New toys!!

For a while I have wanted an infrared camera, and FINALLY I found one that I L-O-V-E! I've been playing around and these images with this camera just got me so excited!!! I love doing new things and this is just so much fun I don't even know what to do with myself!
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Having my cake and eating it too!

I've been reading this fantastic book by Dane Sanders called Fast Track Photographer, and I am addicted. There are a good many books out there for photographers dealing with business sense and all, which I love, but this one so far deals with the photographer as a person, which is awesome. It talks about knowing where you want to be in photography and having fun with your passion and for me, having fun is what makes this industry so great! Meeting other photographers, picking each other's brains, shooting with each other on weddings, etc, really helps keep the passion alive.

And then of course there's the actual weddings! I've had so many fun weddings this year, but two of the fun times were actually caught on camera and I thought I'd share the fun with you all!

Right after Megan Baiada's wedding with Heyn Photography, Cara MacNeil brought up that everyone once in their live before they're married should feed cake to someone and vise versa. So we thought we'd give that a try with myself, Cara and Marissa Levin. I think you can tell I enjoyed the cake because I'm laughing with my mouth wide open and you can see the cake! Ewwwwwww, haha.

My second fun-time-caught-on-camera was with Andres Valenzuela, where we let the bride, Marissa, take a few shots herself!

The second half of wedding season is still to come and I have weddings almost every weekend for the next two months so I'm totally psyched about it! Can't wait for some more fun stuff, preferably caught on camera!

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Guess who?!?!

So I had an awesome time last Thursday night with makeup artist, friend and aspiring photographer Yvonne Moss photographing a special someone....can you guess who this is??? Think "Friends"

Haha, well it's not Courtney Cox, but it is Grace Hanlon, a talented producer from the area here. We had so much fun with our photo shoot I just had to show some of my favs!

Enjoy!

It's live, it's live, it's LIVE!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, novios y novias... after many, many months of work by myself, my friends and family giving me constructive criticism and of course DJ for making the best web-building program in the world (along with his support group Jason Lackey and Andrew Barlow).... my website is finally complete and LIVE so check it out!!

www.vanessajoy.com

(Ah, I'm so excited!!!!)

It's Official!!

Well it was official when I first registered, but now its officially official because I received my business certificate from the State of New Jersey in the mail today! YaY!


I'm uber-excited, especially since my website is pretty much finished. I'm just waiting to hear back from a few trusted friends who are taking a look at it and doing a great job so far with the constructive criticisms. (Thanks guys!)

We're almost there!!

Engagement Session Book

Hey all!

It's been so crazy around here lately working on the website and shooting constantly throughout July with Heyn Photography and Andres Valenzuela. Check out an engagement book I shot and designed for Heyn Photography this past week!

I'm working on getting some images from recent weddings I've shot so stay tuned!!