~Camo Girly~

Quick update...

2012-01-04T23:03:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone!
You probably gave up on the idea of me updating this blog, and so did I- to be honest. BUT, it looks like I may pick it back up as a way to put my photos on the internet without it being on facebook. I'm not very keen on that particular idea..
So! Check out the post I put on my mom's blog, it's too late for me to post the same pictures on here.. I put several hours into the editing process (slow internet + online editing program = SLOW ) and all I want to do now is go to bed :)
Hope you have a wonderful day today! Remember that life itself is a miracle from God, that we shouldn't take for granted. Keep smiling :)

Peek into a recent photo shoot w/ one of my friends

2010-08-28T20:39:00.000-07:00

Peer pressure :-)

2010-08-26T15:01:00.000-07:00

Okay Amber, since you're posting on yours and Tony's blog I'll start updating mine again. :-) Like it better than FB anyway! I'll try to get the pictures caught up too- got some really cute ones of Hannah and the little boys today. But I've gotta cook supper now..

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth, for ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. Col. 3:1-2

Tyler's wedding

2010-03-28T23:38:00.000-07:00

Mr and Mrs Tyler Bruce Upchurch

Zoo Trip

2009-11-17T19:29:00.000-08:00

We went to the zoo recently with a group of friends (I just got the internet hooked up to the computor that ACTUALLY has my pictures on it! Yay! Now I don't have to bother with flash drives anytime I want to put pix on the blog, etc.) and it was fun... up till the last hour or so when we had hungry/grouchy children and a screaming baby next to me on the drive home. :-) With the help of bannas and a meal for Hannah though, things got a LOT more sane! I'd love to go back next fall for some photo shoots, the scenery was BEAUTIFUL, especially at their new thing..

Jess N Hannah

2009-10-07T12:35:00.000-07:00

"Sshhhh...."
(Btw, my eyes aren't really closed ;-) She finally quit crying- I was laughing at her faces cause she'd lay there with her eyes half-staff, and do these huge upside-down smiles... I'll try to get a picture of it sometime so y'all can see how cute it is!

My reward - some sleepy smiles!

Joe brought Hannah's binky for Mom.

As soon as I handed Mom the camera Katie got all fussy, so instead of telling Mom what kind of pix I wanted I tried to mollify my dear sweet sister... :-) Turns out, as you can see by the VERY sleepy smile (my reward at the end of the fussing) that she was fighting sleep, and Mom ended up switching with me and rocking her to sleep.

Hannah Kate

2009-10-01T20:03:00.000-07:00

Time to catch up...

2009-10-01T18:26:00.000-07:00

Tony's new truck

Gettin a kiss from Isaac :-)

I love her eyes!

Ouch- ok, so I've neglected to update this for a while... It's a bit of a pain to transfer pix from our main computor to this one every time I want to put some on the internet.

Pinky :-)

2009-08-28T19:37:00.000-07:00

cont. w/ Amber

2009-08-28T19:21:00.000-07:00

Camo girly :-)

2009-08-28T18:25:00.000-07:00

My lil' camo girly! =)

Hannah and Isaac :-)

Yesterday

Lol, I'm sure that y'all think that I've fallen off a cliff or something, but I do have an excuse: School.

Oh boy.... but at least I know that this is my LAST term!!!! Never again will it sneak up on me and start stealing 4 hours from my day! :-)

cont.

2009-07-31T23:17:00.000-07:00

I meant to put the above pic last, cause that yawn ended in a hungry cry that ended the photo shoot. Oh well. :-)

cont.

2009-07-31T23:11:00.000-07:00

How could anyone NOT fall in love with her???

cont.

2009-07-31T23:05:00.001-07:00

Photo shoot w Hannah Kate - Friday afternoon

2009-07-31T22:57:00.000-07:00

In the car seat-

2009-07-29T14:00:00.000-07:00

She's so ADORABLE!!!! Everyone has fallen in love with Hannah Kate. :-) Here's two pix that I took on the way home from the hospital. The second one is a bit blurry, but her little smile is so sweet that I figured y'all would enjoy it anyway.

Hannah Kate Upchurch 07-28-09

2009-07-28T04:45:00.000-07:00

Hannah was born at 11:32 AM. She weighs 9 lbs 1 oz (as you can see in the picture).
We are so thankful that the Lord has blessed us with another baby sister!

iSaAc

2009-07-18T11:36:00.000-07:00

The lighting was really cool yesterday, so after taking the pix of Mom (I posted it on the family blog), Isaac was being really cute. I haven't edited any of these, so you'll have to pardon the semi-silhouette. :-)

Hank the Cowdog

2009-07-18T11:29:00.000-07:00

Me

2009-07-15T17:08:00.000-07:00

Yes, I'm playing with my photo editer to try for a photo shop look...

