Aggie for a Week

Well, not exactly an Aggie, but I did spend last week on the aTm campus at the Texas Professional Photography school along with over 1000 others from around the US and a few foreign countries.
I had a great time and learned some new ideas for senior portraits which I will be implementing shortly with the 2008 Seniors.

You will WANT to get your senior portraits made this summer, and I'm not talking about the photo for your yearbook. If you have your senior session done in June you will get 50% off of the session fee! Have it done in July and get 25% off your session fee. Wait until August and you will get 15% off of your session fee. Don't wait until September because the specials will be over.

Here are a few pictures from Tabitha's senior portrait shoot which we did before I left for College Station.

A Snowy Senior Session

I know it sounds strange to talk about snow in April, but a few weeks ago at Ryan's senior portrait session it began to snow. Amazing! Luckily it was a short lived snowstorm [more like swirling flakes for a few minutes] and didn't stop what turned out to be a great Senior Session. Here are a few from that day.






Ryan also brought his good friend Cynthia so they could take a few shots together. Here is one of Ryan and Cynthia together.

North Cheerleader and Spokesmodel 08

I think this will be a big year for Britteny. First of all, she made the McKinney North Cheerleading Squad, so big congrats to her! Also, she is a Spokesmodel 08 for David Quisenberry Photography, so hats off to me! Make sure you are on the lookout for Britteny at school or around town. She will have awesome discounts and freebies for senior portraits starting next month. Don't drag your feet on this, however, cause once she gives out all her "special cards" the specials are over.
Here are a few from her studio session. I will post her outdoor session soon.

Senior Rush

Wow... I've been busy taking senior portraits the last few weeks. It has been a blast, but a bit of a blur, too. Saturday I had just enough time to photograph two of my Senior Spokesmodels 08 for their portfolio. I will have some of Allison's [Boyd] and Brittany's [North] images up here just as soon as I finish with the last few senior 07 orders.
I am excited about going to class next week. Each year I attend the Texas Professional Photography School on the Texas A&M campus. Can you imagine 1000 photographers from around the US descending on Aggieland for a week? This year I will be spending the week with Dave Junion [www.junion.com] who is one of the premier senior photogs in the nation along with Sandy Puc` [http://www.expressionsphotos.com/home.shtml] who is a incredible children's photographer.

Since I have not posted any images in a few days, here are a few from Brittany's senior shoot. Brittany just got a awesome new yellow bug to drive to college. If it was blue I would have been jealous :)

An Afternoon with Emily

Last week I spend an afternoon photographing Emily for her senior portraits. We went several places around McKinney. We had to walk throughout a pasture of thistle thorns to get the shot on the hay bale but it turned out so great I know that Emily and I both felt it was worth the effort.
Check out some from Emily's portrait session.

Pefect Day with Heather

It has been cloudy nearly every weekend, but on Heather's senior session the sun was shining and we found lots of great outdoor settings. The night before I found a field of bluebonnets in McKinney so Heather and I walked across a field to get to them. The session went great, the pictures were awesome! Here are a few:

Not Just Seniors

OK, I will be the first to admit that creating senior portraits is my favorite thing to do with a camera in my hand, but it isn't the only thing I can do. Just to prove it, here is some images from a newborn session I did earlier. I went on location to visit Zoe [and her parents Neal and Misty] when she was about 10 days old. She was the perfect model! She didn't complain about the bright lights, need to fix her hair or even change outfits! Here are a few of Zoe and her parents.

Perfect Wedding

I just received Jennifer and Kent's wedding album and had to show you a few pages. They had what I consider the perfect wedding. Everything went smoothly and Jennifer is so easy going you couldn't help but have a great time. Big thanks to Cheryl http://www.cherylogle.com for covering my back with her trusty Canon that day.

Brittni's Senior Images

I met Brittni last fall when I photographed the McKinney North Senior Cheerleaders. Brittni called me back to do her senior portraits, and it was a blast. Along with the standard indoor portraits Brittni chose an Aqua Locks session add-on which creates a high contrast black and white glamor look. Brittni's looked as if it was a tearsheet from Vogue. I would like to take credit for that, but she posed so well it made my part easy.

Ellyn's Senior Session

I met Ellyn via her boyfriend who I happened to be sitting by at the first McKinney High School Dance performance. When she came by after the performance I was introduced to her and of course the first thing out of my mouth was 'You need senior portraits'. Now that was discreet!
A month later she contacted me and said Yes, she did need senior portraits.

We did an outdoor portrait session yesterday in downtown McKinney on a very gloom afternoon. I think she was a bit worried when all the cars had their headlights on. She did brave the weather and it turned out we were on the same page regarding what type of portraits she was looking for.


Did I mention she braved the weather?

Watch Out...They Have Feelings Too

Yesterday was actually my first day to blog. I started with a wonderful post which included how I would use my blog to share stories and images of friends I had made while viewing the world from the back of my camera. I also included why I had not blogged up to this point - that my biggest blogging pet peeve was dead blogs, or ones that have not been updated in 9 months. So today I start to log into my blog to add my first real person story and its gone!
Unbelievable!!! I try to log in and there is no blog to update. What?? I spend an hour trying to get my blog back [I could still see it just not edit it] until I finally decided that my remark about dead blogs yesterday turned into bad karma. I guess you gotta be careful, these blogs have sensitive feelings.