Jer & Min Photography

After a long winter, Spring has come in full force the last few days.  The grass has turned green and this morning there was a nice dew that had settled down.  I love this season.

I decided to document a big piece of my life for this photo.  Even more than photography, running plays a big role in my life.  I run what most would consider quite a few miles every day.  I will easily run over 1500 miles in this calendar year.  As I get older, my joints begin to hurt more and more requiring me to ice down after each run.

This shot was setup by my kids.  I told them the theme and we brainstormed on how to show a school on Sunday.

Strobist: Single blue gelled flash in the refrigerator.

For starters, this isn’t the photo I had planned all day.  The one I hoped to get didn’t turn out.  This was my safe shot.

These are my three children all wearing “Vera Hats”.  Vera is an aunt of mine who is truly unique.  She is the salt of the earth.  We love her dearly.  She has a very spunky personality and likes bright colors.  She always has.

A few years ago she went in for a doctor appointment and they found a lump in her breast.  As the results came back, it was diagnosed as cancer.  This was the closest I’ve come in my adult life to witnessing the extremely challenging trial that cancer is.  It is truly overwhelming.

As is the typical case, she was operated on and then went through her treatments.  She soon began to loose her hair.  As that happened she started making wonderfully colored stocking caps for herself to wear.  Before long, most of her family had them as well.  It became a way for us to show our support for her.

To this day, I wear mine with pride and honor.  She struggled tremendously, but never lost who she was, she just had to share it differently.  We love you Vera.

This is a shot of Brinci just outside of our campground while we were at Zion National Park.

I didn’t use any powered lighting for this portrait, the sun was in the back and I had a silver reflector in the front camera left.