Between my commercial photography in Tallahassee, editorial work, personal projects for TallahasseeStock.com and media coverage, 2011 was my best year since the inception of MarkWallheiser.com.  Cover stories in both the Tallahassee Democrat’s Sunday magazine TLH and Tallahassee Magazine cover story and an unprecedented 16 pages of my work inside were definitely the cornerstone of my Best of 2011.

A former coworker saw my latest personal project on my website and emailed wanting to feature it as the Photo of the Week on his photography blog and asked me if I would tell him how it was shot.  It wasn’t until I started the email that I realized how unusual the 6 month personal […]

Asked to do a Trash the Dress shoot turned into months of thinking and planning while waiting on the water to warm.    What resulted, was more of a bridal portrait than a Trash the Dress shoot. The creativity we started with was shooting in the murky cold Wakulla River came closer to a search […]

It’s Pollen Season ! Charged with illustrating a story on the pollen season, I illustrated it outrageously normal for Tallahassee and north Florida! It took three days to perfect the color of my talcum powder and another half afternoon to set the strobes, decorate the model and shoot.  I shot it on 2 1/4 film, […]