AINSLEY'S ONE YEAR PORTRAIT SESSION

THIS IS MY VERY FAVORITE IMAGE FROM THIS SESSION Ainsley's one-year portrait session was captured at Frogmore Plantation, her grandparent's home. As you can see this was a beautiful place to capture this milestone in Little Miss Ainsley's life. When the opportunity presents itself, I love to do portrait sessions at special locations that have significance to the families involved. It was in the middle of summer when these were done. So, yes, it was very hot. But we waited until "sweet light" time and photographed her until the sun was going down which seemed to coincide with her patience with us.

Doesn't she look happy here?

A Nice Standing Portrait

I love the way it like she is posed with her little foot. She's a natural!

Pretty in Pink

I love images like this. Aren't those eyelashes adorable?

This is Ainsley's version of ''smelling". She is "smelling" the flowers, but she is actually blowing on the flower. The little things like this are so precious about babies. It is so sweet watching them and seeing how they learn new things...new things as simple as smelling a flower.

I love the lighting in her eyes in this one.

and this one too...

and this one too...
This is actually one of using her "baby" sign language that her mommy taught her. Now I am new to this, but if my memory serves me right, this was "more". I think she wanted more crackers that her mommy was sharing with her to keep her patient through our last few images.

"PEEK-A-BOO" We even tried playing peek-a-boo around me to get her attention, but she just wanted to play peek-a-boo too!

As you can see from the large number of images that I included that I had many favorites from this session. I have a simple storyboard that I will post later today or this weekend.

~~jami~~

ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL BRIDE: CHELSIE

THESE IMAGES ARE FROM CHELSIE'S BRIDAL PORTRAIT.

They were captured at Frogmore Plantation about two weeks before her wedding. She was a very beautiful bride. This girl is one those very sweet beautiful girls...beautiful inside and out. She made me feel like she was such a lucky girl to have me as her photographer, but I was the lucky one. It was a priviledge and honor to watch them commit to each other before their firends and family. Thank you, Chelsie! This first image was the one she chose as her wall portrait that was displayed at her wedding reception. I think she chose well!

As you can see from the following images, her choices were quite overwhelming. Any of these could have been the right one! Beautiful brides make my job so much easier!






This collage was created as a gift to Chelsie. It was displayed at her reception with many copies to be shared with her guests.


It has been over a week since I posted so I wanted to add something. Honestly, I haven't got much done these past few weeks. Helping your children move to their college town can be quite a difficult task, but try moving your 3-year old (grandchild) two hours away. I have seen her almost everyday for the last three years of my life, the first three years of her life. Now all of a suddenly, it is all changing...for the good of all involved...but not good for a Mimi's heart!

I know many of you are looking and wondering what's going on. I plan to start doing some serious catching up this week.

Your patience and understanding is very much appreciated and will be rewarded as well.

~~jami~~

MARC AND JESSIE

sweet couple, huh?

These images are, of course, Marc and Jessie, that were photographed at Frogmore. Jessie scheduled the two-part session. She wanted images of Mark and his children for his mom and grandmother for Mother's Day. We surpized them with a sweet slideshow of the images. I heard they truly enjoyed this gift. Jessie as you can tell is not their mom. She is Marc's girlfriend. I was impressed with the fact that she didn't put herself in any of the images with them...she may be a permanent figure in their life one day, but for now she's just a very special person in their life. After all, your photos are forever, but not all relationships will be. However, I will add my 2 cents...I think Marc, Kayla and Blake are very lucky to have a special someone like Jessie in their lives.

~~jami~~

KAYLA AND BLAKE AND THEIR DADDY

BLAKE AND KAYLA

PHOTOGRAPHED AT FROGMORE

My memory isn't that great, but I think Kayla and Blake are 9 and 10 years old. Blake being the older of the two. What I will always remember the most about these this sessions is how much these two children seemed to love each other. Their parents and grandparents have gotta love that! I know siblings always love each other, but most sibs are the way my two used to be--they prefer to act as if they can't stand each other. Though mine are grown or grown and almost grown and they are much better, but as a parent some of my favorites moments in life are where I saw them expressing love or at least like for the other one. So I was most impressed with how these two children related to each other....very, very sweet. Thank you, Blake and Kayla, for sharing your closeness with me.

They are were so easy to pose into these loving postions probably because most of it was them with a little tweaking from the photographer. (lol)

The one above and below are my favorite images from this session.

Of course, they really loved their daddy too.


This is another session that I am trying to catch up on. It really melts my heart to view these images again as I post them. I hope you've enjoyed viewing this sweet relationship too.

~~jami~~

ENGAGEMENT SESSION: FALL 2007

HEATHER AND ROBERT'S ENGAGMENT SESSION

The above image is the collage that I created for her from the images she chose. She displayed this at her wedding this past weekend (2.16.8).

Louisiana Woman

Mississippi Man

If you happen to have been a guest of this recent wedding, you totally get the Louisiana Woman and Mississippi Man titles. Heather perferomed a musical tribute to her new husband featuring the old song by Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty: "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man!" What a fun wedding! It was and honor an priviledge to share this special day with this sweet couple and their families. As most of you know "I don't do weddings". But certain people come into your life and they become family...so yes, sometimes I do "family" weddings (I gift most of it to them because at this time you can't really pay me enough to make it worth it.)

I am always more than thrilled to do engagement sessions and bridal portraits. Below are some sweet images and some fun images from their engagement session. This session was captured back in the fall duirng my most crazy time of the year. I shot them, but didn't get to them until later trying to get all the holiday stuff done. I just love the way they relaxed and such a fun engagement session~~~that's just the way it should be.


You can just see the love...



I love this. It just makes me smile and think of the one I love!


And last but not least, their baby...

Sorry, Heather I forgot his name again. I guess I should have included his name on the model release too. LOL

That's it for this post. I will add some of the bridal session next and then maybe a few from the wedding which has not been edited yetl In fact, I am still burning CDs for the back up files.

---jami