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I just wanted to let everyone know that Courtney and Rich’s wedding was featured on the Wedding Chicks* yesterday! The Wedding Chicks is blog that shares everything new, classic, funky, hip and just plain fun for weddings. It is the perfect place for brides-to-be to go to get inspiration and find vendors for their wedding day. They also sell pretty wedding stationary, signs, tote bags, tanks and tees over at the wc couture shop.
*Wedding Chicks is a professional trade group
November 12, 2009 - 4:13 pm - Oooh how exciting!
Last weekend I packed up the family and headed down to Tucson to photograph Courtney and Rich’s wedding. Tucson is such a great city. It just feels so authentic and not so ‘city’ like Phoenix. Courtney picked the cutest chapel to get married in. The San Pedro Chapel is a newly restored quaint mission style chapel in the heart of Tucson. Let’s just say it inspired me. Every nook and cranny of the place was beautifully rustic. I had so much fun shooting there!
One thing was apparent to me as the day went on, Courtney and Rich are truly meant to be with one another. And everyone at the wedding will attest to that.
The reception was at Courtney’s parents house.
I have never heard so many heartfelt and beautiful speeches as I did at their wedding.
Courtney loves gelato, so why not have it at the reception?
To see more of Courtney & Rich’s wedding, CLICK HERE for a slideshow!
November 28, 2009 - 6:44 pm [...] 6, 2010 in Paradise Valley. Mike is an Arizona native and met Cara through her college roommate, Courtney whose wedding I shot last [...]
While in California recently, I met up with the Yenne family. The weather was beautiful and we headed to the Malaga Cove Plaza for a fun family portrait session. Andrew was a doll! He loved being in front of the camera and playing with his parents. Thanks to the Yenne’s for a great portrait session!
September 28, 2009 - 10:20 pm - Love the pictures!
September 24, 2009 - 9:23 am - Great photos, but my reason for writing is the family name,Yenne. My grandmother was a Yenne, and the name is uncommon, so we must be related. If the Yenne family would see this they could check out my web site. They may have old family photos for me and I may have some for them. Glenn
September 23, 2009 - 9:39 pm - Love the pictures, especially the smiles & 3 pairs of big brown eyes in the last shot.
September 23, 2009 - 7:01 pm - The pictures are magnificent.
September 23, 2009 - 5:48 pm - Can't thank you enough! These are so beautiful!
Last week, I posted pictures from the Durrer family portrait session taken at an amazing abandoned house. The Durrer kids did such a good job (and are so stinking cute) that they get their very own post!
Nathaniel:
Zoey:
Riley:
Laura had this really cute green chair from Pottery Barn that we brought along with us:
Love these brother & sister shots. The one on the right melts my heart!
September 4, 2009 - 9:00 pm - Adorable kids!
August 31, 2009 - 10:14 am - They are adorable.
August 31, 2009 - 9:42 am - Very, very nice Laura Girl, Jenny did a bang up job here, pretty cute kids guess that's why they are mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love to all from Papa------------------------
August 31, 2009 - 9:36 am - FANTABULOUS!!!!! Going to order a HUGE one of the Wicked Witch feet for Zoeyanne's room!!!
October 14, 2009 - 5:48 pm [...] The Schleichers came for a visit in August and we had a great time. Laura and Jen have been friends for nearly 32 years now and they are very much family. Jen is a very talented photographer and snapped some great family photos and awesome shots of just the kids. [...]
Or at least I hope I am. Every year I feel like I am learning more and more, and then I will forget how to spell the word ‘the’ or the three things I need to buy at the supermarket. Age is kind of funny that way. What do you do? All I know is that I love my life more and more every day and am so thankful that I have such wonderful people to share it with!
I will leave you with a picture from my first birthday party. I am the one in the wooden highchair hoarding all the chocolate cake. Thirty-two years later it is still my favorite. Happy birthday to me.
The Durrer family and I go way back. Laura and I have known each other since we were babies. So when Laura asked me to take their family portraits I was thrilled. We immediately started brainstorming locations. In route to our original location, we drove by an abandoned house that was calling my name. It was perfect!
Inside the house, someone had spray-painted a hot pink heart…LOVE it!
The Durrer kids portraits coming soon…
August 25, 2009 - 1:50 pm - How in the heck did you get Nathaniel to look at the camera too? I love the one from the window, Dan & Riley are making similar faces, like father like son....and if you didn't tell me that the heart was already there I would have thought you organized it! Great photos. i will add some prints to the Durrer photos I have at my desk.....Thank you for sharing!
August 24, 2009 - 9:30 pm - What a fantastic photo shoot Jen! You made us feel so relaxed and the event was so much fun! The photos are fantastic.
August 31, 2009 - 8:26 am [...] week, I posted pictures from the Durrer family portrait session taken at an amazing abandoned house. The Durrer kids did such a good job (and are so stinking [...]
October 14, 2009 - 5:47 pm [...] 32 years now and they are very much family. Jen is a very talented photographer and snapped some great family photos and awesome shots of just the [...]
I have worked in Adobe Lightroom for some time now and really love everything about the program. It allows me to easily and quickly edit RAW files. But one can always improve upon their skills. So when I heard Jared Platt was offering a Lightroom Workflow Workshop, I was pumped!
I attended the workshop yesterday and wow…There was SO MUCH information Jared shared with us! The biggest thing I took away from Jared’s workshop was his super organized workflow. His workflow system gave me some wonderful ideas to weave into and improve upon mine. I really like the idea of placing all the unused images in a separate folder and removing the distractions them from Lightroom altogether prior to editing.
I will be implementing his ideas over the next few months and expect to shave off up to 3 hours of editing time! I am a happy girl :)
I was recently interviewed by The Bokeh Pot. This is a seriously cool photography blog that features new photographers each week. Crystal Genes is the creator of this wonderful resource. She asked me everything from “What is one item you cannot live without?” to “What is the most valuable thing about your business?” You can read the complete interview here.
It was a pleasure Crystal!
I recently spent some time in Colorado with family. One of the nights there I took some portraits of my sister in-law and her son. Here is Part 2 of the session…
After spending some time in the field, Stephanie, Bennett and I headed over to this lovely blue door for some more shots. They had a great time laughing and tickling together!
Stephanie, besides being a high school English teacher, is also an artist. She specializes in watercolors, pen & ink, mixed media and photography and has really beautiful work. Check out her website here. These cards were her Christmas gift to me last year. LOVE them!
Thank you Stephanie and Bennett. Hope to see you again soon!
July 31, 2009 - 11:40 pm - These are awesome Jen! I especially like the first one. Love your Cypress post from earlier too.
This past week I traveled to Colorado Springs to visit with family. The weather was wonderful! One of the days I was up there I had a chance to take my sister-in-law Stephanie and her three year old son Bennett’s portraits. I found a lovely section of tall wavy grass at a nearby park and fell in love. (Arizonians, brace yourselves, there is a lot of GREEN.)
by Jen Schleicher
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