Nashville Newborn Photographer | Baby Emmett
I have been a photographer since 2010. I initially fell in love with newborn posing and quickly mastered it. For years I posed newborns, but after a while, something shifted for me.I realized I was just copying other’s work. I wasn’t actually becoming me - Jennie Pyfferoen the creative artist. I didn’t know I was creative. People would look at my work and say I Was creative and I would reply “no I just copy work”It wasn’t until the fall of 2014 when I went to a Jinky Art Workshop where she told me I was creative and an artist. I dont know how she saw that. Thats when my perspective began to shift.I stopped posing newborns and began transitioning to lifestyle - but that was just a middle place, on my journey. In the summer of 2017, I found @Courtney and haven’t been the same since. I had this realization of “What am I doing? Im not even truly serving my clients well” Because I wasn’t giving them what I knew they needed 30, 50, 80 years from now - what their children and grandchildren would need decades from now. Family films are simply the modern version of home movies. Ironically, in 2021 when everyone has a camera on them constantly, we have lost sight of the real purpose of memory making.Here is a black and white sneak peek of a recent Newborn Baby Documentary Film + Photos Session.... 
Franklin TN Newborn Photographer | Meaningful Memories
I first met Malary back in 2011, when she hired me to capture her first pregnancy. I instantly fell for her. She's not only stunning, but is kind and warm and loves being pregnant and having babies. She has since had 4 babies and I have been her photographer (and now videographer) for all 4! Her boys are all so well behaved and love "Miss Jennie" - I know her family and I have a bond that will carry on for years. Our sessions have always been fun and amazing, occasionally a tad wild - and they have always been filled with connection and love. She's an ideal client for having a family film and I have been trying to convince her of this for a few years. But it's hard for clients to imagine their families in films. They think they aren't interesting enough, or their kids aren't going to behave. When in reality, I have so many clips of it all that I can pick and choose from, that even if there were moments that weren't ideal, I can just skip those..... Anyway, Im rambling - but for her most recent newborn baby boy, I was able to do a film for them. She now says that she "cant not have films" because she gets it. Mothers and Fathers cant foresee what a film will give them - but once you've had your family filmed, its something you'll want to repeat. There are just too many amazing moments that film and video capture in a unique way compared to photos. (By the way, film sessions also come with photos, so you don't have to choose).Here is their family film, welcoming Asher into their family.
Warmly,Jennie
Franklin, TN Family Documentary Photographer | Collinsworth Family Film
I have had the honor of photographing this family's babies when they were little. I know their story. Its a story of many mothers out there, a struggle to have a healthy pregnancy or a pregnancy at all. Investing into IVF and freezing embryos. I work with a lot of these families, as they seem to treasure their motherhood journey that much more. Check out their family film here:
Shooting underwater was beyond fun! They have a pool and swim ALL the time. So this was very typical of them. I love entering the homes of families and filming and photographing a part of their typical, real life. We get to know each other well before hand, so I can understand how they think and what they do. We choose the best parts of their day that they want to remember.
If you want your family captured, contact me here! 
Warmly,
Jennie
Franklin, TN Newborn Photographer | Welcoming Walt
Walking a journey into motherhood is a passage into a new self as a woman and a person. Add into that any other struggle or variable, and the journey becomes that much more complex. But I have seen in my life as a mother, that the harder the struggle, the brighter the light is at the end.
Watch their film here:
Kate, the mommy of baby Walt, told me - no - admitted to me during her session that she prepared herself to not really become a mother. After many miscarriages, Kate struggled to fully believe that her dreams of being a mother would ever come true. Im so glad she was wrong.
Capturing meaning in a family's moments together. That is the goal of a family film. That is the purpose. It isn't to show a glamorous technical gorgeous session filled with gorgeous light and blurry background. Films and Photography are more than that to me. I would rather my images be extremely simple but tell a deeper story to the families within them. I would rather have 5 likes on IG and FB and have my clients sob over their photos and film. That is the ultimate reward.
Thanks for reading and listening.
Warmly,
Jennie
Nashville Family Filmmaker and Photographer | Why you should get a family film
Some people are adults, who now have family movies from their childhood. They watch them and recall their childhood. This is especially wonderful if a family member has passed away. To be able to go back in time, quite literally. Maybe on the video, we see how mom would snuggle little Ethan, or kiss Hannah's boo-boos. We see how Dad would play catch in the front yard on Thanksgiving with Tony, or how the cousins would always have pie fights.
But now, in 2018, we are lacking this, a lot. Unless its a video that comes up from years passed on Facebook, we don't have these videos of childhood to recall in the future. Having the annual Christmas Card or Fall family shoot is great and all, but is this truly capturing time? Is this really meaningful? Is it the actual meaning behind what photography was intended for?
I got married in 2006, so it was not a common thing to video the wedding. At the last minute, someone asked to take a candid video with a handheld camcorder. and I said yes, absolutely. That day was the last day I saw my mother. My mother died 3 weeks after my wedding.
When the end happens, I want to have as few regrets as possible. And when social media is gone and all of life's chaos is stripped away, when were saying our goodbyes, I know that what will truly be missed, is the moments. Not the posed ones in the field for the annual family shoot, but the everyday boo-boos and games, the naughty child who sprayed the sink with shaving cream, the way little Roman would giggle every single time his daddy played peek-a-boo. The way daddy would blow raspberries at bed time, or the teeth brushing chaos of having 5 children. The TRUE purpose behind photography is to remember THE MOMENTS. To capture the facial expression, the emotional connection, and the personalities. To tell YOUR FAMILY'S Story of today.
