Jacilyn M - Wedding | Portrait | Fashion Photography

About Jacilyn

I believe that life is an adventure. An adventure I only get once, so I live it to the fullest. I live out my dreams. I enjoy travel. Consume WAY too much coffee. Laugh really loud. Really like winter. And, I photograph it as I go.

Archive: ‘Portrait’



New Directions!

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

I’m sooooo excited where my business is going.  And it’s definitely taking a new direction.  I am a dreamer.  The type of person that lays awake at night dreaming of all kinds of places I could be, things I could do, just only if…. The dreams you don’t ever imagine coming true.  Things you “can only dream of.”  That’s who I am.

Recently I told some of my dear friends one of my dreams.  Something I’d love to do (that involved my business) and how amazing it would be if only I could do it.  Their response to me was…. “Well, do it!”  I realized I often spend too much time dreaming and not enough time putting effort into these dreams and taking steps toward them to make them goals rather than dreams.  So I took a risk made some contacts and I’m excited to say that it’s happening.  You’ll have to wait to find out what exactly I’m up to, but I’m excited to make this turn in a new direction and live out a dream.

With that I have to make some changes.  Starting now I am only booking weddings and senior portrait sessions.  I am no longer accepting family or children sessions throughout the year.  AH!  ALTHOUGH!!!! I will be doing 2 family mini-sessions each year in the fall and winter for the holidays.  I know the holidays are a time when everyone needs a new family photo for those great Christmas cards so I’ll be offering the mini-sessions which may be more bang for your buck! :)

This years 2 mini-sessions will be held October 22nd and December 3rd.  I wanted to give everyone the option of snow or no snow images :)   The mini-session will last 30 minutes and includes 20 images available for you to download to your computer, smartphone, share with family and friends, share on Facebook, etc. And along with that you get a discount of 20% of prints if you are in need of that photo printed and in your hand, cards, or even framed on the wall!  The openings for each day are VERY limited.  December will have even less openings than October as we move a bit slower when it’s colder out!  So if you are interested in booking a mini-session I encourage you do so right away as there aren’t many available!  Even better, the session only costs $85!!!!!  Interested? Contact me!

Can you believe we’re already talking about the holidays?!  Can’t believe September snuck up on us!  Keep checking back as I will continue to share more about my new direction :)   If you’re like me and a dreamer, I challenge you to stop dreaming and make it a reality :)   Just try it!

Kelly | Missoula Montana Senior Portrait Photography

Monday, August 15th, 2011

On Friday I had my second senior session of the summer, with Kelly.  And she is  GORGEOUS! She’s a senior at Sentinel and just getting ready for Soccer tryouts.  I wish I could do sessions over and over and over with girls this lovely!  She was water skiing all day only hours before the session….  she cleans up GOOOOOD! ;)

Kelly, thank you, thank you, thank you!  You were so much fun!  Good luck with soccer and your senior year.  I know you’ll do great when you go off to college next year…. even if you are going to Bozeman ;)

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Emilie | Missoula Montana Senior Portrait Photography

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Oh ya, 2 posts in one day, you betcha!  So, Wednesday I went out for a mid-afternoon session with my AWESOME Senior Rep, Emilie.  She’s pretty much amazing.  Her photos are the first senior photos of the season and I’m jacked about them.  I’ll be doing another session with Emilie soon, can’t wait!  But for now, check out my girl from Sentinel High School.

Interested in becoming a Senior Rep check out more details here.

You have the opportunity for free sessions, free prints, and a chance at an iPad or Macbook!

 

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DVD’s… BYE BYE!!!!!

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

YES! I’m so excited to share this!  And ya you read that right.  See ya later DVD’s!  I am no longer offering DVD’s of your images.  I know some of my brides right now are like, wait what?! But you said!!  Don’t you worry! I have something MUCH better for ya :)

I’ve never really like the idea of DVD’s.  I feel like movies, cd’s, games, they all go missing ALL the time.  Or they get scratched and they’re ruined.  Every time I deliver a DVD to a client in my mind I think, “Man I hope they don’t lose it or scratch it”  I do keep wedding images for a while but not forever and I would hate the thought that some day down the road that disc would not work and they would only be able to access their tiny images they posted to facebook.  And Facebook just ruins photos and resizes them and they’d never be able to print them.  That might just sound crazy, I don’t know.  But I have a fun new solution!

