Colleen and Jonathan

I met Colleen and Jonathan in Old Town for their engagement shoot last Saturday. It's amazing how many couples tell me they don't have any (or any good) pictures of themselves. I'm always happy to help them remedy that situation! An engagement is the perfect excuse for some casual portraits to capture the relationship.
I had a great time with Colleen and Jonathan as we made the most of the beautiful day and beautiful scenery in Old Town. The Starbucks is one place they frequent so we had to include it!

The Colleen and Jonathan Show

Katherine

In 1987, I took these two pictures one summer evening at the lake and was forever captivated by portrait photography. Even though I already knew I enjoyed photography, I do credit Katherine with being the inspiration behind my photography career, all those years ago. (That's 20 years - wow. OK, now I feel old! :) For the record, I was barely 13.)
Wasn't she adorable?? She's clearly a natural in front of the camera.


Katherine's gone from adorable to gorgeous, and will always be one of my favorite people to photograph. These are from last weekend at the National Cathedral. She finally made it up from Florida to visit!

The Katherine Show

Grant

Grant is adorable, as you can see, and such an agreeable boy! He's 16 months old and belongs to my good friends Sara and Chris. They were in Jacksonville while I was last weekend and it was such a treat to see Sara and Grant 4 days in a row.
I'm always on the lookout for good backdrops and great light, but honestly, it doesn't get any better than this. I think the background is wonderful and while Grant's in the shade, we had the sun reflecting off the side of a white car just a few feet from him. It's not often you find perfect light at 1 o'clock in the afternoon!

Catherine's Senior Portrait

While I was in Florida last weekend, I had the privilege of taking Catherine's Senior Portrait. I've known her pretty much her entire life, so I felt a little old, but otherwise it was so much fun! Doesn't she look fantastic?!

The Catherine Show

Declan - 8 days old

The beautiful Riley has a new baby brother, Declan. These pictures were taken when he was just 8 days old, last Friday. He was quite alert and only allowed himself a few cat naps so he didn't miss too much of his first photo shoot. (I think he knew we wanted him to go to sleep :)) Such a sweet baby boy!

The ever-adorable Lenox!

I was in Florida for the weekend and am a little behind on my editing as I had several really fun shoots while I was there (pictures to come soon!). But I had to throw up a few shots of the ever-adorable Lenox (mostly for his mom who I'm sure is dying to see a few - even Lenox likes to see himself in the back of the camera :)). Now that he's crawling around we were afraid that he wouldn't sit still for pictures, but he was great at the pumpkin patch. Susan is also very good as singing, dancing and doing whatever it takes to entertain him!
Since I won't be there for Halloween, he tried on his costume. Hopefully he thought I was laughing with him in the bear suit, I had a hard time holding the camera still, he looked so cute and funny!

Website Hacked!

I apologize to anyone who tried to view my website, or your slideshow, today and found something else. Apparently my site was hacked! Yikes! Fortunately everything was still there, just hidden.
The wonderful tech guy at Start Logic fixed everything for me quickly after I called. If you're looking for a hosting company, they are great!
My splash page seems to have disappeared, so you'll now go straight into my site when you type in www.janmichele.com. There's still a link to the blog on the top menu bar. Hopefully this was a one time event, but, if you see anything strange in the future, please let me know!

Tilly is Two (almost!)

It has been so much fun catching up with my little models who are now a year older. How time flies! Tilly was a great sport in spite of the unusually hot day. Isn't she adorable with her big, beautiful eyes? Watch her slideshow for more.

The Tilly Show