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One of my favorite things about photographing families and kiddos is sharing the images afterward. Looking at the photographs after the session is fun, and finding some great expressions or nice compositions is also rewarding, but they can’t top the sharing.

I proof my photographs online. There are a few reasons not to:

1. no “control” to help sell more photographs
2. color on everyone’s monitors is (calibrated) different(ly) – maybe my photographs don’t look as nice there as here
3. when you can see the photograph printed, you want it more; when you see the photograph on a screen, you don’t feel a need to purchase it – it feels “available”

I do feel like there are advantages. Folks can view a gallery from home and share it, interacting via messages. Try replicating that with one set of prints that has to be returned to the photographer!

This is the sweet newborn I recently photographed.

Talk about some sweet feedback (I’ve had to edit out specific names with “~”):

• Okay, Jenna Dee, I thought the ~ gallery was my favorite, but now this one is! This is amazing, I am so happy to be able to look at it. I have to give some credit to ~ for being a beautiful baby girl, and she seems to be a natural at giving you so many different expressions to capture…but I give you most of the credit for actually capturing them, and doing such an awesome job! I really think you topped all your others with this one. It’s so professional but also so personal…as I went through the gallery I felt like I was there watching the whole thing, not just looking at pictures from a photo shoot.
• Great photos! Thanks for making them available online… I live in Cleveland, and I have not had the chance to see ~ yet. Now I feel as though I have seen the family already… thanks.
  ~ (~’s brother, ~’s Uncle).
• We LOVE LOVE LOVE the photos!!!! You have an amazing eye for detail! thanks for being so quick to get these up on the site. THANKS AGAIN SO VERY MUCH!!!
• What an incredibly beautiful baby girl. It is wonderful to celebrate new life and continuation of family.
  Great Aunt ~

How much more meaningful could it get?!

Just precious.

I personally LOVE layers. I love multiple exposures. I love textures and messy fonts. Does anyone have any idea what I’m talking about?!

I also LOVE sharp focus and very narrow depth of field (such a tiny sliver – where you get just one eye-ball in focus and the other is out). I think they work well together.

Here’s some eye-candy that got me thinking about this expression of affection.

Don’t you love texture, too?

This weekend was all about photographing. I love it. Here we go – a sample of three sessions!

Precious newborn twins!

Sweet engagement session.

Adorable baby girl.

I sure like graphic design work and accomplishing phases of web site design and publishing, but there is something SUPER FUN about photographing that nothing else holds a candle to … it’s just really rewarding.