
Jenny Watts – Dallas TX Photographer | Maureen Wilson – McComb MS Photographer | Jasmine Sargent – Bismarck ND Photographer
San Diego CA Child and Family Photographer | Photo of the Week
Let’s get close … at the San Diego New Children’s Museum.
The winter cold and flu season finally caught up with both of us. We have been sick for the last 10 days … yuck! Last weekend we needed a chance to get out of the house and do something other than hang out in our PJs. So we spent the afternoon at the Children’s Museum (loaded with kleenex and hand sanitizer) and had so much fun. We haven’t been since we had a membership the first year it was open. It’s a beautiful space for children to grow and explore. But, as you can see, toward the end of the outing Brooks (me, too) was done.
This week, our technique is still unique lighting and our theme is “let’s get close”. After you see my picture, be sure to continue clicking through the different photographers links so you can see the complete circle. Be sure to come back in 2 weeks to see our next theme, you don’t want to miss it!
In case you missed my first post of this new project, here is a little information about it.
As photographers, we are always looking for ways to challenge ourselves. This year I am taking on an exciting new challenge, a 26 week project. It is similar to the 52 week project most of you are familiar with, except this year we are working on techniques along with our themes. Our themes for our 26 week project will be more thought provoking, so it will be fun to see the different interpretations. I am working along with 11 other AMAZING photographers, 6 of my favorite photographers from my last group and 6 crazy talented news ones, who will be challenging me as the year goes on. Each month we will have a different technique we are working on, and each week we will have a new theme.




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Okay, one day I WILL get to spend a day with you and Brooks! Too much fun!!
This looks like such a fun day. Love the shot of him climbing the rock wall.
Hope you are feeling better.
What a fun day! I wan’t to do to that museum! Great capture of a fun memory for your boy.
Wow! Love this montage of colorful fun.
awww, is that a big yawn?
love the perspectives and angles Jules!
what a great day to have perfectly captured. i love the one that he is yawning it
LOVE these Jules!!! The perspectives are all so fun and amazing. He is a total cutie pie!
I love looking at how you tell such amazing stories through your images. What a fun day.
Your use of lighting is always so perfect. I love all these shots!!!!!!!
Aw, love taking Raney to the Children’s Museum here too, but it’s been quit sometime since we’ve gone, now seeing all these colorful images, I’m thinking we’ll have to do a little field trip!
So sorry you both have been under the weather, hope your much better now.
Love B’s little yawn!!!!!!
Looks like lots of fun! Always love how you document your adventures!!
Ohhhh, Jules! I love these! The light is divine & your choice of composition is inspiring! I love these!
Love the perspective shooting up while he is climbing! You two have so much fun together!
Wonderful series. Love the be mine picture! Perfect for vday:)
These are gorgeous! I love all the vibrant colors. This looks like such a fun day. I love the one of him yawning at the end. I hope you are both feeling lots better now.

Jenny Watts – Dallas TX Photographer | Maureen Wilson – McComb MS Photographer | Jasmine Sargent – Bismarck ND Photographer
San Diego CA Child and Family Photographer | Photo of the Week
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Wonderful expressions and fantastic light. A great photo.
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Oh this shot is awesome! Such a fun memory for them!
Beautiful shot! One of the best parts of being a kid…being thrown in the air by your daddy!
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Beautiful, Jules! Someday I am coming to CA so you can photograph our family!
so love it!! and that is some serious air
Such beautiful light here and a perfect catch (yours and hopefully his too!)
On a very warm New Year’s Day, Brooks and I went down to the beach for a late afternoon visit. After the sun went down and everyone was leaving, I turned and saw Brooks standing all alone out in the ocean on this little rock, surrounded by water. I wish I knew what he was thinking about out there. So Brave. So strong. He looked like he was ready to tackle the world.
He continues to inspire me to be a better person … through his strength, his laughter and his love.
A perfect way to start the new year.

