Today it s n o w e d

Ok, so I am finally finished slaving over 1000's images that were taken last Monday. SHWEW! Such beautiful stuff! Will share soon.

I'm not sure f it snowed everywhere else but it snowed here today and Boopity was so excited! He remembered his daddy promising they'll build another snowman when it snows again. As soon as he woke up and noticed the snow he immediately reminded his dad that they are supposed to build a snowman. The snow ended up not being wet enough yet so Boopity & Kosmo to the 3rd Power just played in the snow while Little Bittle & I watched from inside.

*didn't realize he outgrew his snow boots. Plastic bags & tennis shoes worked today!

*watching from the doorway

*& he wanted to stay out there longer!

I forgot to mention that the heat decided it didn't want to work today. Yup, on the one day that it snows and is FREEZING it decides to act up :-( Good thing we have little *child safe* heaters while we wait for the electrician tomorrow... It's always something. Back to work I go preparing for 2 upcoming shoots.

CONGRATULATIONS President Obama

I <3 Her!

I love my baby girl, she's so mischievous and sweet. I just love her curls... I took these the other day while she was running around messing up Boopity's room. Good thing he didn't know, or there would have been trouble...

Have some GREAT shoots in the works :)

2009 is starting off great! I'll update you as the shoots are complete.

Also, I'm always looking for cute stuff to shoot with and came across these neat feather flowers on the DIY network website. Can't wait to make these for a shoot.

Here's how to make them!

:issue: good hair

As I am doing some zipping of files for a client I came across this picture I took of my niece a year ago. Her hair is so gorgeous to me. I love fluffy, curly, wild hair! She hates to wear it like this and I don't know why. When she's older she will appreciate her hair...

Mommy... Who is God?

OH BOY! My son is something else! We're driving home from my mothers house and we start playing a game counting how many cousins he has, how many parents, how many aunts, how many grandparents... So while we're counting his grandparents he counts "Pop Pop" who is my husbands grandfather (who is no longer with us). The wild thing is that my son ALWAYS talks about him and he passed when he was just 1. Anyhoo, he says "well, pop pop is in heaven" and I say "yup" he says "Mommy, who takes care of people in heaven" I say " God takes care of people in heaven sweetie" he says "well, who is God anyway mommy?" SHEESH, he's 4! Wasn't expecting this! I say "well, God created everything around us, me, you, everything." he says "oh"... a long pause and then says "so, God is going to take care of me when I get to heaven?" I say "Yes sweetie" he BURSTS out crying and says "I want youuuuuuuuuuu to take care of me mommy!" Now I'm feeling stuck! So I say "Boopity, mommy is going to heaven before you anyway sweetie so I'll be waiting for you when you turn 100 years old" he says "noooooo mommy! I want you to stay here with meeeeeeee" YIYIYI!!!! Anything I said got this type of reaction... I then try to fix it and say " Baby, you're going to be 100 by the time you get to heaven, you'll have had a family, your own house..." he interrupts BALLING again "I don't want my own house, I want to live with youuuuuu!" At this point, I'm speechless... I just tell him that I'm going to always take care of him forever and ever.

I certainly wasn't expecting this! I try to explain things to my children (even though she's 1) the best way that I can without corrupting their little minds or treating them as if they aren't intelligent. There's such a fine line because I felt like I didn't want to take the conversation any deeper than I did. But I also didn't want to tell him fairies are going to swoop down, etc... I don't know, this boy amazes me every second... he later asked me why his cousins had different fathers and him & Little Bittle have the same father...

Sasha & Malia are tooooo cute!

They are so adorable! Figuring out in my mind how I'm going to photograph them this year + the puppy! {personally} no paparazzi shots! Think it'll happen? I'm already working on ideas now!

10 Reasons to Call JaTawny ...

Since I was about 11 I can remember tearing pictures out of magazines and saving the photos in folders. I mean, I would literally be at someone else's home and see a picture I liked in a magazine and tear it out! Dr's offices, Beauty salons, you name it! If you ever walked in one of these establishments in Germany, DC, MD, VA or NYC and saw a page missing, it is likely that "JATAWNY WAS HERE". I can remember GLUING all my B&W tear sheets onto my walls to cover them completely and purchasing a black light so they'd look cool in the dark :)

Anyhoo, a lot of photographers do this now when they are inspired by an image. I probably have 1000's of tear sheets. Recently while I was creating my goals board for 2009, I decided to make a piece of motivational art to hang on my office wall in front of my computer. I decided to come up with 10 reasons a client/company should call/hire me to shoot for them. I thought it would be cool to cut words from magazines instead of printing them or writing them. I purchased a small canvas and went to work.

