Melissa Shelby Photography

12/05/2025

12/02/2025

Winter Market this Friday out in front of and .

Dec 05 from 4-8pm.

All photo prints, bags, hats on sale. Up to 40% off.
Blue Mountain Town Hat clearance $20.
Bags $35 or less

If there is a piece you are interested in let me know and I’ll bring it out Friday night 😀

Online Sale 25% Off continues through 12/05.
Some prices in person will be much greater 👍

11/26/2025

Aurora over Payette Lake a few weeks ago. Fun to have an aurora chasing partner in crime now that has moved to McCall:)
Check out my print sale starting through Dec 5 and look for more discounts 12/1 at the Winter Market

06/24/2025

Join us this Thursday, June 26th for a presentation Idaho Talks .
Doors open at 6pm. Presentation starts at 6:30pm
Location: CENTRAL IDAHO HISTORICAL MUSEUM CARPENTER SHOP, 1001 State St.
All about the running of the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge including 3 short presentations from Jerry Wortley, Doug Looney, and yours truly, Melissa Shelby:)

I'll be talking about photographing and documenting the race and all the random things that happen on trail:)

Share with your friends who love the sled dogs!

02/22/2025

Getting ready for McCall Winter Carnival action this weekend. Not sure if I'll make it out for fireworks this year but last year's trip out with was awesome! Looking forward to the next few days:)

Metal prints of some of these are available in my online gallery if you want to take a little piece of the adventure home with you:)

01/21/2025

Photo Prints are still on sale! I forgot to announce the holiday sale online cause.... life:) So I'm announcing it now as a Valentine's Day sale! Most of the existing prints are discounted anywhere from 20-40% off with a small few up to 50% off.
All new custom prints are on sale as well - 25% off.

Do you see an existing print that you like but need it shipped? That is no problem. Just reach out to me directly to figure out pricing for that.

Also simple matted 8x10's and 5x7's of assorted McCall and Pacific Northwest Scenes.

Check out to see some of the bigger prints up close and personal!

Bags and hats are up to $20 off and all art prints are up to 25% off.

Prints are viewable on my website at www.melissashelby.com.

05/29/2024

We lost my sweet, little, tiny mom about 2 weeks ago. My brother and I wanted to make sure that the folks from Alabama that knew her best were aware of her passing.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

She was originally from Henderson, KY but met met my dad in Ft Lauderdale after seeing the old movie called "Where the Boys Are." I watched the reruns with her many times over the years and loved it! She and Mark often spoke of how they met up until the day she died.

She was proudest of the fact that after marrying her, my father's first big marital expense was to bury her beloved horse named Dan.

She was a substitute teacher at Cahaba Heights during the 70's and I especially loved the chaos and grief that Mrs. Sample's fourth grade class gave her. I loved sneaking in after 2nd grade was over and stoking the fire. They were a handful! But she adored every minute:)

She was also a fixture at the Cahaba Heights Ballpark for many years and could often be seen up in the scorekeepers box or having coffee and chatting with all the moms. Those were the best of times.

By the time I reached middle school, I had talked her into getting a horse. For the rest of my high school years all our spare time was down at Father Muller's farm on 280 with all our other horse crazy friends.

Once my brother and I left for college, she helped organize the Outback Trail Riders organization near Chelsea and kept herself busy with all things "trail riding" She rode horses all over the mountains of north Alabama and even up into Tennessee.

She loved one thing more than horses – Solomon and Sid. We spent a year living in Alabama while my husband was based at Maxwell and her grandsons scored big time. They acquired a pony for the year:) Many memories were made on the farm that year.

The farm, by the way, was her happiest place of all and she lived there til shortly before her death.

03/01/2024

Thank goodness for the Monster Dog Pull this year so I could get my "sortof" sled dog racing fix!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Here are just a few of the furry faces and sexy beasts that entered this years event. There were big dogs, little dogs, fluffy dogs, bouncy dogs, anxious dogs and fun fresh fellows. So much fun seeing all those furry faces. It was a significant happiness boost for the whole week:)

If you or your canine companion participated in the event, feel free to check out your photos on my website: https://gallery.mt.town/-2024mcpawsmonsterdogpull

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01/27/2024

Win a trip to the ultimate adventure: Iditarod 2024. Raffle closes 02/01 - mid day.

The Idaho Sled Dog Challenge is hosting an incredible giveaway for this year’s last great race.
As of last Saturday, 01/21, odds of winning one of these trips for 2 was 1 in 40! 1 in 40! I’m sure a few more tickets have sold since then but even if all tickets are sold, your odds max out at 1/250!

I’m a wee bit passionate about experiencing the Iditarod first hand so I’m sharing some of my pics from 2020 to get you excited and to inspire you to sign up to win. Tickets are $100 and include private guided ski plane flights to many of the back country checkpoints along the way. Flights are provided by experienced Iditarod Air Force Pilots with all the inside dirt on where to go and when to be there.

If you aren’t from Alaska, then you might not know that you can’t just drive up to these back country checkpoints. The race covers roughly 1000 miles through amazing Alaskan wilderness. It’s hard to explain just how valuable one of these trips can be.

And if you really have no idea what watching the Iditarod is like, image the best tailgating event ever at an Auburn or FSU football game and then transport that event out to a frozen river via hundreds of snowmobiles and ski planes with plenty of bonfires and crazy Alaskans to cheer on and party hard as the teams come rolling around the bend.

Go to www.idahosleddogchallenge.com to enter for your chance at the event of a lifetime!

Jerry Wortley Dave Looney

09/08/2023

Your walls 👉 made more wonderful.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​This is your little reminder to check out the shop on my site for picturesque prints.

PS... they make for pretty sweet gifts!