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3 Months New.

This session speaks to my heart!  A mom, her baby, and the love between them…the adoration in that little girl’s eyes every time she looks at her mama.  I savored every sweet image when I was processing them, I just kept melting at all the love this baby has for her mom.  It reminds me so much of my own baby girl, and it makes my heart so happy!  I loved the informality of this session and the true moments of love that I was able to capture.   Enjoy!

4 comments

Stephanie T - May 7, 2012 - 10:45 am

I am so completely in love with this session, what a gorgeous session! And truly what a gift to be able to look back at this session and see how much they loved each other. I love their connection!!!!

Brooke - May 7, 2012 - 2:54 pm

Ummm, these are incredible!! This is my favorite session to date. Wow joy… Wow!!!!

Amy Blake - May 8, 2012 - 7:31 pm

I am in LOVE with every single one of these photos!! What a perfectly perfect session! Every mama and baby should have pictures like these! Great work as always, Joy!

Heather - May 11, 2012 - 8:05 am

oh WOW these are so beautiful! Love all the interaction and love you captured here. What a lucky mom to have these gorgeous photos!

Heart

Anytime I have a photo session, it gives me a unique opportunity to see more intimately into the life of the family I am photographing.  It is a privilege as well as a responsibility, my main goal being that I capture the heart of the family.  I am always honored to be asked to have that special peak into their personal lives, and I leave feeling closer to them.  It is possibly even more special to me when it’s a family I have already known and loved, it makes me love them even more.  I will miss this family terribly when they leave!  I am so glad we got to take some time to capture their ‘heart’ before they go.

These images were taking at Spring Mill State Park.

7 comments

Shannon Dodge - April 3, 2012 - 3:34 am

These images are so soft and just beautiful!!!! What an adorable little family. Love these captures, Joy!!!

Stephanie T - April 3, 2012 - 4:02 am

Well you do a good job capturing the heart joy! You always have :) These are gorgeous, beautiful family!

brooke - April 3, 2012 - 4:27 am

TOTAL and COMPLETE gorgeousness!! Joy, you are incredible. These pictures are perfect and capture so much of heart. Beautiful family and beautiful work.

Kathy Scoffield - April 3, 2012 - 4:32 am

Such a gorgeous location and couple!! Love this session, such daring interactions captured. I adore that pic of the the little guy, so creamy and sweet.

Amy Blake - April 3, 2012 - 4:40 am

What special images you captured for this family!!! Just perfect in every way! And that location is just to die for!

Ana Merkurieff - April 3, 2012 - 5:09 am

These are indeed great family pictures. I hope you send some my way. I love you.

Jennifer Urbin - April 3, 2012 - 5:29 pm

Joy these are gorgeous. You truly did capture the heart of this family. Love!!!!!!!!!

Baby Love

As most of you know, I recently had a sweet baby…whom I am quite obsessed with at the moment.  Perhaps that is why my heart is so full just looking at these pictures of an adoring mommy and her precious baby.  Or perhaps it is just the love that emits from them.  Either way, I adore these images and I hope you do, too.  I mixed up the ‘posing’ with the interactions between mom and baby, something I have been wanting to do for awhile, and I love the results.  Enjoy!

The next two make my heart want to burst!

I have this same picture with my little one and I treasure it.

8 comments

Lisa - March 20, 2012 - 4:31 pm

Thanks Joy! These are so sweet. Kate is such a darling. You did a great job

Stephanie T - March 20, 2012 - 4:40 pm

These are gorgeous! Momma is gorgeous and so is baby. I adore these :)

brooke - March 20, 2012 - 5:24 pm

Oh my darling!! Joy, I love these. Beautiful momma, baby .. tones.. everything is perfection. I would love to have pics like this of me and my babies. I love you.

Jennifer Urbin - March 20, 2012 - 6:10 pm

Beautiful moments captured.

Shannon Dodge - March 21, 2012 - 1:22 am

Beautiful baby and mama and awesome job capturing these moments! Love them Joy!

JoDee - March 21, 2012 - 3:32 am

Such sweet moments captured Joy…priceless for this mama. Fantastic job as always!

