[thou·sand] a great number or amount.

Time to pick up the pen again.  Let the flood gates spring open.  The rushing waters were too much to contain.  Oh, how I have missed typing these keys to let my mind flow!!!

For those of you venturing over from Baby In Beantown, a huge “Welcome Back!” sign is bursting with bold acrylic paints at the top of this page for you.  No, I didn’t run off to be with Florence and The Machine on tour.  No, the family didn’t move to an exotic Caribbean island Blue Lagoon style (although I wish I could look like Brooke Shields’ effortless beauty).  No, America’s Next Top Model did not uncover their new leading lady (insert the most ridiculous amount of sarcasm here).  Instead, I fell in love.

Baby In Beantown followers, meet Jecca D Photography.  Jecca D Photography, meet Baby In Beantown blog lovers.

I know this may be that super awkward, first time meeting the parents kind of introduction where no one knows where this is going, but bare with me.  It’s worth it.  See I ran off with a man called Canon Rebel T2i and I haven’t been able to keep my hands off of him ever since we met back on that dreamy Christmas morning 2010.  He a strayed me from a new-found passion of blogging about my perfectly imperfect little family on Baby In Beantown for the first 18 months of Lyla’s life.  A passion that was helping me to discover more about my blossoming self than I had ever known to exist.  Super Mom.  Appreciative Neighbor.  Humorous Wife.  Giving Citizen.  Hopeful Leader.  Loving Friend.  Sprouting Photographer.  Creative Writer.  Somehow the little-blog-that-could led me to realize I could paint words onto a screen with accompanying photographs by simply telling our story.  I don’t believe my Thermodynamics teacher at a prestige Engineering university thought I ever had it in me.  I don’t believe I actually passed Thermodynamics either. 

The more I got into the Milky Way of photography’s depth of available information, the less time I had to peck away at the keyboard on my personal life to share.  I was already cutting it close with a husband to spend quality time with, a baby to nurture, a hell of a laundry pile to keep up with, an attempt to cook, some sort of therapy appointment to remember everyday, and 5 minutes to shower and throw your wet hair in a bun.  Somehow, some way, you always figure it out.  I believe that’s the Mom Code -- am I right mamas??

But eventually there wasn’t a way, and photography fully took over all creativity cells I possessed in my 30 year-old body. Scraping the sides of my brownie mix bowl of any ooey gooeyness sugar energy I had to give towards the racing hours I was awake in the day.  Long evenings at “night school” once Lyla went to bed to hit up digital photography sites online from my home office (aka recliner) well into the wee hours of the night.  (It’s sort of comical how many mornings Troy found me asleep in the living room, sitting fully upright, laptop open on my thighs, neck hurting like a son of a b*tch when I awoke.)  More and more clients pouring in during the freeing weekends to fill a portfolio.  Learning the intricacies of Photoshop from video tutorial pros much like Bob Ross with his giant easel -- you know, the guy with a bodacious afro who made painting Evergreens look like brushing your teeth??  Yeah, that guy. 

And sure enough, Jecca D Photography was born.  A love child if you will.  (Don’t worry.  My husband knows, and he’s totally cool with it in that 70’s hipster style he likes to call his own.)

I’ve nursed her through infancy, went through some teething growing pains, and now she’s up and walking.  Nope, actually -- running.  Sprinting haha.  So now that we’ve got Jecca D on her feet, I felt like it was my duty to return back to my first creative love of writing.  A perfect way to compliment the eye-opening stories of my photography sessions, showcase QUALITY photos unlike the butchering ways of Facebook’s photo uploader, and interject Baby in Beantown’s style with updates on Troy, Lyla, and I’s adventure across this colorful journey of life through pictures.

Everyone knows the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.”  Well, I want to cash in.  It’s time to tell the stories that these picturesque scenes are worth.  And I’d really like it if you’d lend your ears (doh! eyes) to see what the world is like for others.  To know we’re not alone, to know we’re not above anyone.  To know that each of us are unique in our own right.  To know what the world is like through someone else’s eyes.  And maybe to teach us as a whole what it’s all about --

Perspective.

 

Please follow this joyously excited girl scout leader on a photography adventure that’s sure to tell quite a story.  Some pictures will only need 5 words displayed and leave you to figure out the 995 remaining.  Some I will not be able to stop my fingers in clicking out 1000 words with raging waters of emotion just flowing.  Either way, we’ll all walk away with a different view.  A different story.  A different spin that may lead you in directions you never knew existed.

I welcome you to Jecca D Photography’s blog.  I plan to write as much as I possibly can, especially with a photo project on the horizon attempting to post your best picture of everyday life, EVERYDAY in 2012.  It’s a 365 Project if you will.  I’m already calling it -- think it will be more like a 52 Week Project for myself, but I swear to Bob Ross I will do the best I can.

Thank you everyone for your interest in Jecca D!

And just for the record, this was 1000 words on the dot.  Boo ya!