Photo Locations North of Austin
Photo locations in Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown and Austin, Texas. Fall photos are in full swing and I'm so excited to release new locations this...
Sessions in Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown and Austin, Texas!
Fall photos are in full swing and I'm so excited to release new locations this year! Here is what to expect from each location I’m offering. All sessions I offer are dog friendly. Take a look and email us at hello@doxandco.space to book your session!
Dates and Locations for Dox & co.’s fall 2023 photos
BLUE HOLE PARK
Georgetown | Sept. 10, 2023 - evening sessions
(NEW LOCATION) This is the first year I’m offering sessions in the water! If you’re looking for something different and relaxed for your family photos this is for you.
We can of course take a few dry photos near the water, but bring your water shoes because we’re getting in!
There is a very shallow spot with smooth pebbles that would be great for barefoot/splashing photos without getting fully in the water. Flowy dresses, casual outdoor attire or even paddle boards are all great ideas for this session.
OVERLOOK PARK
Georgetown | Sept. 24, 2023 - evening sessions
(NEW LOCATION) This park is next to lake Georgetown and offers a beautiful view of the water!
There are large trees and nature trails before getting to the lake. It has a large paved sidewalk leading down to the rocks making it a simple walk down to the main photo area. This is a great location for wide open spaces.
PUMPKIN PATCH
Cedar Park | Oct. 6, 2023 - afternoon sessions
Last year I took some photos at the Rockbridge Church pumpkin patch last year and they turned out so cute! It wasn’t too busy, there are some fun fall backdrops and a playground for kids.
It’s a perfect spot to come get a quick portrait of your kids or pets before spending a fun afternoon picking out pumpkins.
LAKEWOOD PARK
Leander | Oct. 7, & Nov. 5, 2023 - morning & evening sessions
This park is a favorite among my clients! It holds the record for the most sessions at one location.
It has a beautiful bridge next to the lake, large trees and side walks so there is a lot of variety here. It’s a beautiful park with a convenient location, what’s more to love!
BERRY SPRINGS PARK
Georgetown | Oct. 14, 2023 - evening sessions
Another favorite - this park has wide open spaces, nature trails covered by arches of trees and quite a few areas that are great for portraits.
As with all my sessions, this park is dog friendly! There is also a small playground for little ones to play at after your session.
STUDIO SESSIONS
Leander | Oct. 21, 2023 - morning sessions
For the past three years I have been shooting preschool school photos and occasional headshots or portraits of animals with my studio set-up.
For the first time I’m offering a morning of micro sessions at my home studio!
This is great for children, headshots and photos of your pet. If you are interested in booking a longer session please reach out!
BUTLER PARK
Austin | Oct. 22, 2023 - evening sessions
If you live around Austin, the downtown skyline is a classic backdrop. Butler park has nice sidewalks with medium and large trees that lead up to a look out point.
This park is busy, but worth the view!
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
Leander | Nov. 3, 2023 - afternoon sessions
For the first time I’m offering Christmas micro sessions! These sessions will capture the magic of Christmas morning.
I will be setting up a backdrop of a vintage red and green quilt with wrapped presents outside in a local park area. I will have a kids chair and adult stool available if needed.
If you want a Christmas themed photo of your family or a fun photo filled with presents for your kids this is the shoot for you! Pets are welcome as they are with all my shoots.
The photos below show the amount of presents I’m thinking about as well as the exact quilt that will be used as the backdrop. I may even add a small Christmas tree!
VETRANS MEMORIAL PARK
Cedar Park | Nov. 4, 2023 - evening sessions
Veterans Memorial park is a very accessible park with playgrounds and a large dog park (Cedar Bark Park). This is a semi- new location as I’ve photographed a few dogs and their owners in a large field, but haven’t shot inside the actual park.
It is a wonderful park with a large memorial wrapped with a spiral of sidewalks and has a backdrop of trees from almost any angle. If you have a high-energy dog the dog park would be a great place to run off energy before or after your session!
GEORGETOWN SQUARE
Georgetown | Nov. 12, 2023 - Evening sessions
(NEW LOCATION) The Georgetown square has a classic, small downtown setting. If you’re looking for a small town, urban look for your photos this is a great spot! I’ve shot in many areas like this, but not specifically in Georgetown.
There are so many great shops and restaurants, you could make fun dinner plans after your session!
Austin Halloweenie Meet Up
Austin Dachshund Lovers Unite! Haloweenie meetup at the Round Rock Dog Depot.
The first of hopefully many Austin area dachshund lovers meetup. Enjoy!
Feel free to repost any of the pictures, all I ask is to tag @Doxandco to help people find my business!
Photography Portfolio | All Genres
Below you can look though my portfolio of my photography from all different genres! My hope is that you will see my excitement for storytelling, that when you peruse this gallery it makes you smile and you feel a sense of warmth as if you are experiencing each scene here and now.
