Lorie Garcia Bridal Session

On Thursday, April 8, 2010 we shot a bridal session for Lorie. The shoot started off at The Knolle Farm Bed & Breakfast in Orange Grove, Texas. This place is very beautiful. A quiet, peaceful location surrounded by a large pond, and fields of wildflowers. The little outdoor chapel in the back is a perfect place for intimate weddings and with a large colorful peacock running around, the scenery couldn't be anymore beautiful.

Our next location was about mile down the road in a large area heavily populated with colorful wildflowers. We spent most of our time there. Cars passing by would honk and one person even yelled, "Congratulations," out of the window. At one point about 30 minutes into shooting, a truck pulled over and a lady asked if we owned the property that we were shooting on. We all just looked at each other with a little concern as we told her, "No." We thought for sure she was going to ask us to leave. Instead, she told us that she had some property just down the road that was covered with beautiful Indian Paintbrush flowers. She told us if we wanted to we could go and shoot over on her property. We wrapped up quickly and headed over to her place. The entire session went very well and we had a lot of fun, of course.

Lorie was very pleasant to work with and very patient. We had a blast with this session. We also covered her wedding day just one week later at The Knolle Farm Bed & Breakfast. Will update this post with wedding day pictures once they are ready for posting. Enjoy...

Joey Navarro
J&P Photography

Veronica & Desi

Today (March 30, 2010) we did our first shoot at a baseball stadium. We did an engagement session for Veronica & Desi. The first location for this shoot was at "Whataburger Field." This stadium is home to the Corpus Christi Hooks. They are a minor league team with ties to the Houston Astros. This stadium was also used in a movie called "The Open Road" starring Justin Timberlake and Jeff Bridges. Priscilla and I were both excited to shoot here because we knew it might be a small challenge due to the fact that we have never shot in a stadium before. We had tons of ideas for this shoot, unfortunately a lot of those ideas involved being on the field. Well, we were not allowed to go onto the field because they were getting it ready for an upcoming event. However, we still had lots of other ideas for the seats and surrounding areas that worked out well. Shooting at the stadium was a lot of fun and we hope we get to shoot there again soon.

Second location was at a local bird park conservatory. This was a special place for the couple because it was where Veronica accepted Desi's proposal to be his wife. They wanted to shoot at the exact location on a long pier where the proposal took place. Beautiful day with great weather. We added a few balloons for props to this shooting location. Below you will find a few pictures from this shoot with more to be released soon on our Facebook page.

Veronica & Desi, we had a lot of fun shooting today and we look forward to capturing your wedding day memories in November.


Joey Navarro
J&P Photography

The Patterson Family

On Sunday, March 28, 2010 we had the pleasure of photographing a family who has never had a family photo taken. The Patterson's wanted to do something different than the normal white shirt blue jean beach shoot. They wanted something unique and fitting for their first family photo. As the brainstorming went on for a few days we finally came up with an idea. The idea was to shoot on a ranch with a rustic feel. Luckily I have a friend who owns a few horses with a horse stable. One call to my friend and he was more than willing to lend us his place for the shoot. His only request was to view the pictures and have a picture or two taken of his horses. Not a bad deal.

On the day of the shoot the weather was perfect. The Patterson family came in from Victoria, Tx. the night before and was ready for a day of sun, fun, picture taking and of course, petting the horses. During the shoot we had lots of fun. The Patterson's had a great time and had some really great ideas in helping us capture the character of their family. The horses cooperated as long as we had some feed nearby. In all the shoot went very well. We shared lots of laughs that day.

To the Patterson's, thank you for allowing us to be the first to capture your first family picture. We had lots of fun and are honored to have shared these moments with you. Like Priscilla said, "...you were a lovely easy going family to work with." And please don't let it be another 10 or so years before you take another family picture. Ha! Take care and God Bless.

We would also like to thank the Vega family for allowing us to shoot on their property.

Below are just a couple of pictures from the Patterson Family shoot. More will be released on our Facebook page soon.

Joey Navarro
J&P Photography