Blaire & Mark Engagement Session

I had a fantastic day with Blaire and Mark last week. The day started out rainy and there was some talk about rescheduling but we figured can't control the weather on the wedding day might as well just go with it for the engagement shoot. They were great and the day didn't end up half bad!
It had been over a year since I last saw these guys, they were on the ball in booking their popular June 6 date! I was so excited to see them and reconnect. They trusted me to find some cool spots in the city to shoot. Blaire mentioned architectural detail and I knew where I wanted to take them.

Isn't this a cool location?
I can't take all the credit, I found out about it through one of my students last term when they took some images for their project here. Any idea where this is? We almost didn't even find it!

Going a tad out of order here.
We started the day off at their home with their adorable bulldog Winston.
Winston took us for a walk.

I love when I can get my couples to crack up! Love love this one.

Winston had to have a few solo portraits of course.

He is one solid pooch. Only a year old! Crazy. He can just steal your heart.
Mark is an awesome guy too, don't get me wrong!

More infectious laughing

Super simple portrait but might be one of my favorites.

Another awesome moment

I love finding these quaint Philadelphia streets.

We had such an awesome afternoon! I can't wait to see you guys in a few months.

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New Bellies

Spring is always the busiest time for me with bellies. I am not sure what it is about the spring. The cycle of new life maybe?

I haven't shared any bellies in a while. This work is very intimate and private. I always say it but I never want anyone to feel uncomfortable so a lot of my belly work never makes it to the blog.

I have been having a blast with these sessions. Its such an awesome time in a families life.

Here are a few I would like to share.

True Craftsmenship!

Yesterday a group of us (Ryan Estes, Sofia Negron, Jennifer Childress, Pete Malone and Geoff Horowitz) took an old fashioned field trip up to Long Island to visit our favorite album company Leather Craftsmen. I have some experience, very limited mind you, bookbinding and have always had great respect for how these albums are made. Yesterday my respect and admiration grew 100x over. I could have sat at each station in awe watching these albums being made. We flip through these albums everyday and then just sit them down without any thought. After seeing the entire process I came home and examined my albums in amazement of what I had just experienced. Leather Craftsmen albums are truly handcrafted in every sense of the word and I am proud to offer them to my clients. I kept hoping that I would see some of the albums I currently have out being bound but I didn't .

I swiped photos of the day from Ryan.

The fun antics of photographers on a road trip. We had to stop and celebrate St. Paddies day too!

Thanks for the photos Ryan. It was awesome hanging with you guys yesterday. I can't begin to tell you how grateful I am to have such great friends who are in the same profession. You guys rock.

Happy St. Patricks Day!

I hope everyone is having a great week! Its the off season but things have still been terribly busy around here, that's a good thing. Album designs being sent out every week is keeping me on my toes to say the least. I will post some here soon. Today I am actually going up to visit one of my companies, which I am very excited about.
Yesterday was Don's Birthday! We didn't do much, he teaches and with the end of the term and finals its been a bit hectic. So we will celebrate this weekend.
I wanted to post a few more shots that Ryan took of us the day we closed on the house. Ryan recently hooked me up with more images I hadn't seen and I had to share these. So in the spirit of St. Patricks day and Don's Birthday here are some images. Have a great one.

I can't help but crack up at this every time I see it. Totally Don's personality.

Have a great day!

Ready for spring

We are ready for spring time. We spent some time in the yard today cleaning up leaves, picking up sticks and wandering. Okay, so Don did the leaves and sticks part, Alma and I did the wandering part. She is like a young child and must be kept an eye on at all times or she will find her way into our neighbors house, which has happened twice now. She naturally follows me around so we spent some time inspecting the yard and checking out the first signs of spring.

Here we are smelling the flowers. She is so cute when she sticks that little tongue out.
She has actually been sleeping with her tongue out a bit lately. We find it very funny.

My favorite. She was a very good subject today and took direction well. Its not often you can get a good shot of her and see her eyes. She is a Hungarian sheep dog, Puli, not a jamacian rosta dog. Her hair naturally cords like this. She is seriously the sweetest thing around.

Can't forget to mention our new Vermont Cart. Don was very excited to get this bad boy. We are big fans of made in the USA. Our friends parents in Vermont have one of these carts and Don hasn't stopped thinking about it. We finally have our own, with our own little personal touch added.
Hope you are having a great weekend.

