Personal blog of photographer, father, and technology geek Steve Jackle.
It was Saturday night and my wife was out secretly shopping for Christmas. We accomplished the bath night duties and it was time for kids to play. They decided to have a little themed restaurant fun. Armed with a hand-written menu, some play money, staff name tags, Wisconsin Badger hats, and kitchen supplies, the girls…
We had our first STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) expo this past week which is a two hour event showcasing the STEM learning program at Hilburn Elementary school. Sophie presented information regarding the engineering design process in her 4th grade class session. Savannah worked with her classmates to design and build a house. Her kindergarten…
Recently, Sophie has been taking guitar lessons. I guess in sense she is following her old man’s footsteps except that my guitars only had 4 or 5 strings. I am really glad that she is showing interest in music. It’s really cool how music can unite people. We decided to head upstairs and take a…
Be sure to check out these previous Halloween 2011 posts. A Witch A Funky Dancing Princess A Vampire See you soon!
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…
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…
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…
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