We have 12 amazing photographers in our group today, so please continue on with the always inspiring Andee Tate | Crave Photography | Utah Photographer.
Here is a little background on {elevate} a fine art photography exploration.
‘I love art. It’s been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. I wanted a world that was removed from the mundane simplicity of everyday life.
But of course, life comes in and we grow up and move on. There isn’t enough time in the day to even shower, much less indulge in artistic flights of fancy. We have children, get a job and acquire debts. We cheer soccer games and kiss booboos and wash that same cup for the thousandth time. We forget the past and become “adults.”
And then one day, we pick up a camera. And take that first shot.
And all that youthful longing comes rushing back—it’s as if we have been drowning all these years and someone finally pulled us back to the surface. Color comes back to the world, color that we had never noticed was missing.
Coming up for that first gasp of air is exhilarating. For me, I couldn’t get enough of photography. It consumed me as I was suddenly able to express everything inside, all this longing that had been pushed aside for so many years. I would stay up nearly all night working on a new project or a fun idea. I would read everything and had a huge list of photographic concepts I wanted to try out.
But of course, again, life comes in. We want to share our newfound gift and now there are photography debts to be paid too. So we leave that list of concepts and turn our passion into our job. It’s fun and rewarding and exhilarating in a different way. But appointments and editing and deadlines leave little room for personal expression.
But I’m still that hopelessly romantic girl. And I still have a list of creative ideas a mile long that I would love to complete. Henri Matisse stated, “An artist is an explorer.” I often feel like that, though perhaps it’s just a journey of self-exploration, understanding myself a little more. So I decided to take a little time each month to explore photography as an art form, to elevate my understanding of both art and myself, and allow that deeply artistic side of myself a chance to spread her wings.
Created by Nichole Van, I banded together with a handful of other photographers to create a blog project focused on exploring the fine art side of photography. Each month, we will post a photo or series of images focused on art and photography. There are no rules. Just post what comes from the heart and allow the inner artist a chance to explore and fly.
So welcome to {elevate} a fine art photography exploration’ ~ Nichole Van
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The light on his face is simply beautiful. He does look brave and courageous and hopeful…
This is so beautiful. Love the light and his expression as he is standing on the rock. It is really wonderful.
Love the serene feel of this shot! The colors are gorgeous!
beautiful light and colors! love the reflection! He is so cute!!
This is gorgeous! This is one for your walls! Huge! I’m so in love with this image!
Jules, I just love how he is looking forward. Love the emotion and feeling here! Like there is so much to look forward to!
jules,
there is a stillness here that is so peaceful, so calm.
he is a very sweet boy; i can tell. i love how our muses are usually right under our noses, or in most cases, our feet, each day!! ![]()
i too love the color after the sun has completely set, but still emanates just enough to expose the last moments of the day…
beautiful- love how he’s out there in the middle- so pensive.
gorgeous jules! i love how he is surrounded by water!!
Beatiful! In so many ways!! Thank you for sharing
Wow Jules! This is such an amazing image, I totally agree, B looks so brave standing on that rock surrounded by the ocean waters, I LOVE his expression looking off and the light hitting his handsome little face!
i was instantly pulled in by this image. the colors and mood are divine. he is a gorgeous guy, and this is a beautiful photo to have forever of him!! beautiful work jules.
Gorgeous shot! Love everything about it!
amazing! you are amazing jules…and brooks is just the perfect little subject.
Incredible image Jules, it would be hard not to be inspired by this photo. He was probably taking in the beauty of his surroundings just as you always seem to
That light is perfect and how it shines just on his face! LOVE this Jules!
Oh what a sweetie! This is beautiful, Jules.
The falling light on his face gives such a feeling of warmth and peace. Beautiful image Jules.
Great work Jules! Amazing shot;)
The setting sunlight is beautiful here. Love his contemplative expression too.
wow, this is awesome Jules
This is my new favorite of yours, Jules. I love how his form mimics the lines of the pier and how the sun is illuminating his little profile and how it’s almost dark out. It makes me wonder how he got there and what he’s thinking.
man I am so jealous of y’all beach time!! so gorgeous!!
Yum! What beautiful light! Just perfect!
That’s a beautiful image Jules. I love the way the light illuminates his face.

Jenny Watts – Dallas TX Photographer | Maureen Wilson – McComb MS Photographer | Jasmine Sargent – Bismarck ND Photographer
San Diego CA Child and Family Photographer | Photo of the Week
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What a perfect shot! I’m sure they are head over heels for this one!
What a gorgeous shot Jules. Just perfection – two handsome men.
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STUNNING!
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love this shot and i ADORE your bw conversion… so great!
so beautiful!! you are so good!!
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