Senior Fellas - Preview! {2011 Senior Photography}

I had a fun, fun session with 3 senior guys from Shakopee High School. Ben, Jason, and Matt are all good friends and they all came together to get their senior photos knocked out. They are superstar jocks in football, basketball and track. Matt adds guitar to the mix too. The guys were really easy to work with and hilarious at times. I had a tough time getting them to be "serious". They couldn't stop smiling. That makes my job pretty easy so I didn't mind. Great session guys! Thanks for being "good sports" :-)

Emma C. { 2011 Senior Photography}

I love, love shooting seniors! They are so fun! Ms. Emma did not disappoint. It was such a nice day and her carefree spirit made it easy to photograph her. I'm not sure she would admit it, but I hear she's a "superwiz" in Math and Science. When she graduates next spring, she plans on focusing her studies in Engineering! Good luck Emma in your senior year! I hope you have a FABulous year!

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Senior 2011 Jossy {Minneapolis-St Paul Senior Photographer}

Meet Jossy my first 2011 senior! I met Jossy through her sister Daisy who I photographed earlier this year. Jossy attends DeLasalle High School and she is looking forward to her senior year. We got together to do a mini-session, which gave me a chance to get to know her. She is gorgeous and so fun to photograph. I can't wait to get together with her this summer to rock out her senior shoot with clothing changes and a fun location.

Flaming Basketball!

I had a FUN and sort of funny shoot with my son this weekend. Traveling basketball ended a few weeks ago and he wanted me to take some fun shots in his #1 jersey. So I put it in his head that we would try something "different" if he was down for it. It was going to be a flaming basketball shot! He smiled! But first, we needed "buy in" from dad because he would have to assist and not call me insane. Well, as the three of us talked about how to pull this off, Mya and Mario were very interested in how this was going to turn out and wasn't going to miss this. So I set everything up and did a few test shots. I decided I wanted to go with a little bit of drama in my lighting set up. After we played around and warmed up, it was time for the money shot as some would say. Mya had a bottle filled with water, D was ready and holding the basketball, I was ready to fire off a few shots, and Mario was a talking machine but stayed out of the way. Dominique prepared the basketball for flames. "Get ready...I'm lighting it now..." Dominique said, and OMGoodness, the flame was so high Mario gasped loudly and Mya said "Oh my", but D stayed cool and calm! We put that one out and went at it a second time and this is what we came up with!

Whew! The house is safe and D loves his cool flaming basketball shot and the ones that show off his muscles! LOL! He asked his dad if he was jealous! Hilarious kid!!!!

Daisy - Senior Beauty Sneak Peek

Here is the wonderful and sweet young lady I had a session with last Sunday. Daisy is so sweet and we had a good time at her senior shoot. She had a few snapshots taken last fall for the yearbook, but wanted something special to give her friends and family. She is quite busy, but she is enjoying her senior year. I wish her all the best and I hope to see her little sister soon...she will be a senior next year!

Senior Beauty - Jamila

I had a fun session with a sweet senior girl on Sunday, but if you know anything about Minnesota winters, you will guess that it wasn't with Ms Jamila here. Jamila's session was just before our first snow back in December. She was so, so sweet and quite brave for hanging out with short sleeves. She was so much fun to shoot. We had a great conversation about colleges and where she hopes to go. I'm so excited for her because she is hoping to go to one of our many Historically Black colleges. She actually went on a bus tour to check out a handful of them last summer. I'm sure by now, she knows where she's headed! Stay in touch Jamila!

Zachary -- Senior 2010 { Minneapolis Portrait Photographer }

I had a great senior shoot with a really cool senior last weekend. I had to "untype" the word kid because he is no longer the "kid" I knew years ago. Zach is my neighbor and is quite a few years ahead of my "kids", but I remember the days when he was only 11 years old or so. I had not seen him in so long that I was very surprised to see how much he had grown and changed. He has a super personality and it was so much fun photographing him.