lamia (colorado springs senior portraits)

Okay, get ready for one of my favorite senior sessions ever!  I love it when seniors tell me a little bit about themselves and share their style with me - it makes for such a fun session, and images that feel that much more authentic and "real".  Lamia told me that she loved the bohemian feel of Whitney's gypsy bus shoot, and so we collaborated on putting together something fun and equally bohemian for her senior portrait session in Colorado Springs.  Although, I had this weird paranoid feeling that I would get "caught" grabbing these old branches from the side of the road for the tipi - I kept looking over my shoulder, telling myself, "Okay, nobody is going to care.  At all.  They'll probably thank you for doing their chores." 

Anyway.  Lamia is gorgeous and classy and smart, and oh so wonderful in front of the camera.  Love this session and this awesome girl!

mckinley (castle rock senior portrait photographer)

McKinley, her mom, and I wandered around Old Colorado City and pretty much just made each other crack up for a few hours.  Such a fun senior portrait session - a hilarious girl with a beautiful smile and awesome pink hair!

bailey (colorado springs senior portraits)

Bailey is SO GREAT!  I've been meeting all these cool music girls lately, and it just makes me miss music even more.  We bonded over stories of choirs, shows, and a cappella groups... and then we found this sweet patch of lavender.  Which I don't think is actually lavender, but I don't know what else to call it, so there you go.

jacky (longmont senior portrait photographer)

I adored Jacky from the minute I read his first email.  First off, no one has made me laugh harder during a senior portrait inquiry email.  Second, he let me know that he wanted something really unconventional and unusual - and I'm sure you can guess how I felt about that.  Third, he was willing to be my guinea pig for my first underwater shoot ever!  We have a sweet little  community pool in Propsect, which is pretty much a foreign concept to me, having just moved from 8,000 feet.  A pool?  Really - people have those?The following underwater shots were taken at night, so we had to rely on the interior pool lights.  My underwater housing bag  (I got the intro-level housing since I just wasn't sure if I would really use it) has a flexible tube for the lens area, so that you could theoretically use different lenses with it.  With my 50 1.2, I normally have to squash down the lens compartment since that lens is so short... but I thought it would look cool and sort of submarine window-y if I didn't, so what you're seeing around the edges is the inside of my underwater lens compartment:

Love Prospect's rainbow pool chairs!

Jacky -thanks for being such a fun person & a bright spot in my summer.  You're awesome!

gabby (salida senior portraits)

Gabby (who happens to be both awesome and hilarious) and I had a blast shooting her senior portraits around Salida - so many great colors & textures!

 Right about now, I was like, "Are you sure you want to try that rope swing with your heels on?  I don't want this to be a documentary of your latest trip to the hospital."  Of course, right after I said that, she ended up slamming into the tree and banging up her leg... but thankfully no hospital trip :)

And... here's the result of that tree swing injury:(