If you’ve been around here very long you know how much I love photo albums. I love for my clients to be able to take all the photos from their sessions home with them. The best way to do that is in a photo album. These albums contain your precious memories from a time gone by. My dream is that these albums will be looked through, put on coffee tables, moved from home to home, put out at graduations, taken to college, and passed on to future generations. I love to design the albums and add personal touches as well, your favorite quotes or scripture passages and even letters from you to your children. In an effort to get more of these precious memories to my clients I am offering “The Great Album Sale”. This sale won’t last long so you have to jump on it quickly. Put in your order for an album from your session by Feb. 12th and I will give you a 35% discount off the price of the book!! You may only see this sale once a year so now’s the time to order your album!!

The layflat binding in these books is amazing!!

The top book is the 5×5 size and the bottom is 8×8 size. I am more than happy to show you these albums so you can see for yourself the great quality of these albums!

{Jackson, TN family photography}

Seven. Yup you counted right. Seven kids. Four boys, three girls (not including mom and dad). Two sets of twins. Age eight and under. This family knows how to have fun. They know how to play. They know how to serve. They know how to be patient and kind. They know how to love Jesus and share Him with others. They know how to have a good time. And yes, they know how to be kids, because afterall they are KIDS. I am so blessed to be able to call them great friends, godparents (to Hannah) and (two of them) godchildren. I am blessed that each time I go back to Milwaukee, Tami asks me to photograph her beautiful family. And they put up with me and all my gimmics and tricks to get kids to smile, but really I don’t have to use too many because they are well behaved children! I may have to use more tricks on one in particular but I think she’s warming up to me .  We had a great session in August and this was the photos that I thought of immediately when I saw the i heart faces challenge of the week was family fun! You can see more from their session here.

Click on the photo below to go check out more family fun.

{Jackson, TN Family Photography}

I had a GREAT vacation. It was so relaxing and we had a great time hanging out with our family. I’m ready to get back into the swing of things here and so excited to start capturing YOUR memories! Don’t wait for the ”perfect” moment because we know that moment is pretty elusive…book your session today! 

I am so honored when family members ask me to take their photos! Yes, they’re family so they have to be nice (ha) but they don’t have to ask me to take their photos in the first place right? Well, over Christmas break while on vacation I was able to get my husbands sister and her family in front of my lens. I was so excited to be able to do this for them since it’s been quite a while since they’ve had family portraits done. The only problem…it was cold and we were both miles from home. I’m from Jackson, TN and they are from Louisville, KY and we found ourselves in Indianapolis, IN. So we asked the families that live in Indy what a good INDOOR location would be since it was pretty chilly on January 1st. They gave us some ideas and then we just sort of decided to drive downtown and find what we could find. We took a couple crazy, brave, freezing photos on the steps of the capital building. Then we went into a nearby hotel and had more luck there. Then we lucked out with a great location with lots of wonderful light. It was called the Indy ArtsGarden and was basically a skyway between a mall and some other restaurants right downtown. It wasn’t crowded and we grabbed a few great photos and called it a day!

Doug, Dana, Emily and Michael, thanks for the great afternoon outing, what a way to start the new year! I hope all of my future sessions are as much fun and as easy as you all were! I hope you enjoyed the day and I hope you love your photos! I feel like we got some great shots…and thanks for not running away and for taking direction well (it makes such a huge difference when the kids are older!). I can’t wait to do this again for you…but hopefully before another 5 years go by! You deserve family photos every year!

My beautiful niece Emily who will be finishing up her 8th grade year in a couple of months! yay Emily!! So proud of you!

Can’t forget this handsome young man! What a great kid, hardworking and an awesome BIG COUSIN!

Here’s a little video with a few more of the photos from their session!

This one is my favorite!!

{Jackson, TN family photography, newborn photography}

From my family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We pray that your celebrations are blessed by the one who came to save us.
May the manger laid, cross hung, tomb conquerer be the center of your Christmas celebration.
JT Photography is on vacation until January 9th. I cannot wait to help you capture many new and exciting things in 2012. I can’t wait to get your family in front of my camera so that you have memories to hold in your hand.

I am looking for a newborn to photograph. The first person to mention this (or my facebook post) will get 50% off their newborn session fee!! Newborn sessions are the only sessions that I will book or photograph during my vacation!

See you in 2012.

