This Season's Portrait Highlights

I've run out of time!! So I am just going to show a couple highlights of some of my wonderful clients. I chose one of a child, one of a couple, and of a family to share. Thanks for a great year and especially a wonderful holiday season. Wishing all the best for my clients, friends and family for 2010!

January Special

It is time to start planning for Valentine's Day already!
Your child will be the talk of the class with custom cards to give to their friends for Valentine's Day. 
You will be a proud parent with a three image 10 x 20 custom wall print. 

First Snow

First snow for our newest dog.

Sleeping on the Moon

I will be sharing just a couple of my favorite images in the next couple of days from this seasons Christmas shoots.


But before the season got too busy, my daughter and I took a trip out to Kansas to visit my friend who I wrote about in a recent post Tangled in Barbed Wire.


She is a photographer friend and also a member of my support group Cancer Chicks. She has a studio on her property filled with backdrops and props that unfortunately she can no longer use because of the damage to her arm but she took me out to her studio with my daughter and her granddaughter and she watched as they played dress up and I played photographer. I wish so badly she could have been able to shoot with me. We have never had that chance, to actually shoot together.


Below you will see just two pictures from that day, with more to come in following days. The moon prop was made by her talented husband, Galen.


She and I have tenative plans to make a "bucket list" trip to see some place and person that she really wants to visit. I am asking for prayers and good wishes that this can happen, that she can be well enough to make the trip that she wants to make so badly. And that we will be able to see each other once again, never knowing when our final goodbye will be.

I hope you sleep well tonight my dear friend... as if you were sleeping on the moon...

To Write Love On Her Arms

Today is "To Write Love On Her Arms Day" 

To Write Love On Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery. 

If you are suffering from depression, self-injury or thoughts of suicide...please, reach out for help...reach out in hope, reach out to your dreams...

YOU...ARE...LOVED.

Good Friends Are Like Bras

I wrote on Facebook that I was looking for quotes about friendship to include in a memory book for my Cancer Chicks' group that I am creating about our trip to Florida. Another photographer friend of mine gave me this quote and I couldn't resist creating a photo to go along with the quote. What fun!

Photographic Art by Jane Bingham

I am excited to announce that you can now purchase my Photographic Artwork! This is something I have been working on for a while and so happy to be able to offer my photography art for sale to decorate your homes and offices. I currently have 4 galleries available to purchase from. "The Tangled in Barbed Wire" series, "The Caged" series, "Nature" series and "Camden Riverfront". You can view the galleries and make purchases by going HERE

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Tangled in the Barbed Wire

As I walked around the bend in the path I saw her. I saw my friend Chris. She was trapped and tangled up in barbed wire. Fighting this barbed wire, trying to free herself from it, only seems to cause her more pain. Cutting her and damaging her arm so much that it makes fighting to be free from it even harder. The barbed wire gouged her arm so horribly that it now dangles at her side swelling, aching and useless...

I stood there, in shock. Wanting to help so bad, reaching out but she is too far away! I can't reach her! All I can do is talk to her, let her know that I am here...too far away to help her get untangled but close enough that she can hear my voice.

I try and encourage her, I raise my voice to travel to her, hoping she can hear my words of encouragement and love. Hoping that somehow, my words can bring some relief to her pain and encouragement to keep working to get untangled. Wishing so badly there was more I could do.


But my words are all I can offer her. As she grows tired of fighting against it and the pain becomes too overwhelming, I try and tell her, "Chris! Look at the beauty around you. Can you take some comfort in the beauty around you?"
and she replies, "Jane, remember, I used to be like you, a photographer! Taking beautiful pictures, seeing the beauty around me and lifting my camera to capture it all. But this barbed wire has torn my arm up so badly that I can no longer even hold my camera."
I realize there is nothing I can do but just stay with her, letting her know how much I care. So I stay, as the sky changes...I stay...

As night comes and the sun sets...I stay...I will not leave her, I will stay until the sun has gone and I will be there in the morning when the sun rises again, to keep by her side as she battles to get free from her bondage of this barbed wire called stage 4 mestatic breast cancer. I will not leave you, I will stay...

Autumn Walk at Alcyon Park

I went for a walk yesterday alone, just me and my camera, at Alcyon Park in Pitman, NJ.


It was a beautiful day for a nature photo walk. I enjoyed every moment! Fall is my favorite time of year.

The colors are peaking just now in New Jersey. Perfect!








Even pealing tree bark is amazingly beautiful to me.



The squirrels were so active, collecting nuts and such.


This made me smile when I walked up the path and saw it. Thank you for leaving me this drawing, whoever you are!

I am always on a look out for that perfect picture. One that tells a story. One that moves me and touches my soul. So profound that it seems to stop time for me. It is such a beautiful moment when you see it and I did. As I turned the corner on the path I saw it!... and you will too...tomorrow. :)

Camden Waterfront {New Jersey Freelance Photographer}

My son Jacob and I volunteered to photograph the Light the Night Walk for the South Jersey chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society last Saturday evening. We got to Campbell's Field early so we went down to the waterfront to take some pictures.







The Camden Waterfront is a cool place for photography. Then, as I look over the rail, into the the river, this is what I saw.

Sad! We have to do better my friends!