Fall Preview-- playing Blog catch up!

I fell behind on the ole' blog. There I said it. It's tough to keep the 10,000 image workflow fast and furious. I'm still catching my breath after delivering a baby, adjusting to a new baby... remodeling and opening a new studio downtown.

I'm spending the winter catching up! As I poured over wedding images tonight, I got teary -- no, I really did. I do love my job and sometimes when I spend some time with the photographs it calms me... I've been stressed out lately. I can't wait for you all to see your images... there are some priceless moments in here and I just did a cursory edit.

I picked some fun images to show here. You are all truly beautiful. I was honored to witness so much true love this fall.

McKinley-Johnson Oct. 11, 2008

Here are a few great photos to get you up to date...


Alprin-Stowe - Oct. 12



Vega- Hallner Oct. 19, 2008



Roides-Golob Nov. 1, 2008

Jimi-- oh and Mel+ Ray

Um, how cute is little Jimi-dog? Christmas card photo shoot. Love it. Love it. Mel and Ray? Love 'em! We "went for it" and drove all the way up to Merry-Go-Round Rock.

Camille + Brian | Arizona Snowbowl | Flagstaff, AZ

Camille and Brian were so easy going and so in love. They planned a Flagstaff destination wedding from Phoenix. The day started out pretty cloudy and we weren't sure if mother nature was going to cooperate... but she did! Camille giggled with joy when the sunset turned out to be exactly as she had hoped. It was gorgeous. These two were off to Greece after their wedding and I was jealous!







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WPJA Trash the Dress Contest 5th Place

More exciting news! I won 5th place in the first ever Wedding Photojournalist Association Trash the Dress contest. I feel pretty honored because it seemed like the Polish took this award.

Trashing the Dress is a "post wedding" photo session where the bride and groom take some chances and are not afraid to "trash" the wedding dress. If you are interested, it's really fun and we can make some really AWESOME images. I have really wanted to do some of these session in the RED dirt in Sedona or in Oak Creek. After all, when are you really going to wear your wedding dress again? Saving it for your daughter? Did YOU want to wear YOUR mother's wedding 20-30 year-old gown? I didn't think so.... your dress is made for YOUR event and frankly I'm ready to make the most of it. They actually wash up pretty well. My buddy Matt sometimes calls it the "Wash the Dress" session.

Sunday Business feature of Daily Sun

photo by Josh Biggs/Arizona Daily Sun

Exciting news today! Jamelle and I were interviewed for the local paper, The Arizona Daily Sun. Check out the article here... Maybe Owen and I will walk down and get a copy and shoot the actual page. I think we made it above the fold... we'll see.

Have Baby will Travel

So the first trip we took when Owen was 5 months was bad, REAL bad. Second one, not so bad. The difference is that he actually slept on this second trip and didn't scream in the cars when we traveled places. MAJOR improvement. We drove to Tucson to shoot a wedding last Saturday and the 5 hour drive was the longest he's been on and he did great... I did have to entertain him for the last hour of the ride, but otherwise, success!

Grand Opening Party

It's been one thing after another and our Grand Opening was a huge success. Finally, everything is done for our space-- even the lighting is up!

It's an amazing feeling to have your work on the wall and everyone talking about it. It is something that I didn't expect to experience with my wedding work... as it's not really "sell-able" to anyone except the family of the client.

It was a funny feeling when I looked over at Jamelle and the mass of people Thursday night and realized everyone had come to our party for US! It was humbling and awesome. I had clients, vendors, friends and family. Special thanks to Hollye Schumacher and Stuart Thurkill who came up all the way from Phoenix and documented the event while we were too busy to do so ourselves.

**more photos will be posted once I get some more images from those guys**

We'd really like to thank all the vendors who helped us pull this off.

Steve Douglas of Artists in Rhythm played with a Gypsy Jazz trio! Everyone commented about how great the music was! Andrea from Sedona Cake Couture made an incredible chocolate camera cake for us --delicious! Kim Duncan pull off the PR and event coordination for this event... which was fantastic. Simply Delicious made some awesome little bites to eat and a local wine shop, Vino Loco poured incredible wines for us all night. Showstoppers made some beautiful arrangements for us and other wedding peeps and photographers in attendance... Karen Lynn, Katrina Wallace, Dawn Kish, Raechel Running, John Running, Melissa Dunstan, Tina Juberg, Heather Kadar, Karen Sorenson, Donna Shoemaker and Yvonne Baca all came to show their support. Special thanks to Jason Hasenbank from the Flagstaff Photography Center for helping us get event day up and running and for the use of the beautiful gallery next door to our studio-- the photo booth was a huge hit because everyone always loves to get old fashion photo booth pictures!

baby Elise (Katrina's baby)

Karen Lynn showing off a cute photo strip

Hollye eating some delicious Cake

Stuart loves a photo booth

Stuart checking out hot girls (in a photo strip)...

outside looking in...

**more photos to come of the cake, the space, etc) **

Just for Fun

Ijust wanted to give a little update on our crazy business merger, studio opening and phone, email, webpage and general computer chaos!!

We moved into our cute little space the first week of October and so far the transition has been ...well... umm...less than productive. It took a miracle to get our phone number ported. The webpage is a little behind schedule, which caused (and is still causing) some interesting email mishaps and an overall general stress level that I don't wish upon anyone. Every morning Cameron and I come to work and make the statement that some day, life will resume as normal.I have a feeling that it may never come.

However; we do try and have fun every now and again. This morning we were the ones behind the camera for a change --and in the process I snapped a few fun photos of Cameron.

Below is one of the great canvas prints we will have hanging at the Party this Thursday night. I love HUGE prints.

Cheers!! - Jamelle

Hart girls and link back!!

The first year we lived here I remember substitute teaching when these girls were in 7th and 8th grade. Goes to show you-- they grow up fast! These girls are triplets and all very different, as I think you can tell. Matt works with their Mom at his middle school. You look beautiful, girls!

HOW does anyone raise three babies? I have no idea. I have the ultimate respect for any woman who births more than one baby at a time (HA that is the easy part, try diapering three babies at once...)?

Hey, Seniors, please, use our images on your Facebook page, but GIVE US CREDIT with a real link (including the http:// part) Ex: copy and paste this... http://www.cameronclarkphotography.blogspot.com under the images. Otherwise, it is illegal for you to take the images off our website and post them anywhere on the internet without our permission. That sounds mean. I don't want to come off as mean... we WANT to show the world your photos but it's really helpful if we get links back to our blog because it helps our business, so please, do your part for us-- THANKS!!!! On that note, ANY professional image you have taken, you always need permission to use the photograph ANYWHERE... so most of the time, we're fine with it unless you are selling something but shoot us an email and LINK BACK to us and we're happy :)

kay off my soapbox...