As you can see, I clearly came up with about 100+ reasons you should call. I am thinking of using this as the front of one of my promos...

My recent work with adults

So, we recently formed a dream team. Myself, Cima Talent Management, Jill Turnball (stylist/hair) & Mia Collins (stylist) & plan on making a lot of serious moves in 2009. Our first shoot was with 2 fashion models from Cima Talent. My book is mainly kids (WHICH I LOVE & wouldn't change for the world) but we thought it would be great to add some fashion/adults into the mix! Below are some samples:

These girls were SO GREAT. Oh don't worry, I'll still mainly be focusing on photographing kids!

Also, JaTawny Vision now has a studio manager :) Her name is Mrs. Earlene. I feel that 2009 is going to be SPECTACULAR!

He thinks I'm his personal paparazzi ...

Every morning during breakfast, my son makes some sort of concoction with his toys and food. He then yells "MOMMY TAKE A PICTURE" lol as if {he knows} I'm his personal paparazzi!

She simply sits back and watches with crumbs on her face :)

Death of our Christmas tree!

As I was re-organizing my computer, I came across this image of our Christmas tree:





This disaster happened about 3 days before Christmas. We were all upstairs (thank goodness!) and all of a sudden hear a big CRASH! I jumped up and said "what was that!" My husband says "it was the ice maker making ice." I thought to myself "sheeeesh, that was loud, but ok...." The next morning I go downstairs and see the tree on the floor with the bulbs crushed! :-( It was so beautifully decorated. (I'll post those pics when I come across them). Next year, we're going to need a new tree!

FrEaKiN FaBuLoUs!

OMG, ok, so I just got married to the love of my life in Vegas this New Year. We got married at the Little White Wedding Chapel. It was such a cute Vegas experience. I practically giggled through the whole ceremony. 14 (known him for 14, together for 10) yrs later and I'm still in love :-D


So anyway, I just refused to have anything but the best photography to document this experience. We didn't have a big ceremony, but I wanted WHOEVER we hired to capture our VEGAS experience "Vegas style". Colorful, Grimy, PACKED like sardines, SINful, etc. I searched high and low and came across some images of a couple at the Vegas neon sign museum (boneyard) and fell in love. I immediately contacted the photographer and we set up our shoot! Now, the Little White Wedding Chapel doesn't allow you to photograph inside the chapel because they want you to pay for one of their photography packages (which I could not bring myself to do!) So, we purchased a dvd from them & did our photographs before and after the wedding.


Since the wedding, I have been sort of stalking Jenna's (the photographer) blog.... and today I saw these:

(j-lo has nothing on me! lol)

I wanted so bad to wait until we sent out our reception invitations to release any of these pictures, but how could I resist?! shhhh.. don't tell HIM I posted them, I know he wanted to wait too, but maybe he won't read/see this post :)

Now, I can't WAIT to see the rest :)

Thanks Jenna!

in 2008 ...

2008 had it's ups and certainly had it's downs...

In 2008

• I started planning my wedding
• I lost a friend in a tragic accident
• my sister had a precious baby boy
• I lost my grandfather
• I turned 29
• Britney Spears continued to breakdown
• Britney Spears picked herself back up
• I received an honorable mention in the International Photography Awards
• We lost Bernie Mac
• My son turned 4
• My daughter turned 1
• my Husband turned 31
• We elected OBAMA for president
• JaTawny Vision teamed up with a very talented Stylist, Make Up Artist & Agency
• They discontinued Polaroids :-/

2009 is a new year + = new opportunities and connections. I will work hard through this economic crisis to get to where I want to be and hope you do as well! CHEERS :)

wesite re-design

Website is being re-designed. Be back shortly!

I'm back!

Back from Vegas, came home with a husband!

Now all the following up begins! We have a new studio manager {Ms. Earlene}. So we're going to be getting in touch with the clients/people we sent holiday greetings to this year. I'll be posting again soon.