Days of You and Me

Washington D.C. Newborn Photographer

by Jessica 18 January 2012 Photography

Many of the newborns who I photograph usually travel to my home studio in Reston; but every once in a while, I go to baby. This past week, I travelled down to Manassas where I photographed Baby Girl G with her mom and dad in their beautiful home. Below is a little peak into [...]

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Photography Conversations

by Jessica 6 January 2012 Photography

I have to admit that with the flood of newborns from September through December and with the wave of holiday portrait clients too, I was burning the midnight oil and feeling more than a little overwhelmed. I loved my assignments and the clients I was working with; business was good. But I noticed that the [...]

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Reston Child Photographer’s Top Ten of 2011: The Personal Shots

by Jessica 5 January 2012 Annabelle

Yesterday I had the chance to stop by and read some of my favorite photography blogs and I am so glad that I did. Beth at I Should Be Folding Laundry is hosting a challenge for photographers to post their top ten photos from 2011. I knew I wanted to sit down and try [...]

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Winter’s Lessons

by Jessica 4 January 2012 Annabelle

A recent Facebook status of mine reads: If there is any single lesson I hope to bring into the New Year that I learned during our Christmas break is that I need to slow down and savor my children, my husband, myself, and yes, Toby too. I notice my kids are behaving better (which makes life [...]

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Washington D.C. Family Photographer Celebrates Christmas

by Jessica 22 December 2011 Balancing work and home

So it is December 22nd and let me tell you, I am ready for Christmas. Not that I am done with wrapping presents. Cause I’m not. I’m not “prepared” for Christmas, but I am so ready for a week with my family to just play, enjoy one another, eat good food, and laugh. The last [...]

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Light

by Jessica 13 December 2011 Gratitude Thoughts

I am so glad that Beth selected light as this week’s You Capture challenge. With light, you can really do anything since photography works around and with light; capturing light is a great part of the art. I could have photographed Christmas lights, reflections of light, etc. But what I really love to capture with [...]

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People

by Jessica 1 December 2011 Annabelle

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I made sure to pack my camera (as if I could travel anywhere without it). In the back of my mind, I envisioned taking lots and lots and lots of photographs of my loved ones. We see so many of our loved ones in a span of three days that I [...]

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Fun! My Children’s Christmas Portraits

by Jessica 17 November 2011 Annabelle

So this was Annabelle’s idea. Granted, I love to photograph my kids. I love to dress them up and get them all silly. I did buy the Santa hats. I did buy the silly Christmas moose (a great find at the thrift store). I HAD wanted to do a fun Christmas session with [...]

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Washington D.C. Metro Area Newborn Photographer

by Jessica 14 November 2011 Annabelle

I have big news. Three weeks ago my beautiful niece Katelyn was born! My sister Casey is spending lots of time giving baby Katelyn lots of cuddles; everyone is smitten from big brother Jackson to adoring dad Drew. I could not wait to visit Pennsylvania and its gorgeous countryside so I could meet my niece [...]

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fall by reston family photographer

by Jessica 9 November 2011 Annabelle

This week I gave my kids their first ever film photography lesson. I have to say that Levi totally picked up right on how to work the camera, from changing the frame to releasing the shutter. You can just imagine how happy this makes his mama. Meanwhile my kids were so thrilled to be [...]

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