I've got an idea...

Your senior portraits are supposed to be a snapshot of an era.  Lots of exciting things happen your junior and senior years -Prom is one of them.
I think it would be pretty awesome to include a Prom shoot with your Senior pictures package.  And, I suppose if you want traditional, we can do that.  But if you want images as creative and different as you are, I think we should have a conversation.  If you dig, call me for details.

Here are a few of my favorites.

"We look at each other like that all the time."

I sat here for a long time trying to figure out a way to blog this session.  

After failing several times at explaining the moment(s), or how I felt, 

I decided to just show you the pictures.

I will say this:

In 50 years, when I'm looking into my wife's eyes, laughing about the moments that keep us 

smiling and holding hands,

the moments that never get old -no matter how many times we relive them,

I will, undoubtedly remember my session with Mrs. and Mrs. C.

"Our fathers were best friends, so we've known each other all our lives."

When Mrs. C. would try to get her husband to smile naturally, she would say, 

“Think about Gurtie.” 

(their cat). 

"We sowed our oats for a few years and finally married.

We always knew we would."

"This is how I would touch him if we were at a party and didn't have a place to sit."

"We started courting when we were about 13.

We would make ourselves scarce after church..."

On speaking of a photographer she is acquainted with;

“I Tweeted him something a while back and now he follows me –idk.”

"We look at each other like that all the time."

Happy 60th Anniversary.

A weekend with Haylee

When I heard Haylee was driving in from Oklahoma to shoot her senior pictures with me, I was determined to give her images that she would love.  Turns out, she gave them to me.  We spent the whole weekend not caring about rules and just hanging out.  Her character and personality made this session effortless and beautiful.  Thanks so much for being an incredible person.

Sunflower Sunset

I saw a Facebook post a couple of days ago from a local photographer.  She said there was a field of sunflowers a couple of towns over.  My first inclination was to promptly SHUSH her to keep such a sweet location on the DL.  Whatever.  No big deal.
The next morning, I saw a mutual photographer acquaintance had already posted his shots of the field.  Ok.  Pretty neat.  I quickly contacted Nina and coerced her into shooting with me.  Later in the day our LOCAL NEWS CHANNEL posted a notice to EVERYONE ON THE PLANET that there was a really cool field of sunflowers.  OMG.
Whatever.  It's cool.  What do you do?  Right?
So we show up to see several cars lined up on the side of the road next to this crazy-huge field of sunflowers.  All neatly pointing their 'faces' east to meet the morning sun.  I sigh.  Nina and I were running a little late at about 7:15 (the sun sets at 7:40).  I grabbed the ladder from the truck bed and we launch into the field and started firing away.  Nina knew just what I was looking for.  The sun was visibly dipping over the hill on the horizon.  (Scout your locations people).  The folks that came out were leaving.  They weren't interested in the sun setting,  The incredible light.  And they certainly didn't bring anyone to shoot with.
They just wanted neat pictures of the flowers.
Me too.