Love those spring sessions

 Just like so many other photographers I absolutely cannot wait for spring and all of the beautiful colors that surround us

My favorite sessions are young ladies with their horses and move them to a beautiful field of colors. These photos will make the best wall canvas for you to display on your homes

One of the best tips I could give anyone is to know your locations, the flowers and greenery in your area so your prepared for those sessions when they come along

Plan trips to scout areas close to where you live and ask for referrals to locations outside of your hometown. Homework is essential to offer the clients all they wish for

Sadie Jane West Senior 2023

 Sadie Jane West is a Senior at Peaster High School, what makes her story so inspiring is she showed how determined she was to graduate early.  She is actually a junior, but in 2019 she chose to graduate early and took online classes to make sure that happened.

They moved to Peaster and started a new life for her, it was the best decision she ever made was to join the High School Rodeo Team representing Peaster High School Rodeo. She says "I love every minute of competing at North Texas High School Rodeo Association and the jackpots around our area".  She credits her amazing parents for hauling her every week to compete on her horses.  

Sadie will be attending Hardin-Simmons University in the fall and plans to study animal science/pre-veterinary and eventually become an equine vet.  She is so excited to graduate and start another new life in college accomplishing her goals.

She was so nice to compliment Jo H Photography as a sponsor and being there during her rodeo and barrel racing career capturing the action where she competed.  She served as a Junior Rep on one of my teams and has been such a big supporter, I can't thank her and her family enough for that.

Trey Pennington Senior 2023

 When I first started my photography journey, I was a hobbyist looking for something to do in a little down time I had.  I started off in Saint Jo Texas and what I loved was they offered mini and senior bull riding.  I loved this sport so much.  Down the road 10 years and I ended up photographing at NTHSRA in Saginaw for a few years and again, fell back into the bull riding events and watching some great bull riders.

This week I had the pleasure of capturing Senior 2023 photos for Trey Pennington, he was one of our regular customers at the Photo Booth at the rodeo and I loved photographing him each week at the youth rodeos.

Trey started his bull riding career at the young age of 3.  He is currently 18 and competes at North Texas High School Rodeo and has qualified for the Fort Worth Stock Show Scholarship Rodeo and also competes at TYBR events and various youth rodeos. 

Trey also currently serves on the Student board for North Texas High School Rodeo, He has been doing all of this wile competing in law enforcement events.    He is going to continue his love of Bull Riding after High School at the collegiate level while gaining a major in Agricultural Business.

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Kylea Pytel Senior 2023

 I met this young lady a few years ago through the great sport of Barrel Racing and then High School Rodeo.  She is a member of the Burleson Rodeo Team and will be graduating from Burleson Centennial May of 2023

Kylea will be attending Texas Tech University in the fall specializing in Human Developmental Science and then attending Tech Nursing School after she finishes at Texas Tech.

I asked Kylea if she would be continuing with her barrel racing when she goes off to college and she said "YES" She will be barrel racing on the Texas Tech Rodeo Team; thats a huge accomplishment and so much hard work and dedication to be a full time student as well as being a part of the rodeo team.

"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long a you do not stop". Confucius.

Best of Luck to Kylea in her future, I wanted to appreciate her and her family for being so supportive of my little business

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 I had the pleasure of working with Kaprice aka "Pip" of Pips Bakery on Food Photography.  She brought her love of cooking and Grandmas recipe to life and created her own small business.

Kaprice is a wife and mother and grew up in a small East Texas Town and loved the country and the wild honeysuckle and pasture full of horses.  Her love of baking is deeply rooted from her early childhood standing on an old wooden stool in her grandma's kitchen, just tall enough to peek over the counter to dip her fingers in the dough for a taste.

As she has continued to bake throughout her adult life, it was her Grandmothers passing that really pulled her back into the deep love of baking.  She received her old wood box of handwritten recipes, most of which were very hard to read but filled with so much love and memories of her kitchen when she was a child.  Kaprice began making all of those old family recipes mixed with some new she acquired along her baking journey and felt a peace she hasn't felt in a long time.  She said "I knew I needed to pursue this passion."

She feels blessed to be a part of so many others special occasions and just their normal day to day lives that includes something she loves in her baked goods.  Her passion for baking has grown to a bigger dream of maybe one day owning her own bakery.

Facebook:  Pips Bakery

Photographer: Jo H Photography www.johphotography.com

North Texas High School Rodeo 4.22 and 4.23.2022

The regular season for 2022 is about to finish for North Texas High School Rodeo.  This past weekend was a double point race; what that means is alot of the athletes below number 15 position could move up to a higher placing to make the NTHSRA Finals.

If you have not visited the rodeos on Friday and Saturday nights I would make it part of my weekend plans to come out and watch some great rodeo action.  Rodeos on Fridays start at 8pm with a $7 ticket charge to come inside.  Saturday rodeos start anywhere from 2pm to 6pm with the same gate entry charge.

North Texas High School Rodeo Association consists of rodeo athletes in the High School level from Freshman to Senior.  You will see teams as small as 4 members and some teams as high as 47 members.  

Each athlete pays their own entry by themselves or with the help of a sponsor.

Events at the North Texas High School rodeo are (bareback, saddlebronc, walk up goats, ride up goats, steer wrestling, team roping, calf roping, ribbon roping, barrel racing, pole bending and bull riding.  Rodeos last anywhere from 4 to 6 hours with numerous entries each day.

The caliber of talent at this organization is amazing!  I would encourage you to come out and witness what will be tomorrows NFR champions.  This organization is run by a board of directors with rodeo teams hosting rodeos to help run a smooth process week after week.

Vendor spots are always available, food is always fresh at the concession stand.  Come out and support such a great organization

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Business Specials

 

2020 and the beginning of 2021 has been a challenge for small business.  With so many begin NON ESSENTIAL we were shut down from our regular routines of booking and helping clients and waiting for unemployment checks and stimulus checks to survive.

At the beginning of this year I wanted to do something to collaborate to help other small business and also stay busy.  I offer a very affordable small business photo shoot (which includes minimal editing) to give you 30 days of photos to post daily on your social media to use for advertising 

Its been great with the first few that jumped onto this, helping them get the photos they need for advertising and then posting about their business on my facebook page to hopefully draw some attention to them as well as myself.

Small business is often looked over or have to wait longer for corporate business for any kind of assistance, we need to help each other by word of mouth and referrals.

The best way you can help is if you have a small business you like, give them a shout out on facebook, so many people go to facebook pages and hit the like as a way to follow and keep up with a business.  Likes, Shares, Tags, and giving a small business a 5 rating is almost as helpful as $$.  Money is always best but to help share and advertise for a business goes a long way.

http://www.alpschiropractic.com/ ALPS Chiropractice on Facebook located in Blum Texas can help you with animals, and humans. 

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