Villa Joseph Marie High School is a private all-girls high school in the busy center of Holland, Pennsylvania - although when you’re on campus it really doesn’t feel that way. I got to spend a day in an out of classrooms, walking around campus and getting a little jealous of all the amazing sisterhood moments happening (high school didn’t look this fun in the early 2000’s). From the library to center stage - to church and an outside lunch, we really hit it all.

I headed out to Arlington, Virginia this spring to visit Marymount University for some marketing work. We built in two days on campus, which meant we could come back the next morning for the spots where the light just wasn't cooperating the day before, and catch a few angles we'd missed the first time around. The two days also let us pop into so many different locations and classrooms which really shows off the university as a whole. That extra day made a real difference — the gallery ended up with a nice range of shots the University can use across their marketing in a variety of ways.

We recently asked to photograph patients for Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital's Impact Report, and we could barely wait until publication date to share these amazing stories of resilience.

We won't spoil it here (you can read the full story for yourself), but it's a great reminder of why we love working on projects like this.

Real people, real recovery, real impact.

This spring I spent time on and off campus with the students and faculty from Penn's School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) and Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE).

For PCOM's Digest Magazine, we followed Kara Evans, DO '23, through a full day of her surgery residency at Temple Health–Chestnut Hill Hospital. No posed shots, no "can you do that again but smile." Just her actual day, start to finish.

Photography Helps You Recruit Better

When people consider hiring Melissa Kelly Photography, they usually think marketing, branding, or website photos — content geared towards potential clients. But there’s so much more that quality professional photography can be doing for your business than communicating with clients.

We spent a day at Wehrung's shooting the whole operation — the warehouse, the lumberyard, and the retail store up front. Forklifts, stacked lumber, the yard in action, plus the bright aisles and staff on the retail side. Good mix of gritty and polished, which is exactly what a place like this needs for marketing.

Before someone reaches out, schedules an appointment, or fills out a contact form, they’ve probably already spent time on your website forming an opinion about you and your organization. And whether we realize it or not, a huge part of that first impression comes from the photos. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Another graduation season is in the books, folks. It was MKP’s 19th year documenting graduations. This year we photographed 8,493 grads. You read that right - we got to celebrate with OVER EIGHT THOUSAND GRADS, across eleven schools, and twenty-two graduation ceremonies.