What a great surprise when I showed up to meet Alisia for her session and she arrived in a BEAUTIFUL traditional Hawaiian Haku! I love it when seniors bring something to add a personal touch to their session and this one was just perfect. This spring senior session has had some unpredictable weather to say the least but we were lucky to have a beautiful day at Loose Park for this gorgeous session.
Well, I think we “covered all the bases” for this high school senior baseball player (see what I did there?)! We did two separate sessions in THREE different locations and I love the variety we were able to get for Michael’s Senior Photos and how we were able to capture who he is and where he is from! So for your viewing pleasure, here’s a little bit of baseball, a little bit city and a little bit country:
There was a time when a session like this would have caused me to panic a bit. Mikayla’s mom contacted me about scheduling a session soon…the end of February, in the Midwest. The week before it was -5 degrees. There’s no green trees or pretty fall colors. With most locations now requiring permits for professional photography there wasn’t much time to obtain one. When I was first starting out this all would have given me a lot of anxiety. I’ve always wanted every session to result in beautiful images that my clients loved and I would have doubted myself in this situation. Not now though…Instead, to make things even more interesting I decided to suggest we shoot at a location I’ve never used and wing it. The photography Gods were pretty good to us and the weather warmed up almost 70 degrees over the next week! There was definitely some improvising. Since nature wasn’t very colorful, I found one little green evergreen along a sidewalk and it became our color. Mikayla brought cute outfits with equally cute shoes, however because of the recently melted snow there was mud. A lot of mud. So we shot on sidewalks and in front of a storage building or bathroom or any small non-muddy patch of land we could find to get some good shoe shots, and then we ditched them. Mikayla was a trooper for sure and not afraid to brave her way to the “good spots” and kick off her shoes even though there was still ice hanging around. These type of sessions that used to scare me, are now like a treasure hunt. I love searching for good spots that aren’t obvious to the untrained eye and I hope Mikayla loves her images for years to come and remembers having some fun while creating them!
When people think about scheduling photo sessions, December isn’t usually the first month that pops into their mind (at least here in the midwest). But every year I end up with a few clients contacting me about scheduling a session in December and every year they end up turning out amazing. This absolutely gorgeous family was visiting from Texas and we lucked out with some great weather for photos. And I mean seriously lucked out because the very next day we had freezing rain and snow! I’m so happy it held off for a day and we were able to capture these images and have some fun!
Even though it’s usually one of the hardest parts of a session, going through a client’s gallery and picking images to share for their blog post is also often one of my favorites. It’s hard because I always want to post them all and have a hard time narrowing down the images, but it’s so much fun to relive the session. In true 2020 fashion, something happened at the beginning of this session that has NEVER happened to me before (so embarrassing, but I keep it real friends). I arrived to meet this family, grab my camera bag and instantly realize it feels too light. That’s when I remembered I decided to take may camera out and charge the battery a little at the last minute… just to be safe. My heart dropped. Luckily I have had the pleasure of working with this beautiful family for an engagement session, wedding, maternity, and extended family session in the past so I consider them friends and they were very understanding (and also, thank goodness our session location wasn’t far from home). It all worked out in the end and we got some amazing photos and had so much fun!