{Jackson} | Senior

Jackson's session had a lot of laughs.. one of my favorite kind of sessions! We also had great weather and great locations to hit. I'm not going to keep talking, just check it out for yourself :)













Thank you, Jackson! I hope you have a great Senior year! :)

{Katie} | Senior

It was a beautiful day for Katie's senior pictures. It couldn't have been a clearer sky. That same sky made for some beautiful smooth images with a classic beauty like Katie.

First we started at her home, and I got to meet this little pooch..



Then we began to venture and we got these shots at a local barn. They turned out so beautiful! So easy, because Katie is GORGEOUS :)





These last images are my absolute favorites. As I edited, I couldn't help but be floored at how amazing they turned out :) Makes for a happy Jamie!











LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Thank you, Katie! Enjoy your Senior year!

{Laney} | Senior

It's been a pretty common theme this year, friends of friends of fellow clients coming along on our sessions. I must say, it's a trend I LOVE, because it helps to calm the nervousness when their own senior session comes to be.

Laney was along on a couple of her friends' sessions, and it only set the ball rolling on her own excitement of her senior session. I could not wait! It wasn't the only thing I couldn't wait for, as I couldn't wait to see a certain picture I took on her family's past residence that day. One of my very favorites of the year..

We started in Convoy on this rainy day, something that I had impulsively done because I hadn't really ever shot there alot before. The grainery beckond my artistry, and I couldn't have been more inspired with Laney's sense of style.



We had to dodge a few (okay, more than a few) raindrops, and we ended up having great discussion in the car in the in-between time. But after the drops, this is what we caught...









We then travelled to a home outside of Convoy that Laney's family used to live. It was like we travelled back to her childhood. We even found a place in the barn, scribed in chalk, "Laney was here". It was an amazing energy there, like she was experiencing something like her session that allowed her to be in a passage from childhood, but yet she was enjoying the nostalgia of being back into it at the same time. Smiles were plenty. :)

She showed me her old hangout...



And then she showed me the hayloft. I was in a state of bliss. I think I shot this frame 80,000 times, just because I was IN LOVE with the ambience and the light, the shimmer from the golden straw, the unorganized chaos of the egg crates. THIS SHOT is a shot I will never be able to shoot again. It's cemented in my mind as something I could never recreate for anyone, because THIS. Is. Laney's Shot. In my mind it would be like trying to recreate the Mona Lisa. Everytime it would be recreated, it would begin to lose it's brilliance. I cannot convey much more the energy I felt in this shot.



After the high of that shot, I wanted to try something I have wanted for a long time. Laney hit it right on. I always have seen Senior sessions as a "right of passage" of sorts. With the fairy dust of childhood losing it's luster a little more everyday, and adulthood around the corner of a Senior, I have always seen a picture in my mind involving a suitcase and a highway. I don't think I need to explain anymore after you see this picture...



Thank you, Laney! Such an inspiring shoot :) Good luck and enjoy those moments you have left at being a kid :)

(EARLY) Black Friday Double Gift Certificate Sale

We are starting Black Friday a little early! We will hold a double gift certificate sale for Black Friday!

How it works: You buy a Gift Certificate in the increments of $25, $50, $75, and $100, and your Gift Certificate will be doubled if you buy on Black Friday! $25 becomes $50, $50 becomes $100, $75 becomes $150, and $100 becomes $200.

It's a perfect fit for anyone, you are giving the gift of documenting memories, and you look like you spent a fourtune! :) It's a win-win all around!

You can copy and paste this blog address into an email and send it to your favorite gift giver, or you can post this on your facebook or twitter so all of your gift givers can see it! Share the love <3

Happy shopping.. another bonus, you won't get trampled shopping here ;) YAY!

{Abbie} | Senior

On more than one occasion, I have been blessed to know my clients when they were younger. In Abbie's instance, however, it made me *gulp* to know she was a Senior because I knew Abbie when she was a wild-haired little beauty 12 years ago. She was a curious girl who I always saw when I would occasionally visit her older brother, Adam. It's hard to believe that little girl that would hang on her older brothers every last word, is now as old as I was when I first met her. THAT is very hard for me to admit, because I still feel 17 inside :)

I was overjoyed when Abbie's mom, Michelle, emailed me to set up her senior shoot. Not only was I excited to shoot for Abbie, but also the kind words Michelle had for me and my work. I always felt a kindred spirit when I was in her presence, she is so warm and inviting. Makes the whole experience of Senior images so worthwhile when you have people so awesome to work with.







Abbie's session was absolutely wonderful all around. I love her images, and I even got to pay a visit to my old friend, Adam, his wife and son, and the Dart that I coveted rides in as a teenager :) Many great memories revisited,many laughed over and cringeworthy (on my part), during Abbie's shoot! ;)









Thank you, Abbie! I hope you enjoy your senior year to the fullest and now I am sure that that wild-haired beauty has grown into a goregous, amazing and fun young woman :)

Hair by Rachel Elliot

{Nick} | Senior

If there were a poster child for what I want in all the boy senior clients I want to shoot, Nick would be it. In fact, the more I think about it.. If I were a boy, I would probably BE Nick.





It is no secret, and it's usually a ridiculed one from the crazy women I hang out with, that I have a little piece of my heart for guys with long hair. I also have a love of the unwashed, bearded folk as well, but Nick does not fit into that category. When he showed up with his hair down. I decided I had to keep the professing of my love of his hair to a minimum. I failed. Many, many times, I failed.







This kid also knows good music. He smiled when he looked through my music collection. I smiled because I love his hair. SEE?! I cannot stop. He brought his guitar (Bonus points!) and he wasn't kidding around, he knows his stuff. I think I took 80,000 images of him playing because it was so awesome I didn't want to interrupt the amazingness :)







Thank you Nick and your hair. ;)

{Mackenzie} | Senior

Rain, Rain, go away come again another day! It's a song alot of seniors sing when it looks downright damp and dreary on the day they are scheduled for senior pics.. Mackenzie was no excpetion! But what's a little rain?! Do you think drops of H20 can stop me? Heck no?! I am a super-freakin-hero! ;)









None the less, Kenzie was a bit nervous about shooting in the rain, but assured her that everything would be fine :) Speaking of fine, look how Kenzie rocked out her rainy day session...






And what would a rainy day session be without having a little fun in the water? We used our last shot, and a fabulous maxi dress to play in the puddles :)

Thank you, Kenzie! Have a great Senior year!!

Makeup by Katie Miller

{Brooke} | Senior

Brooke has a smile that could light up a room. I mean it, just looking at her pictures while editing made me want to smile :)





We got some fantastic shots and even got to take some with her friends, one of my many favorites of the group is this one:



Brooke, thank you for choosing me! And for being so insanely patient while I have been laid up. I know you were anticipating your images as much as you were aticipating the shoot itself :) You are a beuatiful girl! Enjoy your senior year :)











Hair by Rachel Elliot