The rad crew at Showit (the awesome folks who host my website and make my life somewhat easier) have build this awesome software that I can upload your images to and “pass” them to you to view, download, pick your favorites, post to facebook, etc. And even better your images are hosted with the cloud technology for a year for you to view. You can access your images on ANY device that you can get the internet. So you’re chillin in the airport talking with some great people on your way home from your honeymoon about how awesome your wedding was and all ya gotta do is pull out your phone, or ipod, or ipad and without having to save them to that device you can pull them up and share.  Now you can download them and save them to any device that you have so no worries there. And when you share the images on Facebook your friends and fam can see them at full-resolution rather than Facebooks terrible way of resizing them and ruining the quality of the image.  IT’S SO AWESOME!

Okay you may not have even caught all of that as I rambled off in excitement.  I promise you it’s killer and it’s so easy! A few weeks ago I did Christina & Shawn’s engagement photos and used them as my “guinea pigs” for PASS.  Well they loved and said it was so easy to access their images and download and that couldn’t make me any happier!  So for them I put together real quick this +site to share with their friends and fam to see all of their images :) Check it out!!! You can view the images full screen, pick your favs, share them to facebook, download them. Who needs DVD’s?

CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT A PASS SITE :)

And no blog post is complete without a photo so I’ll give you a little sneak-a-peek at the next post….. CALIFOOOORRRNNNIIIAAAAAAAAAAAA

TGIF!! And upcoming special!

Friday, June 17th, 2011

It’s Friday, awesome people!!! I’m so excited. I wish this weather was more awesome and that it would start to look like summer. I’m beginning to get really tired of this gloominess! I have an engagement session tomorrow and I am STOKED! Can’t wait. Sooo……

Next Thursday is my 25th birthday! I have been afraid of 25 for years! I don’t know. Just have. Before I started this photography business I was just a stay at home mom. 25 was scary. I was married, had a child, didn’t finish my degree I kind of felt like I was turning 25 (supposed to be an adult at this age or something) and hadn’t accomplished anything. This year I am so excited for my birthday!!! Last year I started my own business and I’ve realized that yup at 25 I’m still allowed to be a child at heart so bring it on! And because it’s my birthday next week, I’m gonna run a special for you!

Starting on my birthday, Thursday, June 23rd, and ending on Sunday, June 26th all of my prices are 25% off! Ya, even wedding packages. So book whatever kind of session or event you want during those 4 days (book, not take place) and you get 25% off.

Portrait sessions will start at $135!
Senior sessions will start at $150!
Wedding Collections will start at $1312.50!

I may have lost my mind. Not sure. Don’t care. It’s MY birthday and I can do what I want. Right?!

Next week I’ll be back on track with blogging :) Including our California trip :)

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

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Julie + Dave – Hamilton Engagement

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Wow, I must have checked out on vacation a week early! It was never my intention to step away from the blog this entire time, it just happened. So now, it’s time to catch up!! May was a busy month with holidays, family graduations, vacation, I managed to find a little time one Saturday to drive down to Hamilton and meet up with Julie & Dave. They are my first wedding this summer and I can’t wait for the next few weeks to fly by so I can photograph their wedding. I met them at their venue to check it out and spend a few minutes taking some engagement photos of them. The venue is the incredible home hidden on the side of a mountain. I’m so excited about it!!! The property is huge so of the 26 minutes we wandered around a part of it we probably only really spent 10 minutes taking photos. Can’t wait to go back up there with them! Til then. Enjoy a few of the photos from that afternoon :)

And I just LOVE her custom ring. LOVE IT! So unique.

 

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Spring Special!

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Oh yes, Spring is definitely here. So let’s have some fun with it :) Book your session by May 8th and receive the Spring Special :) Session DOES NOT have to take place by May 8th, just booked to receive this great deal! :)

Spring is here!!!

