There is something so invigorating about a new year, a fresh start. January and February are generally the times I purposefully set aside to work on things I can never seem to get to during wedding season (basically March-November this past year) — things like:
– being 100 % caught up on editing (I’m GETTING there)
– sprucing up our apartment (maybe start by just getting it CLEAN)
– cooking some decent meals (any warm, home-made meals at all would be a step up, let’s be real)
– BLOGGING catch up
– keeping the one plant in my office alive
– updating my website portfolios, among various other business updates/reassessments
So in an attempt to bring myself closer to at least one of the above-mentioned goals, I’ve condensed several photo sessions from November into a single post to show some of the highlights from that month. Enjoy!
bridals: lauren









familiar love: monica + bret












blissfully engaged: libby + camrann









familiar love: palomino







newlyweds: meredith + brandon












blissfully engaged: amanda + mark





in expectation: whitney + caleb










Happy Friday, all!

Dotson’s, y’all are continually one of my most favorite families to photograph. Thanks for starting off my 2014 blogging right.









Can we just talk about how Sarah made this afghan? Straight up crocheted it with her two amazingly, talented momma hands.





























Merry 2014, all!
Gosh, this year. It feels like every year since we started JZP has topped the last. I remember last December I was thinking over all that had taken place, all the amazing people we worked with, all the places we had been in 2012 and wondering how 2013 could possibly compare. And now I sit here typing this blogpost on the last day of 2013 and can’t help but wonder how 2014 can possibly measure up. But I’m excited to find out how it will.
This is my entirely unglamorous New Year’s Eve post. There is no sparkle confetti (although I firmly believe that one can never have enough sparkle confetti) or fireworks — just a few shots that James and I (sometimes inadvertently) snagged of each other while photographing beautiful weddings of beautiful people with beautiful souls over the past twelve months.






Sometimes a veil gets all kinds of stuck in the bride’s up do and it’s the photographer to the rescue.

But sometimes the photographer walks into a cactus and it’s the bride and groom to the rescue pulling out cactus needles.

COOLEST THING I got to do at a wedding this year was ride in a helicopter to an island ceremony. I want to see 2014 beat THAT one.






I could not have made it through 2013 alive without my handsome second shooter, my trusty light test subject, my supportive husband by my side.

Thank you to all of the dear people who entrusted to us the documentation of special seasons of life in 2013. Y’all are all awesome and I promise I don’t take a single one of you for granted. Time and time again I am made unbelievably aware of how blessed by the good Lord I am to photograph people who see something in our work.
2013, it’s been an absolute pleasure. And 2014, we’re ready for you.

Y’all, Amanda and Dustin got married last night! It was my last wedding of 2013, and a beautiful (although CHILLY) one it was. I’m excited to share a few of my favorites from Amanda’s gorgeous bridal session at Chestnut Square in McKinney, Texas.






















Amanda, you’re absolutely stunning. And now you’re married. So that’s pretty fun.
Happy Monday, all!


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