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yyyyyYYYYYYAAAAAAAAYYYYYYyyyyyy!!!! My 301st post is announcing my NEW BLOG!!! Update your favorites and check it out!

www.photographybyjaren.blogspot.com

senior 2010 model search!

Yep, it's BTS time again and I'm looking for some Senior girl models!!! I have some ceative ideas in my head for photoshoots and I need to test them out! I'm thinking a mix of studio and fields...glam and downtown...classic and fun! If you or anyone you know might be interested in modeling in exchange for a free session, send me an email with a picture of the senior ASAP! jfro_red@yahoo.com

I'm thinking kinda like these from Keisha's shoot:












And these from Britt's bridal sesh...






Capturing classic portraits...

(from our photoshoot last summer!)




As well as the fun :)




And, yes....stay tuned ;)

exciting news!!!

Last March, as you might remember, I shot Brittney's bridals. We met up one evening after work, and the first thing she says to me as she hops in the car is, “So Jaren, would you ever go on a blind date?!?!”

Honestly, I had to admit, since having turned the big 3-0 last December, in retrospect, I realized that my life had taken a pretty drastic change of course over the last couple of years. It felt as if I’d crossed the threshold of Experience and Wisdom...reached a mature state of life-validation...i.e., finally made it to the point of “old-maid hood” where everyone had pretty much given up hope on the idea that their match-making efforts for me would ever turn out a success so they stopped trying to hook me up altogether! Understandably, then, when Britt posed the question, my first response was almost, “What’s a blind date?!?” Instead, I rephrased the question: “You have someone you want to set me up with?!?”

Well, more on that story later (Ahem, Dawn! ;) because I have some exciting news to share about Brittney Long Designs!!!! ;)




A couple months ago, Brittney started up her business out of her passion for design and creativity. She designs wedding, baby and graduation announcements, party invitations, business cards, page layouts and probably just about anything else you might need drawn up! I love what she did with this image from her and Jake's "We Did" shoot...



And with a wave of Britt's magic...voila!



Isn't she great!!! I LOVE it!

Okay, so now, if you have a favorite image or images from a previous shoot that you would like Brittney to use to design an announcement, card, etc., and you did not purchase the session CD, contact me as soon as possible because I'm going to be offering these images for only $10 per digital file! (Normally they are $35 a file!!!) Woot, woot! (as Jamie says!) Love new product and vendor contacts...especially when they are dear friends! Congratulations again Britt!! Cheers!

mychal ♥'s hayley ~the wedding

These are LONG over due. Jamie and I shot Hayley and Mychal's wedding back in MAY! Good...Times. Not only are Hayley and Mychal a sweet and gorgeous couple, they are also great friends, so it was a lot of fun to get to celebrate their special day with them...

Hayley, I LOVE you!!! XOXO!
(me and Hayley Oktoberfest 2008 and @ the Shiny Lime on her Wedding day :)

Chillin at the Shiny Lime...more good times!


Okay and so here's my little tribute...
At almost every wedding, Jamie is with the Bride shooting her preparations and details while I hang with the Groom and his guys. (And I'm not complaining ;) I seriously love not knowing how to tie a tie or pin on a boutonniere because watching hot guys in suits trying to figure these things out is hillarious! Luckily for Mychal, his best man knew the trick and tried his hardest to help the other two out!





Alas, he reverts to having to tie the ties for them!


So they get the tie thing down...Niiiiiice...


(love it!)


Next comes to figuring out what to do with the "flowery sh**" (!)


Have I mentioned Good Times?!


;)


Now on with the show...
I think one of the highlights of Hayley and Mychal's day was the "First Sight." This is something Jamie and I encourage our couples to do...it's totally mod, non-traditional and AWESOME because it allows for the intimate moment of the Bride and Groom's first sight of each other to be captured entirely and sincerely as just the two of them respond to seeing each other for the first time on their wedding day without the stress of family and friends looking on. It's such a sweet, sentimental, truly special moment...









love it :)


H&M got married down at Gaston's on the White River, and one of the special features was an AIR SHOW!!! OMG, planes taking off and swooping down with their excitingly loud va-room...I personally thought the effect was pretty intense!




Yum..MO.


One more for good times...


And these are just a few from my take of the day...check out more on Jamie's blog here.

one for fun...

Because I heart Hawaiian print ;)

christy~maternity

Is she not just the cutest preggo lady in the world?!?







And gorgeous!



I'm really diggin the square...


