Today brings yet another installment of design goodness…and I’m estatic to finally share this one with you. So I’m going to get right to it. 🙂 Our friendship with Katya and her awesome hubby began (and grew) on the interwebs. We’ve still not met in person (which pains us greatly) yet we feel like we […]

Sarah is quite literally one of the sweetest people I know. She’s the type of person who makes the lasting first impression where you walk away thinking, “She may very well be the nicest person I know!” She and Isaac have been friends for many years and went to college together, and I for one […]

I find it funny that I am SUCH a seasons kind of guy. As in I’m greatly affected by seasons and often find myself in similar states of mind (and heart) each time September rolls around. I am sure there is some crazy physchological reason for this and there is probably heaps of buried meaning […]

today marks the two year anniversary of the official launch of j. shipley photography. geesh! it snuck up on me, and i can hardly believe that at this very time two years ago, i was up in my hotel room at the montecito inn running through my launch party schpeel with sara truppo. wow. that […]

Last month, I had the honor of working with my buddy Chris Johnson on creating a custom Showit site for his photography business. My aim was to create web presence that spoke to who he was in an authentic and innovative way and was a clear expression of his brand. With inspiration from J. Crew […]

i love me some change. especially when it’s of the upgrade nature. after five years with my make-shift blog, i thought it time to move-on and clean things up a little bit. it was scary though. change has that effect on me sometimes because it requires a learning curve and lots of adjustments and perhaps […]