We have a new BLOG!!!

We are so excited to announce that MichelleAllen Photography is officially Kimberly Jarman Photography. We still have a few things that have not switched over but we are making the switch!

Also, we are VERY excited to announce that we now have a new blog. Click on the image below and it will take you to our very own new handy dandy beautiful blog!!! Make sure to add it to your subscription feeds!! - For all you Xanga users, for now I will try to continue to update this blog and eventually I will get a new Xanga for Kimberly Jarman Photography.

So this means..... GO TO OUR NEW BLOG... This will be the last post here!!!

Tiffany and Kurt

Tiffany called me up about 3 weeks ago and told me that she was having a small wedding at the Hilton Mesa on a Thursday and was hoping I could come out for a bit and take some pictures of her and Kurt. They have been engagement for awhile now but decided about 3 weeks ago that they just wanted to have a small wedding with their parents and do it fast... so yesterday I went out and met them to take pictures of the ceremony and some pictures of the two of them.

I was also able to see one of my favorite make up artists, Deanna, and a wonderful Minister Sandi Miller with Ever After Events. I love seeing vendors that I know and recommend!!

We had a blast and I love how all the pictures turned out! What a beautiful couple!

This is Tiffany's little girl, a complete doll!!

Brittany's Maternity Session

Brittany called me up a few weeks ago and said that she really wanted to do a maternity session. She told me that she had procrastinated in doing one and it had to be done soon because she was due in 1 week!!! So we set something up fast and last week had a lot of fun. She might even be in labor right now or already have a wonderful baby girl.


Below are some of my favorites... but a little pre-warning, there is a lot of skin showing so if you are sensitive don't keep looking.

Enjoy!!

Sophie Aviles

Last week I was able to photograph Sophie Aviles. I have now photographed the Aviles family engagement session, wedding, and their 1st and 2nd children. I love this family and enjoy hanging out with them each time.

Sophie was born about 7 weeks ago and looks just like her daddy! She is beautiful. At about 6 months we will do another session showing how much she has grown. Below are a few of my favorites.

I am still alive

It has been a few days since I posted and I just wanted to let everyone know I am alive. I will shortly have some amazing baby pictures and maternity pictures to post, but this week and weekend I have been very very busy with the studio. It is looking so wonderful and we are almost all moved in. Everything is pretty much in place except for the pictures on the wall. Isn't that funny, a photography studio with no photography? Well soon that will change and I can't wait!

Once it is totally ready I will post up pictures. We have been down with access to phone and email for a tiny bit, so please be patient while we answer emails and calls. We are getting everything set up again and will be running fully shortly!!

Fun Conference

Yesterday I had an awesome opportunity to go to a conference with 2 world renowned photographers, Jerry Ghionis and Bambi Cantrell. It was a jam packed day full of a ton of good information. Everytime I go to a conference I always learn some great things to take away and use on my shoots. Jerry and Bambi are both very talented and have won numerous awards; They both spoke in great length about advertising, marketing, creating assignments for your self at every wedding, posing techniques, album design, outsourcing, lighting techniques and so much more. (words excerpted from Jen Bowens Site:))

I was able to hang out with two great friends as well, Jennifer Bowen and Melissa Jill. I love having friends in the community that I can do these type of things with. There were a few other great friends there as well, but really a lot of faces that I didn't know.. which is kind of weird to me!

I was able to shoot a few shots and was so happy with what I got.

First, this was a posing technique that Bambi was sharing with us.. Mandy, Elizabeth, and Melissa were all a part of this.
This is Jerry in Action.
These are shots that I got, but Bambi and Jerry set them up; however, all day I was eying this location as an amazing place to shoot, so that was exciting. These turned out so great!






The girls are going to kill me for posting this, we all look horrible, but I wanted to put something up. This is Jen, me and Melissa.

Finally I can share the exciting news!!!

Hello Friends. The time has come.. I now get to share the exciting news that I have been talking about all summer. There are 2 major things that have been going on this summer and I have been wanting to tell them to you so bad, but have had to refrain.

The first exciting news is something that I have been contemplating doing for the last few years now and after much thought and consideration we have decided that now is the time...... We are CHANGING the name of MichelleAllen Photography. I know, this might come as a shocker to all of you, but there has been so much confusion as to who Michelle Allen is that we have decided that we need to start going by my name to help with the confusion, so the company soon will be officially be changed to Kimberly Jarman Photography. Within the next few months you will be seeing subtle changes. You will still be able to access everything as you have before.. nothing other than the name has changed... I am still the photographer, my husband is still my assistant, we are still the same company, but with a different name.

For those of you who don't know the history behind MichelleAllen Photography I will briefly share that with you. When I first started my company I was trying to figure out what to call my company, it was before I was married so I didn't want to call it my maiden name because at the time I was engaged and knew my name was going to change, but I wasn't married yet, thus the debate of what to call my company. After much thought we had an amazing brainstorm to call it MichelleAllen Photography, which is my middle name and Jamie, my husbands, middle name. It sounded great and was the perfect solution.

Little did I know that the name would confuse people like crazy. Everyone wants to know where Michelle is or why my company is named someone else's name. For the last 4 years we have been debating on what to do. Finally I realized that for everyone's sakes we had to change the name.

Therefore, MichelleAllen Photography is now Kimberly Jarman Photography. Below is our new logo!
The second part of the exciting news is that we now have an official studio in Downtown Mesa. The space is phenomenal and I am so excited to work from there and meet clients as well. We are in the process of renovating it and getting it ready to open.

This really is an exciting thing. I have been needing a place to meet with all of you for the longest time and now we have the perfect place to look at pictures, talk to you about your wedding, show you albums, and have fun. We will be having an open house in the next few months so keep checking the blog to hear more news about that.

Below is a sneak peak of what we have been doing over the last month.





My wonderful husband doing the manual labor.

My daddy came down from Pinetop for 2 weekends and helped so much. I couldn't have done it without him. Thanks dad!!


By the 2nd day of laying floors down Jamie was hurting so bad. It was quite funny.. he was moaning and groaning and limping:) Tonight we are going to go to the jacuzzi to help relax his poor legs!
Keep looking for more updates! We will post more pictures as well as share the new updates with the name change.