is your point? Why did you blog on email and why did I just sit here and read it? Well, that is a great question. The answer is…. I just wanted to blog on it.. no reason really. I just wanted you to know that i’m trying to get to all my emails, but i’m not the super girl who can answer EVERY email within 24 hours. It might take me a couple of days. It doesn’t mean I don’t like you and I don’t care about you, it means that I have a lot of emails and i’m trying to get to them all:) I also wanted to blog because I know i’m not alone. I’m not alone!!! I know that there are some of you super stars who are amazing at email and are organized and perfect and I give you total props. Please help me!!! I know that there are others out there who are like me and are suffocating by the email… know that you aren’t alone!!!

One day, when I find a solution I will blog again on email and how I conquered my inbox. Until then feel free to email me… but know that it might take a little while and I do still love you!!!

Until then, please enjoy a beautiful image of my inbox… and yes… that does say 1287 messages unread – it doesn’t mean they are all unread, just marked as unread… but now you get the point… it’s gonna be the death of me:)

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Kimberly Jarman is a Phoenix Wedding Photographer & Arizona Portrait Photographer, located in Mesa, Arizona. We would love to work with you! Please contact us for more information about how to have us photograph your wedding or portrait.

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January 25, 2011 - 10:38 am

kimberlyjarman - I do like mac mail… it looks organized, but if you don’t move them it’s not:) ha!!! Now off to my email:)

January 25, 2011 - 10:38 am

kimberlyjarman - I knew I wasn’t alone:):)

January 24, 2011 - 4:21 pm

Keri - i agree! i have 1907 unread messages. so sad.

January 24, 2011 - 3:13 pm

Liz Fiore - Ok..first of all…. I think I have to totally get a Mac now, I love how organized your inbox looks! Secondly, I feel your pain! Good luck!

PS – Pictage sends out sooo many emails, I think I got 5 over the weekend.

Casting Call- Bridal Models Needed!

Casting Call for Models!

Are you a model and love wearing wedding gowns??  (Um..does anyone NOT love that???)

We are looking for 6-8 models to pose in bridal gowns for a photo shoot we’re doing for a new bridal shop opening soon in the East Valley!

This will be an unpaid modeling job, but your photos will be used in advertisements for the bridal shop, and you will receive all of your images for personal use.

The shoot is being held on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 after 3pm.

If you’re available and interested, please submit:

2 Photos, both headshot and full body

Modeling resume

Send materials to jenny@kimberlyjarman.com

Thank you!

(If you’re not picked, you’re still beautiful! Only limited space!)

xoxox

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Kimberly Jarman is a Phoenix Wedding Photographer & Arizona Portrait Photographer, located in Mesa, Arizona. We would love to work with you! Please contact us for more information about how to have us photograph your wedding or portrait.

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JennyP is MIA This Week!

I flew home yesterday at 4am, landed around noon, came straight to work and left at 10pm.  I was not creatively inclined, my apologies!

Style advice for today:  Look fab.  🙂

xoxoxo

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Kimberly Jarman is a Phoenix Wedding Photographer & Arizona Portrait Photographer, located in Mesa, Arizona. We would love to work with you! Please contact us for more information about how to have us photograph your wedding or portrait.

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January 21, 2011 - 2:50 pm

kb - This is preposterous! We’re all going to have withdrawals! I guess I’m just glad you’re home. Even if it means you’re back to bugging me for my autograph, I mean tax form ((grin)).

kb + destination wedding = published in destination i do blog!!

I know kb has a huge following out there, so you will all be so excited to hear the newest wonderful news!! She’s been published in her very first magazine blog, Destination I Do! Destination I Do is a wonderful resource for any bride thinking about having a destination wedding and we are so honored that they published Courtney and Josh’s San Diego Wedding.

I’m so excited for kb, because this is a big step in anyone’s photography career and because she knocked this wedding out of the park! It was beautiful! To see the article from Destination I Do blog click here.

If you would like to see more of Courtney and Josh’s Destination San Diego wedding feel free to view our post about it here.

Congrats miss kb!!! You are wonderful!

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Kimberly Jarman is a Phoenix Wedding Photographer & Arizona Portrait Photographer, located in Mesa, Arizona. We would love to work with you! Please contact us for more information about how to have us photograph your wedding or portrait.

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January 21, 2011 - 12:39 pm

Jen Jacobs - Woo-hoo! Congrats KB! Remember I told you this was one of my favorites 🙂 You ROCK!!

January 21, 2011 - 12:37 pm

Jen Jacobs - Woo-hoo! Congrats KB! Remember I told you this was one of my favorites 🙂 You ROCK!!

