here are some responses to my work:

"the pictures turned out fantastic. you have a great artistic eye, which is important to [my husband] and I considering we are both in the art field. it will be hard to choose which photos to print!... thank you so much for being a wonderful photographer, both in person and through your pictures. I will hang on to your card to pass along to anyone who may be interested in your services. please let us know if there is anything we can do for you. thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"we just looked through the pictures (a couple of times already!) and they are AMAZING - I'll send a more elaborate thank you very soon, but I wanted to let you know real quickly that we got them and are immensely pleased! you did an amazing job!"

"thank you a million times thank you! oh Jessamyn, the pictures you sent are so wonderful, I cannot begin to express how delighted we are with them all. we have shown them to everyone we can find! even strangers on the street! I have know how talented you are for so long, and now I have the proof in my hand."

"fabulous pictures! how you can capture a feeling as well as an image is amazing to me (and to everyone else we've shown them to)."

"thanks again for everything... you have been the best person I've worked with throughout the whole wedding planning, and on the day you were awesome!"

"the photos were unbelievably wonderful. you really knew how/when to capture the 'moments' of that fun and happy day. you successfully depicted the CONNECTIONS. and those little-but-oh-so-important images that everyone notices, but usually only 'record' mentally. this truly is the magic of your work. totally awesome. I got the same feeling when looking at the photos - that happens when viewing an art exhibit that really ENGAGES, MOVES, OOOHS and AHHHHS me. really, it IS ART."

"thank you thank you thank you for being the best wedding photographer ever!!!"

"it sounds a bit cheesy but each shot is truly a work of art... on top of the really superb quality of your work, you were by far one of our most favorite vendors to work with - a real pleasure. we'd gladly recommend you to future prospective clients!"

"thank you so much for the wonderful photographs... they were excellent, and you really captured some perfect moments in so many of them. Êyour personality also makes all the difference. you're simultaneously incredibly easy to be around with a casual, personal disposition, and at the same time, you were the most professional person I worked with throughout the entire wedding planning process. Êboth those qualities are so important in a photographer, and it's rare to find a person who can fuse them so flawlessly. Êso, again, thanks. Êyou truly made the wedding experience that much better (and with all the photos.. so memorable)." Ê

"dear jessamyn, I just wanted to come look at your beautiful work. it's so rich and emotional and just gorgeous. I would love you to do portraits of [us again] sometime, definitely when I get pregnant (!) and definitely of the little one. (it's a few years off but we really want you to be our family photographer!) anyhoo. beautiful website and work!"

"I love, love, love my photos, thank you so so much ! I've never really had photos taken of me and I was kind of scared, but you were so nice and it was really fun! thank you!"

"your work is beautiful and admirable... beauty is often difficult to capture in a single photo, and yet you have done so in each one of your pictures. high five to you."

"your photos are great because they all have some sort of bizarre history implied. every single one of them makes me wonder "what led up to that photograph?". they seemed like they were all snapped at the perfect moment."

"you capture something so real in people. you add life instead of taking it away like so many photographers do."

"[the bride and groom, who were married at city hall and were reluctant to let her mother throw a party in their honor] loved the pictures.Ê my daughter, who did not want a photographer, ended up asking me to make copies of 73 pictures for her, 23 for friends and 30 for [the groom]'s dad who could not attend."

"I'm sorry I'm so belated in thanking you for the fantastic photos of my wedding. the day they arrived, I tore open the box and looked through every single photo--laughing and crying and reliving the day. I couldn't even wait for my husband to get home to look at them with me. they really are beautiful and captured the day perfectly, artistically and with real warmth. thank you so much!!!"

"again, thank you for capturing our special day so beautifully. we will treasure those photos forever and will happily recommend you to anyone who needs professional photography in the bay area."

"the photographs are gorgeous! we love them all! the album is lovely, we approve of every shot you placed in there. you are excellent at your craft. some of the other proofs got us giggling as well. for us, it did bring back the lovely feelings of the day. thank you for helping capture the emotions and events."

"jessamyn is the most amazing photographer. she makes everything feel natural, and when you see her final product, you have never seen anything more beautiful in your entire life. she shot pictures of me after I woke up from a nap, and I felt terribly cranky and sloppy, and when she showed me the finished product, I was amazed at what she could do! I highly recommend jessamyn!

"I really forgot how much I love pictures. and I feel so lucky to have these beautiful photos that are of my family."

"we're extremely happy with the [wedding] photos and with your work. they're just the kind of quality and touch that we wanted and they came out wonderfully. they're just amazing! we're overjoyed and we appreciated what you did. thank you."

"I love your website! lovely images, you seem to really love your sitters and life as well."

"I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed your photography and I thought your portraits were gorgeous. you really seemed to capture the moment and personality of the sitters. the images speak volumes. thank you for sharing."