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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: Home Remodel

HGTV Junkie

Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 1:58pm

Alright, if you know me, you know that I really enjoy HGTV and other shows on remodeling and staging homes for a better appearance! Many of you also know that many months ago my husband and I took a big risk that we had always talked and dreamed about doing…we decided to take on our own “Flip this House” and 5 months later we were happy to report that we finally completed Phase 1 of who knows how many phases to final completion. It also meant we could finally MOVE IN…a much anticipated step toward our new life! Lots of people have wanted to see the updated photos, but I hadn’t posted them as I was trying to get the new office and home set up and look somewhat lived in first. So, here are some of the photos of our before and afters…keep in mind that for now we focused mainly on the interior of the home and plan to have other phases to our remodel after we recover from the intense amount of work we’ve already done. The home is an older, established neighborhood and the biggest motivator for moving here was the large lot and potential for adding square footage for my business later on. We also like the area and schools much better. Here are the pics of the home before and after!!
This is out front…which I would say actually looks a little better than now. We have torn out lots of this landscape that had died during the past months, but we haven’t quite gotten to the point to do a new overhaul of it! We plan to really update the exterior someday with exterior stone and much better landscape.

Here is the kitchen with the previous owner’s furniture and all, we REALLY had to get a vision here…lots of wallpaper and dated features!

Now a pic during construction…we took out the little wall, the false ceiling and the old pantry, we also extended the kitchen about 6feet (where the french door is above) to the existing support beam which just cut into our already huge covered patio, so that was ok. Note in the picture we built a corner pantry as well.

Here is the kitchen just as we were moving in…lacking a few lights and now I have decorations, so new images coming someday!! The spot where the old pantry was is the phone center, the fridge stayed in the same place and the corner with the previous stove is now the corner pantry.

Now the master bath…another huge improvement!! Most bathrooms remained untouched except for paint and flooring, we plan to replace the vanities someday. Here is the tub/shower before the remodel…it was a stepdown “font” as I call it and definitely had to go!

So, off with the wallpaper, filled in the “font” increased the size by about a foot and here is the new shower…lacking glass doors which still need to be ordered!

Last but not least…some of you wanted to see some pics of our finishes, we chose everything ourselves and it was stressful not knowing if everything would come together and match and look good, here is the granite counters…

And the new travertine floors turned out AWESOME…

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