Although it looks like it, I don’t just photograph weddings. I love shooting families and children as well! In honor of Father’s Day, here’s a few photos from a recent shoot of 4-week old baby Ella.

I had a great time shooting Karen and Patrick’s engagement session in Piedmont Park in Atlanta, GA a couple of weeks ago.

Here are a few of my favorites from our session.

I met Karen and Patrick at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, GA this past Sunday for their engagement shoot. These two are so in love, and it shows in the way they look at each other. Karen is constantly smiling the biggest smile you can imagine (even when you ask her not to for just one photo…).

Patrick is also a photographer himself, so there’s a certain amount of pressure involved with shooting other photographers. That aside, we had a great time just walking around Piedmont Park and enjoying the beautiful day.

Here’s a teaser from their shoot - I’ll post more in a couple of weeks.

Thanks guys - I had a great time!

I recently had the pleasure of shooting a bridal session for Michelle in Savannah, Georgia. Michelle is an amazing person to be around so this shoot was a breeze. She took the fact that it was raining outside in stride and we decided to do the session in her hotel room. After the rain stopped, we went across the street to a parking garage for a different look.

Michelle and Ville got married this past weekend at the Mansion on Forsyth Park in Savannah so be on the lookout for their wedding photos in the coming weeks!

This part of the year is the slowest part for wedding photography. Few people want to get married in the winter, and even fewer people want to brave the showers that April brings. So, I’ve decided to post a few of my favorite sessions from the past until things get going again.

The first one is an engagement session that I really enjoyed shooting as it allowed me to stretch my creative legs a bit. Alyssa and Elliot’s favorite movie is a Hong Kong art film called “In the Mood for Love”. It’s an extremely stylized film where every frame is beautiful. The overview of the story is that he loves her, and she loves him, but they’re both married to other people so they can’t be together (I know - *Raunchy!*).

Rather than doing yet another engagement session at the beach, I suggested that we go to Union Station in Los Angeles and try and recreate the look and feel of the film with their engagement photos. They were great sports and jumped in with both feet. The first photo contains two stills from the movie so you can have an idea of the style of it. The rest is all about recreating art.

Enjoy - and I’d love to hear your comments!

JParker Studio is now on Facebook! If you are as well, and want to let everyone know that you’re a fan, here’s a link to our facebook page. Oh, and if you have time, write on our wall… it’s pretty bare right now…

The wedding photography industry is constantly changing. There are always new ways of doing something that will either give you a better result or save you time. This is why I am constantly educating myself and surrounding myself with the absolute best in the industry. As with anything, the more you do something or the more you study it, the better you become at it. This translates directly into a better product that I can offer my clients.

So a couple of weeks ago, I took off to Vancouver, B.C. (this was my first trip to Canada btw) to take a seminar (or, Bebbinar as it is so aptly named) with Steve & Jen Bebb of Bebb Studios. Steve & Jen were recently named one of the top 10 wedding photographers in the world by American Photo Magazine (Click here to read the article) so learning from them was an amazing experience. We spent 3 1/2 days learning about business, photography, and how to maintain a good work-life balance while still being successful.

One of the days, we did a bridal shoot with a makeup artist named Nadia. We walked around North Vancouver and took some amazing portraits of her in her wedding dress. She had an awesome veil that added a cool mystique to the shoot.

Here are a few of my favorite images of Nadia that I took that day:

And as an added bonus, here’s a shot of me shooting Nadia taken by our super-talented friends Ral & Danelle of Rad Studio in Vancouver!

Welcome everyone - JParker Studio has escaped from the stone ages and opened up a blog! This is the place to come to see what we’ve been up to. The blog is something that we have wanted to do for a while now, but haven’t found the time until now.

We’ll be posting information about JParker Studio, our products, and LOADS of images from our most recent shoots.

Also, if you’re an upcoming bride, please take a look at our main site: www.jparkerstudio.com to view our portfolio. We accept a limited number of commissions per year in the Los Angeles, California and Atlanta, Georgia areas as well as destinations both nationally and internationally. We love to travel - the more exotic the better!

So stop back by often as this is only the beginning… there’s great stuff to come.