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Mr & Mrs Taylor | Wedding

Amberly and Daryel Taylor tied the knot last Saturday at a gorgeous location in Livingston, Alabama called Mimosa Ridge. I was asked to photograph their wedding last March, and even though I’ve been with them for their engagement pictures and her bridals — all those months flew right on by.

The couple along with their family and friends stayed in the cabins and made it a weekend event. No detail was left untouched for this big day. You know those who make boards on pinterest and pin away? Well, they not only pinned, but they also included a lot of those ideas into their wedding. It’s the wedding most people dream about, but they made it their reality.

Everything was perfect from the flowers to the hair, and I was honored to capture all the events of the day for memories that will last a lifetime.

Enjoy a few of my favorites from their wedding day.

October 28, 2016 by joyleighphotography Categories: Bride, Groom, Married, Wedding, Wedding Day Leave a comment

Amberly | Here Comes The Bride

A few weeks ago, Amberly and her mom traveled over to Birmingham so we could get her bridal portraits taken before her big day. Her sister lives here, too, and she was able to glam her from head to toe.

Her wedding day was yesterday, so I’m sharing my favorites from her session.

We took these at the Botanical Garden here in Birmingham, and it was the perfect backdrop for these photos.

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October 23, 2016September 7, 2016 by joyleighphotography Categories: Bridal Portraits, Engaged, Here Comes the Bride, Wedding 1 Comment

The Winsteads | Family

We made a quick trip to Mississippi this past weekend to celebrate birthdays with my husband’s side of the family. And while we were there, I had a family session with Summer, Chris and their sweet little six month old son, Kasen. I’ve known Summer for many years since we grew up in the same community, but it had been awhile since I had seen her and it was a nice to meet her husband and baby boy.

We meet up at Clarkco State Park and walked all over the front side of the lake taking pictures. Baby Kasen smiled all the time! He is precious, and has the most beautiful blue eyes that sparkle!

Here are a few of my favorites from their session. Enjoy!

October 19, 2016October 19, 2016 by joyleighphotography Categories: Babies, Children, Family, Family Session, Kids, Mini Sessions Leave a comment

Mr & Mrs Turner | Anniversary

Wanda and Will recently celebrated an anniversary and wanted to have some new pictures taken to celebrate. We headed over to Ross Bridge Monday evening and had the beautiful walking trail all to ourselves. Little Chloe even got in on some of their pictures.

Happy belated Anniversary Wanda and Will! I had fun capturing your love for each other with this sweet session!

Enjoy a few of my favorites!

October 12, 2016 by joyleighphotography Categories: Anniversary, Family, Family Session, Mini Sessions 1 Comment

Kim, Jeff & Kids | Family

Kim, Jeff and their kids rocked their family session. All of the kids had so much fun smiling and goofing off for their pictures. When everyone is having fun, it shows in the pictures and it makes my job so much easier.

Thank you for allowing me to capture the fun with your family. I had a blast with y’all!

Here are a few of my favorites from the session.

October 10, 2016 by joyleighphotography Categories: Children, Family, Family Session, Kids Leave a comment

The Wards | Family

In two short months, this family of three will welcome twins girls. Big brother is pretty excited about them, and I know mom and dad are patiently waiting for their arrival.

Earlier today I captured the last set of professional pictures for this family of three. We had some fun and made sure big brother, Sam, was the center of attention.

Here are a few of my favorites from their session.

October 8, 2016October 9, 2016 by joyleighphotography Categories: Children, Family, Family Session, Kids, Pregnancy Leave a comment

Home Grown Bloggers | Event

The last weekend of September, y’all, was a busy one. Earlier that week a sister photographer messaged me that something had come up and would keep her from shooting an event. I had a family session that morning, but told her I could fill in afterwards.

I arrived at the Home Grown Bloggers event at Morgan Creek Vineyards mid morning to find a room full of beautiful, eager to learn bloggers engaged with each other during one of their sessions.

Heather and Kirsten are the brains behind Home Grown Bloggers. I had met Heather at another blogging event, but this was my first time to meet Kirsten. Y’all, these ladies are the definition of passionate when it comes to blogging and teaching. They are successful bloggers who are wanting other bloggers to succeed, and that’s exactly what this event was all about.

