je vois photography

I mentioned on my facebook page a month or so ago, that I cannot be held responsible for what happens if you and your adorable baby come play at my house.  I’m finally getting around to blogging the whole session with my sweet friend Ashley’s baby Zephaniah.  It went something like this… our two older […]

I have always been interested in boudoir photography, but it sort of intimidated me.  So, like any normal girl, I asked my gorgeous best friend to let me practice.  Unlike typical boudoir photography (literally “a woman’s bedroom or private sitting room”) which seems very made-up and contrived, I prefer more natural, interrupted-getting-ready in the morning. […]

In my last post, I showed what a difference 20 months makes in the life of a baby girl.  NOW we’ll look at what a difference just 3 months makes!  Little Olivia and I met 3 months ago, at her 3-month portrait session.  She was so cute, just figuring out how to push up with […]

Recently I was irritated with my adorable 19-month old because she wouldn’t lay still while I was trying to change her diaper.  As she STOOD on the changing table and leaned against the wall where her initials hang, my anger melted away and turned to brilliance!  I should do a “time-lapse” blog of her in […]

One of the most delightful people I know had a baby.  Anna is this beautiful, contagiously happy, full-of-life girl who I don’t see enough of.  Her fun-loving husband and mine get along great too, so they’re one of very few couples that we both really click with (you know how that goes!!)  Last summer they […]

“Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?  That Satan’s way is more powerful, more practical, more fulfilling in my daily life than Jesus’ way?  Why else get angry?  Isn’t it because I think complaining, exasperation, resentment will pound me up into the full life I really […]

I got to spend Sunday afternoon with this adorable little girl named Blake.  Her mom emailed me a few weeks ago about taking her 6-month portraits.  As I walked into their home, I saw beautiful portraits of her two children in each room.  This mom is not only diligent about having portraits made, she is […]

“… but to give thanks is an action and rejoice is a verb and these are not mere pulsing emotions.  While I may not always feel  joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things, because He knows that the  feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving… The demanding of my own […]

I met this really adorable girl, Colleen, at a mutual friend’s Halloween Party 3 1/2 years ago.  The few times we have hung out, I’ve found myself talking only to her instead of others.  She’s delightful.  She’s beautiful inside and out… confident without being arrogant, athletic yet feminine, loves the Lord and lives her life […]

Photographers say it all the time… we don’t take pictures of our own life because we’re so busy taking pictures of others.  I did really well taking pictures at milestones, until about 10 months ago. But today, me and my girls took a trip to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens and enjoyed this spring day right […]

36. A husband who plays princesses and blows bubbles with our daughters37.  that she got his big blue eyes and gentle spirit38.  …and eyelashes39.  bathtime 40.  the never-ending joy of making anything a hat 41.  baby bellies 42.  that this one is taking her time growing up “How do you count on life when the […]

A really cool thing about being a wedding photographer at this time is that my youngest sister’s friends are getting married!  Maria was one of her childhood friends and this weekend I got to do an engagement session with Allison, another childhood and still very close friend.  It’s really cool to see these little girls […]

My first official photo session in 2012 allowed me to meet someone I had been really wanting to.  Little Eva is the granddaughter of a family I just love.  They were a huge part of my life for a time and I love to see them happy.  This sweet girl Eva and her parents have […]

“God is always good and I am always loved. Everything is eucharisteo. Because eucharisteo is how Jesus, at the Last Supper, showed us to transfigure things- take the pain that is given, give thanks for it and transform it into a joy that fulfills all emptiness.  I have glimpsed it: This, the hard eucharisteo.  The  […]

“I have to seek God beauty.  Because isn’t my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship?  Every moment I live, I live bowed to something.  And if I don’t see God, I’ll bow down before something else.” (Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts, Zondervan, Grand Rapids Michigan, 2010, 110.)   27.  old friends […]