My beautiful wife and I are celebrating 4 years of marriage today! I have to say that it has flown by so fast. It seems like yesterday that we were anxiously waiting for our wedding to come.
I have to say that marriage has been an amazing adventure. I believe in love and in love that lasts. Yes, it takes work and more importantly commitment but being with the one that you love has to be one of the greatest gifts in this life. I want to say thank you to my wife for loving me the way she does and for putting up with my OCD and constant craziness. I think that the most important aspect of marriage is being able to forgive one another and always trying to see the intent of your spouse in any situation. My wife has had such grace on me over these years and my prayer is that I do the same for her.
Kid- I love you and am so excited to spend many more years with you!!
Thank you to Chenin Boutwell for these amazing images of Kara and I.
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The first annual JNP Studios wedding giveaway is here!
I am offering free wedding photography to one lucky couple for 2010! There are no stipulations on this contest other than it will go to the most deserving couple. Please send in your nomination to jeff@jnpstudios.com.
Once I have received all the nominations I will select the top 4 and will let you all decide who should be the winner. You will have from July 10th until August 10th to get all of your friends and family to vote for the most deserving couple.
What does this include?
JNP Studios will shoot your wedding and provide an 8x10 album with 40 images in it. The coverage will be for the whole day and will include an assistant. The wedding can be any where in the world but travel expenses will have to be covered by the winning couple.
What should I do?
send in the following info about a deserving couple or yourself;
name
wedding date
location
what they do for work
why they deserve it
a little about the couples story
their favorite artist
a picture of the couple
to jeff@jnpstudios.com
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Last, I must have the date available!
Mark Brooke says:
For sure!!!!! How rad is it that you are giving away a wedding!!
Nicole Freer says:
Just stopped by to see your lastest work! Amazing! :)
(06.12.09 @ 11:53 AM)
Robert Tran says:
Dude, you couldn't have done this last year before Jess and I got married?? =P I think we woulda won.
(07.16.09 @ 11:18 PM)
Caren says:
Love this idea......I think I will do this for our hair and make-up service.......Design Visage
(07.22.09 @ 01:11 PM)
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First I want to say how blessed I am to live in the United States of America and how thankful I am for the men and women who have fought to give us the freedoms that we have in this great country!
This past week I have been in CO to attend the memorial of my brides grandmother. Her name is Lee Guenther I am so proud to say that I had the opportunity to know her. I feel it is appropriate to include this in honoring the 4th of July as Lee was awarded the Bronze Star Medal in WWII! She served Eisenhower and our great country so that we could have the freedoms we do. I just want to say thank you to Lee and thank God for the freedoms we enjoy.
The pictures below are of the Honor Guard playing "taps" and folding the flag in honor of her service.
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This past weekend I was in Chapel Hill NC to shoot Amy and Eric Hoot's gorgeous wedding with my great friend Eliesa for her 2009 wedding giveaway! I can not even begin to tell you how much fun I had. Chapel Hill is so beautiful and the people are extremely nice and giving. We had the pleasure of living inside the Tar Heel's craze for 4 days and these people love the Tar Heel's more than any thing I have ever seen. It does help that they won the NCAA championship this year!
Being that I was the second shooter I had a ton of freedom to shoot for myself along with fulfilling the crazy demands of Eliesa as this was her wedding. She is actually my favorite person to shoot with and I love running around doing whatever I can to make her day better. I have been wanting to do a B/W post for a long time so I thought this was a perfect opportunity to do so. All images were edited in Aperture using Nik's Software Silver Efex Pro making the film look like Ilford's 3200 B/W Film. Enjoy and thank you Eric and Amy for such an amazing week!
Kim Purificacion says:
Hi Jeffrey! These pics look fabulous. Especially love the 6th and 10th one! Excited for you to shoot our wedding!
(06.02.09 @ 01:02 PM)
eliesa says:
SO Awesome! I love all the black and whites! Way to rock it - you are a true partner in crime and AMAZING to have around! Thank you SO much!
(06.02.09 @ 01:15 PM)
JNP Wife says:
Loving the one of the bride behind the veil. Absolutely so amazing.
(06.02.09 @ 02:03 PM)
JNP Wife says:
Loving the one of the bride behind the veil. Absolutely so amazing.
(06.02.09 @ 02:05 PM)
Amy says:
These are amazing! I'll stare directly in the sunlight for you anyday :) I can't tell you how much Eric and I enjoyed having you come to NC and shoot our wedding. You are welcome back anytime...the ping pong table will be waiting.
(06.04.09 @ 02:11 PM)
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Today Eliesa and I drove around NC to find some cool things to shoot and we ran into this burned out building that still had not yet been demolished. It was probably burned in January or so. It was so erie how it seemed so lived in and untouched since the fire. There was this sense of peeking inside another families destruction and devastation. Check them out!
Jeffrey
ray santana says:
B/W baby gotta luv it. See U in a couple of days dude. Your gonna LOVE my 200mm 2.0... goodtimes
(06.01.09 @ 09:11 AM)
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You guys are the best! It feels like just yesterday we were sitting at Salt Creek watching you guys getting married. You guys are meant to be together, that's for sure! I hope you have a wonderful anniversary, and I'm sure I'll be seeing you around Greenbank sometime soon. Much love, Tawnee xoxo
(07.15.09 @ 01:45 PM)Happy Anniversary Jeff and Kara, by spending all that time with Jeff during our engagement shoot and wedding, I can tell he's so in love with you cause you're all he talks about...and the dog.
(07.16.09 @ 10:36 AM)Congratulations, you two! Wishes for many many more years of love and happiness!!
(07.21.09 @ 11:39 AM)You guys are adorable!!!
(07.22.09 @ 07:04 AM)OMG, you guys are so adorable. I want to put you in my pocket. :)
(08.06.09 @ 10:42 PM)