Japan, at last...

Ahhh... finally, I have had a chance to look through the images I make for myself. I am very excited about getting my Japan pics here on the ole' blog, and I believe that I am going to introduce them in parts. SO, for the first part, I shall do what is only appropriate: Japan, daily. Living in Japan for a few weeks is a little bit different than the traveling I have done where I have constantly been in motion. In Japan, I moved in with Faith, and lived like she, and the other residents of Ogaki lived. To gather groceries, we took a bicycle and a basket. To go to the city, we biked to the train station and took the trains. Where I live now, in the more sub (urban) part of Atlanta, I drive always, everywhere, constantly. Life was quiet, like I imagined it would be, but in a different way. But, I did not go to see the metro-politan Japan. I went to see what it was like living there in a small town. :) So, here are some day to day impressions of Japan.

I have returned to the blog...

Welcome home, me! I have returned safely from Japan and I will soon, soon be posting a few portfolios of images from my trip. In the meantime... I have some portrait images from a corporate sitting I'm working on currently.

:) (Now, I know what you are thinking... corporate portraits rather than pictures from Japan?!?!?) But hear me out...

I have decided something. I really like to shoot corporate portraits. There is something about how drastically different I am from these people that gives me a challenge that is really fun for me. Its a really good way for me to hone my people skills and teach myself how to interact with people in any environment that will bring forward some truer sort of self... and figuring out how to illustrate something more honest in a photograph tends to be a common goal I set for myself in my portrait work. So, hence, these portraits of John, which I find both intriguing and a success to their goal. And for people like me, who have problems with enjoying the process of completing tasks, this is very fun. :)


And now on to my two promises:

1. I promise to pay more attention to my blog now that I am home. In reality, the blog news is that it is about to change completely... like normal, it is wintertime, and I am completely bored with my website once again. The new plan is to create a complete dual site that fully incooperates the blog project with the client presentations... keep your eyes peeled, there are big changes in my web future. :)

2. I promise to post Japan pictures soon, soon, soon...

Ahh, family....

Well, a week ago, I traveled with the ole' Mom to Wisconsin for the yearly Family Reunion... and while I was there, I took lots of really adorable portraits of my lovely little cousins.... We went rafting (yes, I got on the tube) and I sat atop the back of the boat with my favorite lens. Here are my favorite rafting pics. :) Click here to see the whole sitting...

Israel Part II...

I had the holiday as an excuse to do some work for myself and I got some more images from Isreal together to post here. These images are talking a little bit about the experience of newness, combined with a bizzare reconnect with heritage and so forth. They feel a bit more relevant to me than the previous post, which is perhaps why I sat on them for a while longer.

bragging rights....

Ok... this is too cool not to post. A week ago, I shot a promo event for a new Anheuser-Busch beverage called Peels... and while I thought they turned out fantastic and so forth, this is the response email they sent me ... pasted exactly from my email.

" These are fantastic! In fact, our boss just said you were the best photographer we've worked with. Looking forward to seeing the CD and working together in the future. -- Laura"

Mind you, this email was sent from the corporate offices at Anheuser-Busch. YEA!!! I rock.

So... here are three of my favorites... if you click on one of them, you will be taken to the gallery I made for them with the whole presentation. How fun!

Gone for the weekend...

OK ... as I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get my computer to auto send an email response to all reciepients, I am just going to blog whenever I am going to be especially hard to get in touch with, so that you all know. (By the way, if anyone knows how to get the horde mail program to auto reply, please let me know!) Anyway, I will be gone until Monday, like most weekends, so if you are trying to get in touch with me, here are two reasons I may not respond until Monday: #1: My DSL has not been working well since we changed internet providers... so I can't currenly use my normal email program. #2: I will be out of phone service range for most of the weekend.

SO... the moral of the story is that I will return shortly... :)

ALSO... I changed the ol' website again... let me know what you think of my newest design!

www.jessicahorwitz.com

Later...

Israel Part I...

So as many of you know, I recently was fortunate enough to visit Israel... I am posting these first images maybe as an introduction... I clearly took lots of photographs, but because of the hospital thing, I was cut a little bit short. I have some more batches coming up soon... I am excited about some images I collected at a war memorial near the Syrian border... and I am uploading all of the pictures of people I know to my online lab place so that people can get copies... I will update with that info soon... in the meantime... here are some more scenic photographs...












Ok... I'm tired and its late... I am working on editing the rest, so they will be done soon...

Here's a concept...

How about posting fun images of me and my friends rather than work-related pictures... hehe... I have lots of pictures of Israel that I am slowly doing something with, but here are the fun pictures of me and some of my new friends...

ARGH!!

Well, Israel was beautiful... and I was able to enjoy it for the first half of my trip. THEN... I fell ill and I spent the second half of my trip in the hospital ... so.

I am frantically playing catch up over here, but please be patient with me: I am low on energy and I am having to go to the doctor every day since I have been back. I am in the progress of posting my new pricelist for 2007 and will have that up shortly.

I am slowly getting to my emails and voicemails while I was gone, but I am having to prioritize, so again, your patience is appreciated. :)

I am fine and I probably just had a violent allegic reaction to something, so please don't worry. BUT in any event, for the time being, that is my update. I will post more soon, once I have attended to your emails and so forth...

I love you all and you will be able to get in touch with me very soon! (Monday or Tuesday is better than this weekend.) Thanks!!

slowly making progress...

So, I have officially decided to defer graduate school regardless of what happens... it is taking too long to hear final responses. Time that I need to be scheduling with clients and sittings! As many of you know, I was invited to interview at all three prestegious schools that I applied for, which is an incredible feat in itself... but then I was waitlisted at all three. So far, SAIC has invited me back for the program (ie: accepted me) , but I do not know my final response from Yale or MassArt... SOO weddings and portraits will continue throughout next fall at the very least. Which is good news if you are someone who reads my blog... it means I am available to photograph you!

I have been working a lot lately on getting more portrait sittings: in the past, my emphasis has been on weddings, but I have been doing portrait sittings that correspond with them and they are turning out so well! I love working with people in a more intimate setting, and I have been fortunate enough to have lots of clients who are interested in my more casual, candid style of portraiture. In fact... here is a link to one of my new client slideshows for a portrait sitting: it features Zach's favorite song... and I am so thrilled with them! Check in them out: http://www.jessicahorwitz.com/portraitGallery/Zack/ZachSitting.html



And then, lastly, I have completly redone my website ... once again... a little bit indecisive perhaps? :) But it is all new ... very exciting for me... email me and let me know what you think! www.jessicahorwitz.com

a couple more engagement photogs...

Then, I promise to move on. But I am really excited about these portraits of Claire and Justin that we took off Peachtree in the city.