Some people think their family isn't interesting enough for a film. That could not be further from the truth. EVERY family is worthy of being honored with film and photos of their true selves! Everyone is beautifully IMPERFECT. Just as we were made. Just as we are.
In the end, it wont be the posed yearly photo we grab at. It will be the videos, so we can hear his laughter that we haven't heard in years. It will be our favorite image capturing a moment in time that told the story of love and connection.
If you want your family captured, contact me here!
Warmly,
Nashville Family Documentary Photographer | The Hartsfield's
This family is one of my favorites. They are so laid back and easy going. They have the most adorable laid back little girl. Im so blessed to have worked with them since she was pregnant with baby Kennedy. From her Maternity session, through the first year, and now into my film work, its been one big fun ride.The day was looking like it might rain and have lots of overcast. But it really brightened up and did not rain. It was so great spending a few hours watching them do their normal day to day activities, capturing the simple details of life that we often forget or take for granted.Many people feel their families are too boring for a day in the life photos+film session, but that is literally never true. Each family has its uniqueness and that is what is beautiful about these sessions. You can see that this family did nothing out of the ordinary, nothing extraordinary. They cooked, they ate, they played, they read, they nursed.I am booking 2019 Family Films and would love to film yours!Warmly,Hartsfield Family Film:Hartfsfield Family Film 2018 from Jennie Pyfferoen on Vimeo.Sneak Peek of images from their session :)
Nashville Family Photographer
Cultural Shift?In 2018, more people are seeing that life is short. Raising children is a blurry short time in life. Pregnancy goes slowly and then, its like you wake up 5 years later. You have a hard time remembering all the precious details in between the chaos. If you're having a hard time remembering at 5 years post newborn stage, how will you remember every important moment 20 years later? It wont come in the form of Christmas photos. (By all means, get christmas photos!). But what are we really investing in? We invest in our cars, so they last. We invest in our homes, so they last. We invest in things. But what about the most important thing for the 80 year old us? Memories. We must invest in our memories. I could even turn this conversation into talking about elderly dementia. What if thats us? and Our children could have a film to remember when we remembered?You never know...In 2007, I last saw my mother on my wedding day. Someone that day took video as a last minute offer. I had no idea this was going to matter SO much. So much more than photos. I have video of her walking me down the aisle. This was before having your wedding filmed was a thing. But, images or film, what would I miss about her? It would not come in the form of a posed image. It would be her hands. The veins in them, and how they showed the years of life she had lived. It would be her hearty laugh. I miss the looks she gave, which would only be caught on video. I miss her hugs and kisses. Her words of love. I miss the ways in which she embarrassed me. I miss the way she loved me.I wish I could go back.Im so grateful that at the very least, we have raised our children with instagram and iPhone videos. You don't need fancy cameras to capture our lives. Anything will do. I have so many little clips from even when my oldest was little in 2009. They may never become anything though - whereas a professional live video telling the story of who we are - if we can commit to doing this (investing in it) every year or two - THOSE will be keepsakes we can pass down for generations. I wish I could go back and have captured that type of film and video of our family over the years. During the first years, were so tired and stressed - wondering if were parenting right or the baby is sleeping well or eating well - that we miss the littlest things. We blink and literally six months is gone - POOF. Gone. Never to return. Another birthday comes and we do not even know where the year went. Its a societal cultural issue, that time goes fast. We do more and take on more than any other generation before us. Which also means, we miss out on more. And if both parents are working? It goes by even faster.Lets wrap this up...Life is unpredictable.We have ZERO guarantees of what tomorrow brings.What will we truly miss?The way the 5 year old put his socks on upside down? How he never took life seriously?The way the littlest always had dirt on her feet and hands?The way daddy wrestled with the boys....or maybe how he put her hair in a pony tail everyday.It will be the little things. The movements. They connection between each other, that matters. And how can we capture that?Film. Get yours now.Jennie Pyfferoen Films + Photography from Jennie Pyfferoen on Vimeo.
Nashville Family Film Photographer | A Day with the Meseck's
Filming this family was such a dream. They really embrace life and have such a deep connection with one another. Capturing them was just plain easy. Their sweet Baby, Willow, slept in half of the shoot HA! But we had so much fun waiting on her to wake up. My favorite parts of this film are when Willow and Mommy are on the swing, when daddy and willow are snuggled together at the end. Also, when they laugh reading the book at the end. They have an amazing property out in Fairview, in williamson county in Tennessee... about 30 minutes outside of Nashville. They have lots of chickens which were so fun to film! Jake (daddy), made the entire play set. They garden and rinse their veggies in the creek - this was all their typical day. When you have land, life is far more interesting! HAHAHA!
Capturing families or babies on film, is a whole other level of capturing memories. There is nothing like it, I promise you! I had ours done a year ago, and what a treasure! I watch it every so often and it really brings me back to what matters most: family. There are quirks and snuggles and movements you just cannot capture in photos.
Please enjoy this beautiful story of the day in the life of the Meseck's!
If you want your family filmed, contact me here!
Warmly,
Meseck Family Film 2018 from Jennie Pyfferoen on Vimeo.