KC & Mikey - all of 'em

Check out the rest of KC & Mikey's engagement pics!

I just had to share a pic of the cute DP's at a wedding we just shot. head on over to the photo blog to see some more of our latest work!



love, jemma

ATL - KC & Mike

We were so excited to do a family trip this weekend in Atlanta to go and see Ben Folds (awesome!) and we decided to try to use the awesome ATL backdrop for some engagement pics for mike & KC. Unfortunately it pretty much rained the entire time David and I were there, so we didn't actually end up getting to go out and do many pics. We ended up doing almost the entire shoot at the end of the hallway of Clay & Elizabeth's student apartment which had awesome natural light which we supplemented with a little bit of flash. The rest was done in the parking garage attached to their dorm. This shoot was very fun because it challenged me to focus entirely on my subjects to create the image and make it good. Here are a few of my faves. :-)















tribute to mom!!

What's new?

I feel the need to blog, but I haven't got much exciting news to blog about. We're in the process of figuring out the holiday plans. One thing we know for sure is that we're going to our roomie Jessica's wedding in Deerfield Beach on the 27th of December, which means we're headed to the good ole' fort for Christmas.

I just finished up editing a massive quantity of photos including some for Dan & Sereen, whose wedding was in August. I always tend to beat myself up about not having finished things soon enough, and then when I'm done I realize, hey, it's only been two months, which is faster than I expected, so not bad...

David and I are still plugging away at our jobs, nothing too exciting there save some office drama for me and David doing way more work than one person should as usual. I guess something of interest is that David recently crashed his bike, his wonderful beautiful, long-awaited bike. So he's riding along, crossing three lanes of highway and going as fast as possible while shifting his bad mamma jamma shifters that are meant for racing and just such a purpose and whoopsie, his chain fell off. So David ended up head over bike over head over ... slam and sliiiide on the asphalt and ouch!

So I took off work that morning and we went to the ER, where the nurse did an excellent job cleaning David up. Unfortunately her bedside approach was to describe every thing she was doing, "Ok, so now I'm going scrub your deep abrasion with burning liquid on a spongey..." I did my best wife move, and told David to tell me about our prospects against LSU (it was THAT weekend! we missed out on the game - too many elbows close by to bonk David's) and that got him to a better place... ahhh football land. ;-)

He's healing up just fine, after a few weeks of soreness and changing dressings then graduating to band-aids and now just scabs! Since David was smart enough to insure his bicycle, we filed a claim and he's going to be able to get a new bike - so that's a bonus! Speaking of new bikes, I just got one myself and will be selling my old one. The new one works so much nicer and fits me! When we got it last weekend, I put it together myself, with a little help from David & Gary at Spin Cycle. I have ridden it a few times so far. I rode it home from work today in the freezing 50-something degree weather (and I want to move to Colorado?)and Northern winds and it didn't even bother me much because the gearing is so much mo' bettah!

David and I were very ambitious about doing weekly self-portraits a month or two ago, and so far we have done it three times. Oh well, at least we're still trying :-) It's been fun. Something we can do together that gets us to be silly, fun, and creative. Just what the Jemma ordered! ;-) Here are some from our latest "shoot".













Until the next urge hits me, adios amigos!

house pics

ok family & friends, i've finally had the chance to get our photos of the house online for you to see! so check it out.

For a description - check our old post here. I put a link to the gallery within this post as well.

Love Jemma

p.s. now come visit!

BFF baby here!

**Update** Her name is Abigail. :-)


Heather's water broke at about 4:30am yesterday morning. She was having contractions all day yesterday and after I got off from work and had gotten some dinner & a minute with David, I stopped by the hospital. Despite all Heather's contractions, there wasn't much progress in dilation. I went home to get some sleep & told them I'd come back when it got closer. I got a call this morning about 4:25am that she was at 10cm and would be starting to push soon! I got up, grabbed a Dew and a CLIF bar and headed to the hospital. I got there in plenty of time to watch Heather & Justin welcome their baby girl into the "outside". :-) They haven't settled on a name just yet, but we've all settled on the fact that she's here and is a keeper for sure. Here are a few shots of the sweet girl!

self-portraits again. check out the photoblog for more often updates!

Jocy got married!

Soooo, we just got back from Colorado and are sooper pooped! Here is one pic to tease!



check the photoblog for more updates & photos of the weddings & portraits we shoot.

Love, Jemma

just a heads up that you should definitely check out the photoblog for exciting pics of Jemma's first wedding assignment plus some more engagement pics featuring Jocelyn & Jeremy! yay!

thanksgiving 2007 photos

This past holiday, when my Dad went into the hospital in early November, our Thanksgiving plans changed and we ended up going to Live Oak to meet up with my brothers Jacob and Jon and my mum. I couldn't find these photos for a while, but now that I have, here they are!

A few of my faves are below...

Vera very excited and fast!


Coach having a jolly good time himself!


And of course the very fast Killian


Down the path they go.


David caught this really bright grasshopper!


Jacob


Jon


This is Jon doing one of Dad's favorite 90's photo poses. But where are the short shorts Jon?


We have a lot of cool vegetation to hide in at our house.


Mum loves Coach. She wanted to keep him, but I say no no no!


Vera likes to be upside down.


Very cool.


This just about captures my family.


My fave pic.


Our little snakey friend.

Christmas Party at the Bentley's

Hallo! Here's a few photos... ok 98 of them from the party with some of the Coleman's closest friends at the Bentley's. We did a fun gift exchange and it was quite eventful!

Click on any of the photos to see the rest, here are my favorites:



Well, this one of Kasey is pretty funny. Haha... ok moving on...


A line-up of pretty girls


Dat cute baby!


Mike opening one of the first presents


Pretty holiday MaryBeth


Karis meant business, look how fast she is!


Debbie was tickled about her Pecans!!


Then things got interesting when Rick didn't pay mind to the girl's gift tag on this one. Yay! Bath & Body Works!! His favorite!


I was pretty happy about my Jam. Until Erica's mom had Emily steal it, and Emily didn't even want it and was begging people to take it from her.... then I got a key... yay! Keys are so in right now!

luckily for me, I got my jam back and MaryBeth was all over that key. Which, by the way, is so in right now, did you know?


Eyes wide with wonder, Craig anticipates something exciting in this heavy box.


He didn't seem disappointed with a jump rope and some 3lb weights, he gave us a demonstration with concentration.


Later on, he coveted the Turkey Caller with Jock.


This is what it looks like when men look at a baby together.


One of my fave sneaky captures.

I hope you enjoy, there's lots more, I've got too many favorites. Please leave a comment below or in the guestbook!

Love, Jemma