This shootout was so much fun. It was challenging to have only a few minutes to place, pose and photograph the model. But it was a great way to learn and to expand my skills.

Here are my photographs from the shootout.

Thanks again to Studio317 and Cappiello Real Estate.

So I decided to try and capture a few of these things in portraits. While I believe that I captured her love of books during the photo session, it was really hard to capture her love of dancing and singing.  I hope these portraits of my daughter make you smile.

Make sure you take time to capture these fleeting moments with your family.

Let me know if I can help you create memorable portraits for your family.

So I encourage you to spend as much time with your family as you can and make all the time with them as special as possible.

And what is a post without pictures.

Emma cooking with her mommy.

Trying to figure out this whisk thing.

All the ingredients gathered.

Ingredients are together, ready to be mixed.

Emma trying out one of these fake eggs.

Now what are we supposed to mix together?

Everything is mixed, ready for the next step.

Yummy cookie dough, ready to be rolled flat.

Mommy, my bowl seems to be empty.

Let the rolling commence.

This is fun. Cutting out stars.

Trees and stars. These look good.

Sprinkles are fun.

Pretty Christmas trees.

Why can’t we eat them yet?

There cooking. Almost ready to be eaten.

Looking good. Cooling off so we can eat them.

Pretty stars and trees.

Yippee! I finally get one.

How do you bite this cookie?

This is so good. ‘Tank you mommy’

Thanks for sharing in our holiday fun.  Hope you had a great Christmas with your family.  Look for new things to come from Jarman Photography in the new year.

I was blessed by the families that we had the honor and opportunity to photograph today.  Today wasn’t about the photographers, it was about the people who came to get photographed. We had the chance to meet a young man (13 years old) who was in remission of leukemia for three years. This young man had such a great spirit about him and wanted to get a photograph with his parents, but especially his father. The family traveled for an hour to come get their portraits made. I have a hard time putting into words the experiences I had today.

I hope that everyone takes time in this season of giving to find a way to fill a need in their community. It will bless you and the one you help in ways that you cannot imagine.

Here are the people that participated in the Knoxville Event.

Here is a sunrise photograph from the dock.

We had so much fun playing around in the boat.  It was Emma’s first experience with a life jacket and a boat ride.  She didn’t like the life jacket at first, but once we were on the boat and the wind was blowing through her hair, she loved it.

As you can see she really warmed up to the boat and by the end of the week she didn’t want to leave it behind. When we were getting ready to head back to Tennessee, she waved bye-bye to the boat. It was cute.

My parents brought along there new puppy, Chloe.  Chloe is a border collie, who is 11 months old and still in the midst of her training.  This was Chloe’s first experience with a boat and water.

Along with the boat ride, Chloe had her first experience swimming.  My parents had brought along a new toy for her. The toy is designed to help dogs learn to fetch in the water.

This was a never ending game.  Chloe absolutely loved the water and always wanted to get in.

Emma also loved the water and wanted to get in as often as she could.  She would point at the lake and  say “bath”.  In her understanding, it was a giant bath tub and she loves to play in the bath.

We also got to spend some time with my grandparents, Emma’s great grandparents.  She was shy at first but started warming up to them by the end of the week.

This week left me with such a sense of wonder at how fast children grow and learn.  At the beginning of the week Emma was walking some on her own, by the end of the week Emma was walking all over the place.  I am in awe of this beautiful child that was given to Robin and me.

Click here to see more photographs from our vacation.

These are my shots from the walk.

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I enjoyed the chance to do some more artistic/abstract photos.  I focused finding light a creating the photographs.  And in some cases I just wanted to document that fact we were there with Emma.

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Here are a few photos from the first day of the workshop.  Enjoy and let me know what you think.

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