January 21, 2011 - 6:58 am

Christa Scott - Congratulations KB!!! You are AMAZING and it is great to see such public recognition of what we all know already!! Good job!! XOXO

January 20, 2011 - 8:50 pm

MJ - Love this girl! Congratulations! 🙂

January 20, 2011 - 9:05 am

kimberly bee - This is sure a happy way to start my morning – thank you, Kim =)!! Kristyn and Mary, thanks for the high fives (halla! lol!).

January 20, 2011 - 8:31 am

Kristyn K - YAY KB!!!!! Congratulations! That’s Huge! You guys are all amazing!

January 20, 2011 - 8:19 am

Erica - Not sure what happened with that last comment???

Anyway… Congrats! That is so awesome! 🙂

January 19, 2011 - 6:49 pm

mary - Way to go KB!! Halla!

The JennyP Beauty Routine

Hellllllllo everyone!  I am about to skip the state and head to the FREEZING east coast for a week (yes, having a boyfriend that is a Navy SEAL is tiring when it comes to travel…having a boss that lets me make it work is pretty amazing),and while I was packing up I was thinking how happy I am that The BF went out recently and stocked HIS apartment with all the stuff I use on daily basis, to help me with packing spillable girlie stuff, and I just thought I’d share with you the products that JennyP uses every single day on her face!

I am a complete beauty product junkie, but I have uber-sensitive skin that reacts to everything, so I actually never stray from my routine.  Honestly, I have to call my lifelong BFF Cathy when I see a product I’m dying to use and ask her if I’m allowed, and she always says the same exact thing, no matter how much I beg and plead, “Jenny, no.  You will be covered in a rash.  Don’t read the back, don’t look at the pictures,  just put it on the shelf and walk away.”   (She’s always right, but it’s still annoying for someone to be right ALL the time!)

Anyway, here’s my product rundown as I pack my bags and head out to the wrong coast (Seriously, why live in snow when you can live in sun???)

Cetaphil Daily Facial Cleanser

I love Cetaphil SO MUCH.  It is the only face wash I have ever found that doesn’t upset my crazy skin, takes off my makeup, and doesn’t strip my face using it twice a day.  I buy it by the gallon when possible.  Infallible in my eyes, I think there is nothing better.

Retin-A Micro .1%

This is one of my prescription products, and I’d sell my leg if I needed to, to get it. I put this on my skin at night after washing, and I obsessively worship Retin-A.  I started using it at age 18 for acne, and came to find out that by using it for so many years I’ve actually fended off wrinkles too! It increases collagen and stimulated skin cell turnover, and Retin-A Micro isn’t too harsh for my skin.  I really think I’d die without it.

Klaron (Sodium Sulfacetamide) Lotion, 10%

This is my other skin prescription, and I once went a few months without it and HATED my skin! I layer this on over my Retin-A (a combo usage I found on my own that I love, it seems more effective like this, than when I do one in the AM and one in the PM.)  I use this over my Retin-A Micro every night. It’s an antibacterial topical, that helps people who are prone to breakouts (like me!) with skin control.  I also just think my skin looks healthier in general when I’m using it.

Olay Sensitive Skin Beauty Fluid

This is the only moisturizer I have found that doesn’t make me break out or have an irritation reaction. It’s lightweight, and I use it twice a day. I have been tossing around the idea of trying an Aveeno moisturizer, since it’s the only sunscreen and eye cream that I don’t react to, but for now it’s still my tried and true Olay Sensitive.  (Not to be confused with Olay Complete for Sensitive Skin, that stuff makes my skin go nuts!)

Aveeno Positively Ageless Eye Cream

I just started using this at night, because I turned 30 and thought I better start using an eye cream!  I can’t say I’m seeing some huge facial difference, but Aveeno products are gentle enough for my skin, so I trust it.  We’ll see if it stays in the rotation…

Bare Minerals Original Mineral Foundation

I’m putting this on here, but not all my other makeup, because it has sunscreen and I believe in using sunscreen EVERY SINGLE DAY! I don’t want wrinkles, I want healthy cancer-free skin, so I make sure sunscreen is on my face every day!!!!

So there you have it, the JennyP facial regime used daily.

(Isn’t it funny knowing my big, trained, Navy SEAL boyfriend purchased these things and stocked them in his bathroom?  Alongside the pink towels he bought for me and the arsenal of tampons I left under his sink….what a good guy!) I

t’s not super exciting, but I can say, in all truthfulness, I have only missed FOUR nights of this routine since I was 20 years old, and both because I was forced to sleep somewhere without pre-planning and bringing a bag. Yes, even on my 21st birthday I stumbled around my bathroom at 3 am telling my then-boyfriend that he needed to wash my face and help me because I was NOT going to sleep with makeup on!  (True story)  Catch you all next week when I get back home!!

xoxoxox

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Kimberly Jarman is a Phoenix Wedding Photographer & Arizona Portrait Photographer, located in Mesa, Arizona. We would love to work with you! Please contact us for more information about how to have us photograph your wedding or portrait.

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