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Jessica and I are in Las Vegas this week and had a photo shoot yesterday in one of the dry lake beds outside of town. Here is an iPhone photo of a Polaroid from the shoot-

Joey and I will be traveling from Seattle, Washington down to Portland, Oregon in early April. We are offering awesome Portrait / His + Her session/ Event Planner Shoot rates for anyone in the area! We have one fun couple booked in Portland so let us know if you’re interested and we will make it happen! Email us at sayhello@joeyjessica.com

vintage photos: Seawell family photos. My mom is the little girl in the car! Love it!

My dad is 65 years old and has more drive for adventure then most twenty somethings I know. This year he took a dip in the Atlantic on New Years day for a local polar bear plunge event. Immediately after he jumped in a total of 3 times, I told him I wanted to take his portrait.

Saw this smoking wedding gown on a recent trip

Jessica and I were in Charleston a few weeks ago and wanted to share a few snaps from the trip-

this was our view at Aaron and Matthew’s wedding this past weekend.  It only lasted for about 6 minutes, but it was so worth it.  It rained all day and then we got this killer sunset, and then some more rain.  These are straight out of the camera, EPIC

A little sneak peek from our shoot in Manteo, NC with Ann Marie and John.  More to follow shortly-

Jessica giving her father a hair cut while traveling through Montana and a barn on the property where we were staying near Red Lodge, MT.

A few weeks ago myself and a few friends (Jessica, Chris, Brad) helped our friend Drew move to New Jersey.  Drew took a position at Salon Caru, a super sweet Paul Mitchell salon in Hoboken.  First.. a brief history… Jessica and I grew up with Drew so it was a very emotional trip for us.  A little sadness but mainly excitement and admiration.  I have been talking to Drew about his career and what he saw himself doing in life for the past year or so.  One day he told me that he knew what he wanted and what he was going to have to do to get there. So he did it.  We are so proud of him, and admire him for seeing an opportunity and seizing it.  It is a bit nerve racking to leave your friends and family behind, move to a place with a bazillion people and start from scratch.  You have gotta be willing to risk it all and he did.  So here we are, present day..

We took a few rolls of film with us and documented the super short and fun road trip to NJ and back.  We all got to Drew’s house in NC around 6am to finish packing the Uhaul truck.  Our friend Amber dropped by to say goodbye, shed a few tears and participate in the group shot.  A starbucks venti later and we are heading north.  We stopped off for a picnic at a truck stop, ate our share of powder doughnuts, and listened to Harry Potter on audio book.  We drove the scenic route to avoid tolls and made it to Jersey around 5 o’clock, just in time for the awesome traffic. YES!!!

We get to Drew’s new place, which is an awesome renovated brownstone and begin to unload as fast as we can, because the Uhaul is halfway blocking the road (according to one lady car driver, whom we will not mention).  None the less, it is all finished, accept for the sofa.. and it is not going through the front door.  We are about to run out of ideas, when a gentleman passing by on a bike, says he moves furniture for a living and can help us get in inside.  We give it a shot, no luck..  We have the bright idea to go through the back instead, but it involves jumping four 8ft privacy fences (while carrying the sofa).  So this total stranger says he doesn’t mind, and we get to climbing.  Two burnt out shoulders later, the sofa is inside.  We all sit and take a few minutes to relax, and agree to go explore the new neighborhood.  We ended up eating a great cuban/mexican restaurant called,  TAQUERIA, drank amazing Pomegranate mojitos an talked about our day and how nice that random guy was.

This next day of our trip was spent hanging out in the city, making some new friends, visiting some clients, eating awesome food, and seeing the Richard Avedon exhibit (which was phenomenal).  We were all very sad to say our good byes, so no one lingered around for fear of tearing up.  We made the goodbyes short and sweet and were back on our way to NC. The rest of the trip, AKA long drive home, consisted of Starbucks, Redbull, some fast food and Brad and Chris imitating dudes at gas stations.  So many laughs.  I can’t wait until next time.  Again, congratulations to you Drew,  we love you and and really proud of you!  Below are a few of the photos we snapped while we were on the trip.