Photography By Jocelin

baby mine

He's such a sweet, sweet baby.

And I love that he's mine.

Mine to love. Mine to worry over. Mine to feed. Mine to hold. Mine to sooth, to kiss and squeeze.

The first time I held my baby in my arms it felt like reuniting rather than meeting for the first time, like we'd known each other forever and we'd just been apart for awhile. In our LDS religion we're told that we were in heaven together before this life, but this was more than just being told.

I felt it.

And I feel it now as I watch my sweet little boy sleeping in my arms.

He was mine before and he'll be mine forever.

story time

I asked my 7 year old to read to my baby while I was getting some things done around the house, but then they looked so cute I got my camera out.

I took this picture and then my battery died.

When I came back, my daughter had picked him to cuddle while she read...

my baby

My baby is here! He came on August 1st and I'll write more about it all later when I'm not so tired, but we are home and doing well. He is perfect & healthy and I'm recovering nicely.

My sister in Emily of Winkfotos.com came and took some beautiful images for me of our new little baby at the hospital, I love them all so much!! Thank you so much Em!

 

 

 

about two weeks left

I have about two & half weeks left until my due date. I have shied away from cameras my whole pregnancy but with so little time left, I decided I'd better document my big belly before my new baby boy arrives. Being a photographer I do understand the value of hiring someone awesome to do photos for me but since I am huge, it didn't seem likely that I would like the images so I just had my 7 year old daughter snap a few pictures in our back yard. She had fun, I showed her some idea pictures first and then helped her set up. I do love the way they turned out and she was pretty proud of herself.

 

 

 

 

inspiration

So much of what I do by way of props, lighting, posing, etc, comes from inspiration from other fabulous photographers. As my style evolves of course my sources of inspiration change, once upon a time I wished only to be a fashion photographer, which makes me laugh now. Once upon a longer ago time I chose business as my major in college, then when I received my first grade lower than a B (I got a D, by the way) in my academic career from Business 1010 and I reevaluated my life and started spending all of my time in the art department taking any and all art classes that were offered. Eventually I found that while my first love had been painting because I enjoy getting colorful & messy, I could render the art & creativity from my head to a medium better with a camera into photos than paint to canvas.

Anyway here are some photography blogs that I currently frequent and whose talent I admire & style adore.

http://simplybloomphotography.com/blog/

http://www.carolinetran.net/blog/

http://tanjalippertphotography.blogspot.com/

http://tarawhitney.com/justbeblogged/

http://www.shannonsewell.com/theblankpage/

http://greenweddingshoes.com/

just for fun

Here's my favorite little guy in the whole world...

a sad day

My Aunt Marg, my Grandma's sister, passed away yesterday after a short and grievous battle with pancreatic cancer. I can never find words that adequately describe loss or bring any degree of comfort. Words like "miss" and "sad" and "love" fall short in paying tribute to a life and person who meant so much to so many. I ache for my Grandma who has been fighting her own battle with cancer, she lost her baby sister and best friend.

Since words fail me, here is my picture tribute...

 

 

 

 

me

My adorable sister in law, Emily of www.winkfotos.com and I decided to take pictures of one another a little while ago and I am finally getting around to the debut of my very own photo shoot! Em took the images and then I photo-shopped the crap out of them :) literally the crap like wrinkles, blemishes etc. A huge thank you to Em for these pretty images, I am ridiculously horrible at having my picture taken but at the same time I have expectations because being a photographer gives me a desire have beautiful images of myself.

 

My super cool bike :)

 

And the award for the whitest legs I've ever seen goes to me :)

 

And because I adore umbrellas I had to have one for my photo shoot, I couldn't find one in the right shade so I spray painted this one blue...

And the images I took of Emily can be found here: http://mommymodels.blogspot.com/2009/09/me.html and of course I can't get the link to work so you'll have to copy and paste, sometimes typepad can be so furstrating!

happy 24th

I love leaving my shutter open and drawing with sparklers!

I was trying to write "Jocie" can you tell?

A kitty face...

a heart...

And my husband Ryan's lovely anarchy sign...

public restrooms

This is a post I created for a Mommy blog I recently joined, it's too funny not to share...

Since I was old enough to understand what germs were I have hated public restrooms. I avoid them whenever possible, unfortunately when you have young children they are a necessary evil. Yesterday we were out to lunch and before we even got our food my 4 year old son announced, "I have to go poop!" loud enough for the whole place to hear. Faces were smiling and chuckling everywhere I looked as I glanced quickly around the restaurant judging it's level of cleanliness. I hoped the bathroom would be as clean. It was. I breathed a sigh of relief when I turned on the light. I picked him up and sat him on the potty because it was one of those extra tall toilets that you often find in public restrooms and he started to do his business. I was standing near him examining the soap dispenser, it had dirty fingerprints on it, when he said "Uh Oh". Never a good thing to hear a child say in a bathroom. I looked at him and he had a frozen expression of horror on his cute little face and some moisture dripping down his nose. "Oops Mom, I peed on my face." He said somberly. "What!?!" I yelped so loudly that the people outside the door probably heard me. In his cute little oh so innocent voice he explained, "I was just wookin' (looking) at my pee comin' out and I peed on my face." Maybe it was his expression or his cuteness or the fact that "Oops Mom, I peed on my face." sounded so completely hilarious but I started to laugh and so did he. I grabbed some paper towels and with some soap and water cleaned his face. I made a mental note to myself to always let him stand up to pee before I sit him down!

And I can't post without a picture, so I'm leaving you with an image I recently took of my little guy in the tub. That way you can visualize him clean & without pee on his face!