This particular wedding was back in September, and it was absolutely gorgeous.  Kanisha and Darryl and both just so photogenic, and it was such a delight to be a part of their wedding day!  And for a September wedding, I don’t recall it being such a sweltering blistering hot day where the bridesmaids faint one-by-one, so that’s just another plus for this beautiful day!  ;)  When we first met, Kanisha informed me that they weren’t traditional about not seeing each other before the wedding, so the first thing I thought of was – let’s do a sequence of him seeing you for the first time!!  It turned out just lovely, and I definitely recommend it to future brides and grooms.  :)  Oh, and magical portraits at sunset?  I also recommend those, too…  :)

So, without further ado, I present to you…  Kanisha and Darryl!  So many congrats and wishes for a beautiful lifetime together.  :)

This was one of my very favorite portrait sessions of 2011!!  A three year old’s birthday session at the Great State Fair of Oklahoma??  YES, PLEASE!  We had such a blast.  We started the session bright and shiny early as soon as they opened the gates, and therefore got to have the place to ourselves for the most part!  Cash’s mom Terri had, of course, all sorts of fun ideas and props, and I think she’s going to have some trouble topping the pure fun of this session for next year…  ;)  We tried to get as epic as possible, and I think it turned into quite the success!  But, I’ll stop yapping and let the photos speak for themselves.  ;)

So, needless to say, I had the most wonderful holiday season I’ve had in the past few years.  :)  But now, it’s back to work for me!!  I have completed the task of renovating my blog layout, and I am currently working on renovating my whole entire website at the moment, among all of the other start-of-the-year tasks that need to be completed.  Sonny is diligently trying to convince me that I need to ONLY play Skyrim with him, but I am holding strong until I get all of the necessities finished.  (He’s a bit of a bad influence on me.)  ;)  I have a ton of awesome plans for Juniper Photography in 2012, and I can’t wait to see what all this year brings!

I will be sharing blog posts for all of the AMAZING weddings and portrait sessions I enjoyed the last few months of 2011!  Even though they were quite a long time ago, I still want to share the happiness with you.  So be on the look-out for lots of smiling faces galore!

So, I hope everyone had as fantastic a holiday as I did, and here’s to a most wonderful and happy 2012!!

(And here’s a photo of my kitty, Panama, in hopes that you’ll be more likely to forgive my absence because I got to spend more time with her and she thanks you for it!)  ;)

I adore the photo below so much.  Just can’t take his eyes off his momma.  :)

“I think the best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.”     -Anne Geddes

She had the super fun idea for Maizey’s first birthday portraits to photograph her eating a miniature cake, and that is now one of my FAVORITE things!  I hope I have many more cake eating sessions in my future.  You can’t tell in most of the photos, but it put Maizey in major distress to get her hands all sticky with icing, and she kept looking at Terri like, “Uhhh, can I get a napkin around here??”  but then she’d turn back to the cake and think “Mmmmmm, sugary goodness.  Must have more.” ;)

Keep an eye out in about two months for Maizey’s brother Cash’s third birthday portraits at the FAIR! Beyond fun. So excited to share those. :D

A squirrel found a bit of cake that ran astray!

I love that the Myers take full advantage of outfit changes!! (hint hint, future clients!) ;)

“Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture.  If a photograph looks perishable we say, “Gee, I’m glad I have that moment.”      -John Loengard

]]> http://juniperphoto.com/blog/2011/09/20/maizey/feed/ 1 http://juniperphoto.com/blog/2011/09/16/sandy-and-reuben/ http://juniperphoto.com/blog/2011/09/16/sandy-and-reuben/#comments Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:34:08 +0000 Robyn Icks http://juniperphoto.com/blog/?p=1297 Sandy and Reuben were such a terrific couple to photograph!  They’re both fellow avid nature lovers, so they chose the grounds at the Myriad Gardens for their engagement portraits session.  But, alas!  I hadn’t been there in a little over a year, and didn’t realize how extensively they remodeled the grounds.  Most of the gorgeous trees that made the grounds so lovely before were removed but we were still able to find two small groves of trees, so we got the leafy backgrounds they were looking forward to.  :)  Their wedding is just one short week away, and I’m really super excited to photograph my first wedding at a winery!!  :D

“Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.”     -Anonymous

So without further ado, here’s the long-awaiting third and final installment of Katie and Justin’s portrait session! Even though the following portraits were taken during the Part Two session, I really wanted them to stand alone because I loved too many of them and couldn’t narrow them down to just a couple!!  I mean, I’m pretty sure by now everyone knows about my serious love affair I have going on with books, so can you really blame me?  ;)  I hope to be asked in the near future to photograph another session like this!!  So much fun.  And I also took a roll of film with my Holga, and added my three favorites to the end.  :D

And now for some Holga goodness for you!  The photo below is one of my favorite Holga photos ever!!  The colors are just so vibrant and lovely.

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”     – Mark Twain

I’m pretty addicted to photography from all decades, so I love the open-minded approach that these two took to this portrait session as well!!

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”     -Yousuf Karsh

]]> http://juniperphoto.com/blog/2011/08/20/katie-and-justin-part-ii/feed/ 1 http://juniperphoto.com/blog/2011/08/17/sophia-kelsey-melissa-jason/ http://juniperphoto.com/blog/2011/08/17/sophia-kelsey-melissa-jason/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:45:00 +0000 Robyn Icks http://juniperphoto.com/blog/?p=1227 You know, I can’t look at a pair of socks without wondering what socks Melissa is wearing on any given day?  :D  Melissa and I work at the library together, and every morning we have a ’sock battle’ to see who is wearing the most wicked cool socks…  That’s right, cause we are the definition of awesome.  ;)  So, when we arranged this portrait session of her lovely family, I ACCIDENTLY took like 100 photos of just their feet…  Hehe, just kidding, I only took about 20.  ;)  By the way, I really hope they call me to do their Christmas portraits, because I have a really awesome idea revolved mainly around toe socks…  ;)

So without further ado, I present to you…  SHOES!

Oh, and the rest of the terrific family, too…  ;)

MORE SSSHHHOOOEEESSS!

“Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.”     -Edward Weston

Gorgeously long eyelashes?  Check.

“There’s a squirreeeelllllllll!!”

“Which of my photographs is my favorite?  The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”      -Imogen Cunningham