Pictures in the Pines - The Radacks

It's always intimidating and also flattering when another photographer asks you to take pictures of their family! Jennifer Radack with OGrace Photography saw that I was doing Pictures in the Pines pictures and thought it was a great way for their family to get pictures done out of the heat. They are from Colorado and miss the pine trees and cool weather so they decided to make the weekend a camping trip for the kids and also family picture time.

I love that they allowed me to take them back roading to find some really fun and different locations for the pictures! We got some great ones!






























I Love this series.... their little girl was sneaking up behind them and we got some great reactions:)









Fun and Crazy family!!!








Thanks Jennifer... I had a great time!!!!

Pictures in the Pines - The Hummers

I have known the Hummer family for as long as I can remember. David and I went to High School together and I used to hang out with him and Robert all the time playing basketball. I also worked for the Hummers in their Restaurant during High School so I have lots of memories!

A few years ago Nancy asked me to photograph Robert and Crystal's wedding and I was thrilled! When she called me up and said she heard I was doing Pictures in the Pines and wanted to set up a family picture I was so excited. All the kids were in town and it was the perfect weekend to do it!

It's so crazy when you see your friends having families and watch families that you've known forever grow.... we got a good mix of everything, including the dog (she was feeling left out).

Thanks Hummers!!!!


Aren't they all so sweet... it's crazy that my friends can have 3 kids already and one is a 7 year old!!! I feel so old!!! But they are beautiful!



This is Robert and Crystal and their little Guy.. I love this picture because he was not wanting to get pictures taken!


The Whole Gang!





They wanted to skip!!! I thought it was fun!

Reminder - only one more week until the workshop

Well there is only one more week left until we have our photography workshop, so I wanted to post a little reminder!!

This workshop is for ANYONE who wants to learn more about photography! We are going to go over a lot of really good things to help make you a better photographer.

You can view the original post with more information here, but read below for some things that we are going to be going over.

Topics Covered:

*The best lenses for the least amount of money for digital SLR cameras (hint: it's not the one that came with the camera!)

*How to turn off the flash and achieve professional looking results, even in low light

*The fundamentals of shooting manually (where the magic really happens)

*Easy lighting tips and techniques to get the best results

*How to get the most out of your Point-and-Shoot (using ISO effectively, burst rate, and more)

*The fundamentals of composition (the rule of thirds, framing your subject effectively, reducing your background elements, and more)

*And much more, including time for open-ended Q&A

If you would like more information, please don't hesitate to contact me at 480.203.1090 or workshops@kimberlyjarman.com

The workshop is only 3 hours on Saturday, June 28th from 1-4PM in Mesa.

You can download the registration form here.

Please feel free to pass this info along if you know anyone else who may be interested....

Pictures in the Pines - Reece Gonzalez

This week I am up in Pinetop and doing a few sessions for families who want to get out of the heat!!! This is one of my favorite families, the Gonzalez family. I photographed their wedding and also their little boy Reece's first pictures at 8 weeks. Well Reece is now 8 months old so we met up again to take more pictures. Since Randy and Michele come up to Pinetop a lot we thought it was a great idea to take pictures up here. I'm so glad we did! We got some very cute shots of the family and of Reece.

Look at how cute this little guy is!!!


















I Love his hair!!!














We also were able to get pictures with Grandma and Grandpa!











I love this one of Randy and Reece... we were trying to calm Reece down with some food and he totally fell asleep so we weren't able to do too much more.


Right as I was about to leave he woke up and was ready to go again, so we got a few more shots!




Love this!


Look at those eyes!



Thanks Michele and Randy for letting me come up and take pictures. I had a great time and it was wonderful seeing how big Reece is getting... I can't wait until next time.

The Wright Family Pictures

I just posted pictures up of little Landon DeWall and now I get to post pictures up of his entire family!!! Katie called me up and told me that her entire family was going to be in town and they wanted pictures of the whole gang, so we set up a time and place to take the pictures.

The day that we were supposed to take the pictures it poured... do you all remember that crazy weird weekend in May where it rained the entire time and was so out of the blue... yea, that was the weekend. I was so hoping that the rain would stop because I knew that this was not something that we could easily reschedule considering they are all from out of town. Well we decided to try to brave it the next day and go for it rain or shine!

Luckily it wasn't pouring the next day and we had some good light. It did sprinkle on us and right after we did these pictures it poured, so i'm glad we tried to do the pictures because we had a blast.

A lot of people ask me if taking pictures of weddings is hard... and I have to say yes and no at the same time. I love photographing weddings and I've been doing it so long that they aren't really that difficult for me; however, when it comes to family pictures sometimes those are much harder than a wedding... the reason why.... whenever you add a lot of people to a picture and then you add 4 kids all under the age of 2... you never know what will happen!

Katie and I were laughing because it was so chaotic and crazy, but we had a blast!

We have a ton of pictures so get ready!!

The Cousins - both about the same age (2)


The entire fam!!






Grandma and Grandpa.... you can tell they love these little ones...


Like I said, you never know what is going to happen when working with kids... we were trying to get a shot of all the kids with Grandma and Grandpa and it just wasn't going to happen.

Katie and her sister both have 2 boys and the funny thing is they are all so close in age... the two older boys are about a month apart and so are the younger ones... how fun that must have been to be pregnant at the same time and now they have cousins that are the same age!


Little Aiden


The DeWall Family.


Little Landon DeWall, he was 2 weeks old here!!


The Guthmiller Family!





I Love this one! I don't think the little guys cared for it to much, but it was fun!






So sweet... Daddy and son.


Daddy and his 2 boys!


I Love the Daddy shots.


This little guy was too funny! He hated anything on his hands or feet and kept asking grandma to get them off... he would freeze where he was and make someone come get him! What a cutie!


Grandma's are always a lot of fun!



Love this one of them marching around the place!

His feet were wet here...Love it!



And then daddy rescued him and he was happy!


And of course you can't forget about the ones who started the whole thing, Grandma and Grandpa!!!!


Thanks to all of you... I had a blast and can't wait until next time!!!