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Jenna Ettlich Photography OAHU Photographer - Family, Military, Children

Final military retirement celebration! 🎈🥂 Ceremony over. 🇺🇸 Time to take a breath and relax at her favorite beach Bellow...
09/04/2026

Final military retirement celebration! 🎈🥂 Ceremony over. 🇺🇸 Time to take a breath and relax at her favorite beach Bellows Air Force Station , while I continued to capture photos of their memorable Oahu celebrations. 🏝️ A few hours to let loose, socialize, and laugh with many visiting family and friends…

Once again, I count it a true joy and honor to have had the opportunity to create these images and pass them onto a family to enjoy forever…. 🇺🇸 ❤️

This is post number 4 in a sequence of collections, covering a beautiful, happy, milestone celebration weekend. A full career of service - Thank you! 😊

Military ceremonies, events, and parties are essential for keeping the morale up. Always a reason to celebrate a retirement. 🌺

Reach out if you’re looking for photography coverage of your upcoming military ceremony or event! 🇺🇸



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Post-ceremony receiving line, leis upon leis 🌺, hugs, congratulations 🎉 , relief, the start of a much-deserved retiremen...
09/03/2026

Post-ceremony receiving line, leis upon leis 🌺, hugs, congratulations 🎉 , relief, the start of a much-deserved retirement! 🇺🇸

The military community is filled with bittersweet sentiments on a day like this. So much to celebrate and congratulate with each one who retires from a career of service…. But sadness pervades in a way, when a cherished comrade steps away and into the next stage of life. 🏝️

Military ceremony and event photography is pure enjoyment for me - I am a military spouse. ❤️ 📷 Reach out for photography coverage of your special milestone, be it promotion, commissioning, change of command, homecoming, or retirement. 🇺🇸 I’d be honored to be there for you!

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Thank you for your example of a career of service to country! 🇺🇸 Congratulations! This is Part 2, a continued celebrat...
09/02/2026

Thank you for your example of a career of service to country! 🇺🇸 Congratulations!

This is Part 2, a continued celebration after yesterday’s post: The retirement ceremony. Beautiful and so inspirational. 🌺 An honor to be the primary photographer amidst an amazing, accomplished, and humble crowd of people. All smiles.

Need a military ceremonies photographer? Feel free to reach out! 👮

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Celebrate good times, come on! 🥂 🎉 🇺🇸 Party & celebration the night before a big retirement ceremony late July… for this...
09/01/2026

Celebrate good times, come on! 🥂 🎉 🇺🇸

Party & celebration the night before a big retirement ceremony late July… for this absolutely stunning woman, amazing leader, and sweet friend to many. 🤗

Incredibly honored and privileged to be their photographer, to capture memories they will cherish for a lifetime as they think back upon a career of service in the U.S. Air Force 🇺🇸 Thank you for all you’ve done!

Stay-tuned for more pictures this week of her ceremony and afterward gathering. 🏝️ I was there for all of it, two cameras dangling, thousands of pics to cull through afterward! 😁 📷 Photo credit to Noah Ettlich too. He was an amazing second shooter to have on board.

I love covering events, people, and military ceremonies, and this set pulled it altogether. Yes! 👏



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Family of 4 celebrating retirement + Oahu dream vacation = beautiful pics to cherish forever ❤️This trip was inspired by...
08/21/2026

Family of 4 celebrating retirement + Oahu dream vacation = beautiful pics to cherish forever ❤️

This trip was inspired by mom’s USAF retirement. Thank you (and your husband) for your service! 🏝️🇺🇸 And grandma came too, which made it even more memorable. Congratulations to all! 🎊

Such a sweet connection with these five. I love 3-generations groups, as family is so important and special…. 🌺

⭐️ BOOKING NOW for HOLIDAY SESSIONS! Let’s schedule you in September or October so you have time to create/send your holiday cards and order gifts for the grandparents! ⭐️



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Why I haven’t posted in several weeks 🌎✈️Soaking up places, family, Hawaii, and photog clients. Each time I think I’ll m...
08/19/2026

Why I haven’t posted in several weeks 🌎✈️

Soaking up places, family, Hawaii, and photog clients. Each time I think I’ll make a post, something more intriguing than social media comes up! 🌺

Photo 1) beautiful sunset view from Waikiki
2) Lake Crescent, PNW, family vacay
3) with my 3rd son & 2nd daughter, Capitol Hill
4) Aiea Heights Church family camp beach day
5) traveling The Balkans with daughter 1
6) Son 4’s soccer season
7) pre-USAF retirement program photo shoot
8, 13, 14, 15, 16) Fun family photo shoots
9,10,11,12) photographing 3 three-hour amazing events
17,18) Navy ceremonies
19) a visit from happy 90-year old Papa!
20) Hawaii sunsets still keep us mesmerized by the beauty out here in the Pacific

Thankful for a rich and meaningful, albeit busy and full, summer. About to start the school year… 📕 I think I will breathe in September!

