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About Jen...

Thanks for checking in to learn more about me.  I love my life and seriously feel really blessed!  Photography is a passion of mine and it definitely continues to challenge me to push the envelope more and more.  I have been photographing weddings and families for more than 10 years and feel incredibly blessed to do what I love surrounded by those that I love!!  I am a mom to three and married to the love of my life.  I've chosen to work from home and while often challenging, I wouldn't trade it for the world.    

I have 2 boys and one little girl.  Brennan is almost 7 and is my little red head.  People LOVE his red hair. Though he started out with the fiery personality I carried as a youngster, he's grown up to be quite the respectful child who has a love of learning. Dawson is a middle child...need I say more?  He's a tender hearted almost 4 year old whose main method of communication is the perpetual whine.  He has an infectious smile that sure makes it hard to put the camera down around him.  Emery is our little girl who is 1 year old.  She's super laid back and easily entertained...the complete opposite of both her brothers.  She is loved by all the boys in our house but wants only to be with Mommy...and after a couple of Daddy's boys, I'm really ok with that!  My husband and I will be married 10 years this year.  I can hardly believe it's been that long.  He too has a job that he loves in Real Estate Development.  He's very supportive of me in my business and really helpful with the technical side of things (he insists he's even taught me a little Photoshop here and there...I beg to differ).  If there's anything he'd change about my job...it's all the romance I'm around that he has to compete with!!  I'm a hopeless romantic for sure!  But he has some of that in him too, it just tends to go into hiding sometimes!

My family is the most important thing to me and is definitely the reason I love photography so much.  I can't describe the satisfaction I get in capturing wonderful moments for people who are be able to keep them as memories forever.  I truly am grateful that I can have a career working for so many amazing people during some of their most intimate life moments.   

 

In the bag...

I use only the highest quality cameras and lenses!  My main camera is the Canon 5d Mark II.  It is a full frame camera with over 21 megapixels and an expanded ISO range from 50 up to 25,600.  WOW!!  This is cutting edge camera technology...at least for the moment!  I also use only Canon "L" series lenses.  The "L" stand for luxury and man does it ever live up to its name!  Aside from giving me a good arm workout, these lenses have low dispersion glass and are some of the fastest lenses available.  While I typically prefer the wide aperture and great depth of field offered by the 70-200 f 2.8 lens, I also have a handful of other great lenses...

17-40mm f 4.0 USM                                                                                                     28-70mm f 2.8 USM                                                                                                   35mm f 1.4 USM                                                                                                              I also have a Canon 580EX and 580EXII Speedlight.

For Editing I use Adobe Lightroom 2.0 and Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Category Archives: Hug(able) Families

Smith Family

It was a hot summer day…but we survived the heat and got some cute family photos despite it.  We also filled up on Sonic slushes when it was over!  Smith family, thanks…you look HOT…=)! I especially love this first shot…

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Peters Family – AZ Family Photography

I missed blogging these images so I thought I’d come back and share the cuteness of this little family!  Miss Cameron was a ball of energy when we did these so we did our best to “PLAY” and capture her/them!  She is such a cutey and I love the interaction of her with mom and dad…

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Mommy Sarah has a unique business I’d never heard of before. It’s a company that can bring you baby gear/equipment, if you are travelling and can’t bring all the things you need! With all the extra charges these days on airlines it would be nice to not have to pack a stroller, pack n play, car seats and all other big items for a vacation! They can even bring the items straight to the airport! Check out their site if you know anyone travelling that might benefit from baby equipment rentals. For local service go to sweetpeababyrentals.com or for other locations check out babytravelpros.com.

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Wittkamper Family

This family travelled to Arizona for a hot summer vacation taking advantage of lots of swimming and poolside activities at the Marriott Canyon Villas. This is little Sadie and I can’t get over her or this shot..she is to die for cute!

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The whole family was just as nice as can be and great troopers shooting in the heat!

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Come on, isn’t this adorable? They look so happy together, no doubt many years of marriage under their belt.

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Here’s Riley with his beautiful eyes.

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And one more of Sadie because I just can’t resist posting a color shot as well!

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Thanks Wittkamper family for trusting me with your family shoot! It was wonderful meeting/working with you…oh and being your “long lost cousin for the day.” =)

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Skidmore Family – AZ Family Photography

I went out with Erica a couple of weeks ago to get some updated images of her kids to surprise her husband for Father’s Day. From what I hear, little Kamryn and Preston have already spoiled the suprise to dad because they were so excited to share…but actually seeing the images is definitely more fun than hearing there was a photo shoot.

Here’s a sneak peek of some of my favorites from their session. These two oldest kids were so cute with each other I was quite jealous, I can never get my kids to love each other for photos…
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Kamryn was a doll.  She had so much personality…just fun, giggly, silly and super outgoing…we had a blast playing together.

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Little Bailee was almost 9weeks old. Usually I recommend baby photos being done in the first two weeks, but since Erica was just referred we did our best to make up for the lack of “newborn” photos. I was really happy to get these sleepy photos of her…you can never go back to when your babies are so little so it’s nice to have some good pics to remember them so small.

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And check out big brother Preston. He was a ham, and for a toddler, pretty agreeable! I’m sure mom could say otherwise at times, but he sure was a breeze for me =)Skidmore0005

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And…saving the best for last…I just LOVE this photo of the beautiful Erica with her kids.  I seriously think this would be great as a canvas…if for no other reason then a daily reminder that all the difficult times of parenting are truly WORTH it. =)

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I am really excited to be featured as the “Portrait Photographer of the Week” over at Collages.net. This is the place I do all of my online image hosting.  They have a marketing team that selects events to highlight and my photos from the “Johnston Family” were selected to be featured this week.  There are SO MANY talented photographers they work with all over the country, so I feel very honored to have one of my amazing clients featured! Click on this link to see the write up/more images.

Here’s a few more images from my session with the Johnston’s….

Sharing some candy…
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Oh he will appreciate this one someday!!

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Stenquist Family – Desert Photography

This session was so much fun and had some great color we rarely get to see here in the Arizona desert!!

Check out the eyes on little Connor

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I also love this shot of Zach…sometimes it’s hard to capture those beautiful eyes through the glasses since there is so much reflection everywhere…this one turned out great.

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Thanks Jared, Christy!!

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McMurdie Family

I love this family. It’s been  about 4 years since I last updated their family photo and with another child (now toddler) in the family they were VERY OVERDUE!  I was happy to see that Todd scheduled this for his wife for Mother’s Day…what more would a Mom want?  I mean really guys…women eat this up!!

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The boys are just too darn adorable…but don’t let this fool you, they are actually monkeys and within minutes of this photo they were ALL high up in trees =) Even little Zach!

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And with a house full of boys, I bet these two need some girl time once in awhile! Love this Mom/Daughter photo, so sweet!

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Thanks guys, you have about a year or so until I need to start bugging you since you take so long to update =)

Happy Mother’s Day Sherena!!

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The love of a Mother

This is Rachel with daughter Sophia…Rachel wanted to be a mother more than anyone I knew for as long as I’ve known her…now she has little Sophia and as you can tell she sure adores her precious gift of being “mommy.”
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Of course we love Dad’s too! Loved this photo with her Daddy.

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Mom & Daughter

I recently met up with these lovely ladies for a mom/daughter shoot.  I thought this was a perfect time to share with Mother’s Day coming up!

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If you’re interested in photos for a special mom in your life, let me know…I have mini sessions or full sessions we can do!

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So cute…

These kids are just cute…my cousin’s kids from Utah. Love the mischievous looks on those boys.
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