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Hi there! i’m katelyn.

Hello, and welcome to the KJ Blog! I'm Katelyn James, and my husband Michael and I are a wedding photography team based in Richmond, Virginia. We hope you grab some coffee (or a diet coke, in my case) and enjoy viewing our latest work, browsing resources for photographers, and getting a little peek into our life!  Read more...

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Greg + Kate

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I am typing this blog post from thousands of feet in the air. We’re on our way home from Italy, and I have a hard drive full of images that I can’t believe I had the opportunity to take!! There aren’t words to adequately describe how much I loved Greg and Kate’s wedding!! If you have followed me for a while, you know that engagement sessions are a MUST for us. That’s our time to get to know our couples and get them comfortable in front of the camera, but when you’re on maternity leave and your couple lives in Chicago… sometimes an engagement session just isn’t possible. I knew going into Greg and Kate’s wedding day that I would not only be meeting them for the first time but I would also be teaching them how to be comfortable in front of the camera as well!

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5 Reasons You May Be a Destination Bride!

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We are currently in route to NYC to fly to ITALY to photograph a beautiful wedding for a very special couple!! We’re taking Evy AND my sister, her husband and their baby boy! Crazy right?! The cutest part of this experience thus far has been getting Evy’s passport in the mail! She looks so cute and tiny!!!!! So as we were gearing up for this trip, I have been thinking a lot about destination weddings! We just photographed another destination wedding LAST weekend in Hatteras (very southern point of OBX!) and now we’re traveling across the ocean for another one!

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HATTERAS DESTINAITON WEDDING
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Matthew + Cameron

  • Hatteras Destination Wedding

Cameron is a photographer! So you know what that means…. it means that I went into this wedding day knowing that pictures were a HIGH priority and I didn’t take that responsibility lightly!! We ended up with some incredible portraits that are going to be saved in my “favorites” folder for SURE!!! I love ending a wedding day knowing that I have hundreds upon hundreds of images that I’m proud of! Maybe I’m still on a high from not shooting for so long during maternity leave, but I was LOVING life during this wedding! It was such a blast!

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