How was YOUR summer? What was your favorite place to take pictures? ☀️



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Post-proposal sunset family photos! ❤️💍 You may remember my last post about the beach proposal I photographed last mo...
07/28/2026

Post-proposal sunset family photos! ❤️💍

You may remember my last post about the beach proposal I photographed last month, as our oldest and youngest kids helped with Westcott Lighting 💡. The groom-to-be is my good friend’s son. We have known them since meeting in Hawaii when this young man and my oldest daughter were only 1! 👶

Many years of friendship made this proposal and beach night even more special. 🤗 Thank you for inviting us into your momentous evening… Cindy Johnson

Congrats, beautiful family! ⭐️
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She said YES! … in a spot special to him - Hawaii! 💍🏝️ A great honor in early June to capture the proposal and some earl...
07/23/2026

She said YES! … in a spot special to him - Hawaii! 💍🏝️

A great honor in early June to capture the proposal and some early engagement pics for my dear friend’s son, who I’ve known since he was one. 👶 He and my oldest daughter were baby-friends in a playgroup last time my husband was stationed in Hawaii.

This location, Ko Olina, remains special to my friend, her now-engaged son, and the rest of the family. So a proposal (and pics) in this spot was appropriate and so sweet. ❤️ The bride-to-be is absolutely lovely, and it was a pleasure getting to know her as well. The best part was hugging my friend of 23 years… who was there also! 🤗

My last post stated that our bookend kids helped with lighting for a special shoot…. This was it. Didn’t our 23- & 11-year olds do wonderfully with Westcott Lighting ? I’m very satisfied with the results we got, working as a whole team to capture these pics. 📷 🌺

After the proposal itself, the groom-to-be’s family arrived on scene, which was all part of the secret plan; we then moved onto a family photo session as the Hawaiian sun set. 🌅 Those pics, soon…

Enjoy this Oahu proposal photography, friends! And many congrats, Luke Johnson & Alex Caljean 💍



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Our book ends, oldest and youngest, working for me! 📷💡 Lighting, logistics, and vibes? 🤙 Leave it to these two. About a...
07/14/2026

Our book ends, oldest and youngest, working for me! 📷💡

Lighting, logistics, and vibes? 🤙 Leave it to these two. About a month ago, we 3 pulled off a pretty amazing proposal photography situation, with photos I will share later this week. It was so fun working with my own kids again, as they laughed and learned together, and warned me not to trip over more rocks 😂, while the sun set at Ko Olina. 🌅

These two are 11+ years apart and actually spend quite a bit of time together for siblings that far apart in age. I took these pics of them as we waited for the proposal couple to walk down the beach. We pretended to be engaged in a photo shoot of our own, so that the bride-to-be wouldn’t notice we were actually there for her. ❤️ Not sure our incognito strategy totally worked. But it was fun, memorable, and I now have some unique pics of our two….

Blessing to live in this beautiful spot and to do photography at the beach! 🏝️

Faith Ettlich

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SUCH a meaningful celebration! 🎉 50 year Vow Renewal with a BEAUTIFUL family! 🥂 💍It was a true privilege to be invited i...
07/10/2026

SUCH a meaningful celebration! 🎉
50 year Vow Renewal with a BEAUTIFUL family! 🥂 💍

It was a true privilege to be invited into this family‘s celebration last month. ❤️ And a bonus that we share faith in Christ… My son (that night’s lighting guy), and I were equally encouraged by the journey this wise and tender couple shared at their Kualoa vow renewal....

Victories, trials, joys, grief, growth, and a loving God at the center. Their smiling, affectionate family of two children, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law, and six gorgeous grandchildren filled the humble event with life-giving, healing smiles and celebratory laughs. Amen! 🙏

I can’t wait to see what’s next for this family. I’m convinced we’ll keep in touch! Oh, the friends I’m honored to make through photography… 🤗

CONGRATS on 50 years!!

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JULY & AUGUST ARE BOOKED! ☀️
Let’s schedule your SEPTEMBER SESSION! 📅



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