Jessica Lemmons Photography Blog, Longview Washington (Wa.) photographer.

I met up with Meg last week for her senior portraits in Kelso. She had some wonderful ideas for her photos and I was so happy with how these turned out – her request – glamorous, indie, rock n’ roll.  I’m hoping that I captured  what makes Meg “Meg”.  It truly was impossible to take a bad photo of this girl and I really enjoyed her session.  Thank you for having me as your photographer Meg and I hope you like your preview.

I had the pleasure of meeting the “L” kids this last week for a session with just the kids in the family.  The older two are super well-behaved  twins and the youngest totally won my heart with her adorable smile and precious looks.   I know their mom through a homeschooling group that I am a part of for mom’s of young kiddos, it was fun getting to meet the kids that I’ve gotten to hear all sorts of fun stories about.  :-)  They were precious and SOOOO well-behaved.   I throughly enjoyed the session and hope that they like their photos as much as I do!

Her smile totally won my heart!

Last year I had the pleasure of particpating in the National Charity Model Search to benefit the non-profit organization Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep.  It was a huge success – the final total raised by participating photographers was $144,000.    I have been throughly blessed being a part of this organization, it really pulls my heartstrings, and I feel very honered to be a particpating photographer in this wonderful group.  

So without further ado – I’m here to announce that we are at it again!  Photographers across America going to be doing the “America’s Cutest Family” Model Search and I’m releasing the official Sandy Puc announcment below.

Jessica Lemmons Photography is participating in the International Charity Model Search to select North America’s Cutest Family and to raise funds for the non-profit Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Foundation. (NILMDTS.org)

Are your loved ones North America’s Cutest Family? We’ll give you the opportunity to prove it! Many exciting prizes will be awarded, and the grand prize winner receives a new car!

Model Search Special:

$40 entrance fee includes a 30-60 minute location or studio model session and one image submitted to the national gallery.

Finalists will be determined by online votes. Each vote is $1 (no limit on the amount of votes you can cast), and all proceeds from votes benefit Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep (NILMDTS.org).

Grand prize international winner will be determined from the 52 city finalists. The winners will be selected from the finalist gallery by photography and modeling industry experts.  The winning family also receives a session with the renowned portrait artist Sandy Puc’ and international recognition.

Call 360-431-9265  now to enter your family in this exciting contest.

*Contest open to residents of the US and Canada. For more information, visit http://sandypucmodels.com/.

I spent most of the day yesterday photographing an absolutely gorgeous wedding in downtown Vancouver WA.  I’m still in the middle up uploading all of their images to my computer, but as I was uploading this image just jumped out to me and I knew I had to quickly post it before I get caught up in work this week.

She has such a classic beauty…….

Miss K just turned one and her parents and I got to meet up for their yearly family photos.   I can’t believe how much all of these babies have changed in the last year!  Miss K is no exception.  Sitting up, giggling, getting teeth and just starting to talk…..so much changes in that first year!  I met her parents up in Toutle at the Harry Gardner park last Sunday and we were just in time to get some of the fall colors before this last weeks storms took away all of our pretty fall foliage. I was really happy with how these turned out.  Miss K was a gem!

Thank you guys for having me as your photographer!

Christmas is just around the corner!  I’ve been enjoying egg-nog lattes for the past week now and it’s made me realize how close I am to my order deadline for Christmas photos!  I still have a few last minute spots left for family sessions before the holidays, but not very many, especially if you want to get some cards out.   This last week I had several larger family sessions – I thought I would post a few of my favorites from a couple of them.

Interested in booking a family session before or during the holidays?  Give me a call at 360-431-9265.

I just can’t believe this little girl is one already!  I feel like I just photographed her newborn session yesterday….my goodness, this year has gone by fast!  I had so much fun today.  My sister-in-law Nicole (she works at Market Place and I HIGHLY recommend her!) made this beautiful cupcake today.   It was perfect, and huge! I think it actually might have weighed more than Miss “R”.  

This day was also extra special for me.   For those of you that follow my tweets or facebook, I moved into a new studio this month.   I’m still not all settled in – lots of photos need to be put on the walls and I’m still shopping for the perfect coffee table, but the necessities are there.  I’ll be posting photos and announcing a grand opening (a long with some specials!) very soon. But, in the meantime, I had to take it for a spin.  So this is my FIRST official “in studio” session.  YAY!!!  (excuse me while I go do a happy dance in my office!)  ;-)

Last month I spent a lot of time putting together some wedding slideshows for a few of the bridal fairs I was going to be a part of.  The bridal fairs went AWESOME – I got lots of bookings and some great leads, but my slideshows were just left sitting on my computer afterwards.  So…..I decided I might as well get some use out of these, I was so happy with how they turned out and it just seemed a waste to leave them sitting all lonely on my  hard drive, so here I am sharing one with you!  More to come and feedback is always appreciated!