Freyday Free-for all - Bakersfield Photographer

Hello, Frey-day! It's been an incredible week for me, and I'd love to use today's post to share all the amazing things that happened!

1) Sunday, June 13th (6 year anniversary): "Be it known that Jessica Frey has experienced the Adrenaline Rush of a Lifetime, by willfully leaving a perfectly good airplane at 13,000 feet, and flying earthward in excess of 120mph, and piloting a high tech ram air parachute to a SAFE touchdown. Thus entitiling them to be included among the elite few who can call themselves SKYKIVERS!!!!!" Yes. I did all of that. With tears and screams and possibly a few choice words :)

2) My brother took the plunge Sunday as well and is now engaged to the wonderful Megan!! I am absolutely thrilled, love them, and cannot wait for their wedding next summer!!

3) My photos from Gabrielle & Jeff's wedding were chosen as a front page feature on The Wedding Chicks Blog--the same wedding inspiration blog that featured my Alice in Wonderland photo shoot! So excited about the exposure. You can view it here: WeddingChicks.com and I ask that if you have a second, please leave a comment! It helps with my rankings ;)

4) National Geographic Traveler/PDN announced that my Mt. Rushmore photo that you guys voted #5 back in May in the popular vote has now been chosen as a FINALIST by the judges to be published in the August edition of PDN where winners and the grand prize photo will be announced! YIKES!!! Thank you to everyone who voted!

5) I viewed a sneek peek at my newest Bakersfield Life cover!! I am beyond humbled and excited to now have 8 covers for them and enjoy working for such a great local magazine. This month I HAD to go to 8 bars and photograph summer drinks :) Not a bad assignment! Look for it out on June 26th in the Californian or online at www.BakersfieldLife.com6) If you've made it this far, congrats! Now for some special news as a reward....This is the end of this blog! Yup, I am in the process of creating a new blog site that is more streamlined, has bigger photos, and just lookes awesome-er. The goal is that on Monday, I'll have the new post...so check back here for the link, or follow me on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/JFreyPhotography

Freyday - My Anniversary!

I love Freyday's! Especially in June since it's time to gear up for another beautiful Saturday wedding. I'm especially looking forward to tomorrow's wedding at the Noriega & Marriott hotel, and the awesome vendors I'm getting the pleasure to work with!

On another note, since this is my 'personal' day to post I also get to celebrate my 6th Anniversary being Mrs. Eric Frey this weekend and am so excited! It feels like yesterday we got married in Texas and I love that I got to scan in (yes, scan...back in 2004 photographers were not using digital, can you believe it!) some of my favorites. My photographer shot all in 5x5 film, which I actually have never seen again. Here are a few I wanted to share and say Thank you again to my family, Eric's family, our wedding party, and all of our friends and family who were there to witness our special day!

June 13, 2004 Wimberley, Texas
Old Glory RanchEric's only decision on the wedding was that he wanted miniature donkeys...who carried water bottles in baskets to our guests during cocktail hour :) Only in Texas!

Oh yeah...you better belive I had some "glass" slippers to ride in my carriage with my prince charming! Love this shot of our wedding party :)

Frey-day Fun! Bakersfield Photographer

So, I just took that photo of the coffee I made (yes...I made the pretty heart with my spoon....so creative! haha) and I'm thinking to myself, "self. May just flew by." Was it that way for anyone else or just me?! I am 99% caught up with all of my May photo shoots and can't believe how many amazing clients I've been fortunate to work with. For those interested here's the breakdown of the past 31 days:

5 Family Sessions

4 Engagement sessions

3 High School senior sessions

1 Bakersfield Life photo shoot

1 Surgeons staff photo shoot

1 Wedding

1 birthday trip to Austin

1 birthday trip to Disneyland

June...I am so excited about you! 5 weddings, 2 babies, 3 families, commercial shoot, and my wedding anniversary! Oh..and big changes come to the website and this blog! Bring on the energy drinks and caffeine :)

Have a wonderful weekend and get ready for some really sweet blog posts next week...including a Bass Lake engagement session!

-Jessica

http://www.jessicafreyphotography.com/

Freyday full of Disneyland!

Happy Freyday! Today's post is all about my trip to a land where wearing sparkly tiaras is acceptable and encouraged :) Ever since I was a little girl, I've been passionate about the magic that is Disney and as long as I can remember, I've been drawn to the pure joy and excitement that you feel when you walk through the gates into the park. It doesn't matter that I've been there 100 times or even worked at Disney World...I still become full of happiness and instantly become full of wonderment as I walk into my happy place. For the past 6 years, I've tried to go in May to celebrate my birthday to the fullest and was excited we were able to make that happen again this year :)

My wonderful husband met me while I was working at WDW, so he knew what he was getting into...and no, Eric, it wasn't a phase ;) He's still my Prince Charming and puts up with a 28 year old wanting (needing?) to walk around with the biggest, sparkliest, coolest tiara ever. Here are a few photos from our trip along with some 'artistic' balloon photos I managed at the end of the day.

***For any of my clients or friends...I am now the PROUD owner of a Southern CA Annual Pass, so let me know if you ever want to head to Anaheim on a weekday!I used to work in ToonTown (at WDW) with all of the characters and it still holds a special place in my heart :)

Up next week: One of the sweetest families I've ever photographed who love to read books and a very cool HS senior shoot with lots of color and more bangles than I've ever seen!

Have a great weekend!

Jessica

http://www.jessicafreyphotography.com/

10 Years Have Flown By! Austin Wedding Photographer

Ya'll, it's Freyday!! In honor of being 'home' in Austin, Texas and my 10 year High School reunion around the corner (sigh...really? 10 years already?!) I wanted to share with you MY senior portraits as a proud member of the Class of 2000! Feel free to laugh...even my own mother didn't recognize me when these prints came back to us. I'd never had my hair done that way and never wore that much makeup...so I guess here are my 'glamour' shots:This is the reason that when I photograph HS Seniors, we make sure to get their true personality in a relaxed and fun atmosphere :) So that when you look back in 2020 (yikes!) you're not laughing too much at what you used to look like!
Have a great weekend...I can't wait to share photos from tomorrow's Austin wedding at the Driskilll Hotel!

WPPI - Post Trip recap! - Bakersfield Photographer

Viva Las Vegas!!

Wow. If I had only one word to describe my trip to Las Vegas for the 30th annual WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) Convention it would be humbled. Being surrounded by 10,000 other photographers who share the same love and passion as you do for 5 days was inspiring, overwhelming, wonderful, and down-right the best motivation to start off the 2010 wedding season with a bang! The night photos are taken from our 1am photo walk of MGM, New York New York, Excalibur, and Aria hotels.

I had the opportunity to travel with my fabulous friend, Jennifer Williams who also happens to be super talented and loves Irish music as much as I do :) We had so much fun together and managed to squeeze in 2 photo shoots...one of each other and the second with my good friend Shauna and her husband who we met at Aria. Here are a few of my favorites from both sessions: Shauna and her husband inside the Aria hotel:
Many more photos to come...and if you're a local Bakersfield photographer come check out our Shutter Clique post-WPPI recap on Tuesday March 23rd 6pm at the Conference Room at the YMCA. Details can be found here: www.theshutterclique.com