Midwest Blog: Clover and Bee
I’m very excited about my new guest series “ City in a Garden” with Clover and Bee Wedding Blog. This blog is a must for the Midwest Bride. It is complete with their Best of the Midwest Wedding Guide and an online magazine, C&B daily full of style and bursting with inspiration. Add it to [...]
Creative Space.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how creativity is born. In any creative profession, there is a delicate balance between business and art. They can compliment each other and also wage war. There is a moment that you decide to risk the art you love the most for the hope to do it every [...]
Wedding Proofbooks : Products 2010
I’m upgrading and changing things up for 2010. In the next few weeks I will preview several new products that Simply Jessie Photography is adding. I have been searching and searching for a modern simple proof book, and I finally found it. The 11×14 book contains multiple image contact sheets bound together with a spiral coil, [...]
It is 2010. Here is something new… blog-a-roids.
We love the images and the stories we have been fortunate to capture over 2009. So, we wanted to give something back, something fun. We call these our Blog-a-roids. When you are featured on the blog, you get a set to share with family and friends. Quite honestly because you are awesome and now pending [...]
Meet Eric.
Meet Eric. He is my love, my business partner and a creative genius. He is why Simply Jessie Photography exists. Why you may ask since it is my name in the title? Because he believes in me. He is a dreamer, a visionary and entrepreneur. I know it’s a little weird to talk about our [...]
Ravenswood Art Walk 2009
This past weekend, we packaged up carefully all of my fine art botanic prints…. and Eric designed beautifully our display at Ravenswood Art Walk 2009. This art exhibit had over 2,000 attendees, 184 artists and 43 venues…phew! It was blocks and blocks of artistic talent all out for all to see. There were dancers, painters, [...]
Open House Photobooth.
The Open House was a great success , thank you for all those who attended, helped and most of all….. who dressed up for the Photo Booth! Eric and I have had this idea for quite some time so it was alot of fun to finally see all mustaches, pirate swords, and red tutu’s in [...]
Quieting my soul….
My newest venture is teaching a Photography Portfolio Workshop at Chicago Botanic Gardens for eight weeks. Last Monday was the first class where I met a variety of talented aspiring nature photographers. I designed this class to help these individuals develop their own nature portfolio to show off. Each student has a theme or focus [...]
Take a peek…
So here are a few pics of the new studio! We are finally reaching the end of our long list: painting, hanging, ordering, waiting, designing, etc etc etc. Ok, so not the end, but at least to a place where we can give you a sneak peek… This room is incredible. It is the remnants [...]
Open House + Launch Party
It is finally here and you are invited! Come by our Open House, we would love to meet you and show off our new space. If you plan on attending the Launch Party later that evening, please rsvp. There will be 20% off discounts handed out like candy, good eats, and drinks for all who [...]
What NOT to do.
So… things are progressing and I’ve been avoiding the blog because I can’t keep secrets from you all about the new place!! But, I don’t want to show it off till it is all ready for its big reveal. We are painted and setting up day by day. Our latest venture has been to hang [...]
grow.
When I saw this mug sitting in the coffee shop I refused to buy it, thinking “I don’t need this? do I?” I Then I walked around it, picked it up, counted how many more there were left, picked it up again, remembered how our kitchen cabinets are overflowing with mugs that we vow to [...]