Kathy Scoffield - March 21, 2012 - 10:23 am

Joy these are priceless! Precious little girl and beautiful mom. Love every one of them!

Amy Blake - March 24, 2012 - 6:21 pm

Oh these are just precious and perfect in every way!! Love the mama and baby shots!

L.o.v.e.

Hello!  So, it’s pretty apparent that I dropped of the face of the blog-sphere there for awhile…a long LONG while.  I have been so lucky to be able to take a nice long maternity leave to enjoy my sweet, precious baby.  However, she isn’t so new anymore, and it’s time for me to get back behind the camera.  What better way than to photograph the cutest couple ever?  I am a bit biased seeing as how this is my darling sister-in-law whom I love more than words…she has found an amazing guy to spend the rest of her life with and lucky for me, they asked me to take some engagements for them!

I give to you:  Love.

 

Congratulations Allison and Eric!  We love you.

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Erin - March 4, 2012 - 1:10 pm

Gorgeous!!! Helps when you have a gorgeous couple to photograph! Congrats Allison!

brooke - March 4, 2012 - 3:43 pm

Ok, wow! These are stunning.. you.are.amazing. How lucky of them to have you to photograph them and as a sister-in-law :) Way to come back with a bang.

Stephanie T - March 4, 2012 - 4:51 pm

Beautiful beautiful beautiful! The couple, the pictures everything! Love them Joy!

Heather Taylor - March 5, 2012 - 6:45 am

Oh wow, these are just gorgeous! What a beautiful couple, and these photos are so soft and romantic, I love them!!

Allison - March 5, 2012 - 6:53 am

Such nice comments, thanks! Joy did amazing, it was a really fun day taking pictures, she made us feel so comfortable! Love you Joy!!

Abbi - March 5, 2012 - 8:22 am

They are fantastic! I have never seen a more romantic shot taken at the gates!!!!! Seriously lovely.

Amy Blake - March 5, 2012 - 2:59 pm

These are STUNNING!!! Love the way you framed them in the 3rd and 4th ones… well, really I just love them all!! You rock!

Kim - March 5, 2012 - 4:02 pm

I LOVE LOVE LOVE these, Joy!

Kathy Scoffield - March 6, 2012 - 12:13 pm

Thank you Joy!! My eyes have been starving for more of you gorgeous work. LOL! These are dreamy! Stunning couple.. gorgeous light, fantastic posing an interaction. Just beautiful!

Jennifer Urbin - March 12, 2012 - 5:26 pm

Joy what an amazing talent you have. These are beyond stunning. Gorgeous images, gorgeous couple, just gorgeous. Ummm did I mention that these are gorgeous? LOL.

Girls and the Cold.

This family was my last session before going on maternity leave, and let me just give credit where credit is due…these girls toughed out probably the coldest day of the year so far…and did it with a smile.  These are some tough cookies!  So glad, because I love this family and I am happy we were able to do this before it was too late.  Enjoy!



I admit that I am a little obsessed with this next picture.  I. love. love.

This little cookie wasn’t as thrilled to be out in the sub zero weather….

…so we brought her indoors for a few snaps.

MUCH better!  :)


5 comments

Erin Fonnesbeck - November 29, 2011 - 2:06 am

These are absolutely amazing Joy! Your black and whites rock this town!!!

Heather - November 29, 2011 - 6:45 am

Oh wow, what a beautiful family!! Super cute girls, and I love their outfits, too. I especially love the individual pics with mom- what a treasure! Gorgeous as always, Joy!

Brooke Ashley photography - November 29, 2011 - 7:09 am

I love these!! They are beautiful, so beautiful. You can’t even tell its cold :) gorgeous work my dear joy! I’m going to miss your posts while you’re on maternity ;)

Charlotte - November 29, 2011 - 12:10 pm

Joy – these are wonderful! The beautiful setting and great props add interest to gorgeous people.

Amy Blake - November 29, 2011 - 7:34 pm

Oh, Joy!! You just rock!! I love these images and the connections you got! Beautiful color as always!

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