:-) Try isn't suceeding, but hey, photo shop is expensive.

It was SOO bright out there! Made my eyes water so bad...

I never can decide whether I like color or b/w better....

What do you think?

~tWo~ :-)

2009-07-10T23:36:00.000-07:00

Storm

2009-06-26T21:54:00.000-07:00

Rain clouds...

Bring on the rain...

The wind was terrible!

This is the second shot, actually... this thing puts the pix on differently than I choose them....

D.A. photo shoot

2009-06-15T20:44:00.000-07:00

I finally got asked to do a photo shoot for someone, rather that having to practically beg. Here are the best ones. :-)

Pre-birthday pix for my 16th b-day!

2009-05-23T23:22:00.001-07:00

Checking to see what she'd gotten.

At Papa's house.

Who would guess that this is a cow pasture???

Lol, anyone notice the cow? I think that she wanted a photo shoot too!

"Cause I'm a country girl, I gotta four wheel drive..."

Amber did a great job! This is one she took.

All but one of these were taken by Grandpa (thanks! didn't think you'd mind). I liked the lighting and setting so much when I did the shoot with Amber that I went ahead and tried some of me. Amber isn't really crazy about taking pix, but she did great. Lol, I showed her the pix that I took of her and asked her to mimic them. And Gpa got to take pix as he pleased, since Amber and I were messing with my camera. :-)

Photo shoot with Amber

2009-05-23T23:10:00.000-07:00

Lol, this was a joke on her bf... yes, that's a trash can!

She didn't want to ride in the back seat of my truck. I wonder why? :-D

(For those who haven't seen my truck, the backseat is rather small.)

Can't believe how well the lighting turned out!

The pond was so dramatically colored.. love it!

Glory ~ Jubilee ~ Spade

2009-05-22T22:44:00.000-07:00

Pasture shoot.

Btw: All photos on this blog are the property of J Lee Photography. Do not use these without permission. Thanks! :-)

Friends horses: Trigger & No-name

2009-05-22T22:36:00.000-07:00

The bottom photo is a sweet sorrel mare that has no name...

Trigger is the cutest little stud! I love how wild his mane and forelock look. :-D

Jubilee & Glory

2009-05-22T22:30:00.000-07:00

Trail ride with Beth and Becca

2009-05-22T22:21:00.000-07:00

Trying to catch up... we went on a photo shoot ride. Beth did better than I thought she would do when I let her take pix of me. The top one especially (of Mindy & Me) impressed me! She and Becca are a big help on all the shoots with the horses!

Candid moments...

2009-05-22T22:04:00.000-07:00

Amber took the boys out for a walk, I caught them taking a break on the driveway.

blows dust off cough Ah, my old, abandoned blog!

2009-05-17T20:59:00.000-07:00

Lol, ok. Maybe it's been a while, but I'm dusting off my blogging skills and I'll try to keep this thing updated.
I've become very interested in photography lately, and I'm thankful that the Lord knew that this was coming when I bought my camera a few years ago! So I "accidentally" bought a really nice camera, and now I'm using it like crazy. I'm still very much the amateur, but I've got a photography book that is used in colleges (so Tyler tells me... all I know is it's the 6th Edition Handbook of Photography by Thompson something or other).
For inspiration in equine photography, I am in love Monty Robert's book "Shy Boy"! That's a great book, with amazing photography.
Wow, I forgot how slow this is to upload pix.... 3 hours later.... lol.

Riding with buddies

2009-01-27T13:35:00.000-08:00

Spitfire, Crackhead, Fruitcake, or......

2009-01-11T19:46:00.000-08:00

The name game is going on at the Upchurch house right now, what do we name him? Oh yeah, by the way, the "him" that I'm talking about is Amber's new QH gelding! Amber tells all about him on her blog www.handmaiden4Him91.blogspot.com . He's under-weight and skinny right now, so we're gonna be fattening him up before I put pictures of him when he's fat 'n sassy as a contrast. :-) A bit of suspense there.... hehe.

Learner's Permit!!!

2008-12-02T19:11:00.000-08:00

Wow, it seems like it's taken FOREVER to do it, but I can finally drive(legally...lol)!!! I was as nervous as all get out when I went to take the test, lol. And, cold as it was that day, I had to take off my jacket and push my sleeves up. :-D I got three questions wrong, and each time I cringed 'cause I thought that everyone in the whole place would see the whole screen light up bright red saying INCORRECT.
The picture turned out good (surprisingly), but my signature messed up on their little thingy... lol, whatever.
I'll get a picture on here eventually, Tyler's not here so his internet isn't here, meaning that I'm stuck with this sssslllloooowwww little internet stick of Dad's. :-P Oh well, it's better than dial up!

