Beautiful early season senior session at the Biopark

I have many pictures to share from this lovely senior portrait session at the biopark. It's early in the season, but there is still green to be found (even outside of the greenhouse).

This beautiful girl was so confident and self-assured in front of the camera!

She has volunteered at the biopark in past summers, so this was an especially appropriate location for senior portraits.

The greenhouse tends to be the best place in town for winter portraits. Where else can you see such beautiful plants and flowers?

I love including talents, hobbies, and anything high school seniors love in their portraits! What could be more fun than a ukulele?

I also had a chance to catch  her at the first track and field meet of the season. I really enjoyed watching her throw the javelin! 

I loved getting to meet this smart and successful senior girl! Her easy confidence made senior portraits easy and comfortable. Best wishes to her with all her exciting plans!

If you are interested in senior portraits, I'd love to chat with you and discuss how to make yours the best they can be! We can meet in person or talk on the phone, or you can email me.
I have more information about my senior graduation photography here, or if you like the locations we used for her graduation portraits, you can see these and many more ideas here.

Some senior portraits from last year - {Albuquerque senior photography}

I did some senior portraits last fall that never made it to my blog... come to think of it, I did a lot of photography last fall that never made it to my blog!  Seniors especially I like to blog, because for one thing, senior sessions are some of my very favorites.  For another thing, some of the coolest locations get turned up for senior portraits.  If I blog them, then I'll remember some of these places and won't forget to go back!

This gorgeous senior came here from Gallup!  How flattering is that???  (Honesty constrains me to admit that she was also coming for the weekend to take the SAT.  But still!)  She wanted some studio portraits and then we went downtown for some great urban style.

If you know me at all, you know we love soccer in my family.  And I love it any time a senior has sports equipment to bring, or we can actually go do something athletic.  (Okay, I can't count standing around with a camera around my neck as "doing something athletic", can I?)


Great juggling - no lamps broken or flashes knocked down! :)  (It's the only time I'm happy to have "high balls" in the house.  Usually it's my son kicking it too hard... at the window...)


She had some great outfit choices.  I love to have something more formal too - what a beautiful dress!




One of my favorite fun urban locations - easy & not dangerous.  (A great combination, right?)




And I always love jumping pictures.  Gorgeous.  Thanks so much to this high achieving senior and her mom - I loved getting to meet you!

Next senior!  Some of the teenagers I know I would just love my son to grow up to be like.  This senior is one of them.  I don't anticipate my son being a football player, unless he radically changes his build in the next few years, but I do really hope he grows up with some of this senior's other amazing qualities.  Such a great guy.  (I can say this without just guessing because I am friends with his mom.)









I realllllllly wanted to make it to a football game.  It's really hard to get a press pass at Milne Stadium.  Football season is, naturally, my craziest time of year personally and professionally.  So the opportunity presented itself for me to get an actual press pass at the last game of the year.  So cold, I think that's the day it was snowing and blowing like crazy, and I had only like an hour between another appointment and one of my own kids' games, but I still thought there was barely enough time to make it.  I ended up only being able to be there for the first 15-20 minutes of the game, which was hugely disappointing to me, but I got a few things I was happy with.  And I did really love the press pass!


First he makes the tackle.


Then he helps the tackled guy back up.  That's why I want my son to grow up like him.




Marathon post! I was thinking of breaking this post up. But let's be realistic, I'm not really getting around to blogging like I want to. So here's another senior session.  This session - so much fun!  I loved it.  And this was kind of a marathon session to go with the marathon post, appropriate I guess.  We went to the botanic gardens, and something about the botanic gardens just makes sessions long.  I guess there are just too many great places for photography!






I always WANT to do photography in the farm house, but it's so dark in there.  Somehow it really worked this time - I think the sun was coming in the door and I had the big reflector or something.  How fun is this???


It wasn't quite fall yet but the colors were amazing.


I loved getting to know this amazing, fun, creative, energetic senior!  I ended up with twice as many proofs as I usually do because she was a.m.a.z.i.n.g with expression!  Great happy smiles, great serious faces, everything in between. Thanks so much!

Soccer pictures, very serious stuff - {Albuquerque team sports photography}

If you call me for an appointment this fall, you're likely to hear me say "Let me check our soccer schedules..." We love soccer in our family. I'm lucky that both our kids' teams let me be the team photographer, so we don't have to spend a Saturday having pictures done somewhere inconvenient. (Actually I've never gone to the team photos - maybe it's fine? :) ) Anyway we did some quick team pictures before practice.

If you are interested in having me do your sports team's pictures, I have special sports packages and would love to set something up. Right now afternoon practice is a great time for some quick pictures because the light is nice (I just have to fit it in around OUR practices...) I also love to do game photography to get some great action pictures.

The expected team picture (even my most posed team picture is a little casual):


Now the "silly picture":


They were supposed to be looking tough (but protested, saying "that's a BOY pose!" - what does that say about the aggressiveness of these cute girls?):


And my daughter's top pick, the ball-throwing team picture:


Then I tinkered with a new lens while they practiced & during water breaks:









We're glad to have such nice friends to play soccer with!