Love these of Christy and her Mom...

lylas

I know, I know, I know! My posts have been so sparadic lately!!! PLEASE bear with me! I promise to fill everyone in on the latest and greatest (and, yes, this does include more scoop on this "Matty-Matt" person I'm with in all the recent goofy pics ;) Honestly, at this point if I had just one wish, I would't ask for a million bucks or a knight on a white horse (I have one that came with a tennis racket!)...the only thing I would wish for is...more TIME. I swear this is de-ja-vu, but I would wish for more hours to spend catching up on phone calls that are long overdue to California, Memphis, Rock Island, and where the h*** is my Auntie Terri?!? More mornings for sipping coffee and blog-hopping and commenting and posting and catching up with the bazillion different fb requests that are daily clogging up my inbox!!! More weekends to make pancakes and spend with visits to my Grampy's and my sweet nephew and neice's who are, sure enough, already outgrowning my lap :( More Friday and Saturday nights to hang with family and friends to enjoy nothing more than great company, good food and laughs...

(Deep sigh.)

I'm sure my list could go on, rivaling that of my to-do list...so I will be thankful for the time I do have :) And, this great time I had with two of my favorite "sisters" in the whole world...

While Jamie and I were marathoning a weekend of weddings back in June (Little Rock sweep Eureka Springs), Jessi came with us as she was the hairstylist for Adrian's wedding on Sunday. Saturday night, after a long day at the Hendrix wedding in Little Rock, we were all starving!!! So we selected the "find food" option on the Garmin and lucked out with an Olive Garden :) After a loud, yummy meal of wine and salad and breadsticks and grilled kabobs and alfredo and scary waiters, Jamie whipped out her point and shoot to capture the moment....



Love you guys...xo

houseguests

Last month Matty-Matt and I house-sit for one of his friends. We watched their Belgium Shepard, Strider; Nikko, the dog they rescued from a no-kill animal shelter; and their two Persian kitties. I couldn't snag a pic of the kitties...they had an agenda of their own ;) Anyway, crazy thing about the house...turns out I knew this house from it's original owners...who, just happen to be Ashley's family!


:P


Love this pic :)



Aww, Grandma and Grandpa...




My fave!

cinthia's bridals

So, we went to the Old Mill in North Little Rock for Cinthia's Bridals....the cool think about the Mill is that it was featured in the opening credits of Gone with the Wind!




Gorgeous!

where've you been?!?

I went to see my sweet nephew and nieces this weekend and the first thing Caily asked was, "Whehw have you been, Jehwen?!" (she can't quite get the 'r' sound yet ;) It was fun to tell her I've been to Gaston's, Little Rock, Eureka, Memphis, Mississippi and then back down to Little Rock! Shooting weddings, visiting new friends and loving every minute...

So I know I've had a serious issue with chronological posting here lately...but, with all that's been going on, my main goal is to just GET THE PICTURES UP ;)

Here are a few from Luke and Adrian's wedding I shot with Jamie in Eureaka last month...

I love when my sis is around...whether it's getting ready at the Shiny Lime or, in this case, the traveling stylist...


They got married at the beautiful Thorn Crown Chapel...




loved this tat...


they were so cute...




OH, and remember this preggo hot momma?!?
Well here is Mr. Eason!!!

omg

Yep, I can here you all now..."OMG! Has Jaren seriously updated her blog?!?" Well, no...I'm afraid it's not exactly an update...more like just a new post with fresh pics :) I feel like I took a dive at the beginning of this year and I'm finally starting to make my way to the surface for some air (keep your fingers crossed for me! ;)

This weekend Jamie and I shot another Little Rock Wedding (stay tuned for more on our ROCKIN WEDDINGS!!!) Friday night we actually met the bride at the Old Mill for her bridal session, but before she got there, we had time for a few snapshots...

Here are a few of my faves ;)




And here are some that Jamie snagged ;)




Hopefully more for you sooner than later!!!!

rodney ♥'s shannon ~ the wedding

Rodney and Shannon's wedding was absolutely beautiful...their love is sweet and I have enjoyed getting to know them over the past several months...it was such a blessing to shoot their wedding, truly. Here is just a little teaser...more soon :)



The gorgeous bride...


Her party...


The groomsmen...


Amazing details captured by myself and my fellow Rockstar photog Jamie (love her)...


And this was so neat...Shannon decorated the lounge with images from their engagement session!!!


O.M.G.




Love it...


Shannon and Rodney had such wonderful family and friend support...it was truly a spectacular day...more soon!