It’s time to get started on introducing y’all to our amazing Class of 2017 Spokesmodels! Our first spotlight… Kylie Budd from Millbrook High School is the perfect young lady to get things rolling… Kylie came to us as a nominee from Victoria, a kind and thoughtful neighbor of hers. With little time to get her …
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Meet my dear friends, the Kings… We have known the Kings almost as long as Ken & I have known each other I think. The boys were certainly not this grown up when we first met & there was not even a Lizzy & Trey existing yet… whew how time flies! And Lisa & Jeff… …
Fab Grad… Preston of Southern Alamance High School‘s Class of 2016! Took a little side track from my lovely girls to capture the Senior Portraits of a young man I’ve known since he was 18 months old! His mom, Theresa, is one of my very dearest friends so I was quite thrilled when they asked …
Fab Grad & Distinguished Young Woman… Jen from Leesville Road High School‘s Class of 2016! Jen was the fabulous winner of this summer’s Distinguished Young Woman of Wake County, and as such, received a session with Jen Mink Photography. Among her talents, she is an actress & dancer and as coincidence would have it, a …
Fab Grad… Jayden. Oh, where do I even start with this young lady from Enloe High School‘s Class of 2016?! You learned all sorts or things about ‘her’, her amazing business (Magical Memories Party Entertainment… you know, in case you needed the link again 😉 ) in her Fab Grad Spokesmodel Feature Blog last week. …
A little #TBT spotlight for my sweet, beautiful & oh so busy, Fab Grad Spokesmodel… Jayden McGrael from Enloe High School Class of 2016! Her individual session will be up next for sharing… but FIRST, as you will understand after reading what follows – she’s been a very busy girl and we haven’t had opportunity …
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Fab Grad… Olivia perfectly completes my fall gals from Longleaf School of the Arts, Class of 2016! You’ll remember my beautiful Olivia from her Fab Grad Spokesmodel session blog a few months ago. We had an extra special location for individual session… her own home!! From the first time I dropped off some of her …
Fab Grad… Emma of Longleaf School of the Arts, Class of 2016 is here on the blog! Emma really wanted some awesome urban spots for her session so we also started hers at the NC State Free Expression Tunnel… bright & REALLY early in the morning! There was no yawning going on though… from serious …
Fab Grad… Audra of Franklin Academy‘s, Class of 2016 is here for y’all to enjoy! You probably remember Audra from her Fab Grad Spokesmodel Spotlight and now it’s time for her personally planned 1:1 session. For this talented and artistic girl of an NC State Family, it was only natural that we do some of …
Here she is… our Miss North Carolina’s Outstanding Teen 2015, McKenzie Hansley! It’s been such a pleasure to sponsor the Miss North Carolina’s Outstanding Teens, and this year was certainly no different. We met up downtown, for our annual session in their state Capital. It was a gorgeous & very sun filled day. And Kenzie… …
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Fab Grad… Nola Grace of Longleaf School of the Arts, Class of 2016 is next up for the September session blogs! Y’all may remember, our beautiful Nola Grace from her Fab Grad Spokesmodel Spotlight. Now it was time to do her personally planned 1:1 session. For this session, she wanted to do it in the …
Fab Grad… Jasmine of Longleaf School of the Arts, Class of 2016 starts out the September session blogs! We couldn’t have had a more beautiful evening or setting to capture this extraordinarily beautiful young lady! I met up with her at Makeup for Your Day, where she was getting her hair & make-up pampered for …
My next beautiful spotlight… Olivia Bouzigard from Longleaf School of the Arts Class of 2016! In fact, she is the Student Body President of Longleaf and begins her Senior year… tomorrow!! Olivia describes herself as outgoing, positive and determined… extremely organized and when given an opportunity, she takes it to the fullest, giving it …
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My next beautiful spotlight… Nola Grace Brown from Longleaf School of the Arts Class of 2016! She is a dance endorsement candidate at this new fine arts focused, college preparatory high school downtown. Joining the Longleaf family as a sophomore in the school’s founding year, she will graduate as a part of the school’s first …
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I’m so excited to start truly introducing y’all to my amazing Fab Grad Spokesmodels for the year! We’re starting off with a beautiful spotlight, Audra Chenoweth from Franklin Academy Class of 2016! Audra was hand selected to be a Fab Grad Spokesmodel after being recommended by a fellow FGSM, an in depth application and enjoyable …