Monday, April 18th, 2011

A week or so ago it was so nice out, I insisted my good friend, Molly and I go out for a little fun shoot. 1. It was nice out and 2. we discussed a few weeks ago that we needed to do this this month. Last March we took a trip to Vancouver with some friends. Our friends got engaged on that trip! The entire trip I was trying to take better pictures of Vancouver and it just wasn’t working out. So when I came home I decided I needed to work on my photography. And by work I meant take okay photos and edit them cause that fixes everything, right? WRONG! Our friends liked the photos I was taking and asked if I’d do an engagement session for them. I said YA! Love to! I was out of my mind!

I realized quickly that I had never posed people before I’d only chased my daughter around taking photos. So I asked Molly to come out with me and use her for practice. I new to get better and learn my camera I needed to change it to manual. I thought that meant change the focus to manual. My camera was still on Auto. I had A LOT to learn! This was what I considered at the time as my first session! I no longer do as I realize I knew nothing. So since it’s been a year from that time we thought it would be fun to go out to the same place and do photos again, a year later. I’ll be blogging in the next couple days showing both sessions to hopefully inspire new photographers that you can learn SO much in a year if you really work on it! But for now. Here are the photos we took the other day.

Had to share this one, just for some fun :)

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2012 Senior Rep Program Extended!!!

Monday, March 28th, 2011

This month was crazy! Well it’s still not over.  But wow! I love it! I’ve decided to extend the Senior Rep Program process.  Applications are due in by April 10th.  It’ll be SO much fun, I swear!  And here are all the deets :)

Spring is just around the corner which means so are Senior Portraits!  I’m looking for some AWESOME Senior Reps for this upcoming year.  I’m looking to have at least one rep for each of the schools listed.  But, there are some requirements and details to be aware of :)

Details -

  • 1.5 hour photo session – done before May 31st for referral cards, your site and more!
  • You will receive rep cards with your photos on them to hand out to your friends! But the card is not necessary to receive credit for that referral.  You’re referral simply needs to just say you referred them!
  • You will receive your own website showcasing you, your new photos and what you’re looking forward to your senior year and life after high school!
  • You will also receive 10 watermarked images to use on your Facebook, must not crop out the watermark.
  • You will be featured on our website, blog, & Facebook
  • You will earn a $10 print credit for every paid referral session (regular price sessions).  You’ll be able to use these credits, towards prints, canvases, albums, wall riders, etc!
  • You then get a 2nd 1.5 hour photo session! If you haven’t had one referral by August 31st.  You will not receive the second photo session.

The “FUN STUFF”!!

  • For every referred paid senior session you will receive $10 in your print credit account and the referred senior will receive 16 free wallets!
  • On November 23rd if you have referred 15-27 paid sessions you will receive a new iPad2!!!
  • On November 23rd if you have referred 28-34 paid sessions you will receive a new MacBook!!!
  • On November 23rd if you have referred 35+ paid sessions, well then I LOVE you, and you get a new MacBook Pro!!!

The Requirements

  • Must be a high school student Class of 2012
  • You agree to only represent Jacilyn M Photography
  • Be active in your school and the community
  • Be AMAZING!
  • And have a parent/legal guardian sign a model release for us to use your images for advertising purposes :)

Still interested???  Well click here and go apply!!!

Applications are due by April 3rd!  I will notify the new Reps on April 5th!

Questions, concerns, what-have-you then feel free to email me :)

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Frick Family – Missoula MT Family Photography

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

I LOVE this family.  I love them.  Need I say more?!  They are too much fun.  I love a session where I laugh the entire time! I just enjoy it.  Their daughter just turned 2 and I adore her.  She makes some of the best faces EVER!  And let me tell ya she was all about running around and having a good time.  I think I could get into shape if I photographed her 3 times a week.  Plus she laughs at everything. Laughing together is really the best!

I think the pictures will show you just how much fun they are!  Kelly & John, we had SO much fun with you guys.  Thanks for being one of the best fams ever!

This is the scrunch smile.  She gave it to me often and it made me laugh EVERY TIME!

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