i’m thinking it’s time to add a few new images.  i haven’t done any shoots this month other than working on my contracted job with imagevine (more on that later!) but i figured you still would want to see newer photos!

i really like details.  the ones you might not see immediately, but the ones that are often the most powerful.  i like drama, emotion, and relationship between people.  trying to capture those things in my images is what keeps me going in photography.  always chasing that emotion, that reaction, that moment where realism is able to be caught and frozen.  that moment you might never remember except that i have now grabbed it out of passing time and lassoed it onto digital media.

here are a few images like that-details on a few, emotion in a few others, and other unexpected moments… all totally my favorite feelings.

this little girl belongs to a sweet friend of mine.  my friend from high school has 5 kids, and this blonde beauty was the “surprise!”  #5 that was added to their family.  she is a pistol and yes oh so girlie.  i love hanging out with her and listening to the awesome things that fly out of her mouth.  she’s sassy, smart, sweet and those curls!  i could eat her up. 
we did a small 20 minute session one morning while her dear mama wrangled three other toddlers to give us some space.  i got a few shots i really love- her hair and her eyes are amazing… and i had a great time hanging out with sweet baby “A”.

we’re moving!  and i’m excited. 
this past week we were able to drive by our new house in quantico, va.  we lived there years ago and moved to GA almost 6 years ago to the day.  i feel like we’re coming full circle.  the houses on quantico are new and lovely and i can’t wait to see the inside. 
i really love making a house a home and have been blessed with awesome hand me down furniture, great finds and deals and lots of creativty.  i really enjoy going ingto a new house and figuring out how to make it mine.  i’m looking forward to it again!

i also am looking forward to kicking off my business in that area.  northern va is a fabulous area to be a photographer and i am praying for a very fertile year!  for my clients and my business. 
hoping to have consistent work there and looking forward to getting better and better!
if i’m headed your way, keep me on your radar screen for a session! 

what’s in a name?

i’ve been asked why i chose the name “a juicy pear” for my business.  it was actually quite intentional and has meaning to me.

i was a dance major in college and took different art classes.  one of my favorite courses was art history.  i loved dissecting the imagery and tossing around theories of what message was being sent in the chosen subjects.  fruit is a major player in art, and historically, the pear represents the female form. i loved the idea of half of a pear showing its seeds as representative of fertility, womanhood, motherhood and beauty.  since i love capturing images of women and especially pregnant women, i thought that the name would be a subtle connection to art and symbolism. 

i wanted to be a midwife for many years and was just starting school when i got pregnant with samuel.  i stopped attending and always planned on going back, but as i moved through the process of 6 pregnancies, and 4 deliveries, i started to notice the less glamourous side to midwifery: everyday check ups, pap smear appointments,  pregnant teens and unplanned pregnancies filled the offices, and i realized that i was more in love with the idea of delivering babies to excited, and loving parents more than doing the everyday tasks of a midwife.  for me, photographing infants and pregnant mothers gives me that powerful emotion and connection i wanted. i get the special joy of being with parents who are celebrating their new life, andi  share with them a very fleeting and sweet time…

eye candy…..

i guess you can’t be a good photographer blogger without photos.. so with a flock of butterflies bouncing around in my belly, i present to you some of my work.

welcome!

i am slowly stepping into the public eye with my camera to my face and my heart on my sleeve.

i’ve been “doing photography” for about 5 years now.  for friends, family and paying clients.  but it wasn’t until earlier this year, when i landed a job that literally fell into my lap, that i finally have started to feel bold enough to call myself a photographer.

i’m certainly not an expert.  i don’t know it all.  i can see many flaws in my work and want to get better as an editor.  but.  i’m learning, and getting better, and feeling ok about where i’m at for the moment…. as long as i keep getting better.

photographers can be catty to one another… makes it scary to put my work out there… knowing that there will always be artists ahead of me, and always be those on my coattails.  but i’m ready.  i’m ready to show the world how i see it.  to share my work with people, and not be so afraid of what others think anymore.  so while this is a blog that will be filled with client sneak peeks and fun posts…  i will never ever forget that my mere existence here is a vulnerable place to plunge my heart into.  art is subjective… and some will love it, others will not.

i hope you come here because something in my work speaks to you.  i prefer to photograph infants, and expecting mothers.. and i hope to capture emotion.  i hope that when you look into the photograph that you will feel something.. that you will have a moment of connection with that subject.

so, enjoy!  and i hope you’ll visit often