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Sunny Days and Lemonade

JAC Photography — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:51:47 +0000

hoping to provide a healthy and nostalgic alternative to video games and you tube, I urged the kids to set up a lemonade stand in the front yard last week. as incentive I told them I’d match what they made on the first day. we live a few blocks from high school and i figured the students passing by on their way home from summer school would provide some good business.
caleb and cam quickly learned that elsie’s best use was attracting customers so they stood by and watched the customers roll in while elsie danced in the street. with a few hefty tips they made $30, and with my matching funds they cleared $60 in all.
I thought this would really inspire them to make this a regular thing. But instead they went and bought a video game and a slip and slide and want nothing more to do with selling lemonade. I can’t win.

family

JAC Photography — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:59:52 +0000

part two of the sarah and abe shoot, before we shot their engagement session we spent a few minutes photographing sarah’s family. Pictured below are her parents, her sister and her beautiful family.

Fifteen

JAC Photography — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:33:16 +0000

Eleven years ago we were living in Santa Barbara, I was finishing up school and we had Kira’s bday party at the beach. Fast forward to today, same idea but this time we went to Crystal Cove and instead of pinatas we had boys.
Polaroid Camera with fuji 100c. Loving the color, this film is great as long as you keep it out of the shadows where it tends to go green.

Fuji 3000b, always a favorite.

So proud of you Kira, so excited to see what the next fifteen years have in store.

turning four

JAC Photography — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:11:03 +0000

A few friends, some cupcakes, and amy’s playground. What else could a girl ask for?

Guess who didn’t want to be photographed:)

All taken with fuji 3000b instant film and the polaroid 600SE.

Happy birthday Elsie, I love you!

leica m4

JAC Photography — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:53:34 +0000

Dear clients, meet the leica m4 paired with kodak400TX. Yummy.

Averi and Pearce

JAC Photography — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:01:35 +0000

Averi and Pearce are awesome. Fuji 100c is also awesome. Enough said.

Fuji 3000b is the most awesome though, especially when plopped into this camera. Thanks to this guy for pointing me to that camera. If you like sun, mad photo knowledge and being inspired, there may still be a few open seats for his workshop this July in San Diego, I highly recommend.

Elsie loves Averi, they played dress up for about twenty hours this weekend.

Infectious Joy

JAC Photography — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:58:37 +0000

Every moment of every day we are spreading something. Stress. Worry. Negativity. Hope. Joy. Encouragement. Almost four years ago (I can’t believe it) Elsie arrived in our lives with a thunderclap. (Click here to see a video of her first five days.)

From that moment on, Elsie has brought an infectious joy into our home. Every “errand” is an adventure, every trip around the block treated with the anticipation of a trip around the world. Being with her, you have no choice but to dance and sing, she’ll have it no other way.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this and I feel this is the greatest gift we can give to our family, our friends, and yes our clients; to bring this same spirit to our encounters with others. If we treat every moment as a responsibility, as a gift given to us to help shape the world around us, what might we do differently in the face of adversity. How might we react to that crazy uncle with his camera, of that thunderstorm that rears its head at exactly the wrong time? It is a discipline, and no doubt a challenge, but in embracing this we will not only change those around us, we’ll change ourselves. The best part of adopting this attitude is, that living like this creates value, significance and meaning in everything we do. Infectious joy, that’s something worth spreading. Just ask Elsie.

Jamie and Elsie, photographed on a Mamiya rz67 with polaroid instant film.

Lake Arrowhead | Dawson Family

JAC Photography — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:58:03 +0000

A rare opportunity to shoot in the snow. I so want to shoot a wedding someplace like Sundance in the winter! One of the great advantages of shooting film is the latitude it has, digital had a tendency to blow out the whites to capture detail in black. I love the natural color and tones of these film shots:)

Walking To School

JAC Photography — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:37:43 +0000

In the class of things that make me happy, walking Elsie to school ranks right up there. She is such a little chatterbox and the joy she finds in the mundane does my heart good. Shot on a leica m6 with kodak bw film.

The Dawson Kids | Polaroids

JAC Photography — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:18:49 +0000

From our recent trip to Arrowhead, sunny and green one day, white as snow the next. These kids are just gorgeous, and so sweet.

Love fuji’s color instant film but the 3000b is insane. I was shooting these in such low light at 4.0 and could still get crisp images. I can’t wait to shoot this at receptions next year!

I shot some film up in Arrowhead too, post to come soon.