 Claire Alyse Photography is a brilliantly talented photographer who works out of Los Angeles, one of the best of the multitudes of photographers in LA actually. Make sure you take a good look around her blog- I know you will absolutely love her work, but after you do, make sure you read this great post: here, where she shows a very interesting example using hairdressers to clarify the difference between established professional photographers and the shoot and burn lot out there who “have a good camera”… we all know dozens of them, don’t we? Pass it on and share her post, maybe it will educate a few clients and a few “wanna-be’s”. Loved it! Thanks Katie! (ps, her FAQ’s are awesome too!)
Mary
Posted in artistic, babies, beach, business tips, children, families, general info, inspiring, mothers, newborn, original, photographers, updates often
 I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that I thought I had reviewed Simone’s lovely work years ago. I am a “Facebook friend” of hers, and noticed, once again, some of her divine images again today, and got to thinking about Blogs of Photogs. Didn’t find her in my search, so I’m sharing her with you now (blog here). Simone works out of Adelaide, Australia, and is truly a fine art photographer possessing great talent. Her work is the kind that almost every time I see it, I think: “I’d hang that in my home, and it isn’t even my kid!” Her crisp, film-reminiscent photographs have a gorgeousness that makes it appear that she is painting with light. Check out her website too, (here) great information and additional stunning work. Enjoy!
best,
Mary
 As you can see from the screen shoot above, Ten18 photography specializes in many areas of photography: Seniors, portraits, commercial work and children. For my feature today, I’m focusing mostly on their wonderful senior work. Ten18 photography is based out of Eugene, Oregon, and their fantastic work, site and blog are all worth a long look with a big cup of coffee. What’s with the name? Ten18 is the date that Kyle (the photographer) met his wife Meredee in person after an online courtship– they use the name to remind themselves “of the love we share and what we went through to be together.” Sweet idea.
Anyway- Ten18’s senior work (gallery here) has a very fashion forward feel to it, highly polished and edgy with great styling and posing. There is a ton of information for prospective clients on their blog and site, so much so that I even got a little lost reading it all! Great information for photographers to read and reconsider what info you ought to be offering your clients. Check it out, be inspired and enjoy!
~Mary
Jenny Schartner, of Captured Photography, is based in West Palm Beach, FL, and specializes in both wedding and portrait photography with a beautiful, crisp, sunny style that makes me feel like I’m right back on my trip to Florida. She has a great blog, (here) that features extensive posts showcasing both sessions and sneak peeks, great engagement photos that really capture the relationship between couples, and to top it off- she also does videography of weddings! Jenny also has a great FAQ for photographers to cover the myriad requests for info that she gets (as do I, and many others, which reminds me I have to put my Photog-wanna-be FAQ back up on my site! LOL) Take a look around and enjoy the blog- stellar work!
best,
Mary
 Adam Jacobs Photography is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where specializes in sports photography. Adam makes amazing panoramic images of sports stadiums, (here) with the occasional use of selective coloring in perhaps the only worthwhile way I’ve seen.Adam also has a section on action sports photography, with some great captures and a fine art section featuring people, landscapes and more. You can read his blog here, which I really enjoyed for both the writing and the images. ~Enjoy!
Mary
 published!
Ps, In case you are not a subscriber to Professional Photographer magazine, you may have missed my first nationally published article! I was asked to write for them about Blogs of Photogs, and creating a better photography blog. You can download the pdf here. If you are a subscriber, either online or in print, you can also see my second nationally published article (lol) in the same magazine, on p. 20, about getting Dads “in the picture.” It was fun to see my name and work in print! ~M
 Lynn Michelle Photography is a Dallas, TX based wedding photographer who, as she puts it: shoots fabulous people. Lynn, along with her team of Vivian and Nancy, provide exceptionally polished wedding photography services that manages to capture both the gaiety and the grandeur of each wedding. I love blogs where the writer really lets their personality shine through in their comments, this is one where it is clear what fun Lynn & crew have with their jobs, and also makes me think they’d be a lot of fun to hang out with and have a beer with too!They have all sorts of accolades on their sites, from best wedding photogs multiple years from The Knot, to other nifty features in print and online; so they don’t need me to tell them they rock at what they do~ but I’ll say it anyway; they rock. Take a peek at the blog and enjoy!
best,
Mary
 Those of you who specialize in Senior Portraits have got to check out the great post (here) on i heart faces about The Hottest Trends in Senior Portrait Photography. Then, after you are done with that, check out the rest of their awesome site!
