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Jamie is one of the most amazing moms I know. She knows and can handle chaos better than anyone and absolutely adores her children. Pregnant with #4, she really wanted pictures of her 3 kids before their family changed one last (it is the last, right?) time. 🙂 I knew how involved she is with […]

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  • Karen Bourne - October 25, 2011 - 6:15 pm

    I LOVE these! You described Jamie perfectly. I don’t think anyone will say that I can handle chaos well. I do adore my kids, but I don’t handle chaos well.

  • Jamie - October 25, 2011 - 1:19 pm

    Love them – as usual! Can I get the dropbox so I can post some on my blog! You picked most of my fav’s also

Posted in Family Lifestyle

It was POURING rain the afternoon of this shoot. Kara & I were on the phone “Should we cancel? Should we try anyway?” probably every 5 minutes. I’m so glad we didn’t cancel. I got to the Utah State Fair and there was a light drizzle, and after a few minutes it stopped raining and […]

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  • kara elmore - October 24, 2011 - 2:56 pm

    YOU did a fantastic job capturing my family!! TANTRUMS and all .. except they’d never know who it was. 🙂 THANK YOU THANK YOU!! Every image makes me SMILE and be SO happy! Can’t wait to plaster my house w/ these happy memories!! xoxoxo

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Finally getting around to sharing these!! I LOVED working with these two. Such a gracious, happy couple and boy can their families get down on the dance floor!! Woot!! I also had the awesome privilege of hiring Dave Terry to come shoot this wedding with me. Always a pleasure to work with him!  

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  • Jess - October 24, 2011 - 7:14 am

    Scott- Thanks for the comment! My process is pretty simple. Get a good exposure, color balance, curves in LR, and then open in photoshop. Levels layer for more contrast, sharpen (using an action i found years ago). The coloring is a combination of Totally Rad’s free Troy, a Honey colored action (can’t remember where I got that) and then I run TR Boutwell’s Magic Glasses over the top of it. Mess with the opacity a little of each layer depending on the photo. Hope that helps!

  • Scott - October 21, 2011 - 8:03 am

    Love the photos. I would love to know your post processing techniques, the colors are great.

  • David Terry - October 21, 2011 - 12:56 am

    I was just scanning through my RSS reader looking at a few things before heading to bed when guess what caught my eye! I recognized the couple immediately.

    So fun! Thanks for letting me be a part of this wonderful occasion, it was a pleasure working with you! 🙂

Posted in Personal

These two don’t get alone time very often (well, more so NOW that Rachel is in Kindergarten) so when they were being oh-so-adorable this morning I ran in to grab my camera. I LOVE that Cara is becoming more interactive with her siblings. It makes life so much FUN!

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Posted in Personal

Wow. Did we ever need a vacation and this was awesome!!! We had SO much fun. 3 days between Disneyland & California Adventure, and then an afternoon at the beach with some of our very best friends. I was definitely not ready to come home. Get ready for picture OVERLOAD!

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    […] was our second time visiting the Disneyland Parks with our best friends (the first was back in the Fall of 2011). Having already gone together once, we actually did very little prep or coordination and mostly […]

  • Jamie - October 15, 2011 - 3:35 pm

    you got to see the kuvavle’s!! How fun – I miss them – they are GOOD people. Looks like a lot of fun!

  • Matt - October 12, 2011 - 11:52 pm

    So. Much. Fun. Looks like you guys had a blast, and such fun images to tell the story. I can’t wait to do this in about 5 years.

  • Karen Bourne - October 9, 2011 - 8:30 am

    What a lucky family! I’m so glad you got to go. It looks like you guys had a BLAST!

  • Lauren - October 8, 2011 - 11:36 pm

    Looks like so much fun!
    Your kids look so great. I can’t believe how fast they are growing up. That’s awesome that the Kvavles and the Braleys were there! Fun!

Posted in Family Lifestyle

Just one for now. 🙂 I’m still in vacation recovery mode. haha more to follow!

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  • Amy Hathcock - September 29, 2011 - 7:47 pm

    Is that Kara Elmore?

  • Amy Hathcock - September 29, 2011 - 7:45 pm

    Oh my gosh Jess! I LOVE that shot!!! If it were mine I would have it huge on my wall. In fact, I’m pinning it.

  • Kara Shurtliff - September 26, 2011 - 8:51 pm

    LOVE IT! so fun.

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