Merry Christmas!!

This winter, my family and I will be heading to Pittsburgh to celebrate the holidays! I've never been to Pittsburgh (minus Fallingwater...is that Pittsburgh?), so I'm very excited to see what it's like on the other side of the state! I'm hoping for lots and lots of delicious food, warm toasty fireplace fires, and just a great time with family and friends. I'm NOT hoping for weight gain and food comas, though I have a feeling those are inevitable, at least for me.

I may be taking a blogging break for a little bit because as soon as I get back from Pittsburgh, I'll be heading to NYC for the week! So expect some personal pictures when I return. :)

Merry Christmas!!

The Santos Family

Here are some more pictures from my previous post of the Santos Family--Melissa, Alex, and Jared.

Meet Rocky!


After leaving the luxuries of a heated home, we headed out into the cold outdoors to Melissa's grandma's cute little farm! And to our pleasant un-surprise...it began snowing!!!


Kissies for Daddy.


Since it was so cold, they had to find some way to stay warm! :)


I love this family!

Moore Bags Please!!

EDIT: For blogging about her bag, I've received a $50 off discount code to share with all of you! Just enter code: bloglove when you check out! But this code expires on Christmas Day!! So make your purchases before then!!

A photographer whose work I love has just launched her camera bag line!! Not only is she an amazing photographer, she's also such a fashionista! I would wear these bags as my regular carryall! They're beautiful!

As for me, I would like the one in fuchsia. Thanks! :)
(Photos from KellyMooreBag.com site.)

FIRST SNOWFALL OF THE WINTER

I loooove winter...but only because of the snow. If it was just cold all the time, that wouldn't be fun. But I had a shoot today with Melissa, Alex, and Jared (and their own little pet farm), and we got to go out in the snow and play a little bit. I've only briefly, very briefly, looked through the photos and this one just stuck out. I absolutely adore it. I snapped it when we were getting in our cars, ready to part ways! So it almost didn't get in the mix of photos!



By the way, taken on my D700. The bokeh and the colors are SO yummy! MMmmmm. :)

Thanks Melissa, Alex, and Jared for letting me take your pictures today! I'll post more up soon!

Wednesday...

So today was a good day. Here are some photos taken from today that I want to share with you.

New boots..been looking for a pair for over a year. I haven't worn them yet though--I'm afraid I'll change my mind as soon as I wear them outside the house and then I won't be able to return them anymore!

Cason in his adorable little bodysuit.

(ISO 6400, 1/50, f1.8)

So those are just some random pictures...but they really define my day.
Here's one last one to make it complete.


I'd like to introduce you to Wednesday. :)

(Critique these photos lightly...I was just too excited about Wednesday and I had to snap something and put them up quick!)

Thanksgiving Festivities

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I had a lovely time making my food belly with delicious food in the company of great family! Even though it was an overcast and wet day, I still went out with some relatives to take photos of their kids in the park. The shoot didn't go as planned--kids wanted to run all over the playground and wouldn't sit still, then they got cold and wouldn't sit still, then they got tired and wouldn't sit still. Oh well, you gotta roll with the punches! I managed to snap a few pictures, and here are just a couple for now.

This is Nikki, blowing kissies like her daddy told her to.

Her little brother Brandon, who's a little too small for the swing, but luckily his overly large coat kept him in there pretty snug. :)

And this is Alice...at least her cute boots! You'll meet her later.

Sorry!

So it's been a little while since I've blogged...sorry about that! To try and make up for it, here are some old(er) photos that I haven't put up anywhere. :) Please enjoy!

This is my grandpa, my dad's dad, Cason's GREAT grandpa! I love my Yeye(grandpa in Cantonese)'s smile in this photo.

He used to love this chair--now he won't sit in it for more than 5 minutes!

And he's also outgrown his cute little shoes we put on him just about everyday. :(


Can you tell I love my nephew? :)

Birthday Blue

Sometimes I just get bored and find things around the house to photograph. Who DOESN'T do that right? On the eve of my birthday, I decided to play around with ring shots, but of course without having access to a macro lens to take these said ring shots. AND I didn't have an engagement ring to take pictures of. But, thinking it was appropriate for my birthday, I took ring shots of my ring with my birthstone! :) And my hat that I never wear but desperately try to find places to wear it to. I told you I was bored.



On another note, there's a baby toy downstairs (that belongs to my nephew) that apparently started malfunctioning this weekend, which I didn't know about and found out after the fact. But last night, it went off and my first thought was, "Is the ice cream truck passing by outside??" Of course this would be the first thought ANYONE would have had past midnight. But I saw that no one was downstairs and all the lights were off. All I saw was the glowing red light and all I heard was the happy-when-it's-during-the-day but creepy-when-it's-at-night jingle going off. Oh man, FREAK ME OUT! It's going off now and I just have to laugh at myself how I am still such a big baby sometimes.

Thanks for reading through this nonsensical post. :)

Cason and Fall Leaves

So if you've looked around www.thirteeneightphotography.com, you've seen the baby in the "little ones" section of photos. Well, that adorable little cutie patootie is my nephew! And I certainly do take lots and lots of pictures of him. This weekend, I had another opportunity to take photos...in the leaves! A cute little face and beautiful fall colors to surround him with! Here are just a select few from that session!



The picture that I took after this one (not shown here) is his daddy pushing those leaves away from his mouth. At this age, he puts everything in his mouth!



We also put him in his cute little Halloween monkey outfit, but he started to get grumpy. :(

Jen & Allen Wedding

I had the opportunity to fly down to NC to shoot a wedding with Ashley of the Story Photographers. Tangent: I was at a coffee shop and saw these neat little business cards for a photography company. I started following their blog, recommended them to my friends who were looking for a wedding photographer, and the rest is history! :) (Thanks, Ashley!)

Anyway, we shot Jennifer and Allen's wedding in Emerald Isle, NC. It was supposed to be an outdoor beach wedding but the wind and rain had other plans for us! The wedding was moved indoors but it was still a beautiful and moving wedding as you will see in these pictures.

Here are a few that I love from the wedding!

(Warning: LOTS of images.)



The bouquets were so pretty!





Gathering her "something borrowed, something blue, something old, something new." :)



Let me tell you, this bride was a trooper! Even with all the bad weather that day, she didn't freak out. AND when the weather let up for 5 minutes, she went out in the high winds to get those beach pictures she wanted!



Remember how I said the wedding we very moving? Well, the groom was very emotional (which is the BEST!) and fought back tears the SECOND he saw his beautiful bride walking toward him.







The best man wanted to join in on the first dance!



Everyone at the wedding were dancing machines!! They danced for hours and hours into the night!



And of course they did choreographed dances: Thriller.

Website!

So I've added some new photos to the website. I'm still working through editing a couple weddings. Progress has been a bit slow because everyone in my house is sick!! That's 6 people (including 1 baby) all sniffling and coughing = spreading more germs in the air!! Luckily for me, I seem to have the least severe symptoms, though I think it's slowly creeping up on me.

Anyway, here's a peek at some photos to come from Alen & Cyndi's wedding!



And who doesn't love spinning? This little girl sure didn't hesitate to in her pretty new dress!

The start of something new...

If you're here, it's likely that you've come from my photography site! I'm glad you're here...but I'm not quite ready yet! Things are still being set up around here if you couldn't already tell. Please excuse the...barrenness while I finish getting everything together.

Cheers!
jen