Enjoy!
Mary
Tony Hoffer is a tremendously talented photographer that works primarily around the Philadelphia, PA area. His site features a variety of the different types of work he does; kids, families, commercial, and more, but what I absolutely loved was his wedding & engagement work. I look at a lot of blogs–a lot–and it is rare for me to see a wedding photographer that just excels at everything. From capturing the small details, to really showing the depth of emotion and joy on that special day, to making every couple look their absolute best, it is all there and then some. Amazing use of posing and perfect candid shots too… I’ll stop gushing now and let you look for yourself here on his blog.
~Enjoy!
And as a PS, I had some trouble with the blog last week when I moved it to a new hosting company. I had blogged about Hoffer photography and then the post got lost, everything got screwed up and I broke my blog on the switch over.. so I rewrote it today and I apologize for the mixup.I also switched wordpress themes as well and am now using the fabulous ProPhoto theme by NetRivet. If you are looking for the most amazing, fully customizable theme to use for your blog or your blogsite, I cannot say enough good things about Jared and his team over at ProPhoto blogs. Affordable product, great tutorials, wonderful customer service and really nice people to work with all add up a product I am happy to give two thumbs up and offer you a chance at $10 off with this code: MARHAN882 I also have to thank them for helping me fix the things I screwed up on the host transfer. Good service like that needs a shout-out!
Posted in artistic, babies, children, commercial, engagement, families, inspiring, maternity, original, updates often, wedding
Came across this great Pay-It-Forward project today: Roadside Families and knew I had to share it with all my readers on Blogs of Photogs! I’ll excerpt the “rules” below from their website, but the basic premise is this; photographers taking photos of other photographers family and then paying it forward, all with no money exchanged~ a beautiful idea!
Rules for Paying-It-Forward (note from Mary, this is from their website)
- Once you and your family has been photographed, you have 30 days to photograph another photographer’s family. Don’t be that person that holds up the line because you procrastinated!
- A photographer and their family (defined) can be any family group that consists of a photographer and his/her family. This could be a regular nuclear family, distant cousins, twin siblings, or conjoined twins. Whatever.
- Be creative. Let loose! Free your mind!
Rules for Submissions
- Nudity or vulgarity will not be acceptable. Keep it family-friendly.
- Images can be no more than 900 pixels wide (including your watermark).
- Yes, you may watermark your image.
- To keep the chain going, you need to link to your own family post here on roadsidefamilies.com. This is called a permalink, and the url is shown on each post. For example, if JMC shot Joe’s Family and Joe shoots Kelly’s family, then when Joe posts Kelly’s photo on RoadsideFamilies.com, he needs to link to the one JMC shot of him.
Example (at the top of the post): Photography by Joseph, Click here for Joseph’s family photograph
- IMPORTANT! Follow the step by step instructions below for submissions.
So, check it out and find a photographer to photograph your family and then you get to go shoot another photographers family. Love to hear about those that have already done this! Great idea!
best,
Mary
Katie Campbell, of the Portland, OR area, is a newcomer to professional photography– only “doing it full time since September” as she mentions in her blogsite. Although her portfolio isn’t as fleshed out as photographers with much longer established careers, her captivating images don’t reveal her “newbie-ness” in the least. Things I especially like about Katie’s site are her writing style; you really feel like you get to know her after just reading a few of her posts, her obvious love of photography, and the clarity and feeling in her images. I love how Katie has customized her blog-site to encompass everything, including the flyout links to twitter and facebook on the side.
I enjoyed Katie’s blog and also liked reading about her travels to Africa too~hope you will as well!
~Mary
Nicole Mlakar works out of the Austin, Tx area, specializing in photographing pets and their people with fabulous results. Her blog features loads of adorable furry friends and their owners, showing so many wonderful expressions and playful moments. Nicole does an amazing job in making photos that really capture all the different charming facets of her clients and showing the deep connections with their pets. Enjoy!
