Thursday Thinking : "Success"

Thought of the day.

Make your OWN definition of success.  

Our society places definitions on all parts of life...especially success.  But what if I were to say that what is important to "culture" as success isn't the same as what YOU believe to be successful.  

Turn your brain on tonite or in the morning...and think about what success means to you.

Now ask yourself?  Are you successful?  Why or why not.

Intimate White Rock Lake Wedding teasers!

in between this busyness going on...since coming home from travel....
my Grandpa Charlie passed away just over a week ago.  I have been in a flux of so much emotion, creation, work and rest.  It has been hard to get right back into the groove.

But saturday...I went to Flourish...got filled up again and encouraged....
and finished out my September with a WONDERFUL wedding out at white rock lake.

I have some AMAZING images coming from my wedding in Cape Cod, but for now...I'm stopping just for a moment to show you the teasers from saturday!

I'm so greatful to all my clients. I love that they all have unique stories and a unique love.

Here are some teasers....and I will share the Cape images this week as well!!!!

ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Gamez wedding teaser!!!!!

What a GREAT day we had. 
Seriously....the forecast was 103 degrees...and then it turned to cool, windy and STORMS!!!!
We were being rained on pre-ceremony...walking all the way into the park. 

But i have to tell you....it was a lovely ceremony....a lovely couple...and we had a blast capturing it for them!!!!!  I have much more to share - but all in good time!!!! So, herez some teasers :)

Congrats Yuri & Joel!!!!

Happy almost wedding day!!!! YIPPEE!!!

I've been totally excited & blessed this month with amazing clients. :)  I take every wedding as if it is its OWN story...and each couple has different desires for their art and photography.  These 2 are soooo super cute and in love - despite the 100 degree heat, we WILL have an amazing time full of love...matter of fact, I figure their LOVE is sooo HOTT...that the earth is just reflecting their love HAHAH!!! :) I love it. 

Thanks for letting me be your photographer! Until tomorrow!!!!

Herez teasers from their engagements!

Wedding teaser!!!!

what a GREAT WEEKEND we had at Winfrey Point! :)

I had a hard time stopping myself from not editing tons and tons.....

so I have one teaser for the blog!!!! :)

It is almost wedding day!!!

For Alejandra & Jon....
TOMORROW is their wedding day!!!!
AWWWWW!!!!!

Say it with me....AWWWWWWWW!!!!!

Super cute couple and we did their engagements back in March when the weather was NOT summer.  We really really enjoyed the time down in downtown dallas and ended up in a few architectural spaces out and about.  I'm sooo looking forward to their wedding tomorrow! Should be a gorgeous day with a gorgeous celebration!!!!

I leave you with some more of their engagement session from March...

ENJOY!!!!!

Look for wedding teasers!!!! Coming soon!!! Yippppeeeee!!!!!

Inspired by Inspiration part 2. - the "Breakdown" of the vision.

I just finished reading MeRa's blog about her starting an art class.  I think because I grew up DOING art...I can relate to the process a little more that way.  I also know that my pencil/pen/painting doodles were merely me passing time and expressing myself as I went through life.  I still have many of them hanging in my home.  I don't have anywhere else to HANG them! :)

So to get where I'm going - read THIS blog entry...and then i'll talk about MY part as well that I related to:
MeRa Koh: "How to draw a siamese cat"

When I read this, I could relate off the bat because many years ago, probably 10 or so I was going through my phase of seeking again.  I took an art class locally in continuing education.  I believe it was a still-life class in which we drew various objects and learned about shading, details and which pencils to use where/when.

I have great drawings on paper of white on white objects (where it was all about shading only)...and a few other fun things.  But eventually the teacher was like.... "OK!!! our final project is drawing from a photograph!".  But what she didn't say right away is that it would be OUR FACES!!!! Yes, indeed.  We took pictures and printed out a 4x6 or 5x7 - I don't remember which - and we had to draw our HEADS.

What I remember briefly about mine is that we had a grid that we laid on top of the image so we could break it up into squares.  This made the task actually EASIER to comprehend in stages for me.  I looked at my picture and my face and thought, WOW, am I really going to do this?  I have a foggy memory about it but I realized that as we went box to box...I could see the picture starting to form.  We had laid out the foundations...lightly sketched our grid onto the paper and box by box...we filled it in.

The part where I freaked out the MOST was when I got to my eyes.  By the time I left the 2nd class session I was starting to see myself STARING back from the paper and it freaked me out.  A few people would come over and comment and I would say YEA I'm creeped out by me staring at ME!!!!!!!  Bit by bit...I worked through the eyebrows...the eyes...the mouth....the nose....and I just looked at this 10 minutes ago.  I even filled in the details of my EARRINGS to perfection . Every DETAIL about my image was on that paper.  In that moment, I was clear.

I don't have any of the old pictures of the process - but i do have the final result. :)

You can see WHY I got freaked out by staring at it. :)

May 2000 - Art Drawing Class - CCCCD

 Every once in a while I glance locally at the classes going on and wonder ....what other new thing could I try that would enhance the creativity inside? <3  I've done arts, sewing and even took an archery class.  I hope I find that next fun thing soon....I could use a break from the norm! :)  I have been learning a LOT....and celebrating how far i've come.  I hope you do the same today!

CELEBRATE YOU.

Love Jen

In the midst of March We had Justin + Jennifer!!! at the Dallas Heritage Village!!!

So we had a BLAST with these 2 and their wedding party.  She had so many fun ideas and things to share with me as we created and shared their day.  The food trucks that gave us food were sooooo fun!  She had various circus-type themed things as well as simple carnival style items.  They definitely put a TON of personality into their day!!!! It was super super super fun - I'll be back later with some more images...but for now, here are FOUR never-released collages!!!!

WOOT!