Hauck Family

I got to hang out with the Hauck family for an afternoon. Their little boy Rowan was sooo much fun. He talks like a grown up...without using grown up words. I have never met a kids that had such awesome voice inflection. I was cracking up as he bossed me around in his baby babble that sounded like his father.

much love,

je

The makeup post

Dear Blog,

I am sorry I left you. I DO care! I love posting! You mean a lot to me. Really. If I promise to post again...often...can we be friends? I promise it will be very entertaining, full of excitement and maybe even a surprise or two. There will be good old stories and of course c r a z y PHOTOS to go with them...

Come on.

I know you want me to come back!

Ok to make it up to you...

I am posing a shoot near and dear to my heart.

Michael and Stephanie Garvey. A few of my best friends! They have been married 5 years! They asked me to shoot for their anniversary.

Oh yes. It was grand!

Here is the story...You are going to love this.

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Michael wanted to surprise Steph for their 5th wedding anniversary. He planned an epic day for her including massage, lunch out and a rockin wedding attire shoot.

I got to the hotel. Michael and Steph pull up. She has no idea what is going on. Perfect. As she walks in and sees me standing there with my camera she was confused...very confused. Awesome. She has no idea what was going on.

THEN she sees her wedding dress come in the door. She look to Michael and he says,

"Well....I thought you might like a shoot in your wedding dress."

At that point she gave him a really big kiss...I took that as a yes she did want a wedding dress shoot. We went into the bath room to get ready. Poor girl was in shock for a good hour. It was great.

It was joy shock...

She was pretty excited to put that dress on again.
We did a first look...all the romance of a wedding day was in that room
Michael got her a new pair of wedding shoes...she wore a borrowed pair 5 years ago
So cute eh?

Black and white g o o d n e s s

Hot hot hotness...

Great story huh? :)

Thanks Michael and Steph! It was tons of fun! I love you guys.

See you soon,

jocelyn.elise

The James Family.

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.she said she loved black and white.

me too. 
After 2 hours little Noelle liked my lap better then in front of the lens, I loved it but it does leave very limited portrait angles. 
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here is to blue eyes and sunshine!
3 kids later and still totally into each other. Pretty awesome. 
And this would be my favorite shot. 

But this one comes pretty darn close. Of course with multiple gifts of hand picked flowers throughout the shoot how could I not but fall in l.o.v.e with this cutie? 

much joy, 

-jocelyn.elise 

David & Misty [and boys]

-je

wenatchee trip part 1 Grace Community Church.

To make a long story short. 

I met and did a family sessions with this rad family [the josh mcphersons]

They started a church with their family in Wenatchee WA.

Josh asked me to shoot one of their services.

I said yes. 

He said other families might be intrested in sessions.

I said right on.

He did all the bookings and details for me.

I got there and had 12 shoots booked. 

In 2.5 days 

it 

was 

[completely]

AWESOME 

I am going to start with the church service [which was great by they way. If you are ever in Wenatchee go. You will find the the coolest people, sweet worship and solid preaching.]

Thanks Grace Community for the enthusiasm and kindness. I was blessed to be able to meet you! 

These are the Elders for Grace Community Church. They are pretty fun for being elders... 

It really is good preaching 

I love this one...totally my favorite 

Remembering...

family sessions up n e x t....

-jocelyn.elise

joel and michelle engaged!

Engagement session are the best. They are [most the time] cake. The two people you are photographing are totally into each other. They are crazy in love, meaning they are willing to do crazy things with their photographer. They love being close and holding cuddling poses. Joel and Michelle...well this shoot is worth writing about. 

They wanted their location to be at the top of Rock Butte, a beautiful spot that over looks Portland. We arrive and the weather was cramping my style a bit. Off and on showers to direct sun breaks. Being an Oregon resident I am use to this dilemma. So we started shooting in the rain, sun, rain. Then it began to rain harder. I am pretty flexible when it come to my camera getting wet but I started to get concerned as it feel harder. As we looked out over Portland we saw huge storm cloud, dark as night. No lie. So we decided to move towards the car. We ended up running for it an cramming into Joel's car as it poured so hard you could not see out the window.  Thunder and lightening crashed directly above us. [I was a bit worried...not that I said that. Michelle said the car was the best place to be in the thunder storm and Joel was cracking up...and calling people. So I assumed we would not get struck by one of the lighting bolts.] 

We waited it out. Simply because there was no choice. The road would be a mess and we could not think of a better spot that was covered. Within 20 min the dark as night clouds left us. We got out of the car and finished. Here are the results. 

We all got [very] wet for the last few shots. 
and I love this one.
and this one...note her ring, it is completely awesome!
almost my fav shot of the day...but not quite, maybe because it took me forever to get it.
This one is my favorite one of the day. I like it lots and lots. And lots.
Joel and Michelle, thanks so much for the hilarious shoot. You guys are so fun! 

-jocelyn 

Mr. and Mrs. Root

 It was beautiful from beginning to end! 

This has got to be my favorite shot of the day

I suggested sunglasses in our pre-shoot meeting. They show up with these bad boys on the wedding day. Turned out pretty rockin guys...

for some reason this image captivates  me, I love it. 
embrace direct sunlight.
not really sure what is going on here...
Congregations Paul and Megs! It was wonderful to spend such a day with you! 

-je