A few weeks ago I was able to take Nick Randall’s senior portraits. We met at their house and then did all the photos at the golf course behind their home. I made the mistake of having us meet at 6AM!! It was freezing. I couldn’t feel my fingers when trying to take the pictures… [...]

Some say they don’t want to make any money from this photo just a few bucks. Others say they don’t want any pay at all just a photo credit to get their name out there or to see it in a paper with their photo credit. Quick tell me the name of the photographer who [...]

Happy Halloween Everyone!! Do you know what today is? Yes, it’s Halloween, but that’s not the important thing. Today is the end of the Benefit the Habans Sale! I’d like to personally thank everyone who purchased some prints to help out Jami and little Kason in a time of need. With everyone’s help, we were [...]

Well, it’s time I joined the 21st Century! While I was at work (my other work, working very hard of course!) I decided I wanted to make my site easily accessible on your mobile phone. So, when I got home from work I did a search for “custom mobile sites.” Hundreds of options came up. [...]

Yesterday (Sunday, October 4th) I decided to take one of the drives that Arizona Highways Fall Edition suggested. It was located up in the White Mountains by Sunrise Ski Resort. Apparently, my teachers were correct… I can’t understand and follow directions. Haha! I misread the driving directions and ended up in the middle of nowhere. [...]

A month ago at the Water Wheel campground area, just North of Payson, Arizona, a wild fire started… forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people. The cause: Humans. During the popular time for camping in the Mogollon Rim area, thousands of people travel North from the valley to get away from the heat. Payson becomes [...]

Last last Saturday (the 19th of September) I had the wonderful pleasure of doing Miss Emily Hills Senior Portraits. Emily spent her Junior year of high school over in Sweden as a Rotary Foreign Exchange Student. So, it has been over a year since I’d seen Emily… it was quite the reunion. Haha! I also [...]

What are GND’s, or Graduated Neutral Density filters? GND’s are pieces of Glass, Resin, or Plastic that are clear at the bottom half, but tinted at the top half. There are two main types of GND filters, Soft Edge and Hard Edge. Soft edge gradually “fades” as it goes towards the bottom, so it’s a [...]

Sur-Real Photography is pleased to be doing a Portrait Session Raffle for the “Benefit the Habans” promotion. 100% of these donations will be going towards the “Jami Haban to Benefit Kameron Haban” fund. For more information on that, please click here. For every $10 that you donate, you will be entered into a raffle for [...]