{Jackson, TN newborn photography}

I don’t normally talk to strangers. I’m pretty reserved and keep to myself. But when I see a pregnant woman I can’t help but ask questions…like most people I suppose. When are you due? Do you know the gender? Is this your first? Standard fare. But then I usually progress with, have you had maternity photos taken? Do you have a newborn photographer in mind? A little forward? Maybe. But to me, I just want to know that the person has a way to capture the newness of life and the love of a family. Many times when I ask those last questions I am met with the name of a photographer in town. And that’s good with me. I am so passionate about people having professional photographs taken that I don’t mind when they tell me that someone else is doing their photos. I’m all about leaving a legacy and getting this point in time down in print. Since I am new in town I don’t suspect that people would have my name on their tongue for photos of their new babies, anyway. Most people don’t even know I’m here, let alone that I photograph babies and families, among other things. So, when I saw Nichole, I approached her and asked the standard questions and was met with an open opportunity to tell her about my photography business. I am so glad that she welcomed me into her home and allowed me to photograph her sweet six day old baby.

I’d like to properly introduce you to sweet Eva Grace. I shared a few sneak peeks with you on Saturday but I’d like to give Nichole and Brandon a few more photos to share with their family and friends of their sweet baby…and I’d like to tell her story. Everyone has a story, whether it’s dramatic or not does not matter…it’s YOUR story and you’re the only one who can tell it and share it with the world.

I think having a newborn in the house around Christmas can add so much to the season. You are instantly reminded of what happended two thousands years ago as our Savior came to the world as a baby. You’re reminded that Mary still had to wake in the middle of the night to feed him, she had to calm him when he cried and even change him when he was dirty. You see everything with a new pair of eyes. Even last night when five year old Naomi prayed “Dear God, thank you for making Christmas so close. It’s only 6 days till Christmas. I cannot wait to see you as a tiny baby. It’s so awesome. I can’t wait. Amen” it reminded me of how tender and fragile and amazing those little lives are.  Even the earthly life of our Savior Jesus Christ started as a baby.

Here are a few more photos from little Eva’s session. She didn’t fall asleep too hard so I didn’t get to try all my sleepy baby poses on Eva but I am so happy with the ones that she did allow me to capture. Here they are.

Eva has been loved since they knew she was coming. Nichole, Brandon and the boys were the recipients of that care and love before Eva arrived. Nichole had asked her grandmother to make her a quilt, not knowing that her grandmother had never made a quilt before. But her grandmother set to work and with the help of some friends made this beautiful Lonestar quilt. My cousin-in-law Jamie who is a quilt maker and has even designed patterns said, “It’s takes a lot to piece the top, you have to make sure all the colors are in the right spot and there are Y seams in it that is more tricky to piece….Gorgeous quilt, one of my favorite patterns of all time and it’s impressive that it’s the first quilt she’s ever made!” That’s love. Now their family of five can snuggle up under this gorgeous quilt and think of all the time and love that went into making it.

Nichole is a third grade teacher and her class made Eva a VERY special quilt that includes all of the students handprints in the shape of hearts and then each student also made an owl (one of Nichole’s favorite things) with their fingerprint. They took the time to make handmade gifts for their special teacher and her new baby. That’s love.

Eva is the first little girl in the family so Nichole made sure to give Eva a girly space of her own. I know how much fun it is to decorate a little girls room so I know Nichole must have had a blast dreaming up this space and making it happen. I love the black and white damask pattern with the hot pink. She had her friend cut out the tree and owls with her silhouette machine and many items in the nursery were handmade or given as gifts. When you spend that kind of time working on your babies room make sure to have your photographer take some photos of it for you!


This precious little girl is loved and doted on by everyone in her family.





What a great family. A great example of love and faith.

Thank you Brandon and Nichole for allowing me to come into your home and work with your little six day old baby. I had so much fun working with all of you. Thanks for letting me get a few new baby snuggles in as well. I hope that you like these images and that you’ll cherish them for many years!

{Jackson, TN family photography}

I am excited to be able to offer another way for my clients to be able to have ALL of the images from their sessions in one place. I am a big advocate of the coffee table books, they are gorgeous and easy to share with others. However, I also am offering full length DVD’s with all the photos from your session for purchase!! Just ask me how to get yours!

Here is a slideshow that I made for the Pierce family.

Here is a slideshow with photos from the Abernathy’s session!

Here is a slideshow with photos from the Carlson’s session!

These are not the full length DVD’s that you would receive, rather just a sample to give you an idea of what I am talking about.

{Jackson, TN Newborn Photography}

I am so honored to be asked to capture these first moments in a precious little one’s life. Sweet baby Eva is an adorable little lady doted on by her two big brothers and loving parents. She wasn’t too interested in sleeping (until I was ready to leave) but I am so excited about the images I was able to capture. Nichole and Brandon thank you so much for allowing me to capture this amazing time in your lives. Thank you for trusting me with capturing these memories for you. I have SO many photos for you to see but here are three quick little sneak peeks! Check back later in the week for more!

Eli was so excited to be able to take Eva’s picture with his own camera! Looks like I may have an apprentice!!
Ethan and Eli love their little Eva!! Such sweet big brothers!