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Bailey - Graves County High School Sr.




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Breonna - Massac County High School Sr.

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11/27/2010 
**Under Construction**
Sal's Second Birthday Party





Now Scheduling!!

This will be a rather quick blog, but it's just to let you know that I'm HootSuiting some photographs over lunch on the grand old social networks ...

feel free to share, tweet, re-tweet, like, comment
and SCHEDULE A SHOOT!

I've been working the kinks out over the last few months and I believe I'm ready to really get things rolling. 

Several of you have asked about photo shoots and we've not been able to coordinate our schedules ...

several of you have asked about photo shoots for the future and we haven't even discussed scheduling  ...

Several of you have tentatively scheduled for Thanksgiving weekend or Christmas weekend ...
I'd like to get you folks on the books and start shooting :)

Basic Shoots $75 and up
 90 minute session
 minimum of 20 poses sized to 4x6 on disk.
Please get in touch with me via email - kimajackson2010@gmail.com

*More To Come*

KCoJax Candids©

Photography is an absolute love of mine. 

I like nothing better than to watch an event ...
or even an ordinary day through a lens. 

My first real experience with photography came in Fall of 1994 when I went to work for Glamour Shots!  I began as a Wardrobe Coordinator and right on the cusp of the Christmas season .. there wasn't a better time to be dropped into the bucket o' fun that was Glamour Shots than the Christmas Season!  Bustiers, feather boas and rhinestone jewelry galore!!  In retro-spectavision, it leaves me with a taste of absolute kitsch!

I began to ask to work as photog assistant.  I really wanted to go in the studio.  I loved the flashing and the action. I loved working with the photographer to help people break down their walls and have fun.

Around Spring-time, I began to really train to shoot.  By the time Christmas rolled around again I was completely comfy in the studio.  I went on to work for Glamour Shots on and off until June of 2001.

My love of photography has continued to grow and as of 2009 I began tinkering with photography as a hobby again and formed the Shutterbug Coalition.

My love of catching those moments that tend to slip by un-captured has flourished this year.  In Spring of 2010 a friend of many years asked me to "stalk" he and his family on an outing.  There plan was to just go hang out and spend the day together .. but they wanted it on film as the oldest son was about to leave for U.S. Army basic training.  He offered me a particular amount of money to go along for the day and just follow them everywhere, shooting candid pics.  We toyed with it and had fun ... sometimes a shot was missed or it was "close to perfect" and we'd re-stage it.

I came home that evening, inviting the friend to join me and we put on a pot of java to look at the pics. 

We sat at my kitchen table with hundreds and hundreds of pics and began deleting the blurry ones, the closed eyes, the weird faces ... we laughed ... we cried ... we talked about how precious these photos are now and how very, very precious they'll be some day when this fabulous Dad is hunkered over and can no longer go out and rough house with his boys and swing his daughter around in the air...

I never charged that friend the full amount for the photo shoot, because he helped me to realize many things that day. 

More about that family and other amazing subjects later, but suffice it to say .. I am my most delighted when looking at life through a lens.  If you'd like your life looked at through that lens, please get in touch with the email address below.

- For more information -
kimajackson2010@gmail.com


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.11/14/10. ~Rail Road, Retro and Hippies~ *Under Contruction*

~Railroad, Retro and Hippies~
November 2010
 




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The Raw Shoot
The Railroad Tracks



The Raw Shoot
The Coca-Cola Plant


The Raw Shoot
Fall Leaves, Happy's Chili Parlor and Such


KCoJax Candid Kids© - Mary Beth's First Day of Pre-School

After waking to a real gloomy gus of a Tuesday with overcast skies, the sunshine popped out just in time for Mary Beth to take her first trip to Pre-School!


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Good Morning, Miss Mary Beth!  Isn't this an exciting day??!!

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 Let's stop and give it some thought ...
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Hikin' up the big girl panties ...!
I've Got This! :)
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I think I can ... I think I can ...
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Uh Oh ... What if I can't?
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I was right the first time ... I've got this! :)
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Here so soon???!!! 
 

They look nice...


Yup! I've got this! :)

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