You will of course find animals, including pets and wildlife, but also portraits, landscapes, editorial and event style photography. Maybe seeing this gallery you think I’m a good photographer, but if I have, instead, captivated your attention and leave you not seeing a “perfectly composed photo,” but rather a wonderfully captured moment, then I feel like I’ve done my job.
I love thinking on my feet and capturing life as it happens and would love to tell your story. Hire me for any assignments and bookings by calling me at 281.755.1116 or email me at stuffjennadoes@gmail.com so we can chat and I can add you into my calendar as soon as possible.
Now enough words… enjoy!
- Jenna Friedrich
First Class and Namibian Cash
Houston to Washington D.C. to Dakar to Johannesburg and finally NAMIBIA! Blog on traveling from the U.S. to Africa.
Houston to Washington D.C. to Dakar to Johannesburg and finally NAMIBIA! We made it after one connecting flight, one pit stop, one night in Jo-burg and one last flight till we head home in four weeks. We’ll be bussing it around Namibia from now on. The A&M mascot Reveille gets a first class seat in my bag so you be able to see what she is up to also. I’m the official plush Reveille handler for this study abroad as deemed by the Study Abroad Programs office (I volunteered). I don’t think they know how obsessed I am with this, they only asked for 10 and I’ve already taken 18 in the first three days… they don’t even know what’s coming.
Flight Experience:
The three hour flight to Washington D.C. was pretty normal, we flew United Airlines and I decided watched Into the Woods on the plane which took most of the time. There were so many movies to choose from! We arrived to the D.C. airport with enough time to walk around and get something to eat; the time flew by so fast! We ended up getting a call from our professor saying that the plane was boarding so everyone rushed from all over the airport to get to our gate. Since our boarding passes were with United, everyone needed to get a South African Airlines pass. I was the last one in line and figured my seat would be the same as the one on the old boarding pass, right? I didn’t even look at the new pass. Much to my surprise my seat was in row 15, not on row 70-something. I walked all the way to the back where my group was, getting confused as to why my seat number was so low. Well a flight attendant told me I was in “Premium Class,” and proceeded to escort me to the front of the plane. At this point everyone hates me, luckily another girl, Janesha, had also been upgraded and took the heat with me. It was great, let me tell you… first class is the best way to take a 17 hour flight. Comfortable, reclining seats, delicious food, cool air… ok I’m done, you can look at my pictures. Anyway, I sat next to an older man from Zimbabwe who had been in Texas visiting his daughter. He talked quite a bit, but was pretty quiet so I don’t really have any other information about him. I thought the flight attendants were really nice, but some of the girls in the back mentioned they were kind of rude, it might have been the specific one assigned to their section, but there is a little review for you. They provided us with two dinners, breakfast and lunch. We had an hour-long pit stop in Dakar then proceeded to fly into Johannesburg. It was such a coincidence, I watched the movie Chappie which was set there so I thought that was cool. After staying the night in Jo-burg we boarded a plane to Windhoek, Namibia! Apparently there was lunch, but I slept the entire time. I was glad to have the very roomy emergency row window seat. I’m not sure why I got to choose my seat, but it was the last window seat available on the British Airline. I was able to convert my U.S. Dollars to the Namibian currency at the airport, their bills are so colorful! The shops in the Johannesburg airport were so cool! Some of them were very ‘African’ looking and sold zebra skins/rugs! I asked and the cheapest ones were a little under $900. I seriously want to come back to Africa one day with an empty suitcase and small carryon just so I can get all the things to decorate my home. It’s going to happen. Zebra print everything, except the woodcarvings of other wildlife. Our advisors told us we would be able to find most of the items elsewhere on our trip for less so I didn’t buy anything. They also said they like to buy from villages because you get to physically meet the person who carved, sewed or made the item, as well as supporting some of these people’s only income.
Night in Johannesburg:
As I mentioned before, we spent one night in Johannesburg, South Africa before arriving in Namibia. We stayed at the City Lodge hotel which is connected to the airport, it was so nice! At this point it didn’t really feel like we were in Africa yet, didn’t walk outside and the hotel looks like it could be a nice hotel in America. We went to our rooms to unwind for a bit then met downstairs for dinner. I had a tomato and cheese sandwich that came with salad and chips (less than $5! It would probably be about $10 at Panera for the amount of food I got) and an apple crumble dessert which was delicious, it was surrounded by this yellow liquid which looked weird, but was so good! We were able to take hot showers from a rainfall type shower head and relax before bed, its was so nice. Plus I roomed with a super nice girl in our group named, Demi. I had fun talking with her and some girls across the hall! A breakfast buffet was provided in the morning and it had so many options, I tried a little bit of everything so I wont go into detail about the food options, but the had a pot of tea on every table! We have been told we have tea times in the future on this trip and I think that is just so exciting! The only downside to this hotel was we only had one plug in the room so it was hard to charge all of our electronics. In Africa, their voltage is higher so it charges faster, but you can’t leave anything plugged in for a long time or else it could kill the battery. This means we couldn’t charge things during dinner or breakfast or during the night while we were sleeping. That was pretty minor though, I could deal without my laptop for one day until we got to our new location, but you’ll hear about that in the next post. Spoiler alert, this place has three plugs per room, but also it doesn’t like extension cords with surge protectors… Stay tuned!
