I'm Jeanette, a photographer, a multicultural millennial, and a perfectionist trying to learn the joy of embracing average, while still dreaming big! On my blog I share all of my latest photoshoots, as well as my thoughts and musings on life and all of the ups and downs that that entails! Grab a cup of tea, a fluffy blanket, and cozy up with some of my blog posts! 

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"TO FIND THE BEST IN OTHERS. TO LEAVE THE WORLD A BIT BETTER . . . THIS IS TO HAVE SUCCEEDED"

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“IMPERFECTIONS ARE NOT INADEQUACIES; THEY ARE REMINDERS THAT WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.”

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"CHARITABLE VIEWS...CANNOT BE ACQUIRED BY VEGETATING IN ONE LITTLE CORNER OF THE EARTH ALL ONE'S LIFETIME."

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"TRAVEL IS FATAL TO PREJUDICE, BIGOTRY, AND NARROW-MINDEDNESS"

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"STOP CHASING PERFECT, AND START SEEING PROGRESS"

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jeanette merstrand

Hi Dreamers! Jan and I celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary last month and I wanted to share just a few pictures and thoughts with all of you in celebration. We celebrated our day eating breakfast together (Jan woke me up with flowers and breakfast), gifting each other handwritten letters, hanging out at the lake, […]

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June 13, 2018

jeanette merstrand photography

A few months ago the magnolia tree outside in front of our apartment was in full bloom. Gorgeous and lush with its white and soft pink blossoms. For the past few years while living here in our small Frankfurt apartment, I have loved watching this tree in spring progress from bare, to budding, to full […]

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May 30, 2018

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Hi Dreamers! This past week I was reminded that there truly is a time and a season for everything, and here’s my little story that reminded me of this: I had mini sessions all week last week in the cherry orchards of Ockstadt, but because of the rain and wind I was certain that the […]

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May 5, 2018

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I think everyone experiences it occasionally. Those mornings where the sun is shining and the birds are singing, and you don’t really know why, but you just seem to wake up on the wrong side of the bed. Days where that mood then lingers the rest of the day, and any little thing seems to […]

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April 19, 2018

herning fotograf

  Hi Dreamers! This post veers a bit from my usual posts on this site, but I wanted to share this powerful video that I discovered recently. One of the reasons (reason #101 😉 ) of why I love photography is that I love capturing people’s smiles, people’s emotions, people’s joy. Joy is beautiful to […]

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March 14, 2018

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Hi there Dreamers! If you know me, you know that I absolutely love receiving hand-written letters! When I was younger I would sit in the basement of my grandparents’ home and look through the handwritten letters of generations since past. I found it absolutely marvelous that although these people who had once written these letters, […]

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March 12, 2018

jeanette merstrand

“we all have a beautiful story to tell and that story deserves to be told. I believe this is one of the purposes of photography- to tell stories, and to capture moments, preserving them for the eternities”   Hello Dreamers! As an extension to my “About Me” page (if you haven’t already, read that here), […]

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March 9, 2018

jeanette merstrand

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible” Welcome to Dreamer by […]

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January 31, 2018

A Love Letter. To the shirts that made me feel beautiful The bright colours that taught me that I can be bold- if I want to. To the first pieces bought With my own paycheck To the shoes that carried me through high school And then through university Later to trod the grounds of a dozen […]

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March 10, 2017