JJs Photography

In London

2008-12-29T16:12:00.000-08:00

So, it has been a great trip to Europe so far... My friend Drew Worsham and I had the opportunity to come over to Europe and spend 2 weeks. It's been great, and I really want to slow down, as we keep running from site to site, and I will, but haven't yet. So, it's been a bit crazy but alot of fun. I have been shooting with my new 5D Mark II. Still learning it, but loving it. It's also been much colder than what I thought, so I haven't taken as many pictures as I thought I would, and haven't been able to play around much with the flash. It's enough just to get my hands out of my pockets and snap a shot (without having to deal with the flash and equipment). We are now in Paris and have been here for one day. We missed our flight to Paris from London.. that was NOT good. Cost us quite a bit more money to have to buy a train ticket last minute. We had gone to Tim Hughes church in London to see him lead worship, and really pushed the time. If you know me, you're not surprised. Anyways, I'll try to update the blog as much as possible. The friends we are staying with in Paris had wireless so I could upload them quickly. The pictures of Drew and I are taken with his point and shoot. The ones below are with my camera. I quickly learned that passing off my 5D to a stranger to take a picture of us was too stressful... I keep thinking they are about to run off with it, and it makes me nervous. So all pictures of Drew and I are taken with his point and shoot... Enjoy...

These are the pictures taken with the point and shoot...

St Pauls Cathedral

London Bridge (not that good)

On London Bridge (BOO!)

Trafalger Square

Big Ben behind us

again

House of Parliment

Westminster Abbey

Big Ben

Buckingham Palace entrance

Now, my camera....

Westminster Abbey

We didn't get to go in because it was $30/each so we just took a picture on the outside!

This is St Pauls Cathedral where we showed up on Sunday morning trying to catch Tim Hughes lead worship, only to find out there are multiple ''St Pauls'' and this isn't where he was leading! :)

Random telephone booth I liked! Very ''London''

This sign is all over the ''tube'' (underground subway) and they say it all the time. Reminding you to be careful...

Mail

The London eye... We could have rode this, but again it was $30/each, so we opted for pics and kept walking... I like my edit on this one, making it somewhat unrealistic looking.

Went to the London Bridge. Very disappointed. You would think hearing that song growing up that it would be cool. It wasn't!

Boring London Bridge

Cool random building

Drew shooting ''Big Ben'' (the bell tower on the house of Parliment)

Big Ben

House of Parliment... Amazing building

Buckingham Palace... The Queen wasn't really there.

More to come...

Fields of Faith (Lawton, OK)

2008-10-09T09:47:00.000-07:00

We played in Lawton, OK last night for an event called Fields of Faith. Jeff and Julie Martin (family picture below) began this years ago, and invited us to come out to lead worship. We had a great time and their family was awesome! We played on a football field and so when we finished, the opportunity was too great not to, so I grabbed my camera and shot some pics...

Wes and Jason about to tackle each other

This picture is awesome since Jason isn't really a sports guy, yet he's on the football field

The Martin family that brought us out for the night... GREAT family!

Wes was quitting the band and heading out of town

Wes was thinking it would be awesome to pose for America's next top model

Classic Jason face!

Eli's pumpkin patch shoot

2008-10-06T14:31:00.001-07:00

Wes and Amanda gave me my first shot at being a photographer with their son Eli. I consider him to be my son too, and love him like he's mine. Meredith also feels she's another parent, so she came along and was my lighting assistant. He was amazing and let us snap pictures of him for an hour before crawling away, letting us know he was done. It was a fun shoot and my first time to use external lighting, trying out some new things. Hope you like... (thanks Mere!)

Mom and Dad

2008-04-28T21:51:00.000-07:00

Mom and dad were in town for one of our concerts, and so we went up to Grapevine botanical gardens and I grabbed my camera. I learned a few new tricks on these from photoshop tutorials.

2008-04-18T13:58:00.000-07:00

So today, Wes and Eli came over to go to lunch. We got back to my apartment, and Eli ws being funny, so I got out my camera. These pics are to make Amanda smile and say 'AHHHH... jeff.. I love them!'... Hope it works.

Eli is a little uncertain in this one...

I love this pic of him smiling.

ROCKSTAR

'What??? this is what me and dad do on a regular day...' -eli

My favorite pic of the day

Amanda's eyes

I told him a joke

Amanda... it was totally Wes' idea to pull her out! Eli will now have to do therapy.

Awesome smile

Pictures of Steve doing business

2008-04-14T14:10:00.000-07:00

Steve was working, so I decided to get my camera out and capture some shots. I'm still learning, so these are fairly rough, but I like these because they caught him in a normal situation without being posed.