Friday, March 27, 2009

Felicia


When Felicia came in for her consultation for her Senior portraits, she said she wanted something different. She loved the look of rustic doors, or old front porches, or said we could try the downtown OKC area and find some fun alley ways.

So we scheduled her senior experience for the following week; and I drove around a few local towns to find the perfect spot for miss Felicia's session. I love the opportunity and challenge to be creative. And this was the perfect challenge.

I found it! A nice fun alley with big colorful doors, a spiral staircase, and close to some other parts of the town that had some old front porches too. Everything she wanted and then some!

Do you have some ideas for your senior session? Want something different and fun? Call us!

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Lindsay

What a privilege we had this morning. Elise and I got to do senior portraits for a young lady who is finishing her high school studies this year at home. A few years ago, she was in a car accident and was crippled. She's 20 years old. She can't speak. She's mostly confined to a wheel chair. She can use her right arm enough to drive the chair to some extent, but mostly depends on others for mobility.

She was excited to be doing her senior portraits, though. She had three clothing changes, including a formal dress and homecoming queen ribbon and tiara, and a bouquet of red roses. Her biggest smiles came at the reminder that she was done with school (pretty much like any senior). It was hard work for her to do the session, somewhat tiring, but she loved it. She loved the attention. She loved being treated as someone special. Oh, I hope and pray that she loves the images - not because I need the approval, but because I want her to know how beautiful and special and precious she really is!!

Monday, March 23, 2009

Spring break & bunny season!

The bunnies are here! People are calling to schedule Spring children's portraits, and photos with the bunnies. Last week was Spring break. We took the first couple of days to do maintenance around the studio, especially outdoors - minor repairs to some of our sets, clean the pond, trim the grass on the berm, weed flower beds, prune shrubs, recover from sore muscles.... Then the rest of the week was mostly senior portraits. We did squeeze in a day at the zoo, and bunny photos for the little ones in our own family. We got portraits of Elise's little one, Anna, and her cousin Eva (Adam's little girl) one day.












Then this weekend, Trish & I got photos of Sarah's boys, Thayer & Aidan. We learned very quickly that two toddlers, and two hyper-active toddler bunnies in front of a camera is at least a three person job!! But we still came away with some cute images.