what photographers do when they are bored....

I promised to show a pic from being stranded at the airport last night...
Here is one of the shots from our state of delirium... :)

Amy, Janey and Me

wow. we are dorks. But at least we look cool rockin' our KISS sweatshirts

Vegas V| lying down on the job

The sweet Miss Lauren Rutten just sent me this picture she took of me at WPPI. I was lying on the ground underneath the Pictage booth after the tradeshow one day... These shows sure do take it out of you! But it truly was worth every minute.
:D

Vegas IV| coming home

after an amazing week at WPPI, it was finally time to say goodbye. Goodbye to friends old and new, goodbye to all night parties and goodbye to the smell of smoke and the sounds of "chings", "pings", and constant conversations. I will admit it is nice to be sitting in a quiet house as my brain detoxes from the sensory overload that accompanies trips to sin city.
The trip home wasn't smooth sailing however...
check this out.
-10:00pm arrive at airport for 11:52pm flight (I traveled with a few gals who like to be early ;) )
-11:45pm board plane and sit on tar mack for one hour waiting to takeoff
-1:45am arrive in Santa Barbara and are greeted by the wonderful smells of orange blossoms that made you temporarily forget the horrible smells of Vegas.
-2:30am Car wont start... no juice
**uh-oh**
Luckily I have roadside assistance on my phone but alas, my phone was DEAD
So we walk to the parking attendant at the airport and he summons security to come give us a jumphttp://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
However, Security busted their jumper cables so they couldn't help us
We called a towing company recommended by the parking attendant only to receive no answer.
Luckily again, Amy has AAA so we called them and they promised to be there by 3:07am.
-3:30am tow truck arrives, jumps my car and we are home safe and sound.

Amy, Janey and I all wore our new KISS sweatshirts and thankfully we did or we would have died of hypothermia... It was SOOOOO cold! ;) ;)

off to sleep now... a Grand total of 4 hours of sleep in the last two nights combined and then staying up till 4:30 this morning makes being awake for 68 out of 72 hours NO FUN!!!!
Goodnight and stay tuned for some pics that documented our delirium tonight. :)

Vegas III | fred egan

I met THE Fred Egan Monday night at the BluDomain shindig and we've participated in crazy adventures ever since. I totally admire his work and really wanted the opportunity to shoot with him, so we attempted to arrange a shoot but were unable to arrange models. SO... as a result, we just shot eachother! It was a challenge because I only had a half hour to shoot but here are a few of my favorites!


In Action...


Here are a few of my Favorites that Fred shot...

Vegas II | bludomain

BluDomain hosted a sweet lil' Vegas Party in the KingPin Suite at the Palms on Monday Night and in addition to the bowling lanes inside the suite, they had this fun photobooth...

Here are a few fun pics! :)

Vegas I | friends

I totally stole this picture from Liana's blog! I just wanted to give a little love to my roomates. I love you girls!!!
Liana, Jazzy, me, Kristin
And of course our dear friend Master Colon sneaking his mug in ;)

There's a bunch more to come...but this is just a little teaser to prove I havent fallen off the face of the planet! :)

Girls Gone Wild!

I am not kidding. but I will spare the details ;)

The sweet Miss Paige Kearin celebrated her birthday in STYLE! We met up in Beverly Hills
at the Regent Beverly Wilshire for cocktails and appetizers. I was so excited because this is the hotel from Pretty Woman! That is one of my fav movies so it made me VERY happy!


Next we made our way to Kate Mantilini's for dinner where we dined in our own little room... or shall I say " Our own little world". Out of 9 gals, only 3 of us were single so we learned A LOT from our married friends :)
The night was still young and lent itself to some fun charades, parade, and cake back at the hotel room! Around midnight we once again donned the heels and went down to club Element
for a night of dancing!!
Around 4am we melted into bed only to rise and shine by 10 and reconfigure ourselves for the next adventure.... DAY SPA! Burke Williams day Spa in West Hollywood
Oh man, oh man, oh man.... this was my first spa experience and it was heavenly! Amidst all the new adventures and fun experiences, the best part was just hangin' with the gals... a wild group of beautiful women who each made these experiences better with their own flavor! Thank you Paige...you truly rocked my world!! I cant wait to party again! :)

Like they used to say on Sesame Street...
This weekend's programming was brought to you by the number 19 and the word jetski!
(ps)
I will post "people" pictures from last night soon :)


Now its off to WPPI in Vegas until Thursday Night! I have had 12 hours of sleep in the last three days and I doubt I will get much more over the next week.... Here we go!!

