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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.I met the Harris' recently for a family session. Such beautiful children! Here are a few images from the shoot. I'd love to hear your thoughts.~wj

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There's not much else I can say about this ad by Kodak. They really hit the nail on the head with this one.~wj

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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.Ruthie and her mom Sarah came up to Cleveland from Madison a few weeks ago. We'll have a few more session over the next year as Sarah has enrolled Ruthie in my "A Year in the Life" plan. Ruthie was about eight weeks old when we created these images. We spent most of the morning working patiently and letting

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Back in grad school I planned on becoming a filmmaker. A documentary filmmaker to be exact.I've always been drawn to the amazing stories that happen everyday in our own lives. Stories that often seen mundane and simplistic on the surface, but when examined more closely, we often can see that beauty exists where perhaps we didn't realize. This is what attracted me to non-fiction films, and it

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Brett Dennen - "Heaven" from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.I'm back in Cleveland after several weeks of travel for portrait and wedding commissions. I've been home now only two days in the past two weeks. While I am so very grateful for the work I am doing and the clients who have entrusted me, it is nice to be here to hug my wife and slowly begin my march to getting caught up. I have one more trip

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A big thanks to a recent mother-of-the-bride, Becky Hovas of Greenville, for forwarding me an email this morning with this fun list of "You know you're from . . ." lines. For all my friends that are form this area, I bet you get a nice chuckle out of it. For those of you not from the area -- well, this is all pretty true. Maybe this can help give you a better idea of this place that we live

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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.Ashihai and James married in Cleveland a few weeks ago. This was actually the first wedding I've photographed in my hometown in a couple of years, and I was so honored to be a part of their day. Rain loomed for most of the day, but held off long enough for the newlyweds to get their horse and carriage ride in!

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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.I spent a morning a few weeks ago with Chandler and her mom, Stacie. Stacie signed on for my "A year in the Life" plan, so we schedule a session about every three months so that we can record Chandler as she gets bigger and bigger and bigger. So amazing how fast they grow!Here are a few images from our session.

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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.I've been anxious to show these, but had to wait until after the wedding to do so! I spent about four or five hours with kelly and her mom a few weeks ago creating these. We had a great time, and it was so much fun working with them both. I love it when my clients want to push and try new things, and kelly was

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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.What a day!Kelly and Dan were married in Greenville, Mississippi in a Catholic ceremony. because they were marrying in the Catholic church we had a tiny dilemma of the church holding regular mass about two hours before the ceremony, meaning it would be occupied until about an hour before Kelly and Dan were to be

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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.I was in Gulfport, MS a few weeks ago to photograph Elizabeth (Libba) and Mark's wedding. It was a very nice, small, mostly family wedding. Lots of love all around.Thank you Libba and Mark for letting me be a part of your day. I had a wonderful time with all of you. Here's a few images. Hope you like them!~wj

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I found this video on youtube this morning and thought it was pretty interesting. It's by Michael Sullivan and I believe it was part of a class project. At least that's what I gathered from the info provided in the video and on it's youtube page. At any rate, I think his answer is pretty interesting. I took a philosophy of art class when I was in college. I'm not sure my head has ever been so

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I hate that I missed these guys in Oxford last week! Our new gallery manager Laura Beth made it over though, and said the show was incredible. I'm a little jealous actually.I love this southern-country-rock-folkish sound. I don't really care what genre a band is in, just so long as the music is GOOD.And isn't that really what art is about in general? That it's good? And makes you think? And

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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.I recently spent a wonderful Sunday afternoon with Lucy Kate and bryant at their first birthday party. Hard to believe these two are a year old already! They're getting so big!Momma Lesley had a candy store themed birthday party planned -- I'm sure all that sugar was a big hit with the other parents! It was

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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.I'm catching up! Lots of editing going on here -- busy time of year! (Thank you all!)Here are a few images from Aishihai and James' engagement session a couple of weeks ago. We spent a wonderful afternoon just exploring the backroads around the Delta, stopping wherever things looked interesting. The wedding

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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.It's been a couple of weeks since I spent the day with Brittany, Darryl, their family and friends in Pope, Mississippi. The wedding was so much fun! And what a cool little town Pope is. Thanks guys -- I hope y'all enjoy your images. Here's a few as a quick teaser. I'd love to hear your thoughts so leave a

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My photographer friends Vicki and Tom Rulli introduced me to the music of Griffin House a few years ago. My ipod is filled with his work now and I listen to him non-stop. I've yet to catch a live show, but I'm really hoping to do that this summer. I was a little bummed though, because he was just at the House of Blues in New Orleans as part of the Ten out of Tenn tour and I couldn't get down

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I've found a new camera.It's not a fancy-schmantzy camera either. But it's one I have with me almost all of the time.I love my "pro-gear" but sometimes it just gets too big and cumbersome to carry around everywhere. I'd really wanting to get a holga to play around with, but I just haven't found the time to do that yet. Point-and-shoot? Maybe. I've got a few, but don't always have them

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It's rare that I get really, really excited about a movie months before its release. But my gallery manager Laura Beth sent me an email yesterday with a link to this preview. I had no idea that a movie was being made based on this book, and already I'm looking forward to October when this will be released.To me, "Where the Wild Things Are" is just one of those books that IS childhood. I bet

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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.I spent this past Saturday in Rosedale with Lynn and Matt. It was another beautiful spring day. Perfect weather. Awesome skies.Rosedale is such a wonderful old Delta town. You can just see the history everywhere. And so many cool places to create images. We wandered around town a little. Drove an old '57

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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.What a beautiful day for a wedding!Melissa and Todd were married at the Old Place in Gautier and it could not have been a more perfect day. The weather was just over 70 degrees, the skies were perfect, and the light -- especially at the end of the day -- was just fantastic.Meilissa and Todd, thank you both for

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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.I was on the Mississippi Gulf Coast two weeks ago to photograph Melissa and Todd's wedding. On Friday night the rehearsal dinner was at Mary Mahoney's in Biloxi. It was such a beautiful night, and the toasts were such wonderful tributes to not only melissa and Todd, but their families as well. I had a blast

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Found a live version of John Mayer's tribute to the holiday. Hope no one is being pinched too much today!

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Having trouble viewing the images above? Click HERE for an alternative html gallery.I'm in Slidell, Louisiana right now, just an hour or so away from leaving for Biloxi, Mississippi to photograph a rehearsal dinner tonight and then a wedding tomorrow. But before leaving I wanted to go through yesterday's esession first.I came down yesterday to visit with Elizabeth and Mark, who will be marrying

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If you haven't seen the movie "Once", do it. Its a modern day twist on a musical, and is so inspirational in its purity and emotion.Here's a video of "The Swell Season", which is actually Irish musician Glen Hansford and Czech pianist Markéta Irglová. They also happen to be the lead characters in "Once".

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