Personal blog of photographer, father, and technology geek Steve Jackle.
As you can probably can imagine, growing up with the last name of Jackle was not always easy especially in the fall when Halloween was approaching. If I had a dollar for every time someone called me Jackle-lantern, I would be a rich man. There were other names derived from Jackle too but we will…
Today, was the first day were both of our kids are on the regular school schedule. Last week, Savannah went in for one day for her kindergarten assessment. Last night, we found out her class assignment at the Hilburn open house. Today, they officially headed to school together hand-in-hand and happy. The Jackle Parent…
As you saw from my last post, my oldest daughter Sophie started the 4th grade yesterday. Today, our youngest daughter Savannah started Kindergarten. I understand why it is hard on the parents especially their mothers when their last child starts school for the first time. Apparently, Savannah did also. She told my wife Jackie “Don’t…
Sophie starts the 4th grade today. I came down from my office to find Sophie laying our bed as her mother was painting her toe nails. I just do not remember that happening with my sister when we were growing up. Sophie is all into fashion and clothes. Man, we are in trouble when she…
Today, I was perusing through some of the work I have done in the last year. I found that I would keep going back to these two images from several months ago over and over again. I was trying to figure out why. Was it is the way they were lit? Was it because they…
Since we live in Raleigh and Mike lives in the NC mountains, our paths cross just a few times a year. One is usually the Grayson Highlands camping trip. This is where this image was taken. In the past few years, Mike got married and had his first child. A musician and teacher is now…
On Saturday, we celebrated my wife Jackie’s 40th birthday. The party was done in an 80s theme. Her friend and bridesmaid from our wedding almost 14 years ago Kim did an amazing job with planning this special date. She got the wonderful cake and cupcakes, created various decorations, created the 80s playlist for the music,…
As mentioned in another post, I attended Wedding Photographic Society (WPS) convention this past week, I was the lucky winner of Alien Skin’s SnapArt 3 during one of the giveaways. To be honest at first, I was a little disappointed that I did not win one of their other software products like Exposure 3 ,…
We had a great time camping at Grayson Highlands State Park. This first shot was taken at the Pinnacle near the Visitor’s center. It includes both my girls with their cousins Nick and Autumn. Here they are again under this very cool tree that grew over a huge boulder. Below, a wider shot of the…
We spent this past weekend at Grayson Highlands State Park on our annual camping trip with Lipkin(Jackie’s) side of our family. If you have never been there, I very highly recommend it. We set up our camp on Saturday in the group camp site and cooked our foil packs for dinner. The next day we…
Over the last several years, the notorious Tweetsie outlaw “Mama Senora” has been running amuck in the little western NC town of Blowing Rock, NC. She has been on the top of the Tweetsie Railroad 10 most wanted list for the last several years. None of the previous sheriffs have been able to apprehend her…
This past weekend, we headed about 3 hours west of here to Boone in the North Carolina Blue Ridge mountains. We took a drive down the Blue Ridge parkway and did a bit of hiking near Linville, NC. Nothing like hanging in the mountains with my girls. Can you take the picture already daddy? Savannah…
Personally, I think the greatest joys and challenges in life come from being a parent. My children have been the root cause of every emotion possible in my being from laughter and pride to frustration. It is moments like this one that make me forget all the challenging things and realize that it is all…
Friday was the last day that Katelyn was able to take care of our girls for this summer on a regular basis. She and Sophie particularly had a special bond. Sophie calls Katelyn her best friend. We decided to take a few pictures of them together so Sophie would have something to remind her of…
Man I am in trouble… Today, I wanted to have photo shoot with my girls but with a little twist for father’s day. Typically, I am the one behind the camera, but this time I wanted to be in the pictures. I asked Sophie to help me with some tests shots so I could have…
A few months back, we celebrated Sophie’s birthday in a very fashionable way. We invited a few of her “super model” friends , wrangled up some volunteer hair and makeup artists, had a fashion shoot with the “light meter” dude as my assistant, and ate some birthday cake. As a Raleigh based portrait and event…
I remember almost 17 years ago when I first started dating Jackie this little girl was about 1-1/2 years old. We were playing “wacky-ball” in my soon to be sister-in-law Lori’s pool. “Wacky-ball” was an inflatable ball for the pool where one side of the ball had a weight in it so it will fly…
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