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Wow! What a start to the year it has been. From what felt like a gazillion snow days with kids home every day to pulling out my back for a couple weeks to just generally busy life as a mom & business owner!! BUT… it’s time to get these blogs a flowing again!! Before I …
What a special opportunity this session was… capturing Senior Portraits of the daughter of one of my own friends from growing up! I’m so pleased to introduce y’all to Kari from Lynn Haven, Florida. As you will quickly see as you start scrolling through her images below… she is the definition of a well rounded, …
Congratulations to Stephanie Wiehe, Ravenscroft School Class of 2015… hand selected as my final Fab Grad Spokesmodel! As you may have noticed, she is my 2nd from the same school. Choosing to have such a limited group this year, I had no intentions of having more than one per school at this stage BUT then …
Congratulations to Robin Kikuchi, Ravenscroft School Class of 2015, on being hand selected as one of my Fab Grad Spokesmodels! It’s been so wonderful to work with her & have her as part of this very limited group! I can’t even begin to express how genuinely thrilled I am to have such an extraordinary & …
I’m so very pleased to congratulate Ashley Keefe, Enloe High School Class of 2015, on being hand selected as my very 1st Fab Grad Spokesmodel! I couldn’t be more pleased to have such a wonderful young lady representing my work and wanted to take a few moments to share a little more about her & …
I know, I know… I’ve been so quiet on here so far this year that y’all can hear the pins dropping & birds chirping 😉 . All for good reason though, as I’ve been a busy, BUSY bee working away on updating & revamping this site (about 90% done 🙂 ), tackling a big family …
So… Despite living in northern, heavy snow filled winter areas most of my life growing up (Maine, Germany & NY), I moved to NC as an adult almost 17 years ago now and yes, have absolutely 200% become adapted to & love, love, LOVE not dealing with winter snow all the time. As much as …
Another loyal family… just amazing to be able to capture this family from pregnancy to newborn to now almost 9 months old!! And… OMGosh… are they growing up so adorably or what?!! It was a significantly chilly & even worse, windy morning but given the opportunity to reschedule, they asked to go forward anyway… what …
Happy Thanksgiving to this sweet family!! How wonderful it is to get to work with them again… you may recall them from the beginning of the year – my very VERY first session that wasn’t for an already known friend or family member. Since then I’ve worked on several things with Mom for the Ronald …
As I navigate through my photography journey, exploring new areas and really focusing in on ‘specialties’… I find myself like a giddy school girl! After all the years of dreaming to be able to do something wonderfully fabulous & creative with myself… I am amazed that THIS is ‘my’ work! My poor hubby has to …
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What a pleasure it was to meet this sweet, sweet family!! We met at Joyner Park in Wake Forest to start out our day with a Fall Mini Session (which would later be followed by a precious newborn session at their home… stay tuned for much more on that soon! 😀 ). When this very …
What a chilly but otherwise beautiful morning we had for my 1st ever ‘Mini Session’, also 1st session at Yates Mill, here in Raleigh. To make it even better… gotta love loyal clients!! You may remember this absolutely adorable red head & her Mama from their spring session of images for Father’s Day. This time, …
Both of my lil’ ones have spent the majority of their weekly gymnastics lessons over the last 2+ years with the wonderful ‘Miss Melanie’ (LOL – even Trey-man was going to Lizzy’s lessons in the carrying pouch at a few months old until he started at 1 himself 😉 ). She has always been a …
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I’m quite excited to announce my very 1st Mini Sessions! I had planned on waiting another season or so to give Mini’s a try… but thanks to interest of several wonderful clients, I’ve put together a couple days THIS season!! I have a morning in South Raleigh, an evening in Wake Forest and had originally …
I am SO very excited to finally get to introduce you to my new passion & spark… boudoir & glamour!! I had not intended to get into this genre, or at least hadn’t really put any thought into it yet… until this sweet client approached me to help her with her fiance’s wedding gift. And …
What a fabulous session with the Clark Family at the NC Museum of Art! This was truly a treat… a beautiful family inside & out and to top it off – what a great location they asked for! And… oh my, check out how perfectly they dressed for the setting! Love the black & white …
