Jer and I will no longer be posting our photography to this blog. You have all known us as Jes and Jer and it’s time to make it official. We have opened a new business and it is called…. Yup, you guessed it, Jes + Jer!

I hope you will visit us at www.jesplusjer.com and “Like” us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/JesPlusJer. Come look at pretty pictures. It’ll be fun! Oh, and there will be a HUGE Giveaway announced soon!

Thanks to everyone who has trusted us with the very important honor of photographing the special times in your life in the past. Thank you for visiting this blog! Thanks for all the love and support you have given us in the past. We hope this next year is a great adventure and hope to see and hear from you along the way!

Happy New Year everyone!

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This is Ivy and her boyfriend, Queneth. He was just as much fun to photograph as Ivy was. So relaxed in front of the camera.

This one is my favorite. It was a picture perfect day, minus all the wind. But we used it to our advantage and I’m so happy with how Ivy rolled with it!

I love the lighting here. It brought out the blue in her eyes and the red tones in her hair!

Above is the start of session two at the lake!

This is the reason we split our session in two. I have wanted to try this idea out for awhile and I am so excited about it!

Thank you to my other two beautiful cousins for your assistance that day. I could not have done it without you ladies, as well as my awesome Aunts Jackie and Brenda!

Love you, Ivy.

I got to know Angela via emails and on the phone when she inquired about family pictures. She and her family were going to visit the Black Hills because her folks were celebrating their 45th Anniversary. First of all, that’s pretty amazing. Second, Angela was just great. And I was so happy I was going to get to photograph all of them because they all had kids and they wanted FUN. Fun Photos.

So that was the goal and I think you can all tell from their photos they are a pretty fun and fabulous family. Their kids were so sweet and polite and silly. It’s such a joy to photograph families, especially when they welcome me like they all did.

Congratulations again, Anita and Harry on 45 years together! You have such a beautiful family; Angela, Kyle and their adorable Jazz, Paula, Jeff and the cutie patooties Hunter and Adam, Corinne, Dean and their precious Kate! And thank you all again for the lovely gifts you brought all the way from Canada. I hope you all return to the Black Hills again one day and I hope you look me up!

Now we all know how ridiculous weather has been and it rained on our first session date. This causes lots of trickiness because Andrea and Mike both work and Mike has been out of town. They are buying a house ta boot. All this and getting married this Fall. So, basically they are busy as all heck! On our rescheduled session date it was looking like rain AGAIN so we decided to go out in the morning and beat the rain. And we did. (Well actually it ended up not raining at all that day. But whatever!)

Meet Andrea and Mike, my bloggie friends!

WHOOPS! Notice we parked on the wrong side of the road and didn’t feed the meters any quarters!

The Paddle Boats were a first for Andrea and Mike. For us too!

Camera + Water = Scary. Like, REALLY SCARY. Thank you Mike for taking a pic of me and Jer. LOVE IT!

Andrea, I hope the sunburn was worth it!

Alright friends, let the oogling begin. Aren’t they stinkin cute?!

I have been thinking a lot lately about my blog and how I can improve it, post more and share what I know, what I love. One of my first ideas was to blog about How to take better photos so that you, the reader, my friend, might soak in some techniques and learn how to take your own beautiful photos. Not that you don’t already, but we can all improve, right? And then when I started to write my first post today, my first Wrap about the subject I realized that I am not an expert on the subject either and I should approach this differently. Then my blogging idea took on a whole new meaning. I decided to take my own advice. Research, read, shoot and then share in hopes of improving and honing my skills and sharing my tips and tricks!

BTW, Wraps is an old term I used when I posted on our personal website when I was a Reynolds. Reynolds Wraps. These posts will come from me only. Later, if this project takes flight and there is interest I’m sure we can sweet talk Jeremy into posting about web and graphic design, post processing and artwork.

My first Wrap will be all about GETTING TO KNOW YOUR CAMERA. Whether it be a Point and Shoot (better known as PAS) or Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR)

Do you know which one you have? Do you know the difference? Do you know how to use your camera to its fullest?

Well, dig out your camera’s manual. And if you want to get a head start, read it. I am going to do the same and report back to you soon. Oh, and since I do shoot with both PAS and DSLR I am going to read both manuals and blog about them both!

Then once all of us have the tools we will dive into more interesting subjects/assignments. And I hope you share what you have learned, your own tips or tricks and most importantly share your photos. We can all learn from each other. And who doesn’t like to look at pretty pictures?

Future Wraps do include; lighting, composition, f-stop and aperture and photographing kids, fireworks, sunsets and much, much more! I hope to post at least once a month and would be glad to post on subjects by your request as well!

So I hope you will join me! Will you? Pretty please with a cherry on top?

And just because it’s Spring and it’s snowing out today I thought I would add a photo to remind all of us that summer is just around the corner!

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