Archive for January, 2010

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January 28, 2010

When I first started doing this project, I wasn’t sure how personal I would end up making it. I didn’t know how much of me I wanted “out there”. But I’m finding as I shoot every week, I NEED this to be personal. I shoot from the heart. I love capturing moments, emotions, those little pieces of time that are gone before you even realize they were there.

This week’s photo is one of my all-time favorites. It is not technically perfect, in any way–in fact, it’s quite imperfect. But the story it tells, is perfect.

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This is an image of my daughter, with my parents. She’s turning one next month. She had a rough start in this world, and to see her, playing with her grandparents almost a year later brings me such joy. She’s never been what people call an “easy baby”. But she is coming into her own these days, and couldn’t be more amazing.

(My mom will probably kill me for posting a photo of her in her slippers, haha!)

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January 22, 2010

We are still sick over here, so this will be short and sweet. She’s getting better, slowly but surely.

This photo was taken of Lila doing one of her favorite pastimes–throwing herself on the couch. She loves to stand up and look out the window, and then throw herself on the cushions. Never fear–I’m always sitting on the couch with her, barricading her in. This is a good example of why I love wide angle lenses! And of shooting from the hip. Big fan.

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Happy Weekend!!

**Make sure you scroll past that last photo, there is something some of you will want to read down there!**

This post has been a long time coming! I’ve been putting it off for a few reasons: first, to get through busy season, and make sure my clients were all taken care of. Then, the holidays were here, and it was our daughter’s First Christmas, so we had a lot of fun events and things to do for that. Also, I had plans to incorporate a new endeavor with this post, so I wanted to make sure we were good to roll with it before posting.

Now that things have calmed down, I am finally going to blog my favorite session to date. You read that right! I am STILL feeling the inspiration from this session. This is going to be a very photo-heavy post, fair warning.

I had an idea late last summer to do a more custom shoot. I LOVE all of my amazing kid and family clients, but I was itching to try something where I picked the locations, the time of day, the whole shebang. I even begged my gorgeous cousins to be my models for the afternoon. I bribed them with my daughter, so they couldn’t resist. I knew they’d be perfect for my vision–not only would they be dressed perfectly for this late fall afternoon, but they’d be up for anything, which boded well for the locations I had in mind–oh, you’ll see what I mean!

On to the photos! Eeek, I’m SO excited to finally be sharing these.

This first set may or may not be right off a state highway. Meaning, we were parked on the side of said highway.

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There are about a billion of this next series, I could. not. stop. shooting. It may have been part swamp, but it was pure magic.

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One last one for my wonderful aunt. :-)

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Sass & K, thank you both so much for coming to hang out. We are SO definitely doing this again! Start thinking about your wardrobe for a snowstorm shoot now. :) Love you both!

**One last thing. I’ve decided I would like to incorporate more work like this into my portfolio. SO. I am having a mini modeling call! I am looking for people (male or female) who would be interested in a shoot like this. We would discuss styling ahead of time, and I would pick the location and time, and general overall vision. Mostly candid and natural light driven. Obviously, it would not be the same as this session, given the time of year. But I have some fabulous and fun ideas for wintery shoots, and I can’t wait to see them executed.

If you are interested, please email me at: megan@meganjanephotography.com, and please include a photo of yourself. Serious inquiries only, and you must be at least 15 years old to be considered (under 18 requiring parental consent). And yes, there are certainly heavy discounts involved.

Happy Weekend, everyone! Get out, enjoy those mid-40s temps while you can!

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January 14, 2010

I can’t believe it’s been a week! I also have other things to post on here, but I’m just getting all caught up.

The theme of this week is Sick. Sick, sick, siiiiiiick. The daughter is sick, and the husband is also sick. I’m hoping I’m spared this round, because I’ve already had 2 or 3 colds this fall/winter. Fingers crossed!

Here’s the little peanut, lying on the floor in the living room. She’s watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (her favorite), and snuggling with her giraffe lovey/blanket thing, thumb in mouth and all. I absolutely love that I caught this moment, even though I see her do it all the time. Just usually, if I lie on the floor to attempt to take this shot, she sees it as me trying to play with her, and comes speed-crawling over to me.

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Hopefully we’ll have a healthy house by the weekend! The weather is going to climb into the 40s, and I, for one, can’t wait! A little taste of spring in the air is just what we need.

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January 6, 2010

New project number one, for 2010. :)

I have decided to do a more personal project this year, as a new goal to get out and shoot for ME more. I wasn’t sure where I would keep track of this at first–flickr? Facebook? A personal blog? Or here, on my business blog? Ultimately, I decided this would be the perfect place for my new project, for a few reasons. First, and most obvious, it is a photography project, so the photography blog made the most sense. I also thought it would be fun to give all my readers (hi, Cait!) a little glimpse into my world–I know you’re all she’s thrilled.They won’t all be people pictures, I have no idea what each week’s photo will end up being until I see it. But I’m so excited to be embarking on this, I can’t wait to see what’s in store!

Oh, one more little bit about this project: I’m doing it in black & white (well, I’m 90% sure I am). I don’t do nearly enough of this type of work, and I LOVE it, so this is my attempt at getting comfortable with it, and perfecting my conversion methods. My pics may look a little different from week to week, as I figure that out, but they will all be colorless!

On to the all important image for Week One: The Beginning. I just had to start off with an image of my daughter! I took this a couple of days ago, just us, hanging out in the morning. And yes, she’s chewing on a sock.

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If there are any other photographers reading who are doing their own project this year, let me know, so I can follow along! And if anyone has a challenge for me (take a picture of –something strange/fun/exciting/new– and post it!), I’d LOVE to hear it.

(I still have an amazing session to post, I haven’t forgotten! I’m just having a hard time narrowing down which images to show, there are so many I just love.)