This is a portion of what the registration page looks like to vote for my TWO photos as candidates for the “People’s Choice Award”. Click on the screen shot to be taken to the registration page. It takes less than 1 min – seriously I timed it!! They ask your name, & email address…….do not […]

Falling BehindThese photos are from our hike last weekend. We found it in my North Carolina Waterfalls: A Hiking and Photography Guide. According to the person who wrote the guide, this waterfall may not be worth the 2.9 mile hike you have to endure in order to get there. We thought it was pretty mild […]

This photo was not taken with a digital camera. It was taken with my 35mm camera my Dad gave me some years ago. I scanned it in from a print that I found recently. While at a hostel in 2002, I sat next to this French-Canadian girl whom I did not understand due to the […]

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.~Anatole France *Thankfully, these quotes sort of sum up what’s going on with me lately. I’ll bring you up to speed when I have […]

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel Wayfaring WandererMy name is Jessica and I’m a wedding, engagement and lifestyle photographer […]

It’s so nice to be able to look back on what I have accomplished this far. And I only become more hopeful as the year progresses. I am still enjoying the photography challenge to take a photo every single day, and I encourage anyone else who may be interested in taking the challenge to go […]

*I tried on several different occasions to get photographs of these pictures, but my efforts were futile. These are the only ones that I can bear to upload, but I wanted you to see what they looked like framed. Initially my intentions were not to wait until the very last minute to turn them in, […]

It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy – the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() I’ve had a lot of things going on lately. And I’m not hoping for them to settle down, because I’m busy for all the right reasons, which is why the above quote is […]