JPSearcy Photography Blog

I love it when people include me in their vacation plans!  I think it is so great that they would take time away from their vacation (or the theme parks!) to have their family photos taken.  It IS a great time to do it, but so many people wouldn’t even think of it!  So, when they do, I really love it!

This family was down just in time for our little “cold snap” last week.  It was pretty funny when they were telling me how hot they were, all the while I was wearing a jacket to our session! LOL!  At least we had very comfortable weather for our shoot.  The kiddos took a few minutes to warm up to me (and my camera), but once they did, we had a great time!  They were SO adorable!

Here are a few sneaks from their session.  Thanks for visiting me while visiting Mickey!

(He was shooting lasers at Zurg! – From Toy Story!)

(Don’t they look so sweet?!  I can’t decide if I like it more in color or black and white!)

First of all, I want to apologize for neglecting my blog.  Things have been a little crazy around here, between things going on at home, to being busy with work, to working on a new “branch” to my business (stay tuned for details on that soon!).

Now, back to the fun stuff!  SNEAK PEEKS!  I have been watching this little cutie grow up right before my camera lens.  Every six months, she came to see me, and she is turning into such a little diva!  She was the one who chose the location this time, and she was able to take direction, and seemed to really love having her photos taken.  LOVE HER!

Here are a few that I just loved (really it was difficult to choose, because she was extra easy to photograph this time around!).  And just because, I am going to show in both color and black and white.  Most of my images, I prefer in color, but for some reason, many of this session, I am loving in black and white as well!  So, why not show both!

Families like this make my job SO easy!  Not only were they adorable, they were so easy to work with!  It didn’t take the girls long to get comfortable and have fun being little models.  Mom was excited about this from the very beginning, when she booked her session months ago.  And even Dad got into it and was coming up ideas and locations to shoot by the end!  It makes the sessions go by so quickly, and so enjoyable when everyone is having fun.

Here are a few sneak peeks from their session!  Thanks for a great time!

I was SO excited when this booking came in.  I have been wanting to shoot on a farm, but just haven’t found one that I could shoot at!  I don’t know if it is just because it is something different, or all the cool textures that are on a farm, but it was so much fun!  Having an adorable and sweet senior to shoot wasn’t so bad either! LOL!

She wanted a couple photos with her horse, and a couple with her dog, and of course, some alone.  But since I don’t get a horse at many sessions (OK, NEVER!), I really had to take advantage and take a few extra.  Her horse made me really laugh.  As she was sitting on the horse’s stall, her mom thought that carrots would help the horse look in the direction of the camera.  Well, as soon as he saw the carrots, I swear, he smiled!  He lifted his lip up and was showing his teeth! LOL!  And because I found it so funny, of course, that has to be one of her sneaks!

Hope you enjoy your sneaks!  I will let you know when the rest are ready!

Dramatic, but in a good way! LOL!  She is in the theater program at school, and in the upcoming play!  With someone who is used to being in front of an audience, that REALLY helped us for this session.  Normally, there aren’t too many people around where I shoot.  But this afternoon at Rollins, they were ironically, doing an outdoor theatrical production RIGHT in the same area that is my favorite to shoot!  Of course we wouldn’t get in their way, and we were there well before it started.  But there were lots of people around!  No problem for her!  She was able to play model, no matter if there was an audience or not!  She was just delightful, and so much fun!

Here are just a few for her sneak peeks.  Hope you like!

I love shooting seniors!  Especially when they are so excited about their session!  This delightful girl was having a great time playing model for the day.  Her mom told me that she has always loved the camera.  And the camera loves her right back!   What a beautiful and photogenic girl!  Makes my job easy, doesn’t it?!

Hope you like your sneak peeks!  I’ll let you know when the rest are ready!

Boy, I have a great job!  I realize this a little more every session that I shoot.  I get to meet some wonderful people, and photograph them.  What is not to love about that!  And I am really loving all my seniors this year.  (Not that I didn’t love them last year, or the year before! LOL!).  They all have been so great!

This senior was no different.  She was so much fun, and so full of personality!  I love it when my seniors get excited and into the session.  I mean, how much fun is it to have your own personal America’s Next Top Model shoot for your senior photos?!  OK, so it isn’t an ANTM shoot, but it can be a lot of fun pretending! LOL!

How much fun is she?!

But of course, we got plenty of “normal” ones too!

And this shot I loved.  But I can’t tell which version I love most, so I will put all versions up that I was playing with.  The first is the regular one, the next is black and white, and the last is one with my new funky textures.  Isn’t it cool how ONE shot looks so different?!

I know I have two kids too, and while they run me ragged most days, I can’t even begin to imagine what a crazy lady I would be if they were twins!  I am so in awe of parents of twins.  I love twins.  I love their relationship with each other, I love how they look, I love how they interact with each other, I love everything about them!  I just can’t imagine having my own! LOL!

I was so excited to be able to photograph this wonderful family (yes, it was another sorority sister! LOL!).  We met in a little tiny historic town outside of Atlanta.  They had neat little old buildings and a train that the kids could actually get on.  How fun is that?!  Well, they LOVED the train, of course!  And they just loved exploring.  When kids are this young it is pretty difficult to get them to sit still for portraits (and that is when you have just ONE of them!).  That is why I love just watching them play and capture their play (them just being them!), and then we can sneak in some posed shots too!  This sneak peek is a mix of just that.  Play time and fun semi-posed shots!

This session was for another sorority sister of mine that I have seen in a million years!  It is so neat to see old friends in such different roles than when we last knew each other.  She has two such beautiful little girls now.  And these girls, such style they have!  They had several outfits for the session, and the older one especially, had definite opinions on what to wear, and how to wear it!  I was helping her put on her hat (that was a MUST for this part of the session! LOL!), and she looked at me and told me to make sure the flower was turned to the side, NOT the center.  LOVE THAT!

We took several family photos in their amazing back yard and several of the girls by themselves.  Lots and lots to go thru!  But I managed to pull a few that I really loved for their sneak peek.

And this one, is a great example of family photos that I really love: interaction shots.  Everyone being happy and being together.  Something kind of sweet about it!

This Atlanta session was for a sorority sister of mine, and her family.  They live in a beautiful neighborhood, so we just walked around there and found lots of places to shoot!  And while the weather was perfect for photos, and the scenery was great, what made this session SO much fun were the kids.  Teenage boys!  Of course it would be fun (what teenage boy DOESN’T want to spend time with his family taking photos?! LOL!).  These boys were great.  Very talkative, and very funny.  So, I am sorry, but I had to put a couple of the funny ones in for the sneaks!  Being that was so what this session was!

This one, I don’t think Dad even knew what was going on behind his head.   LOL!

This one, I was telling all of the guys to get close together.  What I DIDN’T see until he said it, was how broken his ankles looked!  (This one still makes me laugh!  It may be one of those, “you had to be there” kind of situations!)

And since I am not THAT mean, I will put up a couple “normal” ones for you too!