Lil’ Miss C & her mom are another pair of our friends from our 1st year of dance class in “Carolina Tots” (mommy & me)… when the girls were only 1.5! Now they’ve doubled in age, finishing up their a whole year of dance class on their own & celebrating 3rd birthday’s already!! Lizzy & …
What a beautiful day for Mary & Nick! Their love radiates and oh my goodness do they keep each other happy… I can’t even tell you how many images I have of them giggling & laughing & just simply enjoying each other… not posed that way for my camera but so purely & naturally! It …
OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS!!! I hope y’all are sitting down & are prepared for all the cuteness that is about to come your way!! Meet sweet lil’ Miss Amelia… daughter of my long time friend, Geri and just the most adorable little red head you could ever find. These photos were done in preparation for …
Meet the Avent Family… I was contacted by Stephanie to do this session for her mother-in-law, Brenda’s (aka “Mimi” by her precious grand-babies 🙂 ) Mother’s Day present. We met at Brenda’s house… a family home that her children had grown up in, surrounded by gorgeous lush landscaping & a beautiful sunny day!! I’ll be …
Wishing a very, VERY happy, relaxing & joyful Mother’s Day to all my Mama’s so far! Thank you for believing in my work and trusting your precious families with me, especially in these early stages of my business. I have been delighted to be a part of capturing your memories & am so glad to …
Here’s sweet lil’ Mr Logan!! Isn’t he adorable?!! And as sweet as he looks too! He did make us all work for his smiles that morning but boy were they worth it! As were the moments between the smiles… check out these great expressions & the quiet moments too… ah, precious little boy-ness!! These were …
As any of you that have ‘liked’ my facebook page probably know already… I was quite thrilled to have the honor to capture the memories of the Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill’s 25th Anniversary Gala last month! Supporting this organization had extra special meaning to me as my family was recipients of the kind …
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I was asked by my good mom friend from Lizzy’s dance class, Carolyn, to cover her neighborhood’s Pet Parade & Event. They had all sorts of things going on for this event – the parade, snacks, presentations, give aways, my portraits & more. What a great community & fun neighborhood they have to put something …
Meet Caroline & her mom, Leighann… We lucked out with quite the beautiful day at Pullen Park and Caroline was just as sweet as she could be through the entire session! I just have to say… she’s just the most adorable little baby doll!! And check out the hair… and the eyes… and the flawless …
Meet adorable 3 weeks new, Amelia & Alex… and the family of love they are surrounded by! They were my very 1st newborn session… As you can see, Amelia took right to the camera and couldn’t have been any sweeter or more cooperative. As twins often do, they were in opposite moods that day and …
Meet Samantha & Brandon… my next door neighbor’s ADORABLE grand-kiddos! From the moment I walked into their house before our session & the kids (who had never met me before) jumped out from around the corner to surprise me, I KNEW this was going to be a super fun session!! These sweet kiddos were not …
Time to meet sweet lil’ Miss Gracie… but prepare yourself… for some super sweet & happy cuteness!!! Gracie was quite the sweet, well behaved & cooperative little lady… with an adorable smile & gorgeous eyes to go with it! No surprise as her parents were equally as sweet & I couldn’t have enjoyed my time …
OOH MY!!! Is this little sweetie pie not the cutest thing?! This is sweet Charlotte & her adorable parent. I admit… it has been a bit of a challenging, hard & stressful week around here while still juggling both jobs (among other things) BUT working on lil’ Miss Charlotte’s pics the last few days has …
I’m about to begin an amazing journey into following my dreams & am SO glad you’re here to join me! So… just a few months ago, I had never stepped out of “auto” mode on my camera! Yes, it’s true! Despite a lifelong love of photography, almost always having a camera in hand & …
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“Under Construction” is not a typical term to be excited about… BUT… in this case I am very much so!! Over the next several weeks, I will be working on building this site via one of the many fabulous classes offered by ClickinMoms.com! During this time, please excuse the incompleteness of my pages and …
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Jen Mink Photography is coming in 2013! I’m so excited that 2013 will bring the opportunity to explore my photography passions at a whole new level and see where they might lead! In addition to work and the holidays, I’m working on getting all the business details in order, learning everything I can and building …