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Living in a town without a photo lab is painful. And I'm not at all dramatic about it. Sadly, that makes digital shooting the most convenient option. While Allison and I were out shooting her senior pictures earlier this year, she humored me and let me shoot part of the session on film just for fun.
Before Madison even got in touch about taking her senior pictures, I had already begun convincing her to take them at Palo Duro Canyon. I met Madison through Girl Scout camp, and knew she would be right at home in the beautiful, rugged scenery.
We spend several hours down in the canyon, and could have easily spent more. Madison is hands down the most bubbly, passionate person I've ever met. I'm so excited to hear about all of her adventures in college, and see where her dreams take her in the future.
Chicago might be known as the Windy City, but I'm willing to bet they've got nothing on the Panhandle. I met up with Kylie for coffee (of course), and to take some new headshots for her to use this year. We had hoped to take them outside at WTAMU, but the Texas wind had other plans.
In the past few (more than I would like to admit) years, Allison has gone from one of my campers, to my camp aid, to a co-worker. She's the smartest, craftiest, funniest human, and is generally just the cat's pajamas.
I love that I've gotten to be part of her life lately, and document this time in her life before she runs off to college. Recently, I also had the honor of presenting her with her Gold Award, and seeing her perform in her senior dance recital. Did I mention she does it all?
The first time I met Carlee, I asked her if she had a twin, and proceeded to tell her all about this girl I vaguely knew who looked identical to her. Turns out she isn’t a twin, and it’s just a very small world. Even though we grew up in the same town, had several mutual friends, and went to rival high schools, we didn’t cross paths until we ended up going to the same college (across the state) and meeting more mutual friends who brought us together. In the time since we met freshman year, we’ve stayed close through several moves (one where we got to live together!) and all sorts of hurdles life has thrown at us.
All of that aside, I’m so glad this small world led her to Kaleb, who is hands down one of the best humans I’ve had the pleasure of meeting. There’s no denying these two complement each other perfectly.
I’m so lucky that Carlee hasn’t gotten tired of me taking her picture yet, and asked me to spend the day with them to capture some engagement photos. I love you both so much, and know that your continued life together is going to be a blast!
This series of portraits was one of my all time favorite things to work on.
While re-watching the Twilight Zone episodes for the millionth time a few years back, I decided to convince some friends to pose as iconic characters. They were great sports about the whole thing, and some even appeared more than once, much like some of the actors on the series. I ended up showing platinum palladium prints of the image in my senior exhibition, though the project was later abandoned for other things.
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I not only got to start my morning with the wonderful Nicole, but with breakfast tacos. Which we both agree are obviously the best food group.
Post breakfast, we spent some time wandering downtown and shooting for some of her upcoming blog posts.
Can't wait for a fraction of her style genius to rub off on my wardrobe.
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