high school seniors
So this year didn’t play out as we expected, did it? Digital learning started mid-March. The school year ended three weeks early. Prom was canceled. Sports were canceled. Graduation ceremonies aren’t guaranteed. Did you even get a chance to make the senior photographs you dreamed of creating? If you didn’t get to make special photographs…
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There were only a few weeks of school left for 2019 graduates when Lisa realized she didn’t have senior photographs she loved of her son Jake. In the middle of finals, a multitude of AP exams, work, and graduation practice for him and me being in town very little between trips working in Arizona and…
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Some seniors know exactly what they plan on doing as soon as they graduate. It’s detailed in step-by-step bullet points in day planners. And others are open to all the possibilities. To discovering new passions and good fits. To learning the things they don’t know that they hadn’t previously considered. There’s no right or wrong…
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Meet Andre. He joined my Senior Tribe this year and is entered to win a four day cruise upon graduation. He’s also a swimmer. And a dreamer. I’m pretty certain he’s going to change the world. I love working with high school seniors and hearing their perspectives. And their hopes. Andre wanted to be in…
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This was likely the last summer with their boys home. Cale graduated from high school last year and has been attending KSU. Soon, he’ll be leaving for international studies program in Europe. Camden will graduate from Woodstock High School this coming spring and then be off to college. Anita and Brent wanted family photographs that…
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Brinkley’s senior session started in Roswell Mill. And it ended here. On the Gulf of Mexico. In Panama City Beach, Florida. We had tentatively scheduled it for a Wednesday evening and then moved it up two nights because of a forecast filled with storms and rain that covered all the hours. Brinkley’s family was worried…
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When I first met Brinkley and her mom in a Starbucks in the Towne Lake area, I was so excited. Because they were excited. I love working with high school seniors. Especially when their family is so pumped about this last year of high school and all of the upcoming opportunities of LIFE that is…
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Brinkley’s senior session started at Roswell Mill last month and then ended on Panama City Beach one week later. In the middle of our time on the beach, we pulled her parents in and made family photographs. These sweet people haven’t had family portraits made in years. And years. They were overdue. And over the…
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You may remember when I photographed Ella last fall for her high school senior photographs in downtown Minneapolis at Mill City. We made family photographs then to make sure everyone was fully seen for this year, since kids have a way of growing up so fast. Even Ella had changed over the course of the school…
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