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Welcome. Bienvenue.

Hi, my name is Jessica Peterson & I was born and raised in Kansas City and have studied, lived, and traveled all over this crazy world. I have been shooting weddings & portraits for over 5 years professionally in the Kansas City area. I accept 30 weddings per year and there is no travel fee for those living in either KC or AZ.

I studied Fashion Photography in NYC *some* years back at FIT and do my best to keep fresh with fashion trends which I hope reads as the golden threads of beauty throughout my imagery. I am a wife, a friend, an aunt, an animal lover, a vegetarian, an adreanaline junkie and a romantic. I love reading, shopping, eating, dancing, indie rock, trip hop, jeff de bruges chocolates, lip gloss, traveling & meeting new people from different spaces than my own.

I hope in this blog you can find information, inspiration, a laugh, a cry, a wedding photographer ;) & a friend. Please feel free to leave comments as often as you like, its comparable to free icecream on a late summer afternoon to receive comments from my readers!! yummmm, amarena gelato***yes, please!


Thank you for taking the time to learn a little more about me & my work, if you have any questions about my services please feel free to call me anytime; p913.232.3729.

xo*Jessica

Utah.is.Amazing.

Some days I wish I lived in Utah (then I remember that much of the State is dry :) and most restos and stores are not open past 10p!). It is full of such beauty, and hard to imagine living within monumental beauty such as Utah when I have spent most of my years in dear Kansas. My friend Erin traveled with me to Utah to help with the wedding I shot there in April. We had about a day and a half to visit the Salt Lake and Sun Dance. Incredible weather helped us enjoy the scenery throughout SLC to Provo to Mapleton to American Fork and Sun Dance. I look forward to visiting Utah again very soon. Here are just a few images of the beauty we beheld;

0014Do you see the heart rock here? If not, do not fear- I see it for you :)

002400330043and we are at the Salt Lake here, so I suspect this is some form of salt…

005206there were so many bird skeletons strewn along the receded shoreline of the Lake, it made me sad to see these birds here consuming this overly salt saturated water

00720082these beautiful trees grew on many of the trees at the Mount Timpanogos Temple

treeeeE & me before the wedding!

0093National Park (I forget which one, there are like 100 in Utah ;))

0102011201320141Gorgeous, Aspens.

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018Clever hikers.

019020021022023-copyI’ll post Sun Dance in a couple of days. It was perfectly serene and exactly what we needed.

On a different note, I got an email from a photographer friend, Alea, today. Her boyfriend Piotr has been in a London hospital for I believe a couple of weeks now. They discovered that he has an aneurysm underneath his brain membrane. His incredibly invasive and delicate surgery has been scheduled and bumped. Alea had to return to London to be by his side for the surgery. Since the surgery has been bumped again she will not be in town for a wedding she was scheduled to shoot on July 3rd. So I will be shooting her wedding for her and offering my healing energy and prayers up for she and Piotr and Piotr’s doctors. I ask you to do the same. They need everything they can get at this fragile time in their lives.

Have a blessed Thursday

x,Jessica.

Merci

Gracias, Grazie, Danksche, Thank You.

:expressing one’s gratitude or thanks:
Let’s express our sincere gratitude to at least 5 unexpecting people today.
The Postman
The Cashier
The Cook
The Gas Attendant
The Babysitter
The Parent/Child
The Neighbor
The Friend
The Client
The Scheduler
The Telemarketer.
(ehhhh, thats asking a little much)
I am going to say Thank You today.
Here is a sweet sweet example of how someone said thank you to me…
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sw003sw004sw005Soon, Jessica.

A Frog Prince

I think that when my clients ask me if I have ever shot a wedding at their booked reception venue they are asking because they are thinking if I have shot there before then I will be familiar with the venue which falsely means their pictures will turn out ‘better’.  Its a dirty little secret that I am keeping from them- being full of  delight when I get to shoot at one of the hundreds of churches or venues around Kansas City with which I am unfamiliar.  It means mystery, excitement, creativity, adventure, spinning energy.  One thing I have learned about myself over the past several years is how much I ache for change.  I want to see something new, eat something new, hear something new, smell something new, feel a new emotion, create a new image.

Today I accompanied Clarissa to A Frog Prince to meet with the owner and discuss her Wedding Day & her centerpieces.  A Frog Prince is such a beautiful location created entirely by the highly inspired owner, Tammy.  I am thrilled to be shooting Clarissa’s wedding here in just three weeks…

0012Heidi, the creative (& sister of Clarissa) joined us as well.  It was written in the sands of time that Heidi and this room would one day find each other…

002200320042Until a new breath finds me,

x,Jessica.

More Utah Wedding

:Bits and pieces from the Utahan Wedding of Ryan & Melissa:

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x,Jessica.

Clarissa & Nick

These two lovely people are getting married in just 3 weeks! I am very excited to shoot their wedding and share with you Clarissa’s Bridal session we shot last week. . . these two together are a total riot!

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Bon weekend, amis!

x, Jessica.