Tornado Damage | Northwest Arkansas Photography

Last weekend, our beloved Northwest Arkansas area was hit hard by a series of Tornados. Everyone's personal story with this event is different. But the beauty of a disaster situation is that it creates opportunities for help to be given and received, community to be experienced and lives to be changed for the better, even if it seems like it's temporarily for the worse. That's my 2 cents, anyway. The brutal truth though, is that we all got hit REALLY hard and personally, that's something that is dawning on me more and more everyday.

(Click to Read/View more)

Traveling Tips, Tricks and Pics | Arkansas Commercial Photographer

In almost 20 years of shooting full time Commercial Photography with Novo Studio, I have traveled quite a bit. But for the life of me, I cannot remember a time when I’ve traveled so consecutively for work. For the last 8 weeks, I’ve been gone in some capacity. This does not make me a professional traveler, but I feel compelled to share a bit about my experiences and lessons learned regardless. Since I’m not a professional traveler, I’ll keep my stories, my tips and my tricks short and sweet.

But first, Coffee.

Happily Ever After | Arkansas Commercial Photographer

Well friends, it is with mixed emotions, heartfelt gratitude and repeated thoughts of, “I can’t believe I’m actually posting this”, that I write to tell you that we are bidding farewell to wedding photography and video. This decision has been coming for some time now, but was not made without lots of back and forth over whether we would really want to follow through on it.

In 2006 when I first started out, wedding photography saved me from the clutches of the…(click to read more)

Wedding Photography, Special FeatureNovo StudioJanuary 9, 2023Novo Studios, Novo Studio, novo studios, Novo studio, novostudionwa, novostudios, NovoStudio, Novostudionwa

Recently in Travels | Arkansas Commercial Photographer

Today on the blog: A (rather large) collection of images from recent travels to New York and Pennsylvania. This was a 2 week work trip, broken up in the middle by a weekend in New York City. And we made the most of it. Along with really good food, really good drinks and miles and miles of walking, I successfully made the pilgrimage to the photo/video Mecca, B&H Photo. And I did not walk out empty handed.