Northern Utah · Available for travel

Photos that feel
like you.

Honest moments, bold ideas, and a little bit of beautiful weirdness—captured by Olivia Pulsipher.

Weddings · Families · Seniors · Pets · Creative Shoots

More than a perfect pose

Big days. Quiet glances.
The wonderfully unexpected.

Your photos should bring you right back to how it felt. Banana Shots creates relaxed, expressive images for people who want something genuine—and occasionally something gloriously strange.

Selected work

Stories worth keeping.

Choose a collection above—or select any photograph to open its full gallery.

Couple embracing on a porch
Couples

Together, honestly

Creative portrait with a woman holding a snake
Creative photo shoots

Wild ideas welcome

Family walking through a sunlit field
Families

Where you belong

Dog sitting beside a mountain lake at sunset
Pets

Adventure companions

Wedding party celebrating outdoors
Weddings

The whole joyful story

Senior portrait in a blue and white formal gown
Seniors

Entirely your own

Portrait with intricate skull makeup
Creative photo shoots

Beautifully strange

Family portrait with mountains behind them
Families

Room for everyone

Surreal portrait beside a computer at the water's edge
Creative photo shoots

Outside the ordinary

Person and dog reflected in a mountain pond
Pets + their people

Go together

Fantasy floral portrait with elaborate headpiece
Creative photo shoots

Made from imagination

Senior portrait seated before evergreen trees
Seniors

Your next chapter

Alternative fashion portrait in a garden
Portraits

Wear your personality

Alternative portrait seated in a pavilion
Portraits

Make it unmistakably yours

Fantasy portrait in a yellow gown standing in water
Creative photo shoots

Stories made visible

Character portrait with a ghostly reflection
Creative photo shoots

Meet another self

Black and white dog beside a mountain lake
Pets

Good dogs, great light

Senior portrait on bright salt flats with mountains in the distance
Seniors

Wide-open possibilities

Alternative portrait holding a dark floral bouquet
Portraits

Romance with an edge

Alternative portrait beside a tree in the forest
Portraits

Into the woods

Mother lying in the grass with her baby
Families

The littlest moments

Family of three framed by a garden trellis
Families

Growing together

Young boy peeking through colorful holiday lights
Families

A little magic

Alternative portrait with a black and red bouquet
Portraits

Dark blooms

Child blowing dandelion seeds in a field
Families

Let them be little

Mother and daughters together in a sunlit field
Families

All your favorite people

Couple sitting together in an autumn woodland
Couples

Close, comfortable, real

Newlywed couple embracing on a red bridge
Weddings

Just married

Family portrait outdoors with two dogs
Families + pets

Everyone belongs

Wedding couple kissing beside illuminated LOVE letters
Weddings

Say it in lights

Three siblings standing together outdoors
Families

Side by side

Father and young child together on a woodland path
Families

Built-in best friends

Family portrait in autumn with mountains behind them
Families

Home in the mountains

Black poodle sitting on a fallen tree
Pets

Big personality

Moody character portrait with skull makeup
Creative photo shoots

From the shadows

Experimental triple-exposure skull portrait
Creative photo shoots

Triple vision

Close portrait with detailed skull makeup
Creative photo shoots

Face the strange

Dark cinematic group character portrait
Creative photo shoots

Gather after dark

Costumed character portrait in a cemetery
Creative photo shoots

Beautifully haunted

Ways to work together

Whatever you're celebrating, remember it well.

01

Weddings + Couples

From the nervous anticipation to the dance-floor chaos, your day documented with warmth and intention.

02

Families + Milestones

Comfortable sessions built around connection—not forcing everyone into the same stiff pose.

03

Seniors + Portraits

Personality-forward portraits for graduations, personal branding, or simply showing up as yourself.

04

Pets + Their People

Patient, playful portraits that make space for every personality, muddy paw, and beloved companion.

05

Events

The energy, people, details, and moments that make your gathering worth remembering.

Dramatic creative portrait with character makeupBREAKTHE RULES

A Banana Shots original

Creative photo shoots
without the rulebook.

Bring a fully formed vision or the beginning of a wonderfully strange idea. Olivia builds expressive sessions around character, color, styling, location, and story—with optional special-effects makeup when the concept calls for it.

  • Fantasy and character portraits
  • Alternative fashion and styling
  • Horror, costume, and themed sessions
  • Custom concepts welcome
Dream up a shoot

Olivia
Pulsipher

Behind the camera

Hi, I’m Olivia.

Photographer, artist, nature-chaser, and longtime maker of things that go bump in the night.

I’m drawn to real expression—the full-belly laugh, the wind that refuses to cooperate, and the tiny moments you didn’t know anyone noticed. My goal is to give you photographs that look beautiful without losing what made the moment yours.

Based in Northern Utah and always happy to hear the idea you think might be “too weird.”

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Tell me what you're imagining

Let’s make
something worth
remembering.

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