Marco & Melissa | Woodland California Wedding Photographer

Can I just say I love these two? Not only are they one good looking couple, they are also so caring and sweet and I could just see how much they were loved at their ceremony and reception! I may have said this before, but I think this may have been the first wedding I was hiding behind my camera so no one could see me fighting back tears! The father/daughter and mother/son dances were so sweet!!  I felt like part of the family by the end. Thank you Marco and Melissa for having me at your wedding!

Another big thank you to Stephanie French, from SBSB Photography for second shooting for me!

Now Booking Fall Family Sessions!

I will not be booking any family sessions in December so book soon! 

Feel free to contact me with any questions. I am always happy to answer :)

Love,

Janelle

Anniversary of my First Wedding!

Not MY wedding anniversary...but this marks the day of my very first wedding all by myself exactly three years ago! Wow, I can't believe it has been three years already! The crazy thing about that weekend, which I'm not sure if I would still do today, is that I had this wedding of Kenny and Krista up in Medford, OR on Friday the 31st and then the very next day I had another wedding down in Sacramento! 

I have had ups and downs in taking wedding photos...some days where I have felt like everything turned out awesome and I feel like I did a great job and a lot of other times where I realize how much more I have to learn! I have a long way to go...

But for now, to reminisce, here are a few favorites from the wedding of Krista and Kenny. I tweaked a few things on them since my shooting and editing has changed over the past few years and I realized how may of them did not have correct exposure or focus but you live and learn! We went up to Crater Lake which was AMAZING!! I would do it again for sure!

This first shoe picture has to be one of my all time favorites! 

The Dalles Art Show

I was approached by a friend who lived in The Dalles, OR and she was doing an art show there; she was wondering if I wanted to be one of the artists in the show. It was scheduled for less than two months after I would have had my baby but it sounded so fun! An art show is something that has crossed my mind but I have never actually pursued entering anything in one, so I felt crazy but I said YES! Somehow I gathered enough work to submit it to the The Dalles Art Center by the end of April.

I don't know how it happened. Honestly I don't.

We stuffed our 3 kids into our Corolla and drove 10+ hours to The Dalles. I felt crazy, and I still think it was crazy but it worked.

Now I can say I did an art show! I learned A LOT! Sometimes I learned the hard way, but in the end it all turned out and I am glad that I did it. Here are the pieces...I wanted to do some other theme but ran out of time and figured that plants and flowers were beautiful and easier than any of the other ideas I had floating in my head!

Here is the flyer...I scanned it so it's not the best quality!