This last year we enjoyed capturing many amazing images of our senior clients!! It was exciting meeting and getting to know all of you!! As you prepare to head off to college remember to remind your parents of your complimentary family session that can be redeemed through October 2010.  Leave us a comment with your e-mail address and we’ll shoot you an e-mail with dates available for booking!

I haven’t been very good about updating my blog this month so I’ve decided that one of my many New Years resolutions will be to update my blog more often. December was a whirlwind of family and fun. Christmas was especially fun this year watching my grandchildren and seeing things through their eyes.

Ashley and I have been busy working on my new website and hope to launch it in the next couple of weeks. It will be great to have a new look for the new year. I thought I would post images from my last session of 2008 and my first session of 2009. I have to say as much as I hate the cold I love to be out shooting in the snow. There is something so refreshing and magical about winter and I love to try and capture that in my winter portraits. The light reflected off of the snow can be a little tricky to work with but when you get it just right it’s so beautiful. Of course it really helps to have beautiful subjects to work with!
Here is Christina, my last photo session of 2008.

The first photo shoot of 2009……. Aimee!

Kaitlin is the last of my four children left at home. She will be graduating and leaving the nest this year. It’s crazy to think how quickly all of my children have grown up. I told Ashley the other day that we should take an adult trip for Christmas to Seattle and she said, “Mom do you mean I should find a sitter for my kids, cause if you’re talking about us we’re all adults now!” I said, “Oh my gosh, you’re right!”

I wanted to do something different for Kait’s senior pictures so we headed up to downtown Spokane again Saturday. I love all of the old buildings there. It’s nice that Ashley lives in Cheney now so we have even more of a reason to head that direction.

Kaitlin was such an awesome model. Maybe I’m a little biased, but she had all of the poses down and was great at switching from smile to serious looks as I was shooting. She is so beautiful and I find myself lucky to be the mom of such an amazing young woman. I hope you all enjoy the slideshow and a few of my favorite shots from the day!

 I’m taking the day off tomorrow!!!!!  I’ve had a record breaking two weeks of photo sessions and my right shoulder and arm are killing me from lugging my big 70-200mm lens around.  Don’t get me wrong I’ve loved every moment of being out there shooting.  I would much rather be out there shooting then sitting at my computer editing.  Now that Ashley is helping with my digital darkroom work I can take on more sessions.  Thank you Ashley!  So now for a peek at the senior sessions I’ve shot in between all of the other sessions in the last two weeks.  It’s no surprise that I favor senior sessions above all of the other sessions I shoot.  If I lived in a larger city I would specialize in Seniors, but then again, I might miss chasing after 2 and 4 year olds.

The Class of 2009

I can’t believe it’s already that time of year!  I must confess this is my favorite time of year, I love “shooting” Seniors.  My calender is filling up fast for fall sessions so if you are thinking of calling me don’t put it off or we’ll be shooting in the cold of Nov.  I though I would post a few from recent sessions.  The first images are of a beautiful blond from Moses Lake High School. The second set of images are of a young man from Ephrata High School. I’m looking forward to getting to know the Class of 2009!

One more week until Graduation.  It’s been a great year!  I’ve enjoyed getting to know and photograph all of you.  This spring was a little hard, wind caused more then a few rescheduled sessions but when we were finally able to shoot it was worth the wait.  To the Class of 2008 I say ” Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”-Les Brown

Ashley and I have been so busy and loving every minute of last minute senior sessions this year.  I shot a mini session with Chazz this winter and couldn’t wait for our spring session, she can work the camera and seems to love every minute of it.  Ashley and I came up with a great location for this session, the apple orchard was in full bloom. It was the perfect place with lots of room to show off Chazz’s beautiful prom dress and bass.  I’m so glad her dad came along to set up and lift the bass.  I think he had as much fun as we did, you could tell he adores his daughter.

It was a little windy… no, a lot windy but we made it work.  After we had fun with her prom dress she put on another outfit to play in, I loved her bumble bee boots!

Thanks for the great session Chazz, Ashley and I are still talking about how much fun we had!

Last week we had to reschedule a few senior sessions due to the wind.  Katlin’s was the only session we were able to keep on the day we originally scheduled. The location Katlin chose was her grandfather’s backyard on Moses Lake. It was a perfect setting with many picturesque spots. Katlin’s creamy skin glowed in the sunlight. The close ups were my favorite, her personality came alive in her eyes. Congratulations Katlin graduation is just around the corner!