The Milky Way over the beautiful Maroon Bells! Last fall my husband and I took a trip to Colorado, and part of my focus on this trip was to practice my astrophotography. We live in SC, and there is a LOT of light pollution on the east coast. Going out west was such an opportunity for me. Obviously this is not a great milky way image, but I'm still proud of it, because it is my first. I feel like it's a great starting point, because I could've started with a much worse im

Creating star trail images can be a lot of fun, but they also require a great deal of time and patience. There is a lot wrong with this image as it was my first attempt at star trails, but I wanted to give you guys some starting points to go by, and what it took to create this image. (For a more in depth guide, please see this star trails article by Charles of NightSkyPix.) This image was created with 7 different images at about 4 minutes exposure time for each image. To

Beautiful spring lillies!! With this I was wanting to take a semi-minimalist shot of a single flower, so I grabbed the gear and the baby and headed about 5 feet out my front door. I feel that there is such beauty to a singular flower against black. We didn't really use a black background. I just changed some camera settings and voila! These were taken in super bright sunlight, but with the shutter turned up so far, the flash becomes the only light. What I used: Nikon D60

Tonight my daughter and I decided to shoot some water droplets! We had a blast!! These did not turn out exactly how I wanted, so we will reshoot in the future, but I think it was a good first try. What I am trying to capture is the "crown" the water makes before the droplet actually appears. My daughter, Guinevere, is such a great help to me. The way we shot these: 1.) Make a tiny hole in a plastic sandwich bag, fill with water, and attach to something. 2.) Take a pen or s

Here is a slideshow I made for Kristy Lynn Self & Daniel's wedding at The Coker Ranch in Lancaster. Some of the images are also from Falls Park in Greenville. Such a beautiful bride and wedding!! There are images about 1/3 of the way through of the flower girl, Jazzy, and she was perfect for her role! She ran around collecting flowers and giving them to people the entire day. Those images are important to me, because that series really embodied the feel of the wedding-carefre

My sweet baby is now 9 months old. In his short little life he's seen mountains to oceans all the way from Florida to North Carolina. At one month old we took him camping at Chimney Rock. (Note: Don't take a child camping in a tent on an uncomfortable air mattress no matter how nice it is while breastfeeding! Oh how miserable I was.) At 2 months old in October, we took our family vacation down to Panama City Beach, Florida, and he got in the ocean and the sand. He was quit

I had the pleasure of photographing two beauties last week. Pixley is the cutest little thing and a natural model too! What a firecracker. These were taken at Glen Cairn Gardens here in Rock Hill, SC. #motherdaughter #naturalbeauty #nikond600 #nikon85mmf18 #nikon #nikon85mm #jenniferobot #jenniferbrecheisen #jenniferbrecheisenphotography #Love #rockhill #sc #southcarolina #rockhillsc #rockhillscphotographer #charlottencphotographer #garyfonglightsphere #garyfong #photograph

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1.) Prepare your photograph: If it’s your first transfer, converting it to black and white is a good idea to get some practice. If not converting to black and white, desaturate the colors a bit. Turn the contrast UP UP UP!!! Unless you are an experienced painter and can blend/shade well. Resize your photograph to meet the dimensions of the surface. If it’s something large like 16x20, you will want to cut the image into four 8x10 sections. Reverse the image horizontally. (Espe

When my husband and I were first dating we took a trip to the mountains in NC. We explored Hanging Rock and Pilot Mountain in the few days we were there, and we happened upon this amazing little campground named Jessup Mill. One night as we were driving back to the campground, lost on back roads with no gps signal no less, the sunset just grabbed our attention. We had to stop and snap some images. My tripod was nowhere to be found, so what does any photographer do in a pinch?