The open forum sessions had everyone engaging in the topics. The ladies were soaking up every bit of knowledge from the speakers.

Before lunch, the ladies all got together to have some confetti fun! The sweet folks at The Confetti Bar sent everyone packs of confetti and it made for a fun picture!

Lunch was provided by Eugene’s Hot Chicken. Heads up Birmingham, it’s here, and it’s SO GOOD!

So many sponsors helped make the #HGBham event happen. Everyone left with some amazing SWAG!

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At the end of the day, I spent some time with Heather and Kirsten to take some promotional pictures of them around the Vineyard. If you are interesting in learning more about their expertise in blogging, contact them here or here. Their sessions will be available to purchase online, soon!

Ladies, thanks again or having me out to capture your day and event. It was a fun and inspirational day learning about professional blogging.

September 26, 2016September 26, 2016 by joyleighphotography Categories: Business, Event 2 Comments

The Chaffins | Family

We’ve had the pleasure of knowing the Chaffin family for a few months now, and they are just the sweetest! Amber is like my long lost sister. We’re basically twins from what we like to eat, things we like to do, oh, and did I mention our kids are both fifteen months apart?

Little Judah is about to be dedicated in church in a few weeks, and they needed some up-to-date pictures of him, and of their family. So we scheduled a time for late September (thinking it would be cooler) to have them taken. Y’all we we started at 8:45 a.m. and we didn’t even take the first picture before we were sweating to death. I’m so over this heat, and so ready for actual Fall temps.

Even though everyone, including the boys, were over the heat and sweat — their session turned out great! These are a few of my favorites from their session.

Thank you for letting me capture your sweet family!

September 25, 2016 by joyleighphotography Categories: Babies, Children, Family, Family Session, Kids, Mini Sessions Leave a comment

Treat Yourself | Before & After

Being a mother and a photographer, I can tell you exactly what goes through a mom’s brain as soon as she’s booked their family session. Outfits, weather, nap time schedules, the entire family’s cooperation — those are just a few of the things she’s going to stress about before the photo shoot happens. And being a mother, she will put herself last (kid(s) and husband always comes first) and really start to stress when she’s realized she has nothing to wear, her hair is not cooperating and her makeup is the same makeup she’s been wearing for years. (Been there, done that!)

Wouldn’t it be great to show up to your family session with all the confidence in the world? Wouldn’t it be great to know that you are put together and will be looking like a rock star the entire session? During my last session, Krystle took some time right before the session to have her makeup airbrushed by professional, Katie, and had a blow out, too! A blow out in the context of her hair being blown dry and styled. And y’all, she ROCKED their family session. It was HOT, it was dinner time, and there were bugs — but, she looked like she walked off a page from a magazine the entire session. That’s exactly how I want to feel when we take our family photos this year, and I plan on it.

To see exactly what the process looks like, I spent some time with her at SpaOne80 to get an up close and personal look at what goes in to the airbrush experience.

The girls came in with clean faces to start the process. And then Katie began to work her magic. First the eyes, then the airbrushing, and then the final touches!

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Wow! I’m a believer, and I’ve already told Katie she needs to put me on her book so I can feel put together during our family session and not worry if my makeup is sweating off!

Katie is offering a $100 special for an airbrush makeup makeover and a blow out! Go spend a little time and treat yourself.

Take it from this photographer; a mom who comes to their session knowing their hair is as it should be and their makeup is on point, the entire family is relaxed and a good time is had by all!

If you want to get in touch with Katie you can message her here or here. Or call SpaOne80 at 205-663-5566!

September 23, 2016September 23, 2016 by joyleighphotography Categories: Before & After, Family Session, Moms Leave a comment

The Herrons | Family

It’s Fall!! Hallelujah! Now if the temps would follow suit, I’ll be a little happier. To kick off my favorite season I took my first Fall mini session of twenty sixteen.

The Herron family consists of two sweet parents, and two adorable little boys which the camera loved. I couldn’t have asked for more cooperative subjects to photograph!

I loved that Krystle took time out to get her hair and makeup professionally done before the session yesterday evening. Katie at SpaOne80 did a fabulous job adding to her beauty and giving her all the confidence that she needed to rock their session.

Here are a few of my favorites from their session. You are sure to fall in love, just like me.