Joel Cookston Photography » capturing amazing images

Ok – so I’ve finally been able to take a small breather this year. My schedule worked out this year that I could take the entire month July off (with the exception of a few dear clients) and spend time with my family and my beautiful wife. I’ve been soooo, soooo, soooo krazy busy this year it’s been amazing! I feel blessed to meet so many beautiful, funny and sweet couples. Honestly I have the best job in the world! Of course it takes a lot of time to shoot and process so many Weddings, Families, Newborns and Seniors that every once in a while I have to stop and enjoy doing nothing – which is krazy hard for me to do!

Well July was an insanely great time to be with my family on vacation and just hanging out by the pool. Here are just a few images from our time together! The first set of images are from our family vacation in Michigan City and the second set of images are from our trip to Jamaica. Jese and I took the Jamaica trip alone ~ which, oh my, was so relaxing. If anyone wants to go to Jamaica for their Honeymoon you absolutely have to check out Couples Tower Island. It was amazing!

Oh, and yes I have tons and tons of postings to put up – E Sessions, Families and Newborns that I couldn’t get posted during the first part of the year due to all the Weddings I was shooting.

If you follow my Blog and we’re not connected on Facebook PLEASE do look me up! I post and tag a bazillion images for my friends and clients!

Enjoy~

It’s hard to get great shots of my family with me in them!!! My Dad helped us capture this one~

And this one~ My beautiful family

My beautiful girl ~ She luvs to dance like her mommy…








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My beautiful wife~

Happy Friday everyone! I can’t believe we’re already half-way through February 09′. This year is going to fly by – I can just see it already! So, the other night Jese and I decided to head out to the studio (which is in the back of our property and have some fun shooting the fam. Needless to say all kids sessions usually are the same – a ton of krazy images and every once in a while you get that one image. And we all know what image that is – it’s the one where the child is still, calm and looking directly at the camera. It’s like when a butterfly lands on you… you stop breathing for a split second hoping to capture the moment before it quickly disappears. At least that’s what I think…

And yes, I do know where Aaron get’s his energy and krazy personality from!

Enjoy~