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    My name is Jennifer Mott and I am a photographer in the Toledo, Ohio area.  I love to capture memories from sweet new babies to the wedding day you dreamed of as a little girl...and kids and teens and everything inbetween!  Life moves so fast, it's amazing to watch how much my own three children change all the time.

    Thanks for visiting, and I hope you enjoy my recent sessions!  Please leave a comment if you do!  And watch here for my latest news as well.


Fun announcements! Boudoir casting call and limited fall minis…

I hope everyone had a wonderful August!  I can’t believe how quickly it went!  We took the family and dog to Outer Banks, North Carolina and loved it!  I was good and took a real vacation, only answering a few calls and emails…and a few hours one night working on wedding proofs when I wasn’t sleepy.  So not used to getting that much sleep!  Hopefully someday I will get a chance to share the pictures I got…it was so beautiful and relaxing there!

Then I got home and spent a week working myself into the loony bin…laundry, school shopping, school paperwork, emails, calls, orders, proofs…who’s bright idea was it to take a vacation right after my busiest wedding month and right before school started?

The next week, I had the chance to go to a workshop…I actually had it planned since last year.  My favorite children’s photographer, many photographers and her clients of course consider her the best…was in Ohio all the way from Australia!  It was an amazing experience and I learned so much…and have so many things I am ready to start up and change for my business!  I can’t wait to get some time to sort it all out!

So that brings me to this week… I am still catching up from not being around last week, so please allow some extra time for me to get back to calls and emails, orders and proofs.  One of my favorite things I took from my workshop, mostly because I stress and have guilt over the time it takes me to get proofs out, get orders out…is that what we do is art, it is creative and custom and not a chain studio.  We can’t rush or we’ll lose some of that attention that makes our pictures special.  She actually has a 6-8 week delay for proofs and orders, let alone designs which made me feel better:)  I am such a perfectionist and want every family and every wedding to get my best work.

So…I promise I will have new pictures up soon, but for now a few announcements!

** First, I am holding a casting call for one boudoir model.  You must be willing to share with a TV news program about your boudoir session experience and allow some more tasteful images be public on my site and the news.  Must be someone who has always wanted to do a session like this for their boyfriend/fiancee/husband or themselves and can talk about why.  First choice would be someone who can have the session in their home, but we may work with another location if needed.  Please email me at jennifer@jennifermott.com with the subject line: boudoir casting call  and expect around a week or so to hear back from me.  You will get a free session and a large discount on prints and other items.

** Second, I have set up a fall mini session event for a few clients who I promised one to a while back… It is the evening of September 19th and will have a fall theme.  I currently have 3 spots left.  These will be 20 minute sessions for a $50 session fee and regular pricing will apply.  There may be special packages announced.  If I get enough interest, I may add one more day.  Email me at jennifer@jennifermott.com with the subject line: fall minis and expect to wait a week to hear back from me.

** Third, I will be setting up holiday mini sessions in November.  These will again be limited and will be announced soon.  This year I will have an ordering deadline for the holidays before December starts, so make sure to plan ahead if you want to order prints, cards or anything else.

I had to include one of my favorite boudoir images in honor of the casting call, I am so excited:

Julia Burrow - Jennifer, how exciting! If this helps your guilt and validates what you’ve written above…as we were waiting for our proofs, we often said between ourselves, “Jennifer is truly an artist. Her work takes time and will be soooo worth the wait!”

Announcement – Closed August 7 – 14

Just a quick post to let you all know that I will be closed from August 7th through the 14th and again on August 22nd through the 24th.   I will not be returning calls or emails until after these dates.

And I apologize for the lack of posts lately, I have been crazy busy this summer and focused on getting proofs and orders out!   I just looked at my to-blog list and it’s at 49 sessions/weddings!  Yikes… I am so thankful for all my families and couples, it’s been a really fun year so far!

joanne - beautiful blog! looking forward to meeting you soon.

Shelly and Paul’s Nazareth Hall Wedding – Published in the knot Ohio Magazine

I was so excited to see Shelly and Paul’s wedding in the new issue of the knot Ohio!  They had gorgeous details and fall colors all tied together by Shelly’s great friend Jenn…who we later found out was a childhood neighbor of mine who suggested me to Shelly and Paul without having any idea that the Jennifer Mott she found online was the same Jenny Roper from down the street.  I’m always amazed at what a small world it is.   So check out the magazine spread, and brides, so grab a copy, there are always cool ideas in there!

(click here for the online version)

(click here for Shelly and Paul’s original blog post)

Credit (the knot)

And I need to head up to Michigan to find their edition of the Knot magazine because Jess and Chris (blog post here) have a full page picture in it and the editors didn’t send me a file or copy.  It’s the color version of the black and white of her veil blowing in the arch in the blog post…

Angela Gerber - Congrats Jennifer! That is awesome, and beautiful shots as always. I love all of the color :)

April Cervenec - The one with the little girls has always been one of my favorites :) And ALL are very deserving to be in a magazine! Congratulations Jennifer :)

JP - Awesome work Jen! Congrats!

Ann@anngordonphotogr - Beautiful wedding, beautifully captured! Congrats – on the Knot!!!

mary moran - The picture of the flower girls is the best.Congratulations.
Nana Mary

Sara and Jeff – Valleywood Golf Club – Toledo Wedding Photographer

On May 22, 2011, Sara Mott (no relation but fun!) married her love, Jeff at beautiful Valleywood.  It was a gorgeous day with bright blue skies and puffy white clouds…

Check out some of my favorites from their wonderful day!

It was pretty windy, which led to some creative thinking to hold the aisle runners down…but not a lot of room to maneuver!

Eston’s made a gorgeous cake, and I loved the homemade cookies to match!

Thank you for having me capture your big day! And thank you to my second shooter, Laura!

I am working really hard to get proof galleries and blog posts up, orders in and out…I was actually supposed to be in Detroit today for an annual workshop and backed up to get more work done…so bear with me, I’ll have more soon!

JP - Love the yellow! So refreshing! And, that little boy rockin it out one handed.. priceless!

Ann@anngordonphotogr - Jen you are amazing!! Love your wedding images sooo much!

Cutie Pie – Toledo Child Photographer

Yay!  Catching up on the blog in between other things today…maybe I will get to June before July ends:)

This super adorable little S was not too into the session at first, but by the end of the day, I had a new friend as we held hands walking out of the park.

The tongue out kills me!

It was so nice to meet you both!

Katie - Soooo adorable!

Casey - They look great!