Jordan Balash Photography

I think I blinked once
Maybe twice?
And before I knew it
My 9 and 6 year old were in the back seat
BEGGING me
To turn down my John Prine
As I sang it at the top of my lungs
In the school drop off line

“You’re embarrassing us MOM”
my kindergartener shrilled
Rip my heart out and stomp on it
Why don’t you

All this rambling to mean
It’s really true what they say
Those babies just don’t keep

Before you know it
You’re not their whole world and you have to share them
With classmates and friends and teachers
Opinions from others and “you’re embarrassing us mom”s and

Homeschooling sounds really good right now

You know I love a gal who shows up with a vision ✨🪩☀️
I had so much fun trying something new with Ashley and Derek. It’s giving Lady and the Tramp, Barbie and Ken, and somehow James Bond(rooftop?) all in one

It wouldn’t be a spring session if it didn’t start raining approximately 10 minutes into outdoor photos 😅 lucky for me, these guys radiate CUTE inside and out(side.. see what I did there?)

Baby’s first steps
First words
First teeth
First smile, first laugh,
First photo shoot
(I’ll let you decide which is most exciting 😏😂)

Hi Friends! Just dropping in before the summer madness begins with some important booking info:

I am currently booking senior portraits into July and August, with a few family session slots left for June (as well as July and August).

I have minis tentatively planned for late June and sunflower/zinnia minis in Mid August. (Will you give me a comment below if you have interest in summer minis and which one you'd likely book?)

xx,
Jordan

I grew up a “playing in rock piles with Tonka trucks” kid, not so much a “doing barn chores” kid, and honestly I was like 75% scared of chickens before we got them 😂
Now I am fully obsessed and wondering how many is TOO MANY (we’re currently at 13). We love our “chickies” as Blue calls them and I can only hope they are my gateway drug to other farm animals down the road 🐐🐄

I photographed miss Junie in her mama’s belly almost a year ago at this very spot and that’s the kinda thing that I’ll forever wax poetic about.. the magic of time and change and pausing it all in a collection of moments.

I can take or leave the algorithm, or pushing my services onto people to book more sessions and make more money. I’m feeling a lot of “ick” about the social media side of running this business, lately.
But I’ll keep showing up and sharing these sessions because there are so many beautiful humans and moments of connection that I need to share… Even if only 12 people see it 😅

Spring cleaning 🌱
Kindly download your client gallery from 2023 if you haven’t done so yet (excluding senior sessions) as they will be deleted come May 1st.
All galleries are backed up on external hard drives, just needing to make space on my gallery site for new sessions ❤️

How often is it that I get my newborn, golden (x2) AND cutie parent fix all in one session?! (Honestly, that trifecta probably happens more than you’d think but I love it Every.Time. 😍)

Holyyyy guac, I have been so lucky to photograph some beautiful new babies this winter 😍
Juddson has three amazing older sisters that I have photographed for years now and watching them do their own mini photoshoot with him was THE BEST. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, letting your kids be free to be themselves during sessions is where the beauty lives, y’all.

At home with the Zimmer Family🤍

(listen, did I accidentally hit Granite in the eye with a basketball while we were playing in his living room? Yes. Was he a gracious, two year old gentlemen about it? Yes.
In home family sessions are so fun, but don’t let me around your two year olds toys, I guess? 😅)

Would the opposite of a glitter girl be a “dirt girl”? Because that’s me 😅 but when you’ve got party decorations and face glitter left over, it begs for a self portrait.

Let's do something different; I am acutely aware of the awkward dance a small business has to do to consistently "push" their business while being sensitive of the economy and their (potential) clients/customers, especially after big spending holidays like Christmas.. .(also, hello, my grocery bill is killing me, I get it lol ) Do you know how much it helps to have people share, like and engage with our social media accounts? It's HUGE. Will you give your favorite small businesses some love in the comments below? (Photographers included, of course!) and be sure to follow any accounts in the comments that speak to you. It's such a small act that goes a long way! ❤

The elite time to have a newborn is in the winter when you can hibernate at home and snuggle 💙
(Unless of course you have multiple children and then your home can feel like a prison 😅)

Being able to photograph families as they grow is never not going to hit me hard 🥲💕

It’s the season for a hodgepodge feed as I update my website and realize how many favorite photos I accidentally didn’t share from last year.

