About Priceless Photography
Elizabeth Price
Owner/Lead Photographer
Elizabeth (Beth) Price was born and raised in Traverse City, Michigan, and is a graduate of Brooks Institute of Photography. Price launched Priceless Photography, Inc. in December of 2002. Beth wants people to look at Priceless Photography's work and appreciate the captured memories and moments that will live on forever, creating an impact on their visual world. A people person, Beth loves working with her clients to gain their trust in her professional photographic services, and to keep them returning again and again for her fresh and unique style of creative imagery.
Beth is a member of the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International, The Professional Photographers of America, The Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce and the Digital Wedding Forum. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association of Books Institute, is a member of the Leadership Team of Great Lakes Friends of Safe Passage, and serves as a Deacon at her church.
"I love summer in Northern Michigan...laughing until I cry...my family...working at night...sleeping in...times when I'm at my creative genius...brilliant movies...vanilla bean ice cream...an orange full moon...sunsets...my cat...hugging trees."
Jan-Michael Stump
2nd Shooter
2nd Shooter
Jan-Michael Stump is a Traverse City based photographer with several years of professional experience. A 2002 graduate of Michigan State University,
he spent four years at a newspaper in Birmingham, Alabama, where he
covered stories ranging from hurricanes to NCAA sporting events --
including NCAA basketball tournaments and BCS Bowl games -- to daily
life in the South's "Magic City." Jan returned to Michigan in 2005 to
join the staff of the Traverse City Record-Eagle
and enjoy the natural beauty of northern Michigan.
Jan was the 2001
Michigan College Photographer of the Year, and has won numerous awards
from the Michigan Press Photographer's Association, Alabama Press
Association, National Press Photographer's Association, Associated
Press, and others. Jan enjoys photographing weddings with a
journalist's eye, capturing moments both quiet and boisterous with an
artistic quality and a sense of humor.
Holly White
Studio Manager
Holly White was born and raised in the Traverse City area. She attended Lake Superior State University in the Upper Peninsula where she played NCAA Women's Basketball and graduated with a degree in Psychology. She relocated back to Traverse City in 1999.
Holly excels in customer service and brings personality and enthusiasm into each of her endeavors. Living in Northern Michigan, she loves four-season outdoor adventures, from kayaking and disc golf to snowboarding and cross-country skiing. She also enjoys eating (and growing) local food, and taking time to appreciate the world around her. Holly enjoys and shares life in Traverse City with her two children, Olive and Murray, who really wanted to see their names on this website. : )
Raffi Appel
Photo Assistant/2nd Shooter
Raffi Appel is a graduate of Traverse City Central High School and attends Michigan State University's
new Residential College for the Arts and Humanities, studying a
self-created cross-disciplinary program integrating photography with
social and cultural studies. Raffi began working with
photography in 2006. He attended a residential photography workshop at
the University of Michigan Biological Station and has won awards for
his images. He has been published numerous times in the Traverse City
Record-Eagle and Northern Express, documented the Traverse City Film
Festival, and has shot for Crystal Mountain.
Raffi began
assisting, editing and shooting for Priceless Photography in 2007.
Recently, he did the cover photography for regional jazz artist, Jeff
Haas' new CD. In the process of embracing photography, he has found a
new tempo for his life and learned much about perception and the
nuances of the people and places around him.
Luke Kermode
Photo Assistant/2nd Shooter
Luke Kermode has known from a very young age that his passion is preserving life's moments, people, and places through the lens of his camera. He is rarely without his equipment, and enjoys the technical challenges of capturing the images his eyes see and making them visible to the world. Luke has won numerous awards for his photography, and in addition to attending Lake Leelanau St Mary High School, he keeps busy assisting senior photographers and freelancing for the Traverse City Record Eagle.
Luke believes "We have been created with a particular talent, and the responsibility to find it and use it...not just for ourselves, but also for others. For me, that is photography."
Chris Ameel
Photo Assistant
Chris Ameel not only enjoys assisting Beth, but also loves meeting the students, couples, and families on the other side of the camera. She takes great pride in helping clients achieve the vision they desire from their unique and personal photo session or special occasion.
Chris worked as a teaching assistant for the Traverse City Area Public Schools for 17 years. She enjoys reading, knitting, outdoor-activities, and exercise classes when she is not spending time with her family, which is her first and favorite priority. She is married, and has three grown daughters and four grandsons.
Cassidy
Studio Cat
Cassidy was born in San Diego, California, and after meeting Beth at a Cinco de Mayo celebration in 2000 knew she would have it made if she chose to be adopted by her. So, she willingly rode the four-hour journey North to Santa Barbara on Beth's shoulder and proceeded to live the first four years of her life in style. Her fondest memory of her home in Santa Barbara was a seafood boil that was so irresistible that she sat among the guests in her own chair and feasted on fresh seafood including crab legs and salmon.
A bit hesitant at first, but not wanting to leave her best friend, Cassidy rode along and helped Beth relocate from Santa Barbara to Traverse City in the spring of 2003.
Extremely spoiled, she currently resides at our studio but spends a couple months of her summer on Long Lake where she bird watches, struts on the enclosed porch, and reigns over three golden retrievers.