It's ALIVE!

My website is finally LIVE!!!

We are still in the process of making a few changes (like loading the background music) but I just couldn't wait anymore!!!

Take a peek.... **Click Here**



My designers were seriously amazing Amazing AMAZING to work with! Soooo kind and creative, yet professional and prompt. I cannot brag about them enough! Most of the time, they were waiting on ME, instead of me waiting on them. ( How's that for incredible service?!) They are even building me a complete back-end site so I can do everything myself. These guys are just wonderful and I HIGHLY recommend them to anyone looking to build a website (flash or html). Jason also designs business cards for those looking for that.
Also a special thanks to my dear friend Jasmine Star for the fun new headshots!

Soooo... whatddya think??? :)

Nothing.

I walked into the coffee shop by my old college tonight, and what was intended to be a 5 minute pit stop turned into a three hour chat with some friends that I graduated with. I can say that it was a coincidence, but, after our long talk, I know that it was a little more than that. ;) We all had some part of our tanks that were running a little empty but the true power of fellowship kicked in and we each left with a little more pep in our step :)
Anyway, someone mentioned this and I thought I would share because it really struck a chord with me.

During a nationally televised interview with Mother Teresa, the interviewer asked the following questions...

Interviewer: What does God say to you when you pray?
Mother Teresa: "Nothing."
Interviewer: "Then what do YOU say to God when you pray?"
Mother Teresa: "Nothing."................ " and if you dont understand that, then you dont understand God"



hmmmmm.... that made me smile. I wonder why we sometimes take the simplest things and make them so complex??

Glorified Randomness...

haha... I was cleaning out my PhotoBucket account and I found this random picture taken 4 years ago.... Film, scanned, and 1 hour photo developed ( because I was impatient!). Obviously I wasnt paying attention because I stinkin' cut off their feet! What was I thinking?! lol
Anyway, I just thought I would share my very first attempt at a "fashion" shoot...lol... we were going for abercrombie look but they were obviously wearing too many clothes!
Oh dear.







Here's another random picture I found that I took on the side of the road in LA during a shoot a while back... hee hee... it makes me smile!

Email Notification

For the time being... The email address shyla@shylaphotography.com will be down as we switch servers (and all that jazz) in preparation for the new website. I know many of you use that address so please don't feel offended if you do not receive a response back :)
Please feel free to contact me at shyla.dalirifar@gmail.com instead...:)

I am sooo excited, I will let you know as soon as we are up and running again because that will mean that the website is live! :)

SMILE!!! :)

Its such a beautiful day here in Southern California and nothing seems to be going right... but regardless of circumstances I can never warrant NOT smiling. You never know what a smile to a stranger can do for their day and thus the day of the next person they encounter. Even better, you never know what a friendly smile could do for those around you!

:)

hee hee, this is from our 3am breakfast rendezvous at WPPI last year!

Big White, CANADA!

I just got back from Beautiful British Columbia and I had the most wonderful time!
Can I live in Canada someday?? Those accents get me every time :D!
Pictage hosted their annual Best of the Best Conference and I had the pleasure of hearing business advice from some of the industry's finest photographers.
With photographers like Denis Reggie, David Jay, David Salomone, Terry Gruber, Brooke Mayo, and Michelle Walker It was a star studded event indeed :) If they all put on a seminar together, it would be like the most expensive seminar EVER! I learned sooo much and took pages and pages of notes!

Here are a few pictures of the beautiful land of Canada....










Dave Luebke, Bibiana, and I went snowboarding! I snagged this picture from the video DJ made of our trip. We were resting because our legs were seriously ON FIRE!!! You can see the video here.

He kindly edited out the part where I fell flat on my butt on the icy patio, you can just picture that one in your imagination! ;)

It was truly a beautiful place and it was so great to make and meet new friends! Thanks for the fun Pictage!!