Baby Abigail Session 2

Baby Abbie is growing up! Its simply amazing how much she has changed since our shoot in August, granted she was only two weeks old when I saw her last and she is now just seven months. It was really cute to see how excited Ross and Margo were to document some of the day to day activities. They couldn't be more thrilled with their little girl and rightly so, she is adorable.

During lunch she was fascinated with me, wondering what I was doing.

Sitting up, her baby model pose. Check out those big dreamy eyes.

Oh My gosh, so much about this one. The expression, the wave, the adorable baby fat. Too cute.

Happy Baby!

She was just as happy as she could be the whole time. Cuddling up with mom after her bath.

Family portrait time.
Charlie, the cat on the left, supposedly is very shy and doesn't come out for anyone. Anyone but me and Margo's dad that is. What can I say, I am an animal person. Charlie is very friendly, as is Louie can't go with out mentioning him. Louie is "the baby sitter". He keeps an eye on Abbie.

Cute overload. Man, some of my favorite images come from simple changing table photos.

Abbie in her crib, hanging with her friends.

LOVE this moment at the park.

Sunday was awesome. The weather couldn't have been more perfect and it put me in the mood for spring. I had such a fun time. Can't wait to see Abbie at one year!!

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Stephanie & Tim Engagement Shoot

With all this spring weather you would never believe that last week we got over five inches of snow! Stephanie and Tim got engaged during the first snow in November and when we first met we had already decided that we would do the engagement shoot in the snow. With all the snow we have had the timing just hadn't been our side so when this storm started Stephanie and I were in instant contact and the shoot was ON! It was a gorgeous day last week, tad cold but they were tough and took it in stride.

Tim pulled a fast one and this image started our shoot, love it.

One of my favorites.

A typical Tim look.

When thinking of location Stephanie requested somewhere with a barn. BINGO.

I took a few textures while we were at the barn, texture has been incorporated into this image.

Another favorite.

I punched up the colors a tad but not much, the sky was an awesome blue.

When Tim proposed he took Stephanie to a golf course and told her he wanted to go make snow angels. Due to what she was wearing at the time she wasn't too keen on the idea, poor Tim just trying to get her out of the car with out being obvious. He did get her out of the car and proposed in the snow, minus the snow angels. She obviously said yes.
The end goal of our shoot? You got it snow angels!

Steph and Tim tie the knot in October. Its going to be a grand time, can't wait!
Was great hanging out with you guys.

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Baby Parker

Disclaimer: This post has a lot of images it it!

I couldn't help myself. Parker is way too adorable. She has so much expression and I had such a good time with her and her parents.

We started off playing a little tambourine, she is hinting that it might be my turn to play here.

We had some fun family time. Lots of tickling involved.

Very interested in everything.

Floor time with daddy.

More music in the kitchen, this time with home made instruments.

A bit to drink and some Cheerios.

We did a lot of hanging out by her favorite window. Its just her height, love this image.

Little pudgy hands.

The view from the other side. Love this one too.

Did I mention this is her favorite spot?

Then upstairs for a wardrobe change and to play a little.

Too much, the cuteness is too much!

Being swept off her feet by daddy, she didn't mind a bit.

Back to the window!

This is up there for my favorite of the day.

Check out that belly!

Getting strapped in for some fun time.

And last but not least a classic family portrait.

I warned you it was a lot of images! I had such a great time with you guys. Check out the slideshow below for more favorites from the day.

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Boudoir Marathon!!!

On Sunday April 4th I will have the pleasure of joining forces with the incredibly talented photographer and the Queen of Boudoir Jenn Childress!! Jenn and I will be holding a Marathon boudoir photo session at Jenn's home in Lansdale. The session price is $500.00.

Included in the session will be:

Two Photographer Perspectives
45 minute rotations
Unlimited outfit changes
Location/Hair/Make-up
5x5 flush album with 20 edited images
The digital files on disc.

I have two slots left for this session so email me me ASAP if you are interested! joy@joymoody.com

This is a wonderful opportunity to come get pampered while you drink champagne and let us create once in a lifetime images that that you will cherish FOREVER!!