A Happy Little Man!

I was hired back to return for baby shots after doing pregnancy shots! To say he was adorable, was a total understatement! Here's a sneak peak!

Welcome to the world, little Mason!

My close friend from college, Jenny D (Now, R), and her husband Marc gave birth to their baby boy, Mason. Such a beautiful family! Congrats to you both!

Exciting Day!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30671307

So, I have been lagging behind with my photography on Etsy and Redbubble over the holidays. Today I made it back to check out all that has been going on. Turns out I had 3 front page features! Super exciting! The one was this image above, unfortunately, due to my lateness, I was unable to get the picture of it. As for the other two, they were on Redbubble, and I managed to get the images! So, here goes! Happy Sunday, all!


Mine is bottom right image.
Direct link to the image: http://anjacobsen.redbubble.com/works/1226307-1-1957-volkswagen-beatle-dashboard


Mine is on bottom, second one in from the right.
Direct link to image: http://anjacobsen.redbubble.com/works/2108763-2-brothers

A New Challenge!!

So, I got a great idea from my wedding photographer, its called Shuttercal. The task is to challenge yourself to use your camera every day for one year. Each day you are to upload your 'image of the day' onto the calendar site. This such a great way to sharpen your skills and stretch your creativity! I was tempted to wait until the first of the year, but I wanted to capture this holiday season. So, here goes!



Here's the link to the challenge itself:
http://www.shuttercal.com/calendar/ANJacobsen/2009/11/

Family Time!

So after a horrific week of Ebay wars (see below), we decided to go take some 'family time'and enjoy the 'new' camera at a local park. The weather was amazing! Unfortunately there was some kind of shooting practice going on, so Riley was a nervous wreck. Yes, we have a big chicken for a gigantic dog. ha. Here are a few of my favorites. Have a great week!

Home for Sale!

This week our home went on sale! We love our community, but our one-bedroom is no longer enough to hold us and Mr. Riley Dog. So we decided to move up to the townhouse sized homes here. Any inquires just email me! Its a great little space :)

Ebay Sellers: BEWARE!

Ever sell items on Ebay? Get your payment through Paypal? Maybe even personal emails from the buyer? I got all of that, and nothing. Last week I started a photography job that required a 'professional level' (20D or up) camera. Understandable. Like everyone else in this economy, I had no funds to do so. So, I sold my existing camera on Ebay to pay for my new one. Within 24hrs I had a buyer on my camera; $650 dollars + $60 to send to Nigeria to their 'niece.' The purchase was followed by personal (very polite) emails from the buyer, and emails of 'confirmation' from Paypal that the payment had been made by the buyer. Paypal requested the 'tracking' number of the shipped item in order for the funds to be released. I did just that, and low and behold, never got my money. I contacted paypal by phone; they never sent such emails. So, now, I am out $710, not to mention the money I just spent to buy my new camera (another several hundred dollars).


In conclusion, after hours on the phone with everyone and anyone, Ebay refunded me my measly $29.00 in sellers fees, and a 'sorry.' A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR (if not more) company cannot help me. Everything in Ebay protects the BUYERS and not the sellers. So, if you decide to SELL on Ebay, be sure to actually take the time to CALL paypal to get your money confirmed. Don't bother with Ebay or email, its useless. I hope you all have some better luck!

Joe

Last week, we very sadly, lost our Pop-Pop, Joe. He was such an incredible man, father, grandfather, artist, you name it, he was the best. This was many of ours' favorite shot of him. It was taken about 10 years ago. He was very known for sitting in his chair (at their shore home) in front of the light, watching his birds, wearing his hat. In this, he was doing just that, like every other summer day. He will be so greatly missed, but we know he is in such a better place, with his Louis. We love you, Pop-Pop!


(Unfortunately, I was a careless teen when I took this in the 'ol photo class days, so this is a scanned print, sorry!)

Mom-Mom
http://ashleyjacobsenphotography.blogspot.com/2008/09/lois-connolly.html