~Mary
Seshu Photography (blog here ) is based in Connecticut, New England, but Seshu travels extensively to capture lushly gorgeous wedding, engagement and portrait images that are a flawless mix of candid in-the-moment captures fused with beautifully posed images. Seshu was born in NY, but lived in India for 12 years before returning to the US. As he mentions in his bio, he straddles multiple cultures and comfortably immerses himself into their prized traditions. I know you will enjoy his work if you haven’t yet heard of Seshu. Make sure you follow him on twitter too, as he has lots to say and lots of great advice.
Enjoy!
Mary
Megan Borders (Photography by Meg) works out of the Tri-Cities area of Kennewick, Pasco and Richland in WA. Her blog and site have a mix of beautiful candid portraits of toddlers and children, and highly styled and posed images of newborns, families and seniors. Most photographers seem to excel at one or the other, documentary style, or the gift of working with people and arranging them just right for an almost commercial look and feel; Meg seems to have talent in both these areas. I know you’ll enjoy her blog and the alluring images within.
best,
Mary
Posted in artistic, babies, children, commercial, documentary style, families, inspiring, maternity, newborn, seniors, toddlers, updates often
Uniquely You Photography Blog features Sarah Ulrich’s gorgeously clean, fresh and bright photography. Sarah has both a photography and a design background which are evident in her work as well is in her amazing design offerings to photographers (here) Sarah works out of Lincoln Nebraska, specializing in babies, children and families. Her work is equally amazing on location, or in studio for newborns and maternity. Enjoy!
Posted in artistic, babies, birth, children, families, inspiring, maternity, newborn, photographers, seniors, studio, toddlers, updates often
Carin Krasner makes the most amazing images of food. I came across her from a cookbook of sorts I have with cocktail food cards and the images were so stunning I had to look her up. She doesn’t have a blog, but her site has such wonderful still life images on it, including more recent work. Carin is an accomplished photographer with quite a lengthy resume of work~ ranging from California Pizza Kitchen to Whole Foods, Disney to Walmart~ enjoy!
Mary
I’ll put the link to the layered .psd file for this card I made into the freebie section in a minute. Let me know if you like it! Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!
best,
~Mary
Audrey Woulard, has been working out of Chicago as a portrait photographer for about 7 years, near as I can remember. Audrey and I were friends online on a parenting board for many years before either of us ever pursued photography as a career, so I got to see her go from starting out to skyrocketing to fame in a fairly short period. Audrey’s work has a very distinctive style, a commercial feel that caught the eye of national campaigns such as Pottery Barn Kids a few years back. Audrey is an extremely successful business woman as well, offering many variations of workshops over the years that have brought her as many aspiring photographer fans as she has photography clients. I’m convinced that if Audrey writes about a product on her blog, or uses a hat, blanket (remember that?) etc in her work, then you ought to buy some stock in it~ her cult following is that strong.Her work has been featured in many places, including the cover of Professional Photography magazine and is the inspiration for many photographers who are just starting out. If you haven’t checked out her blog before, I know you’ll enjoy it.
On a personal note, please forgive my neglecting Blogs of Photogs. Its crunch time for finishing up all my client work. I hope to share a freebie card I designed within the next day or so, hopefully you can use it for last minute orders, or maybe even for your own neglected card! Happy Holidays to all!
~Mary
Posted in babies, beach, business tips, children, commercial, families, fashion, inspiring, mothers, newborn, photographers, updates often
I usually try to limit my posts and review to those photographers who have blogs, as the name is “Blogs of Photogs” but after coming across Skeisvoll Photography, I just *had* to share their site with you. Monica & Erik’s portfolios are so jam packed with awesome commercial and fashion work~ I know everyone will enjoy seeing their website. ~Enjoy!
~Mary
ps, my cousin (see previous posts) is doing much better, still in hospital (5 wks now) but out of coma, not on vent, doing phys. therapy and OT, etc. Long road to complete recovery, so keep him in your prayers please.
Mattijn Franssen of The Netherlands makes fantastic surreal works of art that you can browse through on his site here or on his flickr page here. Much of his work on Flickr are photomontages (frequently self portraits) from his own photography works, but he also a self taught oil painter and illustrator. Wandering through his large quantity of work left me feeling like I was in Tolkien’s Middle Earth, especially as put forth in Peter Jackson’s LOTR movies. Mattijn has just a ridiculous amount of talent and I hope you enjoy this “something different” on Blogs of Photogs.
~Mary
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