Overall this trip has been so great and amazing, I’ve seen some wildlife (there were baboons like squirrels by the airport in Windhoek) and have had so much fun getting to know everyone! I’m just so thankful to finally be here since I was supposed to come last year, I can’t believe that I’m actually in Africa. We had a game tour, so you’ll see a lot of wildlife on the next post!
Follow my group by searching the hashtag #TAMUtakesNamibia15 or follow Reveille with the hashtag #RevOnTheRoad
P.S. I’m in Africa!!!? Ahhh!!
So I'm Going to Africa
Update: I’m traveling to Namibia, Africa, follow along with my blog posts from the trip.
So I'm going to Africa, all over Namibia to be exact. It gets it's own blog page so you know exactly where to find information about my travels and updates while I'm there, including lots of photos (of course). I am going on a study abroad with Texas A&M University and will be studying "Photojournalism and Cultural Pluralism," aka photography and communicating agriculture. I'll be there for four weeks in July and August 2015 so stay tuned and subscribe for updates when I post about the trip!
I wanted some travel related photos to use as cover photos for my blog posts and what not, plus I couldn't get the idea of using my grandparent's suitcase in a photo shoot out of my mind! So my brother reluctantly agreed to take some pictures for me (I had to help him address graduation thank you cards in return). He took a photography class once so he has a good eye, however, I did set the camera to the correct settings, told him what to do and I edited the photos so don't give him all the credit (haha)! I'm glad he suffered through all my directions and we made it out with some good shots.
Cy-Falls Prom 2015
So I'm a little late getting these pictures edited and put up, but these are from my brother's third and final prom (this year). Unless, of course, he gets asked again by his younger friends who are about to become seniors. This was the same location as his Cy-Fair prom group (as you can see in a previous post), but this time I didn't take pictures of everyone so we had so more fun exploring new locations and poses. I hope you enjoy and maybe get a few ideas for any future prom or other formal photos!
*P.S. In case you thought three proms was a lot, my brother went to two last year, escorted at two Brigade (drill team) balls, attended or escorted maybe two or three senior presentations for the National Charity League I used to be in... I've lost count.., participated twice in the Mr. Cy-fair Fundraiser pageant and there are probably a few I'm forgetting. Needless to say, the tux place knows him by name and he will definitely be embarrassed that I shared this on the internet. Thats what sisters are for, right? #sorrynotsorry
Unfortunate Disasters at Dances
I have unfortunately witnessed multiple tragedies surrounding formal dances. I was able to capture the moments, but not save the victims. I do not want their story to go untold so I am posting the tragic events to my blog as they happen. Hopefully I will never witness another unnatural disaster such as these, but if I do, please know that I will make it my life goal to remember the individuals involved.
Disclaimer: The backgrounds, T-Rex and Meteor are not my own, they were found on Google for these fun photos per request of my brother and his friends. All images were edited by myself.
Cy-Fair High School Prom 2015
My brother texts me at midnight (the night before prom!) and asks if I'm taking pictures of his prom group. After finding out that his prom is the next night, I thank him for the advanced notice and go to sleep. That Friday afternoon I rush from work in College Station to Houston in order to make it in time for their prom photos and here they are! All the girls looked gorgeous in their dresses, they had some pretty lucky dates! *Meteor/dinosaur photo coming soon*
By the way my brother is ridiculous and won Prom King, Most Handsome and Most Versatile. I don't know how he tricked people into voting for him, but I guess I'm a proud sister.
Enjoy these photos!
Cy-Fair High School Senior - Chase
Having a sister as a photographer has definitely has its perks. My brother and I got to have fun a a ton of different locations in our dad's home town of Weimar, TX as well as travel to his favorite spots around our hometown of Cypress, TX over the course of two days. I love that we got to experiment with locations, poses and expressions during this two day "session." I would call it "Chase tells Jenna how take pictures of him while trying to be a model." Which one do you think is more accurate...? Enjoy these fun photos!
Texas A&M Senior Pictures - Camryn
It was so fun to do these senior photos for Camryn! I posted these photos on my Facebook page last May and thought I should start posting on my website. Check out a few of my favorite photos of her at the Academic Building and George Bush park at the George Bush Library!
