let's start at the beginning....

hi there! welcome to jesse gabbard photography. we specialize in portrait photography that is your life, on location. there is no studio here. no brown or blue watercolor backgrounds, lighting umbrellas and other equipment you probably associate with portrait photography. just me.. well, and a camera... and sometimes my wife, who would probably prefer not to drag around my lenses and bag, but does it anyway.
i work evenings and weekends, for now. my partner is mother nature and though I would prefer you not tell her, she is sometimes high maintenance. she wants dark, when we need light and she offers rain when we need dry. so sometimes, to accommodate her, we have to rearrange and do creative things. no doubt, however, there is nothing much cuter than a toddler in the rain... so why not capture it. perhaps though you might prefer that she not be wearing a smocked bishop and lacy socks as she plunges into a muddy puddle. i digress to point out that we will work around her schedule, and more importantly-yours!
what we do is make every attempt to provide you with an album of pictures that will provide a memory down the road. we want you to look back in ten years and say "there's jane on the playground by our house." "there's henry in his crib that grandmother bought him." "remember how much molly loved dragging that blanket around everywhere she went?"
we want to capture those memories and preserve them. i suppose to put it simply... we want to capture life as you live it.
so call us. let us know what you want. think of some fabulous places in town that you would like to call the background of your picture. pick a couple of dates. we will be there.
oh, and because i know you will stress about it- pick some clothes you love to wear. don't put everyone in khaki and white because you think that's what you are supposed to do. wear what makes you happy.
that's all for now. there's plenty more to say... but it stopped raining and the grass needs mowing.
- jesse