Food!

So in my "free" time while not either at work or shooting an event of some sort, I have found myself shooting a variety of things around the house.  The majority of which has to do with food.  In some cases, I have taken shots of preparing food, shooting images of a variety of things coming out of my garden, or the final product of how dinner turned out.
  I have found in the short time Josh and I have been married that I thoroughly enjoy making food and trying new recipes.  The only unfortunate thing is that not everything is exactly good for you, if you know what I mean!

Until next time, I will leave you with a feast for the eyes (I apologize for the bad pun nothing).

Things from my garden:

One of my fun oven mitts:

From meals:

(these were soooo good!)

Change of pace

Hi All!

The past week or so has been a bit of a change of pace.  The Komen photos as you can see have been available online, and I've wrapped shooting some product toy shots - which was pretty fun - and as far as I can tell my being in weddings has come to a close.  Currently I am in the midst of helping my husband around the house to get things ready and planning for our official honeymoon coming in October. 

As summer slowly winds down as the kids head back to school, I look forward to the fall color and all it brings.  I look forward to photographing landscapes and portraits alike, especially in the pumpkin patches - what fun!!  In the meantime I have some personal studio shot ideas I am putting together and hope to get those going, though it is difficult to stay indoors in the weather we've been experiencing lately - my garden has provided much fun and delight this season!! I am going to miss it greatly!

Anyways, I am off to do a few chores and plan for dinner...  Perhaps I will take some photographic evidence....

Hope you are having a wonderful Sunday,

for now, I will leave you with one of my recent nature shots!

Komen Ride Photos!

Hi All!

If you haven't heard the word already, be sure to check out the ride photos from the Susan G. Komen Ride for the Cure, August 7, 2010.  You can reach them by going here.  From there you can choose which catergory to view.  If you have any questions, feel free to contact me via email at jleighphoto@gmail.com.

Once again, I want to commend everyone who was involved in this first successful bike riding event!  It was a blast to be a part of.  THANK YOU. 

I hope everyone enjoys the photos!

Jennifer

PS.  Congratulations also goes out to my big brother, Joe, and his new beautiful bride, Theresa.  Welcome to the family!

Great ride!

Wow.  What an experience!

  The Ride went great yesterday!  You couldn't have asked for better weather.  Mostly sunny, not too hot with a slight breeze for the better part of the day.  The day was filled with incredible personal stories of experiences dealing with breast cancer.  While emotional, everyone was happy to be there, either celebrating those who lost there battle, or those who have survived and are there simply to help those others still battling.  If ever you need strength in a battle of your own, knowing/listening/hearing what some of these women, as well as men and their familes, have gone through can certainly inspire anyone to be motivated.

  As for the photos taken throughout the day, we did our best to capture everyone and everything we could.  We did our best to capture the activities around base camp, at the aid stations we were able to get to, as well as many riders as we could doing their respective rides, whether on the 27, 57 or 97 mile rides.

  I am grateful for my experience working with all of the volunteers and Komen Foundation for this ride, and not just looking forward to getting photos up, but look forward to the future possibilites in the coming years.  To everyone who was involved in this ride, I commend you on a job well done, and congratulate those who did there best and gave their all on the routes, both volunteers and riders.

  Also a big congratulations to Tracy and Todd on doing an absolutely AWESOME job with getting the ride to come together.  They not only met but exceeded their expectations for the ride in both the number of riders, but in the overall funds raised.  Todd & Tracy:

Komen Ride Tomorrow!

Tomorrow is a big day!  I'm looking forward to tomorrow's Komen Ride for the Cure in Ann Arbor.  I've been spending my(furlough) day preparing my equipment, clearing my cards, and trying to do all of the house chores with the hopes of spending Sunday both relaxing and preparing the images from the ride to go on the web.

We're also excited for the ride's Volunteer meeting tonight as we will be going over everything in regards to tomorrow.  After the meeting we're planning on scouting the route(s) for places to shoot the riders as they pedal by!

Later for now, there is still much[chores] to do!

Happy August!

Welcome to the new blog!  There is so much to catch up on!  Awesome things are happening - with even more coming up!

First off, this week Josh [my husband] will be celebrating our 1 month anniversary since we've been married - yay!  We've been having fun looking at all of our images from the big day.  A Big thank you to our photographer of choice, Kim Allmand - you can see some of her work over at http://www.daydreamgalleries.com/

Next up on Saturday[August 7] we'll be in Ann Arbor shooting the first ever Susan G. Komen Mid-Michigan Ride for the Cure.  We're looking forward to capturing this emotional day as riders from all over put themselves to the test in the 27, 57, or 97 mile ride.  To read more on this ride or to figure out how you can get involved check out http://www.komenmidmichigan.org/get-involved/komen-activities/ride-for-the-cure.html

On a side note, I came upon a whole bunch of slide protectors!  Why would I make such a big deal about it?  No one sells them anymore! - and now I will be in the process of organizing my piles of slides, revisiting memories, and, as soon as I have time, will be scanning some in to hopefully share with everyone!

Happy Birthday Allison!