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I'm over-hauling the little Ranger that I'm going to buy from Dad, and I'll get a current picture of it. It's going to be a slow process 'cause all my money is going towards buying it, but I took out the toolbox, cleaned the inside, swept the bed out, and put 2 Buckmark decals on the back window (those buckhead silhouettes). Hehe, it's gonna be a redneck billboard when I'm done... lol, jk.... maybe not... ;-)
I'm gonna put rims on the wheels and windows, camo strips on the sides (on the bottom part), either horse or camo mats, a browning decal on the windshield, etc.

Oklahoma trip....

2008-10-05T15:53:00.000-07:00

We had to take a sudden trip last week due to the sudden death of my Great Grandpa, and while we were there we ate lunch with my Aunt and my Grandparents. :D I enjoyed getting to spend more time with them, (thanks Grandpa for sharing your fries!) and Aunt Jamie took some pictures. Hehe, and I copied two of them to put on here.... ;-) (I like these alot Aunt Jamie! Thanks for taking them... being the "family photographer" there never seem to be any pics of me. :-) I can't wait to see the pics that Grandpa took too... *hint, hint* :D

Internet down, Riding, HUNTING SEASON

2008-09-27T10:31:00.000-07:00

You never realise just how much you use the internet until it doesn't work..... :-P Lol, I'm constantly catching myself thinking, "I'm going to change my FB status to...." then I remember that I can't... I think that it's missing Tyler..... ;-)

Yesterday Amber and I had the time of our lives! We hauled Jubie, Diaz, and Tank down to a friend's house and we rode with them for 4 hours! There were seven of us, and we rode through cotton fields, bean fields, mowed corn fields, roads, etc. and even Amber loosened up enough to race when we all took off. It was wonderful that we didn't have to worry about anybody but ourselves, even the on Tank was galloping with us. We discovered that the rows in the fields make perfect racing chutes! We ran, stopped, ran, stopped, etc. and rode all over the place, wow.... Amber and I can't stop talking about it, we talked and talked last night till Mom finally turned out her light. :D lol.... Now Amber wants to find out how fast Glory is... with ME riding her and Amber on Diaz.
HUNTING SEASON HAS ARRIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Praise the Lord!!!!!!!! We're at the library now, but I'm hoping to go to Bass Pro and find some camo material so Amber and I can sew camo split skirts. I will post pictures when I get Bambi's daddy! Jk, believe me, I will settle for one alot smaller.... but the hunters that watch that movie drool over his rack! Heehee!
God Bless,
~Jess

Time flies....

2008-09-16T19:09:00.000-07:00

My goodness, where has the time gone? Wasn't it just yesterday that I walked into the pasture where I worked and saw a very, very ugly gray baby with his mama. Now, three years later, my ugly duckling has turned into a swan. :D Standing 15.3 hands high, with his mom's disposition and his dad's looks (it must be from his dad, his mom was one of the least pretty quarter horses I've ever seen.) , he's slowly becoming less useless! Lol.
Today he went on his very first trail ride! ok... it was a loop around the pasture... but hey, for us it was a monumental success! It's really nice to see what a horse can be like if it's trained to give to pressure from birth, he's light as a feather on my hands and responds so quickly.... still, I love working with problem horses better!
Anyway, he did great, and I'm proud of him! (Ok, I admit, I was praying the whole time! Hehe)
Gotta go now~ Jess

Misc photos from this spring...

2008-09-06T12:14:00.001-07:00

Mindy
Spade 'N Jubilee
Jubilee
Spade
Mindy

~Cowboy~

2008-09-06T10:07:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine took the below picture of his horse, and I edited it with Photoshop...

I took this one though... Amber says that this affect is creepy, do you think it is? I kinda thought it was cool.... :-)

More of the same...

2008-08-20T13:36:00.000-07:00

Before we left, Isaac was being his typical, adorable self!

Gotta love taxadermy!

Dearest Daddy! Trying not to fall asleep...
They were watching us practice from the balcony.

Bowhunter's Safety Course

2008-08-20T13:13:00.000-07:00

On lunch break.

Poor Daniel just discovered the chair had no back.... lol.

Ambie

Bacon

Myself

Jubilee

2008-08-10T16:29:00.002-07:00

This is my beautiful girl, Jubilee. Amber and I took these about two years ago, and I was amazed at how well the pictures turned out! (We were just goofing off with the camera!)