Also, real quick.. why are we not all saying “hodgepodge” more?! go ahead, say it out loud.. it’s a good one 😏

A friendly reminder that my website contact form is being *weird* again.

Please send inquiries directly to [email protected]
(Facebook messages do not get checked regularly, email is the best way to reach me!)

There have been so many times in my life when I’ve felt like I don’t “fit”. On an average day, I feel pretty convinced that I was born in the wrong decade. I can’t stand feeling like I need to be attached to my phone/computer. The older my kids get, the busier our lives are getting and the more I crave slowing down and simplifying.
… I borrowed my moms VCR a few weeks ago because I just want us all to feel the pain of having to sit through a tape rewinding to watch a movie 😅

Do you ever go somewhere and look around to see how many people are staring at their phones? Life is happening around us and I feel like we’re all just.. missing it.

I’m not saying this to sound above it all or better than the next person.. this is just what happens when you hoard film for several years, get it developed and realize how fast time is flying. How fleeting this one life is… Also my dead dog was in one of those rolls of film and there’s just no coming back from that

The sweetest family session 💙
swipe to see a real life “Little Blue Truck”.. (if you don’t know this children’s book it’s about a bomb little blue truck wandering around the farm/back roads with his good friend, Toad… big “Little Blue Truck” fans in our house 😅)

Merry Christmas from the Balash Family 🌲they’re gunna go stuff themselves with cookies all week while Mom spirals about where to put all the new toys 😅

✨ A friendly reminder to book that session with your adult kids (and their significant others 😉) ✨

** lucky to have a friend who sets up Christmas cookie baking & decorating for our kids while I stand back watching the chaos unfold/have a straight up anxiety attack ( 😅🫠) and she keeps her cool. Flour flies, tears are flowing and sprinkles are being consumed by the handful but these are core memories, ya’ll **

December Jordan would like to hibernate/bake/sew/do basic homemaker s**t but photographer Jordan is forcing herself to stay semi (🥴) consistent with posting so the algorithm doesn’t hide me (life in 2023 is really that weird..)

Happy to share this special boy and his family, though.. the world is so happy you are here, healthy and home with your family, little Everett ❤️

I’m really only here for the families that love and embrace the chaos ❤️ 🥲

I love the moments that show themselves when we step back and just let it be.

Em, snuggling her American Girl doll from when she was a kid, as directed by her 3 year old daughter.. timeless 😂

(Psst..I'd love to try to fit in a "Christmas cookie decorating" or "picking out a tree + decorating" in-home session this month, for anyone interested- I should note that these lifestyle sessions differ from newborn sessions in pricing www.jordanbalash.com/pricing )

Wrapping up mini edits 😍🌲

My favorite fam in their Christmas card best ❤️🌲🥺

For months, while I’ve been getting my camera ready for sessions, Blue has watched me and demanded a “pitchewww mommy!”. Here’s a (small) compilation of those photos, I think it’s a beautiful reminder to show up where you’re at and love yourself there… light sabers, boogers and all 😂

Definitely going to have to make this a part 1, part 2 situation 😍 (part 2’s got 🍦)

Rachel had a vision for some cool ass urban photos for her fam and we went as urban as we could in Rome NY 😅 I love when meeting new clients *clicks* from the get go, and the Halls felt special right away.
Please go give Rachel a follow , she is so so talented!

Never forget 3-4 years ago when I vowed to NEVER do Christmas minis again (think a foot of snow and temperatures in the teens in November 🥶) but here we are 😂 round two of minis today and I’m so thankful ya’ll want to come freeze your buns off with me! 🌲

New life ✨

Also just forever trying to find the balance between hibernation (.. throwing my phone in a lake) and oversharing.. I’ll letcha know when I figure that out 🫠