I just edited the Melde family christmas shoot. All 5 girls have such hillarious personalities and are stunning!! We took the family to downtown phoenix which has been my favorite place to shoot since
Meghann & Clare's shoot. There are SOO many amazing backgrounds that are so real and untouched. The images turned out beautiful so enjoy a few below....
Merry Christmas
xoxo
Some of my favorites...
Labels: Daily Randomness, Love It, Photographing Life
Well my photography professor at
Gonzaga University would be proud...I am finally putting my degree to use at
Riso Studio. Photography is again becoming a larger portion of my workflow...and I
LOVE it. I majored in photojournalism and advertising design but happened to fall into the latter quicker and right out of college into the publishing world. I have always incorporated photography as a portion of Riso Studio just keeping it to travel and commercial work; shooting events for local magazines and portrait & commercial work for clients. In late 2007, early 2008 I have been able to fall in love with photography all over again which is sooo refreshing. Photography has always been my go to 'creative need' whenever I feel down or just need a pick-me-up from life. It helps me put my life into perspective and bring all that positive energy back. I have to update this blog with all the recent photo shoots as there have been some awesome shoots. 2008 was an unbelievably busy travel year for me and thanks to photography for allowing me to do so. Check out some of the recent shots from a portrait shoot.
Riso Studio is now teaming up with world tour-guide extraordinare Annie Fitzsimmons. After traveling to Europe intensively since this past summer, she now has some down time to be our travel guru guest blogger! ENJOY
Hello fellow travelers!
I am excited to be able to share a few thoughts on Shannon's website. I have long admired her work. My favorite thing to do? Travel! It's a good thing too, because I have traveled thousands of miles this year for my job and for leisure. From NYC & D.C., Key West, San Diego, Boston & L.A to all corners of Europe, it has been a year of learning how to survive jet lag!
I wanted to share with you a few of my favorite new websites relating to travel and tips that I've picked up along the way.
I.
www.airfarewatchdog.com: I was skeptical of this at first, but am now addicted. It watches for the best fares from your home base (so I'm currently scouting PHX, DFW and NYC flights). The deals are awesome! You can sign up for daily or weekly e-mails with the best fares from your area to destinations around the world.
II.
www.fareedzakaria.com: Fareed Zakaria is an Indian-born journalist and TV host that was named editor of International Newsweek in 2000. For all the months I spent in Europe this year, I had to plunk down the euros and buy Int'l Newsweek each week. Fareed's articles are some of my favorites and he is truly a global citizen, fighting for people's rights around the world and explaining world issues in terms I can understand. As fabulous as it is to enjoy pizza & wine in Italy and shopping in Paris, it is even better to have an understanding of our world and what we will have to do and deal with in the years to come. I also believe, like many others, that Fareed Zakaria will be the first Muslim Secretary of State someday. :)
III. My new favorite travel tip: Thread your necklaces through straws and tape them...ta-da! No tangles. I usually only travel with one necklace (my lucky four-leaf clover) but may start traveling with more!
Also....when you're traveling, please call the "Ugly American" out on their ugliness! I have started to become so fed up with seeing so many of them overseas and actually confronting some about it. 
I will leave you with one of my favorite travel quotes from Matt Damon:
"I think many of our problems as a country would be solved if people had thick passports. There's just no substitute for actually going and seeing things."Feel free to e-mail me at annie@anniefitzsimmons.com.
I wish you all a wonderful holiday season and many plane rides ahead!
Cheers,
Annie Fitzsimmons
is up & running on our site now thanks to the ever so talented Ryan Brannen of
ONEREDKEY. It is longer then expected but there are so many great ideas and shots that I wanted all of you and my clients to check out! Hopefully it will be your new inspiration for the day. Don't forget to go out and follow your dreams...especially if that means travel!!!!
Shannon, xo
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Labels: Basic Travel Consulting, Fantastic Finds, Full Service Boutique Travel, Love It, Photographing Life, The Industry, Travel Images, Travel Tips