So here is my first love of horses, ok, the second.... after all, Kate needs some loyalty. She prepared me for Jubie.

Guess where I took these?

2008-08-08T19:15:00.000-07:00

Which looks better, black and white or color?

Care to guess where I took these? They were sitting in a little flowerpot outside of a horsetrailer that was for sale at a horse show! I'm amazed that they turned out so well, because I bent over, snapped the picture, and left because I didn't want people to think I was nuts to be doing that to a tiny pot of flowers. This is one picture that I cropped into several, I don't know how it managed to have a black background.

Isn't it amazing how God puts little beauties in unexpected places? God is good!

Flowers from Petite Jean '06

2008-08-08T08:16:00.000-07:00

Ok, I admit, I love to take pictures of flowers! I took these at Petite' Jean when we went a few years ago, and just fixed them up yesterday, cropping and making some black and white.

~The camera blurred this when I took it, not photoshop. :-) ~

~ I love the way the camera picked up on all of the little details, this is probably my favorite. ~
~ I did put a soft border on it, because it looks better this way. ~

From February 2008...

2008-08-01T15:42:00.000-07:00

As we sat listening to the audio adaptation of "Silas Marner", I drew this APHA Gelding using a picture from "The Spirit of the Horse" as my model. (I like that book, it has beautiful photographs that are easy to draw.) I didn't use a graph on this one, so it's not as properly proportioned as I'd like, but it's ok for a first try. I'll try to get a picture on here of the photo that I used as my model.

~Jess

Trip to Galveston, TX

2008-07-21T13:41:00.000-07:00

This past weekend Dad, Tyler, and I took a two day and thirty minute trip down to Galveston, TX. We were picking up our new van on the way, so we drove a rental car down.
Lol, ok, let me re-arrange this so it is accurate. :-) Actually, we drove to Houston, TX to purchase a new 15 passenger Van. We drove a rental car down so we wouldn't have to drive two vehicles back, and Tyler and I both fell in love with it! (It was a Saturn.) When we sadly had to hand over the car, Dad decided that we needed a good night's sleep before heading back. We asked around and everyone recommended Galveston, so off we went.
After eating lunch on the way at Cracker Barrel, we started searching the internet for hotels, and calling them. We decided on the cheapest one (this is vacation time so hotel rooms are HIGH dollar down there.), that rated 2 on a scale of 1-5, but had a fantastic view.
Unfortunately, though we were within a hundred feet of the beach, I didn't get to set one foot on it! Tyler didn't want to, so instead we stayed at the hotel room.... so I took tons of pictures from our balcony and the van. But I had a ton of fun anyway!

~ Tyler is about to brave the cold shower! ~
~ Dearest Daddy on the Laptop ~
~ After about seven hours on the road, returning home. ~

7-17-08

2008-07-17T18:19:00.000-07:00

~ Fuller and Cowboy ~
~ An Adorable Little Puppy that was dumped on Us ~
~ Amy ~

Onyx

2008-07-17T17:06:00.001-07:00

Remembering.... My 15th Birthday

2008-07-15T15:22:00.000-07:00

Josiah thought that it was HIS birthday, so he blew out the candles while I watched...Lol.

I want upstairs!!!

2008-07-14T12:41:00.000-07:00

~Camo Girly~

Quick update...

Peek into a recent photo shoot w/ one of my friends

Peer pressure :-)

Tyler's wedding

Zoo Trip

Jess N Hannah

Hannah Kate

Time to catch up...

Pinky :-)

cont. w/ Amber

Camo girly :-)

cont.

cont.

cont.

Photo shoot w Hannah Kate - Friday afternoon

In the car seat-

Hannah Kate Upchurch 07-28-09

iSaAc

Hank the Cowdog

Me

*~tWo~* :-)

Storm

D.A. photo shoot

Pre-birthday pix for my 16th b-day!

Photo shoot with Amber

Glory ~ Jubilee ~ Spade

Friends horses: Trigger & No-name

Jubilee & Glory

Trail ride with Beth and Becca

Candid moments...

*blows dust off* *cough* Ah, my old, abandoned blog!

Riding with buddies

Spitfire, Crackhead, Fruitcake, or......

Learner's Permit!!!

Oklahoma trip....

Internet down, Riding, HUNTING SEASON

Time flies....

Misc photos from this spring...

~Cowboy~

More of the same...

Bowhunter's Safety Course

Jubilee

Guess where I took these?

Flowers from Petite Jean '06

From February 2008...

Trip to Galveston, TX

7-17-08

Onyx

Remembering.... My 15th Birthday

I want upstairs!!!

~tWo~ :-)

blows dust off cough Ah, my old, abandoned blog!