Photo Contest Friday!

This week's action shot winner is...

Tena Lara!!!

This shot, simply called "The father in law" is just the kind of action we all dream of as little girls on our big day. :)

Well Done Tena!!! 

Thanks again for the fabulous entries! Keep em rollin!

Someone wrote in and asked a great question... Does the photo have to be taken during the week of the contest. The short answer is: ideally, but not necessarily. 

The idea of Photo Contest Friday is really an excuse to get out and shoot. No client to please, no professor to impress, just a chance for you to go out and focus on one specific aspect of this amazing medium. I know I was a lot more creative in college when I had assignments to focus my attention as opposed to now, walking around, directionless, waiting for something to catch my eye. 

So with that in mind, this week we're taking it old school. That's right, this week is the challenge is simply

BLACK & WHITE

Send your best B&W photo to: jovee@joveephotography.com 

click away my friends!

Photo Contest Friday... er Tuesday

And the winner of the photo contest for "shadow" is...

Kate Duval of MKD Photography!

This photo is awesome! Way to go Kate!  Check them out to see more of their amazing work!

Also thanks to everyone for all your amazing entries!! Keep sending them in!

Ok kids, so this week's challenge is coming up fast! Therefore this week's challenge is:

A C T I O N !!!

Email your best action shot to: jovee@joveephotography.com by Thursday at midnight.

Don't forget to include your blog, or website or flicker or wherever you show off your mad photo skills. 

Ah! No WiFi!

Terribly sorry everyone! I've been in the mountains and without internet all weekend! (Don't worry, I somehow survived.) I'll end the suspense of the 1st contest tomorrow when I can FINALLY upload it.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!

The people have voted...

... and the overwhelming winner is:

BLOG READER PHOTO CHALLENGE!!!

[Applause]

Readers: here is your 1st challenge....

S H A D O W S !

This is inspired by the incredible, master of light & all around nice guy, Ken Sklute,  I was fortunate enough to attend his seminar here in Florida the past Monday & am swooning with ideas...

Anyway... by next Thursday, May 21st, submit your photo to:

jovee@joveephotography.com

The winner will be posted next Friday for my 1st ever 

PHOTO CONTEST FRIDAY! 

Wow, I just got chills :)

So send me 1 photo that has something to do with shadows. (also include your website or blog or twitter or facebook or something of the like so people can check out your other awesomeness)

That's it...  get out there and shoot already!

Olivia's first close up

My dear friend from college, Mariana, recently gave birth to a GORGEOUS little girl named Olivia. Since we both have migrated south from Missouri, I suspect this will just be the first of many opportunities to photograph her beautiful children. 

Big brother Dominic works it for the camera

Awe.... she's got mama's eyes

Oh man, my geek is showing

Hooray! The highly anticipated Pocket Wizard TT1 is finally mine! It's great, I can mount the flash right on it's hot shoe & still trigger my remote flash rigged up to the classic Pocket Wizard plus II.  (Get really fancy and rig it to the Flex TT5 for some surround sound ETTL action) I shoot Canon, but they also have a Nikon version. Only tricky part: for both flashes to fire, the on camera flash has to be set to "Master" and the remote flash not set on anything, just manual mode. (That even stumped Pocket Wizard tech support at first, but we finally figured it out) Now it's all systems go! 

The Mini TT1

Plus II on my 580 ex II