From Jennifer:
My love of photography began on my 9th birthday when my parents gave me a camera. From that day forward I always had a camera in my hand, photographing life, documenting my family and my friends in everything we did. I loved having friends over, styling them and taking their photos. I also enjoyed a lot of quiet time, driving and looking for the beautiful things in this world, stopping, and capturing them. The ocean, a beautiful flower, an animal, a person, I saw beauty in all of this and more. A large part of my love of photography is the beauty and emotion I am able to capture in my subjects.
Being a quiet and reflective personality, I used photography as my way of expression and connection. I would attend school or work, then hop in my car and go to the beach or the mountains, or whatever was calling me that day and photograph it. I found a lot of peace and joy in this.
I began photographing professionally in 1999, after training with several renowned photographers. I found I love capturing people in love and experiencing love. This is such an amazing part of life. I am so lucky to do a job that brings so much joy and happiness. I found my passion for capturing people naturally, in their expressions, full of emotion to be both challenging and extremely rewarding at the same time. Weddings, families, babies, children, events, they all bring such excitement and so much emotion. I love to hang back, and just document what I see, be it the tiniest details to the largest of portraits, my heart is in it all. I am thankful to have a job that I am passionate about.
My Style:
Known for her candid, unobtrusive, and romantic style, Jennifer has been photographing weddings, events, babies/children, and families since 1999. Using light and focusing on emotion, Jennifer strives to capture her clients and their events with art, beauty, and discretion. Years of experience and intution have given her the ability to anticipate moments before they happen, capturing them for you to treasure.
Jennifer’s style is unique and often spoken about as capturing movment and emotion so well, that just by looking through her photographs one can feel as if they had been present for the event. Her approach to all photographic events is that they are unique and no two are photographed the same, providing you with a set of images that truly reflect your day and experience.
Resume:
In addition to the hundreds of weddings, events, and families Jennifer has photographed, Jennifer’s lifestyle photography of Tony Danza and his family in his memoir/cookbook Don’t Fill Up on the Antipasto, has not only been featured on all the major television networks such as NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox but has also been distributed internationally where she is recognized in countries such as France, Germany, and Portugal. She has also photographed Bill Cosby and Fred Rogers for the nationwide publication, AARP, and children’s author, Lydia Maderas for her nationally distributed children’s book “What’s Happening to my Body,” the bestselling growing up guide for preteens and teens. Jennifer is currently photographing for and working with the magazine, Conejo Valley Women, which promotes successful women in Ventura County.
Jennifer has also worked in film and television, having done the lighting for the short film, The Audience which circuited the short film festivals in both Palm Springs and Los Angeles, and her photography was incorporated into the TV pilot, Piranhas, starring Larry Jo Campbell of ABC’s hit series According to Jim and Jamie Kaler of the popular TBS’s series My Boys, so much so, that it is her photographs facilitating the shows storyline. In the future, she will be working with the same group of people on a motion picture.
In addition to these accomplishments, Jennifer has been published numerous times in the Knot magazine, Wedding Pages, and People magazine, as well as on the cover and inside, Catersource, a nationally distributed magazine for the catering industry. She is an honorary member of Cambridge’s Who’s Who of successful business women, listed as one of the recommended photographer’s by Here Comes the Guide, and a member of ASMP, the very pretegious and reputable American Society of Media Photographers
