Santa & Anxiety

Nov 19, 2018

Today is the first time since Friday that I can take a deep breath. I had an elephant on my chest all weekend. You see, I photographed 70+ sessions with Santa this weekend, over 100 kids! So naturally, I had a nightmare last night that my memory card wallet and camera were stolen. Clearly the dream is representative of how stressful and anxiety inducing my weekend was and also how disastrous it would have been (in my mind) if I had to do it all over again! After 16 years in this ...

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Introducing the Simple Smash

May 07, 2018

I have been designing and photographing first year cake smashes for years and years. I chat with the parents, we come up with a theme, work together and make an adorable set happen for their session. There is usually a lot of money and time spent on designing these cake smashes. I have noticed while the parents always love the final images the common theme amongst the parents is that they would just like a small print of it because they don't really want the cake smash image hung on ...

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Welcome to my new blog and website!

Apr 17, 2018

Welcome to my new Blog & Website! It has been a very long time since I have written a blog post. I pretty much quick blogging when I discovered facebook and I recently realized that I used to blog for a few reasons, none of which are being fulfilled by the time suck that is facebook. So here we go, we are resurrecting the JLP blog, so that I can share my beautiful clients images with you, share my daily going ons and recent projects, and mostly so that I can have a place again to ...

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