A Turtle and a Bobcat

What can I say about these two?
They are just AWESOME!!!
Not only are they a cool couple, cool people but they are having a cool wedding..at the Porches in Saugatuck! I am so looking forward to photographing their wedding, Tracy is going to be a GORGEOUS bride :)

Yesterday I spent a few hours with Brian (Bobcat) and Tracey (Turtle) taking their engagement pictures.
I showed them around our lovely city of Grand Rapids and all the fun places there are to go!
This morning I sat down to go through their session and I had a REALLY hard time choosing which ones to feature on the blog, so there are quite a few on here for you to look at :)

We started out downtown along the river walk:






Then we went over to Aquinas college, I love shooting here:





What is up in the tree?? OHHHHH its an owl!! Oh, its TWO owls!!!
How flipping awesome is that???
And of course, being the photographer that I am, I had to take some pictures!








Ok, back to the engagement pics :)
We headed into East town for some "urbany" pictures!




BLING!!!


Look at this awesome hurse..Brian loves old cars!

After our shoot I introduced Brian and Tracey to my favortie place to eat..Bombay pub...too fun!
Here Brian showed me a little video he made about his bobcat that was just recently in an accident. This is a car I am speakin of, not an actual animal :)




YUMMYYYYYY!!!!



CHEESE!!

Another successful class!!

On Wednesday night Amy and I taught our second beginners course to photography!
It was a huge success, I loved every minute of it!!
Look for more classes to be scheduled and maybe a few advanced classes later on this year :)
Thanks to everyone who came out, it was a fun night and I enjoyed getting to know you all!

YIPPIEEEEE!!!!

After 5 LLOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGG months, it is finally wedding season!
I am so excited and just about jumping out of my chair!!!
Stay tuned, this weekend is Jason and Michele's wedding, and I cannot wait! Their reception is at St.Cecilia Music Society downtown Grand Rapids. The perfect venue for a perfect couple!
Just wait till you see all the new moves I have learned over the last few months :)

I have an addiction....

So spring is here and it is time for my Spring/Summer time addiction to pick back up again :)
I am addicted to having fresh flowers in my house.
Yesterday I went to the store and bought some bright colored flowers and made a little arrangement of my own at home.
I am not a good flower arranger, but it always makes me feel bright and cheery when there are fresh flowers in the house!!
Enjoy the beautiful day!!

Do something different...

A while back I featured Becca from Lil'MissCupCake on my blog, and since then there has been CupCake Mania!!! So I decided to feature her again, this time focusing on doing something different at your wedding.
Here is my question to you.
Are you a bride or groom who is looking for something a little less traditional for your wedding dessert? Get on the CupCake train honey!!
Becca can custom design these little tasty morsels to look anyway you want! She has some FAB ideas of her own but she can make those cupcakes rock any way you like!
I know I have a lot of brides out there who are using bright vibrant colors in their wedding, so Becca came up with some beautiful cupcakes for me to photograph yesterday!

Let the drooling begin :)










Ok, now stop drooling all over your keyboard, pick up the phone and call Becca!

Thanks for looking :)

Don't forget to sign up!!!

We have a few spots left open for our Beginners Course to Photography class coming up this April 16th at 6pm!
You can email me or Amy to sign up:
info@jkphotographyonline.com
amy@acarrollphotography.com

Hope to see you there!!

Ready..Set...LLLIIIIIFFFFTTTTT

Today we had our home lifted..this was an interesting process. They hooked up hydraulics to all the piers they put under our house and made them all lift at the same time. I know nothing about hydraulics, but it was pretty cool to watch this happen!




I think they are just about done with the process..sometime this week (when we get everything cleaned up) I will take an after pictures and line them up so you can see the difference...I don't really see much of a difference now, its all just a big mess to me!

ANTM-National Geographic Style

Hmmmm....this looks nothing like National Geographic...but I think we might be getting closer!




Yes, we are very silly, I know!

Amy...this one is for you!

While the jack hammering continues through the day, I am finding new things to photograph to keep myself sane. Te birds have made a home in one of our GINORMOUS trees in our backyard!
Here is my first attempt to get some good pictures of the birds...I am not as good as my fabulous friend Amy..but I'd say I am getting there :)